LESSON PLAN – GRADE 7
PERIOD 60 – Unit 7. TRAFFIC
Section 6. Skills 2

Teacher: Ha Thi Lan Anh
Class: 7A1
Date of teaching: Saturday, January 14th, 2016
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I, Objectives:
- Present and practice the vocabulary and pronunciation of the topic “Traffic problems in big cities”
- Listen to get information about traffic problems in big city
- Write a paragraph about traffic problems in a city/ an area.
II, Teaching aids:
- Computer
- The recording
- Student’s books
III, Anticipated problems:
- Students may get difficulties in listening
- Solution : Teacher provides some new words in the passage
IV, Procedures:
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
Board/ Content

1. Warm up(3’)
- Shows pictures of traffic problems in big cities.

- Students look at the picture and find out meaning of them
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2. Presetation(10’)
I. Vocabulary:
- Presents new words throught the pictures, visuals and mimes.Pay attention to Ss’ pronunciation
- Checking vocabulary:Matching
- Listen and read new words in chorus, individually.
- Write them in their notebooks
I. Vocabulary:
1. congestion (n) /kənˈdʒestʃən/: sự đông nghịt, sự tắc nghẽn
=> Picture (What is this called? Who know in E?)
2. traffic congestion = traffic jam : sự kẹt xe, tắc nghẽn giao thông
=> Synonym: What is another word for “traffic jam”? Who know?
3. obey (v) /əˈbeɪ/: vâng lời, tuân theo
=> Explanation: When I ask you to do somthing, you follow it. What does it mean?
4. population (n) /,pɒpju`leɪʃn/: dân số
=>Picture and explanation (All the people who live in a neighbourhood, a city, a country,…)
5. queue (n) /kjuː/: hàng (người, xe...)
=>Mimes
6. respect (n) /rɪˈspekt /: sự tôn trọng
=>Mimes
7. rush hour (n) /ˈrʌʃaʊər/: giờ cao điểm
=>Explanation: In 5 p.m, people come back home from work, students come back home from school. What is it called?
II.Checking:Match the English words with the correct Vietnamese meanings
1.congestion
2.obey

3.rush hour
4.queue
5.traffic congestion
6.population
7.respect
a.giờcaođiểm
b.hàng (người, xe…)
c.sựkẹtxe,tắcnghẽngiaothông
d.dânsố
e.sựtôntrọng
f.vânglời
g.sựđôngnghịt, sựtắcnghẽn



3. Listening
Ex.1: Work in groups. Where do you think this picture was taken? Why is it special?(3 mins)
- Asks students to work in groups, study the picture and answer the questions.
- Students work in groups to study the picture and answer the questions.
1: Work in groups. Where do you think this picture was taken? Why is it special?

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Key:
- In a big city.
- It is special because it was a long traffic jam.


Ex.2: Look at the following headline and check your answer(2 mins)
- Asks students to look at the newspaper headline and check their answers.


- Work individually to look at the newspaper headline and check their answers.


2: Look at the following headline and check your answer.
RECORD BREAKING JAM!

Yesterday, Brazil’s largest city had the world’s longest ever traffic jam. It was 295 kilometres long!
Key:
In Brazil
Long traffic jam (very long line of vehicles)

Ex.3: Listen to the passage and choose the correct answer(10 mins)
- Asks students to read the sentences and guess the answers.
- Asks students to listen carefully and circle the correct answers.
- Teacher can play the recoding 2 or 3 times. Pause the recoding at every word to that student can listen and choose the exact sound.
- Teacher checks students’ answers

- Students do the task independently.
- Students share their answers with the partner and then as a class
3: Listen to the passage and choose the correct answer.
The most common traffic problem in cities around the world is traffic jams. São Paulo in Brazil has the world’s worst daily traffic jams. According to reports, the historical congestion record was set on June 1, 2012, with 295 kilometres of vehicle queues around the city during the evening rush hour. Some other big cities also suffer from serious congestion in the rush hour.
The main cause of this traffic problem is the increase of the population in big cities. So the number of people using the roads has risen several times. The second reason is