Unit 16: Seasons and the weather
Lesson 1 (1, 2, 3)
A. OBJECTIVES:
By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to:
1. Knowledge:
- understand and correctly repeat the sentences in two communicative contexts
focusing on asking and answering questions about the weather in different seasons
- correctly say the words summer, autumn, winter, spring, hot, cool, cold and warm
and use How's the weather in Ha Noi in ___? - It's____. to ask and answer
questions about the weather in Ha Noi in different seasons
- use How's the weather in Ha Noi in ___? – It's ___. in a freer context.
- Vocabulary: summer, autumn, winter, spring, hot, cool, cold and warm
- Structures:
A: How's the weather in Ha Noi in summer?
B: It's hot
- Skills: speaking and listening
2. Competences:
- Critical thinking and creativity: learn how to ask and answer questions about the
weather in Ha Noi in different seasons correctly and fluently.
- Self-control and independent learning: perform speaking tasks.
3. Attitude/ Qualities:
- Show their love and interest in the weather and seasons.
- Express their knowledge about the weather of each season.
B. TEACHING AIDS:
- Teacher: Teacher's guide Pages 257, 258, 259, audio Tracks 52, 53, website
hoclieu.vn, posters, laptop, pictures, textbook, lesson plan, TV or projector.
- Students: Students' book Page 40, notebooks, workbooks, school things.
C. PROCEDURES:
Teacher's activities
Students' activities
1.Warm- up and review: (3')
Game:
*Procedure: play a game

- Prepare some questiosn on Latop
- Divide class into 2 groups: group 1 and
group 2 Jerry.
- How to play:
+ Each people chooses the correct answer.
- Say “Open your book page 40” and look
at “Unit 16, Lesson 1 (1,2,3)”.
2. Presentation (15')
Activity 1. Vocabulary.
*Aims: Ss will be able to know the
vocabulary in the new lesson.
*Procedure:
-T elicits the new words
+ summer: mùa hè

-Ss listen and pay attention

- Ss listen to the teacher
-Ss play the game
.
-Ss continue playing the game

(picture)

+ autumn: mùa thu (picture)
+ winter: mùa đông (picture)

- Ss listen and open their books

+ spring: mùa xuân (picture )
+ hot: nóng

(situation)

+ cold: lạnh

(mime)

+ cool: mát mẻ

(mime)

+ warm: ấm áp
(translation
- T models (3 times).
- T writes the words on the board.
- Checking: Matching
Activity 2. Look, listen and repeat:
*Aims: Ss will be able to understand and
correctly repeat the sentences in two
communicative contexts focusing on
asking and answering questions about the
weather in different seasons.

-Ss listen and answer

*Procedure:
- - Ss listen and repeat
- Have Ss look at Pictures a and b and
+ Choral repetition (3 times).
identify the characters and say what they
+ Individual repetition (3 ss)
can see in the pictures.
- Ss take note
- Ss look and match

- Play the audio twice (sentence by
sentence). Correct their pronunciation
where necessary.
- Have Ss to practice the dialogue
- T invites a few pairs to the front of the
class to practice.
- T checks pronunciation for ss.
Activity 3 Listen, point and say.
*Aims: Ss will be able to correctly say the
words and use How's the weather in Ha
Noi in ___? - It's ____.to ask and answer
questions about the weather in Ha Noi in
different seasons.
*Procedure:
* Structures:
- T asks Ss look at picture b in activity 1
and helps Ss know the structure from the
dialogue.
- T introduces new structures for Ss.
- T explains, models and gives meaning.
- Have Ss repeat the structures

-Look at the pictures and say.
+ In picture a:
Linh: Hi, Bill. Is it cold there?
Bill: Yes, it is. It's winter in Sydney,
you know.
+ In picture b:
Bill: How's the weather in Ha Noi?
Linh: It's very hot. It's summer here.
-Ss listen and repeat in chorus
(twice)
-Ss work in pairs to practice
-Ss come to the front of the
classroom to practice.
-Ss listen

3.Practice: (7')
*Drill pictures
- Have Ss look at the pictures and say
what they can see in the pictures.

- Ss look at the picture and answer.

-Ss listen
-Ss listen and repeat
-Ss repeat to the structures

- Have Ss point at pictures, listen and run
through all the pictures.
- Have Ss point at the bubbles, listen and
run through model sentences.
- Have Ss to practise:
+ T asks the first picture, Ss answer
+ Ss asks the second picture, T answers
+ Group A asks the third picture, group B
answers
+ Group B asks the last picture, group A
- Ask Ss to work in pairs to practise asking
and answering the How's the weather in
Ha Noi in ___? - It's ___
- T controls and corrects.
- Invite a few pairs to point at the pictures
and say the questions and answers in front
of the class.
4. Production: (6')
Activity 4. Let's talk.

- Ss look, listen and repeat
+Picture a: Ha Noi's One-Pillar
Pagoda in summer
+ Picture b: Ha Noi's One-Pillar
Pagoda in autumn
+ Picture c: Ha Noi's One-Pillar
Pagoda in winter
+ Picture d: Ha Noi's One-Pillar
Pagoda in spring
-Ss point at pictures, listen and repeat
-Ss point at the bubbles, listen and
repeat
-Ss practice in chorus

*Aims: Ss will be able to use How's the
weather in Ha Noi in ___? - _It's
______.in a freer context.
*Procedure:
- Ask Ss to look at the pictures and ask
questions to revise the relevant seasons
and the weather concepts.

- Point at the first picture and elicit the
question in the first speech bubble How's
the weather in Ha Noi in ___? and the
answer in the second speech bubble It's
___ as an example.
- Give Ss time to work in pairs and take
turns pointing at each picture to ask and
answer using structures.
- Invite a few pairs to come to the front of
the classroom and act out the exchanges.

-Ss practice in chorus
-Ss work in pairs to practise asking
and answering the question

- Pairs of Ss point at the pictures and
say in front of the class