Period: 73
Unit 9: CITIES OF THE WORLD
SKILLS 2
I. Objectives
1. Knowledge, Skills, Attitude:
a. Knowledge: By the end of this lesson, students will able to listen for specific details including facts and figures; write a holiday postcard.
- Vocabulary: The lexical items related to the topic “Cities of the world”.
- Grammar: Exclamation sentence.
b. Skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing.
c. Attitude: Students are interested in the cities, the countries and the continents in the world.
2. Capacity is formed and developed for students
- Self – learning capability
- Communicative competence
II. Preparation
1. Teacher: text book, extra board, cassette tape and real objects.
2. Students: textbook, notebook, workbook.
III. Students’ activities
1. Warm up (5’)
Sts’ and T’s activities
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2. Knowledge formation activities (36’)
Sts’ and T’s activities
Contents

T: Divides the class into 2 teams.
T names some countries, Ss tell what the cities are.
- The team which has more correct answers and fast, will be a winner.
Ss: Give their answers.
Name the capital city
(USA, England, Scotland, France, Italy, Mexico, Spain, Japan, Korea, Russia, Cambodia ...)


T: Has Ss look at the pictures and elicits these words from the Ss: Royal Palace, Nobel Prize, Museum, Cafe’, Restaurants, Shop, Island. Then asks them more about Nobel and Nobel prize.
Ss: Answer (They can talk about this in Vietnamese if they do not have enough vocabulary)
T: Tells Ss they will listen about the old town in Stockholm and how Nobel prize are awarded every year there.
Listening
1. Look at the pictures. What you can see?
*Vocabulary:
- Royal Palace (n)
- Nobel Prize (n)
- Island (n)
- tobe awarded (v)
- tobe presented (v)
- Swedish (n)
- Prime Minister (n)

T: Before listening to the recording, go through the statements with Ss.
- Asks Ss to read the sentences to underline the most important information and try to remember. Explains any new words.
- Explain the task 2P.32
- Plays the recoring twice or three times.
Asks Ss to listen for the main ideas they hear. Then try to tick True or False statements.
Ss: Work individually.
T: Calls on some Ss to check – Other Ss comment.
Ss: Give their answers before the class.
T: Asks Ss to listen to the passages carefully again and correct the False statements
- Gets feedback.
2. Listen and write True (T) or False (F).

*Key:
1- T
2- F It’s the oldest, not the biggest, part of Stockholm is the Old Town.
3- F
4- F ( All Nobel prizes, except for Nobel Peace Prize, are awarded in Stockholm)
5- F (It’s presented by the Swedish King

T: Asks Ss to listen to the passages carefully again. They must pay attention to the kind of information: years, amount of money, number of people, date …. Then fill in the blank to complete the sentences.
- Share their answers with their partners
- Listen again and check
3. Listen again to the talk and fill in the gaps.
*Key:
1- 14 2- 700
3- 3,000
4- 10 th December
5- 10 million

T: Asks Ss to look at “Study Skills” and “Learning tip” .
- Has Ss work in pairs, look at the postcard in 2, P.28. They will make questions in full and find the information from the postcard to answer.
Ex: Who is with her?
Ss: Work in pairs
T: Calls on some pairs to check – Corrects
T: Asks Ss to rearrange the exclamations and practise saying them ( notice the emotion and intonation of the expressions)
Writing.
A Holiday postcard
4- Rearrange the exclamations.
*Key:
1. Stockholm is fantastic!
2. We’re in Da Lat!
3. We’re having a good time here!
4. I love Disneyland!
5. You must come!
6. I wish you were here!

T: Gives some notices before writing.
Ss: Listen and remember.
T: Ask ss to use the notes they have made in SPEAKING 4 , PAGE 32 to write a postcard to each other ( included 5Ws and 1H)
- Has Ss swap and gives their remarks
- Corrects the some postcards and gives comments to the class.
5.