Teacher ’s activities

Student’s  activities

I. Warm up.

1. Does your city. O rthe one nearest to you... (P23)

Chatting:

- What can you see in the pictures?

- Do you like living in the city or in the country? Why? why not?

Brainstorming:

(T- whole class)

II. New lesson.

- Preteach some vocab.

III.Listening

Set the scene:

What do you know about Bangkok?

What are the problems in Bangkok?

2. Listen and write the missing word in each gap (P23)

-  Play the recording one or two times. Ask Ss to listen carefully and write down the words they hear in the passage.

- For less able Ss, T may play the recording again, or as many times as needed.-

- Ask ss to share the answer

- Get feedback

3. Listen again and choose the correct answer (P23)

- Play the recording again. Tell Ss to take notes/write down the key words as they listen.

- Then they choose the correct answers as required. Correct as a class.

- Retelling the story: Ask ss to retell about the problems in some cities.

IV.Writing.

4. Read the paragraph and complete the outline below (P23)

-  TellSs to read the sample paragraph carefully and complete the outline.

- Tell them to pay attention to the connectors/makers: Firstly, Secondly, Thirdly.

5. Choose one item from the list in 1... (P23)

- HaveSs write the paragraph in about 100 words.

- Make sure that they use their outline, along with connectors first/firstly, second/secondly, and pay attention to spelling and punctuation.

- Ss can use the passage in

 4 to help them structure their paragraph.

go round and offer help.

- T may collet some Ss’ papers and mark them, then give comments to the class.

V. Homework.

- Learn by heart the new words

- prepare looking back.

noise

                                                    crime

* Vocab.

- Increase     (v): gia tăng

- Vehicles    (n): xe cộ

- Crime      (n) tội phạm

- Sprawl       (n) lộn xộn

- Knock down : phá đổ

 - Suffer from: chịu đựng

- Contribute (v): đóng góp, góp phần.

2.Key:

1. Cities       2. Office        3. Traffic      4. Roads

3. Key:

1. C       2. A       3.A       4.B         5. B

4.

Outline:

Topic sentence: living in a city has a member of drawbacks.

Problem 1: traffic jams and traffic accidents

Problem 2: air pollution

Problem 3: noise/noise pollution

Conclusion: these factors contribute to making city life more difficult for its residents.

- Ss choose one of the items in 1 the write a paragraph

+ make an outline

+ use connectors to connect the ideas.