UNIT 2: LIFE IN THE COUNTRYSIDE Lesson 4. Communication I/ OBJECTIVES By the end of the lesson, students can: - Read some posts on “ Holidays in the countryside” and reply to the posts 1. Knowledge: a. Grammar : . Simple present b. Lexical items Vocab: Life in the countryside lexical items c. Pronunciation: - 2. Skills: - Listening, Speaking, Reading,Writing and interactive skills 3. Attitude: - Cooperation, respect, having right and friendly attitudes with friends, teachers in the new school 4. Quality and competence: - Be confident and friendly with the new school environment - Develope listening, speaking skills and cooperative interaction II/ TEACHING AIDS (MATERIALS) 1.Teacher’s preparation: - Lesson plan, Pictures, posters ,textbook,CD-MP3(Computer-Multi projector/cassette/ “sách mềm”) and other materials 2. Students’ preparation: - Textbook, notebook, school things. III/ WORKING ARRANGEMENTS( WAYS OF WORKING ) - Pair work , individual work, group work, T-WC IV/ TEACHING PROCEDURE: 1-Greeting`and checking students’ adtendence: Total: In: ......... Out: .......... . 2-Checking the old lesson 3-New lesson: Teacher’s activities Students’ activities I. Warm up (5'): Chatting - T asks: Do you like living in the countryside? Why? Why not? - Introduce the new lesson Answer the questions I.The new lesson * Teaching vocabulary - Teacher use different techniques to teach vocabulary (situation, realia) - Follow the seven steps of teaching vocabulary * Checking vocab: R&R -Introduce the new lesson: We are going to read some posts and reply to them . -Posts are common features of social media sites. They allow people to review things or give their opinions about things. They also allow others to respond to the posts with their own opinions. As such, an online dialogue occurs. The writing style of online posts is usually short, informal and honest or direct. - disturb (v) Làm phiền - beehive (n) Tổ ong - experience (n) Trải nghiệm - urbanisation (n) Sự đô thị - positive (adj) Tích cực - negative (adj) Tiêu cực - neutral (adj) Trung lập 1.Read the posts on “ Holidays in the countryside”.. (P210 Pre questions ? Where do these people live? ? Do they have the same opinion of staying in the countryside? -Ask ss to read the posts individually to answer the questions 1.Key: - They live in big cities - No, they don’t 2. What are the attitudes of these people towards their experiences. Tick the box(p21) - Ask ss to look through the table and make sure that ss understand the requirement - Have ss work individually to do the exercise then Ss can compare their answers with partner and discuss any differences. - Check the answers as a class. -Work individually to do the exercise 2.Key: Positive Neutral Negative Dennis from London ü Julie from Paris ü Phirun from Phnom Penh ü Yumi from Ha Noi ü Emi from Tokyo ü Lan from Ha Noi ü Bob from Hong Kong ü 3. Work in groups. Reply to the posts in 1. Write down your replies (P21) - Explain that now they have a change to reply each post with their own opinions - Put Ss into groups of 4 ss. Hand out apiece of blank paper for each post. -Have the groups write the name of each post at the top, e.g. Bob from London. - Have each student writes a short reply to a post and then passes the paper to the person on their left. They take the next paper from the person on their right. They read the reply and then add their own. - Continue passing the papers around until everyone has replied to every post. Ss refer to the examples as models for their answers. - Ask each group to read out one of their reply chains to a post and discuss it as a class. - Work in groups of 4 ss to reply the posts III. Consolidation (3') - Sum up the main content of the lesson IV. Homework (2') -Learn by heart all the new words and structures - Guide ss how to do exs (Work book) - Prepare: Unit 2: Skills 1 - Answer teacher's questions. - Take note