UNIT 2: LIFE IN THE COUNTRYSIDE Lesson 1: Getting started I/ OBJECTIVES By the end of the lesson, students can: - listen and read a conversation between Nick and Nguyen about life in the countryside - Use the lexical items related to the topic of life in the countryside 1. Knowledge: a. Grammar : comparative of adjectives : review comparative form of adverbs b. Lexical items : - Vocab : Life in the countryside c. Pronunciation: - Clusters: /bl/ and /cl/ 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'): Brainstorming - T asks ss: Do you live in the city or in the countryside? - Elicit ss to say activities in the countryside - Introduce the new lesson . Fly a kite Go swimming I.The new lesson Vocabulary(6’) - Teacher use different techniques to teach vocabulary (situation, realia) - Follow the seven steps of teaching vocabulary * Checking vocab: R&R - harvest - time (n) mùa gặt - buffalo - - drawn cart (n) xe trâu kéo - herd (v) chăn, dắt - envious (adj) ghen tị - paddy field (n) đồng lúa - Repeat in chorus and individually - Copy all the words 1. Listen and read(14’) p16 * Set the scenes: -Look at the picture on page 16 ?Who are there in the conversation? ? What is the conversation about ? Pre- question: Who made Nguyen's kite? - T collects ss' ideas - Ask ss listen, read and check their prediction - Play the recording twice. - Check the prediction - Ask ss to practice the conversation in pair - Answer the questions individually. - Answer the questions - Answer by predicting Key : His grandfather made it for him a. Are these sentences true or false (p17) - Ask ss to run through the statements then work individually to decide if they are true or false -Ask ss to share answers with their partners . - Ask ss to write the answers on the board and others remark - T corrects 1b. Answer the following questions (p17) - Ask ss to run through the questions -Ask them to work in pairs to ask and answer the question -Correct the answer as a class. c.Complete the sentences with the words in the box (p17) - Ask ss to look at the words in the box and make sure they understand their meaning. If they do not, ask them to refer to the conversation and have a guess. - Ask them to work individually to do the exercise. When they finish, ask them to check their answers with their partner. - T gets feedback and correct d. In group , discuss and find how Nguyen feels about his stay in the countrysidee. Tick the appropriate box (p17) - Run through the sentences -Have ss work in small groups to discuss and tick the correct box and lool for expression(s) to support their answer. -Work individually to decide if sentences are true or false 1. Key: 1T, 2F, 3F, 4T , 5T 1b.Key: 1.He’s in the countryside. 2.Right on his first day there 3.It’s a big and colourful 4.His grandfather 5.He means that he wishes he were in the countryside too -Work individually to do the exercise. 1c.Key: 1. colourful 2. move slowly 3. harvest time 4. paddy field 5. herding 6. buffalo-drawn cart 1d. Suggested answers: He likes it. ‘…it’s more exciting than I expected.’ “It (the kite) looks great up there in the sky”. ‘It live more happily here, and there’s still a lot more to explore’. 2. Match the activities with the puictures (5’) p17 - Have Ss work independently to label the pictures. -Have them compare their answers with a partner. -T writes the correct answers on the board. 2.Key: 1.e 2.f 3.a 4.c 5.d 6.b 3. Can you think of somesss more things that children do in the countryside. Make a list (5’) - Have Ss work in pairs to brainstorm some more countryside activities -. Give them a time limit, for example, two minutes to make their lists. -Call on each pair to share their list with the class. - T writes the combined list of activities on the board and leaves it there to be used in the next activity. - Before moving on, T makes sure everybody understands all the vocabulary on the board. - Work in pairs III. Consolidation (2') 4. Game: Coutryside charades(5’) -T divides the class into two teams for this game. They can give themselves a relevant team name such as the ‘horses’ and the ‘buffaloes’. - Play charades with the countryside activity vocabulary from Activity 2 and the Ss’s list on the board - To increase the fun element, give the teams a time limit of 10 seconds to guess the activity before it moves to the other team. T keeps score on the board and announces the winning team at the end. - Take part in the game - Answer individually IV. Homework (3') - Learn by heart all the new words.- Guide ss how to do Exs (Workbook) - Prepare: Closer Look 1 - Take note