Teacher’s activities

Students’ activities

I. Warm up

Chatting:

Do you often have proplems in your life?

What are they?

Who do you often ask for help?

Do you know any Helpline in Viet Nam and in the world?

II. New lesson.

III Listening.

Preteach vocab.

- What can you see in the pictures?

- Who is she? (advice columnist)

1 - a+b  Ask Ss if they know what an ‘advice columnist’ does. Introduce the word. If possible, bring in to the class some examples of the advice column page in local magazines for teens ( or you can look them up on the Internet ).

Tell Ss they are now going to listen to an interview with Miss Blue Hair, the advice columnist of 4Teen magazine.

- Ask Ss to look at the questions in Exercise 1b first.

Ss then work individually to complete the task.

- Play the recording once to check how much Ss understand it. Then play the recording again when providing the key.

2. Answer the questions.

- Ss work in pairs , explain their decision afterwards. T

- The options that are in the ‘no’ category are because the language is too strong or direct.

3-Which of the following expresions are more likely to be used by Miss Blue Hair when she gives advice? (P33)

- T –asks work in pairsfor this tast 

IV- Writing

4 . Look at 2, a closer look 1 and give... (P33)

- Ss need to look at 2, A CLOSER LOOK  Then they work individually to complete this task. Remember this is a writing exercise so Ss need to write down their advice notes in full sentences. Remind them to use the expressions in the Writing Study skill box ‘Giving advice’. Ss then swap their writing for peer correction.

- If time allows, let Ss work in pairs when they have finished the writing. Student A will read out the notes randomly for student B to guess which advice note is for which student in the exercise.

5a. Write a short note to Miss Blue Hair.....

- Ss work individually first to write a short note to Miss Blue Hair to ask her for advice about a problem at school or with their friends.

- Tell Ss that they can make up a situation and it can be funny or silly, for example, a student who wants to color his hair purple but is afraid that he’ll be laughed at or get into trouble with the school and his parents.

-Remind Ss to sign the note with a made-up name and not their real name.

5b. As a whole class, put the notes... (P33)

- Ss work individually. Tell Ss when all group members have finished writing the advice note, they will take turns to report the note they received, and the advice that they offered.

- If time allows, ask the group to discuss the problem and the advice.

- Get feed back.

V. Homework.

- Complete the writing

- Prepare Looking back and complete the project.

* Vocabulary.

- advice colomnist:  (n):

- emphathise (v)

- counsel(v,n): khuyên răn, khuyên bảo,

                        sự bàn bạc, hỏi ý kiến.

-         consider (v): cân nhắc, xem xét.

. Listening.

1a. Listen to an interview with Miss Blue Hair, the advice columnist of 4teen magazine.

1b. Choose the best answer.

Key:

1. likes                 2. No longer in    

3. Not easy           4. takes time        5. Need

2.Key:

1. She feels like she is living her adolescence again, and she loves helping readers by giving them advice.

2. She said it’s most important that we put ourselves in other people’s shoes.

3.Because language should be used sensitively so that the person can get over the negative feelings.

3. Key:

1. No         2. Yes          3. No        

4. No         5. Yes

4. Look at 2, and A closer look 1 and give one piece of advice to each student. 

- Work through the Study skill box together with Ss. For each expression, make an example.

- Ask Ss to add in other expressions for giving advice that they have learnt, or know.

Study skill: Giving advice

If I were you, I would/wouldn’t…

I (don’t) think you should…

Have you thought about (verb-ing)…?

It might help to consider…

It might be a good idea to…

Key(Suggested):

5. a. Write a short note to Miss Blue Hair.....

Example

Dear Miss Sweetie ,

I am in grade 9 at a school in city . I love my school ,my teacherand my parents .But this year , I have to learn too much .My parent want me to become an engineerso I must try my best to enter the university . Besede that ,I have to come to center to learn English .My weekend is so fullybooked with music class ,swimming class,…I don’t have time for myselt . I don’t know how to tellwith my parents about this problem.could you give me some advice about this ?

Unhappy