Teacher and students ‘ activities

Contents

I. Warm up

Chatting:

Do you often have problems 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.Listening:

Chatting:

1.An old man is talking about his school days. Listen and ... (P47)

- Who are they in the picture?

- Where is it?

- What do you know about schools in the past?

- Ask ssto  guess the statements first.

- T then plays the recording and Ss tick the answers.

- T can play the recording at least twice. Elicit the answers from Ss.

- Ask them to explain their answers.

 - Confirm the answers as a class.

2. Listen again and fill in the blanks with the correct information

- HaveSs read the questions, first to determine which information they need to fill the blanks.

- Ss then listen to the recording again and write their answers.

- T checks the answers as a class.

Audio script:

I went to a village school. In fact, there was only one classroom for 15 students of different ages, both boys and girls, and one teacher who taught everything. The school didn’t have a name, so we just called it ‘our school’. We used to walk to school. Some children went bare-footed.

At school we learnt to read and to write. We also learnt a little maths and history. There were no science lessons, and we didn’t have exams, either.

Although our school was small, it had strict rules. We had to behave ourselves. We stood up and bowed to greet our teacher at the start of every lesson. We could talk only when we were allowed to. However, we had no homework and no extra classes. I had a lot of time to play outside and to help my parents in the house. I love my school and those school days.

III.Writing:

3. Make a list of the facilities you are using for your studies nowadays. Then tick the one(s) you think was/were not available about 20 years ago. (P47)

-  Ss  work in groups of three or four. Together they make a list of the facilities they are using for their studies.

- Then they tick the ones they think were not available about twenty years ago.

- T may have the groups write their lists on board. Leave the lists there for 4.

IV.Further practice:

4. Choose facility which wasnot available twenty years ago and write a short description of how students in the past study without that facility. (P47)

- Ss work individually, referring to the framework while they are writing.

- If time allows, T can ask some Ss to share their writing with the

V.Production:

- Complete the writing

- Prepare Looking back and complete the project.

I. Listening.

- Guess the statements.

1.Key:

1. F              2. T            3.T            

4. NG           5.F             6. T

2.Key:

1. 15                  2. Bare - footed       

3. Maths, history (in any order)

4. strict rules     5. Extra classes

II. Writing

3. Make a list of the facilities you are using for your studies nowadays. Then tick the one(s) you think was/were not available about 20 years ago.

4.Sample writing:

It is most likely that students twenty years ago were not able to enjoy the Internet in their studies. That’s why it took them a lot of time, energy, and even money, to do a project that we can now easily complete in one or two days.

For example, when being asked to write an assignment about past habits, the students had to go to the library, look for books on the topic, read the books, and hand-write any information that they thought was useful for their assignment. They would also have to meet with some old people and talk to them about the past. At home, they had to hand-write their assignment, possibly with a lot of erasing and rewriting of the first draft. After finishing the draft, they had to write a clean copy on another piece of paper for submission.

- Take note