Teacher’ activities

Student’s activities

1. Warm up:

Before Ss open their books, ask them to work in groups to discuss a change in their neighbourhood that they have heard of or read about.

 - NETWORK:

- What are the changes in Viet Nam?

- Houses

…..

2.Communication 1:

Set the scene: You are going to read posts on Viet Travel. Forum from some foreigners who visited Viet Nam a long time ago.

 Extra vocabulary:(5m)

Help Ss understand the meanings of the words in the Extra Vocabulary box by using examples, definitions, or even transaltions.

- Suffer (v): to experience something unpleasant, such as injury, defeat, or loss.

- Mushroom (v): a metaphor verb showing

something that grows or develops fast in terms of number and speed.

- Illiteracy (n): inability to read and write

- Exporter (n): a person, company, or country that sells goods to another country

1.Read the posts on Viet Travel Forum from people who... (P65)

- Have Ss skim - read the posts individually.

- What are the posts about?

-  Ask Ss to work in pairs to  compare how many ideas from the posts they can remember.

- Then ask Ss to read the posts the second time more slowly for detail.

3.Communication 2:

2.Read the post on Viet Travel Forum and retell them to your friends.(P65)

- Put Ss in groups of three.

- Tell them that they can look back at the posts and each group member reports on one post as in the example.

- Afterwards, ask some Ss to retell the posts to the class. Correct them if necessary.

3.Work in groups.Use the suggestions in the table... (P65)

Exercise 3:

- Have Ss work in groups. Ask them to focus on a couple of the suggestions in the table to discuss and write down a few posts on a big sheet of paper.

- They can pretend to be a foreign visitors and use the posts in 1 as a model.

- Set a time limit of ten minutes. They should also decide which changes are the most beneficial.

4. Further practice:

4.Present your groups’s posts to other groups (P65)

- When the time is up, ask the groups to stick their papers on the wall.

- Each group reports their best post to the class, saying which changes have been the most beneficial for the country.

- Vote for the best posts.

5. Production:

1. Review this lesson

2. Do exercises ……. (Workbook).

3. Prepare lesson Skills 1

Make a list about changes in Viet Nam in groups.

- Possible answer:

Houses

Traffic: means of transport/ roads..

School

Family groups

Entertainment

Facility

- Find out the extra words and underline them.

- Guess the meaning from the context.

- Listen to the teacher’s explaination.

- Repeat

- Stress

- Copy

- Workindividually.

- The posts are about the changes in Viet Nam.

- Work in pairs

- Workindividually.

- Work in groups of three.

3.Possible answers:

1. Charles is from France. He said that the first time he had been to Viet Nam was in 1965. He said that many people were/had been illiterate then but he was astonished that after nearly 30 years there was no more illiteracy although the population had nearly tripled. He was also surprised to learn that the country was one of the largest rive exporting countries.

2. Peter is from America. He said that he had gone to Ha Noi in 1997 when Viet Nam had been part of ASEAN for two years. He was shocked/astonished to see that so much had changed over the last 18 years - flyovers and high - rise buildings were mushrooming.

- Work in groups

- Report to the class.

- Do at home