Period: 1 Date of planning:..
Week:1 Date of teaching:…

UNIT 1 AVISIT FROM A PENPAL
LESSON 1: GETTING STARTED – LISTEN AND READ

1. Aims: At the end of the lesson, students will be able to
- Make and respond to introduction.
- Talk about activities’ Lan and Razali Maryam would do during the visit.
- Educate students how to greet people when meeting each other.
- Develop reading and listening skills.
2. Language contents
a. Grammar: Past simple tense; used to; past simple tense with ‘wish’.
b. Vocabulary: Mosque(n); correspond(v); to be impressed by; pray (v); depend (v); have a trip aboard.
3. Techniques: Eliciting; guessing; scan; pair work.
4. Teaching aids: Pictures; textbook; chalk; tape; cassette.
5. Time: 45 minutes
6. Procedures:
Contents
 methods

I. Warm - up
1. Getting started. What would you do if your foreign friend comes to visit your country?
Suggestions:
A B C D


II. Presentation
Questions.
What do you know about Maryam/ Lan’s penpal?
Where did Lan take Maryam to?
Places: Lan take Maryam to
HoChi Minh’s mousoleum
History Museum
The literature temple.
Vocabulary:
- Mosque(n) - correspond(v)
- to be impressed by - pray (v);
- depend (v)
- have a trip aboard.
Grammar:
Past simple tense:
Ex: Lan took Maryam to…
Used to: used for the past habit so “ used to” means usually or often did sth in the past and no longer now.
Ex: Lan used to walk past the Mosque on her way to primary school.
did sth in the past and no longer now.
Questions:
- What did Lan use to do when she was a primary school girl?
->Yes, she often walk past the mosque on her way to primary school.
- What about now? Does she often walk past the mosque?
-> No, she does’t this any more III.

III. Practice
C Two weeks.
B Ha Noi people were friendly.
C All the above.

Introducing the topic.

Students look at the pictures and realize the places.
Students practice with their partners. Then give answers.
Teacher correct errors if necessary.

Teacher introduces the situation of the text about Lan’s penpal, Maryam visited her.
Students give answers.
Teacher elicits how to answer the questions.




Students listen to the text again. Then find out some new words.


Students find down some sentences used by the past simple tense:

Teacher explains how to use “ used to”.
Students notice teacher’s explaination.




Students ask and answer these questions.


Teacher asks students these questions.

Students practice with their partners. Then give answers.
Teacher correct errors if necessary.


Students read the txt in silence. Then practice with their partners.
Teacher asks students these questions.
Students give answers.
Teacher correct errors if necessary.



IV. Consolidation
Saying the content of the text.
Educate students how to greet people when meeting each other.

V. Homework:
- Read the passage.
- complete the exercise 1 on page 5 in the exercise book.
- prepare ‘ speak’.

VI. Marks/ Remarks
- Students were weak in reading.

VII. Self – evaluation:
- Teacher should explain the content of parts of the passage.

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Period: 2 Date of planning:..
Week:1 Date of teaching:…

UNIT 1 AVISIT FROM A PENPAL
LESSON 2: SPEAK

1. Aims: At the end of the lesson, students will be able to
- Make and respond to introduction.
- Educate students how to greet people when meeting each other.
- Develop reading and listening.
2. Language contents
a. Grammar: Pleased to meet you; let me introduce; have you been…
b. Vocabulary: to be different from; to be the same.
3. Techniques: Dialogue building; matching; brainstorming; eliciting.
4. Teaching aids: Pictures; textbook; chalk.
5. Time: 45 minutes
6. Procedures:
Contents
 methods

I. Pre- speaking
Nga is talking to Maryam:
* Guessing:
What do you talk about?
- Places where you live.
- People in their country.
* Make and respond to introduction.
- Pleased to meet you!
- Let me introduce…
- Have you been…
II.