UNIT 1: A VISIT FROM A PEN PAL
Period 1: Getting started & Listen and Read
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I. OBJECTIVES:
Introducing the new lesson topic: A visit from a penpal
Talking about places to visit
II. LANGUAGE CONTENTS:
Grammar: - Wish + Clause (past simple tense/ Be = Were for any Persons)
- Used to + Verb (simple form)
Vocabulary: words relating to famous places to visit and activities done during the visit.
III. TECHNIQUES :
Brainstorming
Question – answers
IV. TEACHING AIDS :
Pictures (about 5, 6 places in Hanoi & HoChiMinh City; 02 pictures of a mosque and people praying).
Cassette recorder + tape.
V. TIME : 45 minutes
VI. PROCEDURES
Getting started :
Steps
Teacher’s activities
Student’s activities

Warm up














Lead in/ Pre-reading







* Asking students some question after showing them 6 pictures
(page 6) :
- Can you tell me the name of this place?
- Do you have any pen pals?
- Has she/he ever visited your city?
- What activities would you do during the visit?
* Teaching new words:
- Revolutionary Museum (n)
- Uncle Ho’s Mausoleum (n)
- Temple of Literature
- Hoan Kiem Lake
* Introducing the context
“Lan took her pen pal – Maryam to a mosque and Maryam prayed there”.
* Presenting the meanings of new words
- Mosque (n)
- To correspond
- To be impressed by
- To pray
* Checking vocabulary: Rub out and remember.
* Asking students to listen to the tape and make a list of places that Lan took Maryam to.
- Listening and answering teacher’s questions.
1. Revolutionary Museum
2. Ben Thanh Market
3. Uncle Ho’s Mausoleum
4. Saigon Water Park
5. Temple of Literature
6. Hoan Kiem Lake







- Listening


While – reading
* Having students do the task and make a list of places
* Correcting the task


* Asking students to read the text again to choose the correct option to complete the sentences on page 7.
* Having students compare their answers, then giving feedback.
* Answers :
- They visited : Hoan Kiem Lake, HCM`s Mausoleum, History Museum, Temple of Literature, a mosque
- Pair work
- Reading and doing the task.

Post – reading and Consolidation
* Asking question:
“What did Maryam want about her visit to Vietnam?
* Briefly explaining the use of wish:
She wanted to have more time to know Vietnam better. She might say
( “I wish I had more time ...”
Wish + Clause
(past tense/ Be = Were)
( we use wish to express wish (something unlikely to happen)
* Exercise: Listen to the situation and say your wish.
1. You are too short
2. It’s raining. You can’t go camping
3. You don’t have time to take your grandmother to go to the supermarket.
4. You don’t know many English words.
- Answers:
( She wanted to have more time to know Vietnam better.









* Giving answers.


HOMEWORK :
Learn by heart the new words
Do exercise 1 (page 5), exercise 7 (page 10)


UNIT 1: A VISIT FROM A PEN PAL
Period 2: Speak + Listen
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OBJECTIVES: After the lesson, students may.
Develop speaking skill
Introduce themselves and respond to introduction
Have more knowledge of Tokyo, Liverpool and Perth.
Develop listening skill
Introduce themselves & respond to introduction
Have more knowledge of Tokyo, Liverpool and Perth.
LANGUAGE CONTENTS: * Expression used in introduction:
Let me introduce myself.
Pleased to meet you
Hello, you must be...
Would rather + verb (simple form)
TECHNIQUES:
Brainstorming
Question – answers
TEACHING AIDS:
Brainstorming
Questions – answers.
Pictures of money bills
Cassette recorder + tape
TIME : 45 minutes
PROCEDURES * Revision of the old lesson : 5 minutes
Students tell the names of places in the pictures (page 6)
Steps
Teacher’s activities
Student’s activities

Warm up & Presentation












Pre-listening










While – listening


Post – listening
. Asking students some questions after showing the world map and the picture of Petronas Twin Towers:
- “ Where is the Petronas? In which city and country? Please locate Malaysia on the world map”.
* Introducing the context of the dialogue