Giáo án Tiếng Anh - Unit 4: For a better community

Unit 4 for a better community
 Lesson 2	Language
A. Aims and Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to: 
	 - Use the adjectives ending with -ed, -ing, -ful and -less in context.
 - Pronounce / nd/ , /nt/ and/ / in words and sentences correctly.
 - Use irregular past tense verbs, the past simple and past continuous correctly in combination.
B. Preparations:
 - Teacher: Handouts, textbook, pieces of papers, cassette.
 - Students: Textbook
C. Methods: - The whole lesson: Integrated, mainly communicative.
D. Procedures:
Time/Stages
Activities
Interactions
1. Warm up
 5 minutes 
- T asks Ss to tell the whole class about their volunteer work.
- T listens and gives marks.
T Ss
2. New lesson
37 minutes
A. Vocabulary:
Task 1:
- Ask Ss to read the conversation again and underline the adjectives ending with - ed, -ing, -ful and less
- T checks some Ss.
- Guide Ss to distinguish the use and meaning of these adjectives.
+ Adjectives with -ed: Passive, often go with nouns denoting persons.
+ Adjective with- ing: Active, go with noun denoting things
+ Adjs with ful have positive meaning while adjs with less have negative meaning.
* Key:
- ed: disadvantaged, interested, excited
- ing: interesting
- ful: useful, helpful, meaningful
- less: hopeless	
Task 2: 
- Ask Ss to work individually in 3 minutes then have them compare their answer with their partner.
- Check Ss' answers and give explanation if any.
- exchange the answers with their partner.
- provide the answer.
* Key:
1. meaningless 2. interested
3. hopeless 4. useful
5. excited, meaningful
6. exciting.
2. Pronunciation
Task 1:Identify the word having the sounds
- Play the recorder and let Ss listen and repeat.
- Have Ss work in pairs.
- Invite two or three Ss read again and then give comment
- Explain the requirement of this activity to Ss , focusing on the importance of pronouncing the ending sounds correctly in English.
Task 2:
Listen and repeat
- Play the recorder and ask Ss to write 
/ nd/ , /n/ and/nt/ above the words that have the corresponding sounds.
- Put Ss in pairs to practice reading the sentences.
- Invite some Ss to read the sentences in front of the class. Correct mistakes if any.
2. Grammar
Activity 1:
 - Ask Ss to read the sentences, check if they understand.
- Ask Ss to pay attention to the time expressions and ask them to find the verb tense to go with these time expressions.
- Ss work individually first to rewrite the sentences in the past tense, using the time expression in blankets.
- Ask Ss to work in pairs to check the answer.
Activity 2:
- Invite 3 Ss to write on the board, then ask them to highlight the irregular past tense verbs.
* Key:
1. I wore jeans to school yesterday.
2. My sister and I bought a lot of clothes last summer.
3. My father read newspaper in bed last night.
4. My mother made my bed last Sunday.
5. I wrote letters to my grandparents yesterday.
Individually
T Ss
Pair work
Group work
Ss Ss
T Ss
Individually
T Ss
3.
Consolidation
2 minutes 
- Ask Ss to consolidate the main contents.
- Give feedback.
T Ss
4. Homework
1 minute
- T asks Ss to do exercises again at home.
- Prepare for the next lesson.
T Ss
E. Experience:
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Date of preparation: November, 1st 2014	 Date of signing: November, 3rd 2014
Distributive period: 33	 Date of teaching:
 Unit 4 for a better community
Lesson 2	Reading
A. Aims and Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to: 
 - Know the benefit of volunteer work.
 - understand the discourse and put the sentences into appropriate place.
 - Guess the meaning of some words through the context.
B. Preparations:
 - Teacher: Handouts, textbook, pieces of papers, cassette.
 - Students: Textbook 
C. Methods: - The whole lesson: Integrated, mainly communicative.
* Skills: - Reading for gist and for specific information.
	 - Skimming and scanning reading
D. Procedures:
Time/Stages
Activities
Interactions
1. Warm up
 8 minutes 
- T asks Ss some questions\;
1. Do you like volunteer work?
2. Have you ever taken part in any volunteer work?
3. What kinds of activities do you like most?
- T elicits the answers and leads Ss in the lesson.
T Ss
2. New lesson
34 minutes
 Activity 1:
- Introduce the title of the reading passage and elicit the reasons why people volunteer.
- Invite some Ss to share their choices.
- Ss give their own ideas by ticking the reasons in the textbook.
- Ss exchange the ideas with their partner.
Activity 2:
- Ask Ss to scan the reading text and check their predictions in activity 1.
- Check Ss' answers and ask them to clues from the reading text.
- Provide the answers and evidences from the reading text.
* Key: Reasons They are: a, c, e and f
Activity 3:
- Remind Ss the strategies for Gapped text or Missing sentences.
- Go through the sentences in activity 3 and help Ss to make sense of these sentences.
- Ask Ss to do this task individually, then ask them to compare the answer in pairs.
- Check Ss' answer and give further explanation.
- Do this activity individually then compare the answer with a partner.
- Some Ss give the answer by reading the Missing sentences out loud.
* Key: 1- d 2- a 3- b 4- c
Activity 4:
Ask Ss to look back at the reading text to locate the highlighted words.
- Have Ss guess the meaning of each of the highlighted word based on the context.
- Require Ss to choose the meaning then compare with a partner.
- Check Ss' answer and give feedback.
- Guess the meaning through the context.
- Choose the correct option then compare the answer with a partner.
Key: 1.A 2 .B 3.C 4.B 5.	
Activity 5:
-Let Ss work in pairs to discuss the statements.
-Elicit different ways to give opinions that Ss know and add some more if necessary.
 - Invite some Ss to talk in front of the whole class.
- Work in pairs to give their own point of view toward issues mentioned in two statements.
- Ss take turn to talk.
Pair work
T Ss
Individually
T Ss
T Ss
Pair work
Ss Ss
3.
Consolidation
2 minutes 
- Summarize the main points of the lesson
T Ss
4. Homework
1 minute
- Ask students to learn by heart the new words.
- Prepare for the next lesson.
T Ss
E. Experience:
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Date of preparation: November, 8th 2014	 Date of signing: November, 10th 2014
Distributive period: 34	 Date of teaching:
 Unit 4 for a better community
Lesson 3	Speaking
A. Aims and Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to: 
- Express their opinion about priorities for community development.
- Perform their viewpoints to other people.
B. Preparations:
 - Teacher: Handouts, textbook, pieces of papers.
 - Students: Textbook 
C. Methods: - The whole lesson: Integrated, mainly communicative.
D. Procedures:
Time/Stages
Activities
Interactions
1. Warm up
 8 minutes 
-Ask Ss to look at the pictures at page 42 and name the activities in these pictures.
- Check some Ss then ask them whether these activities are useful to the community or not.
- Look at the picture and tell the activity in each picture.
P1: green summer/ green volunteer
P2: donating things
P3: donating money
- These activities are useful to community 
- Lead in the new lesson.
T Ss
2. New lesson
34 minutes
 Task 1:
- Ask Ss to work individually to look at some activities for community development and to match them with the reasons why they are important.
- Go round and help if necessary.
-Have them compare the answer with others.
Check Ss' answers.
- Call on individual Ss to read aloud these activities and the reasons why they are important.
* Key:	
1.d 2.c 3.e 4. a 5.b
 Task 2:
- Have Ss in pairs discuss why the activities in activity 1 are important for community development.
- Guide Ss to prepare the ideas to support their reasons.
- Invite three pairs to perform the dialogues in front of the class.
- Give feedback.	
Task 3:
-Have Ss work in groups of 4 and look at activities for community development in task 1.
- Ask members in each group to rank the activities in the order of importance.
- Guide Ss some useful expressions in the textbook to express their ideas.
Task 4:
- Ask the representatives from 3 groups to present the groups' decisions to the whole class.
- T chooses a representative to perform their decisions/ the whole class listen to the representatives and vote for the best decisions.
- Ask the whole class to vote for the group with the best decisions.
T Ss
Pair work
T Ss
Group work
Ss Ss
3.
Consolidation
2 minutes 
- Summarize what they have learnt by asking Ss some questions
T Ss
4. Homework
1 minute
- Ask students to Exercises in workbook: C1, C3
- Prepare for the next lesson.
T Ss
E. Experience:
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Date of preparation: November, 8th 2014	 Date of signing: November, 10th 2014
Distributive period: 35	 Date of teaching:
 Unit 4 for a better community
Lesson 5	Listening
A. Aims and Objectives: 
 By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
	 - Listen familiarly an announcement on certain fields.
 - Develop the listening skills for general information and specific details. 
B. Preparations:
 - Teacher: Handouts, textbook, pieces of papers, cassette.
 - Students: Textbook 
C. Methods: - The whole lesson: Integrated, mainly communicative.
D. Procedures:
Time/Stages
Activities
Interactions
1. Warm up
 5 minutes 
Task 1:
- Asks students to look at the pictures to see what the people in these pictures are doing and some related questions 
+What do you think people in these pictures are doing?
+Have you ever participated in any activities like these? Share your stories!
Ex: They are doing voluntary activities to help the needy...
T Ss
2. New lesson
37 minutes
Task 2: 
- Tell the students to match the words with their definitions then decide the parts of speech of these words. 
- Match the words with their definitions and decide their parts of speech and take notes if necessary. 
Key: a. public service announcement (noun phrase)
 b. donate (v)
 c. non-profit (adj)
Task 3: 
- Tell students that they are going to listen to the announcement by the director of Heart to Heart Charity and decide whether the statements are true (T) or false (F). 
- Have students guess their answers before listening. 
- Play the recording and let students do the activity. Possibly play the recording again. 
- Check students' answers and comments. 
Key: 1. T 2. F 3. F 4. F 5. T
Task 4: 
- Have students listen to the announcement again and do the activity. If necessary, teacher may explain more.
- Check students' answers and comments. 
Key
1. C 2 A 3. B
Task 5: 
- Instruct and control the discussion between students in each pair. 
Ex: Have you ever volunteered or done community service? If yes, what did you do? If no, what is our plan to help people in your community?
- Comment and correct the possible mistakes of students. 
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T Ss
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3.
Consolidation
2 minutes 
- Ask Ss to consolidate the main contents.
- Give feedback.
- Summarize the main points of the lesson.
T Ss
4. Homework
1 minute
- Prepare for the next lesson.
T Ss
E. Experience:
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.........................................................................................................................................................................................Date of preparation: November, 8th 2014	 Date of signing: November, 10th 2014
Distributive period: 36	 Date of teaching:
 Unit 4 for a better community
Lesson 6	Writing
A. Aims and Objectives: 
 By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
 - Write an application letter applying for a volunteer job in a formal tone.
 - Develop the writing skills in general. Build up vocabulary supported for writing. 
B. Preparations:
 - Teacher: Handouts, textbook, pieces of papers.
 - Students: Textbook 
C. Methods: - The whole lesson: Integrated, mainly communicative.
D. Procedures:
Time/Stages
Activities
Interactions
1. Warm up
 7 minutes 
- T asks students to look at the job advertisement and highlight the key information: 
- Look at the job advertisement and focus on some key information: job title, qualities needed for the job, working experience needed for the job, and the address of the employer.
- Possibly explain and give more details about the job advertisement. 
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2. New lesson
35 minutes
Task 1:
- Tell the students to find the purpose of the letter and the comment. 
- Point out the reason why Quan wrote the letter. 
Answer: He wanted to apply for the volunteer teaching job. 
Task 2: Answer the questions
- Tell students to read the letter again and answer the questions. 
- Call on some students to answer and give feedback. 
Key:
1. He saw the advertisement in the Young Newspaper on February 22nd.
2. He taught a group of primary students in his area.
3. He taught them for two months.
4. He is creative, patient, and has great love for children.
5. He can give four references.
6. He can start teaching from next month.
Task 3:
- Tell students to read the letter again and match each paragraph in the letter with its purpose. 
- If necessary, explain to students. 
- Ss read different purposes of each paragraph of an application letter then match each paragraph with its purposes. 
- Work in groups and then give answers. 
Key: Paragraph 1: b Paragraph 2: c 
 Paragraph 3: d Paragraph 4: a 
Task 4:
- Ask students to read the job advert and answer the questions. 
- Read the advertisement and answer the questions about this job advert. 
(Answer these questions by themselves first and then check with their partners. )
- Get students' answers and comments. 
Key: 1. Reliable and hard-working
2. Welcoming guests and receiving donations for the organization.
Task 5:
- Instruct students to write a formal letter of 140-160 words applying for the job. Follow the writing plan in task 3.
- Go around to offer helps. 
- Get some outputs to highlight and comment and correct the possible mistakes of students. 
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Pair work
Ss Ss
Group work
T Ss
Pair work
T Ss
3.
Consolidation
2 minutes 
- Ask Ss to consolidate the main contents.
- Give feedback.
- Summarize the main points of the lesson.
T Ss
4. Homework
1 minute
- Write an application letter.
- Prepare for the next lesson.
T Ss
E. Experience:
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Date of preparation: November, 15th 2014	 Date of signing: November, 17th 2014
Distributive period: 37	 Date of teaching:
 Unit 4 for a better community
 Lesson 7	 Communication and culture
A. Aims and Objectives: 
 - By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
 + Talk and express their views about priorities for community development in their living area. 
 + Talk about a person in their community/culture and his/her contribution to community development.
 - Through the lesson, teacher will help Ss know some local and global activities for community development.
B. Preparations:
 - Teacher: Handouts, textbook, pieces of papers.
 - Students: Textbook
C. Methods: - The whole lesson: Integrated, mainly communicative.
D. Procedures:
Time/Stages
Activities
Interactions
1. Homework
 7 minutes 
- Tell students to ask and answer about volunteer activities they have ever taken part in or hope to take part in. 
- Ss present a small conversation as guided about volunteer activities to support develop community. 
- Control the discussion and correct.
T Ss
2. New lesson
35 minutes
1. Communication: 
 Activity 1: Think global, act local
- Elicit students' interpretation of this saying, encourage students to speak their minds. 
- Check and correct possible mistakes. 
- Instruct students to rank the activities in order of importance.
Activity 2: Exchange your opinion
- Have students form groups consisting of students coming from different parts for the districts.
- Ss work in groups to exchange their points of view based on the example. 
- Go around to offer helps and comments. 
- Check answers with the whole class.
2. Culture: Wise words
Activity 1: 
- Ask students to look at the man in the picture and say whether they know anything about him and his contributions. 
- Ss discuss with their partners in appropriate groups to share their knowledge about the man named Mahatma Gandhi. 
Activity 2:
- Tell the students to read a text about Mahatma Gandhi and answer the questions about his life
- Read the text on their own, find information to answer questions, and compare with other students. 
- Take notes if necessary. 
- Check students' answers and comments. 
Pair work
T Ss
Group work
T Ss
Group work
T Ss
Pair work
T Ss
3.
Consolidation
2 minutes 
- Ask Ss to consolidate the main contents.
- Give feedback.
T Ss
4. Homework
1 minute
- T asks Ss to learn the structures and vocabulary.
- Prepare for the next lesson.
T Ss
E. Experience:
..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Date of preparation: November, 15th 2014	 Date of signing: November, 17th 2014
Distributive period: 38	 Date of teaching:
 Unit 4 for a better community
 Lesson 8	 Looking back and project
A. Aims and Objectives: 
 - To help Ss do the exercises and distinguish between some clusters /end/, /ent/....
 - By the end of the lesson Ss are able to: 
 + Use the language of Unit 4
	+ Talk about volunteering and community development. 
	+ Work out a plan to help someone in ne