Unit 11: Keep fit, stay healthy - Bui Xuan Thoai

Date of preparation: February 24, 2008
Date of teaching:
Unit 11: KEEP FIT, STAY HEALTHY 
Period: 70 Lesson B3,4,5 
I. Aims and objectives:
Language content:To introduce some new words related to the common cold. To practice listening the passage about ss’ absence due to sickness.
Language function: By the end of the lesson, the ss will be able ask and answer questions about the common cold.
Educational aim: To make ss be aware of keeping fit and satying healthy. 
1. Language: 
-Vocabulary: 	
-Structure:	The present simple tense.
2. Skill: Integrated skills.
3. Education factor:, 
II. Teacher’s and sts’ preparation: 
1. Method: C.A
2. Techniques/ Activities: prediction, mime, matching, discussion.
3. Materials needed: Textbook, picture (p.112), poster.
4. Sts’ preparation: 	+ Learn old knowledge.
+ Read the lesson beforehand.
5. Previous exercises:
III. Procedure class: 
1. Stabilization: (1m)
a. Warm-up:
b. Check absence:
2. Checking up previous knowledge: (5ms)
	Get a weak student to check some words.
	Words needed: cold, headache, toothache, stomachache, flu
3. New lesson:
Teaching steps
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
The lesson content
I.Presentation of new material
 12
1. Lead-in:
- Ask some questions:
a. How many days did you lose due to sickness last semester?
b. What desease did you have?
c. What was the most common illness?
- Tell the aim
2. Pre-listening:
* Prediction:
- Let ss to complete the table.
- Get results on board.
+ Cold:..
+ Flu:.
+ Stomachache:
+ Headache:..
+ Toothache:
 Total days lost:---------
3. While-listening:
- Play the tape twice.
- Have ss compare with a partner.
- Get answers.
- Correct: play tape again (stop at keys).
4. Post-listening:
* Interview:
* Questions:
+ Were you absent from school?
+ Were you sick?
+ Did you have..?
- Answer.
a. Ten days.
b. Cold.
c. Cold.
- Listen.
- Pairwork.
- Give results.
- Listen & check.
- Pairwork.
- Give answers.
- Repeat what they hear.
- Groupwork.
Unit 11: 
Period: 70 Lesson B3,4,5 
+ Cold: 10
+ Flu: 43
+ Stomachache:37
+ Headache:5
+ Toothache:17
 Total days lost:112
 20ms
II.Consolidation
 3ms
III.Homework
 4ms
1. Lead-in:
a. Do you often have a cold?
b. How do you feel?
c. What do you know about it?
- Tell the aim: the common cold.
2. Pre-reading:
a. Teach new words:
+ symptom (expalnation)
+ cure (translation)
+ relieve (translation)
+ a runny nose (explanation
+ a slight fever explanation)
+ coughing (mime)
+ sneezing (mime)
* Check understanding:
Matching
b. T/F statements:
1. We call cold “common”.
2. Nobody knows the symptoms of cold.
3. Every knows a cure.
4. Medicines don’t cure a cold.
5. Cold will last for a few days, then disappear.
3. While-reading:
- Ask ss to read the passage and check their prediction.
- Get answers.
- Give feedback.
1. T
2. F (Everyone knows)
3. F (Nobody knows)
4. T.
5. T
* Comprehension questions:
- Let ss read the passage and answer the questions.
- Get answers.
- give feedback.
4. Post-reading:
* Discussion:
“What do you do to prevent a cold everyday?”
Ask ss to retell the symptoms of the common cold and how to prevent it.
Ask ss to:
+ learn vocabulary.
+ copy and answer questions in exercise notebooks.
+ do exercise B3,4. p.72.73
+ prepare the next lesson:
Unit 12: A1,2.
a. weak ss.
b. over average ss.
c. good ss.
- Listen.
- Listen, repeat and guess the meaning of the words, then copy.
- Do what teacher requests.
- Read statements.
- Individual.
- Give answers.
- Individual.
- Give answers.
- Groupwork.
- Retell.
- Copy.
* New words:
+ symptom (n)
+ cure (v,n)
+ relieve (v)
+ a runny nose
+ a slight fever 
+ coughing 
+ sneezing 
* Answer:
a. Because every year millions of people catch it
b. They are: a runny nose a slight fever, coughing and snezzing.
c. No. There is no cure for the common cold.
d. No. These medicines don’t cure a cold, but they relieve the symptoms.
e. We can prevent a cold by eating well, doing exercises, keeping fit, staying healthy.
	* Self-evaluation: