Unit 9: At home and away - Lesson 1: A. A holiday in Nha Trang (A1)

Preparing date:28/12/2008
Teaching date:29/12/2008	Class: 7A2 ..................................................................
	 31/12/2008	7A3 ..................................................................
	 31/12/2008	7A1 ..................................................................
Period 54: 	 unit 9: at home and away
Lesson 1: A. A holiday in Nha Trang (A1)
I/ Objectives:
By the end of this lesson, students will be able to
+ Talk about vacation activities using the past simple tense with some irregular verbs.
+ Listen to a conversation, read and number the statements.
+ love travelling and be proud of the beauty of our country.
- Train students four skills.
II/ Language content:
1. Vocabulary:	aquarium, trip; some irregular verbs in the past simple tense.
2. Structures:	- The past simple tense
III/ teaching aids:
	Text book, chalks, board, pictures, postcard, wordcards.
IV/ Teaching methods:
	- Methods help students improve communicating skills: 
	- Asking and answering. 
- Pair works, group works, individual works, class work.
- ordering, matching
V/ Procedures:
Teacher's activities
Students' activities
1. Warm up (5')
Chatting
- What do you usually do on your summer vacation ?
- Do you like travelling ?
- Where do you usually travel ?
Introduce the new lesson:
Student's answer.
Listen to the introduction.
2. presentation (10')
Present new words:	
- an aquarium : hồ, bể nuôi cá (visual P.88)
- wonderful (a): tuyệt vời
- (to) think of (v): nghĩ về (act)
- trip (n): chuyến đi
Checking vocabulary: 	R & R
- Ask sts to look at the picture P.86 and guess: where is the beach ?
- T introduces some features of Nha Trang and its scenic sports.
- T sets the sence: We're going to listen a conversation between Ba and Liz about Liz's trip to Nha Trang. Befor listening it, now predict:
What did Liz think of Nha Trang?
What places did she visit?
Did she buy any souvernirs in Nha Trang?
Was she tired after the trip?
- T collects sts' predictions on the BB.
Listen and guess
Listen & repeat
Read
Copy
- It’s in Nha Trang
- Cham Temple, Tri Nguyen aquarium, beautiful beaches...
Listen
Predict
2. Practice (22’)
* Sts listen to the dialogue twice and check their prediction (4 groups)
- Call some to answer.
- Sts listen the third time while reading in silence to check their answer.
- Feedback:
- It was beautiful.
-She visited Cham Temples and Tri Nguyen Aquarium.
- Yes, she did.
- No, she wasn’t.
- Sts practice reading in pair đ exchange 
* Present The past simple tense through the questions and answers above and some past simple form of verbs in the dialogue 
Poster 1
- (to) be đ was / were - to) buy đ bought
- (to) do đ did	 - (to) have đ had
- (to) take đ took	 - (to) visit đ visited
- (to) go đ went - (to) returnđ returned
* Let Ss read the dialogue again and number the sentenes on page 87.
- Check and correct.
Answer Key: 3-2-4-1-5.
* Have them do the game matching:
A
B
Nha Trang 
quite expensive
The people
friendly
The food 
beautiful
The things
delicious
The vacation
wonderful
Answer Key:
1-c, 2-b, 3-d, 4-a, 5-e
- Elicits the model sentences from Ss:
Nha Trang was beautiful.
- Let Ss listen and repeat.
- Write the model sentences on BB.
Nha Trang was beautiful.
The people were friendly.
- Notice the past simple tense of the verb To be.
* Use these words to give example:
How was the vacation?
It was wonderful.
- Ask a Ss to answer.
- Let a pair to do for sample.
- Let them work in pairs.
- Call some pairs to ask and answer in front of the class.
- Remark.
- Listen and check their prediction without looking at the book.
- Answer.
- Check and correct the answer.
- Roleplay the dialogue.
- Look at the BB, listen and repeat.
- Take notes.
- Read the dialogue and number the sentences individually and then compare with a partner.
- Do the game as teacher’s commands.
- Listen and repeat.
- Listen and take notes.
- Listen.
- Answer.
- Ask and answer.
- Pair works.
4. consolidation(6')
- Have them close all the books and notebooks and work in groups, complete the passage.
 Liz (1)..... to Nha Trang with her parents. They (2)..... her to Tri Nguyen aquarium. Liz (3)....... a lot of gifts. The Robbinson (4)..... a great time in Nha Trang.
Answer key: 
 1. went, 2. took, 3. bought, 4. had.
- Summarize maint points of the lesson.
- Do exercise as teacher’s commands.
- Listen and memorize.
5. homework (2')
Review the lesson.
Read the dialogue and translate it into Vietnamese.
Do exercise 1 (P53)
Prepare: Lesson 2 - A2. 
- Listen and write