UNIT 8: COUNTRY LIFE & CITY LIFE
Division of lessons:
1 Getting started + Listen and read
2 Speak + Language focus 3
3 Listen + Languagefocus 1,2
4 Read , Languagefocus 4
5 Write , Languagefocus 5
Date
Period
UNIT 8: LESSON 1:
GETTING STARTED + LISTEN AND READ
I. Aim: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to talk about the city life and the country life
II. Language contents:
1. Vocabulary: relative, peaceful, permanently, remote
accessible, medical facilities, mention
2. Grammar: present progressive
III. Techniques: What and Where, brainstorming, chatting
IV.Teaching aids: pictures, cassette
V. Procedures:

Teacher and students’ activities
Contents

T talks to Ss about life in the city life and life in the country by asking some questions
Ss answer
T can give marks



Teacher presents new words


Ss repeat and say the meaning
Ss copy

Ss copy



Ss play the game “What and Where”

Get Ss talk about city life and country life. The words in the box of getting started may help them
Ss listen to the dialogue between Na and Hoa (twice)
Then Ss practice in pairs
Give feedback ang get more information
Compare their ideas







Students work in pairs to answer the questions in Exercise on page 73











T asks Ss the questions
T asks 4 pioneers from the groups to show their ideas before class


1) Warm up / Marks (5’)
Chatting
a/ Where do you live ?
b/ Do you want to live in the city ? Why ?
c/ Do you want to live in the country ? Why ?
2) Presentation (10’)
Pre-teach
Relative (n) ( uncles, aunts, cousins..... )
(relative (a)
peaceful (a) ( quiet and calm)
peace (n)
permanently (adv)= forever: vónh vieãn
remote: far away land
accessible (a)
medical facilities (n)
mention (v)

What and Where
3) Practice (15’)
Brainstorming
noisy quiet



Dialogue

* Possible answers
Tall buildings
Plenty kinds of good
Polluted air
Traffic jam
Entertainment
busy
Beautiful views
Fresh food
Fresh air
Friendly
peaceful


* Answer
a/ Na has been to Kim Lien village
b/ She was there for the weekend
c/ To her, the countryside is peaceful and quiet and there is nothing to do
d/ There is no libraries, no movies, no supermarkets, no zoos...
e/ Country life is becoming better. Many remote areas are getting electricity. People can now have things like refrigerators and TV, medical facilities are more accessible
4) Production (12’)
Do you prefer the city or the country ? Like ? Why ?

5/ Homework (3’)
- Write a short passage about why they prefer the citylife or countrylife
- Prepare: Speak + focus 3

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Date
Period
UNIT 8: LESSON 2
SPEAK ,LANGUAGE FOCUS 3
I. Aims : By the end of the lesson, students will be able to practice speaking about the changes of a place
II. Language contents:
1.Vocabulary: none
2. Grammar: progressive tense
III. Techniques: wordsquare
IV. Teaching aids: Textbooks, pictures , cards
V. Procedures:

Teacher and Ss’ activities
Contents



Divide the class into 2 teams
Ask Ss to go to the board and circle the word they find

The team which circles more words will win the game







Setting the scene
T explains
Ask Ss to make a sentence about her health
T explains the form-use of the present progressive tense



T prepares six cards of cues



Model first two cues the whole class repeat chorally, then some Ss read out individually

Give a new cue, a new student repeat, go on until most of the Ss in class can remember the structure



Ss look at two pictures on page 73 and talk to their partners about the changes of the town. The words in the box under the pictures may help Ss write the word prompts on the board so