Basic English - Unit 10. Bigger and bett

LESSON PLAN NUMBER 12
Object:	 Basic English
Name of lesson: 	 UNIT 10. BIGGER AND BETT
ER!
Period:	 05
Time: 	 225 minutes
Date:	 
I. Introduction: The lesson belongs to Unit 10. Bigger and better! of New Headway elementary book. It introduces the basic knowledge about the usage of comparatives and superlatives; vocabulary about city and country; comparing life in the city and country; writing to describe a place.
II. Aims:
Knowledge: 
Knowing the usage of comparatives and superlatives.
Understanding the vocabulary about city and country.
Enhancing writing skill: writing to describe a place.
Skill:	
Reading the vocabulary fluently.
Practicing speaking skill.
Practicing listening skill 
Attitude:
Paying attention to the lesson.
Contributing the ideas to the lesson.
Working in groups enthusiastically. 
III. Preparation:
Teacher: 
Curriculum: For students at Tay Nguyen School – Full time.
Teaching program: New Headway Elementary.
Teaching aids: Textbooks, pictures, handouts, computer, projector, board.
Testing and assessment: communicative approach, group discussion.
Students: 
Knowledge and experiences relating to the lesson: searching vocabulary about city and country.
Studying aids: Books, notebooks, pens, board, etc.
IV. Procedures:
Class stabilization: ( 2’): 
Checking attendance.
Reminding class before teaching.
Check – up: (10’)	
3. New lesson: (210’)
STAGE
TIME
METHODS
ACTIVITIES
TEACHING AIDS
TEACHERS
STUDENTS
STARTER
15’
Communicative approach
- asks Ss to answer the questions:
“where do you want to live, in the city or in the country?”
“can you tell me the good things of the city?”
“can you tell me the good things of the country?”
- answer T’s questions
Book, board
CITY LIFE & PRACTICE
PRESENTATION:
45’
Communicative approach
1. Ex 1:
- asks Ss to read the adjectives in the table
- asks Ss to match the adjectives with their opposites
- checks their answers
- asks Ss which adjectives describe city life, which adjs describe country life.
2. Ex 2:
- asks Ss to listen to Joel and Andy comparing city and country life
- Play the CD twice
- checks: Do you agree with him?
3. Ex 3: Pronunciation
- Ask Ss listen then listen and repeat the sentence
4. Ex 4
- Ask SS to make sentences comparing city and country life
- Ask some Ss to give their ideas
Conclusion:
- form of comparatives:
+ short adjs:
S1 + to be + adj-er + than S2
+ long adjs:
S1 + to be + more adj + than S2
- read the adjectives in the table
- match the adjectives with their opposites
- answer T’s questions
- listen and do the task
- Listen and repeat
- make sentences comparing city and country life
- give ideas
- listen to T
- Slides.
- Computer.
- Board.
- Speakers.
PRACTICE
45’
Communicative approach, group discussion.
3. Practice 1:
- asks Ss to do practice 1 
- turns on the CD player for Ss to check their answers
- checks them again
- Ask Ss to practise
4. Work in pairs:
- asks Ss to work in pairs: compare their hometown and Hanoi
- do practice 1 
- listen to check 
- work in pairs
Book, 
board 
COUNTRY LIFE & PRACTICE 
PRESENTATION
45’
Communicative approach, group discussion.
1. Ex 1: listening
- asks Ss to listen for gist
- Ask Ss to listen again and complete the conversation
- Ask Ss to practise the conversation
à Conclusion: have/have got
- the form:
(+) S + has/ have got 
(-) S + hasn’t/ haven’t got .
(?) Has/ have + S + got.?
- compare “has/ have” with “has/ have got”
2. Practice 1:
- asks Ss to write the sentences using the correct form of “have got”
- calls on Ss to give their answers
3. Practice 2: role play
- Give instruction to Ss and check their understanding of the task
listen again and complete the conversation 
- listen to T
- take more examples
- do ex
- make conversation
board, CD player, textbook
PARADISE ISLANDS PRESEN
TATION
35’
Communicative approach,
1. Asks Ss to read about 3 resorts and answer the question:
Which one do you like best? Why?
2. Ex 2:
- asks Ss to do the exercise in pairs 
- checks their answers by calling on students to give their answers
à Have Ss draw the rule of superlatives:
- form:
Short adjs: the + adj-est
Long adjs: the + most + adj
- example:
I’m the tallest student in my class
She is the most beautiful girl in my class
- irregular forms of adjs:
Good à better à the best
Bad à worse à the worst
Little à less à least
Much/ many à more à most
- read about 3 hotels 
- listen to T
- do the exercise in pairs in 10m
- do practice 1 in 6m
- listen to check
- discuss the questions
Additional Photos 
PRACTICE
35’
Communicative approach,
3. Practice 1:
- asks Ss to do practice 1 in 6m
- turns on CD player for Ss to check their answers
- checks again
4. Check it
- asks Ss to do the exercise 
- checks their answers
5. Discussion : asks Ss to discuss:
Who is the tallest?
Who is the oldest?
Who is the youngest?
Who is the most intelligent?
Who is the funniest?
- do the exercise in 5m 
Book
Board
Cassette
4. Review the lesson: (3’) 
- Reviewing the knowledge in the lesson.
5. Homework: 
- Learning the vocabulary by heart.
- Reviewing the grammar.
- Practicing the listening skill.
- Do exercises in workbook from page 47 to page 50.
6. Evaluation:
- About content: 
- About methods: ..
- About teaching aids: ..
- About time: .
- About students: ..
7. References:
[1]. Raymond Murphy, Cambridge University Press, English Grammar in Use, 2004.
[2]. Liz and John Soars, Van Hoa- Thong Tin Press, New Headway Elementary (the Third edition).
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Mrs. Nguyen Thi Binh	 	 Nguyen Thi Mai Lan