Lesson plan unit 8: Country life and city life - Lesson 4: Read

HANOI NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
FOREIGN LAGUAGE DEPARTEMENT
CLASS : 30A
TRAINEES : Nguyễn thị Dương Hạnh
 Vũ Thanh Hà
DATE : May, 3rd 2014
LESSON PLAN
UNIT 8 : COUNTRY LIFE AND CITY LIFE
LESSON 4 : READ ( Page 75 ~ 79 )
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I/ OBJECTIVES :By the end of the lesson, Sts will be able to understand the text about one of the social problems : Why many peopleare living their home in the country togo and live in the city and the problems these people cause .
II/ LANGUAGE CONTENTS : 
+ Vocabulary : Learn to read and write some new words 
Adjectives : rural, urban .
Nouns : strain, typhoon, drought, struggle, migrant, increase .
+ Grammar : Practice the Present progressive tense by talking about the future.
III/ SKILL : Practice reading comprehension
IV/ TEACHING TECHNIQUES : Language method, communicative approach, writing skill, other techniques 
V/ TEACHING AIDS : Textbook, sub-board, picture, poster .
VI/ WAYS OF WORKING : Individuals, pairs work, groups work .
VII/ PROCEDURES : 
A/ Greetings and checking attendance : 
T : How are you today ?
Sts : I’m fine, thank 
B/ Today’s lesson
Steps
Teacher’s activities
Students’activities
I/ Warm up
 ( 5’ )
Jumbled words
-T writes the words which Sts learnt from last lesson with disordered letters on the board or uses the posters.
1/ swigminm-ploo
2/ hari-ressred
3/ groryce-serot
4/ drgu-streo
5/ wte-mrakte
6/ sdimuta
- Divide the class into two teams.
-Ask Sts in each team to go to the board and write the correct form of words.
- The team which is faster with more correct words win the game.
- T gives present to the best group.
- T reads the words cloudy and get St to repeat 
-Lead in the new lesson : Today we will learn about country life and city life
- Answer keys :
1/ swimming-pool
2/ hairdresser
3/ grocery store
4/ drug store
5/ wet market
6/ stadium
- Sts work in group
- Write the words on the board
- Sts repeat after teacher chorally, individually
II/ Pre- reading
 ( 15’ )
T introduces the topic of the reading and present some new words to Sts.
1/ Pre-teach vocabulary
a/ Present and give the meaning of the new words
+ rural ( adj) (showing picture & explaination)
T asks Sts :
- Where is this ?
- Right, this is the countryside. So, this is the rural area
 - Rural means something deals with the coutryside
- T reads the word clearly and cloudly,
 then writes the word on the board
+urban (adj) (showing picture and give antonym)
T asks Sts :
- What is the antonym of the rural area ?
- Good ! It’s city. It’s the urban area
- So, urban means something deals with the city
- T reads the word clearly and cloudly
- T writes the word on the board
+ Strain (N, V)(explaination and giving examples)
- How do you feel before doing the examination ?
-OK, everybody often become stress and strain before doing text
- For that reason, strain means being stressed/ anxiety/ worry about some diffucult things
- T reads the word clearly and cloudly
- T writes the word on the board
+ typhoon (N)(giving synonym & example)
- the synonyms of typhoon are storrm or hurricane
- It means a storrm with very strong wind
- T reads the word clearly and cloudly
- T writes the word on the board
+ drought (N)(explaination&translation )
- Is there much rain in the sunny season?
-How do you feel in the sunny season ?
- I’m, too
-So, drought means there is little or no rain for a long time/perord 
- It’s means hạn hán
- T reads the word clearly and cloudly
- T writes the word on the board
+ struggle (N)(expaination & giving example)
- A country struggling for independence
- He struggled against cancer for two years
- So, struggle means to fight against S.th/ S.body to prevent a bad situation
- T reads the word clearly and cloudly
- T writes the word on the board
+ migrant (N)(explaination & giving examples)
- Where are you living ?
- Before, I’ve lived in Ha Noi. Then, I’ve moved HCM City for work . Now I’m living HCM city, too
- So, migrant means a person who moves from one places to another, especially in order to find work
- T reads the word clearly and cloudly
- T writes the word on the board
- increase (V)(Explaination & giving examples)
- Last year, how many students were there in our class ?
- And now ?
- Now, the number of students increased from twenty eight to thirty five
- Increase means to make something greater in amount, number or value, etc
- T reads the word clearly and cloudly
- T writes the word on the board
b/ T speaks all of the words clearly and cloudly once again ( 2 times for each word )
2/ Checking vocabulary: 
- WHAT AND WHERE
3/ Grammar Structure
Present progressive tense
a/ Giving example:
- Many people are leaving from their rural and moving to the city
- The weather is getting warmer
- Today, I’m not going to Nha Trang 
- What are you doing tonight ?
b/ Using explaination :
- Present progressive tense is used to talk about the future
c/ Expading examples:
- Let Sts give more examples 
- Let Sts analyse & try to give the form of present progressive tense by themselves
d/ Writing correct forms :
 Affirmative: S + am/is/are + V-ing
 Negative: S + am/is/are not + V-ing
Question: Am/is/are + S + V-ing
4/ Brainstorming:
- Ask Sts to think of the difficulties of farmers life
- Ask Sts to work in groups to guess how farmers deal with difficulties
Difficulties of farmers’life
Difficulties of farmers’ life
- Call on some Sts to report their predictions and write them on the board
Possible answers
- This is countryside
- Sts listen and repeat chorally, individually, then copy down
Possible answers :
- It is city
- Sts listen and repeat chorally, individually, then copy down
Possible answer :
- I feel stressed
- anxiety
- worry about that
- Sts listen and repeat chorally, individually, then copy down
- Sts listen and repeat chorally, individually, then copy down
Possible answers :
- No, there isn’t
- No, only a little
- I feel very dry and hot
- Sts listen and repeat chorally, individually, then copy down
- Sts listen and repeat chorally, individually, then copy down
Possible answers :
- I’m living in HCM.City / Ha Noi City/ another province, etc
- Sts listen and repeat chorally, individually, then copy down
Possible answers :
-Twenty eight persons
- Thirty five persons
- Sts listen and repeat chorally, individually, then copy down
- Sts listen and repeat ( 2 times for each word )
- Sts work in pairs to give more examples
- Try to write the form on the board
- Sts write down the form to their notebook
- Sts work in groups to guess the difficulties of farmers
 Possible answers :
- drought
- the weather
- hard work
- no vacations
- lack of clean water
- electricity
- insects
- destroy harverts
- Sts demonstrate in front of class
III While reading
 ( 15’ )
1/ READ
- Let Sts listen to the tape and read the text silently to check their predictions
- Get Sts answer the question: “ What do many farmers do to solve their problem?
à They have to move to the city so that they can get well – paid jobs
- Call on some Sts to read the text in front of class
2/ PRACTICE :
a/ Gap – filling: 
- T aks Sts to worn in pairs to complete summary 1 on page 75, using the information from the passage
- Call on some volunteers to report their results
- Give feedback :
1/ leaving 6/ problems
2/ home 7/ schools
3/ city 8/ hospitals
4/ rural 9/ problem
5/ city 10/ world
- Call on some Sts to read the complete passage aloud
b/ Finding the words :
- Ask Sts to read the text again and work with their patners to do the exercise 2 page 75 : – Finding the words. in the passage that means
- Call on some Sts to report their results
- Give feedback :
a/ of the countryside
b/ as many as needed
c/ become greater or larger
d/ a great pressure
e/ a terrible event
f/ of the city or city life
- Sts listen to the tape and read the text to check their predictions
- Answer the question:
àThey have to move to the city so that they can get well-paid jobs
- Sts read the text aloud in front of class
- Sts work in pairs to complete summary
- Sts read their results
- Sts check and correct the mistakes
- Sts read the complete passage loudly
- Sts read the text again and do the exercise 2
- Sts read the complete results
- Answer Keys:
a/ rural
b/ plentiful
c/ increase
d/ strain
e/ stragedy
f/ urban
IV Post reading
 ( 5’ )
DISCUSSION :
- Give a situation : If you were a minister, what would you do for farmers ? 
- Ask Sts to work in groups to discuss
- Call on 4 volunteers from 4 groups to show their ideas in front of the class
Possible answers :
- Help them to loan money from the bank with low rate
- Technical advicer
- guiding input/output..,etc
- Sts work in groups to discuss
- Show their ideas before the class
V Conso-lidation ( 3’ )
- Summary the text
VI Home- work (2’ )
-T assigns the homework 
1/ Write 5 things that government should do for the rural areas
2/ Do exercise in workbook : Ex 3 & 4 page 54
3/ Prepare the next lesson
Sts copy in their notebook