Date of preparing: 16/02/2022 Period 67
UNIT 7: MOVIES
Lesson 1 : Pronunciation, Practice and Speaking I. OBJECTIVES
By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to 1. Knowledge
- recognize the schwa sound /ə/ in the weak form of the preposition “at” and pronounce it correctly.
- make and respond to suggestions about movies.
- start the conversation in a friendly way.
2. Ability
- improve speaking skill.
- develop the ability to communicate and cooperate with their partners, to self - study, to solve problems and other skills
3. Quality
- have positive attitude in English language learning so that they actively participate in all classroom activities, especially about the topic “movies”.
II. TEACHING AIDS AND LEARNING MATERIALS.
Lesson plan, PPT slides, S’s book, workbook, notebook, personal computer (if any), projector/TV, speakers, DCR & DHA on EDUHOME, handouts…
III. PROCEDURES
A. Activity 1: Warm up (5’)
a) Objective: To help Ss relax and introduce the topics in such a way as to arouse Ss' interest.
b) Content: Listening to a song
c) Product: Ss can sing famous songs such as: "My heart will go on"....
d) Organization of the activity:
Teacher’s activities Ss’ activities
- Let the Ss listen to the song "My heart will go on"
- Encourage a S to sing the song
- Enjoy the song
- Sing the song together
B. New lesson (35’)
Activities 1: Pronunciation (5’)
a) Objective: To be aware of how the sound of the preposition "at" changes when unstressed and pronounce it correctly
b) Content: Listening and repeating
c) Products: Ss pronounce the unstressed "at" correctly.
d) Competence: analytical skill, observation e) Organization of the activity:
Teacher’s activities Ss’ activities
* Presentation:
a. "... at..." often sounds like /ət/ (but not at the start).
Briefly explain the pronunciation feature
b. Listen. Notice the sound changes of the underlined words.
- Play the audio and draw attention to the pronunciation feature. (CD2 - 17) - Play the audio again and have Ss practice
* Practice
c. Listen and cross out the one with the wrong sound changes.
- Play the audio and draw attention to the pronunciation feature. (CD2 - 17) - Play the audio again and check the answers
- Listen carefully how to pronounce the given sound
- Listen and notice the sound changes individually
- Listen and repeat with a focus on the feature.
It's on at 7 :30. My lesson 's at 10.
- Listen and cross out the one with the option that doesn't use the correct pronunciation feature.
I'm playing soccer at 2 p.m./ The movies starts at 7:30.
- Listen again and give the answers as a whole class.
* Answer key: The movies start at 7:30 - Wrong (Doesn't use the weak form.)
Activity 2: Practice (15’)
a) Objective: To make and respond to suggestions about movies
b) Content: Practicing the conversation; swapping roles and repeating; practicing with their own ideas
c) Products: Ss can make and respond to suggestions about movies.
d) Organization of the activity:
Teacher's activities Ss' activities
* Practice:
a. Practice the conversation. Swap roles and repeat.
- Demonstrate the activity by practicing the role-play with a S - Have S practice the conversation - Ask Ss swap roles and repeat - Have Ss demonstrate the conversation
(Teacher should ask some weaker pairs to practice)
* Production (for better Ss)
b. Practice. with your own ideas.
(For better Ss)
- Have S practice the conversation with their own ideas; swap roles
- Practicing the role - play with teacher.
- Work in pairs to practice the conversation (Closed pairs)
- Swap the role and repeat using the prompts/ cues on the right (Closed pairs)
- Role play the activity in pairs in front of the class
- Work in pairs
- Demonstrate the activity in pairs in front of the class
Activity 3: Speaking - IT'S MOVIE NIGHT! (15’)
a) Objective: To start the conversation in a friendly way and to use the language learnt earlier in communication
b) Content: Working in pairs; joining another pair to form a group
c) Products: Ss can start a conversation in a friendly way and can use what they have learnt to produce the language
d) Organization of the activity:
Teacher's activities Ss' activities
a. You are choosing movies to watch on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Work in pairs. Turn to page 122, File 6.
- Setting the context of speaking task
- Demonstrate the activity/ the dialogue by practicing with a good S
- Have Ss turn to page 122, File 6 b. Join another pair. Did you choose the same movies?
- Practice the dialogue with teacher.
- Look at the movies listed and choose a movie to watch on Friday, Saturday, Sunday using the movie schedule.
- Work in pairs to practice the dialogue/
conversation.
- Have Ss join another pair and compare which movie they chose to watch
- Have some Ss share their ideas with the class
* Production/ free practice:
- Encourage Ss make their own similar conversation
- Work in pairs and then demonstrate the conversation.
C. Consolidation (3’)
- Ask Ss some questions that require the preposition “at” in the answers
- Ask the rest of the class to give feedback on whether their friends pronounce the word “at” correctly
- Ask Ss how to start a conversation in a friendly way D. Homework (2’)
- Practice how to pronounce the sound change.
- Practice speaking with your classmate to make and respond to suggestion about movies.
- Write a short paragraph about an exciting movie you have seen recently.
You should write:
+ Name of the movie + Type of movie
+ Actors/ actresses or director + What happens in the movie?
+ How is the movie?
+ What about the ending?
* New lesson: adjectives used to express opinions and exchange information about movies.
Date of preparing: 10/02/2022 Period 68 UNIT 7: MOVIES
Lesson 2 - New words and Reading I. OBJECTIVES
By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to…
1. Knowledge
- express opinions and exchange information about movie 2. Ability
- improve Speaking skill and read for specific information.
- develop the ability to communicate and cooperate with their partners, to self - study, to solve problems and other skills
3. Quality
- have positive attitude in English language learning so that they actively participate in all classroom activities, especially with the topic “movies”.
II. TEACHING AIDS AND LEARNING MATERIALS
Lesson plan, PPT slides, student’s book, workbook, notebook, personal computer (if any), projector/TV, speakers, DCR & DHA on EDUHOME, handouts…
III. PROCEDURES A. Warm up (5’)
a) Objective: To help Ss relax, and get interested in the topic of the lesson b) Content: Chatting
c) Product: Ss talk about a movie.
d) Organization of the activity:
Teacher’s activities Ss’ activities
- Greet Ss with a big warm/lovely smile to make Ss feel motivated
* Option 1:
- Encourage a student to tell the class about an exciting movie he/ she has seen recently
* Option 2.
- Elicit some adjectives describing movies from the Ss using a
spidergram to lead into the new lesson - Explain some new words if
necessary
- Tell the story of a movie in front of the class
* Possible answer:
Titanic is a romantic movie, directed by James Cameron. It stars Leonardo Dicaprio and Kate Winslet. The movie is about the sinking of the ship Titanic on its first voyage.
The movie has a sad ending – the Titanic sinks and more than a thousand people die in the disaster.
- Add adjectives to the spidergram
* Possible answers:
disappointing, exciting, amazing, boring, fantastic, terrible, funny, awful, great, gripping, scary, hilarious, violent, moving, shocking, ...
- Listen to the meanings and copy them down in their notebooks
- Listen and repeat them B. New lesson (35’)
Activities 1: New words (15’)
a) Objective: To use some adjectives to describe movies....
b) Content: Filling in the blanks, talking about kinds of movies....
c) Products: Ss can use a number of adjectives to express opinions about movies.
d) Organization of the activity:
Teacher’s activities Ss’ activities
* Presentation:
a. Fill in the blanks with the opposite adjectives. Listen and repeat.
- Pre-teach new words if necessary Memory game: What and Where - Write the words on the board, put each word in a circle.
- Ask Ss to chorally say the words - Rub out the word one by one
- When all the circles are empty, ask Ss to say the words again; make sure the Ss can remember the words in association with the circles.
- Call some Ss to go on the board and write the words in correct circles again.
- Ask Ss to fill in the blanks with the opposite adjectives
- Give feedback Practice
b. Talk about kinds of movies you like and don't like using the
adjectives.
- Give an example
- Let Ss do the speaking task - Give feedback and correct the
* New words: terrible, sad, boring, funny, exciting, great, awful.
- Listen carefully and write down new words in their notebooks.
- Repeat the words chorally
- Say the words again and memorize which word is in which circle
- Go to the board and write the words in correct circles
- Work individually to fill in the blanks - Give the answers
* Answer keys: terrible - fantastic sad - funny
awful - great boring - exciting
- Work in pairs
- Talk about the kinds of movies they like and don't like using the adjectives
* Possible answers:
answers + I think science fiction movies are very great/ useful.
+ I think "Crazy Coconut", a romantic comedy, is very funny and entertaining.
Activity 2: Reading (20’)
a) Objective: To be able read for main ideas and specific information
b) Content: Underlining the correct final sentences/ reading the reviews again and answering the questions.
c) Products: Ss can understand the main ideas of the movie reviews and identify some specific information about them.
d) Organization of the activity:
Teacher's activities Ss' activities
* Pre - reading:
- Set the context/ Introduce the topic of the reading task.
* While - reading:
a. Tina wrote two movie reviews for her blog. Underline the correct final sentences.
- Have Ss read the two movie reviews and underline the final sentences.
- Check the answer as a whole class.
- Give feedback
b. Now, read the reviews again and answer the questions.
- Let Ss look at the questions, underline the key words
- Have Ss read the two movie reviews again and answer the questions
- Give feedback and correct the answers
* Post - reading
- Read the movie reviews individually - Share the answers with their partners (in pairs)
- Give the reasons for their choice
* Answer keys:
- Picture Day: Don't watch this movie.
- Sally's Travels: What a fantastic movie!
- Look at the question’s individual - Read them again and answer the questions individually
- Give answers as a whole class.
* Answer keys:
1. a sad drama 2. It was boring 3. an action movie
4. It was exciting 5. She was very funny.
- Encourage Ss to give a short review of their favorite movies using the ones they’ve just read as models
- Do an oral movie review (individually) in front of the class
C. Consolidation (3’)
- Ask Ss to recall the vocabulary they have learned in the lessons and think of some sentences containing these vocabulary items
- Ask some Ss to say their sentences to the class
- Ask the rest of the class to comment on the sentences - Give feedback
D. Homework (2’)
- New lesson: adjectives used to express/ describe movies.
- Talk about kinds of movies you like and don't like using the adjectives.
- Do exercises a, b, c on page 40 in the workbook.
- Prepare for the next lesson: Grammar (page 58)
Date of preparing: 16/02/2022 Period 69 UNIT 7: MOVIES
Lesson 2–Grammar I. OBJECTIVES
By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to…
1. Knowledge
- use the Past Simple with "to be" was/ were to talk about completed events, states, or actions.
2. Ability
- improve the use of language, writing, speaking skills.
- develop the ability to communicate and cooperate with their partners, to self-study, to solve problems and other skills
3. Quality
- have positive attitude in English language learning so that they actively participate in all classroom activities, especially with the topic “movies”.
II. TEACHING AIDS AND LEARNING MATERIALS.
Lesson plan, PPT slides, student’s book, workbook, notebook, personal computer (if any), projector/TV, speakers, DCR & DHA on EDUHOME, handouts…
III. PROCEDURES A. Warm up (5’)
a) Objective: To review adjectives Ss have learnt, help them relax and feel motivated
b) Content: Playing "Bingo"
c) Product: Ss can use adjectives they learnt correctly d) Organization of the activity:
Teacher’s activities Ss’ activities
BINGO (Teacher - whole class)
- Ask each student to get a small piece of paper and write down 5 of the adjectives from the previous lesson
- Prepare a list of adjectives: disappointing, exciting, amazing, boring, fantastic,
terrible, funny, awful, great, gripping, scary, hilarious, violent, moving, socking, ...
- Give instruction to the game: Every time the T calls out an adjective, if anyone has the same word, they cross it out. The first person to cross out all 5 adjectives shouts
"Bingo" and wins the games.
- Call out each word in a loud voice
- Write 5 adjectives on a piece of paper - Listen to the teacher carefully
- Cross out the words the T calls out, if any
B. New lesson (35’) - Grammar
a) Objective: To help Ss understand and use the past simple tense with "to be"
b) Content: Circling the correct verbs, completing the table and dialogue
c) Products: Ss can use the past simple to talk about completed events, states, or actions.
d) Organization of the activity:
Teacher’s activities Ss’ activities
* Presentation:
a. Listen and repeat.
- Have Ss look at the picture.
- Play the audio
- Listen and read the speech bubbles - Listen and repeat
- Play the audio again
- Explain the use of the past simple tense with "to be"
- Make sure Ss understand the key terms: completed event, states, or actions
- Emphasize that the verb “to be” is mainly used for states
* Practice:
b. Circle the correct verbs.
- Demonstrate the exercise using the example (EX1)
- Ask student to read the sentences and circle...
- Give feedback
c. Look at the table and complete the dialogue.
- Demonstrate the activity by using the example.
- Have Ss write Ann’s answers - Check Ss’ answers
d. Now, practice the conversation with your partner.
- Ask Ss practice the dialogue in pairs - Ask each pair to replace the provided information with their own information and continue to practice for fluency - Call some pairs to role-play the dialogue in front of the class
- Look at the grammar explanation/
grammar table
with the different forms
- Listen and copy down in their notebooks - Read the sentences aloud
- Listen carefully
- Read the sentences and circle the correct verbs (individual work)
- Give the answers
* Answers: 2. was 3. was 4. were 5. Were 6. was
- Read the dialogue carefully
- Write Ann's answers and compare the answers with their partners
* Answer keys:
1. It was the Great Bananas.
2. Yes, it was very funny.
3. It was on at 4: 45 p.m.
4. They were Time 7 and Earth life.
5. They were exciting.
6. They were on at 7:30 p.m. and 9 p.m.
- Work in pairs to practice the conversation
- Demonstrate the dialogue in front of the class
Optional activity (If time is given) - Have Ss practice similar conversation
in pairs by replacing Ann’s answers with others
- Walk around and give support if necessary
- Have some volunteers deliver the conversation in front of the class
-Work with another partner to practice similar conversations
-Deliver conversations/ Observe
C. Consolidation (3’)
- Go over the grammar point again to make sure students have clearly understood the use of the simple past tense with different forms of the verb “to be”
D. Homework (2’)
- Prepare for the new lesson on page 59 - Do the Listening and Grammar exercises
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