UNIT 5 : STUDY HABITS

( Total : 6 periods)
I.Objectives:
Helping students :
-To talk about their study habits past events .
-To give instructions and advice .
-To express obligation .
-To write a letter to a friend .
II. Language contents :
1. Grammar:
1. Averbs of manner .
2. Modal : Should .
3. Commands,requests and advice in reported speech .
2. Vocabulary :
Nouns Adjectives Verbs
habit list excellent revise learn by heart
report card revision Spanish stick come cross
semester mother tongue necessarry underline behave
pronunciation signature fair highlight improve
III,Preparations:pictures,cassette , poster
IV.Unit allocation

Lesson 1 Getting started Reading the dialogue for details .

Listen and read
Lesson 2 Speak and listen Practicing speaking about study habits .
Listening for sfecific information to fill in a report card .
Lesson 3,4 Read Reading the text for details and get specific information
Lesson 5 Writing Writing letters to friends .
Lesson 6 Language forcus .Practice commands ,requests and advice in reported
1, 2, 3, 4 speech .
Revision and Further Practice averbs of manner and the
modal “should”

Week: 9th Preparing Day: 14/10/2013

Period: 27th Teaching Day: 18/10/2013
UNIT 5 STUDY HABITS
Lesson 1 GETTING STARTED & LISTEN AND READ
I. Objectives:
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1. Educational aims: Students get acquainted with the topic “Study habits”.
2. Teaching aim : By the end of the lesson Ss can use direct speech and indirect speech.
II. Language contents :
1. Vocabulary : (n) Semester, Pronunciation, dictionary, School report…
(adj) Hard working, Spanish.
2. Grammar : - Structure: + How often…. ?
+ Adverbs of manner.
III. Techniques:
Eliciting, True / False
IV. Teaching aids :
Pictures, cassette
V. Procedures :

Teacher’s activities Students’ activities

1. Warm up :
-Asking some questions
- How many subjects do we have a week?/ What -Answer
are they?/ What subjects do you like best? Why?.
What are they doing in the piture?
2. Presentation
-Now listen to the tape and tell me what are they
talking about.?-> They are talking about Tim’s -Guess
school report. -Copy the new words
-Present new words and structure:
*New words:
School report (n)
Be proud of somebody
Improve (v)
Spanish pronunciation (n)
Try one’s best (v)
Guides Ss direct speech and indirect speech
Eg: Minh said, “I am fine”
-> Minh said that he was fine. -Role-play
Do the exercise A 2 Decide whether the -Read and check
statements are-True / False prediction : -Work in pairs
(subboard)
a.F (Tim was at home) -Individuals
b.T
c.F (It is excellent)
d.T
e.F (He needs to improve Spanish
Pronunciation )
f.T
3. Practice :
-Ask students to practice the dialogue with their
partners * Answer key :
-Ask students to ask and answer the questions a. Miss Jackson is Tim’s teacher .
(Exercise 3) b. Miss Jackson gave Tim’s mother his
report card.

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d. She said Tim should work harder on his
Spanish pronunciation.
e. She gave him a dictionary at the end of
4. Production : the conversation .
* Ask students to work in group, ask each other
the questions: “What subjects do you need to - Work in groups
improve?” they have to write the names and the
subjects that their friends answer.
Example:
Name What subject
Mai Literature

- Give feedback
- Ask students who need to improve the same - Work in group
subjects work in groups and discuss how to
improve.
5. Homework :
- Learn the lesson by heart
-Do exercises in Workbook.
-Prepare the part : Speak

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Week: 10th Preparing Day: 19/10/2013

Period: 28th Teaching Day: 22/10/2013
UNIT 5 STUDY HABITS
Lesson 2 SPEAK + LISTEN
I. Objectives :
1. Educational aims :-Students know how to study well.
2. Teaching aims : -By the end of the lesson, students will be able to talk about their study habits
and listen for specific information to fill in a report card.
II. Language contents :
1. Vocabulary :
2. Grammar : - Simple present
III. Techniques:
Brainstorming, eliciting.
IV. Teaching aids : picture, cassette
V. Procedures:

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 Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
* Warm -up:
* Brainstorming.
- Ask students to write their ideas on the board.
Speak English to friend in class - Write the ideas
read English news

read English do exercises

How to improve your English?
listen to the
English TV do grammar read stories
A. SPEAK
1. Pre-Speaking :
-Have students answer some questions.
*Which subjects do you like best?
*Do you always get good marks on it? Practice
*How do you do to get good marks.
-Have students to read the questions in the box and Answer:
answer about them . -Work in groups
2. While -Speaking:
- Ask some questions in the box from page 48 -Work in pairs.
and information to answers in the box . When do you do your homework?
- Have students practice in groups Who helps you with your homework?
- Check the mistakes and correct the answers. How much time do you spend on these
subjects?
Which subjects do you need to improve?
What do you do you English?

3. Post – Speaking:
- Write about your partner based on questions p48
Eg: Lan does her homework after dinner.
- Her parents help her …………
B. LISTEN
1. Pre-Listening : -Listen and repeat new words
-Set up the scenes:
- Teach some new words
Behavior (n)
Satisfactory (a)
Co-operation (n) -Read the report card
Signature (n)
Comment (n)
-Set up the task: -complete the report.
We have an empty report card, now listen to the tape
and complete the report card.
2. While-Listening :
- Play the tape for students to listen. -listen
- Have students compare with the partners
- Listen and check.
* Answers:
1. 87 days present 2. 5 days absent
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 3. Participation: S 4. Listening: C
5. Speaking: A 6. Reading: A
7. Writing: B
3. Post-Listening : - Ask answer the questions.
-Give students empty report cards.
Have Students interview each other to fill in the report
card.
-Call some students read the report card and then correct
the mistakes for them.
* Homework
- Learn new words by heart.
- Prepare section Read

* Tapescript
Miss Blake: Good evening Mrs Cheng
Mrs. Chen: Good evening
Miss Blake: I’m pleased to tell you that Sarah has worked very hard this year and her grades
are very good.
Mrs. Chen: I’m so pleased to hear that
Miss Blake: She missed 5 days of school due to sickness but attendance of 87 days for the
whole term is accaeptable. Both her participation and cooperation are satisfactory. So, there’re
no problems there.
Mrs. Chen: How is she doing in English
Miss Blake: Her speaking and reading are excellent and her
writing is good. If she works a bit harder on her
writing skills, she should get an A for writing next
exam.
Mrs. Chen: How about listening comprehension?
Miss Blake: I’m afraid she’s not very good at that. I gave her a C.
Mrs. Chen: How can we help her to improve?
Miss Blake: Get her to watch English TV if possible, and
encourage her to listen to English radio programs.
Also. I have some cassettes here which you can
borrow.
Mrs. Chen: Thank you very much, Miss Blake. We really
appreciate your help.
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Week: 10th Preparing Day: 19/10/2013
Period: 29th , 30th Teaching Day: 24,25/10/2013
UNIT 5 STUDY HABITS
Lesson 3,4 READ
I. Objectives:
1 .Educational aims: By the end of the lesson, students should be patient in learning foreign
language.
2. Teaching aims:
Developing reading skill (True o False, answer the questions).
Reading the text for details.
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to understand the text and get specific
information.
II. Language contents:
1. Vocabulary: Make a list; mother tongue; underline; highlight, revise, revision, come cross
,stick learn …by heart instead, however ,
2. Grammar: Simple present.
III. Techniques: picture description / True / False guessing, question-answer, multiple choice.
IV. Teaching aids:
pictures, sub boards.
V. Procedures:
Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
1. Warm-up:
- Have Students answer some questions -play the game.
- How many subjects do you have today? -Write again all the subjects they have
- When do we have English? learnt.
- What do you always do when you have new words?
- Do you like to study English? -Answer the questions.
- How many words do you study a day?
2. Pre-Reading :
-Have Students read the text in silence and check their -Read silently.
predictions then pick out their new words n the text.
*Vocabulary :
Make a list; mother tongue; underline; highlight, revise,
revision, come cross, stick, learn …by heart ,instead, -Give out the new words.
however . -Read new words.
-Guides students read new words correctly and their -Read the text again and notice how to
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-Read the text again and choose the best answer
(practice 1)
-Asking Ss to cross check
-Get feedback -Work in groups
a. F b. T c. F d. T
3. While-Reading :
-Have students read the text again, then ask and answer
the questions in pairs(practice 2).
-Get feedback -Answer the questions by group work
*Answer key : or pair work.
a. No, they don’t. They learn words in different ways.
b. Such sentences help them remember how to use the -Work in pairs to ask and answer about
new words in the right way. the questions .
c. To remember words better, learners write each
word and its use on a small piece of paper and stick it
somewhere in their house so as to learn it at any time.
d. Because it is difficult to remember all the new words
e. Revision is necessary in learning English.
4. Post-Reading :
-Have students look at the pictures to summarize the Compare the their answers with their
text in groups. friends’
-Have students answer the questions “How many ways
of learning new words are there in the text?”
-Have students order these following ways of learning
new words.
a. Learn a number of new words /a day->review. -Look at the pictures to summarize the
b. Make a list write in mother tongue-> learn by heart. text in groups.
c. Learning important words. -Answer the questions .
d. Words in example->remember.
e. Write on piece of paper-> sticker.
-Compare Ss’ ways with the ways in the text.
Answer key: (a-5; b-1; c-4; d-2; e-3) -Order these following ways of learning
5. Homework : newwords.
-Do exercises : (Workbook)
-Lean new words by heart.
-prepare the next lesson. (Writing)
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Week: 11th Preparing Day: 19/10/2013
Period: 31st Teaching Day: 28/10/2013
UNIT 5 STUDY HABITS
Lesson 4 WRITE
I. Objectives :
1. Educational aims : Students should write letter to their friends to tell their report card
2. Teaching aims : By the end of the lesson, Students will be able to know the format of a friendly
letter and practice writing a letter to a friend .
II. Language contents :
1. Vocabulary :
Lunar New Yea, Mid Autumn Festival
2. Grammar :
Simple Past tense.
III. Techniques, ask and answer, role play….
IV. Teaching aids: poster
V. Procedures :

Teacher’s activities Students’ activities

1. Warm up :
-Have you ever written letter to your friends? -Answers
-What did you write to tell your friends about?
-“Do you often write a letter to someone? Or Do
you receive a letter from one another?” - (Individual)
2. Pre-Writing :
-Ask students some questions. - Work in groups.
-Have Ss arrange the parts of a letter into a - Share and compare with other groups
complete letter. (handout)
-Have students read a letter from p.51 then label -Work in pairs
the section in the box with a letter p.50. -Answer the questions.
-Call on some Ss to review the ways how to write -There are four parts:
a letter.” How many parts are there in a personal A. Heading: writer’s address and date
letter ? Do you know how they called ? B. Opening – Dear
C. Body of the letter
D. Closing : Your friends / Regards / Love
- Explain new words: -Listen to the teacher .
“Lunar New Year = Tet Holiday”
“Mid Autumn Festival = Moon Festival”
3. While-Writing : -Read
- Have students read the letter by individual or -Write (Individual)
choral. - Read the letter.
- Use the set of the words or phrase in part 2 to -Give feedback (self-correct / teacher corrects)
write a letter Listen
-Read allow the complete letter. -Work in pairs
-Make a similar letter to your friends. Exchange and compare
-Call some Students to read their forms and -Role play
correct mistakes.
-Use their forms to write a paragraph. * Answer:
4. Post-Writing : 15 Thanh Giong Street,
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-Get feedback / Correct mistakes Ha Noi, October 10th, 2010
Dear Donna,
Thanks for your letter. I’m glad to hear you
had an interesting/ enjoyable Mother’s Day.
I received my second semester report last
month. I got good grades for Geography,
physics and math, but my English and History
results were poor. My teacher told me to
improve English and history. I think I’ll have
to study harder next school year.
In a few week, we ‘re going to celebrate the
mid- Fall festival. That is a moon festival in
Autumn or fall in Viet nam. I’m going to Ha
Long Bay with my aunt and uncle by bus this
afternoon and I’m going to stay there with
5. Homework : them until after the festival. I’ll send you a
-Do exercise : in work book postcard from there.
-Prepare: Language focus. Write soon and tell me all your news.
Best,
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Week: 10th Preparing Day: 29/10/2013

Period: 32nd Teaching Day: 30/10/2013

UNIT 5 STUDY HABITS

Lesson 6 LANGUAGE FOCUS

I. Objectives:
1. Educational aims:
Encourage students to study harder.
2. Teaching aims:
Students can know how to use:
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 - Adverbs of manner.
- Modal: should
- Commands, requests and advice in reported speech.
II. Language contents:
1. Vocabulary: Behavior, cooperation, satisfactory
2. Grammar:
- Adverbs of manner.
- Modal: should
- Commands, requests and advice in reported speech.
III. Techniques: of manner
Eliciting, Questions and Answers, Retell, Find someone who . . . . . , brainstorm
IV. Teaching aids: pictures, cassette
V. Procedures :

Teacher’s Activities Students’ activities

1. Warm up
Play game: Pelmanism. - play game
good Hard bad fast soft

hard well softly badly fast

Activity 1. Adverbs of manner.
-Ask students to complete the dialogue .Use the - Work in pairs.
verbs of manner in the box .
a. well d. badly - Answer.
b. hard e. softly
c. fast
Activity 3: Reported speech
*Language focus 3. How to change the
commands and request into indirect: -Listen
-Have students look at the model and do the text. - Work in pairs.
a. Miss Jackson asked me to wait outside her
office.
b. Miss Jackson told me to gave you your report
card for this semester .
c Miss Jackson asked me to help you with your
Spanish pronunciation. - listen and correct
d. Miss Jackson asked me to meet her next week .
*Language focus 4. Work with a partner.
Report Miss Jackson’s advice she gave in her
conversation with Tim’s mother. - Work in pairs.
a. Miss Jackson said you should practice
speaking Spanish everyday.
b. Miss Jackson said you should listen to Spanish
conversations on TV .
5. Homework : - Ask answer the questions.
-Learn by heart new words.
-Do exercises in Workbook.
-Prepare Unit 4 : Read

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