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UNIT 1- MY FRIENDS
Lesson 1- Getting started, Listen & Read
OBJECTIVES:
♦ Introductions of the new topic
♦ Review of student’s favorite activities
LANGUAGE CONTENTS:
♦ Grammar: - Simple tenses
- Not(adj) + enough + to-infinitive
TECHNIQUES:
♦ Question- answer
TEACHING AIDS:
♦ Pictures (copiing & enlarging from textbook), cassette tape + recorder
TIME-45 minutes
PROCEDURES:
Steps Activities
WARM-UP
10’
♦ T. shows 4 pictures(p.10)- students work in group(describing
people’s activities in pictures)
♦ Some groups describe pictures before class
♦ T. asks questions about student’s similar activities(Where,
When, With whom?)
PRESENTATION
23’
♦ T. shows pictures(Hoa, Lan, photo of Hoa and Nien) and
introduces the dialogue: “Lan and Hoa are talking about
Hoa’s photograph”
♦ T. asks questions about the photo (Who are in the photo?,
Where were they?)
♦ Students listen to the tape + listen & repeat.

LANGUAGE CONTENTS:
♦ Grammar: - descriptive adjectives (about body build, hair)
-Simple tense of HAVE (to describe people)
♦ Language functions: -expressions used in greeting and introduction
TECHNIQUES:
♦ Question-answer
TEACHING AIDS:
♦ Pictures (copying & enlarging from textbook), cassette tape + recorder
TIME-45 minutes
PROCEDURES: Speak (28 minutes)
Steps Activities
Warm-up
4’
♦ T. shows pictures of some people- asking some questions.
What are they? What are they like/What do they look like?
Describe their hair.- reviewing some adjs. Already learnt in TA 6
(tall, short, thin, fat, long, black..)
♦ T. asks students to complete the network of adjectives.
Presentation
6’
♦ T. tells Ss that they will learn more adj to describe people.
♦ T. calls some Ss (having the physical features similar to those
given in the boxes) to the front of the class- teaching new words:
slim, straight/curly/blond (hair) & the use of HAVE
♦ T. asks Ss to look at 6 pictures in the text box and use the adjs,
given in the boxes & the verb HAVE to describe them.
Practice (1)
♦ Ss read the mini- dialogue.
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♦ Ss listen to the tape (all 4 conversations).
♦ Ss listen again with a pause after each conversation.
Post-listening
7’
♦ T. calls some Ss to give answers- giving correction.
♦ T. picks out some new expressions: The pleasure is all mine;
Hello, ma’am/young man. Explaining when to use these
expressions.
♦ Ss work in groups of 3 or 4 and practice introducing to people.
HOMEWORK:
♦ Write about the people in the photo you brought to class (name, job, body
build, hair).
Example: This person’s name is _________. He is a (doctor). He is
tall and slim. He has curly short black hair.
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Unit 1- MY FRIENDS
Lesson 3- Read
OBJECTIVES:
By the end of the lesson, students will
♦ Know how to talk about people’s character and their favorite activities.
♦ Develop reading skills
LANGUAGE CONTENTS:
♦ Grammar: -simple tense of be (to describe people)
♦ Vocabulary: -adjective about human character): sociable,
kind, generous, reserved, outgoing
TECHNIQUES:
♦ Question- answer, scanning
TEACHING AIDS:
♦ Worksheets or transparency sheet (for task 2)

-with a sense of humor
-telling jokes
Bao -Sociable, kind, generous,
hard-working
-doing volunteer work
Khai - reserved in public -playing soccer
Son
g
-reserved in public -going the local library
♦ T. asks Ss to pick out verbs used to indicate what people
like doing: spend time doing sth, enjoy, like, prefer
♦ T explains other new words.
♦ TASK 3 : Pair work: Ss do the exercises (1 and 2) in the
book.
♦ Some Ss read the text aloud; some pairs ask and answer
Qs in exercise 2 before class.
Post-reading
12’
♦ Group work’s work in groups of 4 or 5. Each student
describes one friend in the group (character & favorite
activities).
♦ Representatives of some groups describe their group
members. Other Ss guess who they are.
Consolidation
3’
♦ T reviews the use of some verbs describing people’s
favorite activities

HOMEWORK:
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Tall Generous
Slim Outgoing
Curly Sociable
Straight Reserved
Brown Sense of humor
♦ T.shows the transparency sheet. T. asks Ss to read the
passage and tell where the information in the passage is
taken from. Example: The first sentences is from N
0
(1), the
2
nd
sentence is from N
0
(4)…
Information about Tam
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20’
(1) Name: Le Van Tam Age:14
(2) Description: tall, thin, short black hair
(3) Character: sociable, humorous, helpful
(4) Address: 26 Tran Phu Street, Ha noi
(5) Family: mother, father, elder brother-Hung
(6) Friends: Ba, Bao
♦ Pair work-Ss ask and answer Qs (exercise 2) to complete
the worksheets with information about their partners.
Information about
(1) Name: Age:
(2) Description:

TECHNIQUES:
♦ Question-answer, information completion, transferring information
TEACHING AIDS:
♦ Picture (copied and enlarged from textbooks), real objects, cassette tape +
recorder.
TIME-45 minutes
PROCEDURES:
STEPS ACTIVITIES
Warm-up
10’
- Teacher shows 6 pictures or word cards (page 18)- two real
things (mobile phone, telephone directory)- students work in
groups
- Teacher asks questions
1. What is this? (mobile phone)
2. When do you use it? (to make a phone call)
3. What is this? (a telephone directory)
4. When do you use it? (to find the telephone numbers of
someone)
- Teacher asks about students’ activities
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• An answering machine (to record telephone messages
from people ring you when you are out)
• A fax machine (to copy an exact picture, letter…)
• A public telephone (to make a phone call when you are
on the sidewalk)
• An address book (book that is used to write down the
address of someone)
- Teacher asks students to work in pairs and fix the word

3. Students listening the tape- listen & repeat (twice)
4. Teacher asks students to answer the questions above.
5. Some pairs perform before class.
6. Some pairs say the dialogue aloud
7. T. remind students to use the present continuous to show
the intentions in the future(in Vietnamese)
Consolidation
10’
- Pair work:
• Students say the dialogue
• Students practice asking and answering the question
(page 19)
• Make a dialogue with these cues (Nam and Ba/Rex
cinema/Spiderman/7:00/Outside the theater at 6:45)
Homework
2’
- Students do the exercise 4(on page 17) in workbook
- Learn by heart the new words on page 18
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UNIT 2 : MAKING ARRANGEMENTS
lesson 2: speak, listen
OBJECTIVES:
• Practice of developing speaking and listening skills about making
arrangements on telephone.
LANGUAGE CONTENTS:
• Vocabulary: Concert (n), band (n), start (v), inside, outside (adv)
• Expressions: Great, me too
I’m sorry, I can’t
TECHNIQUES: Pre-reading and prediction

- Teacher tells Ss to read the open dialogue. (introduce:Bao
invites Ba to play chess)
- Ss practise in pairs (they themselves fill in the open
sentences)
- T. asks Ss to play the dialogue(some pairs)
- T. corrects the mistakes in pronunciation
Consolidation
5’
- T. asks Ss to enlarge the dialogue(making new dialogues
based on the model one).
Listening (17 minutes)
Steps Activities
Pre-listening
6’
- T. introduces secretary, woman and Mrs. Mary Nguyen in
the dialogue and the purpose of the exercises.
- T. asks Ss to read to read the message form. Explain the
information on it
While-listening
4’
- T. tells Ss to listen to the tape and fill the information into
the message from.
Post-listening
7’
- T. asks Ss to listen on the conversation (the last time) to
check the answers.
- T corrects the mistakes.
Homework: -Ss listen to the conversation again and do the similar dialogues
-Prepare lesson write.
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 TASK 1: Who invented the telephone? When did he invent
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it?
While-reading (20’)  Silent reading: Ss read the text and check their predictions.
 Answer key:
1/ Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.
2/ He was a Scotsman.
3/ He invented it in 1876.
 TASK 2: Ss read the text again and do the exercises (1 and
2) in the book. (work in pairs)
 T. invites some students to give their answers and check
which answer is right.
Post-reading (12’) • Group work: Ss work in group of 4 or 5. Each student
states one sentence about Alexander Graham Bell
• Representatives of some groups retell the text in their
own words
Consolidation (3’) • T. takes note the structure: neither-nor
• T. reviews the simple past tense
HOMWORK: Write 5 sentences about the inventor of the telephone
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Unit 2-MAKING ARRANGEMENTS
LESSON 4-WRITE
OBJECTIVES:
By the end of the lesson, students will:
• Be able to describe about their intentions
• Develop writing skills
LANGUAGE CONTENTS:
• Grammar: Near future (going to talk about intentions)

Date :June 16
Time :After midday
For :Mrs. Van
Message: Mr. Nam called about his stationary order. He
wanted you to call him at 8 634 082.
Taken by: Mr. Toan
Post-writing (10’) • T. asks Ss to read the message from on page 23 again.
• Ss read the dialogue silently.
• T asks Ss some questions about the information the
dialogue.
1/ Who leaves the message?
2/ Who does Tom leave the message for?
3/ Who is taken the message by?
4/ What is the message about?
• Some Ss read their worksheet; they can compare their
message. T. corrects errors to help Lisa write a message for
Nancy.
Date :………………(Ss write)
Time :………………(Ss write)
For : Nancy
Message: Tom called about playing tennis this afternoon. He
will come to pick you at 1:30.
Taken by: Lisa.
HOMEWORK:
1. Write the telephone message (for your parents)
2. Write a paragraph about the telephone message (for your friend)
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LESSON PLAN
UNIT TWO: MAKING ARRANGEMENTS

Please tell your partner what they are going to do.
- Students practice in pairs
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Consolidations:
(10’)
Formation: S + BE GOING + TO-INF
2. What are you going to do on weekend?
a. Students add three more activities to the list. Then
complete the<<you>> column with checks () or crosses (x)
- Students do in pair work, then compare the answers
- Some students talk about their intentions and their
friends’ intentions before class
- Teacher corrects the mistakes if possible.
b. Students practice in pairs
- They ask their friends about intentions. Then complete
checks () or crosses (x) in partner column
3. Teacher shows the students the pictures and asks them
to fill the blanks with adverbs of place in the box following
the story<<Ba and Tuan are playing hide and seek>>
Pair work and group work “playing hide and seek”,
“inside and outside the door”, “up and down the platform”
Saying about positions of school things
Saying about intentions for tomorrow and this summer
holiday.
HOMEWORK: Do the exercises 3, 5, 7(on page 15, 18, 19)
Learn by heart the information of “Be going to” and “adverbs
of place”
Prepare the new lesson
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dinner?/What does he have to buy at the market?)
- T. shows the picture to introduces the dialogue. Then asks
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Ss to answer the guiding-questions.
- T. has Ss listen to the cassette tape.
- Ss listen and repeat.
- Pair-work: Ss practice the dialogue in pairs.
- Ss read the dialogue silently. Then check their answers.
- T. provides the correct answers.
- T. has Ss read the dialogue again and complete the list.
- T. make a model.
- Group work: Ss complete the list.
- T. corrects their answers.
- T. asks Ss to draw Ss’ attention to the structures.(Have
to/ought to/reflexive pronouns).
+ Nam has to cook dinner himself.
+ He ought to go to the market himself.
(T. briefly explains the meanings of the structures).
3. Consolidation: 5’ - T. asks Ss to reproduce language knowledge with the
pictures.
- Pair work-Ss ask & answer questions about their
housework.
4. Homework: 3’ - Write 5 sentences about your housework using “ought
to/have to”
- Review words of household appliances.
G. EVALUATION :
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UNIT 3: AT HOME

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10ms
T. calls some students to describe the position of furniture.
- Using: Let’s + infinitive, ought to, should.
T. corrects.
Practice
20ms
T. introduces pictures:
- Asking students to work in pairs or in groups to arrange the
furniture in the room that must roach an agreement.
- Using: Let’s + infinitive, ought to, should.
T. corrects.
Consolidation
5ms
T. calls one or two students to describe position of furniture in
class room.
HOMEWORK:
Write about the position of furniture in your house.
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