Period 02

UNIT 1: LOCAL ENVIRONMENT

Lesson 1: GETTING STARTED

I. Objectives:
By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:
1. Knowledge:
+ use the lexical items related to traditional crafts and places of interest in an area
+ ask and talk about traditional crafts and places of interest
2. Skills:
+ practice listening, reading, speaking and writing skills.
+ develop interactional skills
3. Attitude:
+ gain the common knowledge of Vietnamese traditional crafts and places of interest.
II. Lexical items:
1.Vocabulary: Traditional crafts and places of interest
2.Structures: Ask and answer about traditional crafts and places of interest.
III. Teaching aids:
1. Teacher: book, laptop, TV
2. Students: book, notebook, pen and pencil
IV. Anticipated problems:
Ss may find it difficult to talk about the topic with some unfamiliar crafts which they haven’t
known about, so the teacher should be ready to help them with good preparation.
VI. Procedures:
Stages/ Time Teacher’s Activities Students’ Activities
WARM UP *Watching a video: - Watch a video
(3 min) - Have Ss write down the names of - Give the names of the traditional
To raise students’ all traditional craft villages in craft villages
interest in the topic Vietnam they know. Key: Names of crafts mentionen
and introduce the -Have Ss watch a video about in the video:
topic of the unit traditional craft villages in - Bát Tràng (Pottery)
Vietnam. - Hạ Thái (Lacquerware)
- Have Ss give the answer. - Quất Động (Embroidery)
-Asks Ss: - Đông Hồ (Paintings)
Q: How many traditional crafts are - Đốc Sơ (Conical hats)
introduced in the video?
→ Lead in the new lesson: We Unit 1: Local environment
have just watched a video about Lesson 1: Getting started – A visit
some handicrafts of Vietnam. To to a traditional craft village
know more about it, we are going
to study Unit 1: Local environment,
lesson 1: Getting started - A visit to
a traditional craft village.
 I. NEW WORDS *Pre-teach the new words: I. New words:
(5 minutes) - T uses teaching vocabulary - Ss read the new words in chorus,
techniques to elicit these new groups then individually.
To help Ss to prepare words. - Ss copy into their notebooks.
vocabulary to talk + pottery /ˈpɑt̮ əri/ (u.n): đồ gốm
about the topic (translation) - Whole class
+ set up (phr.v) to create something
To check students’ or start it
understanding, + workshop /ˈwərkʃɑp/ (c.n): công
pronunciation xưởng (translation)
(explanation)
+ take over (phr.v) to begin to have
control of or responsibility for
something, especially in place of
someone else (explanation)
+ artisan /ˈɑrt̮ əzn/ (c.n) a person
who does skilled work, making
things with their hands
(explanation)
+ conical hat /ˈkɑnɪkl hæt/ nón lá
+ remind sb of sth /rɪˈmaɪnd/ to
help someone remember
something, especially something
important that they must do
(explanation)
+ souvenir /ˌsuvəˈnɪr/ (c.n) a thing
that you buy and/or keep to remind
yourself of a place, an occasion, or
a vacation (explanation)
- T models.
- T gives correction.
- Checking: pronunciation,
meaning, spelling, stress.
- Checking new words: matching
- Get Ss to read the new words
again
II. LISTEN - Ask Ss to work independently to Exercise 1a
AND READ find the words/phrases with the - Work individually and do
(20 minutes) given meanings in the dialogue exercise 1a
- Ask Ss to work in pair to share - Work in pair and discuss the
To remind Ss the their answers answers
words that they have - Ask the Ss to discuss as a class - Note down the correct answers (if
learnt in context and read out the lines in the necessary)
dialogue that contain the Answer key:
 words/phrases. 1. craft 2. set up
3. take over 4. artisans
5. attraction 6. specific region
To link Ss to the 7. remind 8. look round
dialogue * Set the scene: - Look at the picture
-T shows the picture of Nick, II. Listen and read
Phong and Mi then asks Ss to close - Listen
the book and answer the questions. - Work in groups of three.
+ Where are they?
+ What are they doing?
To help Ss to get the + What are they talking about?
main ideas of the - To know more about the
dialogue conversation among them, please
go on listening and reading
To help Ss practice - Ask Ss to listen to the radio and Exercise 1b. Answer the following
reading and listening read the conversation in groups of questions
skills three -Work in pairs, answer the
-Play the recording questions.
To help Ss - Play the recording again and have - Play the game.
understand the Ss practice reading the Answer key:
details of the conversation. 1. They are at Phong’s
dialogue -Call on one group to read aloud grandparents’ workshop in Bat
the conversation Trang.
-Give feedback. 2. It is about 700 years old.
- I want to see if you understand 3. His great-grandparents did.
the conversation well. Look at 4. Because people can buy things
exercise 1b for their house and make potter
-Ask Ss to read the questions and themselves there.
underline the key words then work 5. It’s in Hue.
in pairs to answer the questions in 6. Because the handicrafts remind
exercise 1b. them of a specific region.
-Check the answer by playing a
game “ Magic Wheel game”
*rule
+ Answer the questions one by one
+ If Ss give the correct answer,
they can spin the wheel and get the
rewards

III. PRACTICE - Have you ever bought any III. Practice

(8 min) souvenirs when you visited a Exercise 2. Write the name of each
-To help Ss have specific region? Now, let’s look at traditional handicraft in the box
chance to learn the pictures in exercise 2 and write under the picture.
words relating to the names of the handicrafts
traditional crafts illustrated in the pictures. -Work in pairs
-Have Ss look at the pictures in Answer key:
exercise 2. A. paintings B. drums
-Ask Ss to work in pairs write the C. marble sculptures D. pottery
names of the traditional handicraft E. silk F. lacquerware
illustrated in the pictures. G. conical hats H. lanterns
- Check in class.
- Tell Ss to complete the sentences Exercise 3. Complete the sentences
with the words/phrases in 2. with the words/phrases from 2 to
- Call on two Ss to give their show where in Viet Nam the
answers and confirm the correct handicrafts are made. You do not
answers. have to use them all.
- Work in pairs
. Answer key:
1. conical hat 2. lanterns
3. silk 4. paintings
5. Pottery 6. marble
sculptures
IV. PRODUCTION - In pairs, ask Ss to do the quiz in Ex4: QUIZ: WHAT IS THE
(9 min) exercise 4a. PLACE OF INTEREST?
-To help Ss have - Invite the fastest pair to read out -Work in pairs.
chance to talk about their answers. - Do the quiz
places of interest - Elicit feedback from other pairs. Answer key
- Confirm the correct answers. 1. park 2. museum 3. zoo
4. beach 5. beauty spot
- Ask Ss to work in groups of four
to write a similar quiz about places
of interest.
- Set a time limit of five minutes.
When time is up, ask the first group
to read out a question in their quiz
and ask Ss from other groups to
give their answer. Continue the
activity until all the groups have
read out their questions or when
time is up.
CONSOLIDATIO - Ask Ss what they have learnt after - Practice reading listening and
N the lesson speaking skills
(3 min) - T focuses them on the main point -Know how to ask and answer
To sum up the lesson *Relating to real life: Read an about traditional crafts and places
and have a link to the article or watch a video about a of interest.
real life traditional craft village or a place of
interest and write a short report
about what you have read/watched.
 -Instruct students on the homework
V. HOMEWORK - Ask Ss do exercise in workbook
(2 minutes) and prepare for the next lesson
- T says goodbye
-Listen and write down homework.
IV. Homework
1.Revise the vocabulary
2.Prepare for the next lesson: Unit
1-Lesson 2.
- Do the same to teacher