TRƯỜNG TIỂU HỌC, THCS VÀ THPT NGÔI SAO HÀ NỘI – HOÀNG MAI

UNIT 3: THE PAST - LESSON 2

SUBJECT: ENGLISH GRADE: 7
Number of lessons: 01

TEACHER PHAM THI LOAN

CLASS 7A0, 7A03
DATE

I. OBJECTIVES
1. Knowledge
Vocabulary: revision
Reading: reading for details technique
2. Competences
a. General competences
Form and / or improve such competences as group work, independent working pair work, linguistic competence,
and cooperate learning.
b. Specific competences
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
- Revise targeted vocab items.
- Identify targeted vocab items in the reading passage.

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- Use reading for details techniques to answer question relating to a given passage.
- Use targeted vocab items to talk about places for a school trip.
3. Personal qualities
To teach Ss the confidence to talk about places for a school trip.
II. MATERIALS
Teacher: Student:
● Friends Plus 7 – Teacher’s book ● Friends Plus 7 – Student’s book

● Lesson plan ● Notebook

● Powerpoint ● Stationery
III. PROCEDURES
III.1. Warm-up (5m)
● Objectives: To review the previous lesson, to introduce new lesson and to get Ss interested in the topic.

● Content: The past.

● Products: Ss use synonyms, antonyms, definitions to describe those words for their friends.

● Competences: Collaboration, critical thinking, creativity.

● Organization of activities:

Teacher’s and Students’ activities Contents

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 WARM-UP. T- Ss - T / Ss - Ss / (5m)
Exciting or Boring?
- Show some places.
- Ask students to vote which places are exciting
and which places are boring. Ask them why.
- Or ask students to work in pairs or groups to
decide which places are exciting and which places are
boring.
- Ask some students to tell their opinions.
- Listen to the instructions carefully.
- Vote which places are exciting and which places
are boring.
- Or work in pairs or groups to decide which places
are exciting and which places are boring.
- Tell the class what they think about these places
and why.
III.2. New lesson (35m)
Part 1: Pre-reading (5m)
● Objective: Ss understand the general idea of a text

● Content: targeted vocab from the reading text

● Product: general idea of a text

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● Competences: collaboration, communication, analytical and synthesizing skills.

● Organization of activities:

Teacher’s and Students’ activities Contents

PRE-READING. T - Ss - T / Ss - Ss / Indiv.(5m)
- Put students into small groups to discuss their
ideas about an exciting place and a boring place for a
school trip. Remind them think about the reasons for
their answers.
- Ask some students to tell the class about their Suggested answers:
answers. I think an exciting place for a school trip is the fruit
"Think of an exciting place and a boring place for a gardern, we can learn how to plant and take care of
school trip” trees and we can also enjoy fruit.
- Work in groups and talk about the places for a I think a boring place for a school trip is the mountain
school trip. because we have to hike for a long time.
- Listen to the teacher.
- Talk in front of the class. New words:
exhibition (n): cuộc triển lãm
building (n): toà nhà
collection (n): bộ sưu tập
Part 2: While-reading (15m)
● Objective: Ss can answer the questions to finish tasks in the textbook

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● Content: questions + reading text

● Outcome: correct answers to the reading text

● Organization of activities:

Teacher’s and Students’ activities Contents

Activity 1 (10m) Look at the photos on page 36. Answer Suggested answers:
the questions. Then read the reports and check the 1. royal clothes, dinosaur bones, cars
answers. 2. Vietnamese royal clothes in the 19th century,
- Focus on the photos and elicit what they show dinosaur bones from 150 million years ago, a car from
(royal clothes, dinosaur bones, a car). 1964
- Ask students to think of the answers for the three 3. The fossilized dinosaur bone is interesting and
following questions before reading the text. popular
- Put students into pairs to look at the photos and
answer the questions.
- Ask students to read the reports and check the
answers in pairs.
- Check answers with the class.
- Listen to the teacher.
- Work in pairs to look at the photos and answer
the questions.
- Read the reports and check the answers in pairs.

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- Check answers with the teacher.
Activity 2 (5m) Read and listen to the reports.
Complete the sentences with the information from the Suggested answers:
text. 1. The exhibition of royal clothing was in theHistory
- Allow students time to read the gapped Museum of Hồ Chí Minh City.
sentences, then play the audio. 2. The clothes were expensive but weren't comfortable’
- Ask students to read and listen and complete the at all.
sentences. 3. Tim was happy with the food in the café at the
- Check answers with the class. Natural History Museum.
- Read the gapped sentences. 4. The Diplodocus and the Tyrannosaurus Rex are both
- Listen and complete the sentences. types of dinosaur.
- Check answers with the teacher. 5. The farm wasn’t a very interesting place.
6. The Bluebird was a very fast car in the National
Motor Museum.
Activity 3 (5m) VOCABULARY PLUS Use a dictionary to Suggested answers:
check the meaning of the words in blue in the text. 1. royal clothing
- Ask students to use a dictionary to check the 2. fancy
meaning of the blue words. 3. café, Natural History Museum
- With stronger classes, you could encourage 4. Diplodocus, Tyrannosaurus Rex
students to try to guess the meaning from the context 5. farm
first, then check in a dictionary. 6. Bluebird, Motor
- Check that students understand all the words.

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 - Use a dictionary to check the meaning of the
blue words.
- Check answers with the teacher.
Part 3: Production (10m)
● Objective: Revise words and language points

● Content: keyphrases

● Outcomes: Students can write and talk about museums

● Organization of activities:

Teacher’s and Students’ activities Contents

USE IT! Work in pairs. Which of the museums on the Suggested answers
website do you think is the most interesting? Where is Student A: Which of the museums onthe website do
it? What is in it? you think is the most interesting?
Student B: I think the Natural History Museum is the
most interesting.
Student A: Where is it?
Student B: It’s in London.
Student A: What is in it?
Student B: There are popular dinosaur exhibitions
like The Diplodocus and the Tyrannosaurus Rex.
III.3. Homework (5m)
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Learn by heart all the new words.
Workbook: Exercises page 28
Prepare Lesson 3 – was / were; there was / there were
IV. SELF-REFLECTION
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