Anticipated difficulties

Solutions

1. Students may have
underdeveloped listening skills.

- Play the recording many times if necessary.

- Encourage students to work in pairs, in groups so that they can help each other.

- Provide feedback and help if necessary.

2. Some students will excessively talk in the class.

- Define expectation in explicit detail.

- Have excessively talkative students practise.

- Continue to define expectations in small chunks (before every activity).

TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES

STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES

CONTENTS

- Have Ss say aloud the names of community helpers they know and have learnt. Ask them who is their favourite community helper and why. Encourage Ss to share their answers.

- Lead into the new lesson: Listening and Writing about favourite community helpers.

- Introduce the objectives of the lesson. Write the objectives in the left corner of the board.

- Students answer the questions.

Student’s answers

TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES

STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES

CONTENTS

Task 1: Work in pairs. Discuss the questions.

- Have Ss look at the pictures and answer the questions in the book:

Who can you see in the pictures?

What are they doing?

- Elicit answers from Ss. This is an open activity, so accept all answers provided they make sense.

- Students work in pairs to discuss the questions.

Suggested answers:

We can see garbage collectors. They are taking the garbage away.

- Choose to teach some key words that appear in the listening text if necessary (reflective stripes, garbage cart, sorting, ...)

Task 2: Listen and fill in each blank with no more than two words.

- Tell Ss that they are going to listen to a radio broadcast about a community helper.

- Have Ss read the questions first and underline the keywords. Have them indentify the kind of information needed for each blank (e.g. blank 1: noun / name of the contest; blank 2: noun / his job...)

- Play the recording and ask Ss to listen and fill in each blank with no more than two words. Ss work in pairs to compare their answers.

- Ask for Ss’ answers and write them on the board without confirming whether they are right or wrong.

- Students find the key words independently and then listen to the recording to do the task.

- Students compare the answers with their partners.

- Some students go to the board to write the answer and then check with the whole class.

Key:

1. Community Helper

2. garbage collector

3. slim

4. friendly

Audio script:

This is An Binh Commune Radio Station. In today’s special programme, we will share with you a piece of writing which won first prize in our writing contest called “My Favourite Community Helper”. This was written by Mi, a grade 9 student. There are many great community helpers in our neigbourhood but my favourite one is Mr Vinh, the garbage collector. Mr Vinh is a tall and slim man. He usually wears a green uniform with reflective stripes. He is hard-working and responsible. Every day he goes to our neighbourhood at 6 p.m. with a garbage cart. He instructs everyone to put garbage in the correct bin: recyclable and non-recyclable, and then goes to the next neighbourhood. At about 9 p.m. he comes back and empties all the bins carefully. Mr Vinh is also friendly. He usually keeps a smile on his face. He talks with the people in our community cheerfully about his work and the importance of sorting rubbish. We all love him.

Task 3: Listen again and tick T (True) or F (False).

– Tell Ss that they are going to listen to the broadcast again and decide if each statement is true or false.

– Have Ss read the statements and underline the keywords. Have Ss guess whether each statement is true or false based on their previous listening. Invite some Ss to share their answers. Write their answers on the board.

– Play the recording and ask Ss to listen again and check their answers. Ss work in pairs to compare their answers with each other and with the answers on the board.

– Play the recording once more for pairs to check their answers to both activities 2 and 3.

– Ask for Ss’ answers to Activity 2. Confirm and tick the correct answers. Ask for Ss’s answers to Activity 3. Write them on the board next to their guesses. Confirm the correct answers.

- Some students go to the board to write the answer and then check with the whole class.

Key:

1. F, 2. F, 3. T, 4. T