PowerPoint Tiếng Anh 9 Unit 1: Local community

Form

Pronunciation

Meaning

Vietnamese equivalent

1. suburb (n)

/ˈsʌbɜːb/

vùng ngoại ô

2. facilities (n)

/fəˈsɪlətiz/

cơ sở vật chất

Anticipated difficulties

Solutions

Students may lack experience of group/ teamwork.

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

- Give short, clear instructions and help if necessary.

TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES

STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES

CONTENTS

Brainstorming

- Teacher divides the class into 2 teams.

- Teacher asks students to close the books, shows a picture of a neighbourhood and asks them to write down as many things they can see in the picture in 1 minute. The team who has more correct answers is the winner.

- Teacher sets the context for the listening and reading text: Write the title on the board I really love where I live now.

- Students work in 2 teams and follow the teacher's instruction to play the game.

Questions:

What can you see in this neighbourhood?

Suggested answers:

- cinema

- buildings

- …

TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES

STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES

CONTENTS

Vocabulary pre-teaching

- Teacher introduces the vocabulary.

- Teacher explains the meaning of the new vocabulary by showing pictures or giving explanations.

- Students guess the meaning of words.

New words:

1. suburb (n)

2. facilities (n)

TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES

STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES

CONTENTS

Task 1: Listen and read. (7 mins)

- Ask Ss to look at the pictures on pages 8 – 9 and answer the

questions below:

Elicit answers from Ss.

– Introduce the two characters: Mi and Ann. Explain that they are friends, and they meet each other

after a long time.

– Play the recording twice for Ss to listen and read along. Have Ss underline the words that are related

to the unit topic while they are listening and reading.

– Invite some pairs of Ss to read the conversation aloud.

– Have Ss say the words in the text that they think are related to the topic Local community.

Quickly write the words on one part of the board. Comment on Ss’ answers.

- Students look at the pictures and answer the questions.

- Students listen to the recording and read along.

- Students read the conversation aloud.

- Students say the words.

Questions:

1. What do you see in each picture?

2. What would life in the place in the pictures be like?

The dialogue on page 8

Task 2: Read the conversation again. Fill in each blank with no more than two words from the conversation. (7 mins)

- Teacher tells students to read the conversation again and work independently to find the answers. Remind students to underline the information they can find in the conversation.

- Teacher has a student pair compare before checking with the whole class.

- Teacher calls some students to give the answers.

- Students work independently to do the activity.

- Students compare the answers in pairs.

- Students give answers.

Answer key:

1. last month

2. fewer people

3. craft village

4. neighbours

5. useful advice

Task 3: Match each word or phrase with its definition. (7 mins)

- Ask Ss to read the words and phrases in the first column and locate them in the dialogue.

- Ask them to read around each word or phrase to guess its meaning. For example, Ss can guess the meaning of ‘suburb’ by reading the sentence where the word appears in line 4 of the dialogue. Model the skill with this word.

- Have Ss work individually to match the words and phrases with their definitions.

- Have them compare their answers with a partner.

- Invite some Ss to share their answers.

- Confirm the correct answers.

- Have Ss practise saying the words and phrases.

- Students read the conversation again and work independently to do the activity.

- Students share and check the answers.

- Ss practise saying the words and phrases.

Answer key:

1. d

2. e

3. a

4. c

5. b

Task 4: Complete each sentence with a word or phrase from 3. (7 mins)

- Have Ss work in pairs and fill in each blank with a word or phrase from 3.

- Ask for Ss’ answers and confirm the correct ones.

- For a more able class, have Ss work in groups. Each group make sentences with the words/phrases. Then they read aloud these sentences.

- Students work in pairs and do the activity.

- Students give answers and check them.

Answer key:

1. suburb

2. get on … with

3. facilities

4. remind … of

5. community

TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES

STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES

CONTENTS

Task 5: What is the place? Do the following quiz. (10 mins)

- Set time (3-5 minutes) for Ss to do the quiz in pairs.

- Invite some Ss to share their answers with the class. Confirm the correct answers.

- Ask Ss to work in groups and brainstorm all the places of interest in a community that they know. After 3 minutes, they are invited to share their answers with the whole class. The group with the most correct answers wins.

- Students work in pairs to do the quiz.

- Students work in groups of three or four to follow the teacher's instruction.

- Students may ask the teacher if they don’t know the names of the items.

- Students share their answers with the whole class.

1. stadium

2. hospital

3. playground

4. school

5. museum

Date of teaching

Unit 1: Local community

Lesson 1: Getting started

* Warm-up

* Vocabulary

1. suburb (n)

2. facilities (n)

- Task 1: Listen and read.

- Task 2: Read the conversation again. Fill in each blank with no more than TWO words from the conversation.

- Task 3: Match each word or phrase with its definition.

- Task 4: Complete each sentence with a word or phrase from 3.

- Task 5: Quiz

*Homework