Giáo án môn Tiếng Anh 7 - Period 42, Unit 7: The world of work - Lesson 2: A2, 3

Date of planing: Sunday, December 2, 2007
Date of teaching: Wednesday, November 12, 2007
 Period 42 Unit 7: The world of work
 Lesson 2: A2, 3: Đọc hiểu và so sánh về kỳ nghỉ
 của học sinh Mĩ và học sinh Việt Nam. 
A. Aims and requests: 
I. Aims: - Reading a text for details to compare American students’ vacation and Vietnamese students’ vacation.
II. Requests: - By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to develop their reading skill to compare American students’ vacation and Vietnamese students’ vacation. 
III. Teacher’s preparations: Posters.
B. Procedures.
Teacher’ activities
Time
Students’ activities
I. Organization: - Good morning!
 - Who’s absent today?
II. Checking up previous lesson.
1. Write the new words.
- Make the comparatives.
a. I/ go to school/ early/ Lan.
b. Van/ have/ many friends/ Tung.
2. Call 3 Ss to do on the board.
 Have the class practise the dialogue in pairs.
3. Remark, correct and give marks.
III. New lesson.
1. Introduction: Today, you’ll read a text for details to compare American students’ vacation and Vietnamese students’ vacation.
 2. Pre- reading
a. Vocabulary
- T elicits the new words.
- Modal- have Ss repeat chorally and read individually.
- Easter: Lễ phục sinh ( translation)
- (to) celebrate: kỉ niệm ( situation)
- Thankgiving: lễ tạ ơn ( translation) 
- New Year’s Ever (Day): đêm giao thừa 
 ( situation) 
- Independence Day: ngày quốc khánh 
- Christmas: giáng sinh	( translation)
* check vocab: What and where
b. True/ False statements prediction.
Give 5 sentences and ask Ss to predict which sentences are T or F.
- Get prediction from Ss.
- b1. Vietnamese students have fewer vacations than American students.
- b2. American students have the longest vacation in the winter.
- b3. They don’t have Tet holiday.
- b4. Their most important vacation is New Year’s day.
- b5. They usually spend their time with their families on Thanksgiving and Christmas.
3. While- reading.
a. Read and check
- Have Ss read the text then check their predictions.
- Have Ss compare with the parners.
- Get feedback and correct Ss’ mistakes.
b. Grids: 
- Have Ss read the text again and work in groups to fill in the grids.
- Model the one.
Vacation
Vietnamese students
American students
Longest vacation
In the summer
In the summer
Tet holiday
P
O
Thanksgiving
O
P
Christmas
O
P
Independence Day
September 2nd
July 4th
Easter
O
P
New Year’s Ever (Day)
Lunar December 30th
January 1st
- Get feedback and correct.
4. Post- Reading: A3- P.74: Listening.
- Have Ss look at the pictures in A3 and guess the name name to the public holiday in each picture.
- Get prediction. 
- Have Ss listen to the tape and write the name to the public holiday in each picture.
- Get feedback.
* Answer key:
a. Thanksgiving
b. Independence Day
c. New Year’s Ever (Day)
d. Christmas
IV. Consolidation.
* Write about Vietnamese students’ vacation using the grids 
- Get feedback and correct.
V. Homework.
- Learn the new words.
- Do exercises: A2, 3
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- Good morning!
- Monitor answers: .
- Write the new words and read.
- Make the comparatives. 
a. I go to school earlier than Lan.
b. Van has more friends than Trung.
- Listen
- Give the words.
- Repeat chorally
- Read individually
- Give the meaning
- Copy
- Do: What and where 
- Read all sentences
- Predict true sentences and false sentences.
- Give the predictions.
Ex:
b1, T
- Read the text then check the predictions.
- Compare with the parners.
- Give the correct answer
* Answer key:
b1. T ; b2. F ; b3. T ; b4. F ; b5. T 
- Ss read the text again.
- Work in groups to fill the informations in the grids.
- Give the answer.
- Ss look at the pictures in A3 and guess the name name to the public holiday in each picture.
- Give prediction.
- Listen to the tape and write the name to the public holiday in each picture.
 - Compare with the partners.
- Give the correct answer.
- Correct each other.
* Write about Vietnamese students’ vacation using the grids 
Ex: We have the longest vacation in the summer and we have Tet holiday on Lunar December 30th..
- Copy the homework.