Giáo án môn Tiếng Anh Lớp 7 - Period 49, Unit 8: Places - Lesson 4: At the post office (B1)

Period: 49	Date: 20/12/2004
UNIT 8: PLACES
LESSON 4: AT THE POST OFFICE (B1)
I. Objectives:
	1. Education aim:
	2. Teaching aim: By the end of the lesson, students can:
	˜ Ask for information at the post office
	˜ Ask about prices.
	˜ Make polite requests.
	˜ Develop their reading skill.
II. Language contents:
	1. Vocabulary:	send , envelope , change , stamp , cost , mail , pay.
2. Grammar:	(none) 
	3. Structures:	I’d like to + V  
	How much is / are + things?
III. Techniques:	eliciting, questioning & answering, true/false sentences, role play.
IV. Teaching aids:	pictures for presentation, cassette.
V. Time:	45 minutes
VI. Procedures:
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
Warm – up
- Ask students to write some nouns relating to the post office.
Post office 
- Possible answers
 + letter
 + stamp
 + postcard
 + parcel
 + telephone call
 + writing pad
- Ask questions 
What services does the post office supply people?
 + sending letters / postcards
 + sending / receiving parcels
 + making phone calls
 + buying envelopes / stamps 
Pre-reading
- Have students predict the true/false sentences 
 1. Liz goes to the post office to send a letter to Viet Nam.
 2. The stamps for the letter costs 9,500 dong.
 3. She needs some envelopes.
 4. An envelope is 2,000 dong.
 5. She pays 15,000 dong altogether.
- Have students give feedback 
- Play the tape for students 
- Elicit vocabulary and the structure
Send (v) 
Envelope (n) 
Change (v) 
Stamp (n) 
Cost (v) 
Mail (v) 
Pay (v) 
 ¯ I’d like to send this letter to the USA.
I’d like to + V 
 ¯ How much is it? – It’s 9,500 dong.
 How much are those? – they are 2,000 dong.
 How much is / are + things?
While-reading 
- Ask students to read the dialogue to check the true/false sentences 
1.F , 2.T , 3.F , 4.F , 5.F
- Have students practice the dialogue in pairs.
- Have students answer the questions. 
 a. Liz will mail the letter to the USA.
 b. She pays 11,500 dong altogether.
 c. She receives 3,500 dong in change.
Post-reading
- Have students answer the questions in About you in groups.
- Let students give the answers.
- Group works. 
- Answer the questions. 
- Group works. 
- Give feedback 
- Listen and write. 
- Read and check.
- Pair works. 
- Group works. 
- Group works. 
Homework
1. Reread the dialogue and learn vocabulary by heart.
2. Do the exercise B1,2 /p.50 - 52
Remarks
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