UNIT 12 – LESSON 2: C. LISTENING
Planning date: Feb 19th Teaching date: Feb 28th
I. Objectives:
1. General knowledge: Sts know more about Van Cao and his music.
2. Language: Vocabulary on music.
3. Skills: - Listening: choose True/ False statements and answer questions.
- Speaking: discuss the one's ideas about Van Cao's music.
II. Anticipated problems: Some sts rarely listen to Van Cao's songs.
III. Teaching aids: Tape, cassette player, textbook, chalk, board.
IV. Procedures:
Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
1. Home work checking: (7 mins)
- Ask one st to talk about what kind of music he likes best. One st presents. Others listen
and give remarks.
2. Before you listen: (12 mins)
Aims: focus sts on the topic and review/ introduce the words and
phrases used in the listening text.
a. - Focus sts on the picture in the textbook and ask sts if they
know the person in it.
- Introduce Van Cao, the most famous musician in the history of
Vietnamese music then ask sts to work in groups and ask about
Van Cao's life and works.
- Possible questions:
- Where and when was he born?
- Was he born in a rich or poor family?
- When did he start writing songs?
- Can you name some of his famous songs? What is his most
famous one?
- Ask sts to give their answer to the question in p. 128.
b. Introduce some new words
- rousing (adj):
- lyrical(adj):
- solemn(adj):
- national anthem(n): E.g.:
- Read the words and ask sts to repeat.
- Ask sts to read the words in pairs.
- Ask some sts to read the words again.
3. While you listen: (17 mins)
+ Task 1:
Aims: Practise listening and marking True/ False statements.
- Tell sts that they are going to listen to a conversation between
Lan Huong and Quang Hung about Quang Hung's opinion towards
Van Cao's music.
- Ask sts to work in pairs, look at the statements given and guess if
they are true or false.
- Ask sts to listen to the talk and tick the right column to indicate
their answer and underline the false information. T plays the tape
twice.
- Ask sts to compare their answer in pairs.
- Check sts’ answer.
- Work in groups to say about
the person in the picture.
- Listen to the teacher and then
work in groups to discuss Van
Cao's life and career.
- Ask some pairs to ask and
answer.
Some sts stand up and give
their answer.
- Copy down the words and
phrases into their notebooks.
- Listen and repeat.
- Read the words in pairs and
correct each other’s mistakes.
- Some individuals read the
words aloud
- Listen to the T.
- Work in pairs to guess if the
statements are true or false.
- Listen to the tape and do the
task
- Compare their answer.
- Give their answer.
1. F The guess is Quang Hung.
2.F He likes some Vietnamese
musicians
3. T
4. F It was written in 1944.
5. F (He always ..... )