UNIT 12 – LESSON 5: E. LANGUAGE FOCUS
Planning date: Feb 19th Teaching date: March 1st
I. Objectives:
1. Education Aims: Students know how to pronounce the sound /s/ and /z/
correctly.
- Students revise to-infinitive and Wh-questions.
2. Knowledge: + Language: - Pronunciation: /s/ and/z/ .
- To-infinitive and Wh-questions.
3. Skills: + Speaking: Work in pairs to discuss the exercises.
+ Reading: - Read words and sentences aloud.
- Read the sentences silently to do the exercises.
II. Anticipated problems: confuse sound /s/ in English with sound / s / in
Vietnamese.
III. Teaching aids: board, chalk, textbook.
IV. Procedures:
Teacher's activities Students' activities
1. Homework checking: (5mins)
- Ask one st to read the passage they wrote about Eric Clapton's
life aloud. - Ask another st to give remarks.
- Check and give a mark.
2. Pronunciation:(10 mins)
- Aims: to introduce two sounds /s/ and /z / and help sts to
practise these sounds.
a. Write two sounds on the board and pronounce them clearly
twice, then ask sts to repeat.
- Tell sts how to pronounce these sounds accurately.
/z/: a voiced sound /s/: a voiceless sound
- Ask them to look at the textbook, listen and repeat.
- Then ask sts to work in pairs to read the words again so that
they can check for each other.
- Move around to help .
- Ask two sts to read again and give remarks.
b. Ask sts to look at sentences in page 130 in the book.
- Ask them to work in pairs to read the sentences and then find
out the words containing sound /s/ and sound /z /.
- Ask them to work in 2 minutes.
- Move around to conduct the activity.
- Ask one st to report and other sts to give remarks.
- Check and give the correct answers.
- Ask some sts to read these sentences aloud.
- Listen and give remarks.
3. Grammar: (29 mins)
Aims: to revise to-infinitive and Wh-questions and have sts do
Ex1, EX2 and EX3.
a. to-infinitive:
- Recall the use of to-infinitive by giving an example:
e.g.: A: What did you buy this cassette player for?
B: I bought this cassette player to study English.
e.g.: To keep fit, you have to do morning exercises every day.
- Ask sts to tell the T the use of to-infinitive in these sentences.
- One st reads his/her writing
aloud in front of the whole class.
- Give remarks.
- Listen to the teacher.
- Write down two sounds.
- Listen to the teacher and repeat.
- Look at the book , listen and
repeat.
/ s / / z /
Sue zoo
sip zip
piece peas
...........................
- Read these words in pairs and
check for their partners.
- Look at the book and work in
pairs.
- Answers:
/s/ /z/
Susan music
classical jazz
sound records
...............................
- Read the sentences.
- Listen to the teacher
- Read the example and tell the
whole class their ideas.
+ Use:
- to show purpose.
- Listen to the teacher and take
note.
- Give examples.