UNIT 16 - LESSON 5: E. LANGUAGE FOCUS
Planning date: Teaching date:
I. Objectives:
1. Education Aims: - Students know how to pronounce the sound /ʒ / and / ʃ /
correctly.
- Students revise: - Comparatives and superlatives.
2. Knowledge:+ Language: - Pronunciation: / ʒ / and/ ʃ / .
- Comparatives and superlatives. - Making comparisons.
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: Students may forget the knowledge about comparisons.
III. Teaching aids: board, chalk, textbook.
IV. Procedures:
Teacher's activities Students' activities
1. Homework checking: ( 5mins)
- Ask two sts to read the description of the chart they
wrote at home aloud.
- Ask another st to give remarks.
- Check and give marks.
2. Pronunciation: (10 mins)
- Aims: to introduce two sounds /ʒ / and / ʃ / 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.
/ ʃ / : a voiceless sound
/ ʒ /: a voiced sound
- Ask sts to pay attention to the length of two sounds.
- 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 175 in the
book.
- Ask them to work in pairs to read the sentences and
then find out the words containing sound /ʒ / and
sound / ʃ /.
- 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 comparatives and superlatives, and
making comparisons, and have sts do EX1,EX2 and
EX3.
a. Comparatives and superlatives:
- Two sts read the announcements aloud.
- Give remarks.
- Listen to the teacher.
- Write down two sounds.
- Listen to the teacher and repeat.
- Look at the book , listen and repeat.
/ ʒ / / ʃ /
television shop
pleasure machine
measure Swedish
...........................
- Read these words in pairs and check for
their partners.
- Look at the book and work in pairs.
- Answers:
/ ʒ / / ʃ /
pleasure shouldn't
Asia shop
illusions washing
...............................
- Read the sentences.
- Listen to the T.
- Look at the examples.
- One st tells the T the comparative and
superlative form of the adjectives:
Adjectives Comparatives
Superlatives
Short adjs .....- er the .....-
est
long longer the