UNIT 8: THE STORY OF MY VILLAGE
LESSON 5. LANGUAGE FOCUS
I. Objectives:
1. Education Aims:
- Students know how to pronounce the sound /aʊ/ and /əʊ/ correctly.
- Students revise reported speech and conditional sentence type 1.
2. Knowledge: + Language:
- Pronunciation: /aʊ/ and/əʊ/.
- Reported speech.
- Conditional sentence type 1.
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 these sounds with some sounds in Vietnamese.
III. Teaching aids: board, chalk, textbook.
IV. Procedures:
Teacher's activities Students' activities
1. Homework checking: (5mins)
- Ask one st to tell the whole class the way to their house from
Hai Duong Raiway Station.
- Check and give a mark.
2. Pronunciation: (10 mins)
- Aims: to introduce three sounds /aʊ/ and /əʊ/ and help sts to
practise these sounds.
a. Write two sounds on the board and pronounce them clearly
twice, then ask sts to repeat.
- Move around to help.
- Ask two sts to read again and give remarks.
b. Ask sts to look at sentences in page 89 in the book.
- Ask them to work in pairs to read the sentences and then find
out the words containing sound /aʊ/ and sound /əʊ/ .
- Ask them to work in 2 minutes.
- Move around to conduct the activity.
- Ask one st to report and other sts to give remarks.
- Listen and give remarks.
3. Grammar: (29 mins)
Aims: to revise the reported speech and conditional sentence
type 1 and have sts do Ex1, EX 2, EX3and EX4.
a. Reported speech: Statements
- Recall the use of reported speech: to report what someone
has said. No quotation marks are used and some parts of
speech have to be changed.
- Give an example:
eg: "I worked late yesterday," said Susan.
Susan said she had worked late the previous day.
- Ask sts to read the example and think about the changes
when we turn a sentence into reported speech.
- Ask sts to complete the table below:
Direct speech Reported speech
- Listen to the teacher.
- Write down two sounds.
- Listen to the teacher and repeat.
- Look at the book , listen and
repeat.
/aʊ/ /əʊ/
cow coat
town phone
how bone
...........................
- Read these words in pairs and
check for their partners.
- Look at the book and work in
pairs.
- Answers:
/aʊ/ /əʊ/
shout rose
loudly snow
ours over
...............................
- Read the examples.
- Listen to the teacher.
- Copy down the example.
- Read the example and think
about the changes.
- Work in pairs to complete the
table.