UNIT 6: AN EXCURSION
LESSON 3. LISTENING
I. Objectives:
1. General knowledge:- Sts know about a weekend picnic in the Botanical Garden.
2. Language:
- The past simple tense
- Vocabulary on sts' everyday life
3. Skills:
- Listening and ordering pictures
- Listening and filling in gaps
- Listening and answering questions
- Discussing and making a plan for a picnic
II. Anticipated problems:
- Sts have to fill in the gaps with long groups of words.
- The answers to some questions are too long.
III. Teaching aids: Textbook, tape
IV. Procedures:
Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
1. Before you listen: (10 mins)
Aims: focus sts on the topic and review/ introduce the words
and phrases used in the listening text.
a. T asks sts to work in groups and asks each other the
following questions.
- Do you often go for a picnic?
- Who do you go with?
- When is the best time for a picnic?
- Why do people go for picnic?
- Ask some sts to give their answer.
b. T asks S read after T / the tape the words in the textbook
without looking at them.
- Introduce some new words
+destination (n): e.g.: the train to Hanoi: Hanoi is the ~
+ glorious (adj): famous / wonderful / beautiful.
+ spacious (adj) adj of space
+ left-overs (n): foods left after a meal
+ delicious (adj): good. tasty
- Read the words again and ask sts to repeat.
- Ask sts to read the words in pairs.
- Ask some sts to read the words again.
2. While you listen: (24 mins)
+ Task 1:
Aims: Practise listening and ordering pictures.
- Ask sts to work in pairs, look at the pictures in the textbook
and describe each picture.
- Give one example:
"In the first picture is a peaceful place with green trees, a
big lake and white clouds in the sky."
- Introduce the situation about a st talking about a picnic to
the Botanical garden. T asks sts to listen to the teacher’
- Work in groups to ask and answer
the questions
-Some sts stand up and give their
answer.
- Read after T .
- Copy the words and phrases.
- Listen and repeat.
- Read the words in pairs and correct
each other’s mistakes.
- Some individuals read the words
aloud.
- Look at the pictures and listen to
the T.
- Describe the other pictures in pairs.
- Listen to the teacher.
- Listen to the teacher and do the
task.
- Compare their answer.
- Give their answer.
Key: 1a – 2e –3b– 4c – 5f – 6d
- Check their answer and then