UNIT 1: A DAY IN THE LIFE OF…
LESSON 3. LISTENING
I. Objectives:
1. Education aims: Kow hard manual labourer in Vietnam work and appreciate
them.
2. Knowledge:
a. General knowledge: A day in the life of a cyclo-driver.
b. Language: - The present simple tense.
- Words concerning the cyclo- driver's work.
3. Skills: + Listening comprehension.
- Students listen and number the pictures in their correct order.
- Students listen and decide whether the staments are true or false.
+ Speaking: ask and answer about the information in the listening text.
II. Anticipated problems:
+ Problems:
- Students may do not know some works in the listening text.
- They do not know where to focus on the listening text.
+ Solutions:
- Teach new words in advance.
- Guide students to guess the answers before they listen.
III. Teaching aids: Tape, board, chalk, textbook.
IV. Procedures:
Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
1. Homework checking: (5 mins)
Tell the whole class about their daily routines
2. Before you listen: (10 mins)
Aims: focus sts on the topic and review/ introduce the
words and phrases used to describe a cyclo driver’s
daily activities.
a. T asks sts to work in groups and make a list of vehicles
and the people who operate them, then compare their list
with other groups’
- Introduce the topic of the listening text: ‘A day in the
life of a cyclo driver’ and asks sts to open their books.
- Ask sts to work in pairs to ask and answer the questions
in the textbook
Have you ever traveled by cyclo?
When was it?
Is it interesting to travel by cyclo?
Which do you prefer, going by bicycle or by cyclo?
Give reasons.
- Give remarks.
b. T asks S to look at the words in the book and read after
T .
- Introduce some new words
- 'passenger (n): (in the pictures)
- 'district (n): e.g: Ba Dinh district,
- drop (v): when the passenger gets off the cyclo.
- 'pedal (v) = cycle (v)
- 'purchases (n) = the shopping:
- work in groups and recall the vehicles
and their operators then make a list on a
sheet of paper
- compare theirs notes.
- listen to the T and open their books
- Work in pairs to ask and answer.
- Some pairs stand up and report.
S1: Have you ever traveled by cyclo?
S2: Yes, I have.
S3: When was it?
S4: Last summer holiday...
S5: Is it interesting to travel by cycle?
S6: Yes, it is.
S7: Which do you prefer, going by
bicycle or by cyclo?
S8: I prefer traveling by cyclo because I
have time to look around and I’m not
tired.
- look at the words and read after T .
- copy the words and phrases.
- listen and repeat.
- Some individuals read the words aloud