UNIT 1: A DAY IN THE LIFE OF…
LESSON 5. LANGUAGE FOCUS
I. Objectives:
1. Education aims: the sound /i/ and the sound /i:/ and pronounce them correctly.
Students revise the present simple tense and the past simple tense.
2. Knowledge:
a. General knowledge: - a person's hobby and the narrative of a camping trip.
b. Language:
- Pronunciation: / i / and /i:/
- The present simple tense.
- Adverbs of frequency
- The past simple tense.
3. Skills: Read sentences aloud. Read the passages silently to do the exercises.
II. Anticipated problems:
+ Problems: - Students may have difficulty in pronounce / i / and /i:/ correctly.
+ Solutions: - Explain carefully the diference between two sounds .
III. Teaching aids: - board, chalk, textbook.
IV. Procedures:
Teacher's activities Students' activities
1. Homework checking.(7 mins)
- Ask one student to do exercise 1 (page
9) on the board.
- Check Ex 2 with the whole class. Check
this exercise sentence by sentence.
- Give remarks and marks.
2. Pronunciation:(17 mins)
- Introduce two sounds / i / and /i:/.
- Read each sound twice and then ask sts
to listen and repeat.
- Ask sts to look at the book, then listen
and repeat.
- Ask sts to practise reading these words
in groups.
- Ask some sts to read aloud and give
remarks.
- Do the first example: (read the sentence
aloud and underline the sounds)
1. Is he coming to the cinema?
/ɪ/ /ɪ/ /ɪ/ /ɪ/
- Ask sts to work in pairs to practise
reading and to find the sounds in the rest
sentences.
- Remind them of the intonation of the
questions.
- move round to help if necessary.
- Ask some sts to read these sentences
aloud.
- Give remarks.
3. Grammar and vocabulary: (20
Exercise1:
1. I first went to school when I was six years old.
2. My father held my hand firmly and took me to the
school gate.
3. I was frightened by all the strange faces and the large
buildings.
4. I quickly found another gate on the other side of the
playground.
Exercise 2:
1. Last summer 5. so
2. In the morning 6. At first
3. Once in a while 7. in the end
4. However 8. On the whole
- Listen to the teacher and then listen and repeat /ɪ/ and /
i:/
- Listen and repeat.
/ɪ/ / i:/
hit kick heat repeat
bit click beat read
little interested meat eaten
2. We 'll miss the begining of the film.
3. Is it an interesting film, Jim?
(sound /ɪ/)
4. The beans and the meat were quite cheap.
5. He's going to leave here for the Green Mountains.
6. Would you like to have meat, peas and cheese?
( sound / i:/)
+ Form: (+) S + V/ Vs/ Ves +.......
(- ) S + don't/ doesn't + V +......
(?) Do/ Does + S + V +..........?