UNIT 7: THE MASS MEDIA
LESSON 1. READING
I. Objectives:
1. Education aims: Students read about TV programme schedules.
2. Knowledge:
a. General knowledge: Knowledge about TV programme schedules..
b. Language: The present simple tense. Vocabulary TV programmes..
3. Skills:
- Speaking: in pairs and in groups.
- Reading comprehension: general ideas.
II. Anticipated problems: Difficulties in understanding some names of TV
programmes.
III. Teaching aids: board, textbook, chalk.
IV. Procedures:
Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
1.Warm-up: (3 mins)
Aims: sts get used to the topic.
+ Jumbled words.
- Give 5 words about the forms of mass media.
1. enslieisov 2. rwepeapns
3. idora 4. agenmzia 5.evido
- Check and give remarks.
2. Before you read: (10 mins)
Aims: to prepare information and vocabularies.
+ Pairwork: Ask the sts to work in pairs to answer the
question given in the part and some other questions.
+ VTV1: Combination of Politics, Economics and
Entertainment.
+ VTV2: Science and Education.
+ VTV3: Sports and Entertainment.
+ VTV4: For the overseas Vietnamese.
+ VTV5: For the Ethnic minority groups
+ Vocabulary:
- Provide the students with new words/phrases
+ channel (n) :
+ Mass media (n): public institutions that report news and
other stories .
+ Population and Development (phr):
+ TV Series (n): + Folk Songs (n):
+ News Headlines (n): + Weather Forecast (n):
+ Quiz Show (n): + Portrait of Life (phr):
+ Documentary (n): + Wildlife World (n):
+ Around The World (phr):
- Listen and help sts to read the words/phrases correctly.
3. While you read: (20 mins)
Aims: Read the passage for information to do the tasks.
+ Task 1: Matching.
- Ask sts to read the TV programme schedules and do task 1:
- Work in groups of 3-4 sts
- Sts write the words individually on
the blackboard
1. television
2. newspaper
3. radio
4. magazine
5. video
- Listen to the teacher.
- Work in pairs.
- Do the work orally in front of the
class.
- Listen and copy down.
- Listen and then copy down
- Listen and repeat.
- Some sts stand up and read these
word aloud.
- Others listen.
- Self-correct.
Work in pairs to read the
programmes and do the task.
- Share their answers with their
friends.
- Some sts present their answes:
1 – c; 2 – a; 3 – d; 4 – b
- Others listen.
- Work individually
1. T 2. T
3. F (The Nature of Language is on
VTV3.)