UNIT 16: THE ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH EAST ASIAN NATIONS
LESSON 2: B. SPEAKING
I. Objectives:
1. Aims:
- Students work in pairs to describe the pictures.
- Students talk about measures and effects of the economic reforms.
2. Knowledge:
- General knowledge: economic reforms.
- Language: + Words related to economic reforms.
+ The way to make suggestions or predictions.
+ The tenses.
II. Methods: Integrated, mainly communicative.
III. Anticipated problems:
-Problems: Students may face difficulty using terms.
- Solutions: teacher can give useful suggestions.
IV. Teaching aids: picture, board, chalks, textbook, handouts
V. Procedures:
Teacher's activities Students' activities
1. Warm-up: (5 mins)
Tell a short story to prove that the renovation
measures has apparently changed the social and
people’s lives positively.
2. Pre-speaking: (9 mins)
+ Task1:
- Explain the requirements clearly in English “in
your textbook, there are four pictures. Now, what I
would like you to do is to look at them carefully
and say what they are about”
- Ask students to work in pairs to discuss the three
questions and find the answers.
- Correct the students’ work and give remark.
3. While-speaking: (20 mins)
+ Task 2:
- Explain the requirements “The country of
Fantasia started its overall reforms…”.
- Divide the class into groups, asks each groups to
discus a section: Education
Health care
Agriculture
- Guide the students how to speak by giving them
useful suggestions:
+ They have………… so ……..
+ Due to the ………
+ Thanks to the………..
+ By applying……….
- Walk round from group to group to give help if
necessary.
- Encourage students to speak out what they think
even a phrase or a singular word.
Listen and give one’s own ideas or story if
being asked.
- Work in pairs to discuss the three questions
and find the answers.
A: What does each pair of picture tell you?
B: It tells us the contrast between the present
and past situations.
A: What changes can you see in each pair
of…?
B: The new school and factory are much
bigger
and more beautiful than the old ones.
A: What do you think …..to achieve these…?
B: They must have taken some renovation
measures.
- Correct the answers oneself.
Group 1: Education
S1: The government of Fantasia has changed
the curriculum and textbooks.
S2: They also provided schools with more
equipment and facilities.
S3: They build more schools and raised the
teachers’ salaries.
S1: It is obvious that they……
Group 2: Health care
S1: Many hospitals have been built as well as
the doctors’ and nurses’ salaries have been
raised.