UNIT 1: A visit from a pen pal
Lesson 1: Getting Started – Listen and Read.
Aims:
Teacher helps students to:
Reading the text to understand the details.
Presentation and practice in “wish” to talk about unreal present desires.
Objectives:
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
- Know the name of the pictures in the before you read.
- Read fluently the text and do exercises below the text.
- Retell the trip of Lan’s Malaysian pen pal, Razali Maryam.
III. Language Focus:
- Past simple tense with “WISH”
teaching aids:
Books
Tape and cassette
Pictures.
PROCEDURE

Stages
Teacher’s activities
Student’s activities
Note

 Warm up:

Free talk:
T sets the scene : A foreign pen pal is coming to stay with you for a week. Where will you take him/ her to visit?
T gives Ss a cue by asking them look at the pictures.
T asks: What activities would you do during the visit?

Students think and talk:
I’ll take him/ her to visit HCM Mausoleum, West lake, Litterature Temple …


- Ss think and answer.
+ Going to Hung temple.
+ Visiting the Literature temple.
+ Shopping in Dong Xuan Market.
+ Visiting the museum.
+ Eating out.
+ Going to the theater.


T - Ss

Presentation
Pre teach
a. to correspond: explanation
b. be impressed:(explanation)
c. to pray: (explanation)
d. to depend on: translation
e. a mosque: explanation
f. to keep in touch (explanation)
Rub out and remember


Set the scene:
Razali Maryam is Lan’s pen pal. She came to stay with Lan last week. Ss are going to read the text about Razali Maryam and her visit to Vietnam.
Pre questions:
a. What do you know about Maryam?
b. Where did Lan take Maryam to?
- Ask SS to listen and read, then answer the questions:









Listen
Reapeat
Take note



Some Ss go to BB an rewrite the new words.


Listen





Guess the answer



Listen and read.
Answer the questions
She is from Malaysia. She is visiting her pen pal, Lan, in Vietnam.
She took her to Hoan Kiem lake, HCM mausoleum, the history museum and Van Mieu; many beautiful lakes and parks in Hanoi, the mosque on Hang Luoc street.

T – ss


Multiple choice questions
T asks Ss to read the text again and choose the correct option
Read and do ex 1
1: C
2: B
3: D
4: D



Presentation







Model sentences
Teacher elicits from Ss : What did Lan say to Maryam?
T write the model sentences
I wish you had a longer vacation
Concept check:
Does Lan want Maryam to have a longer vacation?
Can Maryam stay longer?
Can her wish come true now?
Is the sentence express unreal present or past desire?
What tense is used for verb in the subordinate clause?



Answer: “I wish you had a longer vacation”





yes, she does.
No, she can’t
No
Present

Past simple

T – S






T - Ss


* Note: “Wish” in the sentence above is used to express unreal present desire. The simple past tense is used for the verbs in the subordinate clause. For the verb “be”, “were” is more common used with I, she, he
- Listen and take note.


Practice
Repitition drill
T asks Ss to read aloud the “wish” sentence using the prompt cues.
T says: “can’t visit Malaysia”
+ can’t see that film
+ can’t have a trip abroad




I wish I could visit Malaysia.
….
T – Ss

Further practice
Teacher gives Ss unreal situations. Ss use “wish” to make sentences
I want to phone her but I don’t know her address.
We’ve lost the way because we don’t have a map.
Mai isn’t here now.
They won’t come with us.
Today is not a holiday.



I wish I knew her address.

I wish we had a map.

I wish Mai were here
I wish they would come with us.
I wish today were holiday.
Individual

Home work
T asks to do ex 1 (work book.)
- Write down in the