UNIT 1: MYFRIENDS
I. Aim
Helping students:
- to introduce people
- to respond to introdutions
- to dicrible people
- to write about themselves and about other people
II. Language focus
1. Present Simple to talk about general truths.
2. (Not) Adjectives + enough + to infinitives
3. Attributive and predicative adjectives.
III. Vocabulary
Verbs Adjectives Nouns
(to) annoy blond slim a character
(to) rise curly sociable a joke
(to) seem fair straight an orphanage
generous volunteer
reserved
IV. Unit Allocation
Lesson 1
Listen and read 1 – 2
Language focus 1
Reading for details a conversation and
revision of simple present and simple past
tense.
Lesson 2
Read 1-2
Getting started
Reading a text for details about Ba
’
s

friends
Lesson 3
Speak 1 -2
Listen a-b-c-d
Listening for details to complete the
dialogue and practice in describing
someone
Lesson 4
Write 1 -2
Language focus 3
Writing about oneself and about other
people
Lesson 5 Language focus 2 - 4
Futher practice in Simple Present and Not
Adj + enough + to - infinitive
Week:… The date of preparing:…/…./2009
Period:… The teaching:…/…./2009
UNIT 1: MYFRIENDS
Lesson 1
Section: - Listen and read (page 10,11)
- Languague focus 1 (page 16)
I. Aim:
Reading the dialogue for details and revision of simple present and sim past
tenses.
II. Objective:
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to know more about Hoa –
Lan –Nien and to review simple present and sim past tenses.
III. Teaching aids:
Text book, cards
PROCEDURE

A. Warm up
* Pelmanism
- Prepare twelve cards with numbers on one side and the verbs on the other ( Group
work)
- Make sure the verbs are mixed up. Stick the card on the board so students can
only see the numbers.
- Divide students intro to teams and ask them to choose two number.
- Turn the cards over and see if they match.
Eg: teach – taught, give them one mark. If not, turn the cards over again and
ask the next team.
- Continue until all the cards are finished.
meet come live think send thought
receive met lived received came sent
B. Pre-reading
* Pre- teach vocabulary
- to seem (translation)
- a next door neighbor (eplanation: a person who live next to your house)
- to look like: (translation)
* Checking vocabulary: rub out and remember
- Rub out the new words one at a time.
- Each time you rub out an english word, point to the Vietnamese translation and
ask “what
’
s this English?”
- When all the English words are rubbed out, go through the Vietnamese list and
get students to call the English words again.
* Pre – questions
- Give students some questions and ask them to work in pairs to answer them.
a. Is Nien Lan
’

s friend or Hoa
’
s friend?
b. How old is Nien?
c. Where does Nien live?
d. Is she beautiful girl?
- Give feedback
- Ask student to read the dialogue between Hoa, Lan and Nien on page 10 and
check if there answers are correct or not.
* Answers:
While reading
Comprehension questions
- Ask student to read the dialogue again answers the questions in exercise 2 on page
11 (work in pairs ).
a. Where does Nien live?
b. Does Lan know Nien?
c. Which sentence tell you that Hoa is older than Nien?
d. When is Nien going visit Hoa?
* Answers:
Gap – filling
- Ask student simple present and simple past tense to complete paragraph 1 (a) on
page 16.
- Provide some verbs so that students can you them to fill in the gaps.
- live (2) – send – be (2) – come
“ Hoa (1) in Hue last year, but now she (2) in Hanoi. Yesterday, Hoa
’
s friend Nien
(3) Hoa a letter. Nien (4) Hoa
’
s neighbor when Hoa live in Hue. She (5) younger

than Hoa. She (6) to hanoi in December.”
* Answers:
- Ask student to work individually and then compare their answers with their
partners
’
- Give feedback.
Post reading
* Writing:
- Ask student to write a paragraph about hoa and Lan.
- Give student some cues and ask them to use the simple present or siple past tense
to write individually.
* Cues:
a. Lan / Hoa best friend
b. They / same class / Quang Trung school.
c. Last year / Hoa / to school first time.
D. lan / show / around / introduce / to new friends.
- Let students discuss with their partners.
- Choose some answer and correct them infront of the class.
III. Homework
- Ask student to do exercise 1(a); 1(b) on their notebooks.
IV. Comments




Week:… The date of preparing:…/ /2009
Period:… The teaching:…/ /2009
UNIT 1: MYFRIENDS
Lesson 2
Section: - Listen and read (page 10,11)

- Languague focus 1 (page 16)
I. Aim:
Listening for details to complete the dialogue and speak to describe someon.
II. Objective:
By the end of the lesson, students will be aple to describe someon and
complete the dialogue by listening.
III. Teaching aids:
Text book, pictures
PROCEDURE
A. Warm up
* Brainstorming:
- Ask students to think of the adjectives used to describe body build and hair.
Thin curly
* poissible answers:
- fat - straight
- slim - long
- tall - short
- short
black/dark
- overweight - color blond/fair
- slender brown
grey
B. Presentation
Body build
hair
- Show students a picture of Mary and ask them to describe her hair, her body
build.
Ex: She has long blond hair.
She is short and thin.
Form:

S + have / has + adjectives + hair
S + be + adjectives
C. Practice
* Word cue drill
- Prepare 6 cards so that students can drill easily.
a. he / tall / thin He is tall and thin
b. she / short / slim She is short and slim
c. he / short / fat He is short and fat
d. long / black She has long black hair
e. curly / blond She has curly blond hair
f. straight / brown She has straight brown hair
* Practice speaking
- Show the poster of six people / or ask student to look at six people on page 11-
12.
- Call on students to describe on person, the other have to guess who he/she is.
Example:
S1: This person is short and thin. She has long blond hair.
S2: Is this Mary?
Yes.
- Go on untill six people on the poster are described.
- If there time, ask students to describe a famous person or on of their classmates
and their friends have to guess.
D. Pre – listening
- Ask students to do exercise “ Listen a, b, c, d “ on page 12 – 13
- Give students some expressions and make sure they know their meanings.
- Get students to guess and to complete four dialogues on page 12 – 13, using the
given expressions.
- Give feedback.
- Let students listen to the tape twice.
- Get students to workin pairs to complete the dialogue and compaire with their

prediction.
While listening
Post listening
- Call some students to play the roles of Nam – Hoa – Thu; Khai – Mrs. Lien – Mrs
Vi; Ba – bao – Grandmother; Mr. Lam – Mrs Linh – Mr. Thanh and practice the
dialogues.
- Correct their pronunciation.
- Let students work in pairs to practice the dialogues. (closed pairs).
Week:… The date of preparing:…/ /2009
Period:… The teaching:…/…./2009
UNIT 1: MYFRIENDS
Lesson 3
Section: - Getting started (page 10)
- Read (page 13, 14)
I. Aim:
Reading for specific information.
II. Objective:
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to know more Ba
’
s friend.
III. Teaching aids:
PROCEDURE
Warm up
*Chatting:
- Ask student look at four pictures on page 10 and talk about the activitives they
want to do after school or in their free time.
• What are these students doing?
( play soccer / play chess / rea books / play vollay ball )
• What time of the day do you think it is?
( in the morning/ evening, after school )

• Do you like soccer / reading book…?
• Whom do you like playing with?
Pre - reading
* Pre-teach vocabulary:
- a character: ( translation )
- an orphanage: (explanation: a place where children without parets live)
- reserved (adj) ( Translation )
- sociable (adj)
- (to) tell jokes: (explaation: tell a story which makes people laugh )
- sense of homor ( translation )
* checking vocabulary: what and where
- Write the word on the board, put one word in each circle.
reserv
ed
sociabl
e
character
tell jokes
orphanag
e
Sense of humor
- Have students repeat the words in chorus then rub out word by word but leave the
cicles.
- Go on untill all the words are rubbed out.
- point to each cicles and ask students to repeat chorally the Eglish words. Ask
students to go the board and write the words again in the correct cicles.
* T/F statements prediction
- Stick the poster of T/F statement on the board.
- Set the scene: These statement are about Ba and his friends, read them and guess
which statements are true, which are false.

- Get student to work in pairs.
a. Ba only has three friends – Bao, Song, Khai
b. Ba abd his friends have the same
c. Bao – Song – Khai are quite reserved in public
d. They all enjoy school and study hard.
- Give feedback.
- Ask students to open their books and rea the tex on page 13.
- Let students check their prediction.

Guess Correct
a.
b.
c.
d.
F
F
F
T
- Ask students to correct fale statements.
* Correction:
a. Ba has a lot of friends but he spends most of his time with Bao, Song and Khai.
b. They have different characters.
c. Only Song and Khai are quite reserved.
* Multiple choice
- Get students to do exercise 1 on page 14.
- Ask them to Work in pairs to choose the best answers.
* Answers:
* Comprehension questions
- Ask students to Work in pairs to do exercise 2 on page 14
- Let students read the text again and answer the question

* Question and answers:
Post reading
- Call on some pairs of students to ask and answer the questions. Teacher corrects
their pronunciation.
- Ask on students to work in closed pairs.
- Ask on students to work in groups and talk to one another about their friends,
using the adjectives they have just learnt to describe.
IV. Homework
- Ask each students to write a paragraph ( about 50 words ) about one close friend.
V. Comments