UNIT 1: SCHOOL TALKS
Period 3: (LISTENING)
Time: 45 minutes 
Date of preparation: 5.9.2006
Date of teaching: 8.9.2006
I. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES : 
1. Educational aim: To help the pupils listen and understand what Mr. Ba says about his
school days in the past. From that, pupils themselves can recollect and tell about their school
days in Elementary or Lower Secondary Schools.
2. Language: 
 - Language function: Talking about school activities.
 - Vocabulary: Recite, left-handed, oversleep, strict, hit.
 - Structures: Review of the simple past tense. 
 3. Skills: Listening.
II. METHOD: integrated, mainly commmunicative.
III. TECHNIQUES: Gap-filling, True-False, Question-Answer.
IV. TEACHING AIDS NEEDED: Textbook, tape, cassette player.
V. PROCEDURE:
Teaching steps 
and time 
Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
I. Stabilization:(2’)
II. Presentation of
the new
material: (40’)
-Checks absence …
WARMER: (5’)
PRE – LISTENING: (10’)
-Tell the pupils the aim of exercise a: to learn 
some new words appearing in the listening 
text.
-Teaches the words:
+ Recite (v) : to retell, tell again.
+ Oversleep (v) (overslept – overslept) : to 
sleep longer or later than one intened.
Eg. I overslept and was late for work.
+ Left-handed (adj) : (Example) 
I write with my left hand. I hold chopsticks 
with my left hand… So I am a left-handed 
person.
+ Strict (adj) : (Example) 
If we are late for class, my teacher will not 
allow us to go into the clas. When we don’t 
prepare lessons, he will punish us …He is 
really strict.
+ Hit (v) : (Action)
-Asks the pupils to work in pairs to fill in the 
-The monitor answers.
-Listen.
-Copy down the words,
their meanings.
-Work in pairs to do the
gaps with the words provided.
-Asks some pupils to give the result.
-Feedback.
-Answer keys:
1. strict 2. overslept
3. hits 4. village school
5. left-handed 5. recite 
WHILE – LISTENING: (17’)
* Exercise b:
-Introduces the situation. 
-Instructs the pupils to do the exercise.
-Plays the tape twice and lets the pupils to 
decide which statements are true and which 
statements are false.
-Asks the pupils to work in pairs to compare 
the results.
-Asks some pupils to stand up and give the 
result to the class.
-Feedback.
-Answer keys:
 1. F 2. T 3. T 4. F 5. F
-Listening Script:
Nam : When did you start school, 
 granddad?
Mr. Ba: Well, … er … I was born in 1936 and I 
 started school when I was six. It was 
 just a village school with only five 
 rooms. I stayed there till I was 
 eleven. Then I transferred to a bigger 
 school in town.
Nam : And what can you remember about 
 your first school days?
Mr. Ba: (laughs) In the beginning, I was 
 terrified because, you know, I am 
 left-handed and my teachers made 
 me write with my right hand. All of 
 them were kind but very strict. They 
 hit me on the fingers when I wrote 
 with my left hand.
Nam : And when you were eleven, you 
 studied in town. Was it far from your 
 home?
Mr. Ba:Well, about 4 km. Every day I had to 
 get up very early and walk to school 
 because there was no transportation. 
exercise.
-The pupils on duty give the
result.
-Listen.
-Copy down the answer
keys.
-Listen.
-Listen.
-Listen and do the exercise.
-Work in pairs to compare
the results.
-The pupils on duty give the
result to the class.
-Listen.
-Copy down the keys. 
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III.Homework: 
 (3’) 
 I didn’t get a bike till I was eighteen. 
 However, I was never late for school 
 except one day when I overslept and 
 arrived at school 15 minutes late. 
Nam : Were you punished by your 
 teachers?
Mr. Ba: Certainly. I was asked to write one 
 hundred times the sentences: “I must 
 leave home early. I must not arrive 
 late.” But I was never hit, never.
Nam : And did you have to do much 
 homework?
Mr. Ba: Homework? I don’t remember any 
 homework. I just learned my lessons 
 at home and recited them in class. 
 The teachers never thought of it.
Nam : So were your school days the happy 
 days in your life?
Mr. Ba: Yes, I think so.
* Exercise c: 
-Tells the pupils the aim of the exercise.
-Instructs the pupils to do the exercise.
-Plays the tape twice and lets the pupils to find
the answers to the questions.
-Asks the pupils to work in pairs to compare 
the results.
-Asks some pupils to stand up and give the 
result to the class.
-Feedback.
-Answer keys:
1. He was six. 
2. Because his teachers hit him on the fingers 
(when he wrote with his left hand).
3. On foot.
4. Because he was late for school.
5. By writing 100 times the sentences: “I must 
leave home early. I must not arrive late.”
POST – LISTENING: (8’)
-Asks the pupils to work in groups of 3 to tell 
about a memory about school that they 
remember most.
-Asks two or three pupils to stand up and speak
to the class.
-Asks the pupils to learn the new words , 
prepare SPEAKING.
-Listen.
-Listen.
-Listen and do the exercise.
-Work in pairs to compare
the results.
-The pupils on duty give the
result to the class.
-Listen.
-Copy down the keys.
-Work in groups of 3 and
speak.
-The pupils on duty speak to
the class.
-Listen and keep in mind.
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V. Self - evaluation : 
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