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Unit 5: HIGHER EDUCATION
A: READING
A. Aims: To help students to practice:
- Guessing words’ meanings in contexts.
- Reading for details of information about application process for universities in
the UK.
- Reading for gist and answer comprehension question.
B. Aids: textbooks, pictures, board, chalks.
C. Methods: Communicative approach and leaner- centered approach.
1. Class organization:
Class Teaching date Attendence Absentee(s)
2. Checking up: Checking during the new lesson.
3. New lesson:
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Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
I. Warm-up:
- Ask Ss some questions:
1. What are you going to do after you
finish high school?
2. Which university would you like to
attend?
3. Where will you live if you study at a
university far from your house?
- Get feedback
- Lead Ss to the new lesson: higher
education
II. Before you read:
- Ask Ss to work in pairs, ask and
answer the following questions:
1. How do you say in English the names

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Task 1:
- Introduce the task: Complete the
- Read the text in silence.
- Find out new words.
- Understand the aim of the text.
- Do the tasks that follow.
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following sentences, using the right
forms of the words in the box.
- Ask Ss to complete the following
sentences, using the right forms of the
words in the box.
- Go around class and help Ss if they
need.
- Call on Ss to give their answers.
- Correct mistakes.
Task 2:
- Introduce the task: Find out who:
a. attended a party on the first weekend
at college.
b. didn't get on very well with the
roommate.
c. was not used to meeting different
people every day at college.
d. liked having a chance to be creative.
e. was very excited about going to
Task1:
- Study the task carefully.
- Choose the right word to fill in the blanks.

her roommate?
4. What did Brenden think about his
first year at college?
5. What does the social calendar of the
colleges provide him?
- Guide Ss to answer.
4. c. was not used to meeting different
people every day at college.
Brenden: 5- d. liked having a chance to be creative.
6- f. enjoyed the first year at college.
- Understand the task.
- Read the text again, answer the questions on the
text.
1. She went out with her new friends, walking
around the campus.
2. Because at the party everyone was busy
playing some games and no one seemed to
noticed her.
3. Her roommate left the window open when it
was cold outside. She went to bed early. She
blamed Ellen for making her sick.
4. Brenden thought the first year at college was
the best and most challenging of his life.
5. It provides him plenty of opportunities to
meet non-engineering students as well as
other engineers and many of them have
become his best friends.
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- Go round the class to help Ss if
necessary.

- Call on an S to go to the board and ask
him/her to choose a job that he/she wants to
do in the future and mime a typical activity
which it involes.
- Ask the whole class to look at their friend’s
activity then ask him/her yes/no question to
- One Ss go to the board, chooses a job that
he/she wants to do in the future and mime a
typical activity which it involves.
- Answer the questions
1. an application form
2. an identity card
3. a reference letter
4. a birth certificate
- The S ask the other :
- What is my job?
- The others watch his/her activity and make
yes/no questions to guess the job
Possible questions:
- Are you mending something?
- Are you typing?
- Do you work outside?
- The S answer the questions using only yes or
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guess his/her job
- Observe students playing game and stop
when there is a winner
no. The game is over if an S guess the job.
III. While speaking:
Task 1

and help them if necessary.
- Call some pairs to stand up and ask &
answer. Ask other pairs to listen and
comment
- Make necessary correction and comments
school
scores of the required examination.
Possible problems:
- Students may don’t know the meanings of
some application process
- Work in pairs
- Read information in their books and practise
asking and answering questions about the
application process to tertiary study in
Vietnam.
- Ask T if necessary
- Some pairs to stand up and ask & answer;
other pairs to listen and comment
Expected pair work:
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Task 3:
- Introduce the task to the students ask them
to work in groups of four
- Ask students to make discussion and take
note
- Go around and help them if necessary
- Call some groups to handle their notes
among the groups and check.
- Call on some groups to stand up and make
discussion in front of the class. Ask other

….
Possible problems:
- Students may speak Vietnamese while
discussing.
IV. Post-speaking:
- Ask students to write a paragraph about the
process of applying to a tertiary institution in
Vietnam
- Work in groups. Discuss the process of
applying to a tertiary institution in
Vietnam.
Answer: In order to be admitted to a
university in Vietnam, all students have to
following the process of applying. During
March, they have to fill in the application form
and send it to the university they choose in
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V. Homework:
- Ask students to write about the process of
applying to a tertiary institution in Vietnam.
March. After passing the GCSE examination
held in May, all students are able to sit for the
entrance examination in July. Successful
candidates will be sent a letter of acceptance
from the university. All students have to do
now is to prepare all required papers to be
officially accepted of that university.
- Take note their home work
- Do homework.
- Prepare part C listening

Proportion; majority; tutorial; international;
available; appointment; Agricultural; rural;
thoroughly.
- Walk round, listen and help students
- Students form pairs and listen to T’s
instructions
- Work in pairs, asking and answering the
problems facing students when studying in a
foreign country
- Work in pairs; discuss the problems they
may have when studying in a new school.
Possible questions:
S1: What problem you have to face when
studying in America?
S2: There are many problems such as: food,
accommodation, living cost…
- Listen to T and guess the meanings of these
words
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- Ask students to repeat loudly the words
- Listen and check pronunciation
III. While-listening:
Task 1
- Introduce the task: Listen to the
conversation between John and David and
circle the best option (A, B, C or D) to
complete the following sentences.
- Ask students to read the questions quickly.
- Guide students the requests of the task.
- Read the conversation twice

IV. After-listening:
- Ask Ss to work in pairs. Ask and answer the
question:
"Would you prefer to do an undergraduate
course abroad or in your country?” Explain
your choice.
- Guide Ss to do.
- Call some Ss to practice asking and
answering the question.
Eg.
A. Would you like to do an undergraduate
- Listen to the record again and choose the
best option
- Work in pairs and exchange their answers
- Some students read aloud their answers ;
others listen and give comments
Expected answers:
1 2 3
C C B
- Work in pairs. Ask and answer the
question:
"Would you prefer to do an undergraduate
course abroad or in your country?”
- Stand up and speak out.
Eg.
S1: Would you like to do an undergraduate
course in Vietnam or abroad?
S2: I’d like to do an undergraduate course in
Vietnam
S1: Why so?

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Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
I. Warm-up:
- Ask students some questions about how to
write a letter of request.
- Do you want to study abroad? Why or why
not?
- Call some students to answer then give
remarks
- Give feedback and lead Ss to new lesson.
II. Pre-writing:
- Teacher introduces the task: You want to
apply for an undergraduate programme in a
university in England. Write a letter of
request (about 150 words) to UCAS to ask
for the information about the admission
requirements to the university, using
information in the Reading and Speaking
section on page 52 & 56. You may follow
the outline below:
- Guide Ss to write outlines.
- Listen to the T’s question
- Some students answer T’s question. Students
can exchange their opinions with their friends
Possible answers :
- Yes, I want to study abroad because the
learning environment there is better than in
Vietnam.
- No. I don’t want to study abroad because the
cost of studying and living there is much higher

Possible discussion:
S1: I think English language is the first
problem we will face while studying abroad.
We learn English in our country but we don’t
have chance to speak English with native
people.
S2: The second problem is learning styles at
tertiary level. We are not familiar with
independent learning and modern study
facilities.
- Use main ideas in the outline to write a letter
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front of the class.
- Ask Ss to exchange their writings for peer
correction
- Correct mistakes.
Suggested answer.
475/57 Le thanh Ton St. District 1
Ho Chi Minh City
March 15
th
, 2008
Dear sir/madam,
I’ve read a lot about tertiary study in the UK
and very impressed by the reputation of
many famous universities there. Now I am in
the last year of the high school and will
finish secondary education in 3 months. I am
very much interested in an undergraduate
course in economics in Bermingham

- Rewrite the letter at home.
- Prepare the section D (The Language
focus part of Unit 4).
- Give corrections or comments to the writings
on the board
- Read the letter again
- Correct mistakes
- Rewrite the letter at home.
- Prepare the section D.
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Unit 5: HIGHER EDUCATION
E: LANGUAGE FOCUS
A. Aims:
- Pronunciation: Students practise pronouncing stress of more than three-
syllable words.
- Grammar: Students study the structure as well as the usage of conditional
sentences.
- Vocabulary: Students learn to use words relating to the topic application
process to tertiary study and some abbreviations of some main high school
exams.
B. Aids: Textbooks, board, chalks
C. Methods : Communicative approach and leaner- centered approach.
1. Class organization:
Class Teaching date Attendence Absentee(s)
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2. Checking up: Checking during the new lesson.
3. New lesson:
Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
I. Warm-up:
- Write some more than three-syllable