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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.
Teacher’s activities

Students’ activities

I. Warm-up:
- Ask Ss to answer some questions:

1. What are you going to do after you finish high school?

Work in pairs, discuss and answer the questions
Stand up and tell the class the answers.
Understand the aim of the lesson: Unit 5: higher
education

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

- Work in pairs, ask and answer the questions


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applicant (n): người xin học
application from (n): đơn xin học
blame (v): đổ lỗi
daunt (v): làm nản long
mate (n): bạn bè
scary (v): sợ hãi
undergraduate course: khóa học đại học

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Find out new words.
Understand the aim of the text.
Do the tasks that follow.

Task 1 :
- Introduce the task: Complete the 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.
Task1:


Sarah: 1- a. attended a party on the first weekend at college.

e. was very excited about going to college.

2- e. was very excited about going to college.

f. enjoyed the first year at college.

Ellen: 3- b. didn't get on very well with the roommate.

- Go around class and help Ss if they need.

4. c. was not used to meeting different people every
day at college.

- Call on Ss to give their answers.

Brenden: 5- d. liked having a chance to be creative.

- Correct mistakes.

6- f. enjoyed the first year at college.

Task 3:
- Introduce the task: Answer the following
questions.
1. What did Sarah do on the first weekend?
2. Why did Sarah feel so lonely at the party?
3. What problems did Ellen have with her

- Ask students to do Reading exercise of Unit 5
in workbook and prepare Part B : Speaking at
home
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B: SPEAKING

A. Aims: To help students to practice:
 Talking about application process to tertiary study in Vietnam.
 Asking and answering about time of application process to tertiary study in Vietnam.
B. Aids: Textbooks, pictures, board, chalks.
C. Methods : Communicative approach and leaner- centered approach.
Teacher’s activities

students’ activities

I. Warm-up: What is my job?
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Show Ss some documents requiring for tertiary - Ss go to the board, choose a job that he / she wants to
institutions and ask them what they are.
do in the future and mime a typical activity which it
Call on some Ss to answer.
involves.
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Answer the questions
1. an application form


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- Call an Ss to read aloud the request of the task
- Ask the whole class to do task 1

- Do task 1 individually. Put the ticks on those which
are obligatory for whom to be admitted to a university
in Vietnam
- Exchange their answers with their friends.

- Ask students to exchange their answers with their - Some students to read aloud their answers to the
friends.
class; others listen and comment
- Call some students to read aloud their answers to Expected answers:
the class
an application form
- Give corrections and remarks.
an identify card
a copy of the originals of school certificate
a birth certificate
a copy of records of your performance ay school
scores of the required examination.
Possible problems:
- Students may don’t know the meanings of some
application process

- Work in pairs
- The teacher elicits the meaning of these application - Read information in their books and practise asking
process for students to guess
and answering questions about the application process

in groups of four
- Ask students to make discussion and take note
- Discuss and write the process of applying to a
tertiary institution in Vietnam
- Go around and help them if necessary

- Ask T 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 groups
listen and give comments

- Handle their notes among the groups and check.

- Some groups in turn stand up and make their
discussion in front of the class; other groups listen and
give comments
Expected group work:

- Give T’s own comments

S1: I think the first process of applying to a tertiary
institution in Vietnam is to fill in and send the
application form.
S2: Yes, then we must take the GCSE examination
S3: Only when we pass the GCSE examination, can
we take the entrance exam. It often takes place in July.
….


Take note their home work
Do homework.
Prepare part C listening


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Unit 5: HIGHER EDUCATION
C: LISTENING

A. Aims: Students should know about the problems they may have when studying in a new
school
 Develop the ability to get details from listening text to do true/false and multiple choice
exercises.
 Get detailed information on some problems students may have when studying in a foreign
country.
B. Aids: Textbooks, pictures, board, chalks
C. Methods : Communicative approach and leaner- centered approach.
Teacher’s activities

Students’ activities

I. Warm-up:
- Give Ss a question to discuss: “Talk about the - Students form pairs and listen to T’s instructions
problems you may have when studying in a new
- Work in pairs, asking and answering the problems
school.”
facing students when studying in a foreign country
Interview
- Work in pairs; discuss the problems they may have


III. While - listening:
Task 1
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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
- Call some students to give their answers.
- Read the conversation the third time for Ss to correct.
Key: 1-C; 2-A; 3-C; 4-A; 5-B

- Read the questions quickly.
- Listen to the listening script.
- Listen again and tick true or false in their books
- Check their answers with their friends
- Answer the questions.

Task 2:
- Ask all students to spend 2 mins to read the questions
and options in the task

1-C; 2-A; 3-C; 4-A; 5-B

- Play the record once again and ask students to do the - Read the questions and options in the task in 2
mins
task

environment there is better than in Vietnam.

II. Pre-writing:

- No. I don’t want to study abroad because the cost of
- Teacher introduces the task: You want to apply for studying and living there is much higher in Vietnam.
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 - Study the task carefully.
page 52 and 56. You may follow the outline below:
- Work in pairs to give outlines
- Guide Ss to write outlines.
a) Introduction:

- One S read aloud the request of task 1
- State the reasons why you are writing, your
interest in tertiary study in England (mention the - Form groups of four and discuss and take notes the
problems they may face when studying abroad.
name of the programme / the universities / ... )


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b) Request:
- State what information you would like them to
provide: tuition fee, accommodation, exams,
d) Further information:

- Some groups make discussion in front of the class;


- Correct mistakes.

Ho Chi Minh City

- One S read aloud the request of task 2

March 15th, 2008

- Do task 2: write a passage about the problems that
Vietnamese students may encounter when studying
abroad basing on the idea in task 1

Dear Sir or 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 - 1 or 2 students write his/her passage directly on the
months. I am very much interested in an board
undergraduate course in economics in Bermingham
University. Could you please send me some


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information about the admission requirements,
tuitions fees, accommodation and details of the
course? I am ready to supply any information about - Ask if necessary.
myself if necessary.
- Pay attention to such linking words as first, second,

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.
Teacher’s activities

Students’ activities

I. Warm-up:
Write some more than three - syllable words - Listen to teacher
on the board, and then pronounce those
- Read aloud
words aloud.
- Pay attention to its stress.
- Pay attention to its stress.
- Ask Ss to read after
o Economics
- Understand the aim of the new lesson.
o Psychology
o Philosophy
- Listen and repeat from 2 - 3 times
o Engineering
o Sociology
- Some of them stand and read words aloud
o Mathematics
- Practise in groups
o Geographical

- Give some examples.
- Ask Ss to make sentences with the structures.
b. Practice:
* Exercise 1:

- Understand the task

- Introduce the task: Complete the sentences using
Answers
conditional sentence type I.
1. If you fail the GCSE examination, you will not be
allowed to take the entrance examination to the
- Ask Ss to complete the sentences using conditional university.
sentence type I.
2. You won't be able to get into the exanimation room
- Correct mistakes.
if you are 10 minutes late.
- Guide Ss to do

3. If you don't send the application form on time, you
will not be able / allowed to take the entrance exam.
4. If you don't have a reference letter, you won't be
able / allowed to submit your application form.
5. Unless you show your identity card you won't be
able / allowed to get into the examination room.

* Exercise 2:

- Understand the task


If they weren't afraid of flying, they would travel far a
lot.

- Introduce the task: Complete the sentences with the
correct form of the verbs in brackets.
- Guide Ss to do.

- Understand the task

- Ask Ss to complete the sentences with the correct - Do the exercise.
form of the verbs in brackets.
- Correct mistakes
- Correct mistakes.
Answers
1. If John had passed the GCSE examination, he would
have been allowed to take the entrance examination to
the university.
2. If you had sent the application on time, they might
have called you for an interview. I can't understand


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why you didn't.
3. If John had installed an alarm, the thieves wouldn't
have broken into his house.
IV. Homework:
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4. I would have made a film with him if I had been a
famous director, but I was not.