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UNIT 1: MY FRIENDS
I. Aim
Helping students:
- to introduce people
- to respond to introductions
- to describe 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 infinitive
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
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

* Pelmanism:
- Prepare twelve cards with numbers on one side and
the verbs on the other.
- Make sure the verbs are mixed up. Stick the cards on
the board so students can only see the numbers.
- Divide students into two teams and ask them to
choose two numbers.
- 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 though
receive met lived received came Sent
I. Pre-teach vocabulary
- to seem (translation)
- a next door neighbor (explanation: a person who lives
next to your house)
- to look like: (translation)
* Checking vocabulary: Rub out and remember
- Rub out the new words one a time.
- Each time you rub out an English word, point to the
Vietnamese translation and ask “what's this in
English?"
- When all the English words are rubbed out go, through
the Vietnamese list and get students to call the English
words.
- If there's time, get students to come to the board and
write the English words again.
II. Pre- questions
Group work

Pair work
d. When is Nien going to visit Hoa?
* Answers:
a. Nien lives in Hue.
b. No, she doesn't.
c. The sentence is “She wasn't old enough to be in my
class”.
d. At Christmas
- Call on some students to ask and answer the
questions.
- Correct their mistakes or pronunciation.
- Ask them to work in closed pairs.
II. Gap-filling
- Ask students to use the simple present and simple past
tense to complete paragraph 1 (a) on page 16.
- Provide some verbs so that students can use 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 lived in Hue. She (5)
younger than Hoa. She (6) to Hanoi in December.
* Answers:
(1) lived (2) lives (3) sesen
Open pairs
Closed pairs
In dividual
Work
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Lesson 2: Section: - Speak (page 11)
Period 3 - Listen (page 12,13)
Aim:
Listening for details to complete the dialogue and speak to describe someone.
Objective:
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to describe somoen and complete
the dialogue by listening.
Teaching aids:
Text book, pictures
PROCEDURE
Stage Steps/Activities Work
arrangement
Warm up
* Brainstorming:
- Ask students to think of the adjectives used to describe
body build and hair.
thin curly
Whole class
* Possible answers:
- fat - straight
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Presentatio
n
- slim - long
- tall - short

Whole class
Whole class
Pre-listening
While
listening
S2: Is this Mary?
Yes
- Go on until six people on the poster are described.
- If there’s time, ask students to describe a famous
person or one of their classmates and their friends have
to guess.
- 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. .
Individual
work
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- Get students to work in pairs to complete the dialogues
and compare with their prediction.
* Tape transcript:
a.
Hoa: Hello, Nam.
Nam: Morning, Hoa.

- Call on 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).
Open pairs
Closed pairs
UNIT 1: MY FRIENDS
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Lesson 3: Section: - Getting started (page 10)
Period 4 - Read (page 13,14)
Aim:
Reading for specific information
Objective:
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to know more about Ba’s friend.
Teaching aids:
PROCEDURE
Stage Steps/Activities Work
arrangement
Warm up
Pre-
reading
Chatting:
- Ask students to look at four pictures on page 10 and
talk about the activities they want to do after school or
in their free time.

r
sociable
tell
jokes
orphanag
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While
reading
Ask students to go to the board and write the words
again in the correct circles.
II. T /F statements prediction
- Stick the poster of T / F statements on the board.
- Set the scene: These statements are about Ba and his
friends, read them and gues which statements are true,
which are false.
- Get students to work in pairs.
a. Ba only has three friends - Bao, Song, Khai
b. Ba and his friends have the same characters
c. Bao - Song - Khai are quite reserved in public.
d. They all enoy school and study hard.
- Give feedback.
- Ask students to open their books and read the text on
page 13.
- Let students check their prediction.
Guess Correct
a.
b.

14.
Pair work
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- Let students read the text again and answer the
questions.
* Questions and answers:
a. How does Ba feel having a lot of friends?
(He feels lucky having a lot of friends.)
b. Who is the most sociable?
(Bao is the most sociable.)
c. Who likes reading?
(Khai likes reading.)
d. What is the bad thing about Ba's jokes?
(His jokes sometimes annoy his friends.)
e. Where does Bao spend his free time?
(Bao spends his free time doing volunteer work at a
local orphanage.
f. Do you and your close friends have the same or
different characters? (students' answer)
- Call on some pair of students to ask and answer the
Pair work
Post
reading
Home
work
questions. Teacher corrects their pronunciation.
- Ask all students to work in closed pairs.

answers correctly the fastest wins the game.
a. How many people are there in the picture? (Four)
b. What is each person wearing?
- The woman is wearing a red shirt and a green skirt.
Pre-
writing
While
writing
- The man who is standing beside the car is wearing
brown trousers and a yellow shirt.
- The man who is standing on the pavement is wearing
a pink shirt and blue trousers.
- The boy is wearing blue shorts and a white shirt.
* Reading:
- Ask students to read the information about Tam then
answer some questions.
a. What is his name?
(Le Van Tam)
b. How old is he?
(14)
c. What does he look he?
(He is tall and thin. He has short black hair.)
d. What is he like?
(He is sociable, humorous and helpful.) 1
e. Where does he live?
(He lives at 26 Tran Phu Street, Hanoi)
f. Whom does he live with?
(He lives with his mother, father and an elder brother.)
g. Who is his friend?
(Ba and Bao)

himself / herself.
- Ask students to wnte another paragraph about one of
their family members.
Individual work
UNIT 1: MY FRIENDS
Lesson 5: Section: - Language Focus 2 (page 16)
Period 6 - Language Focus 4 (page 17)
Aim:
Further Practice in simple present tense and the structure.
Objective:
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to use simple present tense to talk
about general truths and write some sentences using the structure” (not) +
adjectives enough + to-infinitive”
Teaching aids:
Text book, cards, pictures
PROCEDURE
Stage Steps/Activities Work
arrangement
Warm up * Categories:
- Ask students to find out the adjectives beginning with
the letters that the teacher gives.
- Divide the class into two groups.
- Give four letters at the same time, students are to find
out four adjectives begining with the four letters given.
Example:
T writes : a b c d
S writes: awful big clever dirty
T writes: g h i j
S writes: great heavy intelligent jealous
T writes: k 1 m n

- Get students to work in pairs.
* Answers:
Ba: What do you know about the sun, Tuan?
Tuan: The sun rises in the East and sets in the West.
Ba: Can you tell me anything about the other planets?
Tuan: I know something about the Earth. It goes around
the sun.
Ba: Yes, and the moon moves around the Earth.
Tuan: Where is Mars, Ba?
Ba: It is near the sun.
Tuan: No it's silly! That is Mercury. Mars is near the
Earth.
- Get students to practice the dialogue in pairs. .
- Correct their pronunciation. Focus on the
pronunciation of verbs ending with S/ES.
Set the scene to introduce the structure "(not) +
adjectives enough + to - infinitive". Teacher is to ask
students to hang the picture on the board. "How do I
say and how do you answer? Complete the exchange."
Can you (1) this (2) over there?
No I (3) not (4) (5) to (6) the (7) over there.
- Answers:
T: Can you hang this picture over there?
S: No, I am not tall enough to hang the picture over
there.
Pair work
Pair work
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class
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* Answers:
a. Not big enough.
b. Not old enough.
c. Strong enough.
d. Good enough.
- Ask students to write five sentences about themselves
using the structure: "(not) adjectives enough + to -
infinitive".
Whole class
Pair work
Pair work
UNIT 2: MAKING ARRANGEMENTS
I. Aim
Helping students:
- to talk about intentions
- to use telephone to make and confirm arrangements
- to take a telephone message.
II. Language focus
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1. GOING TO talks about intentions and activities in the future.
2. Adverbs of place
III. Vocabulary
Verbs Adjectives Nouns
(to) agree
(to) arrange
(to) conduct
(to) demonstrate
(to) emigrate

Period 7 - Listen and read (page 19)
I. Aim:
Reading for details about a conversation on the phone.
Objective:
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to use the telephone to make and
confirm arrangements.
Teaching aids:
Text book, poster, pictures (on page 18)
PROCEDURE
Stage Steps/Activities Work
arrangement
Warm up
* Ask students to match each object (pictures on page
18) with its name.
* Answers:
a. an answering machine.
b. a mobile phone.
c. a fax machine
d. a telephone directory
e. a public telephone.
f. an address book.
- Give the definitions of these objects on a poster and
ask students to match the object with its definition.
* Definition:
1. to send fax
2. to find someone's telephone number
3. to write addresses and telephone numbers.
4. to make a phone call in a street telephone box.
5. to leave and take messages.
T-whole class

d. Nga arranged a meeting place.
e. Hoa arranged the time.
f. Nga agreed to the time.
I. Comprehension questions
- Give students some questions and ask them to work in
pairs to answer them.
a. What Is Hoa's telephone number?
b. Which movie are they going to see? Where?
c. How is Hoa going to see the movies?
d. Where are they going to meet? What time?
Individual
Work
Pair work
Post-reading
a. Her telephone number is 3847329.
b. They are going to see the movie Dream City at Sao
Mai Movie Theater.
c. Hoa is going by bike.
d. They are going to meet outside the theater at 6.30.
- Get some pairs of students to ask and answer the
questions (open pairs)
- Let all students work in pairs (closed pairs)
II. Matching the phrases with their meanings
a. Hold on 1. Nó được chiếu ở đâu?
b. Is six thirty all right? 2. Khá xa…
c. Where’s it on? 3. Sáu giờ 30 được chứ?
d. A bit far from… 4. (Cầm máy) chờ nhé.
* Answers:
a- 4
b- 3

- Let students work in pairs. Teacher moves around the
class and helps the students.
- Ask students to write a similar dialogue on their
notebooks.
Pair work
UNIT 2: MAKING ARRANGEMENTS
Lesson 2: Section: - Speak (page18)
Period 8 - Language focus 1-2 (page 19)
Aim:
Practicing talking on the phone.
Objective:
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to talk on the telephone about
intentions with GOING TO.
Teaching aids:
Text book, cards
PROCEDURE
Stage Steps/Activities Work
arrangement
Warm up
* Chatting:
- Talk to students about using telephone.
• Do you have a telephone at home?
• How often do you make a phone call?
What would you say when you pick up the phone to
answer it?
T-whole class
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Presentation

* Form: S + be + going to + infinitive
* Use: Express an intention
Pair work
Whole class
Practice I. Word cue drill
Model sentences:
Are you going to see a movie?
Yes, I am/ No, I'm not.
a. see a movie 
b. play sports, x
c. meet your friends. 
d. help your mother.
e. do your homework, x
f. watch TV. x
- Model two cues then ask students to repeat chorally
then individually.
Whole class
Pair work
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Production
- Ask some students to practice asking and answering.
- Ask the whole class to work in pairs.
II. Further Practice
- Ask students to do exercise Language Focus 1 on
page 25. They have to work with a partner and say
what the people are going to do.
- Give an example first.
T: Nga has a movie ticket. What is she going to do?

Ba: At the Central Chess Club? OK. Let meet at the
front door.
Bao: Is 2.00 o'clock OK?
Ba: Great. See you tomorrow afternoon at 2.00 o'clock.
- Ask students to play the roles of Ba and Bao to
practice the dialogue. Ask students to make the similar
arrangements and practice talking with a partner.
- Ask students to write five things that they intend to do
next week.
Pair work
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UNIT 2: MAKING ARRANGEMENTS
Lesson 3: Section: - Read (page 21-22)
Periods 9
Aim:
Reading the paragraph for details about Alexander Graham Bell.
Objective:
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to know more about Alexander
Graham Bell.
Teaching aids:
Text book, poster, pictures of Bell.
PROCEDURE
Stage Steps/Activities Work
arrangement
Warm up

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While
reading
- Go on until students can remember the words.
- Get students to write the words again in the correct
circles.
II. T/F statements prediction
- Hang the poster of T/F statements on the board and ask
students to work in pairs and guess which statements are
true and which are false.
a) Alexander G. Bell was born in the USA.
b) He worked with deaf-mute patients in a hospital in
Boston.
c) Thomas Watson was Bell's assistant.
d) Bell and Watson introduced the telephone in 1877.
e) Bell experimented with ways of transmitting speech
between deaf-mutes over a long distance.
f) Bell demonstrated bis invention at a lot of exhibitions.
- Give feedback.
- Ask students to read the text on page 21-22 and check
their prediction.
- Have students correct false statements.
Guess answer Correction
a F He was born in Edinburgh in Scotland
b F He worked with deaf-mute patients at
Boston University.
c T
d F He introduced telephone in 1876.

- Get students to write a paragraph about Bell's life, using
the information from the text.
* Suggestion:
Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3rd, 1847 in
Scotland. He went to live in Canada and then to the
U.S.A in 1870s. He worked with deaf mutes at Boston
University and did experiments with ways of transmitting
speech over a long distance. In 1876, he and his assistant
- Thomas Watson introduced the telephone successfully
and in 1877 the first telephone was in commercial use.
- Let them swap their writings and correct.
- Ask students to write the paragraph (they have just
written and corrected with their friends) into their
notebooks.
Individual
work
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UNIT 2: MAKING ARRANGEMENTS
Lesson 4: Section: - Write (page 23-24)
Periods 10
Aim:
Writing a message.
Objective:
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to write a telephone message.
Teaching aids:
Text book.
PROCEDURE
Stage Steps/Activities Work

- (to) pick someone up: (translation)
Checking vocabulary : Rub out and remember'
III. Reading and gap filling
- Ask students to read the message and fill in the gaps in
the passage on page 23.
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- Let students work in pairs.
* Answers:
"A customer phoned the Thang Loi Delivery Service on
May 12 just before midday. She wanted to speak to Mr.
Ha but he was out. So Mr. Tam took a message for Mr.
Ha. The customer's name was Mrs. Lien and she wanted
to know about her furniture delivery. She wanted Mr. Ha
to call her. She said Mr. Ha could reach her at 8645141
after lunch".
- Ask students to read passage 2 on page 23 to get
information and write the message.
- Let students write individually then share with a
partner.
* Answers:
Thanh Cong Delivery Service
Date: June 16
Time: After midday
For: Mrs. Van
Message: Mr. Nam called about his stationery order. He
wanted you to call him at 8634082.

Objective:
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to complete telephone message by
listening and further practice in adverbs place.
Teaching aids:
Text book, poster.
PROCEDURE
Stage
Steps/Activities Work
arrangement
Warm up
* Telephone transmitting:
- Divide students into two teams.
- Choose 6 volunteers from each team.
- The volunteers stand in two lines. The teacher
Group work
Pre-
listening
While
listening
Presentation
shows the first student (in each line) a telephone
number.
- He / she whispers the telephone number to the next
person in his / her line.
- The second student whispers to the third... until the
last one.
- The last student shouts out the number, if it is the
same as the number teacher shows, that team wins the
match
- Ask students to look at the form of the telephone