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Week 1 - period 1 – Date : August 10
th
2008
INTRODUCTION
A.OBJECTIVES:
By the end of the lesson, students will:
- Know how to learn English 11
- Do the test well
B. TEACHING AIDS: textbook, pictures, cassette, tape
C. PROCEDURE:
Method: mainly communicative
Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
* Introduction
-introduce the content of the book including six topics :
1.You and me
2.Education
3.Community
4.Recreation
5.Nature and Environment
6.People and places
-> six topics are divided into sixteen units
-The design of each unit in textbook:
1.Unit: express the theme
2.Reading:developing reading skill
3.Speaking:developing speaking skill
4.Listening:developing listenning skill
5.Writing:developing writing skill
6.Language focus:learning grammar and pronounciation
-After 3 unit , you have one period for test yourself.It helps
you test yourself about what you’ve learnt.

UNIT 1 : FRIENDSHIP
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PERIOD 2 : A. READING
I. AIMS OF THE LESSON:
1. Language skills:
• Reading : By the end of the lesson, Students will be able to :
- Develop such reading micro-skills as scanning for specific ideas, skimming for
general information, and guessing meaning in context.
- Use the information they have read to discuss the topic.
- Read and try to guess the meanings of words and expressions
- Passage comprehension.
- Finding the main content of the lesson.
2. Language focus :
Vocabulary: mutual, incapable of, unselfish, acquaintance, give-and take, loyal to,
suspicious,…
• Grammar :
- The simple present.
- Mutual pronoun “each other”.
II. TEACHING AIDS: Cassette player, tape, chalks, pictures, handouts, charts, real objects if
possible
III. TEACHING METHOD: Communicative approach
IV. PROCEDURE:
Teacher’s Activities Students’ Activities
WARM-UP ( 4’)
Competition game-Network
T prepares a hanhout with a network of the
word “Friend”
PRE-READING (3’)
Stick the picture in the textbook on the board

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- Introduce three tasks.
-Have students read the whole passage (once or
twice) and do the tasks.
* TASK 1:
-Guide students how to do this task.
- Teacher goes around for any help.
-Compare the results of the others and correct
mistakes.
* TASK 2:
-Ask students to read the four sentences in the
textbook and choose the best answer
- Compare the result and correct mistakes.
* TASK 3:
-Have students discuss questions.
-Observe class and help students.
- Teacher goes around for any helps.
- Correct mistakes.
-Read silently individually
- Choose the correct word in the box to complete
each sentence.
- Keys:
1. mutual 2. incapable of
3. unselfish 4. acquaintance/ friend
5. give-and-take 6. loyal to
7. suspicious
Work in pairs
-Key: B
Work in pairs
-Suggested keys:

- Study new words.
- Do the tasks in the notebooks.
- Prepare Speaking.
UNIT 1 : FRIENDSHIP
PERIOD 3 : B. SPEAKING
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I. AIMS OF THE LESSON:
1. Language skills :
• Speaking: - Describing physical characteristics
- Discussing personalities
- Role-play: Talking about a famous friend
2. Language focus:
Vocabulary: a handout of the adjectives and expressions.
II. TEACHING AIDS: Chalks, pictures, handouts, charts, real objects if possible
III. TEACHING METHOD: Communicative approach
IV. PROCEDURE:
Teacher’s Activities Students’ Activities
WARM-UP (2’)
- Give Sts some pictures, then ask them to
describe the people in these pictures
- Ask some questions:
1/Do you concern about your outlook?
2/ Is it important to you?
PRE-SPEAKING (4’)
- Lead sts to the main content
- Present some new words
* characteristic (n)
* personality (n)
* forehead (n)

- Look and answer questions in pairs:
1. There are 4.
2. - The boy is 18.
- The girl is 16.
- The man is 42.
- The woman is 28
- Listen and take notes.
- Work in pairs
+ The boy is short. He has a large face , …
+ The girl is ………
- Play roles.
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- Help sts with some new words.
- Ask sts to make questions and answer
questions with a partner, using the information
from the picture.
- Ask sts to perform.
- Correct sts’mistakes and pronunciation.
Task 2
- Divide class into four groups.
- Explain some words of personalities on page
16.
- Guide them to discuss and decide which
personalities are important to a person and in
friendship.
- Let sts number the following personalities in
order of importance in friendship.
caring , hospitable , modest , sincere ,
generous , honest , helpful , understanding ,

- Call some pairs to report.
- Work in pairs
- Make pairs: one is a journalist, the other is an
interviewee.
- Listen carefully.
- Practise in pairs.
- Pay attention to the content :
+ physical characteristics
+ personalities
+ reasons why the friends are famous
- Role play
- Perform their task.
V. HOMEWORK:
- Learn by heart some new words.
- Prepare part C: Listening
Handout: UNIT ONE – SPEAKING (Grade 11)
I. Useful vocabulary
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1: Height (chiều cao): medium height (cao trung bình), rather short (hơi thấp), too tall (rất cao) …
2. Face (khuôn mặt): round, square, diamond, oblong, triangular, oval, heart …
1
2
3 4
5
6
7
3. Hair (kiểu tóc) wavy, curly, straight, bald, short, long …
1
2

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• Listening : - Develop such listening micro-skills as intensive listening for specific
information and taking notes while listening.
2. Language focus :
Vocabulary: apartment building,sense of humour, give sb a ring, go through a
rough time.
II. TEACHING AIDS: Cassette player, tape, chalks, pictures, handouts.
III. TEACHING METHOD: Communicative approach
IV. PROCEDURE:
Teacher’s Activities Students’ Activities
WARM-UP ( 5’)
Guessing game
T introduces the game: one student goes to the
boarb and T gives him / her a piece of paper with
the name of a student in the class. Other Ss have
to ask Yes / No questions to find out who the
student is. Ss should ask about the appearance,
personalities, or clothes.
PRE-LISTENING ( 6’)
-Ask students some more questions:
• How do you meet your best friend?
• How long have you known your best
friend (him or her)?
Vocabulary Pre-teaching
-Explain some new words & phrases:
-Apartment building: toà nhà có nhiều căn hộ
-Sense of humour: khiếu hài hước
-Give sb a ring: phone sb
- Go through a rough time: trải qua thời kỳ khó

5. T
6. F
-Students take notes during listening.
-Other students watch and give comments.
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POST LISTENING ( 6’)
Get Ss to work in pairs to talk about how Ha has
been Lan’s best friend and how Minh has been
Long’s best friend.
T goes around to offer help and collect Ss’
mistakes
T calls on some pairs to present their answers.
T elicits feedback from the class and give final
comments
Whole class & pair work
V. WRAPPING UP ( 2’)
-T summarizes the main points of the lesson.
-T asks Ss to learn by heart all new words and
do the extra exercise as homework.
-T asks Ss to prepare Writing.
Key content: ( Task 2)
Where & how they met What they like about their friends
Lan -They used to live in the same residential
area in Ha Noi.
-Lan went on a holiday to Do Son & Ha went
there to visit her.
-Ha is very friendly & helpful.
-Ha is sociable. She’s got many friends in Do
Son & she introduced Lan around.

1. What is your friend name?
2. How old is he / she?
 Personalities: caring, hospitable,
modest, sincere, generous, honest,
helpful, understanding, pleasant,
friendly, humouruos, quick-witted, good-
natured, studious, patient, calm
 Appearance: tall, short, thin, fat, good-
looking, beautiful, handsome, slim…
Students ‘answers
1. My friend’s name is Hoa
2. She is 17 years old.
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3. Where and when did you meet each other?
-Teacher uses a picture to gives some key words
to describe someone’s physical characteristics
( height , hair , eyes , face , clothes…) and his /
her personalities
(helpful, sincere…) and some necessary structures.
3. We met each other at my cousin’s birthday
party 4 years ago.
WHILE-WRITING ( 20’)
-Teacher gives a sample and has students write a
passage to describe a friend they like.
A Sample
Hoa has been my best friend since many years.
She is quite a lively person. She is fairly tall with
a good finger. She’s got a heart- shaped face with
a small sort of turned- up nose. It is very

- Read / d
Ʒ
/ and / t∫ / and distinguish them.
- Get students to read / d
Ʒ
/ and / t∫ / twice.
- Read the words in the part “Listen and repeat”
clearly for students to repeat.
- Require some students to read these words and
correct mistakes
- Listen and try to find out the difference in
pronouncing / d
Ʒ
/ and / t∫ /
- Read the two vowels.
- Repeat the words.
- Pronounce the words.
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- Read the sentences in the part “Practise reading
these sentences” as a model.
- Let students repeat after the teacher.
- Get students to practise reading these sentences
while teacher goes around to give help.
- Call some sts to read them aloud.
- Listen and try to remember the way to read
the sentences.
- Repeat
- Practise reading sentences
GRAMMAR (10’)

-Rewrite the sentences, using the words given in
brackets.
-Call some sts to write the answers on the board.
Check with the class.
• HOMEWORK:
* Make questions for the responses:
1). I saw him sit in the park alone.
2). Nothing. I think we have to eat out today.
3). Too tired to go now.
Give the correct verb forms (individually)
1. to go
2. to know
3. cry
4. talk
Pairs work
Answer key:
1.Who wants something to eat
2.I have some letters to write
3.I am delighted to hear the news
4.My mother has some shopping to do.
5.You always have too much to talk about.
6.It’s lovely to see you again.
7.It is was too cold to go out.
Pairs work
Answer key:
1. The police watched them get out of
the car.
2. They let him write a letter to his wife.
3. I heard them talk in the next room.
4. The custom officer made him open the

7’
5’
8’’
I.Warm up
-Ask Ss to find suitable words to fill in the chart
below:

Keys: sad , happy, excited , bored , frightened,
upset, confused, etc..
II.Before you read
- Ask pupils to work in pair, describe each picture
and then guess what is happening it
- Call some students to stand up and describe each
picture
-Ask some question to lead in the reading:
a).If you got bad marks, how would you feel?
b). If you made a mistake, how would you
feel?
Transition: - In today’s reading, we’ll get to know
about the things that have happened to you that
influence the way you think and behave. It is
“Personal experiences”.
- provide pupils with words and structures
appearing in the text
- embrace / imbreis / (v) ôm ấp
- embarrassing (adj)
ex: It was an embarrassing story
-idol (n) = someone greatly loved or admired
- floppy (a): mềm
- floppy disk: đóa mềm

-Write down the correct answer
Key: 1. glanced 2. making a fuss
3. embarrassing 4. idols
5. sneaky
Read out their sentences, others give
remarks
Suggested answers
Feeling
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UNIT 2: PERSONAL EXPERIENCES
PERIOD 8 : SPEAKING
I. AIMS OF THE LESSON:
1. Language skills:
• Speaking:
Identify structures that are used to talk about past experiences and their
influences on one’s life.
2. Language focus :
Grammars: - present perfect and past simple
- structure with “make”
II. TEACHING AIDS: textbook, pictures, handouts.
III. TEACHING METHOD: communicative approach
IV. PROCEDURE:
Time Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
5’
5’
10’
15’
I.Warm up
- Have you ever spoken English to you friends

- Give answers
Take notes
Pairs work
-Say aloud their result.
*Suggested answers: 1d 2c 3a 4b
5e
-Listen.
-Read.
-Take notes.
-Work in pairs to put the correct order.
Correct: 1b, 2d, 3h, 4a, 5e, 6g, 7c, 8f
In pairs, practice the dialogue
-Underline the structures:
+Have you ever …?
+How did it happen?
+When did it happen?
+How did the experience affect you
-Work in pairs to make dialogue
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8’
2’
similar dialogues
-Go around helping.
*Note: Use Simple Past and Past Perfect to talk
about past experiences.
* Suggested dialogues :
1. A. Have you ever feeled an exam?
- Yes, I have.
B. How did it happen?

I. AIMS OF THE LESSON:
1. Language skills:
• Listening :
- Develop such listening micro-skills as intensive listening for specific
information and taking notes while listening.
- Help students improve their listening skill.
- Help them understand the conversation and do Task 1,2
2. Language focus :
Vocabulary: memorable, scream, gas stove, escape, terrified, replaced,
embraced, protected.
II. TEACHING AIDs: cassette player, tape, chalks, pictures, handouts.
III. TEACHING METHOD: communicative approach
IV. PROCEDURE:
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Time Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
5’
5’
15’
10’
I.Warm up
-Asks sts to close books
- Shows the picture of a fire and ask some sts to
describe it.
- Ask some questions:
-What do you see in the picture?
-Who do you see in the picture?
-How do the girls look?
- have you ever seen a fire?
- Where did it happen?

1. Task 1
- Plays the recording and get sts to listen to the first
part (From the beginning to minor burn ) to check
their prediction (two times)
- Give feedback and play for recording for the third
time
-Read the sentences again to help weak students
2.Task 2
-Ask Ss to open book and do the task .
- Asks the sts to recognize the part of speech in the
gaps
-close books
- Look at the picture and answer some
questions:
-In the picture, there was a great fire.
The firemen are trying o put it out.
There are also 3 people trying to
escape.
- Write down words
- Read after the teacher
- Listen and repeat in chorus
-Guess individually and write their
prediction on board
-Listen , check and write their answers
on board again
Suggested answers
(1) T (2) F (3) F (4) F (5) T
Check and take notes
Work in pairs
-Listen , fill in the blanks and write