Unit 1: Friendship
A. Reading (P.1)
The 2nd period
Pre-Date:
Teaching at:
Class

Period

Teaching date

Absent students

Notes

11 A
11 B
I. Objectives:
1. Knowledge, skills and attitude:
- Knowledge: Students should know what a friendship is, know how to keep a friend long.
- Skills: Guessing meaning in context, scanning for specific information and passage
comprehension.
- Attitude: + To help students get started for unit 1 with topic “Friendship”.
+ To provide students some motivation.
2. Developing efficiency:
- Thinking, brainstorming
- Work in pairs, groups
- Communication
- Co-operation
- Self – studying
- Self – management

poem in their books.
- Ask students to discuss
then ask and answer the
question:

the book, listen to the
teacher, read the poem
then ask and answer the
question, work in pairs:
A: What do you think
of the friend in the
-Let them work in pairs.
poem?
- Listen to students and B: I think….
correct pronunciation and
grammar if necessary.
- T may give some - Listen to the teacher.
comments
and
her
suggestion: The friend in
the poem is very dedicated
and thoughtful. He / she is
willing to help his / her
friend
in
any
circumstances.
- Show students to know
about friends.

meaning of new words
which appear in the
passage.
Pre- teaching Vocabulary
Note : T should only teach
the words which do not
appear in Task 1 .

2

- Listen to the teacher
then read the passage.
- Ask some new words
if necessary.

- Ask sts copy the new
words
- Listen and repeat


unkind or not true (chuyện
tầm phào)
- Trust (n): the belief that
SO/STH is good, sincere,
honest, etc... and will not try
to harm or trick you (sự tin
tưởng)
- Sorrow (n): a feeling of
great
sadness

Unit 1: Friendship
A. Reading (P.2)
The 3rd period
Pre-Date:
Teaching at:
Class

Period

Teaching date

11 A
11 B
3

Absent students

Notes


I. Objectives:
1. Knowledge, skills and attitude:
- Knowledge: Students should know what a friendship is, know how to keep a friend long.
- Skills: Guessing meaning in context, scanning for specific information and passage
comprehension.
- Attitude: + To help students get started for unit 1 with topic “Friendship”.
+ To provide students some motivation.
2. Developing efficiency:
- Thinking, brainstorming
- Work in pairs, groups

- Ask the teacher if
2-incapable of;
- Let students work necessary.
3-unselfish;
individual or in groups.
- work individual or in
4(1)-acquaintance; 4(2)Help
students
if group.
friend;
necessary.
- Write down the true
5-give-and-take;
keys in the notebook.
6-loyal to;
7-suspicious.
* Task 2: Choose which of
Task 2:
- Listen to the teacher.
choice A, B, C or D most
- Ask students look - Look through the
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adequately sums up the ideas through the passage then
of the whole passage.
try to choose which of the
Key: B
choices A, B, C, or D most
adequately sums up the

there’s no mutual sympathy
between friends, there’s no
true friendship

Task 3:
- Ask students to scan the
passage and answer the
questions:
- Let them work in pairs.
- Walk round and help
students.
- Ask some students to
stand up to ask and answer
each other.
Walk
round
the
classroom and correct
mistakes.

passage again and try to
choose
the
most
adequately sums up the
idea of the whole
passage.
- Practice with a partner
then write the key down
in the note book.

• empathize with you in
bad times
• confide in him/her
Suggested answers:
1. We need to have friends
because friends are the
people we can trust and
share our interests, feelings,
sorrows and happiness with,
and who completely
sympathize with us
2. In my opinion, loyalty is
the most important because
those are easily influenced
by rumors can never be good
friends.

1. Why do we need to
have close friends?
2. What quality of
friendship is the most
important to you? Why?
- Let them work in pairs.
- Ask them to report the
results to the class
- Listen to students and
correct mistakes.

- The students who are
called to stand up to

- Knowledge: Students learn about physical characteristics and personalities of a person and
words related to people’s physical characteristics and personalities.
- Skill: talking about people’s physical characteristics and personalities.
- Attitude: + To help students get started.
+ To provide students some motivation.
2. Developing efficiency:
- Thinking, brainstorming
- Work in pairs, groups
- Speaking,..
- Communication
- Co-operation
- Self – studying
- Creativeness
- Self – management
- Language using
3. Method: Integrated, mainly communicative
II. Preparation of Teacher and Students:
1. Teacher: Teaching aids, text book, lesson plan.
2. Students: text book, note book, ...
III. Procedure:
A. Class organization: 1 minute
B. Warm – up activity: 5 minutes
- Ask students to keep book close
- Ask students to describe some students in the class.
- Call some students stand up to talk to the class.
- Introduce, listen and repair mistakes for students.
(We learn Unit 1, part B- speaking)
C. New lesson:
Content
Teacher’s activities

glasses. He has short black
hair, a round face with a broad
forehead, a small nose. He’s
quite good-looking.
2. The girl is about 14. She
also wears a pair of glasses.
She has shoulder-length black
hair. She has an oval face with
a straight nose. She’s rather
pretty.
3. The man is in his forties. He
is tall and well-built. He has
short brown hair and a square
face with a broad forehead,
small eyes, a crooked nose. He
is quite good-looking.
4. The woman is in her
twenties. She’s quite tall. She
has long curly brown hair and
an oval face with a broad
forehead, big eyes, a straight
nose. She is very beautiful.
II. While – speaking: 12
minutes
Task 2: Discuss and number
the following personalities in
order of importance in
friendship.
sincere
square

four .
List
some
personalities
of
a
person.
- State some reasons
why they choose.
- Discuss and say the
reasons.
- Report their results to
the class and explain
why they do like that..


generous

beautiful

- Ask some students to
stand up to talk again
loudly
- Listen and correct
mistakes

D. Practising activity: 12 minutes
Post-speaking :
Task 3
- Have students work in pairs.

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Class

Period

Teaching date

Absent students

Notes

11 A
11 B
I. Objectives:
1. Knowledge, skills and attitude:
- Knowledge: Students should know how to describe the best friend and how to keep the
friendship.
- Skills: - To practice listening comprehension skill.
- To distinguish true and false statements.
- To take notes about given questions in order to answer.
- Attitude: + To help students get started.
+ To provide students some motivation.
2. Developing efficiency:
- Thinking, brainstorming
- Work in pairs, groups
- Self – studying
- Self – management
- Problem – solving



3. How long have you known each
other?
4. What qualities do you admire in
your best friend?

questions:
1. Who is your best
friend?
2. How did you happen
to meet him or her?
3. How long have you
known each other?
4. What qualities do you
admire in your best
friend?
- Walk round, listen and
help students
- Read loudly the words
* Pre-teach vocabulary:
in the books:
- give sb a ring = phone sb
: gọi - Ask students to repeat
điện (synonym)
loudly the words
- rough time [= difficult time: lúc
- Listen and check
gian khó (synonym)
pronunciation


-Students read
task1, 2 silently
for gist

While-listening:
-Have students read the
true-false statement list
and questions in textbook
silently
for
several
minutes to make sure that
every
student
understands them (Task1,
2)
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- Look at the
books
- Listen to the
teacher
and
repeat
the
words.
-Students repeat
& take notes
- Repeat loudly

* Keys:
How and
What do
where did
they like
they meet? about their
friends?
Lan - They used - Ha’s very
to live in the friendly and
same
helpful
apartment
- Ha’s
building in
sociable.
HN
She’s got
- Lan went
many friends
on a holiday in Do Son
in Do Son
and she
and Ha went introduced
there to help Lan around.
her
Lon - They met
- Minh has a
g
in college
sense of

do the tasks below”.
-Turn on the cassette
player twice.
-Ask some students to do
their tasks on the board.
-Correct and give score

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interpret.

-Students take
notes
during
listening.
-Other students
watch and give
comments.


E. Practising activity: 8 minutes
III. Post listening: Talk about your best friend.
Use the cues below:
- Your friend’s name
- How long have you known each other
- Where and when did you meet
- Your friend’s personalities
My best friend is ……….I happened to meet him when……….in the street. At that time I
got a traffic accident and ………..He is very kind to me that is the thing I like him best.
F. Homework: (1’)

2. Developing efficiency:
- Thinking, brainstorming
- Work in pairs, groups
- Knowledge of English
- Co-operation
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- Self – studying
- Creativeness
- Self – management
- Language using
3. Method: Integrated, mainly communicative
II. Preparation of Teacher and Students:
1. Teacher: Teaching aids, text book, lesson plan.
2. Students: text book, note book,...
III. Procedure:
A. Class organization: 1 minute
B. Check the old lesson: 4 minutes
- Call 2 sts to describe their best friend (physical characteristic and personality)
C. Warm – up activity: 4 minutes
- Ask students to keep book close
- Ask students some questions about their best friends.
D. New lesson:
Content
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
I. PRE-WRITING: 7 minutes Pre-writing:
Task 1: Read the following
Comprehension



go to university, but he’s a bit
lazy. His dream is to be a rocker,
not a white-collar worker.
*Answer the questions.
a. What is the writer’s friend’s
name?
b. How old is he?
c. Where does he live?
d. When did the writer meet his
friend?
e. What are his physical
characteristics?
f. What are his personalities?
g. What does the writer like
about him?
Read the passage about Lan’s
friend and answer the
questions below
Lan’s best friend is Hoa. They
became friends when they
attended high school in 2005.
Lan is 17 years old and Hoa is
16 years old. Hoa lives with her
family in a small house in Binh
Hoa Ward. Hoa is tall. She has
got an oval face, a straight nose,
and a black-long hair. She is
very friendly and helpful. Lan

hair.
5. Friendly and helpful.
6. She always helps the others.
II. WHILE-WRITING: 21
minutes
Task 2: Base on the passage
above write a passage about
your best friend using cues
The outline for describing a
friend:
- General information about their
friend
+ Who is he/she?
+ How old is he/she?
+ Where does he/she live?
+ Where/ When did you meet
at the first time? (at a party/ at a
football match / at English club/
in school extra-activities)
His/
her
physical
characteristics and personalities:
+ Personalities: studious,
hospitable, honest, modest,
generous, sincere…
+ Physical characteristic:
•
height: tall, medium,
short,…

habit); used to…
Ex: My friend is……….I met
her at…………
• Write about a friend, real
or imaginary, using the
prompts below:
My friend / name/ Nam. He/
sixteen/ old. Now/ he / live/ his
parents/ a small house/ the
suburbs / Ho Chi Minh City, /
ten kilometres/ the city centre.
We / friends when I/ attend this
school / 2004.
He/ height/ hair. He/
forehead / eyes. He/ always
/well-groomed/ his family/ poor.
Nam/ very helpful/ modest.
When I / into trouble, especially,
he always/ a helping hand. This/
the reason/ everyone in my
class/ in the whole school like/
play/ him.
E. Practising activity: 7 minutes
III. POST-WRITING:
Exhibition and Correction
Sample writing:
My best friend is Hien.
She is 24 years old. She lives in
Thoai Son. I first met her when I
first came to AG university. Hien

difficulties. That is the thing I
admire her best. I hope that we
will be friends forever.
D. Homework: (1’)
- Ask students to do part writing of Unit 1 in the student’s work book and prepare part
Language Focus
IV. Draw up experience:
…………………………………………………………………………………………………
…………………………………………………………………

Unit 1: Friendship
E. Language Focus
The 7th period
Pre-Date:
Teaching at:
Class

Period

Teaching date

Absent students

Notes

11 A
11 B
I. Objectives:
1. Knowledge, skill and attitude:
- Knowledge: Students should know how to use Infinitive with to or without to to make

- Let students to get their attention on pronunciation: / dʒ /- / t∫/
- Introduce new lesson
D. New lesson:
Content
I. Pronunciation /ʤ/ and /t∫/: 8
minutes
Listen and repeat
/ʤ / - / ʧ /
jam
dangerous children
mutual
joke
passenger
changeable
church
January village
cheese
which

Teacher’s activities
- T models and asks Ss
to repeat.
- Ss practice the words
with T’s model. One S
reads three words.

- T models each
sentence and Ss repeat.
- T asks Ss to underline
the words that have the

fish and chips?
II. GRAMMAR: 19 minutes
• Infinitive with To (V- TO)
Ex: Why do you study English?
→ I study English to
communicate with foreigners.
=> Infinitive with To: is used to
express a purpose or placed after
an adjective.
- As object of some verbs: agree,
arrange, begin, care, choose, ask,
come, continue, decide, want,
need, promise, try, seem, start…
- Answer for the structure “What
…for?” and “Why…?”
- After adjectives: pleased, happy,
lucky, hard, easy, difficult,
important, sad,…
- After Wh-words: (where, what,
when, …)
- After “nothing, something,
anybody, nowhere,..”
- After “too…to, enough…to, in
order to, so as to”
- After structure “S + V + O + to
inf” (verbs: ask, advise, …)
2. Infinitive without To (VTO)
- After modal verbs: will, can,
could, should, had better…
- make, let, have

Practice 1:
Exercise 1: Rewrite the sentences,
using the words given
Ex: - She/ have/ a/ train/ catch.
She has a train to catch.
1. Who/ want/ eat/ something?
2. I/ have / some letters/ write.
3. I/ delighted/ hear the news.
4. My mother / have / some
shopping/ do.
5. You/ always/ have/ too much/
talk about.
6. It/ be/ lovely/ see/ you/ again.
7. It/ be/ too/ cold/ go/ out.
8. I/ be/ happy/ know/ that/ you/
have/ passed/ the exams.
Answer keys:
1. Who wants to eat something?
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 too cold to go out.
8. I am happy to know that you
have passed the exams
Exercise 2: (page 21) Rewrite the
sentences, using the words given

- T asks Ss to work
individually, then
compare the answers
with their friends.
- Ss do the exercise.
compare and give the
answers.
- Ss write the answers
on the board
- T gives correction
- Ss take note

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6. Do you think the company will
make him pay some extra money?
7. I felt the animal move toward
me.
8. Do you think her parents will let
her go for a picnic?
E. Practising activities: 8 minutes
Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verb in brackets.
1. I didn’t have enough time
(finish) my work yesterday.
2. He refused
( allow) her
( think) for herself.
3. I was relieved
(find out) that I had passed the exam.

Teaching date

Absent students

Notes

11 A
11 B
I. Objectives:
1. Knowledge, skill and attitude:
- Knowledge: Through this unit, students know how to write about the sequence of events in
a story, sentences and expression for describing the sequence of events in a story and words
related to sequence of events in a story.
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- Skill: - Guessing meaning in context.
- Passage comprehension.
- Attitude: + To help students get started.
+ To provide students some motivation.
2. Developing efficiency:
- Thinking, brainstorming
- Work in pairs, groups
- Knowledge of English
- Speaking, reading,..
- Co-operation
- Self – studying
- Self – management
- Problem – solving
- Language using

their
( teacher doesn’t need to answers
give feedback)
- Let’s begin our lesson
you’ll know the whole
story.
- Listen to the tape
- Ask students to listen to
the tape
II. While you read: 20
While you read:
- Read the story
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minutes
- Some difficult words and
structures
1. embarrass(v)
- embarrassed(adj)
- embarrassing(adj)
- embarrassment(n)
2. idol (n)
3. glance(n/v)
- glance at sb/sth
4. Be busy doing sth
Be busy with sth
EX: I’m sorry. I can’t go with
you now. I am busy with my
homework. I’m busy doing

and take notes

Task 1 : Fill each blank
with one of the words in the - Do Task 1 in
box below.
pairs
- Firsly, ask students to - Take notes
study individually then in
pairs
- Walks arround the class,
offer ideas and comments
when students need help
- Give suggesstions
Task 2 ( Đã lồng vào
before you read)
Task 3 : Answer the
questions in the book.
- Ask students to read all
questions to understand the
content
- Ask students to read the
small talks again to answer
the questions
- Ask students to work with
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Read
the
questions silently
and answer them in

Unit 2: PERSONAL EXPERIENCES
B. Speaking
The 9th period
Pre-Date:
Teaching at:
Class

Period

Teaching date

Absent students

Notes

11 A
11 B
I. Objectives:
1. Knowledge, skill and attitude:
- Knowledge: Through this unit, students can talk about their personal experiences.
- Skill: Talking about past experiences and how they affected one’s life.
- Attitude: + To help students get started.
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