LESSON PLAN
Period: 79 UNIT 12: (Cont) LANGUAGE FOCUS
1/ Objectives: By the end of the lesson, Students will be able to understand and use the
past progressive and the present progressive with “always”.
2/ Language contents:
a) Grammar: The past progressive; The present progressive with “always”
b) Vocabulary: race, drum, cheer
3/ Techniques: chains in chains, eliciting, question and answer, pair work, group work,
correction, matching
4/ Teaching aids: projector
5/ Procedures:
STAGES/ TIME CONTENTS NOTES
* Warm-up:
(5 minutes)
* Chains in chains: (Telling habits)
A: I always go to school early.
B: I often play soccer in the afternoon.
…

* eliciting:
 He is always working.
Ss: Group A – Group B
(Two representatives of each
group tell their habits.)
- remind the adverbs of
frequency.
- remind the sentence with
“always” in the dialogue
between Mrs. Smith and Mrs.
Quyen.
Ss: find and tell.

bus.
* Note: “Always” used in the present
progressive to express a complaint.
d) Nam is always watching TV.
e) Na is always talking on the phone.
f) Liem is always going out.
* Further practice:
Talking about classmates/ friends/
family/relatives/neighbors/ …
* Singing:
“I was reading books at 8 o’clock last night.
And my parents were watching TV.”
sentences “b and c”.
Ss: give their remarks on
using.
T: remarks and gives Ss the
note.
Ss: make sentences “d,e, f”.
T: corrects.
T: gives Ss more situations.
Ss: practice saying.
T: corrects/ remarks.
T: sings and asks Ss about it.
Ss: tell what they hear.
T: shows it to Ss.
 lead in the past progressive.
(activity2)
2/ Activity 2:
(20 minutes)
II. Past progressive:

T: takes feedback and corrects
the sentences “b,c,d”.
Ss: remark and tell the use.
T: corrects sentences “e, f”.
T: guides Ss to say by saying
S + was/ were + V-ing
Talking about them/ their family/
friends/...
Past progressive with when and while.
* Examples:
- Tom was reading a book when the bell rang.
- When Tom was reading a book, the bell rang.
- While Tom was reading a book, the bell rang.
Exercise 2: Look at the pictures. Then
match the half-sentences in column A to
those in column B. Write the full
sentences in your exercise book.
* New words:
- race (n):
- drum (n):
- cheer (v):
a) – C : The Le family was sleeping
when the mailman came.
b) – F
c) – E
d) – B
e) – D
f) – A
* Notes:
- used to express an action was in

T: guides Ss to do.
Ss: work in groups and match.
T: takes feedback, corrects and
gives the answer keys..
Ss: give the second use of the
past progressive.
Ss: remark the two actions in
these ones with while and
when.
Continuous action action happened
Past progressive simple past
* Further Practice:
Choose a film and give your sentence
about it.
* cues:
- sing/ come
- walk/ meet
- sleep/ come and leave a letter
- dance/ ring
* Answer keys:
a/ She was singing when the fish
came/appeared.
b/ While she was walking/jogiing in the park,
she met her friend, Nam.
c/ While Tom was sleeping, Jerry came and left
him a letter.
d/ When they were dancing, the telephone rang.
T: remarks and gives Ss the
note.
Ss: write down.

Ss: do in 3 minutes.
T: takes in and corrects
* Homework:
(3 minutes)
Rewrite down all exercises in the notebooks.
Notice the past progressive and “always” in
the present progressive.
Do exercise 6 in the exercise book.
Prepare new lesson: Unit 13: Festival
(Getting started + Listen & Read)
* New words:
- competition - participate - yell - judge
* Compound words: fire-making, rice-coking,…
* Websides:
-
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T: explains and guides
homework to Ss.
T: introduces Ss two websides
of festivals so that they can get
more information on festivals.
Check:
Dong Hoa, March 17
th
2008
Teacher
Nguyen Minh Chinh