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 questions.
 Using vocab and structures about a letter of request and expresss their hope to study in
England.
B. Aids: textbooks, pictres, board, chalks
C. Methods : Communicative approach and leaner- centered approach.
T-T; T-Ss; S - S
Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
I. Warm-up:
- Give Ss some questions:
1. What are you going to do after you finish high
school?
2. Which university would you like to attend?
3. Where will you live if you study at a university
far from your house?
- Ask Ss to work in pairs to ask and answer.
- Call some pairs to act out in front of the class.
- Get feedback
- Lead Ss to the new lesson: higher education

II. PRE-READING:
* Questions:
- Ask Ss to work in pairs, ask and answer the
following questions:
1. Name the universities.
2. What university would you like to apply for and
why?
- Get feedback.

• daunt (v): làm nản long
• mate (n): bạn bè
• scary (v): sợ hãi
• undergraduate course: khóa học đại học
III. WHILE-READING:
- Ask students to look through the passage and
read in silence
- Help students read the passage
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.
Task 2:
- Introduce the task: Find out who:
a. attended a party on the first weekend at college.
b. didn't get on very well with the roommate.
c. was not used to meeting different people every
day at college.
d. liked having a chance to be creative.
e. was very excited about going to college.
f. enjoyed the first year at college.
- Go around and help Ss if they need.
- Call on Ss to give their answers.
- Correct mistakes.
Institute of Technology

Brenden:
5- d. liked having a chance to be creative.
- Give the right answers.
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
roommate?
4. What did Brenden think about his first year at
college?
5. What does the social calendar of the colleges
provide him?
- Guide Ss to answer.
- Go round the class to help Ss if necessary.
- Call on some Ss to give their answers.
- Correct mistakes
IV. COSOLIDATION AND HOMEWORK:(2')
- Ask students to read the passage again.
- Ask students to do Reading exercise of Unit 5 in
workbook and prepare Part B ( Speaking) at home
6- f. enjoyed the first year at college.
- Understand the task.
- Read the text again, answer the questions
on the text.
1. She went out with her new friends,
walking around the campus.
2. Because at the party everyone was busy
playing some games and no one seemed

1. an application form
2. an identity card
3. a reference letter
4. a birth certificate
-The S ask the other :
What is my job?
- The others watch his/her activities and make
yes/no questions to guess the job.
Possible questions:
- Are you mending something?
II. PRE-SPEAKING:
- Call on an S to go to the board and ask him/her
to choose a job that he/she wants to do in the
future and mime a typical activity which it
involes.
- Ask the whole class to look at their friend’s
activity then ask him/her yes/no question to
guess his/her job
- Observe students playing game and stop when
there is a winner
- Are you typing?
- Do you work outside?
- The S answer the questions using only yes or
no. The game is over if an S guess the job.
III. WHILE-SPEAKING:
Task 1
- Call an Ss to read aloud the request of the task
- Ask the whole class to do task 1
- Ask students to exchange the answers with
their friends'.