Period:91 (18/4/09) Unit 15: READING (Cities) *Objectives:By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to: -Improve their reading skills -Get some specific information about New York *Lexical items: mingle with, metropolitan, finance, characterise. *Teaching aids: pictures, textbooks PROCEDURE I.Pre-reading: 1/Warm-up: Game: Matching(4') -T shows 4 pictures and their names that are not in order. -T asks Ss to match the pictures with their names correctly. Keys: Picture 1: The Empire State Building Picture 2: The United Nations Headquarters Picture 3: Times Square Picture 4: Central Park 2/Lead-in:(4') T: Where are these well-known places? Ss: (expected) In NewYork. T: Where is New York? Ss: (expected) It is located in the Southeastern part of New York State. T: What do you know about the city? Ss: ................. T: Today, we’re studying the lesson about New York. You’ll practise reading the text for getting the information. 3/Vocabulary:(7') -Mingle (v) = mix ’ Mingle with: Go about among (the crowds,.....) -Metropolitan (a): of / in a big / capital city ’The metropolitan police: lực lượng cảnh sát Luân Đôn. -Finance(n): tài chính. ’Financial(a) -Characterise(v): show or mark in a special way. (= characterize) : đặc trưng cho, tiêu biểu cho. ’Be characterized by Sth: có đặc điểm. 4/Checking:R.O.R II. While-reading: 1/Matching (task 1 p.158)-Pairworks(7') T asks Ss to match the words in column A with their definitions in column B in the text books Keys: 1-d 3-e 5-b 2-c 4-a 2/True / False statements: (task 2 p.158)-Groupworks (7') T asks Ss to decide whether the statements in the text books are true (T) or false (F) Keys: 1-T 2-F. It is ice-free in all seasons 3-T 4-T 5-T 3/Answering the questions (Task 3, p.158)(7') T divides the class into 2 groups. T asks Ss to play the game-Lucky Numbers: Number 1: Where is New York city ? Number 2: Lucky Number Number 3: What is its population ? Number 4: Why was New York originally called New Amstesdam ? Number 5: What places in New York are visitors attracted to ? Number 6: Lucky Number Keys: 1/ It’s in the southeastern part of New York state. 2/ Lucky Number. 3/ 7 million in the city and 19 million in the metropolitan region. 4/ Because it was founded by the Dutch. 5/ The Statue of liberty, the Empire state Building, Wall Street and Broadway theatre district. 6/ Lucky Number. III.Post reading: (7') Discussion: Groupworks of 8 Topic: If you could visit New York, which place (s) of interest there would you like to see ? Why ? -T asks the representative of each group to present the work in front of the class . IV/Homework:(2') -Has Ss learn the new words by heart. -Has Ss write the discussion into the exercise books. -Prepare for the next period.
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