Giáo án Tiếng Anh Lớp 11 - Unit 9: The post office - Nguyễn Văn Tạo

Date: January 3nd, 2011
Period 53
Unit 9	 THE POST OFFICE
Lesson 	 READING
I. Objectives: By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:
deduce the meaning of some words in certain context.
scan for specific details.
II. Language Focus:
Grammar: 
New words: equip, express, transfer, notify, recipient, subscribe to newspapers . . . 
III. Teaching Aids: cassette player, textbook . . . .
IV. Procedures:	
Stages/
Time
Teacher’s Activities
Students’ Activities
Warm – up
(5 minutes)
Chatting
-T raises some questions: 
+ T shows Ss a letter and asks: What’s is this? (¦ A letter)
+ Where can you post a letter? (At the post office)
+ How far is it from your house to the nearest post office? ( ¦ . . . kilometers)
+ How often do you go to the post office? What for? (¦Once/twice a week. To post letters / to make a phone call / to buy phone cards)
+ What services do you think the post office offer? (¦ mail, phone call, . . . )
-T leads in the new lesson. 
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Pre –
reading
(8 minutes)
-T asks Ss to work in pairs to discuss and give out the right services of the post office in the picture in the textbook. 
-T moves around the class and gives help. 
-T encourage Ss to add more services
* Expected answers:
a. Mail and Parcel Service
b. Express Money Transfer
c. Phone Call and Faxes
d. Facsimile Service
e. Press Distribution Service
-T elicits or pre-teaches some new words. 
Vocabulary Pre-teach
+ equip (v): supply with what is needed in a company or an office
+ express (a): very fast
+ transfer (v): to hand over from one person or one place to another
+ notify (v)
+ recipient (n): receiver
+ subscribe to newspapers (exp) 
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While – reading
(5 minutes)
Task 1 – Multiple Choice 
-T asks Ss to work in pairs and do Task 1.
-T asks Ss to go back to the passage and find the correct answers.
-T tells Ss to compare their answers with each other. 
-T calls on some Ss to present and explain their answers in front of the class. 
-T gives feedback and correct answers. 
* Expected answer:
1. spacious ≠ cramped
2. courteous ≠ rude
3. speedy ≠ slow
4. original ≠ changed
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(10 minutes)
Task 2 – Questions and Answers 
-T has Ss work in pairs to do Task 2. 
-T gives Ss time to read the whole passage. 
-T goes around the class and provides help if necessary.
-T calls on some pairs to act out the activity in front of the class.
-T comments and gives the suggested answers. 
* Expected answer:
1. It’s equipped with advanced technology and a spacious and pleasant front office.
2. They are sending letters by air, surface mail or express mail.
3. It is used for notifying the recipient of the time and place to receive the call.
4. I’ll have to subscribe to my favourite newspapers or magazines. 
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(10 minutes)
Activity 3 – Finding evidence in the text to support the statements
-T asks Ss to work in pairs again and find evidence in the text that support the statements in the textbooks.
-T goes around the class to help Ss.
-T gets Ss to report their answers in front of the class.
-T gives feedback.
* Expected answers:
1. It opens daily from 7 a.m to 9 p.m
2. They offer a very competitive rate for parcels under 15 kilos.
3. They have Express Mail Service and your EMS will be delivered in the shortest possible time.
4. The money will sent in less than 24 hours. 
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Post – reading
(5 minutes)
Task 4 – Speak-it-up 
-T requires Ss to work in groups of four to discuss the questions:
1. Which service provided by Thanh Ba Post Office do you think is the most important and why?
2. What services do you think Thanh Ba Post Office should have in the future? 
-T goes around to control and gives help to Ss.
-T calls on some Ss to present their ideas in front of the class. 
* Expected ideas for discussion:
In the future, Thanh Ba Post Office should have Flower Telegram Service, Banking Service and Information Telecommunication Service. 
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Homework
(2 minutes)
-T asks Ss to write about Thanh Ba Post Office using the cues above or their own words. 
-T asks Ss to learn all of the new words by heart and prepare SPEAKING for the next period. 
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Date: January 3rd, 2011
Period 54
Unit 9(cont.) THE POST OFFICE
Lesson 	 SPEAKING
I. Objectives: By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:
make requests and talk about different postal services. 
II. Language Focus:
Grammar: 
New words: 
III. Teaching Aids: textbooks, pictures . . . .
IV. Procedures:
Stages/Time
Teacher’s Activities
Students’ Activities
Warm – up
(5minutes)
Game – Jumpled words
-T gives out a list of jumbled words (prepared beforehand on a paper)
-T give Ss 2 minutes to prepare individually, and then asks them to go to the board to write down the correct words.
mali
nomey trerfans
xaf
repss deervyli
-T goes around the class to control the game
-T gives feedback
* Expected answers: 
1. mail 2. money transfer 3. fax 4. press delivery 
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Pre – speaking
(8 minutes)
Task 1 – Practising the dialogue 
-T requires Ss to work in pairs, practising the dialogue in the book.
-T asks Ss to answer the questions: “What service is the customer using in the dialogue?”
-T moves around the class to help Ss.
-T calls on some pairs to role play the dialogue in front of the class. 
* Expected answer: Facsimile Service
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While – speaking
(18 minutes)
Task 2 – Making a conversation 
-T ask Ss to work in pairs to make a conversation from the suggestions in the textbook. 
-T encourage Ss to think of more ideas to add to their list.
-T moves around to control and give help if necessary.
-T asks Ss to report their results to the class.
-T gathers feedbacks and gives out the correct answer
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Post – speaking
(12 minutes)
Task 3 – Role play 
-T asks Ss to think of situations that they themselves need to go to the post office.
-T gets Ss to act out the conversations that may happen there.
-T calls on some pairs to the front of the class to act out the conversations. 
-T moves around to control and helps Ss.
-T asks other Ss to give comments.
-T gives feedback. 
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Homework
(2 minutes)
-T summarise the main points in the lesson. 
-T asks Ss to learn by heart all the expressions about the postal services.
-T requires Ss to prepare LISTENING for the next period. 
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Date: January 6th, 2011
Period 55
Unit 9(cont.) THE POST OFFICE
Lesson 	 LISTENING
I. Objectives: By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:
listen a monologue avout the development of Vietnam’s telephone system for details. 
II. Language Focus:
Grammar: revision
New words: 
III. Teaching Aids: cassette player, textbook, board . . . 	
IV. Procedures:	
Stages/Time
Teacher’s Activities
Students’ Activities
Warm – up
(3minutes)
-T asks Ss a question: 
Which is the quickest, a phone call, a fax, an e-mail or a letter?
* Expected answers: A phone call
-T lead in the new lesson
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Pre –listening
(8 minutes)
Pre-teaching vocabulary
-T elicits some new words from Ss
+ commune (n) communal(a)
+ rural network (n)
+ capacity (n) 
+ subscriber (n): a fixed sum of money every month for the
 telephone service
-T requires Ss to work in pairs to ask and answer the questions in the textbook.
-T goes around the class and controls them.
-T calls on some pairs to act out their conversations.
-T gives feedback. 
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While-listening
(12 minutes)
Task 1 – Multiple – Choice 
-T asks Ss to work individually and listen to the monologue and check their prediction. 
-T plays the tape more than once if necessary.
-T asks Ss to compare the answers with their partners.
-T invites some Ss to explain their answers in front of the class. 
-T goes over the answers with the whole class. 
-T gives feedback and correct answers 
* Expected answers: 
1. 2 second
2. 30
3. fixed telephone
4. 93
5. The change of international telephone system
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(12 minutes)
Task 2 – Questions and Answers
-T asks Ss to work individually to listen to the tape again.
-T plays the tape again and asks Ss to do Task 2.
-T plays the tape several times if necessary. 
-T lets Ss discuss the answers with a partner. 
-T comments and gives correct answers.
* Expected answers:
1. China has the highest growth in the number of telephone subscribers.
2. In the early 1990s, there were only 140,000 telephones in Vietnam.
3. In 1996, the fixed telephone numbers were changed from 6 to 7 digits in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City as well as 5 to 6 digits in other provinces.
4. In 2001
5. There are 6,014 communal post offices in Vietnam. 
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Post- listening
(8 minutes)
Groupwork Speaking 
-T asks Ss to work in groups of four to summarise the main ideas of the listening passage. The summary should have the following points:
1. Vietnam’s rapid growth in telephone numbers.
2. The addition of digits to existing telephone numbers to meet the increasing demands.
3. The reduction in monthly telephone fees.
4. The expansion of the telepgone networks to Vietnam’s rural areas. 
-T goes around the class and helps Ss in their speaking. 
-T has some Ss present their ideas in front of the class. 
-T asks for comments from other Ss. 
-T gives out his remarks on Ss’s presentation. 
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Homework
(2 minutes)
-T asks Ss to rewrite the summary of the listening passage into their notebooks. 
-T asks Ss to prepare WRITING for the next period. 
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Date: January 10th, 2011
Period 56
Unit 9(cont.) THE POST OFFICE
Lesson 	 WRITING
I. Objectives: By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:
write a letter to express satisfaction or dissatisfaction. 
II. Language Focus:
Grammar: revision 
New words: revision
III. Teaching Aids: an extra board, textbook, poster and handouts . . . 
IV. Procedures:	
Stages/Time
Teacher’s Activities
Students’ Activities
Warm-up
(5 minutes)
Handouts
-T delivers prepared handouts to Ss.
Read the following adjectives and underline those can make people / things satisfied.
polite, rude, cold, helpful, spacious, cramped, large, small, good, bad, reasonable, expensive, cheap, arrogant, punctual, reliable
-T asks Ss to work individually with the handout.
-T tells Ss to exchange their answers with a partner.
-T goes around the class to give help.
-T gives feedback and correct answers
* Expected answers: 
polite, rude, cold, helpful, spacious, cramped, large, small, good, bad, reasonable, expensive, cheap, arrogant, punctual, reliable
-T can introduces the adjectives that make people unsatisfied (the remaining adjectives) 
-T introduces the new lesson. 
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Pre-writing
(10 minutes)
Class discussion 
-T sets the scene and gives out the topic for the discussion:
T: Tell me some services at Thanh Ba Post Office
Ss: Mail and parcel service, phone call, press distribution, etc.
T: Now, imagine you have been using some of these services. Tell me what you are satisfied with and what you are dissatisfied with.
-T acts as an instructor and writes shortly Ss’s ideas on the board.
Satisfied
Dissatisfied
The opening hours?
ü
close too early
The security condition?
ü
no one looks after the motorbikes
The attitude of the staff?
polite / thoughtful
ü
The prices?
. . . .
. . . . 
The punctuality of the delivery of letters and newspapers?
. . . .
. . . . 
The position of the post office?
. . . .
. . . . 
The quality of the equipment`
. . . .
. . . . 
Clarify the writing task: The director of Thanh Ba post office invited you to write a letter to him describing the quality of the services
-T elicits the outline from Ss. The letter may have the following points:
Dear Mr. Director.
State the reason for writing 
Say whether you are satisfied or dissatisifed with the services, or both.
Lits out some evidences to support your ideas (firstly . . . secondly . . . thirdly . . . finally . . . )
Your suggestion
End the letter politely (sincerely yours, yours faithfully, etc)
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While-writing
(20 minutes)
Writing a letter
-T asks Ss to work individually and write the letter on a sheet of paper.
-T goes around the class and gives help where needed.
Correction
-T asks Ss to swap their papers and do the correction.
-T gets some Ss to read aloud their writings.
-T gives feedback. 
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Post- writing
(8 minutes)
Groupwork
-T asks Ss to work in groups of four to talk about some satisfied and dissatisfied services of a post office near their houses.
-T asks Ss to use the expression learnt in Task 1.
-T moves around the class and gives help to Ss.
-T calls on some Ss to present their ideas in front of the class. 
-T collects remarks from other Ss.
-T gives feedback. 
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Homework
(2 minutes)
-T asks Ss to greeting cards to their beloved friends, relatives or their parents on the following occasions:
 a. Birthday
 b. Tet holiday
-T asks students to prepare Language Focus for next period. 
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Date: January 11th, 2011
Period 57
Unit 9(cont.) THE POST OFFICE
Lesson 	 LANGUAGE FOCUS
I. Objectives: By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:
practise pronunciation and distinguish the sounds / sp /, / st / and / sk /
use defining and non-defining relative clauses appropriately. 
II. Language Focus:
Grammar: as above
New words: 
III. Teaching Aids: Textbooks, poster, pictures . . . 	
IV. Procedures:	
Stages/Time
Teacher’s Activities
Students’ Activities
Warm-up
(4minutes)
-T divides the class into two groups and asks Ss to close their books.
-T asks each group to write on the board:
 + four words containing the sound / sp / like speak
 + four words containing the sound / st / like street
 + four words containing the sound / sk / like ask or skim 
-T sets the time limited in 2 minutes. The group who first finishes wins the game. 
-T goes around the class to control the game. 
-T declares the winner. 
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Pro-nunciation
(7 minutes)
Activity 1 – Listen and repeat
-T demonstrates the sounds / sp /, / st / and / sk /by pronouncing them exactly and clearly.
-T instructs the ways to pronounce the sounds. 
-T asks Ss to pronounce the sounds several times.
-T makes sure that Ss are aware of the difference between the sounds. 
Activity 2 – Practise these sentences
-T plays the tape and asks them to repeat. 
-T calls on some Ss to repeat the sounds clearly and slowly.
-T asks Ss to work in pairs and practise the sentences.
-T introduces peer correction.
-T goes around the class and provides help if necessary. 
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Grammar
(8 minutes)
Defining and Non-defining Relative Clauses
Presentation:
-T helps Ss revise the usages of Defining and Non-defining Relative Clauses by elicitng some examples from Ss.
a. I met someone who said he knew you.
b. The book which I borrowed from the school library is very intersting.
c. This woman, who lives next door, is a doctor.
d. My father, who is fifty years old, is a doctor. 
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(8 minutes)
Activity 1 – Explaining the meaning of the words. 
-T asks Ss to do exercise 1 individually, using relative clauses. 
-T asks Ss to compare the answers with their partners.
-T calls on some Ss to read aloud the sentences.
-T gives feedback and correct answers.
* Expected answers:
1. A burglar is someone who breaks into the house to steal things
2. A customer is someone who buys something from a shop.
3. A shoplifter is someone who steals from a shop.
4. A coward is someone who is not brave.
5. A tenant is someone who pays rent to live an a house or a flat. 
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(8 minutes)
Activity 2 – Sentence Completion 
-T gets Ss to do Exercise 2 individually.
-T goes around and gives helps to Ss.
-T asks Ss to compare their results with others.
-T gives feeback and correct answers. 
* Expected answers:
1. who
2. whose
3. whom
4. whose
5. whom
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(8 minutes)
Activity 3 – Sentence Combination
-T gets Ss to do Exercise 3+4 individually.
-T goes around and gives helps to Ss.
-T asks Ss to compare their results with others.
-T gives feeback and correct answers. 
* Expected answers:
Exercise 3:
1. The man who answered the phone told me you wre away.
2. The waitress who served us was very impolite and impatient.
3. The building which was destroyed in the fire has now been rebuilt.
4. The peole who were arrested have now been released.
5. The bus which goes to the airport runs every half an hour.
Exercise 4:
1. Peter, who has never been abroad, is studying French and German.
2. You’ve all met Michael Wood, who is visiting us for a couple of days.
3. We are moving to Manchester, which is in the north-west.
4. I’ll be staying with Adrian, whose brother is one of my closest friends.
5. John Bridge, who has just gone to live in Canada, is one of my oldest friends. 
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Homework
(2 minutes)
- T asks Ss to continue doing the remaining exercises. 
- T asks Ss to prepare UNIT 10
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