Le Hong Phong Junior High School

Lesson plan 6

Period 19: UNIT 3: MY FRIENDS
Lesson 4: COMMUNICATION
I. OBJECTIVES: By the end of the lesson students will be able to:
1. Knowledge:
Recognize how to ask about one's appearance and personality;
2. Skills: -Use given questions to ask about his/ her best friend and give answers
-Talk about their birthday and their personalities before class
3. Quality: Have good behavior toward his friends in class and in daily life.
4. Competence: Develop competences of communication, self- learning capability, creative capacity
and ability to use of language.
II. TEACHING AIDS:
- Teacher: Text book, laptop, loudspeaker, projector
- Students: Text books
- Method: T-WC; group works; individual
III. PROCEDURE:
1. WARM UP (5')
Aims: - Students use every day English phrases and expressions and develop the language
skills.
- To ask and answer about appearance and personality.
* Content: Having some warm-up activities to create a friendly and relaxed atmosphere to inspire
Ss to warm up to the new lesson.
* Outcome: Having a chance to speak English.
* Organization: Teacher's instructions…....
Teacher's & Student's activities
Content
+ Greeting
+ Greeting
+ Chatting
+ Chatting
- Teacher (T) asks Ss some questions about
- Students (Ss) listen and answer the teacher's or
them and class.
friend's questions
- Ask Ss to open their book and introduce what - Open their book and write the tittle of the
they are going to study….
lesson.
- T leads in the lesson.
2. PRESENTATION (12')
ACTIVITY 1 + 2:
Aims: - To introduce how to ask about appearance and personality;
- To help Ss practice asking about appearance and personality.
* Content: Listen and read the dialogue paying attention to words related to appearance and
personality;
* Outcome: Learning and using the words related to appearance and personality correctly.
* Organization: Teacher's instructions....
Teacher's & Student's activities
Content

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1. Listen and read the dialogue between
Linda and Mi. Pay attention to the
highlighted questions
- T_ Ss

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1. Listen and read the dialogue between Linda
and Mi. Pay attention to the highlighted
questions
+ Students (Ss) listen to the instructions carefully
and learn how to do the tasks.
*Pre- teach vocabulary:
- Teacher uses different techniques to teach * Vocabulary:
- appearance/ personality
vocabulary (situation, realia, translation ....)
- long hair (c/n) tóc dài
+ Follow the steps to teach vocabulary
- bright (adj) sáng sủa
- Repeat in chorus and individually
- draw (v) vẽ
+ Check the Vocabulary
- confident (adj) tự tin….
- Copy all the words
- Ss work in groups.
Audio script:
1. Play the recording for Ss to listen and read
Linda: What does your best friend look like?
the dialogue between Linda and Mi at the same
Mi: She's short with long black hair. She has
time. Ask Ss to pay attention to the highlighted
bright brown eyes.
questions. Elicit the structure to ask about
Linda: What's she like?
appearance (What does your best friend look
Mi: She's very kind and creative
like?) and the structure to ask about personality
(What's she like?) as well as the language used
2. Work with a classmate. Ask him / her
to answer these two questions. Have Ss practice
about his / her best friend. Remember to use
the dialogue in pairs. Call on some pairs to
the two questions highlighted in 1.
practice the dialogue in front of the class
- Ask Ss to work in pairs to practice speaking,
+ Ask Ss to work in pairs to make similar
using the structures.
dialogues about their best friend, using the
questions learnt
- Work in pairs
2. Work with a classmate. Ask him / her
+ Ss do the tasks
about his / her best friend. Remember to use
the two questions highlighted in 1.
- Have Ss practice speaking
- Call on some pairs to do it.
- Observe and help when and where necessary,
and correct Ss' pronunciation and intonation.
- Move around to observe and provide help.
- Call on some groups to practice in front of the
class.
- Comment on their performance.
3. PRACTICE (15')
ACTIVITY 3:
Date of birth and personality
Aim: To provide Ss with some input and set the scene for other activities.

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* Content: Read about these students to know more words relating to personality
* Outcome: Learn how to pronounce and use the words relating to personality
* Organization: Teacher's instructions…
Teacher's & Student's activities
Content
3. Read about these students in 4Teen 3. Read about these students in 4Teen
magazine. Use one or two adjectives to magazine. Use one or two adjectives to
describe them.
describe them.
- T_ Ss
*Pre- teach vocabulary:
- Teacher uses different techniques to teach
vocabulary (situation, realia, translation ....)
+ Follow the steps to teach vocabulary if have.
* Vocabulary:
- Introduce the two friends Vinh and John to Ss.
- Ask them to read about the students and
discuss with their classmates to choose one or
two adjectives to describe them.
- Tell them to underline the words that help
them decide which adjectives to use for each
friend.
- If there is not much time, ask Ss to work in
groups. Each group reads about one friend only.
- Have Ss give their answers and give the
reasons for their answers.
- Write their answers on the board to prepare for
- Ss work individually
activity 4.
- Encourage Ss to say full sentences.
Suggested answer:
- Move around to observe and provide help.
- Vinh: clever, hard- working.
- Observe and help when and where necessary,
- John: creative, kind.
and correct Ss' pronunciation and intonation.
- Ask Ss to work in pairs to ask and tick the
questions.
- Do the tasks if possible
- Confirm the correct answers.
ACTIVITY 4:
Aims: To introduce the concept of star sign to Ss.
* Content: Read the descriptions to understand more words about different personalities
* Outcome: Using the words about different personalities correctly.
* Organization: Teacher's instruction …
4. We may have different personalities
4. We may have different personalities
because we have different birthdays.
because we have different birthdays.

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Read the descriptions below. Do you think
Read the descriptions below. Do you think
they match the friends in 3?
they match the friends in 3?
- Tell Ss that each person has a star sign,
depending on his / her birthday, and the star sign
may decide a person's personality.
Ask Ss to read the descriptions and check if they
match the friends in 3.
Ss can refer to the answers to activity 3 that
have been written on the board. All of the
adjectives have been introduced to Ss in
Vocabulary, A closer look 1. It can be seen
that the descriptions match the friends in 3.
- T_ Ss
- Check and confirm the correct answers
- Do the tasks
1. PRODUCTION (8')
ACTIVITY 5:
Aim: To help Ss compare themselves with the descriptions in the previous activity.
* Content: Read and compare the descriptions.
* Outcome: Improving speaking skills.
* Organization: Teacher's instructions…...
Teacher's & Student's activities
Content
5. Read the descriptions in 4. Share your
5. Read the descriptions in 4. Share your
opinion with the class
opinion with the class
- Ss work individually and read the descriptions
in 4.
- Work in pairs
- Work in groups to share their answers.
- Invite some Ss to share their opinion with the
My birthday is …………….
class.
It's true that ……………….
- Choose some Ss to give a presentation to the
It isn't true that …………….
class.
5.HOME WORK (2')
- Practice asking about appearance and personality
- Do more exercises in workbook

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