Week: Date of planning: / /
Period: 27 Date of teaching: / /
UNIT 4: MUSIC AND ARTS
Lesson 1: Getting Started – Making plans for the weekend

I. Objectives:
1. Skills:
-Speaking skill: Talk about music and art
-Listening and reading skills: Listen and read for specific information about a
plan then say True or false/ gap fill
-Writing skill: Complete the sentences with the given words.
2. Knowledge
-For better understanding of arts and music: Content of the conversation
between Duong and Nick; vocabulary relating music and arts.
-Language practice:
+Vocabulary: Music and arts
+Grammar: Comparisons: (not) as ... as; too; the same as; different from
3. Attitude towards: Pay much attention to the lesson.
II. Language Focus:
1. Vocabulary: the lexical items related to the topic “Music and Arts”.
2. Structures: - Expressing agreement: too and either;
- Comparisons:
(not) as … as
the same as
different from
III. Method: Communicative approach
IV. Teaching ads: Course book, CD player, pictures.
V. Procedures:

Teacher’s Activities
Ss’ Activities
Content
Competence


- Write on the board: “Music and Arts”.
- Ask Ss questions.


- Ask Ss questions about the picture.

- T-Whole class




- Answer

* Presentation:
Questions:
Do you often listen to music? When? How often?
What kind of music do you like? Why?
Questions:
Who are Duong and Nick?
What are they going to do?
Communicating



- Play the recording (twice)
- Ask Ss to do this exercise in pairs.
- Check their answers and give explanations if necessary.


- Ask Ss to work individually to fill in the gaps in the sentences.
- Call some Ss to read their answers.



- Tell Ss refer back to the conversation to find the phrases. Have Ss practice saying them together.
-Explain the meaning to Ss, then give some examples.



- Ask Ss to practice the conversations in pairs before creating their short role-plays.







- Ask Ss to write the words/ phrases under the right pictures. Then play the recording.
- Let Ss listen and repeat.
- Check and correct their pronunciation.
- Give Ss the meaning of words if necessary.

- Listen and read
- Pair-work





- Individual work





- Pair-work








- Pair-work









- Individual work
* Practice:
1. Listen and read
a. Are these sentences true (T) or false (F)?
Key:
1. T 2. F 3. T
4. F 5. F
b. Finish the following sentences
Key:
as good as
loud
fantastic
in person
cinema
c. Find these sentences in the conversation. Check what they mean.
Key:
Use when you are thinking what to say or reply.
Use to show that you don’t agree with what sb has said.
Use to show that you don’t like something.
d. Work in pairs. Make short role-plays with the expressions above.
Example:
A: We’ll go to the cinema next Saturday. Can you go, too?
B:Let’s me see. I’ll have to ask my parents first.

2. Write the correct word/ phrase under each of the pictures.
Key:
Microphone
Camera
Painting
Musical instruments
Portrait
Art gallery
Crayons
Museum
Opera
Paintbrush
Listening and reading






































Listening and writing












- Ask Ss to give their partner the directions to one of the places on the map, and they try to guess. Then swap.


- Pair-work
* Production:
3. Complete these sentences with words from 2.
Key:
Art gallery
Paintings
Museum
Camera
Opera

Writing



*Homework:
- Prepare the next lesson
(A closer look 1)