Period 14: UNIT 2: MY HOUSE

Date of teaching: 2/10/2024 Lesson 6 : SKILLS_2/ Listening and Writing

WEEK: 4 (class:6a1)

I. OBJECTIVES:
1. Knowledge:
- Listening for specific information about the room and furniture in the room. Write an email to tell
Mira, a penfriend about the houses.Students learn how to write an email to a friend
+ Vocabulary: use the words related to the topic My house.To pronounce the final sounds /s / and /z/
correctly;
+ Grammar:- use possesive case to describe possesion;
- use prepositions of place to describe where people or things are;
- give suggestions;
2. Competence: By the end of the lesson students will be able to pratice listening for specific
information about the room and furniture in the room. Pracice writing an email to a penfriend about
the houses. Students also learn how to write an email to a friend or penfriends.
3. Quality/ behaviour : The love of learning English. The love of their own room and house.
Having the good attitude to working in groups, individual work, pairwork, cooperative learning and
working.
II. TEACHING AIDS:
- Teacher: Text book, laptop, louspeaker, projector…
- Students : Text books, studying equipments….
- Method;: T-WC; group works; individual ……
III. PROCEDURE:

1. WARM UP & INTRODUCTION (3’)

Aim:
- To develop student’s listening skills for specific information. It also provides input for the
writing skills. To learn how to write an email to a friend or penpalls.
* Content: As Ss about the content of the previous lesson. Describe Nick’s room in the hotel again
* Outcome: Telling.
* Organisation : Teacher’s instructions…
Teacher’s & Student’s activities Content
+ Greeting + Greeting
+ Chatting + Chatting
- Teacher (T) asks Ss some questions about - T_Ss
them and class.
- Students (Ss) listen and answer the teacher’s
or friend’s questions
- T asks Ss about the content of the previous
lesson. Describe Nick’s room in the hotel
again.
- Ss talk about one school they would like to go
to.
- T asks Ss to open their book and introduce
what they are going to study….
- Ss open their book and write the tittle of the
lesson.
- T leads in the lesson.

2. PRESENTATION/ NEW LESSON (10’)

ACTIVITY 1: Pre-listening
Aims: To get Ss acqainted with listening skills.
- To help Ss prepare for listening text.
* Content: Looking at the pictures. Name each of them; Guess the content.
* Outcome: Look and speak.
* Organisation: Teacher’s instructions…

Teacher’s & Student’s activities Content

1. Look at the pictures. Name each of them. 1. Look at the pictures. Name each of them.
Guess if they are mentioned in the listening Guess if they are mentioned in the listening
text. text.
- T_Ss
- T aska Ss to look at the pieces of furniture and
name them.
+ Students (Ss) listen to the instructions
carefully and learn how to do the tasks.

*) Pre- teach vocabulary:

- Teacher uses different techniques to teach
vocabulary (situation, realia, translation .....)
If have new words
- Call on some Ss to read the words out loud. - Give the answer.
- Ask some Ss to write the words on the board. Key :
- Have Ss guess of these things are mentioned 1. bookself 2. sofa 3. desk
in the listening text. If they say yes for a thing. 4. clock 5. window
Put a tick next to the word. + Things mentioned in the listening text:
- Play the recording once for Ss to check their bookself, desk, clock, window.
guess.
- Encourage Ss to give their answers, but do not
confirm whether their answers right or wrong.
- Let Ss listen once and check their guesses.

3. While-listening (12’)
ACTIVITY 2 : While-listening
Aim:To help develop Ss' skill of listening for specific information.
* Content: Listening skills for specific information. It also provides input for the writing skills
* Outcome: Ss can listen for specific information
* Organisation : Teacher’s instructions…

Teacher’s & Student’s activities Content

2. Listen to Mai talking about her house. 2. Listen to Mai talking about her house. Tick
Tick (✓) T (True) or F (False). (✓) T (True) or F (False).
- T has Ss look at the sentences and tells them - T_Ss
how to do it. Audio script:
- T gives them some strategies to do the My name's Mai. I live in a town house in Ha
exercise, Noi. I live with my parents. There are six rooms in
(e.g. reading the sentences, underlining the key our house: a living room, a kitchen, two
words, listening to the text paying attention to bedrooms, and two bathrooms. I love our living
room the best because it's bright. It's next to the
the key words, and deciding if each sentence is
kitchen. I have my own bedroom. It's small but
true or false). beautiful. There's a bed, a desk, a chair, and a
- Ss listen to the teacher’s instructions bookshelf. It also has a big window and a clock on
carefully and learn how to do it. the wall.I often read books in my bedroom.
- Ss checks the meaning if necessary
- T plays the recording twice for the Ss to do
exercise 2 for stronger classes, ask Ss to take
notes of the information to explain why a
sentence is false.
- Ss can share their answers in pairs
- T invites some pairs to give their answers and
confirm the correct ones.
- Ss give the answers

- T plays the recording again if needed,

stopping at the place where Ss find it difficult  Key:
to understand. 1. F (There are three people.)
- For stronger classes, T asks Ss to correct the 2. F (There are six rooms.)
false sentences. 3. T
- T gets feedback. 4. T
- T checks and confirms the correct answers. 5. F (She reads books.)
*Post-listening
Students tell about Mai’s house. * Invite one or two Ss to briefly describe Mai's
- T gives instructions and encourage Ss to tell house, focusing on the type of house, the number
about Janet’s school, using information in of rooms and her favourite room.
Audio Script.
- Ss listen to the teacher’s instructions carefully - Free talk
and tell about Mai’s house.
- T may give some clues
- T calls on some Ss to talk freely.
- T corrects pronunciations, grammar, vocab,
intonation.
Writing (8’)
ACTIVITY 3 :
Aims: To help Ss brainstorm ideas for their email
* Content: Ask and answer questions
* Outcome: Answer the questions correctly
* Organisation: Teacher’s instructions…

- Ss are asked to write an email to tell Mira, a pen friend, about their house.
- Show this sample email on the slide /on the board or give each student a handout with this sample.
- Ask them several questions (e.g. How many parts are there in an email to your friend? What are
they? What should you include when writing each part?).
+ Picture 1: (3)
*T can use the information in this box when expaining how to write an email to Ss.
+ Picture 2: (3)
Teacher’s & Student’s activities Content
3. Answer the questions 3. Answer the questions
- Let Ss write the email. - Listen carefully to the instructions
- Guide them to write the email + Picture (1) . - T_Ss
- Tell Ss that now they are going to focus on the
body of the email only.
Tell them that answering the guiding questions is
one way to help them brainstorm as well as
organise ideas for their writing.
- Have Ss answer the questions individually,
encouraging them to write the answers in full
sentences.
- Move around to offer help
*T can use the information in this box when
expaining how to write an email to Ss. * Ss learn how to write an email to a friend.
+ Picture (2)

- Invite some ss to share their answers to the

class.
- T Comments on their answers
4. APPLLICATION (8’)
ACTIVITY 4:
Aims: To help Ss practise writing an email to their friend telling about their house.
* Content: Write an email
* Outcome: Ss can write an email to their friend telling about their house.
* Organisation: Teacher’s instructions…

Teacher’s & Student’s activities Content

4. Use the answers in 3 to write a paragraph 4. Use the answers in 3 to write a paragraph of
of 40- 50 words about your school. 40- 50 words about your school.
- T asks Ss to write the body of their email - Ss write themselves.
individually. - To: mira@webmail.com.
- Ss work individually. Subject: My house
- Ss write an email Dear Mira,
- T aska one or two Ss to wri Thanks for your email. Now I’ll tell you about my house
te their email on the board. My name's Mai. I live in a town house in Ha Noi. I
- Other Ss and T commenta on the emails on live with my parents. There are six rooms in our
the board. house: a living room, a kitchen, two bedrooms, and
two bathrooms. I love our living room the best because
- T collects some emails to correct at home.
it's bright. It's next to the kitchen. I have my own
Otherwise, ask Ss to revise their emails at home bedroom. It's small but beautiful. There's a bed, a
based on the comments given and submit them desk, a chair, and a bookshelf. It also has a big
to T at the next lesson window and a clock on the wall. I often read books in
- Ask them to pay attention to punctuation, my bedroom.
structures, word choice, linking words, etc. What about you? Where do you live?
- T goes round helping if necessary. Tell me in your next email
- Other Ss and T comment on the writing. All the best
Nguyen Quynh Anh

5. WRAP-UP & HOME WORK (2’)

- Have Ss summarise what they have learnt with the two skills.
- T can instruct them to draw a mind map to summarise the main points of the lesson.
HOME WORK
- Finish writing an email. Copy in the note books.
- Do more exercises in workbook.
- Prepare new lesson.

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