Vietnam National University-HCMC

University of Social Sciences and Humanities

Faculty of English Linguistics and Literature

LESSON PLAN
UNIT 1: From me to you
1. Description of the class
This is the class of 20 students in an English Center. They are from twelve to fifteen years old and they are at Pre-
Intermediate level. They study English for half an hour, twice a week (Saturday & Sunday). There are 12 girls and 8 boys in
the class. The duration of this course is 5 months, including 60 classes (average a Unit is divided into 4 classes). The room
is comfortable with 11 desks and 21 chairs for both T and 20 Ss. There are board, mark pens, dusters, lights, fans, speakers,
computer and projector. The main textbook and handouts are deliveried to learners on the first day.
2. Text book
English knowhow - Student book 3/Angela Blackwell, Therese Naber; with Gregory J. Martin, - New York - Oxford
University Press, 2005s.
3. Goals of the course
- Use preposition to describe the places of something in their house, their class
- Usepast tense and present perfect tense in making sentences
- Use comparative and superlative adjective

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- Use modal verbs can/could/may to ask for help
- Pronounce –ed endings
- Stress the important words in a sentence
- Recognize consonant groups
Lesson background:
1. The previous lesson: Unit 1: From me to you - students studied speaking and writing about the types of
communication.
2. Today’s lesson: Unit 1: From me to you (cont) - Use preposition in, on, behind, in front of, and next to make
conversation, fill in blanks, make sentence.
3. The next lesson: Unit 2: Who were they? - students will study the form and the usage of past tense. They will study
some new words about characteristic, appearance to describe a person.
4. The activities: individual,pair work, whole class

3. Objectives:
At the end of the lesson, students will be able to
a. Improve Speaking skill
- Use prepositions of place IN/ON/ BEHIND/ IN FRONT/ NEXT TO to make and answer the questions with their
classmates
- Distinguish the sound/b/ and/p/ in pronunciation
b. Improve integrated skills
- Reading skill: learn 22 vocabularies about rooms and furniture around the house

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 Living room: a sofa, a curtain, a lamp, a basket of flowers
Kitchen: a stove, a fridge, a sink, a cupboard, a bowl, a plate
Bedroom: a hanger, a wardrobe, a pillow, a blanket
Bathroom: a bar of soap, a towel, a tub, a tab
- Listening and writing skill: The teacher can check the writing and listening ability of the students. The teacher can
check as if the students have studied the vocabularies at home or not. The teacher can check the grammar of the students
by make them write some sentences to describe the positions of some furniture in their house.

4. Methodology:
Students have to communicate in the target language. Students have to think in the target language as soon as possible.
Therefore they have to make their own questions for the other classmates to answer as well. Students have to work in
pair to make questions about the position of some things in the class.Automatic reflex of Ss is created and improved in
every lesson. The main aim is to help S have spontaneous conversations in real situations. Moreover, the students have
to study to distinguish /b/ and /p/ is this lesson. All the new words and grammar are inductively taught. This is the
reason why the Direct Method is chosen.

5. Materials and sources:

a. Handouts
b. Pictures from the Internet
1. Living room: a sofa, a curtain, a lamp, a basket of flower
2. Bedroom: a hanger, a wardrobe, a pillow, a blanket

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 3. Kitchen: a stove, a fridge, a sink, a cupboard, a bowl, a plate
4. Bathroom: a bar of soap, a towel, a tub, a tab
Source: onlineenglishexpert.com

6. Procedures:
.
Possible/
expected
Stages Class activities
Objectives answers to Possible
&Time Explanation
problems
exercises
Teacher Students (KEY)

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Reading (15 Students can Have the Read aloud the The teacher points
minutes) improve their students read passage to the part of the
speaking and aloud a picture the sentence
reading skills. passage about describes after each
the position of has read his
some furniture sentence
in the house

Have students Use L2 to ask the Whole class Students can make
use target teacher mistakes related to
language to grammar→ T has
ask some to correct the
questions mistakes by asking
the students to
make a choice.

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Oral activity Students should Have students Answer to teacher’s Whole class If the students have
(20 minutes) learn to think and answer to her questions mistake when they
communicate in question base make questions and
the target on the picture answer, let them
language. on the screen correct by
themselves by
Have each Answer to their Whole class asking them to
student make friend ‘s questions make a choice.
question for Ex: Is or are
the class to flowers on the
answer table? (correct: are)

Have each Answer to his or Pair work

student to her friend’s
make questions
questions and
answers about
the place of
some furniture
in the class.

Pronunciation Show the pictures The students may

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should be worked of lamp to contrast have mistake when
on right with lamb they pronounce the
word “lamp”. Help
students distinguish
lamp with lamb.

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 Fill in blank Practice to use Have students See the pictures, fill Give Appendix 2 to
(5 minutes) preposition in the see the in the blanks and students and
sentence pictures with read the sentences correct
some loudly
sentences,
which are
missing
words.

Dictation Check the Dictate a short Write in their Give the appendix
(5 minutes) listening skill and paragraph notebooks 3 to students after
vocabularies of about position collecting some
students of some notebooks of
furniture in a students
house

7. Additional possibilities

Stages Objectives Possible

Class activities Explanation Possible/
problems

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 &Time Teacher Students expected answers to exercises (KEY)

Practice

Game (10 Relaxation Have students Listen to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idJYhj

minutes) listen to a song GyWTU
“Where’s the and find
Monkey?” and the
find out the words
prepositions they
which are know.
learned.
Give students
meaning of
words which
appears in the
video if they
want to know
more.

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8. Homework:

a. Put the words from the box in the correct column. There is more than one correct answer.
table/plate/bed/chair/desk/TV/sofa
kitchen
living room
bedroom
b. Read the text. Draw a picture of the room
It’s a very big room. There is a white board on the wall. There are many desks in the room. There is a chair behind each desk. There are big
windows and it is very bright. There are textbooks, notebooks, and pens on the desks.
c. Describe your house in 8 sentences.

9. Appendices:
Appendix 1: Text for reading. (20 sheets)
Appendix 2: Pictures and sentences that are missing words (20 sheets)
Appendix 3: Paragraph about position of some furniture in a house (20 sheets)
Appendix 3: Homework (20 sheets)

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