Unit 15 : CITIES
PART A: READING
I. Objectives:
1. Educational aim: Students should know how to talk about New York City
2. Knowledge:
- General knowledge: Students know about some famous cities in the world
- Language: Sentences and expression for describing city
- New words: Words related to city
3. Skills: Guessing meaning in context, scanning for specific information and passage comprehension
II. Method: Integrated, mainly communicative
III. Teaching aids: Student’s book and pictures showing some picture about some cites in the world, etc.
IV. Procedure:

Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
Notes

Warm-up: (5 minutes)
- Ask students discuss and retell some famous cities in the world and give some information about them.

- Let students understand more about the history of some cites, today we learn Unit 15- part A: Reading

Before you read : (7 minutes)
- Ask students to look at some well-know places in New York and match the names of the pictures in their books to work in pairs
- Ask and answer questions about New York
- Listen to students and correct pronunciation and grammar if necessary

While you read : (23 minutes)
- Ask students to look through the passage and read in silence
- Help students read the passage
- Explain pronunciation and meaning of new words which appear in the passage
Task 1 : (3 minutes)
- Ask students to match A with their definitions in B
- Let students work individual or in groups
- Help students if necessary
Keys:
1D; 2C; 3E; 4A ;5B

Task2: (4 minutes)
-Ask students read the passage again and decide the statements are true or false
-Go around and help if necessary
-call on some students to answer
-Give feedback
Task 3: (6 minutes)
- Ask students to answer the following questions
- Ask students look through the passages then try to answer the questions in right way
- Let them work in pairs
- Help students if necessary
(the answers in the passage)

After you read : (8 minutes)
- Ask students to close their books
- Ask them to discuss the questions “ if you could visit New York, which places of interest there would you like to see? Why?”
-Call on the groups to tell and explain their choice
- Listen to students and correct mistakes

Home work: (2 minutes)
- Ask students to write a passage about city they have known (80 words)
- Ask students to do Reading exercise of Unit 15 in workbook and prepare Part B : Speaking at home

- Open the book
- Listen to the teacher
- Give the answers

- Listen to the teacher and open the book – Unit 15, part A: reading


- Look at the book, listen to the teacher and work in pairs:

- Look at the picture
- Answer the questions





- Listen to the teacher then read the passages
- Ask some new words if necessary


- Keep the book open
- Listen to the teacher then do task 1
- Ask the teacher if necessary
- work individual or in group
- Write down in the notebook
- Listen to the teacher
-Do the task individually
-Compare the answer with the partner’s answer



- Try to answer the questions
- Practice with a partner then write them down in the note books
- Ask the teacher if necessary



- Listen to the teacher
-Discuss and give reason why .
- The students who are called to stand up to talk loudly are intelligent ones





- Listen to the teacher and write down homework