WELCOME TO OUR CLASS
By: Le Viet Phu
ENGLISH 6
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
Warm up
Small interview
What do you usually send to your family and friends when you are away on a holiday?
Can you tell the class the reasons why?
a postcard
a letter
a gift
NEW LESSON
UNIT 9
CITIES OF THE WORLD
Vocabulary
= wonderful
: cung điện Hoàng gia
- fantastic (a)
- the Royal Palace (n)
- rent - rented (v)
- discover (v)
- overall (a)
: thuê
: khám phá
: chung, tổng thể
Checking vocabulary: Matching
= wonderful
: cung điện Hoàng gia
- fantastic (a)
- the Royal Palace (n)
- rent - rented (v)
- discover (v)
- overall (a)
: thuê
: khám phá
: chung, tổng thể
1. Look at the postcard.
Reading:
1. What is the picture on the postcard of?
2. What do you think is written on this postcard?
3. What is the purpose of writing and sending postcards while you are on holiday?
Love from Sweden
1. Look at the postcard.
Reading:
Love from Sweden
3. What is the purpose of writing and sending postcards while you are on holiday?
We send postcards to tell friends/relatives that we are having a good time at an interesting place, but we still miss them and we want to share our feelings with them and let them know more about us.
1. What is the picture on the postcard of?
2. What do you think is written on this postcard?
The photo is of Stockholm, Sweden.
The sender writes about his/her stay in the city.
To:(9) Grandpa and
Grandma
Hoan Kiem, Ha Noi
VIET NAM
2. Read the postcard and answer the questions.
1. What city is Mai in?
2. Who is with her?
3. What has the weather been like?
4. Where is Mai staying?
5. What has she done so far?
6. What do you think ‘fika’ means?
7. What will she do tomorrow?
8. How is Mai feeling? How do you know?
3. Read the text again and answer the questions.
1. What city is Mai in?
2. Who is with her?
3. What has the weather been like?
4. Where is Mai staying?
5. What has she done so far?
3. Read the text again and answer the questions.
She is in Stockholm, Sweden.
She is there with her family. (parents and brother)
The weather has been perfect. It is sunny.
Mai is staying in a hotel.
She has visited the Royal Palace and had ‘fika’ in a café in the Old Town.
Mai is feeling happy because she used the words such as “fantastic”, “perfect”, “amazing”, “too beautiful for words”.
6. What do you think ‘fika’ means?
7. What will she do tomorrow?
8. How is Mai feeling? How do you know?
3. Read the text again and answer the questions.
‘Fika’ (a Swedish word) means a leisure break when one drinks tea/coffee and perhaps has some biscuits with friends and family.
She will cycle to discover the city.
4. Read the text again and match the headings with the numbers.
a. Address of the person / people who get the postcard
b. Weather / hotel / food
c. Opening
d. What you have seen or done
e. Closing
f. A very popular sentence used for postcards, near the closing
g. What you will do next
h. An overall feeling about the place
i. Date
(1)
(9)
(4)
(2)
(5)
(8)
(7)
(6)
(3)
1. Date
2. Opening
3. An overall feeling about the place
4. Weather / hotel / food
5. What you have seen or done
6. What you will do next
7. A very popular sentence used for postcards, near the closing
8. Closing
9. Address of the person / people who get the postcard
4. Read the text again and match the headings with the numbers.
How a postcard
is organized.
SPEAKING
4. Choose a city. Imagine you have just arrived
in that city and want to tell your friends about
it. Make notes below.
• When did you arrive?
• Who are you with?
• Where are you staying?
• What have you done?
• What are you doing tomorrow?
• How are you feeling?
Model making notes
• When did you arrive?
• Who are you with?
• Where are you staying?
• What have you done?
• What are you doing tomorrow?
• How are you feeling?
just arrived in Phu Quoc
a friend
hotel
talked to local people, taken photos, gone swimming, had a barbecue
join a scuba-diving tour
happy and excited
When to arrive: _______________________________
Who to be with: _______________________________
Where to stay: ________________________________
What have done: ______________________________
What to do tomorrow: _________________________
How to feel: __________________________________
I/We have just arrived in Phu Quoc
I come here with a close friend, Trang
We are staying in a hotel near the beach
We’ve talked to local people, taken photos, gone swimming, had a barbecue
We will join a scuba-diving tour
I/We feel happy and excited
5. In pairs, use your notes to tell your partner about your city. Then, listen and write down notes about your partner’s city in the space below.
Model telling your partner about your city
We’ve just arrived in Phu Quoc and we are having a great time here on the Island. The weather has been sunny. The beaches are so clean with the blue sea and white sand. I come here with a close friend, Trang. We stay in a hotel near the beach. The hotel and the food are great. The local people are very friendly. Trang has taken many photos with them. We`ve gone for a swim all day and had a barbecue dinner with full of seafood on the beach.
Tomorrow we`ll join a scuba-diving tour to explore the colourful coral reefs.
I’m very happy and so excited about the journey. I think it might be the most unforgettable experience of my life.
Model 1- Talking about the city you’ve just arrived
My family and I have just arrived in London this afternoon.
I`m staying at Soho hotel in the city centre. The hotel is very big, clean and beautiful.
Well, we`ve just taken a taxi from the airport to the hotel. Then we`ve had a dinner here. Next, we`ve walked along the Thames River and seen Big Ben.
Tomorrow I`m going to visit some of the most famous landmarks such as Buckingham Palace, Houses of Parliament and Tower of London. I also want to try the most popular drink and food here like tea, and fish and chips.
I`m very excited about this journey. I think it might be the most fantastic experience of my life.
Model 2- Talking about the city you’ve just arrived
Yes, through the lesson we now can read for specific and general information in texts, including postcards; tell about a city that we have just visited.
Please tell me what you have learnt today.
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HOMEWORK
- Learn the new words by heart.
- Read the postcard in 2 (page 32) again.
- Practise telling about a city that you have just visited.
- Do exercise C1,2; D1,2,3 (pages 18,19) in workbook.
- Prepare for Unit 9: SKILLS 2.
Goodbye!
See you again!
THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION!
nguon VI OLET
