UNIT 10: ENTERTAINMENT

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Class description
- 24 first-year students (Ss), Department of English, Nam Dinh Teachers Training
College.
II.
Time: 50 minutes.
III. Teaching objectives
- Language:
+ Widen their knowledge of entertainment topic.
+ Review the way to give, make and respond invitation and suggestion.
- Skills:
+ Listening skills: listening for the main idea (acceptances and refusals)
listening for the detail (time and activities)
+ Speaking skills: making conversation to practice give, make and respond
invitation and suggestion.
IV.
Assumed knowledge
- Ss have already known some vocabulary and sentence structures related to the topic.
V.
Anticipated problems
- Ss may have little English vocabulary to express their ideas and make conversations
with their partners.
- Ss might not be confident to speak English.
VI.
Teaching methods
- Communicative approach.
- Task-based learning.
VII.

Teaching aids

- A course book Basic tactics for listening.

- Chalks, a board, handouts.
- A projector and a computer.
VIII. Procedure of the lesson
1. Warm up
Activity 1: Playing Board Race game
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Contents

Teacher and students activities

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- Playing the game

- T divides the class into three teams: team A, B

and C (each team has eight members).
- T instructs the rules:
+ T lets three teams make three lines in front of
the board.
+ In two minutes, each member in each team
takes turn to go to the board and write their free
time activities.
+ T checks answers of three teams and find the
best which has the most correct activities.
- T leads to the new lesson.

2. New lesson
2.1. Pre-listening
Activity 2: Pre-viewing the topic
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Contents
- Answer Ts questions.

Teacher and students activities

- T shows some invitation cards on the screen
and asks Ss what the invitations are for.
- T asks Ss about other invitations that they
have.
- T leads to the next activity.

2.2. While-listening
Activity 3: Checking box for Accept or Refuse
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Contents
- Listen to the invitations.

Teacher and students activities

- T focuses Ss on the picture on the textbook

Possible answers:

and asks Ss to guess what they are taking about.

1. Refuse

- T sets the scene and instructs Ss to do this

2. Accept

exercise.

3. Refuse

- T plays the recording twice.

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4. Accept

- T lets Ss check answers with their friends.

5. Refuse

- T checks Ss answers by asking them to stand

6. Accept

up if they tick refuse and sit down if they tick

accept.
- T leads to the next activity
Activity 4: Filling in the table.

Contents
- Listen to the invitations.

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Teacher and students activities

- T gives Ss handout 1.
- T tells Ss that they are going to listen to the

Invitation
1

for
Dinner

Movie

Coffee

Time
Thursday
9:30,
Saturday
After class,
Monday
Around

Dinner

tennis

shopping

6:30
Wednesday
Sunday

recording again; and for this time they have to

fill in the table.
- T focuses Ss on the table.
- T asks Ss about the types of information that
they have to fill in.
- T asks Ss to try to fill in without listening
again.
- T plays the recording twice.
- T lets Ss check answers in pairs.

afternoon
Friday

- T calls two Ss to write their answers on the

night

- T checks Ss answers with the whole class.

board.
- T leads to the next activity

2.3. Post-listening
Activity 5: Reviewing the ways of expressing and responding invitations.
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7

Contents
- Arrange the cup-ups.

Teacher and students activities

- T asks Ss to work in pairs (Ss turn around to
find their partners).
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Language review:
Expressing Invitation
Do you want to....?
Do you feel like +Ving?
Would you like to......?
How would you like to.......?
Would you be interested
in......ing ?
Refusing Invitation
Im afraid I cant
Im afraid I wont be able
to.....?
Give the Reason
I have to.......
Ive got to.....
Im supposed to......
Accepting Invitation
That sounds great
That sounds like fun
Id love to
Id like to

- T gives each pair a set of cut-ups.

- Ss have to rearrange the cut-ups to make a
conversation.
- T checks Sss answers by asking them to roleplay the conversation.
- T asks Ss to find the way to give and respond
invitations in the conversations.
- T shows the summary on the screen.
- T leads to the next activity.

Activity 6: Making conversations

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12

Contents
- Making conversations

Teacher and students activities

- T pairs Ss by letting them find their soul
mates.
- T gives each student a piece of paper with one
word. Ss have to find the person who has
antonyms with their words (big-small).
- T gives each pair a picture with an activity;
then they have to make a conversation using
ways to give and respond invitations.
- T calls some pairs to make the conversation in
front of the class.
- T asks Ss to give their comments.
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- T gives comments.
Invitation for
1
2
3
4
5
6
Homework assignment

Time

3.

Activity 7: Assigning homework

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Content
- Homework

Teacher and students activities

- T gives Ss homework
+ Prepare for the next lesson
+ Write a short paragraph with the topic My
favourite free time activity.
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Conversation cut-ups
A: Would you like to see a movie this Saturday?
B: Sure. What movie do you want to see?
A: Police Academy 10
B: Great. What time does it start?
A: At 7:30 and 9:30.
B: Lets go to the 7:30 show.
A: Okay. What time do you want to meet?
B: Lets meet at 7:00 in front of the theater.
A: Great. See you on Saturday , then.
B: Yeah. See you on Saturday.