Bài soạn môn học Tiếng Anh lớp 11 năm 2009 - Unit 9: The post office

Period: 
UNIT 9 : THE POST OFFICE
Lesson : READING
Date of preparation:
Date of teaching:
I. Objectives: 	
1. Educational aim: Ss should be aware of the importance of the services offered by the post office.
2. Knowledge:
 a. General knowledge: At the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to:
 - know about the services of the post office.
 - improve their reading skills (skimming, scanning, deducing, time reading)
b. Vocabulary: equip, express, transfer, notify, recipient, subscribe
3. Skills: Integrated, mainly reading
II. Methods: Integrated, mainly communicative
III. Techniques: Questions and answers, repetition, pair work, explanation, T/F statements, gap filling, multiple choices, games
IV. Teaching aids: Textbook, charts, pictures and chalks
V. Procedure:	
 Teacher’s activities
 Students’ activities
1. Lead-in:
- Has Ss join in a short tour to find “A secret place”.
- Has Ss watch five countries on the screen. Each country has a question related to “the secret place”. Ss have to choose A, B, C or D for the question.
 By answering these questions correctly, Ss will have clues to guess it.
 1. Where was the first postage stamp released?
 A. Italy B. France C. England D. USA
 This is the place where people sell and buy a necessary thing for sending a letter.
2. In what year did Alexander Graham Bell invent the first telephone? 
 A. 1840 B. 1870 C. 1970 D.1907
 This is the place from which a person is sent to deliver newspapers and letters.
3. Where was the first postage stamp released?
 A. 1840 B. 1940 C. 1804 D. 1904
 This is the place where you can get money sent from your family or relative.
4. Where was the first airmail in the world?
 A. China B. England C. India D. USA
 This is the place you can buy a cell phone card. 
5. When did De Valayer establish the postal system?
 A. 1640 B. 1643 C. 1654 d. 1653
 This is the place where you can make a phone call if you do not have a home telephone.
- Gives feedback and leads to topic of reading text: “We are going to read a text about postal services of Thanh Ba post office.”
2. Pre-reading: 
- Asks some Ss to answer immediately the following questions:
 1. How far is it from your home to the nearest post office?
 2. How often do you go to the post office? What for? 
 3. What services do you think the post office offers?
- Gives feedback.
- Pre- teaches some new words
+ equip (v)- explanation: supply with what is needed in a company or an office.
+ express (v)- synonym: very fast
+ transfer (v)- explanation: to hand over from one person or one place to another
+ notify (v)- Vietnamese equivalent
+ recipient (n)- example: My friend sent me a letter. She was the sender. I received the letter, I was the recipient.
+ subscribe to newspapers or magazines (v)- explanation: arrange to receive newspapers/ magazines regularly
Has Ss guess the meaning of these new words basing on the T’s guidelines.
Reads aloud the words and asks Ss to repeat.
 3. While- reading:
- Has Ss read the passage silently within 2 minutes
*Task 1(Task 2 in textbook): Question & answer
- Asks Ss to read the text again and find the answers to the questions in textbook
Reading tips: Ss should read all the questions carefully and underline the key words, then identify the positions of these key words on the passage and answer the questions.
- Goes around and provides help if necessary.
- Asks Ss to compare the answers with their partners. 
- Calls on some Ss to read aloud the answers and give evidence.
- Has Ss write answers on the board.
- Asks for peer corrections.
- Gives feedback.
*Task 2: (Task 3 in the textbook)
- Changes some information in some sentences presented in the textbook.
- Has Ss view these changed sentences on screen.
 1. You can make a phone call at Thanh Ba Post Office at 10p.m.
 2. You can save money if you send a parcel which is over 15 kg.
 3. The post office offers a special mail service which is particularly fast.
 4. Your relatives have to wait till tomorrow to get the money you send them today.
- Asks Ss to decide True or False for the above sentences in pair within 1’.
- Asks some Ss to answer and give evidences.
- Gives feedback.
*Task 3: (Task 1 in the textbook)
- Explains the requirement of the task.
- Divides the class into 2 groups.
- Gives each group 4 flash cards.
- Asks each group to discuss and then write theirs choices A, B, C or D for each sentence on flash cards.
- Asks each group to stick the flash cards on the board.
- Asks for peer corrections.
- Gives feedback.
4. Post- reading:
- Has Ss work in group of 4 or 5.
- Asks each group to make a short advertisement about their own post office basing on some clues.( Each group will be a post office)
 + Name of the post office.
 + Date of celebration.
 + Special services.
- Let Ss work in group within 2’.
- Asks a representative of each group to present in front of class.
- Gives feedback.
5. Homework:
- Asks Ss to:
+ write a short paragraph basing on the following questions:
 1. Which service provided by Thanh Ba Post office do you think is the most important and why?
 2. What services do you think Thanh Ba Post Office should have in the future?
+ learn new words by heart.
+ prepare for the next lesson: Speaking- Unit 9
- Listen.
- View.
- Expected answers.
1. C
2. B
3. A
4. A
5. B
- Listen.
- Answer immediately
1. About one and a half kilometers.
2. Sometimes. To send registered letters or receive a parcel from my friends in Russia and the USA. 
3. The post office offers a lot of various services, both domestic and international such as Mail and Parcel Service, Express Money Transfer, Phone Calls and Faxes, Press Distribution, Flower Telegram Service.
- Listen
- Listen and take note
- Guess the meaning
- Repeat after the T 
- Read silently
- Read the text
- Listen
- Compare
- Read aloud
1. Thanh Ba post office equipped with advanced technology.
2. Mail and parcel service, express Money transfer, phone calls and faxes, press distribution.
3. They are airmail, surface mail and the Express Mail service (EMS).
4. It is used for notifying the recipient of the time and place to receive the call.
5. You will have to subscribe to your favourite newspapers and magazines.
- Write down on the board
- Give corrections
- Listen
- View
- Discuss with their partners
- Give answers and evidences
1- F. The post office opens daily from 7 a.m to 9 p.m.
2- T. We offer a very competitive rate for parcels under 15Kg.
3- T. We also have the EMS and your EMS mail will be delivered in the shortest possible time.
4- F. We offer a speedy and secure servile for transferring money in less than 24 hours
- Listen
- Listen
- Divide into 2 groups
- Discuss and write down
1. C 2. B 3. D 4. C
- Stick
- Give corrections
- Listen
- Work in groups
- Make short advertisements
- Present in front of the class
- Listen
- Write short paragraphs
- Learn by heart
- Prepare
VI. Self- evaluation: 
 Period: 
UNIT 9: SPEAKING
Date of preparation:
Date of teaching:
I. Objectives: 	
1. Educational aim: Ss should be aware of the importance of the postal services and using the language they have learnt to speak more freely and fluently in meaningful situations 
2. Knowledge:
 a. General knowledge: By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to:
 - talk about different postal and telecommunication services and make requests.
 - improve their speaking skills.
b. Vocabulary: 
3. Skills: Integrated, mainly speaking
II. Methods: Integrated, mainly communicative
III. Techniques: Questions and answers, repetition, pair work, explanation, role play, games
IV. Teaching aids: Textbook, charts, pictures and chalks
V. Procedure:	
 Teacher’s activities
 Students’ activities
1. Warm- up: 
- Divides the class into 2 groups.
- Asks Ss to discuss in groups to find out as many post office services as possible within 1’.
- Asks the representative of each group to write their answers on the board.
- Gives feedback.
- Leads to the lesson: “Today we are going to talk about some postal services”.
2. Pre- speaking:
*Task 1:
- Show Ss a chart of a dialogue (in wrong order)
between a customer with a clerk at the post office
a. It’s five thousand dong. You can see the rates on the table.
b. Could you help me to send this document to my office by fax?
c. You’re welcome.
d. Excuse me!
e. It’s 04.7223898.
f. Thank you. Oh. How much is that?
g. Yes. What can I do for you, sir?
h. Yeah. I see. Here you are. Thank you.
i. Ok. I’m sending now.
j. Certainly. What’s the fax number, please?
- Divides the class into 2 groups.
- Asks Ss in groups to reorder the dialogue within 1’.
- Asks each group to write down their answer on the board.
- Gives feedback.
- Asks Ss: “What service is the customer using in the dialogue?”
- Asks Ss to practice the dialogue in pairs within 1’.
- Asks some pairs to act out the dialogue.
- Gives feedback.
- Takes out some information from the dialogue and encourages Ss to make their own one.
A: Excuse me!
B: Yes
A: Could you..?
B: Certainly. What’s..?
A: .
B: Ok.
A: How much is that?
B: It’s
A: Here you are. Thank you.
B: 
- Asks some volunteers to act out the dialogue immediately.
- Gives feedback.
*Task 2:
- Asks Ss to list structures of making request.
- Gives feedback.
- Has Ss pay attention to intonation of request sentences. (lowing your voice at the end of the sentence.)
- Explains the requirement of task 2: making a conversation from the suggestions in the textbook.
- Asks Ss to work in group of 4 or 6 within 2’.
- Goes around to help Ss.
- Calls some Ss to act out the conversation they’ve made.
- Asks some Ss to retell some information mentioned in the conversation of their friends.
- Gives feedback.
*Task 3:
- Divides the class into 2 groups and gives each group a situation.
Situation 1: You want to subscribe to the Lao Dong Daily for a year and have the newspaper delivered to your home every morning before 6.30. Your address is 67 Ngoc Ha Street, Hanoi.
Situation 2: Your best friend’s birthday is on 16th May. You want to use the Flower Telegram Service provided by the post office to send her a greetings card and a bunch of red roses on her birthday. 
- Asks each group to make a dialogue between a clerk at the post office and a customer basing on given situation within 2’.
- Calls representatives of each group to do the task.
- Asks for peer correction.
- Gives feedback.
4. Post- speaking:
- Has Ss play ‘Hot seat’ game.
- Explains the rule of the game: One volunteer will be asked to stand in front of the class. The rest of Ss will be shown a sentence and their duty is to try to explain every underlined words or phrases for the volunteer to guess without mentioning the words in their explanation.
- Asks the volunteer to say whole sentence.
* Could you tell me where the city post office is ?
 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
5. Homew ... eedback.
4. Post- writing:
- Divides the class into 3 groups.
- Gives Ss a chart of some sentences that make up a formal letter and has Ss put these sentences in the right order within 4’.
 Dear Mr. John,
 a. I realize that it is our responsibility as tenants to keep its clean and tidy, but this is impossible to do at present.
 b. I wish to complain about the condition of the laundry in our building, 125 Mountain St, London.
 c. Secondly, the door doesn’t close properly, so leaves and other rubbish blow in.
 d. I expect that you will put these matters right as soon as possible.
 e. Recently a further problem has developed with pigeons nesting in the roof.
 f. Firstly, the drain-pipe is leaking, and there is always a pool of water on the floor.
 Yours sincerely,
 Susan Smith 
- Asks each group to gives their answer.
- Gives feedback.
5. Homework: 
- Asks Ss to:
+ write a satisfactory letter about “The prices of the services” basing on the organization they have learnt.
+ prepare for the next lesson: Language focus- Unit 9.
- Listen
- Choose the answer: C
- Listen
- Listen
Do as directed.
Satisfied
Dissatisfied
The opening hours
On time
Too late/ too early
The quality of the equipment
good
Poor/bad/ need repairing
The security condition
good
Poor/No one keep motorcycles
The attitude of the staff
Polite/ helpful/ thoughtful
Rude/ arrogant
The prices of the services
reasonable
High
The punctuation of delivery of letters and newspapers
Always punctual
Miss deliver/ deliver to wrong address
- Listen
- Read and decide
+ Letter 1: Dissatisfaction
+ Letter 2: Satisfaction
- Analyze the 2 letters
- Listen and take note
- Divide
- Write letters
- Stick on the board
- Gives comments
- Listen
- Divide
- Look at the chart and do as directed
 Suggested answer:
 1. b
 2. f
 3. c
 4. e
 5. a
 6. d
- Listen
- Listen
+write
+prepare
VI. Self- evaluation:
Period: 
UNIT 9: LANGUAGE FOCUS
Date of preparation:
Date of teaching:
I. Objectives: 	
1. Educational aim: Ss should be aware of the importance of pronouncing correctly and using defining relative clauses and non- defining relative clauses in daily life.
2. Knowledge:
 a. General knowledge: By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to:
 - pronounce and distinguish the sounds / sp /, / st /, / sk / correctly.
 - understand and use defining relative clauses and non- defining relative clauses skillfully.
b. Vocabulary: gentlemen, burglar, shoplifter, tenant, impatient
3. Skills: Integrated skills
II. Methods: Integrated, mainly communicative
III. Techniques: Questions and answers, pair work, explanation, gap filling and practice.
IV. Teaching aids: Textbook, charts, pictures and chalks.
IV. Procedure:
 Teacher’s activities
 Students’ activities
1.Warm-up :
- Divides the class into 2 groups and asks Ss to close their books.
- Asks each group to write on the board:
+ 4 words containing the sound /sp/ like speak.
+ 4 words containing the sound /st/ like street. 
+ 4 words containing the sound /sk/ like skim.
- Sets the time limited in 2 minutes. The group who first finishes wins
- Leads to the lesson: Today we will learn how to pronounce the 3 sounds / sp /, / st / and / sk /.
2. Pronunciation 
2.1. Presentation
- Helps Ss pronounce these sounds by demonstrating them clearly and correctly.
- Reads through the words containing the 3 sounds on page 97.
- Reads again and asks Ss to repeat.
- Calls on some Ss to read aloud.
- Asks for peers’ comments
- Gives feedback. 
2.2. Practice
- Models the dialogue with a S
- Asks Ss to practice the dialogue in pairs within 2’.
- Goes around and provides help when necessary.
- Calls on some pairs to act out in front of the class.
- Asks other Ss to gives corrections.
- Gives feedback.
3. Grammar :
3.1. Presentation
a. Defining relative clauses
Definition: A defining relative clauses is dependent a clause standing after a noun to definite this noun. If we omit this clause, the meaning of the preceded main clause will be unclear. 
The form:
S
O
Possessive
for persons
Who
That
who
whom
that
0
Whose
for 
things
Which
that
which
that
0
Whose
of which
1. Subject pronouns:
* for person:
+ The student is from China. He sits next to me.
 The student who sits next to me is from China. 
 That
+ A burglar is someone. He breaks into a house to steal things.
 The burglar is someone who breaks into a house to steal things that
* for thing:
+ A dictionary is a book. It gives you the meaning of words.
 A dictionary is a book which gives you the meaning of words. That
+ I don’t like these stories. They have unhappy endings. 
 I don’t like these stories which have unhappy endings. That
2. Object pronouns:
* for person:	
+ The woman left him after a month. He fell in love with her.
 The woman whom he fell in love with left 
 Who/that/0
him after a month.
 The woman with whom I fell in love left him after a month.
+ The man was very kind. I talked to him yesterday.
 The man whom I talked to yesterday was 
 Who/that/0 
very kind.
 The man to whom I talked yesterday was very kind.
* for thing:
+ The picture is very beautiful. She is looking at it.
 The picture which she is looking at is very beautiful. That/0
 The picture at which she is looking is very beautiful.
+ She is staying at that hotel. I introduced it to her.
 She is staying at that hotel which I introduced to her. That/0
Note:
+ Only whom or which is used after preps in relative clauses.
+ Never put preps before that or who in relative clauses.
3. Possessive: who
* for person
+ I know the man. His bicycle was stolen last night.
 I know the man whose bicycle was stolen last night.
+ The film is about a spy. His wife betrays him.
 The film is about a spy whose wife betrays him.
* for thing
+ I join in the dancing club. Its members are very friendly and cheerful.
 I join in the dancing club whose members are very friendly and cheerful.
b. Non- defining relative clauses
Definition: A non- defining relative clause is a dependent clause standing after a noun which is definite already. It does not define the noun, but merely add something to it by giving some more information about it. Unlike defining relative clauses, it is not essential in the sentence and can be omitted without causing confusion. 
Use: Non- defining relative clauses are used after proper nouns (Peter, French, Manchester/ possessive adjectives (my, her, his)/ demonstrative adjectives (this, that, these/ those) 
+ Kyoto has many temples. It used to be the capital of Japan.
 Kyoto, which used to be the capital of Japan, has many temples. 
+ Ann is trying to get a job. Her children are at all school day.
 Ann, whose children are at all school day, is trying to get a job.
Note:
+ Non- defining relative clauses are put between 2 commas “,”.
+ “That” is not used in non- defining relative clauses.
+ Relative pronouns which replace objects can not be omitted.
3.2. Practice
*Exercise 1:
- Explain the requirement of the exercise.
- Has Ss to do the exercise individually.
- Goes around and provide help if necessary.
- Asks Ss to compare the answers with their partners
- Calls on some Ss to read aloud the answers and write them down on the board.
- Asks other Ss to give comments.
- Gives feedback.
* Exercise 2:
- Explain the requirement of the exercise.
- Has Ss to do the exercise individually.
- Goes around and provide help if necessary.
- Asks Ss to compare the answers with their partners
- Calls on some Ss to read aloud the answers and write them down on the board.
- Asks other Ss to give comments.
- Gives feedback.
* Exercise 3: - Explain the requirement of the exercise.
- Has Ss to do the exercise individually.
- Goes around and provide help if necessary.
- Asks Ss to compare the answers with their partners
- Calls on some Ss to read aloud the answers and write them down on the board.
- Asks other Ss to give comments.
- Gives feedback.
* Exercise 4:
- Has Ss to do the exercise individually.
- Goes around and provide help if necessary.
- Asks Ss to compare the answers with their partners
- Calls on some Ss to read aloud the answers and write them down on the board.
- Asks other Ss to give comments.
- Gives feedback.
 4. Homework
- Asks Ss to join the sentences using who, that or which.
1. We often go to the town cultural house. The town cultural house always opens ton public holidays.
2. I like reading books. Books tell about different people and their cultures.
3. On my mom’s birthday my dad gave her roses. The roses were very sweet and beautiful.
4. The subjects are interesting. We talk about them in class.
5. Some of the people are rude. A waiter has to serve at the restaurant.
6. Hunger and poverty are worldwide problems. Solutions must be found to them.
7. The people were factory workers and their families. The novelist wrote about them.
8. Alan and Jackie explained their absence to the teacher. They didn’t come to class yesterday.
9. Seoul is well-known for its shopping centers. It hosted the 1988 Summer Olympics.
10. The sun provides us with heat and light. It is one of millions of stars in the universe.
- Prepare the next lesson: Reading- Unit 10
- Divide
- Write down on the board
- Listen
- Look at the T and listen
- Listen
- Repeat after the T
- Read aloud
- Give comments
- Listen
- Models with the T
- Practise in pairs
- Act out
- Give corrections
- Listen 
- Listen and take note
- Listen
- Do as directed
- Compare
- Give the answers
1. A burglar is someone who breaks into a house to steal things.
2. A customer is someone who buys something in a shop.
3. A shoplifter is someone who steals things in a shop.
4. A coward is someone who is not brave.
5. A tenant is someone who pays rent to live in a house or flat.
- Give comments
- Listen 
- Listen
- Do as directed
- Compare
- Give the answers
1. who
2. whose
3. who/ whom
4. whose
5. who/ whom
- Give comments
- Listen 
- Listen
- Do as directed
- Compare
- Give the answers
1. The man who/ that answers the phone told me you were away.
2. The waitress who/ that served us was very impolite and impatient.
3. The building which/ that was destroyed in the fire has now been rebuilt.
4. The people who/ that was arrested have now been released.
5. The bus which/ that goes to the airport runs every half an hour.
- Give comments
- Listen
- Listen
- Do as directed
- Compare
- Give the answers
1. Peter, who has never been abroad, is studying French and German.
2. You’ve all met Michael Wood, who is visiting us for a couple of days.
3. We’re moving to Manchester, which is the north-west.
4. I’ll be staying with Adrian, whose brother is one of my closest friends.
5. John Bridge, who has just gone to live in Canada, is one o my oldest friends.
- Give comments
- Listen
- Listen and do as directed.
- Prepare