Unit 1. A visit from a pen pal

Tuesday, August 23rd , 2011
Lesson1: Getting started – Listen & read
Unit 1:
A VISIT FROM A PENPAL
WARM UP:
a) Do you have any pen pals?
b) Where does she/he live?
c) Has she/he visited your city?
d) What activities would you do during the visit?
Yes, I have./ No, I haven’t.
She/he lives in …………….
Yes, she/he has./ No, she/he hasn’t.
I think I’ll take our friends to the temples
and churches.
I’ll take them to the beach, to the mountain,…
Hung’s Temple
the Temple of Literature
Huong’s Temple
Dong Xuan Market
Ben Thanh Market
Vung Tau Beach
Vung Tau Beach
Nha Trang Beach
Nha Trang Beach
HCM’s Museum
HCM’s Mausoleum
The Temple of Literature
restaurant
restaurant
Opera house
Opera house
Ba Den Mountain
Dau Tieng Lake
One pillar Pagoda
Water puppet theater
HCM’s Stilt House
1. Getting started:
Now let’s imagine you have a foreign pen pal
who is coming to visit you for the first time.
He/she’s going to stay with you for a week.
What activities would you do during the visit?
A: Do you think this is a market place?
B: I think so. I think this is one of the places we want to
take our friends to. We can do some shopping or just
introduce her/him a Vietnamese market.
A: I believe she will be interested in it.
C: I’d like to take her/him to a Vietnamese restaurant
in town. I want to introduce her/him our famous Nem.
2. Listen and read:
a) Vocabulary:
correspond (v)
Trao d?i thu tín
mosque (n)
Nh� th? h?i gi�o
to be impressed by (v)
b? ?n tu?ng b?i
pray (v)
c?u nguy?n
depend on (v)
Ph? thu?c v�o
.
depend
correspond
pray
be impressed
mosque
b) Model sentences:
Lan took her to Hoang Kiem Lake
=> S + V (QK) + O
I wish you had a longer vacation.
=>S1 +wish +S2 +V(QK) +….
Lan used to walk past the mosque
=> S+ used to + bare V
2. Listen and read:
X
X
X
X
Post reading:
a) Where is Maryam from?
b) How long have Lan and Maryam been pen pals?
c) What places did Lan take her to?
d) What was Maryam impressed by during the visit?
She is from Malaysia.
They have been pen pals for over two years.
She took her to Hoan Kiem Lake, HCM’s Mausoleum,
the History Museum, the Temple of Literature,…
She was impressed by the beauty of the city and
by the friendliness of its people.
HOMEWORK:
Learn by heart new words.
Read the test and answer the
questions again.
Prepare Speak & Listen.