Unit 3. A trip to the countryside

QUANG CHAU SECONDARY SCHOOL
ENGLISH 9
Unit 3 : A TRIP TO THE COUNTRYSIDE
LESSON 1 : - Getting started
- Listen and read
Teacher : Nguyen Do Thu
Welcome to our class !
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Warm up :
Guessing word
The place where farmers live

(There are 11 letters)
PRE - READING :
UNIT 3 : A trip to the countryside
She is watering the vegetables .
They are swimming .
She is feeding the chicken .
or She is collecting the eggs .
They are harvesting the crop .
He is feeding the pig.
He is plowing the field .
He is flying his kite .
They are playing soccer .
1. Pre – teach vocabulary :
Ex : I was born in Hue . Hue is my homevillage .
- Home village (n) : quê nhà
= temple
- Shrine (n)
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: đền , nơi thờ cúng
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- Banyan tree (n) : C©y ®a
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- Bamboo forest (n) : luỹ tre
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- Riverbank (n) : bờ sông
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Vocabulary :
- home village (n) : quê nhà
- shrine (n) : đền , nơi thờ cúng
- banyan tree (n) : cây đa
- bamboo forest (n) : luỹ tre
- riverbank (n) : bờ sông

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Shrine
riverbank
Bamboo forest
Home village
Banyan tree
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2. Checking : What and Where
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True or False statements prediction :
. Ba and his family had a trip to their home village .
. Many people like going there for their weekend .
.There is at the entrance to the village.
. Liz has a snack
. There is a shrine on the mountain near Ba’s village .
. Everyone had a picnic
. Everyone left the village late in the evening .
. Liz had to show the trip to her parents .
. Liz wants to go there again .
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a small bamboo forest
at the house of Ba’ uncle .
on the mountain .
a videotape
two day
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Guess
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Exercise a page 23: True or false? Check (V) the boxes. Then correct the false sentences.
Ba and his family had a two – day trip to their home village.

2. Many people like going there for their weekends.
3.There is a small bamboo forest at the entrance to the village.

4.Liz had a snack at the house of Ba’s uncle.

5.There is a shrine on the mountain near Ba’s village.
6.Everyone had a picnic on the mountain.

7.Evveryone left the village late in the evening.
8.Liz had a videotape to show the trip to her parents.

9.Liz wants to go there again.
II. Listen and read
( a day trip )
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( a big old banyan tree)
( under the banyan tree)
( on the river bank)
( took a lot of photos)
Listen and answer the questions :
1. How did they go to Ba `s home village ?
2. How far is it from Hanoi to Ba`s homevillage ?

UNIT 3 : A trip to the countryside
Listen and answer the questions :
1. How did they go to Ba `s home village ?
2. How far is it from Hanoi to Ba`s homevillage ?
By bus
About 60 kilometers
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Guiding question
A . What did Ba , Liz and his family do on their journey to his home village ?
B. What did Liz think of the trip ?
UNIT 3 : A trip to the countryside
Reading :
Guiding question
A . What did Ba , Liz and his family do on their journey to his home village ?
B. What did Liz think of the trip ?
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Reading :
They visited Ba`s uncle , walked up the mountain to visited a shrine,went
boating and had a picnic on the river bank.
Liz enjoyed the trip very much; she took a lot of photos.
1. Where is Ba `s village ?
Comprehension questions :
2. How did Ba and his family get to the village ?
3. Where is the banyan tree ?
4. What did they see on the mountain ?
5. Where did they have their picnic ?
6. What did Liz do to show the trip to her parents ?
7. What does Liz wish ?
It `s 60 kms to the north of Hanoi .
They got to the village by bus .
IT `s at the entrance to the village .
They saw the shrine of a Vietnamese hero on the mountain .
They had a picnic on the riverbank .
Liz took a lot of photos to show her parents .
Liz wishes she could visit Ba`s village again .
Comprehension questions :
Lucky numbers
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1. Where is Ba`s village ?
2. How did Ba and his family get
to the village ?
3. Lucky number
4. Where is the banyan tree ?
5. What did they see on the mountain ?
6. Lucky number

7.Where did they have their picnic ?
8. What did Liz do to show the trip
to her parents ?
9. What does Liz wish ?
10. Lucky number
Post reading :
Retell the Ba`s trip to the countryside .
UNIT 3 : A trip to the countryside
Homework :
Learn new words by heart .
Prepare Lesson 2 ( Ss prepare some information about their own or imagined village :
Ex : Where is it ?
How far is it ?
How can you get there ?
What is it like ? ) .
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