Giáo án Tiếng Anh 9 Global Success Unit 12 Skills 1

Anticipated difficulties

Solutions

1. Students may lack knowledge about some lexical items.

Provide students with the meaning and pronunciation of words.

2. Students may have underdeveloped reading, speaking and co-operating skills.

- Let students read the text again (if needed).

- Create a comfortable and encouraging environment for students to speak.

- Encourage students to work in pairs, in groups so that they can help each other.

- Provide feedback and help if necessary.

3. Some students will excessively talk in the class.

- Define expectation in explicit detail.

- Have excessively talkative students practise

- Continue to define expectations in small chunks (before every activity).

TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES

STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES

CONTENTS

Option 1: Brainstorm

- Write nail artist, ticket seller, and online teacher on the board.

- Ask Ss which of these jobs have been known for a long time, and which one(s) has recently become popular. Encourage them to talk about what leads to the popularity of the new job. Challenge them to list other jobs that have recently been created (software engineer, internet security engineer, smartphone technician, etc.).

- Tell Ss that they are going to read and talk about how the world of work is changing.

- Introduce the objectives of the lesson. Write the objectives in the left corner of the board.

- Look

- Answer the questions

- Talk about what leads to the the popularity of the new job.

- Listen

Words:

nail artist, ticket seller, and online teacher

Questions:

- Which of these jobs have been known for a long time?

- Which one(s) has recently become popular?

- What leads to the popularity of the new job?

Option 2: “Work in 2040” headlines

- Project “2040 Newspaper Headlines” on the board

- Ask Ss to work in pairs to create their own futuristic headlines.

- Share and discuss.

- Work in pairs

- Listen and follow

Examples:

“AI Lawyer wins Landmark Case”

“3D-Printed Food Revolutionizes Dining”

Questions:

- What trends do these headlines represent about the future workplace?

TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES

STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES

CONTENTS

Task 1: Look at the jobs below and answer the questions.(3 mins)

- Have Ss quickly answer the questions. Then check as a class.

- Ask Ss to guess why jobs like nail artists and online teachers are becoming more and more popular.

- Alternatively, write “a school teacher” and “an online teacher” on the board. Ask Ss to compare these jobs in terms of the skills that each teacher will need (e.g. computer skills, IT skill such as using video conference apps and other tools to create games online, teaching skills such as how to keep Ss’ attention during lessons, etc.).

- Tell them that besides there are many changes that are happening in the world of work and they will read about some in the article.

- Listen and answer questions

- Listen and follow instructions

Question:

- Why jobs like nail artist and online teachers are becoming more and more popular?

- Compare “School teacher” and “Online teacher” in terms of the skills that each teacher will need.

Answer key:

1. Ticket seller, 2. Nail artists, 3. Online teacher

Task 2: Read the article and do the tasks that follow. (5 mins)

a.

- Have Ss look at the gaps 1-2-3 in the text. Elicit from them that the sentence which fits each gap must be the topic sentence of the paragraph.

- Tell Ss to read Sentences A-C and underline the key information.

- Ask Ss to think of vocabulary and/or ideas that may relate to each key information. For example, the information “kinds of job” can be illustrated in the reading text by a list of different jobs.

- Ask Ss to complete the matching Activity in 1.

- Check answer as a class

- Encourage explanation from Ss.

b.

- Ask Ss to read the first and the final paragraphs.

- Tell them to decide the best title for the article based on what they have read and the topic sentences that they have matched in 1

- Read the text quickly

- Read sentences and underline key information.

- Think of vocabulary, ideas that may relate to each key information.

- Complete matching Activity in 1.

- Check.

- Read.

- Decide the best title.

Key information:

(way people do their jobs; types of training; kinds of job).

Answer key:

a.

1 – C

2 – A

3 – B

Answer key:

b. A

Task 3: Read the article again and tick (√) T (True) or F (False).(7 mins)

- Ask Ss what type of reading Activity they are doing and what skill is needed.

- Elicit/Briefly tell them the steps: Read the questions, underline the key words in each question, locate the key words in the text and find the information to answer the question. Ask Ss to repeat the steps if necessary.

- Ask Ss to do the Activity individually and then check their answers in pairs.

- Invite some Ss to share their answers. Have them explain their answers. Confirm the correct answers.

TRANSITION FROM READING TO SPEAKING

- To connect the reading and the speaking parts, draw a table and ask Ss to fill in the table with information from the reading text.

- Listen and follow instructions

- Do the activity individually

- Check in pairs

- Fill in the table with information fromthe reading text.

Answer key

1 False

2 False

3 True

4 True

5 False

Suggested Answer: