Giáo án Tiếng Anh 9 Global Success Unit 6 Skills 2

Anticipated difficulties

Solutions

1. Students may have underdeveloped listening skills.

- Play the recording many times if necessary.

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

- Provide feedback and help if necessary.

2. 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

- Introduce the objectives of the lesson: listening to a talk about family life and writing about the changes in your family over a period of five years.

- Ask Ss to list some aspects which they think are related to family life.

- Share with Ss the lesson objectives. Write the objectives in a corner of the board and leave them there till the end of the lesson, or put them on a slide to show Ss.

- List some aspects that related to family life

- Some aspects that related to family life.

Option 2: Family Tree Brainstorm

- Have students create a family tree diagram, starting with themselves as the center and extending outwards to include their parents, grandparents, siblings, …..

- Encourage students to add details to each branch of their family tree, including names, relationships, occupations, memorable events, and any unique traditions or customs associated with their families.

- Have Ss share their family trees with the class.

- Discuss how family dynamics and traditions have evolved over time, and how these changes have impacted the family life.

- Listen and follow instructions.

- Create family tree diagram.

- Share family trees

- Discuss

Family tree

Grandparents:parents:

Me

Siblings:

TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES

STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES

CONTENTS

Task 1: Listen to a talk about family life. Work in pairs. Choose the aspect(s) that you think will be mentioned in the talk.

- Have Ss to work in pairs.

- Ask Ss to read the aspects listed under the picture and tick the one(s) they think the text will mention.

- Invite some Ss to share their answers

- Work in pairs to do exercise

Notes:

All the five aspects in the list might appear in a talk about family life. The purposes of this task are (1) to introduce some topics that a person can mention when talking about family and; (2) to direct the focus of the listening. After the listening, T can ask Ss to refer back and see if their answers are correct.

Task 2: Listen to the talk and tick (√) the correct column.

- Have Ss read the facts (1-5) carefully so that they can have some ideas of the listening text.

- Play the recording and tell Ss to listen for the facts 1-5 and decide if each fact refers to the past or the present.

- Have Ss share their answers in pairs.

- Invite some Ss to share their answers with the class.

- Confirm the correct answers as a class.

- Play the recording again if needed. Pause at places where Ss have difficulties and show them how to find the answers.

- Read the facts

- Listen and do exercise

- Listen and check

Answer key:

The past: 1,3

The present: 2, 4, 5

Task 3: Listen again and fill in the blank with a word or number.

- Tell Ss to read the sentences in 3 to determine what information is missing.

- Tell Ss that they are going to listen again to the text with a focus on picking up the missing information.

- Play the recording. Have Ss do the task individually.

- Invite some Ss to share their answers with the class.

- Confirm the correct answers as a class.

- Play the recording again if needed, stopping at the place where students are having difficulties.

- Listen instruction.

- Listen and do the task individually

- Listen and check

Answer key:

1. two (nuclear and extended)

2. three

3. family-oriented

4. elders

5. privacy

Audio-script

Family life has changed a lot over the past 50 years.

Firstly, nuclear families have replaced extended ones. In the past, there were usually three generations living together in a household. Now, there are often two: parents and children. The generation gap has become less obvious.

Secondly, Vietnamese people are traditionally family-oriented. Holidays in the past mostly meant gathering, cooking and eating. Now, more families go out, visit a place, play and eat. Overall, holidays have become more relaxing and less tiring.

Lastly, families in the past spent more time talking and doing things together. Children came to their elders to share their experiences and look for answers to their questions. Today’s children have more opportunities to learn from other sources. They do not depend all on their elders. While they listen to their parents, they want their parents to listen to them, too. The relation between parents and children is more democratic. Parents have learned to respect their children’s independence and privacy.

Transition from Listening to Writing:

- Tell Ss that in the coming tasks of writing, they are going to write about the same thing as in the listening: changes in their family over the past five years.

- Listen