Giáo án Tiếng Anh 9 Global Success Unit 9 Skills 1

Form

Pronunciation

Meaning

Vietnamese equivalent

1. model (n)

/ˈmɒdl/

something that a copy can be based on because it is an extremely good example of its type

mẫu, mô hình.

2. standard (n)

/ˈstændəd/

a moral rule that should be obeyed

chuẩn mực

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

Brainstorm

– Ask Ss these two questions.

- Encourage Ss to share theiranswers. Share with Ss youranswers.

- Lead to the new lesson: Reading and speaking about the three circles of English and borrowed words.

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

- Listen and answer.

Questions:

- Do you know any countries in the world that use English?

- What countries set thestandards of English?

TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES

STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES

CONTENTS

Vocabulary pre-teaching

- Teacher introduces the vocabulary.

- Teacher explains the meaning of the new vocabulary by showing pictures or giving explanations

- Students guess the meaning of words.

New words:

1.model (n)

2.standard (n)

Task 1: Look at the diagram. Put the names of the countries where English is spoken in the correct circle. (3 mins)

- Have Ss look at the diagram in their books and say what they can see. Share with them that it shows three concentric circles of English. This model was proposed by Kachru, a Professor of Linguistics.

- Ask Ss to work in pairs to put the names of the countries where English is spoken in the correct circle.

- Have some Ss share their answers. Write their answers on the board. Ask them to read the text quickly to check their answers. Confirm the correct ones.

- Tell Ss that they are going to read a text about the three circles of English.

- Look at the diagram and listen/

- Work in pairs

- Share answers.

- Listen

Answer keys:

Inner Circle: New Zealand

Outer Circle: Singapore; Malaysia

Expanding Circle: Russia, Viet Nam

Task 2: Read the text and choose the correct answer A, B, C, or D.(5 mins)

- Tell Ss what they are going to do. Have them do the exercise individually and then check their answer in pairs.

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

- Listen and do the task individually

Answer key:

1.B

2. D

3. D

Task 3: Read the text again and fill in each blank in the summary with no more than TWO words. (7 mins)

- Ask Ss to read the text again and fill in each blank in the summary with no more than two words from the text.

- Have Ss share how to do this exercise. If necessary, briefly tell them the steps: Read each sentence, underline the key words in each sentence, locate the key words in the text and decide which words needed to fill in each blank. Ask Ss to repeat the steps if necessary.

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

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

Transition from Reading to Speaking:

- Ask Ss to briefly summarise the text based on the table of information.

- Tell Ss that in its development English has borrowed many words from other languages.Ask if they know any Vietnamese words that have been used in English. Invite Ss to answer. Share with them the two words that are in the English-English dictionary: pho and banh mi.

- Lead to the speaking part which is about borrowed words in English.

- Read the text and fill in the blanks.

- Share

- Listen the steps.

- Repeat the steps.

- Do the exercise individually.

- Check

- Summarise the text

- Listen

Answer key

1. first language

2. official

3. follow

4. foreign language

5. rules

TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES

STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES

CONTENTS

Task 4: Work in pairs. Read the following words. What do all the words have in common? (7 mins)

- Tell Ss that they are going to work in pairs to answer the question in the book.

- Invite some pairs to share their answers. Give the correct answer.

- Listen and follow instructions

- Work in pairs.

Answer key:

They are the words which English borrowed from other languages.