Activity 1: Warm-up · 8 minutes
Music in Our Lives (Period 1)
a) Aims
Ss activate prior knowledge about music shows and are introduced to the six key vocabulary items of the unit.
b) Content
Ss talk about a music show they have watched, using the questions T writes on the board:
- What kind of music do you like?
- Have you ever watched a singing contest? Who were the contestants and the judges?
- Who was in the audience, and how did they react?
T then elicits and explains: audience (khán giả), performance (buổi biểu diễn), contestant (thí sinh), judge (giám khảo), rehearse (tập dượt), traditional (truyền thống).
c) Expected outcomes
Ss give short answers about their experience of music shows, and match each word with its meaning:
- audience – khán giả
- performance – buổi biểu diễn
- contestant – thí sinh
- judge – giám khảo
- rehearse – tập dượt
- traditional – truyền thống
Ss repeat each word aloud after T, and the class identifies the lesson focus: stress, conjunctions and infinitive patterns.
d) Organisation
Teacher's activities
Students' activities
Teacher
Step 1: Task delivering
T writes the title 'Music Show' on the board and asks the questions. T says: 'Think about a music show you have seen. Share with your partner in 1 minute.'
Students
Ss listen, look at the questions and get ready to talk to a partner.
Teacher
Step 2: Task performance
T monitors pairs and helps with vocabulary they need to describe a show.
Students
Ss talk in pairs. Possible answers: 'I like pop and rock.' 'I watched a singing contest on TV. There were five contestants and three judges.' 'The audience clapped and cheered.'
Teacher
Step 3: Report and discussion
T invites 3 pairs to share. T shows the six words on slides and asks: 'Who is the person who decides the winner?' (judge) 'What do singers do before a show?' (rehearse).
Students
Ss share their answers. Ss answer: 'The judge.' 'They rehearse.' Ss repeat the six words after T.
Teacher
Step 4: Conclusion and assessment
T confirms the meanings, checks pronunciation of the six words and states the lesson goal: 'Today we will learn how to stress two-syllable words, join ideas with conjunctions and use infinitives correctly.'
Students
Ss note the new words in their notebooks and listen to the lesson goal.