Giáo án A Closer Look 1

Ss activate prior knowledge about rooms and objects in a house and are introduced to the topic 'My house'.

T shows pictures of an apartment building, a kitchen, a hall and a bedroom. Ss guess the name of each place in English and say what they can see in it.
Questions T asks:

• What place is this?
• What can you see in this room?
• Where do you keep your clothes at home?

Ss name at least three places (apartment, kitchen, hall) and two objects (cupboard, pillow) using the sentence pattern 'There is a cupboard in the kitchen.'

Ss understand the meaning, form and use of the eight topic words and can make example sentences with them in context.

T presents the eight words: apartment (căn hộ), living room (phòng khách), kitchen (nhà bếp), wardrobe (tủ quần áo), cupboard (tủ đựng đồ), shelf (kệ), pillow (gối), hall (hành lang).
T explains that words are learned from big to small: an apartment → a kitchen → a cupboard. T highlights in the kitchen, on a shelf, and the plural shelf → shelves.
Examples: There are two pillows on my bed. My brother keeps cups in the cupboard.
Questions T asks:

• Is an apartment bigger or smaller than a kitchen?
• Where do you keep cups?
• Where is the shelf in your room?

Ss' word notebook contains eight entries, each with the English word, its Vietnamese meaning and one example sentence about a real place or object, for example: 'We cook in the kitchen.' 'There is a shelf above my desk.' 'I put my books on the shelf.'

Ss recognise and pronounce the plural endings /s/ and /z/ by the final sound of the base word.

T models the words in two groups:
Group A (/s/): lamps, desks, books
Group B (/z/): rooms, chairs, beds
T explains: /s/ is pronounced without vibration of the vocal cords, /z/ is pronounced with vibration. The ending depends on the final sound of the base word, not the last letter: lamps ends with /p/, so the ending is /s/.
T notes that words ending with hissing sounds may take /ɪz/, which is not the focus today.
Question T asks: 'Put your hand on your throat. Do you feel vibration in lamps? In rooms?'

Ss sort the six words into two groups in their notebooks.
Group A (/s/): lamps, desks, books
Group B (/z/): rooms, chairs, beds
Ss also record themselves reading the six words and write one note on the sound they find hard.

Ss use the topic words and the sounds in the lesson to complete listening, matching and choosing tasks, and explain their choices by using context.

Ss complete Worksheet 1 in groups of four:
Exercise 1 and 2: listen to the words and choose the correct one.
Exercise 3: match the topic words to their meanings.
Exercise 4: choose the word that means 'căn hộ'.
Exercise 5: complete the word from its Vietnamese meaning.
Exercise 6: choose the correct meaning of 'hall'.
Ss must explain why they chose each answer.

Answer key:

1. B (lamps)
2. A (chairs)
3. wardrobe – tủ quần áo; cupboard – tủ đựng đồ; shelf – kệ; pillow – gối
4. C (apartment)
5. pillow
6. B (hall = hành lang)
   Explanation example: 'I chose B because I heard the /s/ ending and the word is lamps.' 'I chose C because apartment means căn hộ.'

Ss produce original sentences and read words aloud to talk about their own homes.

Exercise 7: Ss write two original sentences using two different words from the lesson.
Exercise 8: Ss read aloud lamps, desks, books, rooms, chairs, beds, then use one of the words in a sentence.
Questions T asks:

• Which room do you like most at home?
• What is in that room?
  Criteria: each correct sentence in meaning and grammar gets 1 point; clear final sound gets 1 point; meaningful sentence gets 1 point.

Examples of Ss' sentences:

• There is a pillow on my bed.
• We keep cups in the kitchen cupboard.
• My room has two shelves and a wardrobe.
• I read books on the shelf in the living room.