Activity 1: Warm-up · 8 minutes
Thinking about TV in our lives
a) Aims
Ss activate prior knowledge of TV and free-time activities, and understand the task of the project.
b) Content
Ss look at four pictures on the screen (a cartoon, a documentary, a comedy and an educational programme) and answer the questions: 'What do you usually do after school?' and 'How important is TV to you?' Ss match each picture with the words cartoon (phim hoạt hình), documentary (phim tài liệu), comedy (phim hài) and educational (có tính giáo dục). Then T introduces the project brief: a small-group survey about free-time activities, sources of information, time spent watching TV and reasons for watching.
c) Expected outcomes
Ss identify the four programme types and say at least one activity they do after school. Ss can state the project task in one sentence, for example: 'We will ask a small group of pupils about their TV habits and report the results with the sample size.'
d) Organisation
Teacher's activities
Students' activities
Teacher
Step 1: Task delivering
T shows the four pictures and asks: 'Which programme do you like? What is a cartoon?' T then asks the question: 'What do you usually do after school?' and explains that the class will do a project about TV.
Students
Ss look at the pictures, listen to the questions and think about their own answers.
Teacher
Step 2: Task performance
T asks Ss to work in pairs, match the pictures with the words and talk about their favourite programme for one minute.
Students
Ss match cartoon, documentary, comedy and educational with the pictures. They discuss: 'I usually play football after school. I sometimes watch cartoons.'
Teacher
Step 3: Report and discussion
T invites two or three pairs to share their answers and asks: 'Do you think TV is important for everyone?'
Students
Expected answers: 'I think TV is important because I learn new words from documentaries.' / 'For me, reading is more important than TV.'
Teacher
Step 4: Conclusion and assessment
T confirms the vocabulary and states the project task. T emphasises that results must be reported honestly and that a small group cannot represent the whole school.
Students
Ss copy the project task and the vocabulary into their notebooks.