Activity 1: Warm-up · 5 minutes
Quick Brainstorm: Community, City and Health
a) Aims
Ss recall the vocabulary and ideas from Units 1 to 3 and connect them to the three themes of the review.
b) Content
Ss work in pairs. Each pair writes as many words as they can under three headings on the board: Local community, City life and Healthy living. Ss then match the following words to the headings: artisan, community helper, congestion, public transport, well-balanced, priority.
c) Expected outcomes
Each pair has a list of at least six words under the three headings. The class agrees that artisan and community helper belong to Local community, congestion and public transport belong to City life, and well-balanced and priority belong to Healthy living.
d) Organisation
Teacher's activities
Students' activities
Teacher
Step 1: Task delivering
T writes three headings on the board and asks: 'What words do you remember from Units 1 to 3 about community, city and health?' T explains that today Ss will review how to read, listen and write about these topics.
Students
Ss listen to the instructions and prepare a blank sheet of paper for their pair list.
Teacher
Step 2: Task performance
T gives Ss 2 minutes to brainstorm in pairs and walks around to help with spelling and meaning.
Students
Ss write words under the headings. Possible answers: Local community – village, workshop, helper; City life – bus, traffic jam, park; Healthy living – sleep, exercise, balanced meals.
Teacher
Step 3: Report and discussion
T asks two or three pairs to read their lists aloud and writes the target words on the board. T asks: 'What is a congestion? Can you give an example?'
Students
Ss read their words aloud. Possible answer: 'Congestion is a traffic jam, for example in the morning near the school gate.'
Teacher
Step 4: Conclusion and assessment
T confirms the meanings: artisan (thợ thủ công), community helper (người giúp ích cộng đồng), congestion (tình trạng ùn tắc), public transport (giao thông công cộng), well-balanced (cân bằng), priority (việc ưu tiên). T says that these words will appear in the reading and writing tasks today.
Students
Ss copy the target words and their meanings into their notebooks.