Giáo án A Closer Look 1

Ss activate prior knowledge about family food traditions and become familiar with the topic of the lesson.

Ss work in pairs and answer the questions:

• Which dish does your family cook on special occasions?
• Who taught you how to cook it?
  T writes the question 'Do you know any family recipes passed down by your grandparents?' on the board.

Each pair gives at least one example of a family dish or tradition, for example: 'We cook banh chung at Tet. My grandmother taught my mother.' T writes three or four of these examples on the board to link to the topic words.

Ss understand the meaning and use of the eight topic words in meaningful phrases and match them to Vietnamese meanings.

Ss read the eight words in meaningful groups and the example sentences:

• heritage (di sản): Recipes are part of cultural heritage.
• preserve (gìn giữ): Families preserve recipes by teaching children.
• generation (thế hệ): Each generation adds its memories.
• traditional (truyền thống): We cooked a traditional dish.
• festival (lễ hội): The festival brings neighbours together.
• communal (thuộc cộng đồng): They met in a communal courtyard.
• memorise (ghi nhớ): Pupils used to memorise long lessons.
• barefoot (chân trần): Some children walked barefoot in the past.
  Ss complete Exercise 1 and Exercise 2 in the textbook.

Ss write the matching pairs in their notebooks:

• heritage – di sản
• preserve – gìn giữ
• generation – thế hệ
• traditional – truyền thống
• festival – lễ hội
• communal – thuộc cộng đồng
• memorise – ghi nhớ
• barefoot – chân trần
  Ss can say each word in a full sentence from the examples.

Ss recognise and pronounce /m/ and /l/ clearly in words and sentences.

T explains:

• /m/ is made with lips together and a nasal voice, as in memory.
• /l/ uses the tongue near the ridge behind the upper teeth, as in lesson.
• Keep the final /l/ in school audible without adding a new syllable.
  Ss say memory and lesson, then read the sentence 'My mother remembers the old school.' Ss repeat the phrase without adding an extra vowel.

Ss can produce /m/ in memory and /l/ in lesson, and they pronounce the final /l/ in school clearly. Ss read the sentence 'My mother remembers the old school.' with clear /m/ and /l/ sounds.

Ss understand and form the past continuous to describe an action in progress at a past time, and use wish + past simple to express an unreal present wish.

T presents the grammar points:

• Past continuous: was/were + V-ing describes an action in progress at a past time.
• Past simple can interrupt it: While Grandma was cooking, I arrived.
• Wish + past simple expresses an unreal present wish: I wish I knew the recipe.
• With be, were is a standard form for all subjects in wishes.
  T shows the example: At eight last night, Grandma was cooking dinner. Ss complete the sentence 'At eight last night, Grandma ___ dinner' (cook).

Ss can write: 'At eight last night, Grandma was cooking dinner.' Ss can explain: 'was + cooking shows an action in progress at a past time.' Ss can explain that 'I wish I knew the recipe' expresses a wish about the present that is not true.

Ss practise the topic words, identify the words they hear and distinguish /m/ from /l/ in the textbook exercises.

Ss complete Exercises 1 to 6 in the textbook:

• Exercise 1 and 2: match the words and Vietnamese meanings.
• Exercise 3: write the English word meaning 'lễ hội'.
• Exercise 4: choose the word that begins with /m/ (A. lesson; B. memory; C. local; D. learn).
• Exercise 5: listen and choose the vocabulary item you hear (A. preserve; B. traditional; C. heritage; D. generation).
• Exercise 6: listen to the sentence and choose the vocabulary concept (A. memorise; B. generation; C. communal; D. barefoot).
  T plays the recordings twice for Exercises 5 and 6.

Answers:

• Exercise 1: heritage – di sản; preserve – gìn giữ; generation – thế hệ; traditional – truyền thống.
• Exercise 2: festival – lễ hội; communal – thuộc cộng đồng; memorise – ghi nhớ; barefoot – chân trần.
• Exercise 3: festival (The festival brings neighbours together.)
• Exercise 4: B. memory (begins with /m/; the other words begin with /l/).
• Exercise 5: C. heritage (The recording says heritage.)
• Exercise 6: B. generation (The sentence is: Each generation adds its memories.)

Ss use the topic words, the past continuous and wish + past simple to talk and write about family traditions and to connect ideas with a logical link.

Speaking (Exercise 7): Ss say memory and lesson, then read the sentence 'My mother remembers the old school.' T gives a personal extension: Ss tell a partner about a family recipe they would like to learn, using 'I wish I knew...'.
Writing (Exercise 8): Ss write two connected sentences using 'communal' and 'barefoot' in Worksheet 1. Ss may add a sentence with 'was/were + V-ing' to describe what people were doing at a past time.

Speaking: Ss say the two words clearly and read the sentence with correct /m/ and /l/. Ss say a sentence such as 'I wish I knew how my grandmother made the cake.'
Writing: a sample answer is 'They met in a communal courtyard. Some children walked barefoot in the past.' A logical link is 'In the past, villagers met in a communal courtyard for the festival, and some children walked barefoot to join them.' Ss must use both words correctly.