Activity 1: Warm-up · 5 minutes
Recalling the Unit 8 Tour Experience
a) Aims
Ss recall the topic of Unit 8 (tourism) and activate the idea of relative clauses through a short, personal speaking warm-up.
b) Content
Ss look at the four example sentences on the slide and answer: 'What does each sentence tell us about travelling?' Then Ss answer the warm-up question: 'Have you ever taken a package tour? What did the guide do for you?'
c) Expected outcomes
- Ss identify the topic: tourism and travelling.
- Ss produce at least one short answer about a tour, such as: 'I went on a package tour to Ha Long Bay. The guide who took us there was very friendly.'
- Ss notice that the relative clause identifies the guide.
d) Organisation
Teacher's activities
Students' activities
Teacher
Step 1: Task delivering
T shows the four example sentences on the slide and asks: 'What does each sentence tell us? Think about the message before the grammar.' T gives the warm-up question: 'Have you ever taken a package tour?'
Students
Ss read the four sentences silently and listen to the question.
Teacher
Step 2: Task performance
T gives Ss 1 minute to think and then asks them to turn to a partner.
Students
Ss discuss in pairs the meaning of the sentences and share their own tour experience in one or two sentences.
Teacher
Step 3: Report and discussion
T invites 2 or 3 pairs to share. T writes one example sentence with a relative clause on the board.
Students
Ss report, for example: 'We booked a package tour. The guide who showed us the temple spoke English well.'
Teacher
Step 4: Conclusion and assessment
T confirms that the examples are about tourism vocabulary and that the sentences contain relative clauses. T introduces the lesson goal: reviewing relative pronouns, word stress, and key vocabulary.
Students
Ss write the lesson title and goal in their notebook.