A CHAU ENGLISH Teacher:

Grade: 7 - 12 students
Teaching time: Wednesday night - December 18th, 2024 Nguyen Hoang Thinh
(19.00 - 20.30)
Students’ level: Pre-intermediate Teacher’s supervisor:

LESSON PLAN
UNIT 4B: MYSTERIES

I. OBJECTIVES
By the end of the lesson, students are able to:
1. Knowledge & ability:
● Understand and can talk about mysteries.
● Vocabulary: sail, lookout boy, mast, on deck, realize, storm, legend, disappear, etc.
● Grammar: simple past and past progressive.

2. Quality:
● Have a positive attitude to learning so that they can participate enthusiastically in all
classroom activities, especially with the topic conducted by the teacher.
● Know how to talk about mysteries, and share other mysterious stories.

II. RECENT WORK

● Students have finished the whole Unit 4a.

III. APPROACH AND TEACHING AIDS

● Communicative Approach
● PowerPoint presentation, blackboard, textbook, chalk, handouts.

IV. ANTICIPATED PROBLEMS

● Technical problems may occur.
● Students may not know some new words in the lesson.
● Students may not understand the instructions from the teacher.
● Students may be tired and unwilling to participate.

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 V. TEACHING PROCEDURE
1. Greeting
2. New lesson

TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES

WARM UP: LUCKY WHEEL (5 min.)

- Introduce the game and explain the rules of the game: - Pay attention and listen
1. Choose a number to answer the question. carefully.
2. A wrong answer means another group’s turn to answer.
3. Spin the wheel to have points.

- Start and moderate the game.

- Announce the winning group. - Join the game.
- Lead into the lesson: 4b - Mysteries - Clap their hands.

VOCABULARY (14 min.)

- Explain the meaning of the words by giving pictures, contexts,
- Focus on the lesson and
definitions and examples.
interact with the teacher.
1. sail (n)
→ sail (v)
- Take notes and write
2. lookout boy (n)
down the meaning in the
3. mast (n)
handouts provided.
4. on deck (phr.)
5. realize (v)
6. storm (n)
7. legend (n)
8. disappear (v)

- The whole class repeats

- Conduct repetition for each vocabulary item.
after the teacher.
- Ask students to write down new words in their handouts.
- Some students read
- Have students do a quick recap of the vocabulary items presented.
aloud the answers.

Check Ss’ understanding of the new words.

Taboo words game (5 mins)

1. There are words on the screen - Listen carefully

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2. One student comes and turn against the word.

3. Others hint to the player but can not say the word

- Check Ss’ understanding of the rules.

- Moderate the game. - Answer the question.
- Show the answer after each round.

Exercise 1: How can the words/ phrases in the list be related to the
ship in the picture? (5 mins)
- Ask students to read the instruction - Listen carefully and
- Ask students to look up the words in their dictionary. follow teacher’s
- Ask students to predict the content of the text relating to the picture. instructions.

Exercise 2. Look at the text. What type of text is it: a diary? a letter? a
captain’s log? (5 mins) - Listen carefully and
- Ask students to read the instruction follow teacher’s
- Read the title and elicit the text type from the class instructions.
- Explain how to recognize the different text types.

Exercise 3:
a) Listen to the sounds. What do you think happened? Listen, read,
and check. (5 mins) - Read the instructions.
- Ask students to read the instructions. - Pay attention to the
- Play the recording for students to listen and predict what happened teacher.
- Play the next recording for students to follow the text in their books. - Listen carefully and
- Check whether their predictions were correct. follow teacher’s
instructions.

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 - Listen carefully and
b) How did you feel about the text? Why?
follow teacher’s
- Elicit a variety of answers from students around the class.
instructions.
- Ask students to justify their answers.

Exercise 4: Read the story again and put the events in the order they
happened. Then compare in pairs. (5 min)
- Ask students to read the instructions. - Listen carefully and
- Give students enough time to read the text again and put the events follow teacher’s
(a-g) in order. instructions.
- Check students’ answers.

Exercise 5: Complete the sentences with words/phrases from Ex.1 (5

min.)
- Ask students to read the instructions - Read the instructions.
- Explain the task - Listen carefully and
- Students complete the task using the words/phrases in Ex. 1 follow teacher’s
- Check students’ answers. instructions.

Exercise 6: Explain the words/phrases in bold. Then match the

underlined words with their synonyms from the list below. (5 min.)
- Ask students to read the instructions.

- Ask students to read words/phrases in bold.

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 - Ask students to explain 8 new words they have learned. - Listen carefully and
follow teacher’s
- Ask students to match the words with their provided definitions.
instructions.

- Ask students to read underlined words and match them with their
synonyms from the list.

- Check students' answers.

Exercise 7.
a) Find and correct 2 mistakes from this summary (5 min)
As a ship was sailing around the Cape of Bad Hope, the lookout boy called
out because he saw a ship coming close. The captain went on deck and
everyone was looking in surprise at the tiny ship. Then the strange ship
disappeared…
- Ask students to read the instructions.. - Listen carefully and
follow teacher’s
- Ask students to read the summary and find the mistakes.
instructions.
- Check students’ answers.

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b) Rewrite the rest of this summary and make at least 3 mistakes.
The class corrects you.
… The captain realized that it was The Flying Dutchman, the ship of
Captain Van der Decken, which haunted those waters. The captain then
turned to look at the lookout boy, but he was gone. According to the legend,
whoever looked at the ship closely disappeared.

- Divide the class into 2 groups.

- Ask each group to discuss where they make the mistakes and each
member takes turns rewriting the summary on the board.
- Ask each group to find the mistakes from the other group.
- Check each group’s mistakes.

Exercise 8. Listen to Jane talking about something. What is she

talking about? (5 min.)
- Ask students to read the instructions - Listen carefully and
- Explain the task and read the three options. follow teacher’s
- Play the recording for students to choose an answer. instructions.
- Check students’ answers and elicit what helped students decide on
their choice.

Exercise 9. Read the theory and say the examples in your language.
Then find examples in the text. (8 min.)
- Show examples and explain the form and usage of the grammar - Listen carefully and
point. follow teacher’s
- Ask students some questions to elicit the form and usage. instructions.
- Ask students to write down the form and usage in their handouts.
- Ask students to read the instructions
- Ask students to find examples in the text and ask for their usage.

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Exercise 10. Put the verbs in parentheses in the correct tense (5
mins)
- Ask students to read the instructions. - Listen carefully and
- Ask students to do the task. follow teacher’s
- Check students’ answers. instructions.

Exercise 11. Complete the sentences using the simple past or the
past progressive. (5 mins)
- Show the currencies and ask the students whether they know or not. - Listen carefully and
- Show the numbers with currencies and ask students to read them follow teacher’s
chorally. instructions.

Exercise 12. Project: Use the events in Ex. 4 to mime the incident to
the class. Your partner recounts it to the class (5 mins)
- Divide the class into 2 groups. - Listen carefully and
- Ask each member of a group to choose a role: a narrator, a captain, a follow teacher’s
lookout boy and crew members. instructions.
- Ask students to practice miming and prepare for their performance.
- Ask each group to perform their mime and give compliments.

Consolidation & Homework (3 min.)

- Ask students to repeat new words.
- Remind students to learn the new vocabulary from the lesson.
- Tell the students to do the workbook and prepare for the next
lesson: Unit 4 – Part 4C.

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