LESSON PLAN

Week: ……

Period: ……

Date of teaching: …………………

TEXTBOOK:
UNIT 3: OUR MEALS
LESSON 1: READING
Reading about traditional meals in Việt Nam

A. OBJECTIVES
By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to know words about Vietnamese dishes and enhance
general knowledge about customs during the meal.
1. Core competencies
- Reading competence: skimming and scanning skills about the traditional Vietnamese meals.
2. General competencies
- Communication and collaboration: To improve students’ skills
- Problem-solving and creativity: Students love reading about some leisure activities and find it
easier to do reading exercises.
3. Attributes
- Kindness: help partners complete learning tasks.
- Diligence: work hard to complete learning tasks.
- Honesty: tell the truth or play fair in games.
- Responsibility: appreciate kindness.
- Leadership: collaborate with teachers to enhance language skills.

B. LANGUAGE FOCUS AND SKILLS

1. Vocabulary
- Vocabulary: Names of Vietnamese dishes (mắm, spring rolls, Vietnamese sausages, dried fish,
stewed meat, fish sauce, fish soup, pickles, boiled chicken)
2. Skills: Listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
C. RESOURCES AND MATERIALS
- Student book – pages 28, 29
- Flashcards/Pictures (Popular leisure activities among teenagers)
- Teacher’s Guide
- Computer, projector, ….

D. LEARNING EXPERIENCES

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WARM-UP/REVIEW
Objective: This game is used to get students to come up with food vocabulary.
• Draw a grid 8x7 on the board Students think of words about Slide 3,
• Divide the class into 2 teams: red team food and say out loud. Slide 4
(using red chalk/marker) and blue team
(using blue chalk/marker) Students find ways to put 5
• Each team takes turns saying a name of a words in a row and stop another
dish and putting their mark in empty team to get 5.
squares/ rectangles.
• The team gets 5 of their marks in a row
(up, down, across, diagonally) is getting 1
point for the team.
• Play the game until both teams fill up the
grid.
🡪Expected Outcomes and Assessment
- Task completed with excellence: Students have excitement and active their brain to come up with
food vocabulary for the upcoming session
- Task completed: Students can say names of the food.
- Task uncompleted: Students do not pay attention to the class
PRESENTATION
Objective: To learn some new vocabulary in the text and practice reading skills
Exercise 1/ page 28: What do you usually eat for Exercise 1/ page 28:
breakfast, lunch and dinner? Write down your - Ss goes around the class Slide 5,6,7
answers. Then ask some of your classmates and and have an interview
fill in their information. with their friends.
- T asks one student to do an example: - Ss takes note in their
What do you have breakfast/ lunch/ dinner? textbook.
- T require Ss to fill their short answers in the table - Ss makes questions and
by writing names of the dish. answers.
- T asks Ss to interview 2 of their friends what they
have for 3 above meals. Then fill up the table.
- Time for this activity: 2 minutes.
- Finally, T invites Ss to present simply and shortly
what they did.
Example: I interviewed 2 friends: Lan and Trung.
Lan / Trung usually has….. for breakfast, lunch and
dinner.
Exercise 2/ page 28: Slide 8 to
Exercise 2/ page 28: These foods appear in the - Ss thinks and writes slide 17
passage on page 29. Choose the correct food for down in the textbook.
each picture given. - Ss reads out loud the
- Have students a few minutes read the words and words.
look over the pictures. - Ss work in pairs/ groups
- T requires Ss to look at the pictures carefully and to complete the task.
write the correct word below pictures.
- T have Ss check the answers and show the PPT
slides.

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 🡪Expected Outcomes and Assessment
- Task completed with excellence: Students can get new vocabulary about Vietnamese dishes and
build communication skills.
- Task completed: Students can answer questions about their meals.
-Task uncompleted: Students are unable to get new vocabulary.

PRACTICE
Objective: Know how to do multiple choice questions and practice reading skills
Exercise 3/ page 28: Now read the passage and Exercise 3/ page 28: Slide 18 to
match the highlighted words or phrases to their slide 26
definitions (1-8). - Read the text in 1 minute from
- Have students read quickly the text by following the left to the right and from the
these steps below: top to the bottom.
- Focus on the highlighted words
● Read the text in 1 minute from the left to
in the text and guess the
the right and from the top to the bottom. meaning.
● Focus on the highlighted words in the text - Ss compare their answers with
friends and teachers. Then
and guess the meaning. correct the mistakes by
- Have students read the definitions and match it themselves if necessary.
with the highlighted words in the text. - Ss goes through all the words
- It’s not necessary to follow numbers 1 to 8 in in exercise once.
order. Slide 27 to
- T show PPT slides to confirm the correct Exercise 4/ page 28: slide 35
answers. - Students read and try to
understand the meaning and
Exercise 4/ page 28: Choose the words from choose the words in exercise 3,
exercise 3 to complete the sentences. then fill in the blanks.
- Explain to the students that they have to read all - Students can ask the help from
the sentences from 1 to 8. friends and discuss.
- It’s not necessary to understand words by words - Double check with the
in the sentences. teacher’s answers.
- T invites Ss to give their answer, then shows the Slide 36 to
answer key. Exercise 5/ page 29: slide 44
- Ss skims or scans the text
again and do the multiple-choice
Exercise 5/ page 29: Read the passage again and answers.
choose the correct answer for each space (1-8). - Pay attention to the tenses in
- Share the exam advice for students: the text.
+ read the words/ phrases before and after the - Identify the types of missing
space to decide the parts of speech they need for words if they are verbs, nouns,
the spaces. adjectives, adverbs.
+ Choose the answer which is grammatically
correct and fits the meaning.
- Set the time for students: 3 minutes.
- Have students answer and show the key on PPT
slides.
🡪Expected outcomes and assessment
- Task completed with excellence: Students can read the text quicky, recognize and guess the

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meaning of new words in the text without translation in their own language. Besides, they can
complete all the exercise with the least mistakes.
- Task completed: Students can skim the text and understand the main content of the text.
- Task uncompleted: Students are unable to understand the text and don’t know how to do the
exercises.
PRODUCTION
Objective: To use and apply all the vocabulary and knowledge about traditional Vietnamese dish in
a conversation
Exercise 6/ page 29: Work in pairs. Do you Exercise 6/ page 29: Slide 45, 46
know why the tray in Việt Nam family meals is - Discuss with friends and give
round? Choose the correct answer. opinions about the questions.
- Show 2 pictures of the meal and introduce that - Use the phrase “To me, I think
they’re the trays. …” or “In my opinion….”
- Elicit the shape of the ray: round or square or - Share the ideas in front of the
triangle class.
- Ask students to discuss why the tray is round
which based on the clues in the textbook.
- T collects answers from different students. It
might have different answers with new ideas.
Extra activities – Food Quiz Slide 47 to
Extra activities – Food Quiz Students read the clues and give slide 56
Objectives: This game is used to help students the answer.
review vocabulary in the reading session. Students have to say out loud the
• This game can be played individually/ names of the dish, don’t use a
groups. finger to point.
• Students read the clues and guess the names
of dishes/ spices.
• Here are names of 8 dishes/ spices: fish
sauce, Vietnamese Spring rolls, mắm, chili
powder, ginger, grilled pork, stewed meat,
Vietnamese sausages.
• Use point systems to encourage students to
join this game.

🡪Expected outcomes and assessment

- Task completed with excellence: Students can say the names of the dishes, share their ideas and join
the activities excitingly.
- Task completed: Students can memorize words about Vietnamese food.
- Task uncompleted: Students are unable to say the dish and less communication.
WRAP UP AND HOMEWORK
*Unscramble word (Slide 58 to slide 64)
- T shows the letters of a word.
- Students try to match various consonant with vowels to see what students come up with.
- Ss gives the answers and show the key for students.

*Homework
- Go through what students have learned from the lesson.
- Ask students to learn the words from Unit 3
- Require students to practice pointing and speaking with the pictures from the unit.
- Ask students to prepare for the next lesson.
REFLECTION

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