Giáo án Tiếng anh 7 Friends Plus Unit 3 THE PAST

Week: Planning date: Period: LESSON PLAN
TIẾNG ANH 7 FRIENDS PLUS
UNIT 3: THE PAST - LESSON 1: VOCABULARY (PPP) PEOPLE AND PLACES I. AIMS: 1. Language contents:
- Vocabulary: (adj) boring / exciting, poor / rich, dead / alive, familiar / uncommon, awful / brave, useful / useless, cruel / kind,
brilliant / terrible, popular / unpopular, enormous / tiny
2. Knowledge: By the end of the lesson, my students will be able to give an opinion on past events and order events in the past using sequencing words. 3. Skills: Main skills
: reading and listening skills. Sub skills : speaking and writing skills.
4. Attitude: be confident to talk about events in the past. 5. Competences:
Talk about the events in the past.
Express what students like and don’t like.
II. TEACHER’S AND STUDENTS’ PREPARATIONS:
1. Teacher: pictures, textbooks, powerpoint slides, ….
2. Students: textbook, notebook.


III. TECHNIQUES: Qs& As, games, visualize…. IV. PROCEDURES: TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES STUDENTS, ACTIVITIES CONTENTS
I. WARM-UP. T- Ss - T / Ss - Ss / (5’) Like and dislike
- Divide the board into two columns. Draw
- Put the objects and names into the suitable Suggested answer:
happy face for Like and sad face for Don’t like. column. I like my dog.
- Provide some objects, animals and names of - Report to the class.
famous people such as motorbike, Michael I don’t like coffee.
Jackson, etc. and ask students to put them into the appropriate column.
- Ask some students to tell the class about what they like and don’t like.
II. PRESENTATION. T - Ss - T / Ss - Ss / Indiv. (10’) Set context:
- Read the questions with the class, ‘How Suggested answers:
many years are there in a century? How
- Some students volunteer to answer the
There are 100 years in a century and
many centuries are there in a questions.
1,000 years in a millennium.
millennium?’ and elicit the answers. - Listen to the teacher.
1865: eighteen sixty-five (19th century)
- Review how to say years from different
- Look, listen and repeat in chorus and
centuries, eg. 1865, 1288, 1602.
1288: twelve eighty-eight (13th century) individuals
- Lead to the topic – The Past
1602: sixteen oh two (17th century)

Teach new vocabulary:
- Use pictures and explanations to present new words.
- Ask students to practice their pronunciation drills. New words: New words: Century (n) /ˈsentʃəri/ Century (n) Millennium (n) /mɪˈleniəm/ Millennium (n) Timeline (n) /ˈtaɪmlaɪn/ Timeline (n) Slavery (n) /ˈsleɪvəri/ Slavery (n) Victory (n) /ˈvɪktəri/ Victory (n) Invade (v) /ɪnˈveɪd/ Invade (v) Invent (v) /ɪnˈvent/ Invent (v) Rule (v.) /ruːl/ Rule (v.) Human sacrifice / ˈhjuːmən Human sacrifice (n) ˈsækrɪfaɪs/ VIP (very important person)
III. PRACTICE. T - Ss - T/ S - S/ Indiv.
Activity 1 (5’) Look at A short history of the
Millennium and complete the timeline with paragraphs A-E.


- Focus on the text and elicit that it is a Suggested answers
timeline (a way of showing historical
- Work in pairs to read the paragraphs A 17th century events in order). and complete the timeline. B 20th century
- Ask students to work in pairs to read the
- Check the answers with the teacher. C 18th century
text and complete the timeline. D 15th century - Check answers with class. E 14th century
Activity 2 (5’) Complete the short history
with the correct blue adjectives. Listen and check.
- Ask students to choose the correct
adjectives to complete the text.
- Choose the correct adjectives to Suggested answers: 1. exciting
- Allow students time to compare their complete the text. 2. rich
answers in pairs, then play the audio for - Compare the answers. 3. dead
them to listen and check their answers.
- Listen and check the answers. 4. scary
- Check students’ answers and check that 5. brave
students understand all the adjectives.
- Check the answers with the teacher. 6. useless 7. brilliant 8. cruel
Activity 3 (2’) Read People from the Past. 9. popular
Find five adjectives from A short history of 10. enormous
the Millennium.
- Focus on the People from the past text and Suggested answers:
check students understand that these are
based on fictional interviews with people 1. familiar from the past.
- Read People from the past text and find 2. enormous
- Read out the first quote and elicit the out more adjectives. 3. exciting
adjective from the timeline (familiar).
- Check the answers with the teacher.