UNIT 1:
LETTERS


A. Aims:
- Introduce key language items followed by selected notes.
- Help students develop reading and comprehensive skills.
Skills: Main skill: Reading and Writing
Sub skills: Listening and Speaking.
Vocab: to pick someone up, to get someone home, a cold, to decide, to keep away from
B. Objectives:
- Ss know the forms of a friendly letter: heading, greeting, body, closing, signature.
- Ss will be able to write friendly letters.
C. Teaching aids:
- Textbook, boards, real pictures and charts, some envelopes and 4 letters, handouts.
D. Stages:
1. Review
Warm-up(Point at some envelopes and ask:)
What are they?
What is inside each envelope?
Expected answers from students :
They are envelopes.
Money, birthday cards, wedding cards, letters, ……….
2. Introduction (Elicit)
Have you ever written a letter to someone?
How many kinds of letter do you know?
Expected answers: letters of invitation, letters of regrets, letters of thanking, letters of accepting the invitation….
In most English-speaking countries, people often write letters to invite friends or relatives to some occasional activities: to the parties, to the circus, to outside entertainment…..
Do you know how to write a letter of invitation or refusal effectively?
How many parts are there in a letter?
(5 parts: heading, greeting, body of message, closing, signature.)
3. Presentation
Pre-teach vocab:
1. a good time
a. to take someone home

2. to pick someone up
b. a fun or pleasant time (Have a good time)

3. to get someone home
c. to make up one’s mind

4. to have a cold.
d. to stay out of

5. to decide
e. to take somebody into a car

6. to keep away from
f. to have a flu

Feedback :
4. Practice
Pre-reading :
Divide the Ss into 4 smaller groups, then give each group an envelope (in which there are four letters) and ask them to classify them :
Inviting letter
Accepting letter
Refusing letter
Thanking letter
While-reading :
Read four letters and answer the following questions:
1.When is the circus coming again? ( after making a tour of England )
2. Who did they want to invite to go with? ( Ann )
3. When could they pick Ann up? ( at six thirty on Oct. 27 )
4. May Ann go to the circus with Mary’s family? ( Yes, she may. )
5. Does Ann go to the circus with Mary’s family? Why or Why not? (No. She’s got a cold)
6. What has Ann been thinking all day about after seeing the circus? (the animals and the tent shows )
Do exercises in textbook, page 10.(Guess the Words / Are You Sure You Read Well?)
Post-reading :
What language can you use in……….?
Inviting letters:
Can you join us?/ I want you to…./ I’d like you to…/ Would you like to…./ I’m wondering whether you could…..?/
Accepting letters:
I’m very glad to…/ I’m very happy to…/ It’s a good idea./ I’ll wait for … at …/
Refusing letters:
I’m sorry I can’t …./ Thanks for your invitation but…./ What an unlucky person I am!/ I wish I could.......
Thanking letters:
Thank you very much/ Thank for…/ I’m very grateful to you for….
Communicative activities :
Divide class into 4 groups, each group writes a letter of inviting (to a birthday party, a family picnic, a class meeting, the cinema….)
Collect those letters and send to other groups, then ask them to write letters of accepting or refusing.
Ask the Ss who write the accepting letters write the thanking letters after they join the activity and ask the others each write a letter of invitation.
4. Summary
Inviting letters, accepting letters, refusing letters, thanking letters.



UNIT 1 :
PRACTICE 1 – 2


A. Aims:
- Supply a knowledge of English and its uses through communicative and writing activities.
- Skills: Main skill : Writing
Sub skills : Reading, Listening, Speaking.
B. Objectives:
- Ss know the forms of a friendly letter: heading, greeting, body, closing, signature.
- Ss will be able to write friendly letters.
C. Teaching aids:
- Textbook, boards, real pictures and charts, handouts.
D. Stages:
1. Review
(Collect all the letters the Ss wrote last period.)
Rearrange the following information into