UNIT 5: HIGHER EDUCATION
Lesson: Reading - Period 26 Date of preparing:……./……/2008.

I.Aims : By the end of the lesson, S.s will be able to :
+ understand the passage about Ss’ first impression about university life.
+ arrange the sequence of an event.
II. Skills :
+ Main skills : reading.
+ Sub skills : speaking.
III. Teaching aids : cassette player, chalks, pictures, text book.
V. Techniques : communinative approach.
V. Procedures :

States/ Timing/ Focuses
Teacher’s avtivities
Students’ activities

1. Warm-up :
2’
T – S.s
S.s – S.s



2. . Pre-reading :
10’
T – S.s
S.s – S.s





3.While-reading:
10’
T – S.s
S.s – S.s



10’
T – S.s
S.s – S.s





4. Post-reading :
12’
T – S.s
S.s – S.s





5. Homework :
1’
T – S.s
Game: Picture guessing.
- Break the class into team A and team B.
- Show Ss a picture about Cambridge University covered with a piece of paper.
- Read for clue, one by one, about the picture and ask Ss to guess what the picture is about.
- The first group to call out the name wins the game.
- Lead-in to the lesson.
Pre-teaching vocabulary:
- campus (n) : an area of land that contains the main buildings of a university or college
- challenge (v): test sb’s ability and skills in an interesting way.
- blame (v): to think or to say that s.o is reasonable for sth bad.
+ blame sb/sth for sth.
- daunting (adj): slightly afraid or worried about sth.
- scary (adj): frightening
- mate (n): friend
* Checking: Gap-fill

Activity 1: Find someone who...
- Let Ss work in paits to read the text about 5-7 minutes and then ask Ss to close their books.
- Preper a stes of card with some information from Sarah, Ellen,and Breden.
- Call on some Ss to give their answers.
- Ask Ss to open their books and check with the whole class.
Activity 2: Questions and answers
- Get Ss to work in pairs to answer the questions.
- Call on some Ss to write the answer on the board.
- Go over the answers with the class.







Discussion:
- Put Ss to work in small groups of four or five to discuss the question: “Is the university study important to you? Why or why not?”
- Tell each group to chooseone secretary to write down their ideas and one representative to report the ideas to the class.
- Give feedback and comments.





- Ask Ss to write a short paragraph about the importance of university study.
- Work in groups.
- Play the game.
*Clues:
1. It’s one of the most famous university in the world.
2. It’s also the oldest printer and publisher in the world.
3. It’s one of the two oldest and famous universities in Great Britain.
4. Its name begins with letter C.
Gap-fill:
1. That’s the…………… story I’ve ever heard.
2. The new library was built in the center of the……………
3. Intelligent boys do something if it really……………them.
4. A………….of mine used to ply soccer for Liverpool.
5. She has a………… task of cooking for 20 people everyday.
6. She doesn’t ………….anyone for her father’s death.
* Expected answers: Sarah: a,e
Ellen: b, c Bredeb: d, f
* Expected answers:
1. She came out with herfriends walking around the campus.
2. Because when she came to the party, the people were busy playing some games and no one seemed to notice her existence.
3. Ellen’s roomate blamed her typing and having a light on while she was trying to sleep.
4. To Breden, her first year at the college was probably the best and most challenging year of his life.
5. The social calendar of the college provides him with plenty of opportunities to meet non-engineering students as well as other engineers.
- work in groups.
- Do the task.




- Take notes.


Teacher’s reflection