- Lesson: Reading text: My paradise

- Level: Pre-intermediate
- Time: 40 minutes
- Learners: students at secondary schools ( 13-14 years old)
- Lesson aims: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to understand the text “ My
paradise”, answer all the questions in the text, and use vocabulary in this text in other
contexts.
- Language in focus: +) New words related to the text.

+) The past simple and the present simple.

- Skill in focus: Reading.

- Anticipated problems: Students don’t pay full attention to the text because they think it is
boring: Ss don’t concentrate when listening to the teacher’s guides.
- Solutions: T divides the students into pairs or groups.

Teacher’s and students’ activities Contents

- T shows the photograph of Vanuatu and
asks students to answer the questions
by speaking :
- Ss listen carefully and answer
individually.
- T gathers all ideas and introduces new
lessons to the whole class.
- T Picks out some new words and
explains to students to guess the
meaning.
- Ss listen and take notes
- T asks Ss to practice their pronunciation.
- T asks Ss the question: Do you think
Brian was happy in Vanuatu?
I- WARM UP (5 minutes )
+) What you can see?
+) Imagine you are there. What you can hear?
What you can smell? What you can taste? How
do you feel?
II- PRE- READING
*) Vocabularies : (10 minutes)
+) Paradise (n) a place or condition of great
happiness where everything is exactly as you
would like it to be
+ Tiny (adj) extremely small
+) Thought (n) the act of thinking about or
considering something, an idea or opinion, or a
set of ideas about a particular subject.
+) Memory (n) something that you remember
from the past.
+) Lucky: (adj)bringing good luck.
+) Earthquake (n) a sudden violent movement of
the earth's surface, sometimes causing great
damage.

- T reads the passages and asks Ss to read III- While reading

them carefully to do some exercises.
- T calls on some Ss to read aloud their
answers and explain their choice.
- T corrects some mistakes and gives a
further explanation in Vietnamese if
*) Answer the questions in Task e: (10 ms)
*) Answer the questions in Task F&G ( 10 ms)
( Ss discuss in groups these questions )
 necessary.

- Summarise the main points of this IV- Post-reading (5ms)

lesson (3ms)
- T gives homework to the students (2ms)
- Homework: 1, Learn by heart all the
new words.
2, Imagine you are staying
in Vanuatu. Write a postcard to a friend.