Unit 12:The Asian games:Language focus

- Answer the teacher’s questions, - Listen to the teacher and write the title of the lesson on their notebook... - T: asks Sts to listen to the teacher then to work in pairs and take tur

Lesson plan

Unit 12: The Asian games Period: 5 Part E: Language focus

Trainee: Tran Thi Lan

Class: 11A6

Date of preparing 04/03/2010

Date of teaching: 06/03/2010

I Objectives

By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:

- Distinguish the clusters /str/, /skr/, /skw/

- Pronounce the words and dialogue containing these clusters correctly

- Master the use of relative clauses and equivalent types of clauses without relative

pronouns

- Use these structures correctly and appropriately to solve communicative tasks

II Materials: handouts, blackboard, textbook

III Anticipated problems:

Students may not have difficulty in pronouncing the clusters because they do not

exist in Vietnamese Therefore, teacher should guide them to pronounce correctly

IV: Procedures

Warm-up

5(mins)

- T greets the class:

+ Nice to meet you and How are you today?

+ Who’s absent today?

+ What have you learned in previous lesson?

-T: How do you pronounce these words?

+ Strength

+ Scratch

+ Squeal

- T: You will see these words in our lesson And now, we

start our lesson today:

Unit 12: The Asian games Lesson 5 Part E: Language focus

- Greet teacher and answer the questions

- Answer the teacher’s questions,

- Listen to the teacher and write the title of the lesson on their notebook

iation

(10

mins)

- T: introduces some clusters such as /str/, /skr/, /skw/

- T: guides Sts to produce these clusters: when

producing /str/, you should produce /s/ first and then

quickly switch to /tr/

+ For example: street, strong, stream, stress…

+ The way of producing /skr/, /skw/ is the same

- T: asks Sts to practice speaking these clusters

- T: introduces some words which begin with these

clusters:

/str/ /skr/ /skw/

Street Scream Square

Strong Screen Squeeze

Strange Screw Squeak

Strength Scratch Squeal

- T: reads first then asks Sts to listen and repeat

- T: asks Sts to listen to the teacher then to work in pairs

and take turn aloud the sentences on page 144

Practicing reading aloud these sentences.

1 There was a strong man on the street at night

2 The strong man looked very strange

3 He was holding an ice-cream in one hand, and a rubber

doll in the other hand

4 The man was eating the ice-cream, squeezing the doll

and it was squeaking

5 The man was screaming while walking to the square

6 Nobody knew why he was doing the strange things

- T: goes around the class to see Sts practicing Then T

calls some Sts to read again and gives them feedback

- T asks Sts to practice speaking these clusters at home

- Listen to the teacher

- Practice speaking these clusters

- Practice speaking /str/, /skr/, /skw/

- Listen and read after their teacher

- Listen and repeat

- Work in pairs to practice speaking

- Practice speaking these sentences in 2 minutes

- Read the sentences again

- Listen to their teacher’ s feedback

r (14

mins)

I REVISION OF RELATIVE PRONOUNS

-T: you have learned about relative pronouns Today, let’s

review them

-T: shows some examples on the screen.

Example:

1 The woman who/ that is wearing T-shirt is Tom’s teacher

2 The street which leads to my village is not very wide

=>They are the subjects of the clauses

- T: now, Work in pairs to find out “What is the role of

these relative pronouns?”

-T: you have 1 minute to find out the role

- When time is up, T calls some Sts to talk about the role

-T corrects the answers if necessary

-T: you have reviewed about relative pronouns, now let’s

practice more

 Practice: Complete the sentences using relative pronouns as a subject.

1 The woman is very friendly She lives next door

=> The woman who lives next door is very friendly

2 Mary is a nurse She works in Thai Nguyen hospital

=> Mary, who works in Thai Nguyen hospital, is a nurse

3 My sister bought me a computer The computer is very

useful

=> My sister bought me a computer which is very useful

- T asks each student to do each sentence

- T: introduces other examples:

Example:

1 The man whom you saw yesterday is my uncle

2 The book which you gave me is interesting

- T: asks students to answer “What is the role of these

relative pronouns?”

=> They are the objects of the clauses

- T: asks Sts to practice more:

- Listen to their teacher

-Look at the screen

- Answer their teacher’s question

- Sts work in pairs to find out the role of these relative pronouns

-Listen to their teacher’s requirement

- Read through all the sentences and try to find out the answers

-Do each sentence

- Think about the answer

- Practice more about using

pronouns as an object.

1 Please post these letters I wrote them this morning

=> Please post these letters which I wrote this morning

2 The meeting was interesting I went to it yesterday

=> The meeting which I went to yesterday was interesting

3 Peter is an actor You met him last night

=>Peter, whom you met last night, is an actor

4 John doesn’t want to sell the house He lives in it

=> John doesn’t want to sell the house which he lives in

- T: asks Sts to answer “Can we omit relative pronoun in

this case?”

Example:

The meeting was interesting I went to it yesterday

 The meeting which I went to yesterday was

interesting

→ The meeting I went to yesterday was interesting

 The omission of relative pronouns

Notice: We can leave out the pronoun when it is not the

subject of the relative clause Clauses without pronouns are

very common in informal English

Practice :Rewrite these sentences using Omission of

relative pronouns:

1 That man is a teacher I talked to him yesterday

=> That man I talked to yesterday is a teacher

2 Sa pa is the beautiful place I was born in it

=> Sa pa is the beautiful place I was born in

3 The girl is from Brazil We are going to see her

=> The girl we are going to see is from Brazil

4 This is the book John gave it to me last week

=> This is the book John gave to me last week

5 The bed was very modern I slept in it last night

=> The bed I slept in last night was very modern

- Try to think about their teacher’s question

-Listen to their teacher’s explanation

- Do other sentences

8 (mins)

-T calls one student to read aloud the requirement of

exercise 1,2 and the sentences in the box

 Exercise 1: Complete each of the following sentences, using a suitable sentence in the box to make a relative clause without a relative pronoun.

-T: explains the requirement and then do example:

Example:

I like the diamond ring………

=> Mary is wearing

-T: analyze the example and asks Sts to work in pairs

-T: you have 2 mins to do sentences 1, 2, 3

-T goes around the class to observe the students to do

-When time is up, T calls some Sts to go to the board to

write their answers

-T checks Sts’ answers

Keys:

1 you lost

2 he invited to the birthday party

3 John told

- T asks Sts to do other sentences at home.

-T: let’s move on exercice 3:

-Read the requirement of exercise 1

-Listen to their teacher

- Look through all sentences

- Work in pairs

-Answer their teacher’ question

morning

the birthday party

5 (mins)

 Exercise 3: Tick (ü) the sentences in which the relative pronoun can be omitted.

-T calls one student to read aloud the requirement of

Exercise 3

- T explains new words if any

- T asks Sts to work in pairs to discuss to do the exercise

-T: you have 2 mins to do sentences 1, 2, 3

-T goes around the class to observe the students to do

-When time is up, T calls some Sts to go to the board to

write their answers

-T checks Sts’ answers

Keys:

1 Yes 3 Yes 5 Yes

2 No 4 Yes 6 Yes

- Read the requirement of exercise 3

- Listen to their teacher

- Work in pairs

- Go to the board to write their answers

-Listen to their teacher’s answer

Wrappin

g-up

(3 mins)

- T summarizes the main points:

+ Distinguish the clusters /str /, / skr /, and /skw /

+ Pronounce the words and sentences containing these

clusters correctly

+ Master the use of relative clauses and equivalent types of

clauses without relative pronouns

+ Use these structures correctly and appropriately to solve

communicative tasks

- T asks students to do homework:

+Do exercise 1, 2, and 3 again

+Prepare for Reading of Unit 13

- T says goodbye to the class

-Repeat the main points

- Write the contents of homework