WARM UP 10’ Divide the class into 8 groups and give each group a handout below 1.. Born on March 30, 1968in Charlemagne, Quebec, Canada Won the academy award for best song and the Grammy
Trang 1UNIT 12: MUSIC Week 8 Part D: Writing Period 76
Date of preparation: 06/03/2010 Date of teaching: 08/03/2010 Teacher: Vu Thi Bich Thuan
* Objective: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to
- write a profile base on prompts provided
* Method: Integrated, mainly communicative
* Teaching aids: textbook
* Procedure
I WARM UP (10’)
Divide the class into 8 groups and give each group a handout
below
1 born on February 28, 1939 in Lac Giao
Grew up in Hue
Wrote more than 990 songs indcluding Uot Mi, Diem xua,
Noi Vong Tay Lon…
Died on April 1, 2001 in Ho Chi Minh City
2 born on August 19, 1975 in Hanoi
Graduated from Hanoi Conservatory in 1997
Has received many honors including the first prize in
Hanoi’s singing competition, the gold medal in the National
Competition in 1995, the golden voice of ASEAN in 1998
Famous albums: Vẫn hát lời bình yên, Tóc Ngắn I &II, Chát
với Mozard
3 Born on March 30, 1968in Charlemagne, Quebec, Canada
Won the academy award for best song and the Grammy
award for best Pop Performance by a duo or group with
Vocal with the song “Beauty and the Beast”
Married René Angélil in 1994
Famous for song both IFrench and English: the power of
love, my heart will go on …
Ask S to read the profile and find the name of each singer and
musician as quickly as possible
The winner will be the group with the quickest and correct answers
@ answers
1 Trịnh Công Sơn 2 Mỹ Linh 3 Celine Dion
II PRE- WRITING (15’)
Asks to look at the handout again and read through the two tasks in
the book Ask S what a profile is and what to be included in a
profile
Introduce some features of a profile:
+ A profile is a short biography of somebody
+ A profile usually includes: date and place of birth, family, major
achievements, date of death
Remind S to use tense of verb appropriate when writing profiles
Task 1: sentence completion
Before S do the task, ask S what tense of verb they should use in
Work in group
Read the handout
Read the profiles and answer questions
Take note
Trang 2this task, S also should supplement the past tense of “be”,
prepositions, articles… where necessary
Divide S into group of six Each group member will write a
sentence
Go around to observe and offer help
Group members then share their sentences with one another to get
comments and necessary correction Then they combine all
sentences into a profile
Call on 6 S to go to the board and each of them will write down a
sentence
Elicit self and peer correction and give correction when S are not
able to correct the errors
@ Suggest answers
1 He learnt to play the guitar when he was very young.
2 He learnt to play the works of composers like Bach, Beethoven,
Mozart as well as to compose music.
3 He quickly became famous.
4 His tunes were wonderful mixture of classical European and
African.
5 All in all, he wrote 50 piano rags, and was called the King of
Ragtime.
III WHILE- WRITING (12’)
Task 2: Profile writing
Ask S to read through the prompts
Remind S to use the right tense of verb and supplement articles,
prepositions, pronouns…
As S to write the profile individually in 10 minutes
@ Suggested answer:
Van Cao was born in Nam Ha in 1923, into a poor
worker family He could compose music when he was
very young He composed his first song in 1939 and
quickly became famous Tien Quan Ca, the Vietnamese
National Anthem, was composed in 1944 His artistic
works were songs, poems, and paintings He died in
1995 Van Cao was known as a very talented musician
and is highly appreciate by the Vietnamese people.
IV POST- WRITING (5’)
Ask S to exchange their profiles with another S for peer correction
Go around to collect mistakes, errors and some writings for quick
feedback
Write typical errors on the board and elicits self and peer correction
Provide general comments on the profile
V WRAPPING UP (2’)
Summarize the main points
Ask S rewrite the paragraph, taking into consideration their
friend’s and T’s suggestion and do extra activity
Work in group Try to finish the sentences
Share and correct to each other
Write down the sentences on the board
Read the prompts
Write the profile in 10 minutes
Exchange and correct to each other