english 11- unit 15- lwriting

LESSON PLANLê Lợi High school Student: Bùi Lê Hoài Nhân Class : 11C4 Subject : English Code: ST0652A026 Period: 1 Date: 22/03/2010 Unit 15: SPACE CONQUEST Lesson: Writing • Aims : helps

LESSON PLAN

Lê Lợi High school Student: Bùi Lê Hoài Nhân

Class : 11C4 Subject : English Code: ST0652A026

Period: 1 Date: 22/03/2010

Unit 15: SPACE CONQUEST

Lesson: Writing

• Aims : helps Ss to develop writing skill by using connector words to write about someone’s

biography, arranging information order correctly

• Objectives : By the end of the lesson, SS will be able to:

- know about the order of information in biography writing

- write a biography of Neil Armstrong

• Teaching aids :, Textbook, pictures, handouts

• Procedure

_ Greeting _ Checking attendance

_ Check up old lesson: ask 2 questions and vocabulary (6’)

1 When was the Apollo 11 launched?

2 When did the astronauts return to the earth?

_ New lesson

Contents Teacher’s activities Students’ activities

* Warm up: Who is he? ( 3’)

1) He is the first human in space

- Yuri Gagarin

2) He is the first American astronaut to walk on

the moon

- Neil Armstrong

- Do you know anything about Neil Armstrong?

- today we will find out some information about him

and write a biography of Neil Armstrong

TASK 1 Below is some information about Neil

Armstrong, the first human to set foot on the moon

Put each of the headings in the box in the

appropriate blank ( 5’)

Set the scene: You are going to write a biography of

Neil Armstrong, the first human to set foot on the

moon First of all, put each of the headings in the box

in the appropriate blank

Date of birth Quote Known as

Neil Armstrong

American astronaut

(1) _ 5 th August, 1930

(2) _ Wapokoneta, Ohio

(3) _ the first person to walk on

the Moon

(4) _ 1949-1952: pilot in United

- show picture and ask

- give feedback

- ask Ss

- lead to new lesson

- move on Task 1

- set the scene

- guide Ss that the information in task 1 is the short biography of Neil Armstrong

- read 5 words in the box and ask Ss

to repeat

- explain some new words if necessary

- ask Ss to work in pairs in 2’ to put each headings in appropriate blanks

- look at the picture and answer

- listen

- answer

-listen

- look at the information in task 1

- listen and repeat

- pay attention

- work in pairs

States Navy

1955: receive a B.S / Purdue

University

1962: join NASA astronaut

program

20 th July, 1969: become first

human / step / Moon’s surface

1970: receive his M.S /

University of Southern California

1971: resign / NASA 1971-1979: teach / University

of Cincinnati

1986: appointed vice

chairman / committee / investigate / space shuttle Challenger disaster

(5) _ “That’s one small step for man,

one giant leap for mankind.”

Answer key:

1) Date of birth

2) Place of birth

3) Known as

4) Career

5) Quote

1 Verb tenses and grammatical structures

_ The simple past is used to talk about an event that

happened and finished in the past

_ The simple present is used to describe facts

_ The passive voice is used occasionally in the

biography

_ Preposition

Task 2: Use the information above to write a

biography of Neil Armstrong

( 13’)

Suggested paragraph:

Neil Armstrong is an American astronaut He is

known as the first person to walk on the moon He

was born on 5th August in 1930 in Wapokoneta, Ohio

He was a pilot in United States Navy from 1949 to

1952 Neil Armstrong received his B S from Purdue

University in 1955 In 1962, he joined the NASA

astronaut program On 20th July, 1969, he became the

first human to step on the Moon’s surface He

received his M.S from the University of Southern

California in 1970 He resigned from NASA a year

later From 1971 to 1979, Neil Armstrong taught in

the University of Cincinnati

He was appointed vice chairman of the committee

that investigated the space shuttle Challenger disaster

- go around

- call 5 Ss to answer, correct and then ask Ss write the answers on the board

- ask Ss to copy down the correct answers on the board

- ask Ss to look at the information in task 1 again, explain so that Ss can recognize a short biography

- transform to reality

- ask Ss to analyze to know the form

of the short biography

- ask Ss “ How would we write a full biography? “

- show poster with a biography’s form

- say that we will write the sentences with correct subjects, move the time

to the end of each sentence, use prepositions correctly

- ask Ss to pay attention to the verb tenses in each sentence

- move on Task 2

- divide the class into 4 groups, each group will do each part

- ask Ss to read the given information again and write the biography in 5 minutes

- go around to check and offer help

- call 4 Ss to write each part of the biography on the board

- ask another Ss to look at the black board to find down mistakes

- correct mistake with the whole

- work

- answer, listen to T and write the answers on the board

- copy down

- look at the information in task

1 again

- listen

- analyze to recognize the biography’s form

- think and answer

- look at poster and take notes

- listen and take notes

- pay attention

- work in groups

- read the information again

- write

- write the answers

on the board

- look at the black board and find the mistakes

- correct mistakes

He said: “That’s one small step for man, one giant

leap for mankind.”

* Consolidation:

- The form of a biography

HOMEWORK: ( 1’)

- review the way to write a biography of someone

- write a biography of someone you know

class

- show poster with a model biography

- ask Ss to complete the biography

in their notebook

- remind the class by asking

- ask

with T

- look at poster

- complete the biography

- listen and answer

- listen and take notes

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