Lesson Plan (grade 11 – advanced) Period 126 potx

Aims : - By the end of the lesson, the students are able to organize accounts in chronological order.. - By the end of the lesson, the students are able to write a biography II.. warm-

Lesson Plan (grade 11 – advanced)

Period 126: Preparation date : 21/4/2011 Unit 15: Lesson : writing (cont)

I Aims :

- By the end of the lesson, the students are able to organize accounts

in chronological order

- By the end of the lesson, the students are able to write a biography

II Lexical items :

- biography

- chronological order

III Structures :

- he was born in Dijon, France, in 1832, to a family known for fine

craft work of wood

- he graduated from L’Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, Paris,

in 1855

IV Teaching aids:

- textbook - handouts - Sheets of paper

- chalk and board - pictures

V Techniques :

- writing-based

- Procedures :

State/time Teacher’s and students’

activities

Blackboard Materials

1

warm-up

(7’)

Checking the previous lesson

- write on the board parts

of a biography which are ordered randomly

- call on a St to rearrange

in order

- check the answer

Transition: last time we studied components of and

pictures

a biography; and words and phrases for writing a biography Today we’ll how to write a complete a biography

- write down on the board:

P.126: Unit 15:Writing a biography

2 Pre-

writing

(10’)

Activity 1: presenting an outline again ( quickly)

- elicit what to be included

in a biography from SS:

Name, date, and place of birth, his or her family, social, cultural

Educational background

- tell SS that a biography is normally organized in

chronological, i.e in the order of time that the

- expressions of time:

In his later

years…

at the age of

20…

On March 1st ,

1890 …

During the

winter, he …

Chalk and board

Chalk and

events take place

Activity2:introducing useful language

- clause of time:

she moved to

China when she

was nine

as soon as she

finished her degree, she worked as a nurse

after his father

died, his mother went to work

board

3

while-writing

(20’)

Prompt – based writing :

- arrange SS into groups of

four

- give each group some prompts given to write complete sentences, then add suitable connectors to

Small board cards

link those sentences into a paragraph

- go around to monitor the class and give help where needed

- ask group representatives

to read out their paragraphs

- call on SS to write the sentences up on the board

- tell SS that the completed paragraphs will make up a biography about A

Graham Bell

- Elicit the order of the paragraphs

- invite class opinions and make corrections in front

of the whole class

4

Post-writing

(5’)

Speaking:

- put SS into pairs

- ask SS to talk the life of someone famous

- go around giving help where needed

- if time allows, call on some SS to present a short biography of the writing

Handouts

+ sheets

of paper

5

Homework

(1’)

- Ask Sts to write a biography of famous person of their own choice