Lesson Plan (grade 11 – advanced) Period 115 pptx

Aims : - By the end of the lesson, the students are able to express degrees of certainty.. warm-up 7’ Games: Flashing the Pictures -Arrange SS to work in tow groups, A and B -Flash a

Lesson Plan (grade 11 – advanced)

Period 115 : Preparation date :2 /4/2011 Unit14 : Lesson : Speaking

I Aims :

- By the end of the lesson, the students are able to express degrees of

certainty

- By the end of the lesson, the students are able to give reasons to talk about their plans for future

II Lexical items :

-pale -holiday activities

III- Structures :

- I might go to Da Lat next summer vacation

IV- Teaching aids:

- textbook - Handouts

V- Techniques :

- skill-based ( listening, speaking)

VI- Procedures :

State/ti

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Teacher’s and students’ activities Blackboard Mater

ials

1

warm-up

(7’)

Games: Flashing the Pictures

-Arrange SS to work in tow groups, A and B

-Flash a picture quickly and ask SS to say what it is ( Appendix 1a)

- With a correct sentence about the picture, the group scores one point The group with more point wins the game

-Keep a running total of points for each group on the board

-Declare the winner -Ask SS ‘why is the baby crying?’

-If the answer is ‘He is hungry/…’ ask

-Hando uts

SS how they know that

-Ask SS what to use when they just

guess, but not sure of something

( Add a clock to the picture to show

time in order to elicit more answers

with high degree of certainty like ‘He

must be…’.) ( Appendix 1b)

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( expected: May be/Perhaps he’s

hungry /He might be thirsty /He must

be sleepy / …)

Transition : -So when we are not sure of

something, we can only tell the

possibility Today we will practice

expressing possibility through different

degrees of certainty

-Write down on the board :

Unit 14 : Speaking – Talking about Possibility

2 Pre-

Speaki

ng

(7’)

1.Eliciting and Introducing useful language

-Make questions to elicit and then introduce the language used to express possibility

-Draw a continuum to show the degree

of certainty the modals express

Degrees of Certainty Low degree high degree

( Less Certain) (More Certain) Modals: may should must

Might can’t Could ( sure or almost sure) Adverbs: maybe

perhaps

Chalk and board

3

while-Activity 1: talking about the

ng

(23’)

situation(tack a, p 195)

-Ask SS to work in pairs, read the situations and make a sentence using a suitable modal to express possibility

-Go around to monitor and give help if necessary

-Call on pairs of SS to act out the exchanges for the situations

-Give feedback and comments

Activity 2: talking about the pictures

-Ask SS to work in pairs

-Give each pair a set of

pictures(Appendix 2)

-Tell SS to study the pictures and talk

about what might happen in each case using suitable modals to express the degrees of certainty

-Show are picture and modals an

Textbo

ok

4

Post-Speaki

ng

exchange to give SS an example

-Go around to monitor unobtrusively

- Call on SS to talk about the pictures and invite the class to express their opinion and to give comments

-Give feedback and comments

Activity 3: talking about plans for next summer vacation (task b, p.196)

-Arrange SS to work in small groups

-Ask SS in their groups to talk about what they plan to do next summer vacation Tell them to use the model the example exchange

-Have SS do the task

-Go around to check and give help if necessary

-Call on some students to report about their groups

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(7’)

5

Home

work

(1’)

-Give feedback and comments

Writing about your plans

-Tell SS to write a few sentences about what they might do next summer

vacation

- Ask SS to form small groups of 4 or 5, exchange their writings for correction and share ideas

- give feedback and comments

What’s in common?

-Ask SS to write a short paragraph about their group or class plans for the next vacation, beginning with:

Most of us in the group / class are not sure of what to do in the next summer vacation Some might…

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