Lesson Plan (grade 11 – advanced) Period :30 potx

Aims : - By the end of the lesson, the students are able to write a thank-you letter.. warm-up 7’ Building the sentences: - ask Ss to complete the sentences with cues given on papers

Lesson Plan (grade 11 – advanced)

Period :30 Preparation date : 24/10/2011 Unit : 4 Lesson : writing (cont)

I Aims :

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

letter

- By the end of the lesson, the students are able to express gratitude in English

II Lexical items :

- facilities

- precious

III Structures :

- I am writing to thank you for what you have done to our school

- we really appreciate your precious help

IV Teaching aids:

- textbook - handouts - Sheets of paper

- chalk and board

V Techniques :

- writing-based

- Procedures :

State/time Teacher’s and students’

activities

Blackboard Materials

1

warm-up

(7’)

Building the sentences:

- ask Ss to complete the sentences with cues given on papers

- Ss have 5 minutes to discuss and complete

- check the answers

Transition: today we’ll use the phrases above to write a complete letter

- write down on the

- thank / you / so much/ help

- It / be / very / kind / you/ help/

us

- we / be / very much/ obliged/

you / help

- we / be / grateful / you/ help

- pieces

of paper

- chalk & board

board: Unit 4: p30:

writing a thank-you letter

2 Pre-

writing

(10’)

Remind of format of a thank-you letter.( task a)

- ask Ss to read the

situation in Task a and the letter from a student thanking the volunteers for what they have done

to his school

- ask Ss to read the parts

in the format corresponding to different parts of the letter Then elicit the general format of a thank- you letter

- salutation / opening

- expressing thanks and appreciation for what has bee done

- saying how useful/ helpful the thing or work is

- expressing

Chalk and board

A thank- you letter may look like this;

- use pictures and

explanations to present some new words

- Read the words one by one and ask Sts to repeat

thanks / gratitude once again

- writing a social note

- closing and signature

3

while-writing

(20’)

Activity 1: writing a thank-you letter

- ask Ss to work in

groups

- tell them to read the situation in Task b, p52 and write a letter to thank Mrs Nam for her special help when they stayed in her house

- Tell Ss to refer to the general format of a

A model of thank-you letter:

Dear Mrs Nam,

I have just arrived

in Ho Chi Minh City, and the first thing I want to do

is to write to you

to express our thanks for what you had done for

us during our stay

handouts

thank-you letter

- go around to control

and give help if

necessary

- when they have

finished, collect Ss’

writing for correction

later

Activity 2: Mixed-up

letters

- put Ss into pairs and

at your home

Thanks to your generosity, we have

accomplished our jobs in the

volunteer program Staying with you, we always felt like being at home To

be honest, we greatly appreciate your kindness and the help from all the people in the village

handouts

give out handouts

- tell Ss that the two

letters are mixed up, and ask them to read the letter, sort out the sentences that do not belong and move them to their correct places in their letter

- go over the answers with the class

4

Post-writing

(10’)

Peer correction

- Ask Sts to work in

group of 5, deliver each group 5 pieces of

writings and tell them to read and correct their friends’ narratives

Handouts + sheets

of paper

- Tell each group to choose the best piece of writing, and the most special story

- Go around to control and give help if

necessary

- Call a St from each group to read their group’s best writing, and ask Sts to give

comments

5

Homework

(1’)

- Ask Sts to write the adjective forms of these words: study, thank, help, environment, comfort Tell Ss they can refer to the dictionary if necessary