Lesson Plan (grade 11 – advanced) Period : 22 ppt

Aims : - By the end of the lesson, the students are able to write a letter of invitation - By the end of the lesson, the students are able to write a letter of acceptance or refusal...

Lesson Plan (grade 11 – advanced)

Period : 22 Preparation date : 11/10/2011 Unit : 3 Lesson : writing

I Aims :

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

invitation

- By the end of the lesson, the students are able to write a letter of acceptance or refusal

II Lexical items :

- confirm

- participate in

III Structures :

- I am very happy to accept your kind invitation

- I am afraid I can’t come because ………

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’)

Games: Flashing the picture and guessing

- flash the picture of a happy- looking person very quickly and ask Ss

to say what they see in the picture

- If necessary, make questions ( e.g what about him? How does he feel?) to elicit from Ss the sentence ”He’s happy /

Dear Lam,

I’m going to the Modern Dance this Saturday

Would you like to join me? The performance starts at 8:00 p.m at the Central Theatre

Please let me know if you can

- s

he looks happy.)

- Ask Ss to guess why he

is happy

- Show the picture so that

Ss can have the answer

- Read the content of the

letter and ask Ss what

kind of letter it is

Transition: Lam has

received a letter of

invitation What is he

going to do? And today

we’ll learn how to write a

letter of invitation and of

reply

- write down on the

board:

join me

With love,

Nam

- Expected answer: because

he has received a letter

- Expected answer : a letter

of invitation

Unit3: Writing a Letter of

Invitation and of Reply

2 Pre-

writing

(10’)

Activity 1: Teaching new words:

- use pictures and

explanations to present some new words

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

Activity2:eliciting the

- highly (adv) : cao

- appreciated (adj): cam kich, danh gia cao

- affectionately (adv) : chan thanh

- look forward to :

- invite (v) : moi

- invitation (n) :

Chalk and board

target language

- Ask Ss these question, one by one, to elicit the language used:

1 what do you say when you invite someone to do something?

2 what do you say when you accept an invitation?

3 what do you say when you refuse an invitation?

- Note down Ss’ ideas on the board and then check with the class

loi moi

Chalk and board

3

while-writing

(20’)

Activity 1: classifying:

Invitation, acceptance

or refusal?

- divide Ss into small

Small board cards

groups Each group is given a poster with phrases on and a set of faces: neutral (yellow), smiling (pink) and sad (blue)

- Ask Ss to stick a neutral face next to a refusal one

- Tell Ss to stick the poster on the board when they have finished The first group to finish with all correct answers will win the game

- demonstrate using the phrases on the boar and then have Ss start

- go over the answers and show a poster with the phrases in 3 categories

- letter 1: letter of invitation

- letter 2: letter of acceptance

Activity 2: Recognition:

what is what? (task a)

- Ask Ss to read the three

letters in Task a, and say

what kind of letter each

one is

- Ask Ss to give reasons

for their choice

Activity 3: Rearranging

and matching format of

a letter of invitation

(task b)

- arrange Ss to work in

small groups, give each

group a handout and tell

them to put the headings

into the correct order of a

format of a letter of

invitation

- go over the answers the

- letter 3: letter of refusal

Expected answer:

1.c opening / greeting

2.a reason for event

3.f venue, date & time

4.e invitation

5.d request for a reply

6.b closing and ending

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

- 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

Card 1- Jack and card 2 – Sinh are delivered out Sts

Handouts + sheets

of paper

group’s best writing, and ask Sts to give comments

5

Homework

(1’)

- Ask Sts to write a letter

as guided at home for preparing next time

textbook