Lesson Plan (grade 11 – advanced) Period : 12 pot

- Ask the Sts to read the exchange between the man and the waiter and guess what the man’s response is / what the reason is - elicit experiences from Sts : “ this is something happening

Lesson Plan (grade 11 – advanced) Period : 12 Preparation date : 20/9/2011 Unit : 2 Lesson : writing

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

- By the end of the lesson, the students are able to describe a past experience

II Lexical items :

III Structures :

- I felt extremely embarrassed and confused

- Looking forward to hearing from you again

IV Teaching aids:

- textbook - handouts - Sheets of paper

- chalk and board

V Techniques :

- skill-based ( skill- based.)

VI Procedures :

1

warm-up &

lead-in

(7’)

Games: Guess what?

- Show a picture of a person sitting in a restaurant with a bowl of soup in front, and a waiter at his side

- Ask the Sts to read the exchange between the man and the waiter and guess what the man’s response is / what the reason is

- elicit experiences from Sts : “ this is something happening in a restaurant Have you ever had any embarrassing experiences in

a restaurant?”

- Note down Sts’ ideas

Transition: Nam had an embarrassing

experience at a restaurant and he wrote to tell his friend about it Do you want to share your experience with your friend? Today we will learn how to write a letter telling friends about a past experience

- write down on the board :

Expected answer: Because I haven’t got a spoon!

Unit 2 : Writing a Personal Letter Describing a Past Experience

- picture (in the textbook)

2 Pre-

writing

(10’)

Teaching new words:

- use pictures and explanations to present

some new words

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

- mutual (a): lẫn nhau

- abroad (a) : in foreign country

- dish(n) : food

- host (n) : người chủ

- social (a) :có tính xã giao

Chalk and board

Re-arranging

- Write down on the board the steps of a personal letter about a past experience in a random order as follows:

- Asks Sts to put the steps in a logical order of such a letter

- Tell Sts to compare answers in pairs and

then go over the answers

- T gives the feedback : c – a – e – b – d

Gap-filling (Task a, p30)

- Ask Sts to read the passage and fill in each gap with suitable word from the box

- When they have finished, tell Sts to word with a partner and compare answers

- Call on some Sts to read their completed sentences and check with the class

a Opening / greeting

b the story / experience to be shared ( what, why, when, where, who)

c date

d closing and ending

e general information ( about self or/and friends.)

Expected answers:

1 funny 2 luckily 3

host 4 muatua 5 together

6 dish 7 abroad 8.thanks

9 happened 10 carefully

11 embarrassed 12 luckily

13 terrified

textbook

3

while-writing

(20’)

Writing it yourself

- T asks Sts to write a letter to a friend, telling him / her about their most embarrassing experience based on the format given and the sample in Task a ( p30)

- Go around to control and give help with vocabulary

- When they have finished, collect Sts’

writings to mark at home

Textbook

4

Post-writing

(10’)

Peer correction

- Read a piece of Sts writings and ask Sts to give comments relating the format (steps), the language use, and the story

- Give feedback and comments

sheets of paper

5

Homework

(1’)

Reviewing vocabulary

Ask Sts to review all the new words learned textbook