Unit 12-Writing

Objectives + Developing writing skills for students + Helping students know how to write a paragraph describing the preparations for Games II.. Aims By the end of the lesson, students wi

Unit 12: The Asian Games

Writing

I Objectives

+ Developing writing skills for students

+ Helping students know how to write a paragraph describing the preparations for Games

II Aims

By the end of the lesson, students will be able to

+ Describing the preparations for the coming Asian Games

III Materials: handouts, textbook

IV Anticipated problems

Students may not have enough vocabulary to complete the task so T should be ready to help them

V Procedure

 Contents Teacher and students’ Activities Rationale 5’ I Warm up: Brainstorming

-Do you think Vietnam may hold the Asian Games

in the future?

-If yes What will we do to prepare for the Games?

Lead-in:

- Ask Ss: “What facilities do you think we need to

have for the Asian Games?

- Brainstorm Ss’ ideas and copy them on the board

- T - Ss

- T elicits Ss, Ss answer

- Creating positive atmosphere and activating Ss’ prior knowledge of how to describe the

preparations for Games

GSh: Nguyễn Thị Hồng Diệu GVHD: Thái Phương Dung

Bui Huu Nghia High School

Class: 11B8 Subject: English

Wednesday morning period 3

Date: 09-3-2011

The facilities of the Asian Games

Expected answers

National Stadium/ local stadium

National sport centers

Training areas

Sport building and roads to sport building

Car parks

Hotels

Guest houses

II New lesson

Unit 12: The Asian Games

Writing

A BEFORE WRITING

Pre-teach vocabulary

- equip (v)

- widen (v)

- upgrade (v)

- recruit (v)

Checking vocabulary

Rub out and remember

Useful languages: sequence adverbs

- First / Firstly / First of all,

- Then,

- Next,

- After that,

- Finally,

Conjunctions: because, so, moreover

Structure:

- Simple future, simple present

- Need to be + pp = need + V-ing

- Need + to infinitive

- T - Ss

- T introduces new lesson,

Ss listen

- T - Ss

- T elicits the new words

- T - Ss

- T gives the sample writing and elicits some useful languages from Ss

Ex: National sports centers and local stadium need to

be upgraded because they are not in good conditions

- Giving Ss the topic of new lesson

- Providing Ss some language

preparation

- Helping Ss remind the voc

12’

Have to + infinitive

→ The national stadium needs to be upgraded

B WHILE WRITING

Task 1: Write the correct sentences, using the

cues below.

1 We/ build/ National Stadium/ sports building/

car park

2 National Sports Centre and local stadiums/

need/ be/ upgraded/ immediately

3 We/ widen/ training areas and roads/ to the

sports buildings/ and/ have/ equip/ hotel and guest

houses/ modern facilities/ welcome/ foreign

athletes/ visitor

4 It/ necessary/ promote and advertise/

preparations/ Asian games/ radio and TV

5 We/ recruit/ volunteers/ serve the Games/ and/

they/ be/ university teachers and students with

good English

6 The/ important thing/ that/ we/ hold/

competition/ choose/ an official song/ Asian

Games

Task 2: Suppose Vietnam is going to host the

coming Asian Games Write a paragraph of 120

words to describe the preparations for the Games,

using the sentences in task 1 and the following

sequence adverbs: first of all, second, then, next,

after that, finally.

 You may begin with:

- Group work -T divides the class into 6 groups and gives each group a poster and a felt-tip pen Each group will make one sentence

- T goes around to control and helps them if

necessary

- T asks Ss to stick the posters on the board

- T gives feedback, Ss take note

- T reminds Ss of the format and organization of

a paragraph (topic sentence, body and conclusion)

- Individual work

- T goes around helping them if necessary

- Making Ss get familiar with a describing the preparations for the Games

- Giving Ss the chance to write a describing the preparations for the coming Asian Games

1’

To prepare for the coming Asian Games, we have

a lot of things to do First of all, we will build one

more National Stadium

Sample writing

To prepare for the coming Asian Games, we have

a lot of things to do First of all, we will build one

more National Stadium, some sports buildings and

car parks The National sports Centre and local

stadiums are not in good condition, so they need to

be immediately upgraded And we will widen the

training areas and the roads to the sports buildings

Then we have to equip all the hotels and guest

houses with modern facilities to welcome foreign

athletes and visitors These hotels should also have

special services for disable athletes It is necessary

to promote and advertise all the preparations for

the Asian Games on the radio and TV Finally, we

need to recruit volunteers to serve the Games

These people should be university teachers and

students with good English One more important

thing is that we have to hold a competition to

choose an official song for welcoming the Asian

Games

C AFTER WRITING

- Peer correction

Checklist for correction (see appendix)

III Homework

Write the paragraph into their notebooks - Ss – Ss

- Giving Ss a chance

to learn from each other

- Helping Ss revise their lesson

* Put a tick () on the ‘Yes’ column if your friend’s writing have the information

in the first column If not, put a tick on the ‘No’ column:

has the topic sentence

has the supporting ideas

has the conclusion

has the linking works (first, then, next, and so on)

use the simple future tense

has the conjunctions (because, so, moreover)

use the structures (need to be + PP = need + V-ing,

need + to infinitive, have to + infinitive)

has other mistakes, circle them