E11 UNIT12 WRITING

LESSON PLAN 3Unit 12: The Asian Games Lesson: Writing Class: 11/1 Time allotted: 45’ Aim: To help students learn how to write a descriptive paragraph.. - Write a paragraph describing the

LESSON PLAN 3

Unit 12: The Asian Games Lesson: Writing

Class: 11/1 Time allotted: 45’

Aim: To help students learn how to write a descriptive paragraph

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

- Know the language used to write a descriptive paragraph

- Make meaningful sentences basing on the cues

- Write a paragraph describing the preparations for the coming

Asian Games

Teaching aids and materials: Textbook, blackboard, handouts, projector

Procedure:

Stages/

Work arrangements

I

Warm-up

( 5’)

Hangman game:

Objective: to involve Ss and lead in the topic of the

lesson

- T shows this figure on the screen:

- T gives the instruction to play the game:

+ There are 8 blanks corresponding with 8 letters of a word

+ Ss in turn guess the letter (one letter at a time) + If Ss’ answers are right, the letters will appear on the blank

+ If Ss’ answers are wrong, one part of the man’s body will be hung

Teacher – whole class

+ Who can find the Key word first without hanging all

part of the man’s body will be the winner

- T allows Ss to play game

Key: FACILITY

- T declares the winner and gives gift

Lead in:

- T asks Ss:

“Suppose Vietnam is going to host the coming Asian

Games What facilities does our country need to have?”

- T introduces: “To understand more detailed, we will

study the lesson today: “Unit 12: THE ASIAN

GAMES” Today we are going to write a paragraph

describing the preparations for the coming Asian

Games.”

II Pre-

Writing

( 12’)

1 Pre-teach Vocabulary:

Objective: to help Ss learn some basic words before

doing tasks

* Recruit (v): tuyển dụng, chiêu mộ

- Eliciting technique: situation

“I have organized a company, so I find new people to

work for my company.”

- Eliciting question:

What is the word means “find new people to work”?

* Disabled (a): tàn tật

-Eliciting technique: picture

- Eliciting question:

“They are … people.”

* Upgrade (v): nâng cấp

- Eliciting technique: picture

Teacher – whole class

- Eliciting question:

“This house was built 20 years ago; therefore they plan

to … it to become a modern house.”

* Facility (n): phương tiện, tiện nghi

- Eliciting technique: example

Radio, computer, dictionary

- Eliciting question:

“What is common noun for these things?”

2 Checking: Rub Out and Remember

Objective: to help Ss remember the words that they’ve

just learned

- T rubs out new words one at a time

- T points to the Vietnamese translation and gets Ss to

call out the word in English

- T calls on some Ss to rewrite the English words on the

blackboard

3 Brainstorming:

Objective: to help Ss brainstorm what facilities can be

included in the Asian Games

- T raises the question:

“What facilities do you think we need to have for the

Asian Games?”

- T asks Ss to work in pairs

- T collects the answers from Ss

- T shows the answers on the screen

Teacher – whole class

Pair work

Expected answer:

III While-

Writing

(17’)

1 Activity 1: Sentence building

Objective: to help Ss make meaningful sentences before

writing a paragraph

- T sets the scene: “Suppose Vietnam is going to host the coming Asian Games What do we need to prepare for the Games?”

- T shows the cues on the screen:

o one more National Stadium (to build)

o training areas and roads to sports buildings (to widen)

o National Sports Centers and local stadiums (to upgrade)

o hotels, guest houses with modern facilities (to equip)

o volunteers to serve the Games (to recruit)

o preparations for the Asian Games on the radio and TV (to promote and advertise)

- Ss are asked to make sentences basing on the cues and the verbs provided in the brackets

Anticipated problem: Ss may not understand clearly

how to make sentences So T takes the first cue the model

o one more National Stadium (to build)  We will build one more National Stadium

Team work

Game: Lucky animals

- T divides the class into 2 teams: A and B

- T gives the instructions:

+ On the screen, there are 6 animals (1 lucky animal: lion)

+ 5 remaining animals correspond with 5 cues above + Each team in turn chooses the animal and gives the answer

+ Each team will get 10 points for each correct

answer

+ If they choose the lucky number, they will get 20 points without answering question

+ Which team has more points will be the winner

- T allows Ss to play game

- T declares the winner

Expected answer:

o The National Sports Centers and local

stadiums need to be upgraded

o We will widen the training areas and roads to sports buildings

o We have to equip all the hotels and guest houses with modern facilities

o It is necessary to promote and advertise all the preparations for the Asian Games on the radio and TV

o We need to recruit volunteers to serve the Games

2 Activity 2: Composition Writing

Objective: to help Ss practice writing a descriptive

paragraph

- T sets the situation: “Suppose Vietnam is going to host

the coming Asian Games Write a paragraph of about

120 words to describe the preparations for the

Games.”

- T provides Ss with the useful languages before they

start writing:

² Verbs:

+ have to + V-infinitive + need to be + V-pp + using the simple

present and simple future tenses

+ Example:

- We have to upgrade

the national stadium

- The national stadium needs to be upgraded.

²Connectors:

+ First / firstly / first of

all + Second / secondly + And

+ Next / then + One more thing is that

… + Finally / lastly

² Conjunctions:

+ because, so, moreover, furthermore

You can begin with:

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 and …

- T asks Ss to work in groups of 4

- T asks Ss to take a piece of paper

- Ss are asked to use the useful language and the

information from Activity 1 to write their paragraph

- 2 groups finished first will write down their paragraph

on the blackboard and receive small gifts from T

- The rest groups continue to complete their paragraph

- T moves around to monitor Ss’ work

Group work

IV

Post-Writing

(10’)

Correction and feedback:

Objective: to help Ss identify and learn from their

mistakes through teacher correction

- T analyzes Ss’ mistakes of the 2 letters on the

blackboard (punctuation, tense, form)

Teacher – whole class

- T elicits the corrections from Ss.

- T gives corrections and feedbacks for the 2 letters

Expected paragraph:

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 Centers and local stadiums are not in good condition, so they need to be upgraded And we will widen the training areas and roads to 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.

- T delivers the suggested paragraph to Ss for consultation

 Homework (1’)

- T asks Ss to learn new words and useful languages of

a descriptive paragraph

- Ask Ss to complete the paragraph and write on their notebook

- T reminds Ss to prepare the next lesson (Language focus, p.144)