Unit 11: National Park

Objectives: After the lesson, students will be able to write letters of acceptance and refusal.. -Analysis 3 letters in the text book to help Ss know how to write acceptance or refusal

Name: Lê Hải Yến

Group: 04.1.E14

Lesson Plan Unit 11: National Park Period 4: Writing

1 Class description: 29 students, 7 boys and 22 girls in grade 10E, Lomonosov

private school

2 Time: 45 minutes.

3 Objectives:

After the lesson, students will be able to write letters of acceptance and refusal

4 Assumed knowledge: Students have already known how to write an invitation

letter

5 Anticipated problems:

- Ss may not be familiar with expressions used in acceptance and refusal letter, so teacher should teach them

- There may be time left, so the teacher should prepare an extra activity

6 Teaching aids: textbook, handouts, board.

7. Procedure.

6’ 7.1 Pre-stage

- Prepares 3 similar sets of statements which are some common way of inviting, accepting and refusing

- Divides the class into 3 groups of 9 or 10

- Gives each group a set of statements and asks them to put the statements into the correct column

- Calls on representative of each group go to board and write down their answers (Each group in charge of one column)

Suggested answers:

1 Inviting: A, B, H

-Close their textbooks

- Listen to T

- Work group

- Give the answers to T

2 Accepting: C, E, G, H.

3 Refusing: D, F, I

4’

5’

7.2 While –stage

a Activity 1 : Filling in the blank ( Task 1, page 117, textbook)

Instruction: You are going to complete the letters on page 117

by filling each blank with one of the ways to accept or refuse

an invitation provided in the table

- Before Ss do the task, ask Ss to read through the expressions

in the table to understand them

- Asks Ss to do the task in pairs and reminds them that for each

blank they can have more than one answer

- Calls on some Ss to go and write their answer on the board

- Calls for peer correction and gives T’s feedback

Suggested answers:

1 That’s a great idea! / I’d like to/ I’d love to

2 I’m afraid I can’t come because / I’m sorry I can’t come

because

3 I’d be delighted to

b Discuss the features of a letter of acceptance or refusal.

-Analysis 3 letters in the text book to help Ss know how to

write acceptance or refusal letter:

+ Firstly, Ss should thank the addressees for his/ her invitation

+ Use one of the ways of accepting or refusing to reply

invitation letter If Ss refuse, they should remember to give

reason for turning down the invitation; and an alternative date

or activity is often suggested

c Activity 2: Ordering (Task 2, page 118, textbook)

- Listen to T

- Pair work

-Whole class

- Listen to T

5’

10’

7’

Instruction: You are required to arrange the sentences in the

correct order to make a letter of accepting an invitation to

spend a weekend in the country

- Asks Ss to do the task individually and exchange their answer

with another student when they have finished

- Calls on a student to read the letter out loud and asks other Ss

to listen and give feedback

- Comments and gives the correct order:

1d 2e 3c 4a 5f 6b

d Activity 3: Rearranging 2 letters (Handout)

- Ask Ss to work in pair and rearrange jumbled sentence to

make two complete letters

- Calls on 2 students to write their answers on the board

- Comments and gives the correct order:

Accepting: 1c, 2g, 3b, 4i, 5e/ 1c, 2g, 3b, 4e, 5i

Refusing: 6j, 7a, 8h, 9d, 10f

e Activity 4: Writing a letter of acceptance or refusal (Task 3,

page 118, textbook)

Instruction: One of your friends has invited you to go for a

picnic to Cuc Phuonng National Park next weekend Write a

reply letter or declining his/ her invitation

- Ask Ss to write the letter individually

- Reminds them to pay attention to all the features of this type

of letter

- While Ss write the letter, T goes around to observe and

provides help

f Feedback on Ss’ writings.

- Ask Ss to exchange their letter with another student for peer

- Individual and pair work

- Pair work

- Individual work

- Pair work

- Goes around and collects mistakes and errors

- Collects some writings for quick feedback

- Write Ss’ typical errors on the board and elicits self and peer

correction T provides correction only when Ss are not able to

correct the errors

and whole class

3’

7.3 Post – stage:

- Summarizes the main point.

- Homework: asks Ss to write a letter of acceptance or refusal

(if they have written a letter of acceptance in class, at home

they will write letter of refusal and vice versa)

Whole class

8 Evaluation.

Below are some common ways of inviting, accepting and refusing Read them and put them into the correct column

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A Are you free to…….?

I I’d love to, but… F I’m sorry I can’t come because………

B Do you fancy joining us…?? C Yes, I’d love to. D I’m afraid I can’t come because………

E Yes, that’s a great idea. G Yes, I’d be delighted to H Would you like to go to……?

J Yes, I’d like to.

Mary invited Ann to go to the circus with her family Below are two letters that Ann may write in case she accepts or refuses Mary’s invitation but all the sentences are jumbled up Read the sentences and

rearrange them to make two complete letters.

a It’s bad enough to have a cold, but to miss seeing

the circus with you is worse

b Mum says I may go again with your family

c I’ll never forget the good time we had last year

d Anyway, thank you for asking me!

e I’ll be waiting for you at six thirty

f I’ll be thinking about you

g It will be great to watch the animals and the tent

shows

h The doctor says I must stay out of crowds until I

stop my coughing and sneezing

i Thank you for inviting me

j What an unlucky person I am!

Answer:

Letter 1 Accepting invitation

Letter 2 Refusing invitation