Unit 12 Music

Warm up - T passes out handouts, whose content is the lyric of a song, with some dropping words to each of the student - T asks Ss to work individually to choose from a word box a suitab

LESSON PLAN

Date of planning: March 8th, 2008 Guiding teacher: Do Thi Thien Huong

Date of delivery: March 12th, 2008 Student teacher: Nguyen Thi Thu Nhan

Unit 12: MUSIC Lesson 1: READING

I Objectives

1 Educational Aims: music makes humans different from the other animals and

makes our life more beautiful and diverse

2 Knowledge:

a General Knowledge: helps Ss recognize the importance of music in our life and

the kinds of music

b Language: vocabulary about music field: to express: feeling, anger, to convey,

occasion, to set, sense, emotion, joyfulness, atmosphere, to imagine

3 Skills:

- Vocabulary comprehension: gap-fill

- Passage comprehension

II Method: communicative approach

III Teaching Aids: extra boards, pictures, handouts, textbooks

IV Procedures

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1 Warm up

- T passes out handouts, whose content is the

lyric of a song, with some dropping words to each of the student

- T asks Ss to work individually to choose from

a word box a suitable word to fill in each blank

- T has Ss listen to the song and check out the

answers

- T asks Ss to share the answers to each other

- T checks the answers The student who get all

the right answers will get a ‘+’ mark

2 Pre-reading

Instruction: Who can tell me what topic we are going

to learn in Unit 12? That is “music”.

- T asks Ss to give the equivalents of the types

of music

Instruction: Look at the pictures in the book What

kinds of music are they playing?

- T asks Ss to work in pairs to match each type

of music in column A with its description in column B

- T asks some Ss to give the answers

- T checks the answers and write down on the

board

Instruction: Can you tell me some more kinds of

- Use the given words to fill in the blanks

- Listen to the song and check out their answers

- Share the answers

- Give the equivalents of the types of music in the book

- Look at the pictures in the book and answers the questions

- Expected answers: they are playing folk music, rock music and classical music

- Work in pairs and match types of music with their descriptions

- Suggested answers:

1 B 2 E 3 D 4 A 5 C

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music?

Vocabulary (on handouts):

1 express (v): to convey, to reveal

c funeral (n): the religious ceremony of

burying or burning a dead person

d solemn (adj): serious, formal

e lull (v): make people feel sleepy by sing

songs

f sense (n): body’s organ receive outside

action

g emotion (n): feeling

h integral part (exp.):

important portion

i mournful (adj): sorrowful for the

death of someone

j delight (v): give great pleasure to

someone

3 While reading

Instruction: You are going to read a passage about

music While you are reading, do the tasks in the

book.

Task 1.

- T asks Ss to read the sentences in task 1 and

tell what the part of speech of each blank is T writes the answers on the board

Instruction: Now class, work in pairs, read the

passage in the book quickly, then complete the

sentences in task 1 with the words or phrases in

the box You should stop at the lines that contain

these words to guess their meanings.

- T goes around for help if necessary

- T calls on some Ss to answer Asks them why

they choose the word

Task 2:

Instruction: You are to quickly read the passage

again and answer the questions in the book.

- some strategies to do the task:

 read through the question quickly

 underline the key words

 find the position of the key words in the

passage

 read carefully to find the answer

- T asks Ss to work in pairs to do the task

- T calls on some Ss to write their answer on the

board

- T checks the answers, and ask them how they

find the answer

- Take notes

- Read sentences

- Identify the part of speech of each blank

- Work in pairs and read the passage quickly

- Fill in the blanks

- Expected answers:

1 Communicate

2 Lull

3 Delight

4 Integral part

5 Solemn

6 Emotion

7 Mournful

- Work in pairs, read and answer the questions

- Suggested answers:

1 Language and music

2 Because it can express ideas, thoughts and feelings

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4 Post-reading

- T asks Ss to work in groups of 4 to discuss the

questions in the book and write their answers

on a piece of paper

- T goes around to help

- When they have finished, asks every two

groups to exchange their ideas

- T calls on some groups to report their ideas to

class

- T gives feedback to the answers

5 More exercise

- T asks Ss to draw a nine-square box and use

the vocabulary on the board to fill in the squares

- Explain the game: I will read the words one by

one Who get three words in a row is the winner

- Vocabulary:

1 hip hop

2 rap music

3 blue music

4 world music

5 country music

6 pop music

7 dance music

8 R & B music (Rhythm and Blues)

9 soul music

10 disco music

6 Homework

- Learn by heart all the new words

- Find the information about a singer that they

love

3 It adds joyfulness to the atmosphere

of a festival and makes a funeral more solemn and mournful

4 It makes people happy and excited

It delights the senses

5 Because it is a billion-dollar industry

- Work in groups, discuss the questions and answer

- Suggested answers:

1 There are 5 roles:

+ making humans different from all other animals

+ communicating + setting the tone for almost important events and special occasions

+ entertaining + being a big business

2 Depending on Ss’ answers

- Draw a nine-square box

- Fill in the squares with given words

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