lesson plan _ English

Stages of the lesson: minutes Greets students and introduces the topic of FRIEND on ppt slides Show some pictures of some characters on the Ppt slides Asks 4 groups of students to compet

Hanoi Department of Education and Training

Hanoi – Amsterdam

specialized high school

English 11 Intensive

E- lesson design contest

Lesson 4- Writing a narrative

about best friends

1 Objectives: Ss will be able to:

 Write about a friend within 130 - 150 words based on suggested word cues or idea prompts

2 Duration: 45 minutes

3 Aids: Textbook, board and chalk, OHP, TV, pictures on ppt slides, transparence

papers and markers in different colors

4 Stages of the lesson:

minutes

Greets students and introduces the topic of FRIEND on ppt slides

Show some pictures of some characters on the Ppt slides

Asks 4 groups of students to compete by listing adjectives that can be used to described characters’

appearance as many as possible (on board) Checks and counts the numbers of written words and announces the winning groups

Marks/ gives bonus marks or lucky stars Some descriptive adjectives:

Attractive, chubby, slender, bald, curly, heavy, short, green, muscular, fair, fat, stocky, tall, thin, thick, pointed, etc.

Greet T and Listen to the T ‘s instruction Play the competition game.

Work in 4 groups Make a list of adjectives to describe these people

Write the words on board.

Pre-writing

15

minutes

Task (a):

Introduces the words to describe personality

- Asks Sts to work individually and volunteer to come to the Board to write the words from the transcripts and match them with their meanings

(All the words are from the passage in English 11 page 20)

Marks Sts with good answers

- Asks Sts to read the words out loud twice

- Asks the Ss to work in pairs, read and complete the passage by filling the practiced words

(Table of given words on page 20 is hidden)

Listen to T and volunteer to work individually on board Listen to the passage and note down the required words

Remind the Ss that there is one word which is repeated three times

- Asks Ss to give their answers in turn

- Checks their answers

1 tall 2 slim 3 short 4.

appearance

5 controlled 6 smart 7 vicious

8 shy 9 timid 10 imbecile

11 imbecile 12 imbecile 13 terrified

- Asks Sts to re- read the passage and identify the

linking words: unfortunately, however, furthermore, because, and… the logic outline of the passage Topic sentence  Supporting sentences 

Concluding sentence

Task (b):

- Introduces the objective of the exercise: Help the

Ss practice how to link ideas to make a logical passage

- Asks Ss to read the sentences and quickly re-arrange the sentences in a logical order.(Sts work

in groups)

- Invites 1-2 Sts to read the topic sentence and invites Sts in turn to continue the paragraph by reading the next sentences in the logical order out loud

- Listens and checks

- Gives the correct order and explanation with focus on the organisation of the passaage:

+ Topic sentence: introduce the topic: Who is the person? When did you meet his/ her? How did you build up the relationship

+ Supporting sentences: Appearance &

Personality (first impression, some key features and examples or details to support the features mentioned…)

+ Concluding sentence: How is the relationship?

What are you two doinng to blossom the frienship?

- Work in pairs and do task (a)

- Check answers

- Read the passage and identify the linking words

- Answer T’s guided questions

Read and rearrange the sentences in groups

Listen and compare answers

While-writing

20

minutes

- Plays the audio clip in which a song about best friends is sung to arouse deep feelings and bring back sweet merories about Sts’ dearest friends with song lyrics appearing on ppt slides (3minutes)

- Listen to the song

- Asks all students to write a passage about their friends on transparence papers basing on the passages in task (a) and (b) while some Sts write

on board (10- 12 minutes)

- Reads 1-2 resulting passages on transference papers, Corrects mistakes and gives comments(6 minutes)

- Asks 1- 2Sts to talk about their best friends (4 minutes)

- Listens and marks the speeches with comments

passage about

a friend

- Volunteer to speak about best friends

Wrap up 5

minutes

- Reviews words on appearance and personality

by playing word game: look at the pictures on Ppt slides and guess the words(3minutes)

Gives Homework: Find at least 10 idioms / expressions/ sayings about friendship in both Vietnamese and English

- Says goodbye

- Play the games and note down the homework

Say goodbye

Reference

Describing people (p57, Writing Tasks – David Jolly, Cambridge University Press)

Describing personality (p72, Objective First Certificate, Annette Capel Wendy Sharp,

Cambridge University Press)

Unit 5 - Describing people (p93, From Writing to Composing, Beverly Ingram, Carol

King, Cambridge University Press)

Chart of transitional signal (last page), From Academich Writing by Alice Oshima

(Oxford University Press)

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