Unit 12_advanced E12_speaking

Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to : - Know how to express opinions and preferences.. Warm-up 5’ Game: Sport Categories- Divide sts in groups of 4 - Ask sts t

Ha Noi National University

College of Foreign Languages

English Department

English Advanced 12- Lesson Plan

Unit 12: Water Sports Reading Skill

Lesson Plan

• Supervisor: Nguyen Thi Thao

• Teacher: Tran Thi Thanh Mo

• Date of teaching: March 13nd, 2009

1 Class description

- Level: 12th form student, intermediate

- Class size: 42 female students of class 12D1, Yen Hoa high school

2 Time 45 minutes

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

- Know how to express opinions and preferences.

- Feel more confident to speak English

4 Skills: Speaking: express opinions and preferences

5 Teaching aids: Text book, chalk, cards

6 Procedure:

Time Procedure Aims/

Arrangemen

I Warm-up

5’ Game: Sport Categories- Divide sts in groups of 4

- Ask sts to work in groups and write a list of different sports for each of these headings

- Call 4 sts to write on the board

- T check Winter Water Table

sports-Sts work in groups

II

Pre-Speaking

5’

5’

5’

1 Acting out the exchange (task a, p 150)

- Have sts to work in pairs and act out the exchange between Tom and Linda

- Call on a pair to act it out in front of the class

- Tell sts to pick out and write the expressions/ phrases that Tom used to express opinions and preferences in the columns

- Ask sts to find out more common expressions used to express preferences

- Call 2 sts to write on the board

- T check and elicit to give more expressions

• I prefer … to …

• I’d rather …

• I’d prefer …

• I find … more (interesting/enjoyable…)

• I like … better/ more than …

• I have a strong preference to …

• I choose … in preference … to …

• It’s better to …

• …

Sts do task

a, with their partners Sts write as many expressions

as possible

III

While-speaking

10’

1 Which do you prefer? (Task b, p 151)

- Pair off the sts and tell each big group to talk about 2 kinds

of water sport

- tell them to talk about the sports they like and the one they prefer

- tell them to refer to some criteria to give reasons for their choice:

• cost of the game

• equipments needed

• speed

• weather and health restrictions

- Encourage them to use the expressions just learned above

- Teacher go around to give help when necessary

- Choose some pairs to act out their exchange in front of the class

- Invite opinions and comments

- Give feedback and comments

IV

Post-speaking

5’

- Tell sts to write two sentences about the sport they prefer to another and reason why

- Give an example: ‘I prefer swimming to water- skiing

because it is cheap and simple You need almost nothing and you don’t need much skill.’

- Go round to mornitor and give help

- Have ss exchange writings and check each other’s

- Choose 2 sts to read out their sentences and check with the class

V Home work - Tell sts to review the language used to express opinions and

preferences at home