He went to Kensington High School and passed examed in English, French and Mathematics. He worked as a tourist guide in a travel agency from June 1991 to December 1998.[r]
Trang 1UNIT 3: PEOPLE’S BACKGROUND
LESSON 4 WRITING
I Objectives:
1 Education Aims: - Students can write a simple C V(curriculum vitae)
- They can write about a person's background basing on a C V
2 Knowledge: a General knowledge: - A curriculum vitae in English.
b Language: - The past simple tense
- Words/expressions used in a curriculum vitae
3 Skills: - Reading: read a model curriculum vitae
- Speaking: discuss in pairs
- Writing: fill in a curriculum, write about a person's background
II Anticipated problems: Expressions in a CV so teacher should teach them
in advance
III Teaching Aids: - board, textbook, chalk.
IV Procedures:
Teacher's activities Students' activities
1 Homework checking: (5 mins)
- Aks one st to talk about Sally in front of the whole class
- Give remarks and a mark
2 Before you write: (20 mins)
- Aims: to focus sts on the topic and to introduce the
structure of a simple C.V, to guide sts to fill in the C.V.
+ Task 1:
- Ask sts to look at the C.V in the textbook and introduce
some new words:
+ C.V(curriculum vitae) : a form with details about
somebody's past education and jobs
+ tourist guide (n): a person who goes with tourists to point
out interesting sights on a journey
+ hotel telephonist (n): a person who answers the phone in a
hotel
+ travel agency ( n) : a business of organising travelling for
people
- Read these words aloud and ask sts to listen and repeat
- Ask sts to read the model C.V in the textbook about Mr
Brown and then answer the questions:
T: What is his full name? T: When and where was he born?
T: What school did he attend? T: What exams did he pass?
T: What did he do before?
- Ask sts another question:
" What kind of information do you find in the C.V?"
- Ask sts to discuss this question in pairs then ask one st to
answer - Give remarks
- Introduce the elements of a C.V:
+Personal information: name, sex, date of birth, place of
birth.
+ Education : name of a high school/ a university
+ Previous jobs: teacher/ tourist guide/ etc (time)
+ Interest: dancing/ swimming/ etc
+ Task 2:
- One st speaks
- Others listen to their friend
- Give remarks
- look at the C.V
- Copy these words into their notebooks
- Listen to the teacher and read these words again
- Read the C.V in the textbook and answer T's questions
S1: His full name is David Brown S2: He was born on November 12th,
1969 in Boston.
S3: He attended Kensington High School.
S4; He passed exams in English, French and Mathematics.
S5: He was a tourist guide and a hotel telephonist.
- Discuss the question in pairs then one of them will answer
S: We can find some information
such as his name, his date of birth and his place of birth, his education and his previous jobs, etc.
- Copy this part into their notebooks
- Read Mr Brown's C.V again
- Use the suggested words/ phrases
to write a paragraph about Mr
Trang 2- Ask sts to read the incomplete form in the book.
- Ask some sts to read aloud the information they have
collected and ask some other sts to give remarks
- Check and give remarks
3 While you write: (10 mins)
- Aims: Sts practise writing about a person's background
using the information in a C.V and the cues in the textbook.
- Ask sts to look at Task 1 again.
- Ask them to work independently and write a paragraph
about Mr Brown ,using the suggested words and phrases
- Ask sts to use the past simple to write
- Move around to help if necessary
- Ask sts to write in about 9 minutes, then compare their
paragraph with their partners'
4 After you write: (9 mins)
- Get feedback by asking some sts to read their work aloud
- Check and give the correct answer
5 Homework: (1min)
- Because time is not allowed, the writing activity in Task 3
will be assigned as homework
Brown
- Share their paragraph with their friends'
- Some sts stand up and read their work aloud
- Other sts give remarks
" Mr Brown was born on November 12th, 1969 in Boston He went to Kensington High School and passed examed in English, French and Mathematics He worked as a tourist guide in a travel agency from June
1991 to December 1998 And from
1999 to 2002, he worked as a hotel telephonist He likes music and dancing."