- Explain some new words/ phrases in the passage: + stare death in the face (explain the meaning of each word ,then let sts guess the meaning of the whole phrase).. + 'fasten(v)(demons[r]
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LESSON 4 WRITING
I Objectives:
1 Education aims: Students write a narrative.
2 Knowledge: a General knowledge: - Writing about a hotel fire.
b Language:
- The past simple tense
- Connectors (time expressions)
3 Skills:
+ Reading: Read a passage to find verbs in the past simple, the connectors
+ Writing a narrative using the prompts
+ Speaking: - Students discuss in groups to share their answers
II Anticipated problems:
+ Problems: some expressions in the tasks
+ Solutions: Explain these words/ expresssions in advance
III Teaching aids: A picture, board, chalk, textbook.
IV Procedures:
Teacher's activities Students' activities
1 Warm- up:(5 mins)
Aims: To raise students' interest.
-Show a picture that teacher prepared in advance
about the explosion in Twin Towers in 2001
- Ask some questions:
T: What is happening?
T: Do you know where it happened?
- Tell sts that they are going to write a narrative of
past events
2 Before you write:(20 mins)
- Aims: to provide sts with the materials (vocabulary,
grammar, form) to write.
+ Task 1:
- Ask sts to look at Task 1
- Ask them to read through the passage in two
minutes to get the main idea
- Ask one student to report
- Explain some new words/ phrases in the passage:
+ stare death in the face (explain the meaning of
each word ,then let sts guess the meaning of the
whole phrase)
+ 'fasten(v)(demonstrate)
+ dip (v): move to a lower level.
- Ask sts to listen and read these words again
+ Task 2:
- Ask sts to read the passage again and in groups to
do task 2
- Divide the class into three regions: one identifies
the events, one identifies the climax and the rest
identifies the conclusion
- Ask sts to work in only 2 minutes
- Draw the conclusion about writing a narrative
- Look at the picture
S: The buildings are on fire.
S: It happened in the U.S.A S: It happened on September 11th , 2001 S: Two planes carrying bombs crashed into
two buildings and killed a lot of people.
- Look at Task 1
- Read through the passage individually
- S: The most frightening experience of the
writer's life when he(she) travelled on a plane on 14th July 1995.
- Listen and repeat:
+ stare death in the face + fasten + dip
- Read the passage again and do task 1
+ Verbs used in the past simple: stared, was,
arrived, got, took off, began,thought, were told, seemed, realised, were, screamed, thought, had, felt, gained, announced, landed
+ Connectors (expressions of time): on that
day, at first, then, a few minutes later.
- Report the answers:
+ The events: people got on plane, plane
took off, hostesses were just beginning to serve lunch when plane began to shake, plane seemed to dip, people screamed in panic.
+ The climax: We thought we had only
minutes to live
+ The conclusion: the pilot that everything
was all right, we landed safely, it was the most frightening experience of my life.
Trang 2+ Form: 3 parts: - introduction.
- body: events, climax
- conclusion
+ Verb tense: the past simple tense
+ Connectors: at that time, on that day,then, after
that, a few minutes later, until, etc.
- Ask sts to do task 3 but before that explain some
new words:
+ 'discotheque (n): disco
+ choke (v): to be unable to breath
- Ask sts to listen and read these words again
3 While you write:(10 mins)
- Aims: students practise cotrolled- writing.
+ Task 3:
- Ask sts to build up a narrative about a hotel fire
using the prompts
- Ask sts to share their answers with their partners
4 After you write:(9 mins)
-Aims: to get feedback.
- Ask sts to report their work sentence by sentence
5 Homework(1min)
- Ex 1, 2 (page 9)
- Listen and repeat these words
- Write the passage into their notebooks
Last year I spent my summer holidays at a seaside town The hotel was modern and comfortable I had a wonderful holiday until the fire.
It was Saturday evening and everyone was sitting in the discothequeon the ground floor.
It was crowded with people They were dancing and singing happily Suddenly we smelt smoke Then black smoke began to fill the room Everybody started to scream in panic People ran away toward the fire exits One door was blocked Many people began
to cough and to choke.
Then just as we thought we had only minutes
to live, the fire brigade arrived Firemen fought their way into the room and soon everyone was safely out of the building Luckily, nobody was seriously hurt It was the most frioghtening experience of my life.