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- Explains the rules of the games: Each member of a group must take turns to make a sentence in either simple present tense or simple past tense (remember to use an adverbs of frequen[r]

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Lesson plan

English 10 Unit 1 Language focus

Intrustructor Members

Tôn Nữ Thanh Thùy 1 Nguyễn Thị Thành Luận

2 Nguyễn Thạch Thảo

3 Lê Thị Diệu My

4 Trần Thị Thu

LESSON PLAN

Unit 1- English 10: A day in the life

I Class detail:

1 Class: 10A1

2 Number of students (Ss): 40

3 Time allotted: 45 minutes

4 Date of teaching:

II Aim and Objectives

1 Language content:

- To help students practice pronouncing two vowels /i:/ and /i/ in level of words and sentences

- To help students review the grammatical points to do the exercises: Present and past tense

2 Language function: Telling story.

3 Educational aim: Know the important work in life.

4 Language:

+Vocabulary: words related to hobbies

+ Structure: the present simple, the past simple

5 Skills: Integrated skills.

6 Educational factor: To know how to use suitable time in daily activities.

II Teacher and students’preparation

1 Method: Communicative approach.

2 Techniques/ activities: listen and repeat, pair work, group work, elicitation…

3 Material needed: pictures, lesson plan, text books, copied papers, cassette…

4 Students' preparation: preparing the content of lesson at home.

5 Previous exercises:

III PROCEDURE IN CLASS:

1.Stabilization: (1m)

a Warm-up: Greeting.

b Checking absence: Who’s absent today?

2.Checking up previous knowledge: No checking up.

3.Presentation of the new material:

Time Teacher’s activities Students’

activities

Content of the lesson

3’

A- PRONUNCIATION:

I- Lead-in:

LANGUAGE FOCUS

- Hangs on the sub-board of cross-

4’

2’

-Explains the way to play the game

1 A mean of transportation used to carry

people and goods across the oceans

2 A kind of animal whose wool is used

to make cloth

3 A kind of seed (not rice) that is often

used to cook as meals

4 A box that is often used to contain

things such as wheat, flavor…

- Asks students to speak out these words

and asks them if there are any

differences in the two pairs of words

- Asks them to guess what they are going

to study next to lead to the

pronunciation

II- Pre- practice:

- Writes down the symbols of two

vowels on the board

/i:/ and /i/”

- Pronounces the vowels alone and asks

students to repeat

- Pronounces these vowels in minimal

pairs to help students distinguish the

sounds, and then asks them to repeat

EX: EAT and IT

SLEEP and SLIP

LICK and LEEK

(Teacher can explain the position of the

tongue when pronouncing these vowels.)

- Asks students to open their books

- Reads the words in the text book as

model and asks students to listen and

repeat

III- While-practice:

- Plays the tape sentence by sentence to

get students to practise speaking the

sentence in the text book Pay attention

to their stress and intonation

B- GRAMMAR AND

- Look at the sub-board and listen to teachers’

explanation

- Speak out the words and answer teacher’s questions

- Designed answer: We are going to study the

pronunciation of /i:/ and /i/”

-Writes the title

on the notebook

-Listen and repeat /i:/ and /i/

alone

-Repeat these vowels in level

of words

- Open the book

- Listen and repeat

- Listen to the tape and repeat

- Suggested answers:

1 SHIP

2 SHEEP

3 BEEN

4 BIN

I- Pronunciation:

/i:/ and /i/.

/i:/ /i/

heat hit beat bit meat little repeat kick read click interest eaten

II/ GRAMMAR AND

6’

3’

7’

VOCABULARY

I- Lead- in:

-Asks one student: “How do you go to

school?”

“Do you often you go to school

by…….?”

-Writes down the students answers on

the board:

- I often go to school by bicycle

- Asks students what grammatical points

are used in the sentence

 Leads to the simple present tense and

the simple past tense

II Pre-practice:

- Elicits the Use, meaning, and form of

the simple present tense and adverbs of

frequency

-Elicits from students the use, meaning

and form of the simple past tense

III While-practice:

*Exercise1

- Explains the requirement of the

exercise

- Asks students to do the exercise

-Invites some students to go to the board

and write down their answers

-Asks the other for comments

-Gives comments and keys

*Exercise2:

- Explains the requirement of the

exercise

- Makes model: He always gets up early.

- Asks students to put each of the

adverbs of frequency in its appropriate

place in the sentences given

- Invites some students to read their

sentences

- Gives comments

*Expected answer:

-Answer: I go to school by bicycle

Yes, I often go

to school by bicycle

- Try to recall

- Try to retell

- Listen

- Do as directed

- Go to the board and write down answers

- Gives comments -Listen and write down

- Listen

- Listen

- Do as directed

- Read the sentences -Listen and

VOCABULARY 1/The simple present tense and the adverbs of frequency Ex:

1 I often go to school by bicycle.

2 My mother sometimes goes shopping

a The simple present tense:

- Use: to express an event taking

place continuously over time or how often it happens

-Form: S+ am/ is / are/ v(s/es)

…

b Adverbs of Frequency: -Use: Stand before ordinary

verbs and after “be’

Exercise1 and exercise 2

2 The simple past tense:

Ex: I went to school on foot last Friday

My mother went shopping yesterday

- Use: To express an event

happening in the past and the time of that event is clear

-Form: S+ was/ were/V2/ Ved…….

*Exercise1

*Keys:

1 is 2 fish 3.worry

4 are

5 catch 6 am

7 catch 8 go

9 give up 10 says

11 realize 12 am

*Exercise2:

*Expected answer:

a He never gets up early.

b She is sometimes late for

school.

c Lan often practises speaking

English

d.Thao is usually a hard –

working student.

2’

2’

a He never gets up early.

b She is sometimes late for school.

c Lan often practises speaking English

d.Thao is usually a hard – working

student.

e ………

*Exercise 3:

-Explains the require of the exercise

-Asks Ss to put the verbs in brackets in

the past simple

-Invites some students to go to the board

and write down their answers

-Asks the other for comments

-Gives comments and keys

IV Free- practice:

- Divides the class into two groups

- Explains the rules of the games: Each

member of a group must take turns to

make a sentence in either simple present

tense or simple past tense (remember to

use an adverbs of frequency in simple

present tense).Then one other will

change that sentence into other tense In

2 minutes, which group has more right

sentences will be the winner

V Consolidation:

- Asks the students to retell the usage

and meaning of the simple present, the

simple past tense and adverbs of

frequency

* Home work:

1 Make a list of about 50 irregular verbs

that are commonly used

2 Make a list of adverbs of frequency,

arranging them according to the level of

increasing frequency

write down

- Listen

- Do as directed

- Go to the board and write down answers

- Gives comments -Listen and write down

- Set the group

- Listen and do

as teacher’s instructions

- Listen and retell

- Write down on notebook

*Exercise 3:

*Keys:

1 was done 2 cooked 3.were

4 smelt

5 told 6 sang

7 began 8 felt

9 put out 10 crept

11 slept 12 woke 13.was 14 leapt 15.hurried 16 found

17 wound 18 flowed

* Home work:

1 Make a list of about 50 irregular verbs that are commonly used

2 Make a list of Adverbs of frequency, arranging them according to the level of increasing frequency

V Self- evaluation: