- second semester report/ last month - good grades/ Geography/ Physics/ Math - teacher/ tell/ improve English/ History - in a few weeks/ Mid – Autumn Festival/. Moon Festival- Ha Long B[r]
Trang 1Week: 10
Period: 29
Date: October 4th , 2016
I.AIM: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to identify the sections of the letter They
will develop writing skill They can write a guiding informal letter to a friend to notice their study results
II LANGUAGE CONTENT:
New words: result, Lunar New Year, Mid Autumn Festival, Moon festival, enjoyable
III TECHNIQUES: Brainstorming, ordering/ matching, synonym, antonym, situation, chitchat,
teacher’s eliciting, substitution writing
IV TEACHING AIDS:
V PROCEDURES:
TEACHER’S AND STUDENTS’
ACTIVITIES
CONTENT
BRAINSTORMING
* Students work in small groups They think
about how they studied in the first mid – term
* These words may be used:
- excellent
- good
- fair
- bad
- poor
- fail
- pass
* Ex: - My English was not good
1 WARM UP/ Brainstorming
My math was fair
My English was not good.
My music was not bad
My history was poor.
UNIT 5: STUDY HABITS
LESSON 5: write
How you studied in the first mid - term
Trang 2- My literature was fair …
Chitchat
- Did you finish your first mid- term?
- Yes, I did
- How did you study in the first mid – term?
- My math was good My English was not
good
- What did your teacher say?
- She said I should work harder for it
After having your study result, you should
tell something about this You can write a
letter to your friend.
The lesson today will help you do that.
Matching
Students have to match the four sections
with the parts of a letter:
A/ Body of the letter
B/ Heading C/ Closing D/ Opening
1/ 12 Tran Hung Dao Street …
2/ Dear Tim,
3/ Thanks for your letter …
4/ Regards,
* Key: B – 1 D – 2 A – 3 C – 4
Teacher’s eliciting:
- How many parts are there in the letter?
- (Four.)
- What do you call each part?
- (Heading Opening Body of the letter
Closing)
- What can be written in each part?
- (Heading: writer’s address and the date
- Opening: Dear Tim / name of a receiver
- Body of the letter: Thanks for your letter
I am pleased to hear you had … all your news
- Closing: Your friend Regards, Love.
- Who wrote the letter? …
- Who received the letter? …
2 PRE WRITING Outline of a letter
1/ Heading: address and date 2/ Opening: Dear …
3/ Body of the letter
4/ Closing: Love, Regards, Best, Your friend,
Notes:
- Dear Tim, ( name of a receiver)
- Thanks for your letter
- I am pleased to hear you had an enjoyable Christmas
vacation (Present and past tenses) enjoyable (a), enjoy (v)
The Lunar New Year (1/1) Mid Autumn Festival //
Moon festival (15/8 Lunar)
- Hoa wrote the letter
- Tim received the letter
- What can be mentioned in the letter?
Trang 3- What can be mentioned in the letter?
- Thanks for something, feelings, …
Teacher takes some notes
Teacher asks the students to help Lan
write a letter to her pen pal Donna in San
Francisco
Students can use the words/
or cues given:
Students can replace the underlined
parts of the model letter
Ex: I am pleased to hear that you had an
enjoyable Christmas vacation.
We received our first semester report a few
days ago …
Students exchange their writings and
help their partners find mistakes
Teacher gives some students marks
for good writing
Teacher gives them key
Teacher helps students with their
homework
- To develop writing skill
- Thanks for something, feelings, grades for subjects, teacher’s advice, intention, asking a friend to reply the letter
3 WHILE WRITING
Students’ writing
*Cues:
- Mother’ Day
- second semester report/ last month
- good grades/ Geography/ Physics/ Math
- teacher/ tell/ improve English/ History
- in a few weeks/ Mid – Autumn Festival/
Moon Festival- Ha Long Bay/ aunt and uncle/ bus/ this afternoon
- send you/ postcard
4 POST WRITING/ Marks (10pts)
Tan Chau, November 4 th , 2016 Dear Donna,
Thanks for your letter I’m pleased to hear you had a happy Mother’s Day.
I received my second semester report last month.
I got good grades for geography, physics and math, but my English and history were poor.
My teacher told me to improve them
I think I have to study harder next semester.
Next month, we are going to celebrate the Mid – Autumn Festival That’s a moon festival in Autumn or Fall in Viet Nam I am going to Ha Long Bay with my aunt and uncle by bus this afternoon and I am going to stay there with them until after the festival I’ll send you
a postcard from there
Write soon and tell me all your news.
Best, Lan
5 HOMEWORK
a *Write a letter to your former teacher on
Teacher’s Day next week
b Prepare: Language focus 52, 53
Trang 4- To prepare for the new lesson:
Language focus
+ To consolidate forms of adjectives
and adverbs
+ To consolidate direct and reported speech
good bad fast hard
well
Examples: …
Direct speech Reported speech
Sit down, please She asked me
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