While- Writing : Task 3: Write a letter After a year in the job, the director of Thanh Ba Post Office has invited residents in the neighborhood to write letters to him describing the qua[r]
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Period: 61 Lesson 4: Writing
Date of teaching: Jan 11 th , 2010
Class: 11Cba, 11Cbo2, 11Cbo3
Objectives: By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to write a letter to express satisfaction/ dissatisfaction
Language contents: vocabulary
Teaching aids: Black board, textbook, cards, handouts
PROCEDURE
activities
Students' activities
5’
10’
I Warm up :
Lucky star
Questions:
1 Which service do you use if you want to send a
parcel to your friend?
2 Which service do you use if you want to make a
call?
3 Which service do you use if you want to have
your newspapers delivered to your house?
4 Which service do you use if you want to send
your brother some money?
Picture: Danang (central) post office
Questions to lead in:
1) Have you ever been to a post office?
2) What do you do there?
3) Are you satisfied with everything there?
II Pre-Writing :
1 Task 1: Discussion: Discuss some matters of the
post office
Group 1 +2:
1 The opening hours of the post office
2 The quality of the equipment
Group 3+ 4:
3 The security conditions of the post office
4 The attitude of the staff
- divides class into
2 teams
- gives the rules of game
- controls the game
- declares the winner
- Introduces the lesson
- asks ss to work
in groups
- gives hand out
of questions for each group
- asks each group
to give the answer -checks
- follows to T
- listen to T
- play the game
- congratulate
- listen to T
- work in groups
- Discuss the questions
answer
- listen and take note
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10’
Group 5 +6:
5 The prices of the services
6 The punctuality of delivery of letters and newspapers
Feedback:
1 too late/ early…
2 good/bad/ poor quality/ needs repairing…
3 good/ poor security condition/ no one to keep
motorbikes or bikes/ pickpockets…
4 polite/ helpful/ rude/ arrogant…
5 low/ high/ reasonable…
6 always/ never punctual/ sometimes late/ letters and
newspapers are lost…
2 Task 2:Give model sentences:
Ex: 1 The staffs here are very helpful and polite They
are willing to help you when you need
2 The equipment there needs upgrading Sometimes
I needed to fax an urgent document but it was
impossible because the fax machine was out of order
…
3 Prepare for writing the letter:
3.1 Read the requirements of task 2.
3.2 Give useful language
Sentence connectors:
First, Second, Third, … Finally
Moreover,
Furthermore,
However, …
Note: If you express both satisfaction and
dissatisfaction, you should show your satisfaction first
III While- Writing :
Task 3: Write a letter
After a year in the job, the director of Thanh Ba Post
Office has invited residents in the neighborhood to write
letters to him describing the quality of the services they
have received Write such a letter, using the ideas you
discussed in Task 1
Suggestions:
Dear Sir,
I have lived here for five years and during this time I
have used most of the services of Thanh Ba post office
Now I am writing to show you my opinions of these
services The staffs here are very helpful and polite
They are willing to help when we need The prices of
the services here are quite reasonable, so most people in
our neighborhood use the services here However, there
- asks ss to Asks
ss to work in groups and make the sentences
- checks and leads
in the task 3
- Elicits the form
of the letter to ss
- gives the useful language
- Asks ss to write
a letter depend on task 2
- Goes around and helps
individually
sentences
- listen to T
- follow to T
- listen to T
- write a letter depend on task 2
individually
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are still some matters The equipment in the post office
needs upgrading Sometimes I needed to fax an urgent
document but it was impossible because the fax
machine was out of order Moreover, the delivery of
newspapers is never punctual One more thing I want to
mention is that the security conditions of the post office
are not very good There used to be property loss here
I am writing in the hope that these matters will be
improved If so, I believe more and more people will go
to Thanh Ba post office
Yours faithfully,
IV Post-writing:
- Correct some writings
V Homework :
- Rewrite the letter in the note book
- Prepare the next lesson (Language Focus-p.108)
correct
- asks
- observe and take note
- listen