UNIT 12 – LESSON 4 D WRITIING Planning date Feb 19th Teaching date Feb 28th I Objectives 1 Education Aims Students can write a profile 2 Knowledge a General knowledge The life story of a famous person[.]
UNIT 12 – LESSON 4: D WRITIING Planning date: Feb 19th Teaching date: Feb 28th I Objectives: Education Aims: Students can write a profile Knowledge: a General knowledge: The life story of a famous person b Language: - Language used to write a profile - The past tenses, to-infinitive and the passive voice Skills:- Reading: read the information about Van Cao - Writing: the life story of Van Cao II Anticipated problems: Use the prompts to write a complete profile III Teaching Aids: board, textbook, chalk IV Procedures: Teacher's activities Students' activities Homework checking: (5 mins) - Ask one st to talk about his/her opinion about Quang - Listen to their friend and give Hung's ideas about Van Cao's music remarks - Ask other sts to listen to their friend and give remarks - Check and give remarks - Listen to the teacher Before you write: (20 mins) - Listen to the teacher carefully - Aims: to get sts to recognise what a profile is like and - Copy down the words into theit to read the information about Van Cao notebooks + Task 1: - Introduce the topic of the lesson: Writing a profile - Listen and repeat - Introduce some new words: - Some sts stand up and read again + 'profile (n): a report of a person (usu in a newspaper article) +'mixture (n): - Read the prompts and the task in +tune (n): pairs + Ragtime (v): a kind of music which is a mixture of - Write down the sentences into their classical European and African beats notebooks + rag (n): a Ragtime song - Share their answer with their friends + beat (n): - Present their ideas + 'talent (n): a natural skill/ ability He learned to play music when he + 'talented (a): having talent was very young + app'reciate (v): recognise sb's good qualities Scott learned to play the works of - Ask sts to listen and repeat and then copy down these composers like Bach, Beethoven, and words into their notebooks Mozart as well as to compose music - Ask some sts to read these words again He quickly became famous - Ask sts to read the prompts in task and to make up His tune were wonderful mixture of complete sentences about Scott Joplin by adding suitable classical European and African beats auxiliaries, articles or prepositions and appropriate verb which were known as Ragtime tenses All in all, he wrote 50 piano rags, - Allow sts to work in pairs first to make up sentences and was called the King of Ragtime orally and the write them down into their notebooks Scott Joplin died in 1917 - Move around to help if necessary - Listen to the teacher - Ask sts to compare their answer with other sts - Answer T's questions: - Get feedback and give remarks We use the past simple - Focus sts on some points about writing a profile by the date of birth/death, the place of asking some questions: birth, family, career, personal life 1 Which tense you use? What kind of information is included in a profile? + Task 2: - Ask sts to read the information about Van Cao and to work in pairs to discuss how to write a profile about him - Ask them to refer to their writing in task as a sample While you write: (10 mins) - Aims: Sts practise writing about a life story of Van Cao - Ask sts to write down what they have discussed into their notebooks - Let sts write in 10 minutes - Move around to conduct the activity After you write: (9 mins) Aims: to get feedback and check sts' work - Get feedback by asking some sts to read their work aloud - Ask some other sts to give remarks - Check and give the correct answer - If there is enough time, T can have sts exchange their writing among sts within a group so that they can check their friend's work and give remarks Homework: (1min) - Part D (page 73 - workbook) - Listen to the teacher - Work in pairs to discuss - Do the writing task - Read their writing: (a sample paragraph) "Van Cao was born on the fifteenth of November, 1923 in Nam Dinh His parents were poor workers However, he started composing music when he was very young His first song was written in 1939 and it quickly became famous The song " Tien Quan Ca", which is the national anthem of Vietnam, was written in 1944 Van Cao was also very good at other artistic works like song writing, poem writing and paintings He died on the tenth of July,1995 He was known as a very talented musician and highly appreciated by the Vietnamese people ... famous The song " Tien Quan Ca", which is the national anthem of Vietnam, was written in 1 944 Van Cao was also very good at other artistic works like song writing, poem writing and paintings He died... feedback and check sts'' work - Get feedback by asking some sts to read their work aloud - Ask some other sts to give remarks - Check and give the correct answer - If there is enough time, T can have... answer - If there is enough time, T can have sts exchange their writing among sts within a group so that they can check their friend''s work and give remarks Homework: (1min) - Part D (page 73