Lesson Plan (grade 11 – advanced) Period 115 : Preparation date :2 /4/2008 Unit14 : Lesson : Speaking I. Aims : - By the end of the lesson, the students are able to express degrees of certainty. - By the end of the lesson, the students are able to give reasons to talk about their plans for future. II. Lexical items : -pale -holiday activities III- Structures : - I might go to Da Lat next summer vacation. IV- Teaching aids: - textbook - Handouts - chalk - cards V- Techniques : - skill-based ( listening, speaking) VI- Procedures : State/time Teacher’s and students’ activities Blackboard Material s 1. warm- up (7’) Games: Flashing the Pictures -Arrange SS to work in tow groups, A and B -Flash a picture quickly and ask SS to say what it is ( Appendix 1a) - With a correct sentence about the picture, the group - Handouts scores one point. The group with more point wins the game. -Keep a running total of points for each group on the board. -Declare the winner -Ask SS ‘why is the baby crying?’ -If the answer is ‘He is hungry/…’ ask SS how they know that. -Ask SS what to use when they just guess, but not sure of something. ( Add a clock to the picture to show time in order to elicit more answers with high degree of certainty like ‘He must be…’.) ( Appendix 1b) - ( expected: May be/Perhaps he’s hungry. /He might be thirsty. /He must be sleepy. / …) Transition : -So when we are not sure of something, we can only tell the possibility. Today we will practice expressing possibility through different degrees of certainty -Write down on the board : Unit 14 : Speaking – Talking about Possibility 2. Pre- Speaking 1.Eliciting and Introducing useful language -Make questions to elicit and then introduce the Chalk (7’) language used to express possibility. -Draw a continuum to show the degree of certainty the modals express. Degrees of Certainty Low degree high degree ( Less Certain) (More Certain) Modals: may should must Might can’t Could ( sure or almost sure) Adverbs: maybe perhaps and board 3. while- Speaking. (23’) Activity 1: talking about the situation(tack a, p. 195) -Ask SS to work in pairs, read the situations and make a sentence using a suitable modal to express possibility. -Go around to monitor and give help if necessary. -Call on pairs of SS to act out the exchanges for the situations -Give feedback and comments. Activity 2: talking about the pictures -Ask SS to work in pairs -Give each pair a set of pictures(Appendix 2) -Tell SS to study the pictures and talk about what might happen in each case using suitable modals to express the degrees of certainty. Textbook 4. Post- Speaking (7’) 5. Homewor k -Show are picture and modals an exchange to give SS an example. -Go around to monitor unobtrusively. - Call on SS to talk about the pictures and invite the class to express their opinion and to give comments. -Give feedback and comments. Activity 3: talking about plans for next summer vacation (task b, p.196) -Arrange SS to work in small groups. -Ask SS in their groups to talk about what they plan to do next summer vacation. Tell them to use the model the example exchange. -Have SS do the task. -Go around to check and give help if necessary. -Call on some students to report about their groups. -Give feedback and comments. Writing about your plans -Tell SS to write a few sentences about what they might do next summer vacation. - Ask SS to form small groups of 4 or 5, exchange their writings for correction and share ideas. - give feedback and comments What’s in common? -Ask SS to write a short paragraph about their group or Textbook Handout (1’) class plans for the next vacation, beginning with: Most of us in the group / class are not sure of what to do in the next summer vacation. Some might… . items : -pale -holiday activities III- Structures : - I might go to Da Lat next summer vacation. IV- Teaching aids: - textbook - Handouts - chalk - cards V- Techniques : - skill-based (. (grade 11 – advanced) Period 115 : Preparation date :2 /4/2008 Unit1 4 : Lesson : Speaking I. Aims : - By the end of the lesson, the students are able to express degrees of certainty. - By. exchange. -Have SS do the task. -Go around to check and give help if necessary. -Call on some students to report about their groups. -Give feedback and comments. Writing about your plans -Tell