UNIT 12: MUSIC Week 8 Part D: Writing Period 76 Date of preparation: 06/03/2010 Date of teaching: 08/03/2010 Teacher: Vu Thi Bich Thuan * Objective: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to - write a profile base on prompts provided * Method: Integrated, mainly communicative * Teaching aids: textbook * Procedure Teacher’s activities Student’s activities I. WARM UP (10’) Divide the class into 8 groups and give each group a handout below 1. born on February 28, 1939 in Lac Giao Grew up in Hue Wrote more than 990 songs indcluding Uot Mi, Diem xua, Noi Vong Tay Lon… Died on April 1, 2001 in Ho Chi Minh City 2. born on August 19, 1975 in Hanoi Graduated from Hanoi Conservatory in 1997 Has received many honors including the first prize in Hanoi’s singing competition, the gold medal in the National Competition in 1995, the golden voice of ASEAN in 1998 Famous albums: Vẫn hát lời bình yên, Tóc Ngắn I &II, Chát với Mozard 3. Born on March 30, 1968in Charlemagne, Quebec, Canada Won the academy award for best song and the Grammy award for best Pop Performance by a duo or group with Vocal with the song “Beauty and the Beast” Married René Angélil in 1994 Famous for song both IFrench and English: the power of love, my heart will go on … Ask S to read the profile and find the name of each singer and musician as quickly as possible The winner will be the group with the quickest and correct answers @ answers 1. Trịnh Công Sơn 2. Mỹ Linh 3. Celine Dion II. PRE- WRITING (15’) Asks to look at the handout again and read through the two tasks in the book. Ask S what a profile is and what to be included in a profile Introduce some features of a profile: + A profile is a short biography of somebody + A profile usually includes: date and place of birth, family, major achievements, date of death Remind S to use tense of verb appropriate when writing profiles Task 1: sentence completion Before S do the task, ask S what tense of verb they should use in Work in group Read the handout Read the profiles and answer questions Take note this task, S also should supplement the past tense of “be”, prepositions, articles… where necessary. Divide S into group of six. Each group member will write a sentence Go around to observe and offer help Group members then share their sentences with one another to get comments and necessary correction. Then they combine all sentences into a profile. Call on 6 S to go to the board and each of them will write down a sentence Elicit self and peer correction and give correction when S are not able to correct the errors @ Suggest answers 1. He learnt to play the guitar when he was very young. 2. He learnt to play the works of composers like Bach, Beethoven, Mozart as well as to compose music. 3. He quickly became famous. 4. His tunes were wonderful mixture of classical European and African. 5. All in all, he wrote 50 piano rags, and was called the King of Ragtime. 6. Scott Joplin died in 1917. III. WHILE- WRITING (12’) Task 2: Profile writing Ask S to read through the prompts Remind S to use the right tense of verb and supplement articles, prepositions, pronouns… As S to write the profile individually in 10 minutes @ Suggested answer: Van Cao was born in Nam Ha in 1923, into a poor worker family. He could compose music when he was very young. He composed his first song in 1939 and quickly became famous. Tien Quan Ca, the Vietnamese National Anthem, was composed in 1944. His artistic works were songs, poems, and paintings. He died in 1995. Van Cao was known as a very talented musician and is highly appreciate by the Vietnamese people. IV. POST- WRITING (5’) Ask S to exchange their profiles with another S for peer correction Go around to collect mistakes, errors and some writings for quick feedback Write typical errors on the board and elicits self and peer correction Provide general comments on the profile V. WRAPPING UP (2’) Summarize the main points Ask S rewrite the paragraph, taking into consideration their friend’s and T’s suggestion and do extra activity Work in group. Try to finish the sentences Share and correct to each other Write down the sentences on the board Read the prompts Write the profile in 10 minutes Exchange and correct to each other . UNIT 12: MUSIC Week 8 Part D: Writing Period 76 Date of preparation: 06/03/2 010 Date of teaching: 08/03/2 010 Teacher: Vu Thi Bich Thuan * Objective:. communicative * Teaching aids: textbook * Procedure Teacher’s activities Student’s activities I. WARM UP (10 ) Divide the class into 8 groups and give each group a handout below 1. born on February 28,. verb and supplement articles, prepositions, pronouns… As S to write the profile individually in 10 minutes @ Suggested answer: Van Cao was born in Nam Ha in 1923, into a poor worker family. He