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LESSON PLAN Unit 13: Hobbies Reading I. Class detail: - Class: 11 - Number of students: 45 - Time allotted: 45 minutes - Date: 10/12/2012 II. Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to: - Develop such reading micro-skills as scanning for specific ideas and guessing meaning in context. - Use the information they have read to discuss the related topic as well as talk about their hobbies. - Gain more knowledge about some kinds of hobbies. - Use vocabulary items related to hobbies. III. Skills - Main skill: Reading - Sub skills: Speaking, Listening IV. Lexical items: accomplished, accompany, fish tank, avid, discarded. V. Materials: textbook, blackboard, pictures, handouts. VI: Anticipated problems: - There maybe have some words that Ss do not understand. - Some Ss will not understand when T gives the instructions in English. - Time-limited: It is the end of period, but the lesson is not finished, there are some activities which have not happened.  Solutions: - T teaches some new words and instructs Ss to guess the meaning of other new words based on the contexts. - T gives instructions as clearly as possible and checks Ss’ understanding carefully or T may use Vietnamese to clarify the instructions. - T controls the time suitably for each activity. VII. Procedure Stages Activities Work arrangement WARM-UP (5 mins) Game: Remembering T asks Ss to play a warm-up game - T divides class into 2 teams: team A & team B - T gives instruction: “I’m going to show you 8 pictures (appendix) of 8 activities; you have 5 seconds to look at each picture, remember what you can see. After that, the representative of each team will go to the black board and write down all the activities that they can remember beginning with V-ing in 1 minute. Which team has more correct answers will be the winner.” - T checks instruction: + “How many pictures are there?” + “What are you going to do now?” - T lets Ss play the game - T checks the answers with the whole class - T congratulate the winner Lead-in: - T asks Ss: +“When do you often do these activities?” Group work Expected answer : in free time +“What do you call the activities that you often do in your free time?” Expected answer: hobbies  T introduces the topic of the lesson: “Hobbies” PRE- READING (12 mins) Activitiy1: Teaching vocabulary (7mins) • T elicits some the useful vocabulary one by one by many different techniques and builds up them into a list on the blackboard. - Accomplished (adj) /ə'kɒmpli∫t/: có tài, tài hoa, cừ khôi Technique for eliciting: Synonym T elicits by asking: “ What is another word for talented or skilled” Expected answer: accomplished - Accompany (v) /ə'kʌmpəni/: đệm đàn, đệm nhạc Technique for eliciting: Picture T shows a picture of a person who is accompanying on the guitar and asks Ss: “What is he doing?” Expected answer: accompany - Avid (adj) /'ævid/: khao khát, thèm thuồng Technique for eliciting: Translation T elicits by asking: How do we say the word “khao khát” in English? Expected answer: avid - Fish tank (n) /fiʃ tæŋk/: bể cá Technique for eliciting: Picture T shows a picture of a fish tank and asks Ss: “What is this?” Expected answer: fish tank - Discard (v) / dis’kɑ:d/: loại bỏ Technique for eliciting: Situation T explains: when something is old, and we do not use it any more. What will we do with it? (How do you call “loại bỏ” in English?) Expected answer: discard T – whole class • After eliciting each word, T models 3 times and gets Ss to do choral. Then, T calls Ss to repeat individually. • T stresses syllables for each word. • T asks Ss to copy down those words in their notebooks Activity 2: Checking vocabulary (5mins) Technique for checking: Rub out and remember - T rubs out a word and asks Ss to say the words out aloud including the rubbed out word - T rubs out other words and does the same thing for each word. - When all words are rubbed out, T asks some Ss to come to black board and write them down in the correct position. - T gives feedback T- Students WHILE-READING (20mins) Activity 1: T/F statements (7mins) - T prepares poster - T gives instruction: “I would like you to read the passage on p. 147 and decide whether these statements are true or false. You have 5 mins to finish it” - T checks instruction: “What is your duty now?” - T sticks the poster on the black board 1. The most favorite hobby of the writer is playing the guitar 2. The writer admires his uncle very much. 3. The writer collected Individually fish from the shop only. 4. The writer is an avid stamp collector. 5. The writer has more foreign stamps than local ones. - T gives time for students to read individually and decide whether these statements are true or false - T asks Ss to give their answers - T checks their answers and gives feedback Key: 1. T 2. T 3. F 4. F 5. F Activity 2: Multiple choice (5mins) - T prepares handouts ( Appendix 2) - T gives instruction: “I would like you to read the text again and answer the questions in handout by choosing A, B, C or D. You have 3 mins to do it.” - T checks instruction: “What are you going to do, now?” - T delivers handouts to Ss - T gives time for students to do the task - T goes around as a monitor for observing and Individually Group work offering help if necessary. - T calls on some Ss to give the answers - T checks with the whole class and give feedback Key: 1. D 2. B 3. A 4. D 5. C Activity 3: Lucky stars (8mins) - T sticks the poster on the black board - T divides class into 2 teams: team A and team B - T gives instruction: “There are six stars on the blackboard. Each team will take turn to choose a star and answer the question. If your answer is correct, you will get 1 mark. There are 2 lucky stars and if you are lucky, you will get 1 mark without answering the question, also, you will have right to choose the next star. Which team has more correct answer will be the winner.” - T checks instruction +How many stars are there? (6). +How many points will you have if you get the lucky coin? (1). +How about an unlucky star? (answer the question) +And you will get? (1 point) +If it is not a right answer?(Other team will answer) - T lets Ss play the game. Questions: +Red star: What are the writer's hobbies? +Yellow star: Why does the writer admire his uncle? +Black star: Lucky star +Green star: How did he collect the fish? +Pink star: Which does the writer get more of, local or foreign stamps? +Blue star: Lucky star Key: +Red star: The writer’s hobbies are playing guitar, keeping fish, keeping stamps. +Yellow star: Because he is an accomplished guitarist and he is very good at accompanying people singing with his guitar. +Green star: He collected his fish by buying from the shop and collecting from the rice field near his house +Pink star: local stamps - T checks the answers with the whole class - T congratulates the winner POST- READING ( 7 mins) Interview - T prepares handouts - T gives instruction: “I would like you to work in pair. You will interview your partner about his/her hobbies and then take note on your handout in 3 mins and after that I will call on you to report about your interview” - T checks instruction: + Are you going to work in pair or group? + What are you going to do, now? +How long will you interview? - T elicits some structures used to interview +What is your hobby? +Why do you like it? +When do you like doing it? +Where do you often do it? - T delivers handouts to Ss - T gives time for students to do the task - T goes around as a monitor for observing and offering help if necessary. - T calls on some Ss to report their interview using information on their table - T listens and checks mistakes with the whole class. Pair work HOMEWOR T assigns Ss homework: T – whole class K (1 min) - Learn by heart all new words. - Write a short paragraph about your hobbies. - Prepare for the next lesson. Appendix 1 Pictures for warm-up game . LESSON PLAN Unit 13: Hobbies Reading I. Class detail: - Class: 11 - Number of students: 45 - Time allotted: 45