Unit 13: Film and cinemas Part E: Language focus Planning date: 20/03/2010 I. Objectives By the end of the lesson, students will be able to: - Distinguish the sound /f/ and /v/. - Pronounce the words and sentences containing these sounds correctly. - Distinguish two kinds of adjectives of attitude: past participe and present participle. - Use adjectives of attitude to describe films or to express their opinion about particular films. - II. Anticipated problems. 1. Problems. - Students may have difficulty in pronouncing two sounds /f/ and /v/ - Students namay confuse the use of past participle and present participle. - Students may forget grammatical structure or vocabulary so it’s difficult for them to express their opinion about a film. - Studentd may feel uninteresting in the lesson. - Some timid students don’t take part in the lesson. 2. Solutions - Teacher should let students to practise two sounds /f/ and /v/ many times and ask them to repeat them. - Teacher should explain the use of adjectives of attitude clearly and ask students to do many exercises. - Teacher should remind students of some old structures which related to this lesson: find + S + adjective. - Encourage timid students to take part in the lesson. - Give more exercises for students to practise. III. Procedures Teacher’s activities Students’activities I .Warm- up (5minutes) - Teacher writes two sounds /f/ and /v/ on the board. - Asks two students to go to the board and write words beginning with /f/ and /v/. - One students writes words beginning with /f/. - One students writes words beginning with /v/. - Encourages them write as many as they possible. - Listen to the tacher. - Go to the board and write words beginning with /f/ and/v/. - Read these words aloud. - The winner is the person who can write more words. - Asks 2 students to read the words they have written. II. Pronunciation (10 minutes) Distinguish sounds /f/ and /v/. - Turns on the radio and asks students to listen to sounds twice or three times. - Asks students to repeat following the radio. - Students practise pronouncing the sounds in chorus for a few more times. - Calls on some students to read the words out loud. - Corrects if students pronounce the target words incorrectly. Practice sentences containing the target sounds. - Turns on the radio. - Asks students to listen and underline the words with the sounds and write /f/ or /v/ under them. - Asks students to practise these sentences in pairs. - Asks some students to read the sentences out loud. - Corrects if they pronounce incorrectly. - Listen to the teacher. - Repeat these sounds - Practise these sounds in chorus and individually. - Listen to the radio. - Underline the words with the sound and write /f/ or /v/ under them. - Practise in pairs. - Read out the sentences. IV. Grammar 1. Presentation (5 minutes) - Gives 3 examples: 1. The film is so boring. I’m bored with that film. 2. Mary thinks English is very interesting. Mary is very interested in learning English. 3. The cartoon “ Tom and Jerry” is exciting. I am excited in the cartoon - Explain the underlined words in each sentences. The – ing form has an active meaning The – ed form has a passive meaning (how people feel) - Asks students to give some ther examples. - Checks their examples. - Asks students to do 2 tasks in the textbook. 2.Practice (15 minutes) - Listen to the teacher. - Write down on the notebook. - Give some examples. Exercise 1: Write the adjectival form of the verbs. - Teacher writes the adjectival form of one verb as example. - Asks students to do exercise 1 individually. - Goes arround to provide help. - Calls n some student to go to th board and write their answers. - Checks their answer and give the correct ones. Correct answer: 1 fascinating - fascinated 2 terrifying - terrified 3 irritating - irritated 4 surprising - surprised 5 horrifying- horrified 6 frustrating- frustrated 7 Exercise 2 - Introducse the exercise and asks students to read all the sentence through. - Explain the new words if any. - Gets students to do the exercise individually and goes arround checking that they work. - Calls on 5 students t go to the board and write their answers. - Checks with the whole class and provides correct answers. Correct answer; 1. a. depressing b. depressed 2. a. interested b. interesting 3.a. boring b.bored 4.a excited b.exciting 5.a exhausting b. exhausted 3. Production (8 minutes) Write the sentences. - Gives some picture of some famous films. - Asks studens to decide which kind of films they belong to. - With each ilm, give one adjective of attitude to describe it. 1. Cartoon/ exciting/ excited 2. comedy/ amusi ng/ amused. 3. Detective film/ thrilling/ thrilled. - Work individually and do exercise 1. - Write the answer on the board. - Check their answers. - Write the correct answers down on the notebook. - Work individually. - Do exercise 2. - Write their answers on the board. - Check their answers. - Listen to the teacher. - Decide which kind of films the films belong to. - Write the sentence using the cues. - Read out their answers. - Check their answers. 4. Love story film/ moving/ moved. 5. Horror film/ terrifying/ terrified. - Asks students to write the sentences using the cues. - Goes around to provide help. - Calls on 5 students to read their answers. - Checks their answers and gives correct ones. 1. The cartoon is exciting. I’m excited about it. 2. The comedy film is amusing. I am amused by the comedy film. 3. The detective film is thrilling. I am thrilled by the detective film. 4. The love story film is moving. I am moved by the love story film. 5. The horror film is terrifying. I am terrified by the horror film. V. Homework (2 minutes) - Teacher summarise the main points. - At home, review the attitudinal adjectives. - Listen and take note. . boring. I’m bored with that film. 2. Mary thinks English is very interesting. Mary is very interested in learning English. 3. The cartoon “ Tom and Jerry” is. words. - Asks 2 students to read the words they have written. II. Pronunciation (10 minutes) Distinguish sounds /f/ and /v/. - Turns on the radio and asks students