- Tell ss they are going to write a thank-you note to a friend and invite him/her to go on a picnic with them?. - Put the poster with the questions (page 85) on the board?[r]
(1)Date of preparing: Period 59
LESSON : WRITE
A Objectives: Aims:
- Writing a thank-you note
- By the end of the lesson, students will be able to know how to write a thank- you note
2 Practice skill:
- practice writing skill 3 The knowledge :
+ Standard knowledge: Write a thank-you note
+ Advanced knowledge: know how to write a thank- you note. 4 Basic language:
Writing a thank-you note 5 Attitude:
- Help ss to have good consciousness in order to write thank-you note B Teaching aids: posters, drawing, projector
C Methods: Individual work, Pair work. D.Procedure:
I ORGANIZATION: ( minute )
Class Date of teaching Absent students 8C …………
8C ………… 8C
Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
II WARM UP (6 minutes) * Shark Attack.
- Draw the figures of sea wave, steps, a boy/girl, a shark - Draw dashes, each dash for a letter of the word to be
revised (lie flat, elevate, lower, victim, ease ) (ease) III NEW LESSON: (36 minutes)
1: Pre- writing (10’)
a Vocab
- thank (smb) for (smth):cảm ơn
(2)* Checking vocabulary: Slap the board b True/False prediction:
* Set the scene:
- Ask ss to close their books and listen
"Nga was sick and she had to go to hospital After she left the hospital, she wrote a thank-you note to Hoa Why and what did she write?"
- Hang the poster with the statements on the board 1 Nga writes to thank Hoa for some candy.
2 Hoa's gift cheered Nga up.
3 Nga'd like Hoa to see her at the hospital. 4 Nga is very bored now.
5 Nga writes the letter at the hospital.
- Ask ss to read the statements and predict Individual work - Get ss to give their predictions (only one student for
each statement) and write on the board (T/F)
- Ask ss to look at the letter on page 84 and complete it with the right verb forms
- Monitor and help ss with the tense forms
- Call on some ss to give their answers and correct - Ask ss to read the whole letter and check if their predictions are right or not
- Correction * Answer key:
1 False flowers (not candy)
2 True
3 False at her house (not at the hospital)
4 True
5 False at her house (not at the hospital)
2: While – writing (16’)
* Questions and Answers:
- Tell ss they are going to write a thank-you note to a friend and invite him/her to go on a picnic with them
- Put the poster with the questions (page 85) on the board
What did your friend give/send you? On what occasion?
What was/were it/ they like?
How did you feel when you received the present? How you feel now?
Do you want to invite your friend to some where? If so, then when?
How will you contact your friend?
(3)- Have ss practise speaking to each other - Monitor and correct
- Ask ss to join the sentences in to a paragraph (not put any numbers, eg: 1,2,3 ) to make it a thank-you note - Tell ss to write their letters on a sheet of paper to hand
in or in their exercise notebooks Individual work 3: Post – writing (10’)
* Exhibition:
- Divide the class in to groups and choose a letter group work randomly in each group
- Ask groups to copy chosen letters on posters then put them on the board
- Compare the posters and correct
- Call on some more ss to read their letters for the class (if possible)
- Give feedback and correct IV SUMMARY:(1 minute)
? How to write a thank-you note ? ? Is it difficult?
V HOMEWORK: (1 minute)
- Ask ss to use the same format to write another letter
- to another friend for another occasion
- Let ss the exercises in the work book
- Prepare LANGUAGE FOCUS 2-3-4 page 87- 88
* Evaluation :