- Allow sts to work in pairs first to make up sentences orally and the write them down into their notebooks.. - Move around to help if necessary.[r]
(1)UNIT 12 – LESSON 4: D WRITIING
Planning date: Feb 19th Teaching date: Feb 28th I Objectives:
Education Aims: Students can write a profile.
Knowledge: a General knowledge: The life story of a famous person b Language: - Language used to write a profile
- The past tenses, to-infinitive and the passive voice Skills:- Reading: read the information about Van Cao
- Writing: the life story of Van Cao
II Anticipated problems: Use the prompts to write a complete profile..
III Teaching Aids: board, textbook, chalk. IV Procedures:
Teacher's activities Students' activities
1 Homework checking: (5 mins)
- Ask one st to talk about his/her opinion about Quang Hung's ideas about Van Cao's music
- Ask other sts to listen to their friend and give remarks - Check and give remarks
2 Before you write: (20 mins)
- Aims: to get sts to recognise what a profile is like and to read the information about Van Cao.
+Task 1:
- Introduce the topic of the lesson: Writing a profile.
- Introduce some new words:
+ 'profile (n): a report of a person (usu in a newspaper article)
+'mixture (n):
+tune (n):
+ Ragtime (v): a kind of music which is a mixture of
classical European and African beats + rag (n): a Ragtime song
+ beat (n):
+ 'talent (n): a natural skill/ ability + 'talented (a): having talent
+ app'reciate (v): recognise sb's good qualities
- Ask sts to listen and repeat and then copy down these words into their notebooks
- Ask some sts to read these words again
- Ask sts to read the prompts in task and to make up complete sentences about Scott Joplin by adding suitable auxiliaries, articles or prepositions and appropriate verb tenses
- Allow sts to work in pairs first to make up sentences orally and the write them down into their notebooks - Move around to help if necessary
- Ask sts to compare their answer with other sts - Get feedback and give remarks
- Focus sts on some points about writing a profile by asking some questions:
1 Which tense you use?
- Listen to their friend and give remarks
- Listen to the teacher
- Listen to the teacher carefully - Copy down the words into theit notebooks
- Listen and repeat
- Some sts stand up and read again - Read the prompts and the task in pairs
- Write down the sentences into their notebooks
- Share their answer with their friends - Present their ideas
1 He learned to play music when he was very young.
2 Scott learned to play the works of composers like Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart as well as to compose music. 3 He quickly became famous.
4 His tune were wonderful mixture of classical European and African beats which were known as Ragtime.
5 All in all, he wrote 50 piano rags, and was called the King of Ragtime. 6 Scott Joplin died in 1917.
- Listen to the teacher - Answer T's questions:
1 We use the past simple.
(2)2 What kind of information is included in a profile?
+ Task 2:
- Ask sts to read the information about Van Cao and to work in pairs to discuss how to write a profile about him - Ask them to refer to their writing in task as a sample 3 While you write: (10 mins)
- Aims: Sts practise writing about a life story of Van Cao.
- Ask sts to write down what they have discussed into their notebooks
- Let sts write in 10 minutes
- Move around to conduct the activity 4 After you write: (9 mins)
Aims: to get feedback and check sts' work.
- Get feedback by asking some sts to read their work aloud - Ask some other sts to give remarks
- Check and give the correct answer
- If there is enough time, T can have sts exchange their writing among sts within a group so that they can check their friend's work and give remarks
5 Homework: (1min)
- Part D (page 73 - workbook)
- Listen to the teacher - Work in pairs to discuss - Do the writing task
- Read their writing: (a sample paragraph)