- second semester report/ last month - good grades/ Geography/ Physics/ Math - teacher/ tell/ improve English/ History - in a few weeks/ Mid – Autumn Festival/. Moon Festival- Ha Long B[r]
(1)Week: 10 Period: 29
Date: October 4th , 2016
I.AIM: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to identify the sections of the letter They will develop writing skill They can write a guiding informal letter to a friend to notice their study results
II LANGUAGE CONTENT:
New words: result, Lunar New Year, Mid Autumn Festival, Moon festival, enjoyable Grammar: Simple tenses (review)
III TECHNIQUES: Brainstorming, ordering/ matching, synonym, antonym, situation, chitchat, teacher’s eliciting, substitution writing
IV TEACHING AIDS: V PROCEDURES:
TEACHER’S AND STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES
CONTENT
BRAINSTORMING
* Students work in small groups They think about how they studied in the first mid – term * These words may be used:
- excellent - good - fair - bad - poor - fail - pass
* Ex: - My English was not good
WARM UP/ Brainstorming
My math was fair
My English was not good
My music was not bad
My history was poor
UNIT 5: STUDY HABITS
LESSON 5: write
(2)- My literature was fair …
Chitchat
- Did you finish your first mid- term? - Yes, I did
- How did you study in the first mid – term? - My math was good My English was not good
- What did your teacher say?
- She said I should work harder for it
Teacher introduces the lesson:
After having your study result, you should tell something about this You can write a letter to your friend.
The lesson today will help you that.
Matching
Students have to match the four sections with the parts of a letter:
A/ Body of the letter
B/ Heading C/ Closing D/ Opening 1/ 12 Tran Hung Dao Street …
2/ Dear Tim,
3/ Thanks for your letter … 4/ Regards,
* Key: B – D – A – C –
Teacher’s eliciting:
- How many parts are there in the letter? - (Four.)
- What you call each part?
- (Heading Opening Body of the letter Closing)
- What can be written in each part? - (Heading: writer’s address and the date - Opening: Dear Tim / name of a receiver - Body of the letter: Thanks for your letter I am pleased to hear you had … all your news - Closing: Your friend Regards, Love
- Who wrote the letter? … - Who received the letter? …
2 PRE WRITING Outline of a letter
1/ Heading: address and date 2/ Opening: Dear …
3/ Body of the letter 4/ Closing: Love, Regards, Best, Your friend,
Notes:
- Dear Tim, ( name of a receiver) - Thanks for your letter
- I am pleased to hear
you had an enjoyable Christmas vacation (Present and past tenses) enjoyable (a), enjoy (v)
The Lunar New Year (1/1) Mid Autumn Festival // Moon festival (15/8 Lunar)
- Hoa wrote the letter - Tim received the letter
(3)- What can be mentioned in the letter? - Thanks for something, feelings, …
Teacher takes some notes
Substitution writing
Teacher asks the students to help Lan
write a letter to her pen pal Donna in San Francisco
Students can use the words/
or cues given:
Students can replace the underlined
parts of the model letter
Ex: I am pleased to hear that you had an enjoyable Christmas vacation.
We received our first semester report a few days ago …
Students exchange their writings and
help their partners find mistakes
Teacher gives some students marks
for good writing
Teacher gives them key
Teacher helps students with their homework
- To develop writing skill
- Thanks for something, feelings, grades for subjects, teacher’s advice, intention, asking a friend to reply the letter
WHILE WRITING Students’ writing
*Cues: - Mother’ Day
- second semester report/ last month - good grades/ Geography/ Physics/ Math - teacher/ tell/ improve English/ History - in a few weeks/ Mid – Autumn Festival/
Moon Festival- Ha Long Bay/ aunt and uncle/ bus/ this afternoon
- send you/ postcard
POST WRITING/ Marks (10pts) Tan Chau, November 4th , 2016
Dear Donna,
Thanks for your letter I’m pleased to hear you had a happy Mother’s Day.
I received my second semester report last month. I got good grades for geography, physics and math, but my English and history were poor.
My teacher told me to improve them
I think I have to study harder next semester. Next month, we are going to celebrate the Mid – Autumn Festival That’s a moon festival in Autumn or Fall in Viet Nam I am going to Ha Long Bay with my aunt and uncle by bus this afternoon and I am going to stay there with them until after the festival I’ll send you a postcard from there
Write soon and tell me all your news. Best,
Lan
5 HOMEWORK
a *Write a letter to your former teacher on Teacher’s Day next week
(4)- To prepare for the new lesson: Language focus
+ To consolidate forms of adjectives and adverbs
+ To consolidate direct and reported speech
good bad fast hard
well
Examples: …
Direct speech Reported speech Sit down, please She asked me
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