- the group with more points wins - refer back to the pictures just stuck on the board and ask SS whose life they know much about Transition: do you know how to write a biography?. That’[r]
(1)Lesson Plan Period 125: Unit 15: (grade 11 – advanced) Preparation date : 20/4/2008 Lesson : writing I Aims : - By the end of the lesson, the students are able to organize accounts in chronological order - By the end of the lesson, the students are able to write a biography II Lexical items : - biography - chronological order III Structures : - he was born in Dijon, France, in 1832, to a family known for fine craft work of wood - he graduated from L’Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, Paris, in 1855 IV Teaching aids: - textbook - handouts - Sheets of paper - chalk and board - pictures V Techniques : - writing-based - Procedures : State/time Teacher’s and students’ activities Blackboard Materials warmGames: famous people up - arrange the class into two groups, A and B pictures (7’) - get the group representatives to draw straws for who goes first - show SS pictures of or related to famous people , one by one and let the groups decide whom the picture refers to - award one point for each correct answer, and stick that picture up on the board If the group in question fails to give the answer, the turn then passes to the other group Play continues until all the pictures are shown - keep a total running of points for each group - the group with more points wins - refer back to the pictures just stuck on the board and ask SS whose life they know much about Transition: you know how to write a biography? That’s the focus of our lesson today Unit 15: p125:Writing a - write down on the board: biography Prewriting (10’) Activity 1: presenting an outline - elicit what to be included in a biography from SS: Name, date, and place of birth, his or her family, social, cultural Educational background - tell SS that a biography is normally organized in chronological, i.e in the order of Lop6.net - expressions of time: In his later years… at the age of 20… On March 1st , 1890 … During the winter, he … - clause of time: she moved to China when Chalk and board (2) time that the events take place Activity2:introducing useful language whilewriting (20’) Activity 1: Re-arranging (task b, textbook, p.206-207) - divide Ss into small groups Each group is given a poster with phrases on and a set of faces: neutral (yellow), smiling (pink) and sad (blue) - Ask Ss to stick a neutral face next to a refusal one - Tell Ss to stick the poster on the board when they have finished The first group to finish with all correct answers will win the game - demonstrate using the phrases on the boar and then have Ss start - go over the answers and show a poster with the phrases in categories Activity 2: identifying main ideas - give each student a copy of the text below ( appendix 2) - put SS into groups of four - ask SS to divide the text into five paragraphs according to these headings - call on group representatives to give the answers Postwriting (10’) Peer correction - Ask Sts to work in group of 5, deliver each group pieces of writings and tell them to read and correct their friends’ narratives - Tell each group to choose the best piece of writing, and the most special story - Go around to control and give help if necessary - Call a St from each group to read their group’s best writing, and ask Sts to give comments - Ask Sts to write a biography as guided at Homework home for preparing next time (1’) Lop6.net she was nine as soon as she finished her degree, she worked as a nurse after his father died, his mother went to work Expected answers: g c i e h b d f Headings: - introduction - private life - life now a Chalk and board Small board cards - early - later career Card 1- Jack and card – Sinh are delivered out Sts Handouts + sheets of paper textbook (3)