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(1)Pre : 22.11.2012 Tea: 28.11.2012 Unit : THE MAS MEDIA D WRITING Week: 15 Syllable Period: 42 I OBJECTIVES: Education aim: Students can write about the advantages and disadvantage of the mass media Knowledge: - General knowledge: Help students to get information according to the way to fill in the gaps - Language: Words relate to advantages and disadvantage of the mass media Skills: write about the advantages and disadvantage of the mass media II METHOD: Mainly communicative III TEACHING AIDS: Some pictures IV PROCEDURE: / Class organization: Attendance: 10: / Oral test: - Let students go to the board and answer the questions - Correct their mistakes / New lesson: Contents Teacher’s & students’ activities I WARM- UP: Play game “Sentence Race” - Prepare a list of reviewed vocabulary words about mass media such as newspaper, Write each word on two small pieces of paper That means television… writing the word twice, once on each paper - Write each word on two small pieces of paper That means writing the word twice, once on each paper - Organize the pieces like bundles, bundles, sets of identical words - Divide the class into teams Get them to make creative team names - Distribute each list of words to both teams Every student on each team should have a paper Both teams have the same words - When you call a word, students should stand up, one forms each team The student must then run to the blackboard and race to write a sentence using their word The winner is the one with a correct and clearly written sentence II PRESENTATION - Television helps us to learn more about the world - Implicit the meaning of advantage and disadvantage by analyzing the examples: - Television makes us passive - Which sentence says good about television? Which one is - Ask Ss to read about the advantages and bad? disadvantages of television + help / encourage someone to something: help us to - Have Ss underline the key words of each learn, encourage us to buy idea And take note some structures + make someone/ something + adjective: make things - Go around the class and provide help when memorable, make us aware of, make us passive, make people necessary - Make sure Ss understand all the advantages violent and disadvantages mentioned in the book - Ask Ss to work in pair and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the mass media and write them down in the column Lop10.com (2) III PRACTICE *Suggestion: + it makes people happy / lazy + It makes life easier / enjoyable + It provides quickly access to information and entertainment + It enlarges / broadens people’s knowledge and understanding + People can share opinions / experience / knowledge / understanding + It costs people time and money + It interrupts people’s conversations + People get negative models + It has great influence on the way people think/ affects people’s life + It harms people’s eyes Radio Advantages Disadvantages It provides you hourly- It only provides updated news and information aurally information Newspapers Advantages Disadvantages It provides news and It's less updated than current affairs other kinds of media as updated there is no more information until the next edition The Internet Advantages Disadvantages + It provides quickly access to + It costs information and entertainment people time + It enlarges/ broadens people’s and money knowledge and understanding + It harms people’s eyes + People can share opinions/ experience/ knowledge/ understanding IV FURTHER PRACTICE Updated information, convenience and stress relief are three major advantages that radio brings us Firstly, radio keeps us updated with latest information The news which is broadcast live hourly helps us understand current events around the world Secondly, unlike other types of the mass media, radio is easy to use We can listen to the radio almost everywhere with little cost and great convenience Lastly, radio helps us to release the stress that we suffer from work and study Music and entertainment programmes on the radio are effective ways to make us feel happy and refreshed after a hard working day In conclusion, radio has a lot of advantages that make our life easier and more enjoyable Lop10.com - Encourage Ss to find the ideas related to the topics - Ask Ss to share the ideas with other pairs - Let Ss choose of the three types of mass media to discuss - Give suggested answers: - Ask Ss to write a paragraph about the advantages and disadvantages of one of the mass media discussed in Task - Let Ss work independently and write under time pressure - Introduce peer correction if time allowed - Pick up some writing to correct in front of the class as a whole - Give suggested writing: (3)