Task 1: Sentence completion 10’ Instruction: You are required to make up complete sentences about Scott Joplin, a famous American musician, using the prompts provided.. He learnt to play[r]
(1)Pre : 03.03.2013 Tea: 11.03.2013 MUSIC UNIT 12: D WRITING Week: Period: 78 I/ Objectives: Educational aim: To help Students to write a profile based on prompts provided Knowledge: Help Ss learn how to write about a famous person Skills: writing about a famous American musician and Vietnamese musician, Van Cao II/ Method: Mainly communication, integrated III/ Teaching aids: Textbook, handout IV/ Procedure: Contents Teacher’s & Students’ activities I WARM-UP: (7’) When and where was he born? Who composed this tune? Do you know any information about him? - Gives out the picture of Scott and play the tape about music of Scott, asks Ss answer the questions - Introduces a little about Scott and begins new lesson - Listen to and answer the questions II PRE WRITING: (7’) + A profile is a short biography of somebody (tieu su van tat) + A profile usually includes: date and family, major achievements, date of death (if the person died) Task 1: Sentence completion (10’) Instruction: You are required to make up complete sentences about Scott Joplin, a famous American musician, using the prompts provided * Answers: He learnt to play music when he was very young Scott learnt to play the works of composers like Bach, Beethoven and Mozart as well as to compose music He quickly became famous His tunes were wonderful mixture of classical European and African beats which were known as Ragtime All in all He wrote 50 piano rags and was called; the King of Ragtime Scott died in 1917 Lop10.com - Asks Ss to look at the handout again and read through the two tasks on page 129 Tasks Ss profile is and what to be included in a profile - Introduces some features of a profile: - Reminds Ss to use tenses of verbs appropriate when writing profiles - Before Ss the task, T asks them what tense of verbs they should use in this task T reminds Ss that the simple past tense should be used here as the musician died - Also, Ss should supplement the past tense of "be", prepositions, articles where necessary - Divides Ss into groups of six Each group member will write a sentence - Goes around helping - Group members then share their sentence with one another to get comments and necessary correction Next, they combine all the sentences into a profile - Calls on Ss to go to the board and each of them will write down a sentence - Elicits self and peer correction and gives correction when Ss are not able to correct the errors - Give suggested answers (2) III WHILE WRITING Task 2: Profile writing: 12’ Instruction: You are going to write a life story of Van Cao using the prompts provided * Sample writing: Van Cao was born in Nam Ha in 1923, into a poor worker family He could compose music when he was very young He composed his first song in 1939 and quickly became famous Tien Quan Ca, the Vietnam National Anthem, was composed in 1944 His artistic works were songs, poems and paintings He died in 1995 Van Cao was known as a very talented musician and highly appreciated by the Vietnamese people IV POST WRITINGS: (8’) - Before Ss the task T asks them to read through prompts T reminds Ss to use the right tense of verbs and supplement articles, prepositions, and pronouns when necessary - Asks Ss to write the profile individually in 10 minutes - Asks Ss to exchange their letter with another student for peer correction - Goes around and collects mistakes and errors, - Collects some writings for quick feedback - Writes Ss' typical errors on the board and elicits self and peer correction T provides correction only when Ss are not able to correct the errors - Finally, T provides general comments on the profiles V WRAPPING UP: (2’) - Summarizes the main points - For homework, tasks Ss to write the paragraph again, taking into consideration their friends' and T's suggestions and corrections and write the short passage about a Vietnamese musician who you like * Comments & supplement: Lop10.com (3)