Bài soạn môn học Tiếng Anh 11 - Unit 1: Friendship - Lesson: Speaking

Period: 3rd	Date of preparation: August 23rd, 2011
	UNIT1: Friendship
	Lesson: Speaking
I. OBJECTIVES:
1. Aim: By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:
- Describe the physical characteristics and personalities of their friends, using appropriate adjectives.
- Make a dialogue talking about a famous friend.
2. Knowledge:
- Vocabulary: 
 Words to describe physical characteristics, personalities and friendship.
- Grammar/ Structures:
- (Pronunciation):
3. Skills: speaking
II. PREPARATION:
1. Teacher: textbook, workbook, tests, chalks.
2. Students:textbooks, workbooks, notebooks, pens.
III. PROCEDURE:
1. Warm-up:
Game: “Take Them Home”
	- T divides the class into 4 groups.
	- T gives each group a poster and 20 cards then gives the rule of the game.
Poster: 
HAIR
FACE
HEIGHT
NOSE
tall
square
shoulder-length
oval
wavy
medium
curly
round
straight
dyed
grey
pointed
flat
sleek
heart-shaped
short
large
turn-up
long
fair
Card:
 - Ss work in groups, take turns to choose the cards then stick them in the right categories.
	 - Ss can organize the words into four different categories as follows: 
FACE: square, oval, round
HAIR: curly, wavy, dyed, sleek, shoulder-length, long, short, fair, straight, grey
NOSE: 	straight, flat, turned-up, pointed 
HEIGHT: tall, short, medium 
- T asks:
+ Which other words are used for describing physical characteristics?
2. New lesson:
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
A. Pre - speaking
- Help Ss to read those words.
- Help them use those words in their own sentences to describe one of their friends in their class.
 Elicit them by asking:
 + What does he / she look like?
 + What is / she like?
 + Is he / she tall?
- Describe one of their friends.
- Take part in the teacher’s work.
Model dialogue:
T: Could you tell me something about your friend? What’s he like?
S: Oh, he is friendly.
T: What does he look like?
S: Tall and good-looking.
B. While - speaking
Task 1: Describe the four persons:
 Give them some useful expressions:
- He is of medium height.
- He has got a square face with blue eyes..
- She wears her hair in a bony tail.( đuôi ngựa)
- Ask Ss to work in pairs, then call some Ss to present their answers.
Task 2 : Rearrange the adjectives 
- Elicit or explain some adjectives quickly:
* Caring: kind, helpful, showing that you care about other people.
* Hospitable : pleased to welcome guests, generous and friendly to visitors.
* Modest: not talking much about your own abilities or personalities.
* Sincere: saying only what you really think or feel 
* Understanding: showing sympathy for other people’s problems and being willing to forgive them when they do something wrong 
-Ask Ss to work in groups, discuss and take notes of the ideas.
-Call some Ss to present their answers.
Expected answers:
 1. The boy is about 16 . He may be short- sighted because he is wearing glasses. He has short black hair, a round face with a broad forehead, a small nose, thin lips and a small chin. He’s quite good – looking.
2. The girl is about 14. She’s also wearing a pair of glasses. She has shoulder – length black hair, and she’s wearing a ribbon. She’s has an oval face with a straight nose, full lips and a pointed chin. She’s quite pretty.
3. The man is in his late forty. He’s tall and well- built. He has short brown hair and a square face with a broad forehead, small eyes, a crooked nose and thin lips. He’s quite good – looking. 
4.The woman is in her late twenty. She’s quite tall and slim. She has long curly brown hair and an oval face with a broad forehead, big eyes, a straight nose, heart – shaped lips and a small chin. She’s very beautiful.
Expected answer:
My group thinks that being caring is the most important in friendship because when friends care about each other, they will know when to share happiness or difficulty with their friends.
C. Post - speaking
Task 3: Make an interview
-Ask Ss to work in groups to make questions or facts about a famous friend based on the suggestions in the textbook before doing the task 
- Elicit some questions they may ask:
* his/her physical characteristics : 
* his/her hobbies.
*His/her personalities:
- Ask Ss to work in pairs to perform the interview .
-Call some Ss to present their answers.
- Elicit feedback from the class and give final comment
- Ss make questions, using the suggestions (textbook, page 17).
Expected answer:
* What’s your friend’s/ his/ her name?
* When was he/ she born?
* What does he/ she look like?
* What are his/ her hobbies?
* What’s he/ she like?
* What makes him/ her a good friend?
* What made him/ her successful?
* How much time does he spend on Math every day?
* What does he do in his free time?
- Ss work in pairs: Journalist & Interviewee.
IV. HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT:
- Practise the dialogue talking about a famous friend.
- Prepare the next period – unit1: Listening.
V. TEXTBOOK ADAPTATION: No