Bài soạn môn học Tiếng Anh 11 - Unit 7: Population - Period 41: Writing

UNIT 7: population
PERIOD: 41. WRITING
Preparing date: 5/12/2007.
Teaching date: B2...........................B4...................................
I. Objectives
 * Aim(s):- Educate Ss to have a great passion in studying. 
 - Write descriptions of pie charts, using appropriate language.
 * Lexical items: Words and phrases related to the writing.
II. METHOD: Integrated, mainly communicative.
III. TEACHING AIDS: Textbook, lesson plan, sub-board.
IV. Procedure.
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
Warm-up.
- Asks Ss to answer some questions.
1. Have you ever written describing the information in the chart?
2. What did you write about?
- Calls on some Ss to answer.
- Gives correct answers.
+ Today, we are going to write descriptions of pie charts, using appropriate language. 
Warm-up
- Listen and answer.
- Answer freely. 
 Pre-writing
* Now study the chart carefully.
- Introduce: Useful language and explain.
+ The chart show the description of the world population by region.
+ It can be seen that.
+ distributed unevenly.
+ account for .... percent.
+ more than double the population of.
+ half as much as.
+ nearly half of.
+ rank first / last.
- Guides Ss to use some word phrases in the sentences.
Pre-writing
- Copy down
- Study.
While-writing
* Introduce:
- Asks Ss to look at the chart on the book and answer the questions.
1. How many parts are there in the description? What are they?
2. What does the pie chart show?
3. What is the general trend of the chart? 
4. Which region has the largest population? Which comes second?........
5. Which region has the smallest population?
6. Where does the most of the world population live?
- Asks Ss to work in pairs.
- Walks around the class to help when necessary.
- Asks Ss to compare their answers with friends.
- Calls some Ss to read aloud their answers in front of the class.
- Corrected answer.
*Introduce the way to write descriptions of pie charts , using appropriate language.
- There are 3 parts in the descriptions of charts.( introduction, body and conclusion).
- Asks Ss to read the Useful language carefully then write descriptions of charts
- Suggest
+ The world population is not distributed evenly/ is distributed unevenly.
+ The South Asia ranks first with 32%/ (The South Asia has the most people/ has the largest population).
+ Very few people live in Oceana./ The Oceana is the least populated/ The Oceana has the least population.
+ Less than that in South Asia is East Asia with only 26%.
+ Africa and Europe have fewer people with 11% for the former and 15% for the latter.
+ Compared with the Oceana which ranks last in the table, Latin has approximately 8% of the world population whereas Northern America has a lower rate with only 6% .
Nowadays 15% of the world’s population is living in Europ. 
- Guides Ss to write. 
- Walks around the class to help when necessary.
- Asks Ss to compare their writing with friends and correct each other.
- Calls some Ss to read aloud their writing in front of the class and others gives opinion.
While-writing
- Look at the chat on the book and answer the questions.
 - Work in pairs.
- Compare the answers with friends.
- Read aloud the answers in front of the class.
- Write the correct answers:
1. There are 3 parts to description in chart.
2. The chart shows to account for the rate percentages world’s population in continents.
3. The rate percentages world’s population in continents.
4. South Asia has the largest population. East Asia..........
5. Oceania has the smallest population
6. Asia 
* Listen the way to write descriptions of pie charts , using appropriate language.
- Read the Useful language carefully then write descriptions of charts.
 - Write in individually and discuss.
- Compare the writing with friends.
- Read aloud their writing in front of the class and others gives opinion.
Ex:
The pie chart shows the description of the world population by region. Overall, more than half of the world’s population live in South and East Asia.
South Asia is the biggest region, making up 34% of the world population. The second largest area is East Asia with 6% less than South Asia. Europe ranks third with 15%. Coming next is Africa with 11%. Together Latin America and North America have 14% of the world population. Finally, Oceania is the least populated region with the smallest percentage of 2%.
As can be seen, the greatest concentration of the world’s population is in Asia, with Europe far behind. 
Post-writing
- Corrected writing in front of the class.
- Corrects some writings for quick feedback.
- Writes Ss’ typical errors on the board and elicits self and peer correction.
- Provides correction only when Ss are not able to correct the errors.
- Finally, provides general comments on the writings.
Post-writing
- Listen and correct.
 Home work
- Asks Ss to rewrite them again at home.
- Asks Ss to prepare the new lesson.
Home work
- Rewrite again at home.
- Prepare the new lesson.