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

Period: 5th 	Date of preparation: August 25th, 2011
	UNIT: Friendship
	Lesson: Writing
I. OBJECTIVES:
1. Aim: By the end of this lesson, students will be able to write about a friend, real or imaginary, using the words and expressions that they have learned in previous lesson.
2. Knowledge:
- Vocabulary: words to describe physical characteristics and personalities.
- Grammar/ Structures:
- (Pronunciation):
3. Skills:
II. PREPARATION:
1. Teacher: textbook, workbook, tests, chalks.
2. Students: textbooks, workbooks, notebooks, pens.
III. PROCEDURE:
1. Warm-up: Noughts and crosses
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Adjectives:
1. friendly	2. cheerful	
3. pleasant	4. modest
5. active	6. hardworking	
7. studious	8. responsible
9. selfish
Describe emotions and actions as ideas development for that adj.
a. My mother gets up at 6 every day and never stops working until dinner-time.
b. Minh never wants to share anything with us. Whenever I ask him for help, the only answer I get is “Why do I have to do it for you?”
c. It’s nice to be around with Tam for his polite and friendly manner.
d. He’s very close to us. Though he’s our teacher, he treats us almost like his friends.
e. I like working with Lan. She always tries her best to finish her part of the work.
f. She is a lively person who engages in almost all the community activities.
g. I love spending time with Linh and seeing her broad smiles.
h. He spends a lot of time studying or reading.
i. She doesn’t talk much about her own abilities or possessions.
Key:
1-d	2-g	3-c	4-i	5-f	
6-a	7-h	8-e	9-b
2. New lesson:
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
A. Preparing to write
Making an outline :
- Ask the Ss to use the given information to make an outline.
-For column one, think of the possible places and situations in which you may have met your best friend. Write down as many of them as possible.
-For column 2, think of the most outstanding physical characteristics of your friend and write them down in this column.
-For column 3, think of the personalities of your friend that you like most about him/her.
- Ask Ss to make an outline of a paragraph describing a friend, use the information they’ve just discussed in brainstorming activity.
-While Ss are writing, T. goes around the class to see how well Ss work and whether they need some help.
- Ask 2 groups to write their outlines on the board.
- Note: the past tenses are used to write.
-T’s feedback.
- Write an outline.
Model outline:
Where/ When first met
Physical characteristics
Personalities
-in school extra-activities
-at a football match
- round face
 -wide forehead
- high nose
- short, black hair
-very tall
- good-natured
B. While-writing
- In groups of 4, Ss write a paragraph about a friend on a poster.
-While Ss are writing, T goes round to see if anyone needs help.
Sample writing:
 Probably my best friend is Ha. We first met each other 4 years ago, in a football match between my school and his. 
He is very tall. He has a round face with wide forehead and a high nose. His hair is short and black. He is good - natural , he’s always willing to help me if I need. 
I hope my friendship will last forever.
C. Post-writing
- T asks Ss to exchange their writing with another student for peer correction.
- T goes around and collects mistakes and errors.
- T collects some writings for quick feedback.
- T 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.
- T provides general comments on the writings.
Peer correction
- SS exchange their writing with another and give correction for their peer’s writing.
IV. HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT:
- Rewrite the passage about their friend, taking into consideration their classmate’s and T’s suggestions and correction.
- Prepare next period, unit 1- language focus.
V. TEXTBOOK ADAPTATION: No