Lesson plan - Unit 13: hobbies - Writing period

Teacher: Le Thi Hoa Phuong Date: 
Supervisor: Nguyen Thi Cam Nhung Week: 
 Xuan Dinh high school
LESSON PLAN
UNIT 13: HOBBIES
Writing period
1. Class description:
46 grade 11 students, 16 boys and 30 girls at Xuan Dinh high school, Tu Liem, Ha Noi
2. Time: 45’
3. Objective:
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
write a paragraph about their collection
know more structures and new words to describe hobby.
4. Anticipated problems:
- Students may find difficult in organizing their writing and express their ideas; so the teacher (T) should be ready to provide them.
5. Teaching aids: Textbook, posters, blackboard
6. Procedure
Stages
Time
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
I.Warm - up
5’
* Playing game: Crossword
- T divides the class into two big groups. Leader of each group will have right to choose the number of rows. All others members of this group can answer the questions. With each right answer, they will receive 1 point. Students can guess the key words at anytime. Right key words will bring them 5 points.
- There is a picture behind one row. Students’ task is naming the picture. (Answer the question: “What are they?” )
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- Ss work in groups.
- Ss listen to T’s instruction.
- Ss name the pictures.
II. Pre- writing
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- T leads in the topic: “They are some things we often collect. Do you have hobby to collect anything? What do you often collect?
- T gets the answer from Ss.
* Activity 1: Brainstorming
- T raises the question: “If you want to introduce your hobby of collecting something, what do you want to talk about?”
Plan for future
How to 
classify
Why
When
How to keep
How to collect
Name 
COLLECTION
* Activity 2: Matching
- T delivers the handouts.
- T asks Ss to match the guidelines with the ideas.
The guidelines
The ideas
1. The name of collection
2. How to collect
3. How to keep
4. When to start
5. How to classify
6. Why to collect
7. Plan for the future
a. In album, in boxes, on shelves 
b. To relax, to kill time, to entertain
c. Collection of books, coins, stamps 
d. Continue to collect
e. Buy, ask, exchange
f. Last year, long ago,..
g. Into categories, ages, countries, colors,...
Keys: 
1 - c 4 - f 7 - d
2 - e 5 - g
3 - a 6 - b
- Ss listen to the teacher.
- Ss answer T’s question.
- The whole class
- Ss answer T’s questions.
- Ss work individually.
- Ss match the guidelines with the ideas.
- Ss listen to the teacher.
III. While - writing
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15’
* Activity 3: Writing the detailed outline
- T asks Ss to work in group of four.
- T supplies each group with a topic in advanced and a handout with guidelines.
- T asks Ss to write a detailed outline based on the guideline in activity 1.
Sample outline:
Stamp collection
(When you started your collection) 
6 years ago
(How to collect)
Collect both native stamps and foreign stamps from the letters of friends and relatives
( How to classify)
Classify them into categories / put stamps of animals, flowers, birds on different pages
( How to keep them)
Keep them in two albums, one for local and the other for foreign ones
( Why you collect them)
Collecting stamps help to broaden knowledge about the world / an effective way to be good at geography
( Your plan for the future) 
Join the stamp exhibitions to learn from experienced stamp collectors / can expose collection at an exhibition in the future
- T sticks two handouts on the board.
* Activity 4: Completed writing
- T asks Ss to write about their collection.
- T call one student go to the board and write the writing.
Sample writing:
* Collecting Stamps
My hobby is collecting stamps. I have been collecting both local stamps and foreign stamps for more than 5 years so I have a great collection now.
My hobby got started/ started when I was a little boy. I had always wanted the beautiful pictures on the stamps so I thought of a way to keep them. At first I only collected local stamps which I got from the letters of my friends and relatives. Then my relatives went abroad so my collection of foreign stamps started to increase.
Now I have two albums, one for local and the other for foreign ones. I classify the stamps into categories before putting them into my stamp albums. I put stamps of animals, flowers, birds, landscape,... on different pages, which makes it easier to look for them.
When I have extra stamps of the same kind I often exchange them with my friends to enrich my collection. If I have money, I also go to the post office to buy some valuable ones.
I’m very proud of my collection. It helps to broaden my knowledge about the world around me and it is also an effective way to improve my geography.
I plan to join the stamp exhibitions to learn from experienced stamps collectors and maybe I can expose my collection at an exhibition in the future.
* Collecting book
I’m very much interested in collecting books and have a book collection at home. I started collecting books when I was a 12 - year - old student. I buy the books whenever I find them interesting. Near my house are several book shops, so when I have free time I go there to find books for my collection. Sometimes I also buy books in second-hand book stalls, and occasionally, my parents and friends give me some.
Now I have a total of about 100 books and I keep them all in a big bookshelf in my bedroom. I classify them into different categories: books about history, books about famous people, and books about science
I love collecting books because books help me broaden my knowledge and know more about the world. Also, reading books train my patience. 
In the future, I will continue to make my collection richer and richer. I hope to have a library of my own.
- Ss work in group of four.
- Ss write a detailed outline.
- Ss write the paragraph individually.
IV: Post- writing
4’
* Giving feedback and correction
- T writes some common mistakes on the board.
- T chooses one description and corrects it with the class.
- T draws Ss’ attention to the format, organization of ideas and language use.
- Ss listen to the teacher
V. Homework
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T asks Ss to rewrite the writing individually and hand in at the next lesson.
- Ss do homework and prepare for the next lesson.
7. Assessment