Lesson plans of grade 11 - Nguyen Trai Upper secondary school

The first term of grade 11
The 1st period
Date: 29/ 7/ 2008
Grade 11
Theme: Guiding how to learn and to do English tests
Time: 45 minutes
I. Objectives:
1. Educational aim: Students know about English book in grade 11
2. Knowledge: 
Student know:	- How to learn English in grade 11
- How to do English tests
- How to use student’s book and workbook
3. Skill : - Reading
- Speaking
- Listening
- Writing
- Doing English tests
II. Teaching aids: Student’s book, student’s workbook, dictionary, some test papers, etc.
III. Procedure:
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
Notes
Warm-up :(7 minutes)
- Introduce to students about the teacher
- Ask students about their names and English knowledge etc.
Guiding: 35 minutes
1. Guiding student’s book and workbook:
* Introduce to students how to use their book and workbook
* Introduce to students how to learn reading, speaking, listening, writing, language focus in their books and how to do the exercises in their books
2. Guiding English tests in grade 11:
* Introduce to students about oral tests, 15 minute tests, 45 minute tests, etc. and how to do them
* The tests in grade 11 include: 
reading : 25%
listening: 25%
writing: 25%
language focus: 25%
3. Guiding other books and tape, disc, etc.
Homework: 3 minutes
- Ask students to prepare textbook, notebooks and the things for learning andprepare lesson reading - Unit 1
- Listen to the teacher
- Answer the teacher’s questions
- put the student’s book and workbook on the table
- listen to the teacher and look through the books
- Listen to the teacher
- listen to the teacher and write down the things which will be prepared at home
The 2nd period
Date: 1/ 8
 Unit 1: friendship 
Grade 11
Theme: Friendship
Unit 1
Reading
Time: 45 minutes
I. Objectives:
1. Educational aim: Students should know what a friendship is, know how to keep a friend long.
2. Knowledge:
- General knowledge: Students know about how to make and to keep friends long.
- Language: Sentences and expression for describing qualities of true friendship.
- New words: Words related to qualities of friendship.
3. Skills: Guessing meaning in context, scanning for specific information and passage comprehension.
II. Method: Integrated, mainly communicative.
III. Teaching aids: Student’s books, note books, chalks board, etc.
IV. Procedure:
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
Notes
Warm-up: (5 minutes)
- Ask students the questions:
 - Have you got many friends?
 - Who is your best frriend?
 - What do your friends and you do in your free time?
- Let students understand more about activities and qualities of friends, then say to students: Today we learn Unit 1- part A: Reading.
Before you read : (7 minutes)
 - Ask students to look at the picture and read the poem in their books. 
 - Ask students to discuss then ask and answer the question:
 - What do you think of the friend in the poem? 
 -Let them work in pairs.
- Listen to students and correct pronunciation and grammar if necessary.
-Show students to know about friends.
While you read : (23 minutes)
- Ask students to look through the passage and read in silence.
- Help students read the passage.
- Explain pronunciation and meaning of new words which appear in the passage.
Task 1 : (3 minutes)
- Ask students to fill each blank with a suitable word/phrase.
- Let students work individual or in groups.
- Help students if necessary.
Keys: 
1-mutual; 2-incapable of; 3-unselfish;
4(1)-acquaintance; 4(2)-friend; 5-give-and-take; 6-loyal to; 7-suspicious.
Task 2: (4 minutes)
- Ask students look through the passage then try to choose which of the choices A, B, C,or D most adequately sums up the idias of the whole passage.
- Let them work in pairs.
Key: B
Task 3: (6 minutes)
- Ask students to scan the passage and answer the questions:
- Let them work in pairs.
- Walk round and help students. 
- Ask some students to stand up to ask and answer eachother.
- Walk round the classroom and correct mistakes.
 After you read : (8 minutes)
- Ask students to disuss the question: 
“ Why do we need to have friends? ’’
- Let them work in pairs.
- Ask them to report the results to the class. 
- Listen to students and correct mistakes. 
Home work: (2 minutes)
- Ask students to write a passage about their friendships (80 words)
- Ask students to do Reading exercise of Unit 1 in workbook and prepare Part B : Speaking at home
- Listen to the teacher and answer the questions:
 - Yes, I have.
 - A is my best friend. 
 - We usualy come to the library sometimes play foot ball
- Listen to the teacher and open the book – Unit 1, part A: reading.
- Look at the picture in the book, listen to the teacher, read the poem then ask and answer the question, work in pairs:
A: What do you think of the friend in the poem?
B: I think.
- Listen to the teacher.
- Listen to the teacher then read the passage. 
- Ask some new words if necessary.
- Keep the book open.
- Listen to the teacher then do task 1.
- Ask the teacher if necessary.
- work individual or in group.
- Write down the true keys in the notebook.
- Listen to the teacher.
- Look through the passage again and try to choose the most adequately sums up the idia of the whole passage.
- Practice with a partner then write the key down in the note book.
- Ask the teacher if necessary.
- Listen to the teacher then ask and answer the questions in the book: 
1/ The first quality for true friendship is unselfishness..
2/Changeable and uncertain people are incapable of 
3/ the third quality for friendship is loyalty
 4. There must be mutual trust between friends because if not, people cannot feel safe when telling the other their most intimate secrets.
5. People can’t keep a friend long because they can’t keep a secret, either of their own or others.
6. The last quality for true friendship is sympathy. It tells us that to be a true friend, you must sympathize with your friend. Where there’s no mutual sympathy between friends, there’s no true friendship
- Listen to the teacher.
- Try to discuss the question.
- The students who are called to stand up to report the result to the class loudly. 
- Listen to the teacher and write down homework 
The 3rd Period
Date 3/8
Grade 11
Theme: Friendship
Unit 1
Speaking
Time: 45 minutes
I. Objectives:
1. Educational aim: Students should know how to discribe a person
2. Knowledge: 
- General knowledge: Students learn about physical characteristics and personalities of a person.
- Language: Talking about people’s physical characteristics and personalities.
- New words: words related to people’s physical characteristics and personalities.
3. Skills: talking about people’s physical characteristics and personalities.
II. Method: integrated, mainly communicative.
III. Teaching aids: Student’s book and pictures showing friends, etc.
IV. Procedure:
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
Notes
Warm-up: (5 minutes)
- Ask students to keep book close
- Ask students to discribe some students in the class.
- Call some sdtudents to stand to talk to the class.
- Introduce, listen and repair mistakes for students.
(We learn Unit 1, part- speaking)
Pre-speaking : (12 minutes)
Task 1
Ask students to look at the people in the book and discribe their physical characteristics.
Let them work in pairs.
Introduce “Useful language” to the students:
+ Height: tall, medium, short, 
 + Face: square, large, oval, 
 + Forehead: broad, high, 
 + Nose: straight, crooked, .
 + Hair : Black, grey, .
 + Appearance: handsome, beautiful, good-looking, .
While-speaking : (15 minutes)
Task 2
- Help students with some new words.
- Ask sts to make questions and answer questions with a partner, using the information from the picture .
- Let them work in groups
- Walk round and help them
- Ask some students to stand up to talk again loudly
- Listen and correct mistakes
Post-speaking : (10 minutes)
Task 3
- Have students work in pairs .
- Guide them to do the task .
- Make sure that sts understand their roles 
- Pay attention to the suggestions :
+ his / her name 
+ date of birth 
+ his / her physical characteristics 
+ his / her hobbies 
+ his / her personalities ( friendly , humorous , quick-witted , good-natured , helpful , honest , pleasant , caring )
+ why he / she interests in Maths
+ how much time he / she spends on Maths everyday 
+ what makes him / her a good friend
+ what made him / her successful ( studious , intelligent , keenly interested in Maths , eager to learn , patient , calm )
+ what he / she does in his / her free time 
- Call some pairs to report . 
- Walk round and help them
- Ask some students to stand up and tell loudly
- Listen and correct mistakes
Homework: (3 minutes)
- Ask students to write a passage about their daily routine (50 words)
- Ask students to prepare Part C- Listening and do homework
- Keep books close.
- Listen to the teacher.
- Try to discribe some one in the class.
- The students who are called stand to discribe a friend to the class.
- Try to repeat from memory
- Try to discribe the people in the book:
+ The boy is short . He has a large face , 
+ The girl is 
- Play roles. 
-Present their performance.
- Work in groups of four .
- List some personalities of a person. 
- State some reasons why they choose . 
- Discuss and say the reasons .
- Report their results to the class and explain why they do like that ..
- Make pairs : one is a journalist , the other is an interviewee . 
- Listen carefully . 
- Practise in pairs .
- Pay attention to the content :
+ physical characteristics 
+ personalities
+ reasons why the friends are famous 
- Role play
- Perform their task .
- The students are called stand up and tell loudly
- Listen to the teacher
- Write down the homework
The 4th period
Date : 5/8
Grade 11
Theme: Friendship
Unit 1
Listening
Time: 45 minutes
I. Objectives:
1. Educational aim: Students should know how to describe the best friend and how to keep the friendship.
2. Knowledge: 
- General knowledge: Students learn how to keep friendship.
- New words: Words related to friends and keeping friendship.
3. Skills: - To practise listening comprehension skill.
 - To distinguish true and false statements.
 - To take notes about given questions in order to answer.
II. Method: Intergrated, mainly communicative
III. Teaching aids: Student’s book, tape and cassette player, chalks, notebooks
IV. Procedure:
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
Notes
Warm-up: (5 minutes)
- Ask students to close the books
-Ask students some questions about friendship:
Who is your best friend?
What qualities & characteristics of your best friend do you admire?
Before you listening: (7 minutes)
- Ask students to look at the part: Before listening
- Let them work in pairs ask and answer the questions:
1. Who is your best friend? ... . Educational aim: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
	- Write about a friend by using the words they’ve learnt in previous lesson
	- Make a layout for a writing
2. General knowledge: Sts learn about the way to describe a place.
- New words: Ajectives and verb forms often used in desription of a historical place.
 3. Skills: Writing a paragraph about a friend
II. Method: Intergrated, mainly communicative
III. Teaching aids: Student’s book, textbook, hand-outs
IV. Procedure:
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
Notes
warm up: (7)
T: answer T’s questions: 
1.do you know Nha trang
2. How is it ? 
3. What is it famous for
Before you write:(10’)
T sets the scene :you are going to write a report on a visit to the Ponagar Cham Towers in Nha Trang.
T gets Ss to read the given information on page 184 and answer the questions
1.How many parts are there in the report?
2.what kind of information is included in each part/
T calls on some Ss to answer
While you write(17)
T gets Ss to read the given information again and write their reports in 15 minutes
T goes around to offer help.
After you write(8’)
T asks Ss to exchange their writing with another students for peer correction.
T goes around and collects mistake and errors
T provide correction
Home work (3’)
Asks Ss to revise their reports according to their peer’s sugeestions and submit for making in the next lesson
Sts do the task : 
Suggested answers : 
1. yes. 
2. It is small town  
3. It is famous for a big church,Cham towers,Bamboo Island. 
- Sts sit in pairs, 
1.The report has 3 parts:brief introduction,details,and summary of the visit.
2.The introduction includes the general information about the place.
In the details part ,we describe the special features of the place in detail
In the last part ,we wrire how long our visit last and our feelings about the trip
Practise writing
Take note
revise their reports according to their peer’s sugeestions and submit for making in the next lesson
The 101st period
Date : 24/ 4/ 2009
Grade 11
Theme: THE WONDER OF THE WORLD
Unit 16
Language Focus
Time: 45 minutes
I. Objectives:
1. Educational aim: By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:
	- Students practise how to pronounce of 4 ending sounds /ft/, /vd/, /fs/ and /vz/ .
 - Students learn how to use the structures with verb of reporting:
 1. It is said that .
 2. He is said ..
 3. People say that . 
2. Knowledge:
- General knowledge: Students learn 3 sounds and review some tenses
- New words: Words related to 3 sounds and 3 tenses
3. Skills: 
- Pronunciation: ending sounds /ft/, /vd/, /fs/ and /vz/ .
- Grammar: 1. It is said that .
 2. He is said ..
 3. People say that . 
II. Method: Intergrated, mainly communicative
III. Teaching aids: textbooks, cassette tape
IV. Procedures:
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
Notes
Warm-up 
- T uses some pictures and asks Ss:
Look at the pictures and tell what they are.
P.1
P.2
P.3
P.4
- T has Ss read the words and guess what ending sounds they are going to learn today.
- T introduces the new lesson.
Pronunciation
Presentation
- T reads the sounds loudly.
Practice
Task 1
- T introduces and asks Ss to practise reading the words containing these sounds.
 /ft/ /vd/ /fs/ /vz/
 Gift arrived coughs behaves
 Lift loved laughs loves
 Soft moved roofs arrives
- T has Ss do exercises. 
T gives handouts for Ss.
Handout: 
Listen carefully and make a cross (x) at the sound you hear
/ft/
/vd/
/fs/
/vz/
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
- T reads aloud the words:
 1. left 6. loved
 2. photographs 7. thieves
 3. caves 8. spacecraft
 4. proved 9. coughs
 5. knives 10. swift
- T checks in front of class.
- T conducts the correction.
Production
Task 2
- T has Ss practise reading these sentences and pick out the words containing these sounds.
1. They are not on the roofs now. They’ve been moved to the ground.
 Use the lift. I’ll ring to say you’ve arrived.
2. I think he’s improved. Still coughs but laughs a lot, of course.
3. We have plenty of laughs. We miss him when he leaves.
4. He loves a nurse. Her name’s Soft. He wants me to bring her this gift.
5. He brought me a gift when he arrived.
- T conducts the correction.
T gives an example on the board
Grammar and Vocabulary
Presentation
Rewrite this sentence beginning with the word provided.
Eg: It is said that this house was built 100 years ago.
à This house
- T asks one student to answer the sentence on the board .
- T corrects the mistakes and explains
Exercise 1:
- T has Ss do exercise 1 ( page 185).
- T walks around the class, offers ideas and comments when Ss need help.
- Then T calls some Ss to give their answers on the board.
- T conducts the correction and explains.
If the verbs of the main clause and the subordinate clause are same tenses, use To-inf.
If the verbs of the main clause and the subordinate clause are different tenses (for example,M.C in present and S.C in past or perfect tenses), use To have + PP 
Exercise 2:
Setting situation:
 Eg: People believe that 13 is an unlucky number.
à 13 is believed to be an unlucky number.
 T has Ss do exercise 2 (page 186
- T walks around the class, offers ideas and comments when Ss need help.
- Then T calls some Ss to give their answers on the board.
- T conducts the correction and explains.
- After practising two exercises, T asks Ss to summarize how to change the structures with verb of reporting.
- T’s comments.
More Exercise: 
Rewrite the following sentences:
1. They say that John is the brightest student in class.
à It is said
 John is said 
2. They think that he has died a natural death.
à It is thought 
 He is thought 
3.They declared that she won the competition.
à It was declared 
 She was declared 
T calls some Ss to give their answers on the board.
 T conducts the correction.
Homework
 Do exercises in the work book
Ss close their books
Ss look and answer:
1.gift 3. roofs
2.saved 4. scarves
 (expected)
Ss write the sounds on the board.
/ft/, /vd/, / fs/ and / vz/ (expected)
Ss listen and repeat
Ss listen and repeat.
Ss listen and decide if the words belonging to what sounds.
Answers:
/ft/
/vd/
/fs/
/vz/
1. x
2.
x
3.
x
4.
x
5.
x
6.
x
7.
x
8. x
Ss read the sentences carefully and give answers to 
ex.1.
Ss give answers individually and then check in pairs.
Answers:
1. Many people are said to be homeless after the floods.
2. The prison is thought to have escaped by climbing
3. He is believed to have driven through the town at
4. Two people are reported to have been seriously injured
5. Three men are said to have been arrested after 
6. The strike is expected to begin tomorrow.
7. He is said to speak English very well.
(expected)
Ss give answers individually and then check in pairs.
Answers:
1. He is thought to eat 
2. The wanted man is believed to be living in New York.
3. He is known to be very rich.
4. The film is supposed to be ..
5. Many people are thought to have been killed 
6. About a million puppies are thought to be born each year.
7. The factories are said to be..
8. Those dogs are said to be
Summary
 1. S + V that S + V + O 
à It is +PP that S +V + O
 2. S + be PP + to-inf.
 à S+be PP + to have PP.
Ss do them.
Ss take note.
Do exercises in the work book
 test YOURSELF F
The 102nd period
Date : 25/ 4/ 2009
Grade 11 
Theme: test YOURSELF F 
Time: 45 minutes
I. Objectives:
1. Educational aim: - According to the TEST students can revise all the language skills and grammatical points which they have studied and used in the two units: 15 and16.
- Students can improve their techniques of doing the simple tests.
 2. Knowledge: After this lesson, students will be able to:
	- Check themselves their skills in reading, speaking, listening, writing
	- Improve their knowledge through the test yourself
 - Language: Students can improve their techniques of doing the simple tests
 3. Skill: After this lesson, students will be able to:
	- Check themselves their skills in reading, speaking, listening, writing
	- Improve their knowledge through the test yourself
II. Method: Integrated, mainly communicative
III. Teaching aids: Textbook, board, hand-outs, cassette tape and player.
IV. Procedures:
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
Notes
Warm-up: (5 minutes)
- Greeting
- Ask students something about the test yourself F
* Have you prepared it at home?
* Have you got any difficulties?
Test yourself
I. Listening(2.5 points) (10 minutes)
- Ask students to read all the sentences first
- Ask students to listen to the tape once.
- Ask students to listen again and complete the sentences .
- Ask students to listen in the third time, the work in groups to compare and discuss the answers with each others to find the correct answers.
- Keys: In the teacher’s book. 
II. Reading (2.5 points) (10 minutes)
- Present the task: 
- Ask pupils to work in groups to answers the questions.
- Give the correct answers to the class:
- Keys: In the teacher’s book
III. Grammar(2.5 points) (8 minutes)
- Present the task: 
a/ Ask students to listen and put a tick in the right box.
Keys: 1. rent, 2. tenth, 
3. lives, 4. loves.
b/ Give the correct form of verbs.
Keys: 1. isn’t it, 2. didn’t he 
c/ Rewrite the sentences ..
1/ Jane is thought to be rich.
2/ She is said to have won a special prize.
3/ He is said to know five foreign languages.
4/ The thief is thought to have got in through the kitchen windown.
IV. Writing (7 minutes)
- Present the task: 
- Call the students to read the suggested sentences in front of the class.
Check their writings and help them correct the mistakes if they’ve made.
Homework (5 minutes)
- Ask students:
 + to study all the lessons again
 + to get ready to review all the units of grade 11
- Greeting
- Answer teacher’s questions
- Look at the book and listen to the task
- understand the task
- Read the questions 
- Listen to the tape
- Listen again and say the right sentences.
- Listen and discuss in groups to find the correct answers:
- Keys: 1. T, 2. F, 3. F,
 4. T, 5. T.
- Look at the textbook and listen to the teacher
- Work in groups to discuss about the passage
- Finish the task
- Compare their results with the other groups. 
- Write the answers on the board.
- Listen to the teacher and correct the answers.
- Listen to the teacher
- Work in groups 
- Compare the results with the other groups
- Show the answers in front of the class. 
 - Observe the keys and correct their answers.
- Students work in groups and practise writing. 
- Two students go to the board and write.
- Give the writings by reading aloud.
- Read the writing carefully.
- In groups or in pairs. 
- Compare the results with the other groups
- Correct mistakes
 Study all the lessons again
- Get ready to review all the units of grade 11