Thiết kế bài dạy môn Tiếng Anh 11 - Unit 13: Hobbies - A: Reading

Instructor	: Mrs. Đỗ Thị Xuân
Candidate	: Trịnh Thị Ngát
Class 	: 11B4	Room: 15
Time	: 45 minutes	Date: March 12, 2010
* Aims: By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to:
understand and get information about the hobbies, make questions and answer them well
express their own ideas about hobbies
* Lexical items: fish tank (n), common (adj), admire (v), collect (v), give away to s.o
* Teaching aids: handouts, pictures, posters
* Skills: Reading, speaking, listening, writing
* Method and technique: individual, pairwork, groupwork, guessing name and lucky animals
PROCEDURE
I. WARM-UP (6 mins)
* Guessing Game: What is she/he doing?
T: Divide the class into two groups: Lemon and Apple with 2 leaders
Instruction: First, the leaders will present activities on handouts by body languages without explaining by words. Then, the members of his/her group will have to guess the name of the activity. The group that has more correct answers will be the winner. The winner will receive a gift at the end of the lesson. Each group will play in 45 seconds
Check instruction:
	What do you do first? And then?
	How much time does each group play in?
Ask the leaders in turn of each group to go to the board to present and the members guess the names of these activities 
Write correct answers of each group on the board
Congratulate the winner
Expected answers:
Group Lemon
Swimming 
Reading books
Playing the guitar
Fishing 
Walking
Group Apple
Drawing 
Playing the tennis 
Singing
Listening to music
Riding
Lead-in:
T: “When do you often do these activities?”
S: I often do these activities in my free time?
T: “What do you call free time activities?” 
S: Hobbies
T: (Call some Ss) “What are your hobbies?”
S: My hobbies are reading books, and listening to music, ...
T: Today we are going to learn the new lesson: Unit 13: HOBBIES, part: Reading
II. PRE-READING (8 mins)
1. Vocabulary
fish tank (n): bể cá (Picture)(See appendix)
T :( point at the picture) What is this?
common (adj) = popular: thường, phổ biến (Synonym)
T: What is the synonym of the word “popular”?
admire (v): khâm phục (Gap-filling)
My Tam is my favorite singer. I 	 her a lot
T: Which word do you fill in here?
collect (v): sưu tầm, thu thập (Mime)
	T: Now give me a noun from this verb
è collection (n) 
==> collector (n): người sưu tầm, người thu thập
give away to s.o : cho, biếu ai (Translation)
T: How do you say “cho, biếu ai” in English?
- T: Get Ss to repeat chorally
2. Checking vocabulary: Gap-filling
T: Stick a poster on the board and ask Ss to complete the sentences, using the words/phrases they have just learnt
1. My hobby is keeping fish. I keep a variety of little fish in a 	.
2. Almost everyone in my class 	Hoa because she is very good at chemistry.
3. He usually	 most of his money to the orphans.
4. I often 	stamps from envelops that my relatives and friends give me
5. Is this word in 	use?
Expected answers: 
 fish tank
admires
gives away
collect
common
III. WHILE-READING
* Task1: Matching the words/phrases with their synonyms/definitions (6 mins)
T: Stick posters words/phrases in task 1 with the synonyms/definitions on the board.
1. accomplished 
a. thrown away
2. accompanying
b. skilled, well-trained
3. modest
c. eager
4. avid
d. going with a singer, using a musical instrument
5. discarded
e. humble
6. indulge in
f. keep one busy
7. keep one occupied
g. allow oneself to do something for pleasure 
Expected answers: 1.b; 2.d; 3.e; 4.c; 5.a; 6. g; 7. f
Ask Ss to skim read the text to match
Call on some Ss to go to the board to match
Check with the class
Ask Ss for the Vietnamese meanings of the words/phrases
Expected answers:
1. accomplished (adj) : có tài
2. accompany (v): đệm đàn, đệm nhạc 
3. modest (adj) : khiêm tốn
4. avid(adj) : khao khát
5. discarded (adj) : bị loại bỏ
6. indulge in : say mê
7. keep one occupied: làm cho ai bận rộn
Get Ss to repeat the words and phrases chorally
* Task2: True-False Statements (6 mins)
T: Stick a poster with statements on the board
Statements
True
False
The writer is an accomplished guitarist
The writer only collected fish from the rice field
The writer has more local stamps than foreign ones
The writer is an avid stamp collector.
His common stamps are usually thrown away when no one wants them 
T: Ask Ss to read the text individually to decide if the statements are true or false
Ask Ss to compare their answers with their partners
Call some Ss to read aloud their choices and explain
T: Give feedbacks and correct
Expected answers: 
1. F (His uncle is. He only can play a few simple tunes); 
2. F (He bought some from the shop and collected some from the rice field near his house. line 2-4, paragraph 3)
3. T (Mostly I get local stamps. line 3, paragraph 4)
4. F (However, I would not call myself an avid stamps collector. line 1, paragraph 4)
5. T (The common ones he usually gives away to others or if no one wants them he simply throws them away. line 6-7, paragraph 4)
* Task 3: Answering the questions (8 mins)
Game: Lucky animals
Divide the class into two teams
T: Stick a poster the questions on the board and ask Ss to read the text again to find the information before playing the game:
What are the writer’s hobbies?
Why does the writer admire his uncle?
How did he collect fish?
How did he collect stamps?
What does the writer do with the less common stamps?
Instructions:
There are 9 animals and 4 of them are lucky animals.
First, each group will choose the animal and then answer equivalent questions.
If your animal is lucky, you will get 2 marks without answering the question and choose another one.
If your animal is a number, they must answer the equivalent question and 2 marks for each correct answer.
If your answer is incorrect, the other group will have the right to answer.
The group with higher score will be the winner.
The winner will receive a gift at the end of the lesson.
Check instruction:
	How many numbers are there?
	What do you do first? And then?
	How many marks do you get if you choose the lucky numbers? Have you answer the question if you choose the lucky numbers?
	How many marks do you get if you give correct answer?
Expected answers:
They are playing the guitar, keeping fish and collecting stamp. (line 1 of each paragraph)
Because he is an accomplished guitarist and he is good at accompanying people singing with his guitar. (line1-2, 5-7, paragraph 2)
He bought some from the shop and collected some from the rice field near his house. (line 2-4, paragraph 3)
He collects them from discarded envelops that his relatives and friends give him. (line 2-3, paragraph 4)
He keeps the less common ones inside a small album. (line 5-7, paragraph 4)
IV. POST-READING (10 mins)
* Role play
Instruction: Imagine you are a journalist and famous person. The journalist is going to interview the famous person about his/her hobbies. And the famous person will answer journalist’s questions about your own hobbies.
Ask students to close their books, give handout and let Ss work in pairs to do the role play. 
Student A:
You are a journalist. You are going to interview a famous person about his/her hobbies.
Ask him/her the following questions:
A: (Greeting) Good afternoon B. 
 How are you today?
B: 	
A: Can I ask you some questions?
B: 	
A: What is your hobby?
B: 	
A: How often ........	?
B: 	
A: Where ..............	?
B: 	
A: Who do you usually ....	with?
B: 	
A: Why do you enjoy..........	? 
B: 	
 .....................
Student B:
You are a famous person. You are interviewed about your hobbies. Answer the journalist’s questions, using your own hobby.
A: 	
B: (Greeting)
A: 	
B: Yeah, of course
A: 	
B: My hobby is 	
A: 	
B: I often 	
A: 	
B: I ............	
A: 	
B: I usually go with............	
A: 	
B: I like/enjoy it because .....	 
 .....................
T makes model with a student
Go around to control, provide help and take note of students’ typical errors
Call on some pairs to present the interview
Write the Ss’ typical errors on the board and ask for correction
Give comments and compliments to the best pairs.
V. HOMEWORK (1 min)
Learn the new words by heart
Write a paragraph about your hobbies in about 80 words
Prepare the next part: Speaking
	Hue, March 12, 2010
	Teacher’s comments 	Student
	Đỗ Thị Xuân	Trịnh Thị Ngát
APPENDIX
Fish tank