Giáo án Tiếng anh 10 Unit: 10 (Conservation) - Period: Writing

LESSON PLAN
Class: 10C9	Course book: Tiếng anh 10	Unit: 10 (Conservation)
Teaching period: Writing
Teaching time: Period 3 (45 mins)	Thursday, January 29th, 2015
Objective:
Educational aim: Ss can write a letter of invitation and show their politeness when writing a friendly letter.
Knowledge:
a. General knowledge: By the end of the lesson, ss will be able to write a letter of invitation.
b. Language: Words related to invitation verb-phrases.
Skill: Writing a letter of invitation.
Method and teaching aids:
Method: Integrated, mainly communicative.
Teaching aids: textbook, blackboard, chalk, etc.
Teaching steps:
Classroom procedures (1’): Greetings and checking attendance. 
New lesson: (44’)
Teacher’s activities
Student’s activities
Contents
WARM – UP: Ordering Game (6’)
- Teacher gives instruction: “First, I would like to divide our class into six teams. I will give each team a handout which contains some sentences of an invitation letter. But these sentences are not in correct orders. Your team has to read carefully, discuss with each other, and then write your answer in the handout. When your team’s finished, please raise your paper up. You will get one mark for one correct answer. Which team’s quicker and has more correct answer will be the winner”.
- Listen to teacher
* Reorder these sentences to make a complete invitation letter.
a. We would like to invite you to join us for lunch on Saturday, 24th January, 2012 at 1 pm as we celebrate Sandra’s birthday.
b. Warm Regards,
c. We hope you would be able to make it convenient to attend the party.
d. The party would be at our home and it would be an informal gathering.
e. Dear Jack,
f. Looking forward to meeting you.
 * Suggested answer:
1.e 2.a 3.d 4.c 5.f 6. b
- Teacher checks students’ understanding of instruction.
- Reply to teacher.
- Give time for students to play the game.
- Work in 6 teams. 
- Check students’ work and give feedback.
- Introduce the simple form of an invitation letter:
 + Greeting (Dear, Hi)
 + The event, time, place (Sandra’s birthday party; on Saturday, 24th January, 2012 at 1 pm; at our home)
 + Closing (Warm Regards, and signature)
- Receive scores based on their correct answers.
- Listen to teacher
-Lead-in: “Invitation letter is very useful and familiar with us in daily life. So today, we’re going to learn how to write an invitation letter.”
- Listen to teacher
Unit 10: CONSERVATION
Part D: Writing
Page 109
BEFORE YOU WRITE (3’)
- Raise the question and ask ss to work in pairs in 30 seconds:
Which situations will we write an invitation letter?
- Listen to teacher and work in pairs.
- Call some students to read their answer.
- Read their answers.
Suggested answers: birthday party, wedding party, etc.
WHILE YOU WRITE (25’)
Task 1: Matching (7’)
Task 1: Write out the sentences by matching the first half in A with the most suitable half in B. 
* Suggested answers:
1.c 2.f/h 3.a 4.g/d 5.h/f 6.d/g 7.e 8.b
- Ask ss to look at task 1 in page 109 and explain how to do this task.
- Read the task page 109.
- Ask ss to look at the column A in task 1 and give the form of the verb that follows each structure:
Let’s + bare infinitive 
Why don’t you + bare infinitive
Would you like + to + infinitive
Do you feel like + V-ing
Can you + bare infinitive 
How about + V-ing
Shall we + bare infinitive
Are you free + to + infinitive
- Look at column A and give the form of the verb.
- Ask ss to do the task in pairs and remind them that one expression in column A can go with more than one expression in column B.
- Do the task in pairs.
- Ask some pairs to write the answers on the board.
- Write answers on the board.
- Correct the answers and give feedback.
- Listen to teacher.
Task 2: Letter completion (6’)
Task 2: Fill each blank in these invitation letters with a suitable expression provided in Task 1.
* Suggested answers:
1. Would you like / Are you free
2. Would you like / Are you free
 How about / Do you feel like
3. Why don’t we / Shall we / Can you
- Ask ss to read the task quickly and pick out the new words or phrases if they are difficult.
- Read the task.
- Ask ss identify the forms of the verb that follows the blanks. 
- Identify the forms of the verb that follows the blanks.
- Ask ss to read the expressions in task 1 again and find suitable expressions to fill in the blank. Remind them that there may be more than one answer in each blank.
- Call on some students to read their answers. 
- Read the expressions in task 1 again and do task 2 individually.
- Read their answers.
- Give comments and give correct answers.
- Listen to teacher.
Task 3: Write an invitation letter based on the cues. (12’)
- Ask ss to read the task carefully before writing.
- Read the task
Task 3: Nam invites his friend-Lam, who is now living in a different town, to spend a weekend with him. Help Nam to write a letter, using the cues below.
- Ask ss to guess which tenses are used in the letter.
- Guess tenses used in the letter.
* Suggested answers: simple present, present perfect, present continuous.
- Remind ss that they should use all the language items provided together with other items to produce meaningful and grammatically correct sentences. Also, ss should use capitalized letters and punctuation marks properly. 
- Listen to teacher
- Ask ss write the letter individually.
- Ask ss exchange their letter with another ss for peer correction.
- Write the letter
- Exchange the letter with another for peer correction.
AFTER YOU WRITE (10’)
- Invite 1 student to write the letter on the board.
- Continue writing.
* Suggested letter:
Dear Lam,
We haven’t met since you moved. I miss you a lot. 
We are both having some days-off between the two terms soon. If you haven’t made any other plans, why don’t we spend a weekend together?
Do you feel like visiting the forest near my grandparents’ home again? It looks quite different now because very many young trees have been planted at the Tree-Planting Festivals.
Do come if you find it possible, and I’ll make all the preparations then. Give my love to your parents.
Your friend,
Nam
- Call on some students to give comments.
- Point out some mistakes in the letter and ask for correction from other students.
- Give their opinions
- Correct the letter on the board.
- Give comments. 
- Summary main points and remind ss to do homework.
* Structure of an invitation letter:
1. Greeting
Eg: Dear Lam,
 Dear Jack,
 Hi/Hello Emily,
2. Body: information that writer wants to say to the receiver. (event, time, place, etc.)
Eg: On the next Sunday is my birthday. I would like to invite you to my party at 7p.m at my home. 
3. Closing + signature
Eg: Regards,
 Your best friend, 
- Listen to teacher
Homework:
- Write a letter to invite your friends to your birthday party.
- Prepare for the next lesson: Part E Language focus (page 110).