Lesson plan English 10 - Unit 13: Films and Cinema - A. Reading - Pham Thi Hong Lua

Teacher : Pham Thi Hong Lua
Class : 10A9
UNIT 13: FILMS AND CINEMA
Period 78: A - Reading 
I. Objectives:
 1. Education aims:	 - Students know more about the history of films.
 2. Knowledge: 
	a. General knowledge: - Knowledge about films and cinema.
	b. Language: 	- The past simple tense.
	- Vocabulary concerning music: scene, camera, character......
 3. Skills:	- Speaking : talk in pairs and in groups.
	- Reading comprehension: better sts' reading skill through finding the word meanings in contexts, answering questions and identifying the main idea.
II. Anticipated problems:
	- Students may not have much knowledge and words/phrases about films and cinema.
III. Teaching aids: board, textbook, chalk, some pictures.
IV. Procedures:
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
1. Warm-up:(5 mins)
- Show sts some pictures of famous film stars or scenes in famous films in Vietnam amd in the world.
- Ask sts to say the names of these films and film stars.
- Get feedback and check.
2. Before you read:( 10 mins)
Aims: To introduce the topic and provide sts with words/phrases about films and cinema.
a. Answering questions:
- Ask sts to work in pairs to ask and answer the questions in Before you read.
- Go round to help if necessary.
- Ask some sts to give answers.
- Listen and check. Sts may give different answers. b.Vocabulary. 
- Provide sts with the new words/phrases:
+ 'sequence (n):
+ motion (n): 
+ movement (n):
+ 'decade (n): 10 years
+ au'dience (n):khán giả
+ spread (v): lan ra
- Read each word/phrase 3 times and ask sts to repeat it.
- Leave sts 1 minute to self-practice.
- Ask 4-5 sts to read all the word/phrases aloud in front of the class( 1 st/ 1 time)
- Listen and help sts to read the words/phrases correctly.
3. While you read:( 22 min)
Aims: Read for information to find the word meaning in contexts, to answer the questions and to find the best title for the passage.
+ Task 1: Finding the words in the passage
- Ask sts to read the passage indepently then read the definition given in task 1 and scan the passage to find the suitable words.
- Tell sts to refer to Vocabulary for help and encourage them try to guess the meanings of the words in contexts of the reading.
- Ask sts to share their answers with their partners.
- Call on 6 sts to read their answers aloud in front of the class.
- Get feedback and give remarks.
+ Task 2: Answering questions.
- Ask sts to work in pairs to read the passage more carefully and find the answers to the questions given.
- Ask sts to highlight or underline the information in the passage that helps them to find the correct answers.
- Move round to help is necessary.
- 6 pairs are required to give answers in front of the class.
- Listen and help the students to give correct answers.
+ Task 3:
- Ask sts to read the passage again individually and choose the best title for the passage.
- Ask one or two sts to give answer and to explain why they choose A, B or C.
- Listen and check.
4. After you read:( 7 mins) 
Aims: Students' summary about the history of cinema.
- Ask sts to look at the cues given and work in groups to talk about the history of cinema. Fill in the blanks with suitable information 
The early 19th century 
(1)  began
Moving photographs were about (2)  in length
1905
Films were about (3)  minutes long
1910s
Audiences can enjoy the (4)
1915
The cinema became (5) 
1920s
- (6)  was introduced
- Old silent films were being replaced by (7) 
- The (8)  cinema appeared
- Go round to help sts with their work.
- Some presentatives of the groups are required to report in front of the class.
- Listen and help sts to give correct answers.
5. Homework:( 1 min)
- Write a summary of the reading text basing on what they have discussed in After you read.
- Look at the T's pictures .
- Stand up and say aloud the names of the films and film stars.
 .........
- Work in pairs to ask and answer.
- Give answers orally.
1. I want to see a film on T.V because it is cheap and I may feel more comfortable.
 - I want to see a film at the cinema because I can see the latest film there.
 ...................................
- Others listen
- Listen and read after the T.
- Write down these words into their notebooks.
- Listen and repeat.
- Read these words and check for their partner.
- Read the words aloud.
- Listen to the T. 
- Work individually.
- Report their answers one by one.
1. cinema 2. sequence
3. a decade 4. rapidly
5. scene 6. character
- Listen to the T
- Students do the work in pairs
- Some pairs report their answers while others watch. 
1. It began in the early 19th century.
2. They dicovered that when a sequence of still pictures were set in motion ..............
3. No, they didn't.
4. Audiences were able to see long films in the early 1910s.
5. the sound was introduced at the end of the 1920s
6. As the old silent films were being replaced by spoken ones, the musical cinema appeared.
- Self-correct the work
- Read the passage again and choose the best title.
Answer: B ( A brief history only)
- Listen to their friends and the T.
- Work in groups orally.
- Some sts report.
- Listen to the T.
(1) began 
(2) one minute
(3) five or ten
(4) first long film
(5) an industry
(6) Sound
(7) Spoken ones
(8) musical