Lesson plan English 10 - Unit 13: Films and Cinema - E. Language Focus - Pham Thi Hong Lua

Teacher : Pham Thi Hong Lua
Class : 10A9
UNIT 13 (continue) E - LANGUAGE FOCUS
I. Objectives:
 1. Education Aims:
- Students know how to pronounce the sound /f/ and /v/ correctly.
- Students learn about: - Adjectives of attitude.
 - Structure: It is/was not until ... that 
	 - Articles: a/an and the 
 2. Knowledge:
+ Language: - Pronunciation: /f/ and/v/ .
	- Adjectives of attitude.
 - Structure: It is/was not until ... that ...
 - Articles: a/an and the 
 3. Skills:	+ Speaking: 	- Work in pairs to discuss the exercises.	
+ Reading: 	- Read words and sentences aloud.
- Read the sentences silently to do the exercises.
II. Anticipated problems:
 - Students may find it difficult to distinguish adjectives ending in -ing from adjectives ending in -ed.
III. Teaching aids: - board, chalk, textbook.
IV. Procedures: 
 Teacher's activities
 Students' activities
1. Warm up: ( 3mins)
- Look at the board, rearranging the given words and phrases to make meaningful sentences :
1. film / The/ exciting / very / is.
2. My father/ collecting vases / is / interested in.
- Check and give feedback.
2. Pronunciation:( 7 mins)
- Aims: to introduce two sounds /f/ and /v / and help sts to practise these sounds.
a. Write two sounds on the board and pronounce them clearly twice, then ask sts to repeat.
- Tell sts how to pronounce these sounds accurately.
 / f / : a voiceless sound
 / v / : a voiced sound
- Ask sts to give some words have two sounds
- Ask sts to close the book and do task in the handout:
Arranging the given words into two column
Fan food view avoid vine leaf left four favorite van vote first enough village live
/ f /
/ v /
- Ask them to look at the textbook, listen and repeat.
b. Ask sts to look at sentences in page 139 in the book.
- Ask them to work in pairs to read the sentences and then find out the words containing sound /f / and sound /v / .
- Ask them to work in 2 minutes.
- Move around to conduct the activity.
- Ask one st to report and other sts to give remarks.
- Check and give the correct answers.
- Ask some sts to read these sentences aloud.
- Listen and give remarks.
3. Grammar: ( 35 mins)
 Aims: to introduce adjectives of attitude, structure: " It is/was not until ... that ...", articles: " a/an" and "the" and have sts do Ex1,EX2 , EX 3 and EX4.
a. Adjectives of attitude:
- Firstly ask sts to read the instruction and the example in task 1.
- Ask them to do task 1.
+ Exercise 1:
- Ask two sts to write the adjectival forms of the verbs on the board.
- Ask sts to compare their answers with other sts.
- Move round to conduct the activity.
- Look at the board and give remarks.
+ Tell sts that there may be two adjectival forms of a verb. One ends in -ing and the other ends in -ed.
- Ask sts to look at the example and tell the difference
E.g: interest => interesting and interested
 - This book is interesting.
 - I am interested in this book. I 've read it twice.
Adj. ending –ING is used to express the active meaning (thing)
Adj. ending –ED is used to express the passive meaning (people)
- Ask sts to do task 2.
+ Exercise 2:
- Ask sts to do Ex 2 individually and then share the answers with their friends.
- Move round to help if necessary.
- Ask some sts to report.
- Check and give remarks.
b. It is/was not until ... that ... :
- Give examples so that sts can see the use as well as the form of this structure:
E.g: Mary didn't know how to make cakes until I taught her.
= It was not until I taught Mary that she knew how to make cakes.
 I did not start to learn English until 1995.
= It was not until 1995 that I started to learn English.
- Ask sts to read the examples and tell the teacher which sentences are more emphatic.
+ Exercise 3:
- Ask sts to do Ex 3 individually and then share the answers with their friends.
- Move round to help if necessary.
- Ask two sts to write their answers on the board.
- Check and give remarks.
c. A/an and the
- Give an example so that sts can revise the use of these articles:
E.g: I have a cat and a dog. The cat is lazy and the dog is intelligent.
- Ask sts to do Ex 4.
+ Exercise 4:
- Ask sts to do this execise in pairs.
- Move round to help if necessary.
- Ask some sts to report.
- Check and give remarks.
5. Homework ( 1 min)
- Part B( page 77 - workbook)
- Answer questions
1. The film is very exciting.
2. My father is interested in collecting vases
- Listen to the teacher.
- Write down two sounds.
- Listen to the teacher and repeat.
- Give some words have these sounds.
- Answers:
 / f / / v /
 fan van 
 first vine
 form view
 ...........................
- Read these words in pairs and check for their partners.
- Look at the book and read the sentences.
- Listen to the teacher 
- Read the instruction and the example and then do task 1.
Key:
1. fascinating 2. exciting
3. terrifying 4. irritating
5. horrifying 6. boring
7. surprising 8. amusing
9. embarrassing 
10. frustrating
- Listen to the T.
- Look at the example.
- One st tells the difference:
+ The -ing adjectives: the nature of sth/sb
+ The -ed adjectives: how sb feels (about sth).
- Some pairs report.
1. depressing - depressed
2. interested - interesting
3. boring - bored
4. excited - exciting
5. exhausting - exhausted
- Listen and correct their work if necessary.
- Read the examples.
- Pay attention to the underlined parts.
- Tell the T that the second sentences are more emphatic.
- Do the Ex individually.
EX3: 
1.... 1990 that she became a teacher.
2..... he was 30 that he knew how to swim.
3..... 1980 that they began to learn English.
4. ............. his father came home that the boy did his homework.
5. ...... the lights were on that the fooball match started.
- Listen to the teacher.
- Read the example and the tell the T the use of these articles:
+ A/an: indefinite articles.
 A/an + N (sing) 
+ The: definite article.
 The + N
- Do the exercise in pairs.
- Some sts report:
1. a...the...the 
2. an...a...a...the...the...the
3. the...the...the...the
4. an...a...a...the....a
- Listen and correct their work if necessary.