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A LESSON PLAN Reading Skill Unit 12: the Asian Games ENGLSH 11 Tuesday, January the 17th, 2012

Class 11A 1. Class description: - 25 10th grade students, 3 boys and 22 girls, Class 11-A, Nguyen Binh Khiem high school. 45 minutes

2. Time: 3.Objectives: Skills: After the lesson, Ss able to: + Develop such reading micro skills as scanning for specific information ( apply in exercise of T, F). + Guess the meaning in the context. + Improve group work skills. Language: By the end of the lesson, Ss able to + understand the history of the Asian Games and the purpose of developing intercultural knowledge and friendship within Asia. + Use the information they have read to discuss the related topic. 4. Assumed knowledge: + Ss have studied how to scan a reading text to find specific information and guess meaning in the context + Ss have already known about some new words related to the topic 5. Anticipated problems: + There may be time left (solution: The teacher has already prepared extra reading exercise for Ss.) + There is lack of time (solution: Cut down the activity). + Some Ss may not have a wide range of vocabulary, or students do not know the new words (solution: teacher can give some suggestions to help them elicit the words). 6. Teaching aids: Book, blackboard, pictures, handouts, flash cards and projector. 7. Method: communicative approach. 6. Teaching aids: 7. Procedure: Book, board, visual aids, handout, slide, flat cards

Time Stage (Min) 5m Warmup

Activities Teacher Activity 1: *guessing game: - Divide class into 2 groups - One student from each group will choose a card and act out the sport in each card without saying anything -The rest of the group have to tell the name of each kind of sports - It they say it correctly in English, they get 3 points - If they say it correctly in Vietnamese, get 1 point - If they have no answer, the other group can answer 1.basketball 5. shooting 2.cycling 6.boxing 3.football 7. bodybuilding 4.weightlifting 8. billiards

Techniq Students ues Use Step - Listen to the Elicit Ss to by step T find out the approach topic of the to give -Choose lesson and representatives check to come to the instructio board and do n the task Pictures predictio n

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Other members work in group to guess the word as quickly as possible - Take turn to play the game

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-Set the scene: Our school is going to hold a contest to find information of The Asian Games. Each class will have to choose one student to take part in. Let choose one your classs representative Before choosing the best representative, we will study our lesson today to help you broaden your knowledge of Asian Games. It will be a very useful source of information for you in the contest Activity 2: - Prepare 3 hands out of three questions bellow - Divide class into 3 groups - Give instruction - Deliver the hands out to all groups

-Work groups -Give answer

in Activate Open the students predictio background n

a. How often are the Asian Games held? b. How many countries take part in the Asian Games? c. What sports is Vietnam best at? Keys: a. every 4 years b. 44 c. Karatedo, bodybuilding Present new words - Prepare some pictures of the new words - Show them to the Ss - Ask Ss to look at the pictures and guess the meanings in Vietnamese - T pronounces each word 2 times - Ask students to repeat in the whole class - Call some students to repeat.
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-One ss in knowledge of each group go the topic to the board to stick the answers

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-Understand - Guess the the meaning, meanings of spelling and Athlete /'li:t/ (n) vn ng the new words pronunciation vin of some new Athletics /'letiks/ (n) in words in the kinh text so that Fencing /'fensi/ (n) u kim - Listen to T they can Hockey /'hki/ (n) mn khc and repeat. understand the cn cu text better Rugby /'rgbi/ (n) mn bng bu dc Aquatic sport (n) ['kwtik sp:t]: Th thao di nc Wrestling (n) ['resli] : vt Solidarity ( n) [,sli'drti] : tnh on kt

Teaching vocabular y through pictures

- T uses translatio n technique to elicit the vocabular y

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Activity 3 -Give instruction: whole class, read -Do the text and fill in the blank with a exercise

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Use Step by step

suitable word in the box individually and then compare your answers with your partner. Remember that all the words in the box appear in the text. After 5 minutes, we will check together -Walk around the class to give any help if necessary. -Ask individuals to give answers. -Give feedback and show answers effort advancing facilities enthusiasm aquatic appreciated

individually Compare answers with other Ss

approach to give and check instructio n

Handouts - Help ss to Gapimprove filling scanning skills and guessing meaning in context

1. The hotel has special for disabled athletes 2. Swimming and water skiing are both..sports 3. He never lost his ..for training athletes. 4. I will make every.to arrive on time. 5. Our sports performances have been considerably over recent years. 6. Your help was greatly Keys: 1. Facilities 2. Aquatic 3. Enthusiasm 4. Effort 5. Advancing 6. Appreciated Activity 4: Lucky picture - Prepare 8 questions hidden

behind 8 pictures - Divide class into 2 groups - Give instruction - Control the class - Give feedback and show answers. - Count points for each correct answer Now, I would like to divide class into 2 groups to play a games. Each group will take turn to answer. There are 8 questions hidden behind 8 pictures, each group will choose the picture you like and answer the question. For each correct answer, you get 10 points. The maximum time for each question is 1 minute. If you dont have or have wrong answers, you lose your turn and the chance moves to other group. Be careful that 1 picture will bonus you 10 points, one will take you 10 points and one will take your turn away Tips: scan the text as quick as possible to find the answer 1. The 1st Asian Games began in New Delhi, India in .. 2. Boxing, shooting and wrestling were added at in 1954 3. Tennis, volleyball, table tennis and hockey were added at the 3rd Asian Games held in Tokyo, Japan in .. 4. In 1998.., were th introduced at the 13 Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand.

-Work in groups -Scan the text to find the answers -Listen to other groups answers

Use Step by step approach to give and check instructio n

Gapfilling

5. In .., the 14th Asian Games were held in Busan, Korea. Keys: 1. 1951 2. The 2nd Asian Games in Manila 3. 1958 4. Squash, rugby, fencing and mountain biking 5. 2002

Activity 5: true or false -T gives handout and asks Ss to work in pairs in 5 minutes to do the following exercise: -Ask some ss to write the answer on the board -Correct the answers Read the passage carefully and then decide if the statements are true(T) or false (F) 1. The purpose of the Asian games is to develop intercultural knowledge and friendship within Asia. T/F 2. There were six sports events at the 2nd Asian Games T/ F 3. More than 10,000 participants from 44 countries took part in the 14th Asian Games T/ F 4. The athletes competed in 38 different sports and won 427 silver medals T/ F 5. People appreciated the Vietnamese participants when they won 3 gold medals in womens karate T/F. Keys: 1. T

-Help ss comprehend the text thoroughly

Use Step by step approach to give and check instructio n

-Work in pairs - Read the text and find the answers

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2. F (at 1st) 3. F (9,919) 4. F (gold) 5. F (2) -Prepare guided question to summarize key events of The Asian Games. GUIDED QUESTIONS You can talk about the events through each year include: 1. The host country where the Asian games hold? 2. Number of participants? 3. Number of athletes? 4. List the name kind of sports 5. Number of medals? -Divide class into 3 groups. - Give instruction: Work in groups of 8 and talk about the history of The Asian Games basing on the guided questions in 3 minutes. After that, each group will choose one representative to come to the board and perform. Each group has 2 minutes to present. The best presenter among 3 ones will be selected to take part in contest of our school -Deliver the guided questions for groups -Teacher listens and gives comment to each group.

False statement s Use Step by -Discuss in step groups - Focus on approach -Listen to relationship to give other groups between sound and presentation and spelling check -Vote for the instructio best n representative

-Cards Summari ze the main points

Hom ewor k

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Learn by heart all the vocabulary Search information for the coming Asian Games in 2014 Prepare the next lesson

-Copy the homework on notebooks

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