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Lesson Plan – Language Focus - Unit 12: Music

Lesson Plan Unit 12 - Music Language Focus 1. Class description - Level: 10th – form students - Class size: 45 students 2. Time: 45 minutes 3. Objectives: - Knowledge: By the end of this lesson, students will be able to: + Use to+ infinitive to express purpose and make Wh-questions appropriately + Pronounce and distinguish the sounds /s/-/z/ - Language skills: After the lesson, students will able to use structure to: + Express purpose + Ask for information 4. Assumed knowledge: - Students may have known to+ infinitive and Wh-question - Students may have known how to pronounce 2 sounds /s/ - /z/ - Students are familiar with working in groups 5. Anticipated problems - There is the limitation of time - Students may make mistakes in pronouncing these sounds, forming questions and giving answers 6. Teaching aids 10th-form English textbook, pictures, blackboard and handouts 7. Procedure:

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Lesson Plan – Language Focus - Unit 12: Music Teacher’s activities

Students’ activities

1. Warm-up: (5 minutues) Guessing game: Asks Ss to in a game organized by the teacher Tells Ss to form 2 teams Provides Ss with game instruction: “Each team chooses one representative facing the class. Teacher writes some words on the board. The other team use definition, description or body language to explain those words to the representative. Which representative can get the right word will be scored 1 point and which team has more point will be awarded a small gift.”.

- Form teams - Listen to the instruction

Checks if Ss are clear about the instruction - Show the understanding of the instruction; or else, require more explanation for unclear things. The word list

- Team : try to explain the words

Glass

Gloves

Bus

Scissors

- Team representative: try to get the right word

- Asks Ss to find out the difference in the - Listen and answer T’s questions ending sound of those words: “What is the difference in the ending sound of these words? (Do they have the same pronunciation?)” Glass - /s/

Gloves - /z/

Bus - /s/

Scissors - /z/

2. Pronunciation: (15 minutes) - Asks students to open & look at their books p.130 - Guilds Ss how to pronounce 2 consonants /s/ - /z/: /s/: touch your side teeth with the side tongue. Put your tongue forward and do not use your voice. It sounds like the noise of a snake.

- Open & look at the books p.130 - Listen to T and take notes

/z/: Practice the sound /s/ first and use your voice to make /z/. It sounds like the noise of a bee. - Checks if Ss really understand the way to make /s/ - Show the understanding or else; ask for and /z/ more explanation - Gives examples and asks Ss to listen and repeat in Le Huu Nam – 071.E6

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Lesson Plan – Language Focus - Unit 12: Music chorus and then individual: Glass - /s/ Bus - /s/

Gloves - /z/

- Listen and repeat the words in chorus then individual

Scissors - /z/

Activity 1: - Distributes the handouts to Ss and asks them to work in pairs. - Get and look at the handouts - Explain the instruction of the activity to Ss: pick out the words with sounds /s/ and /z/, put them into - Listen to T’s instruction correct sound columns.

Sue , sip, please, bus, prize, zoo, piece, peas, zip, said, glass, gloves

/s/

- Work in pairs and try to finish the table

/z/

- Checks the answers and reads out loud the correct answers once time - Listen to the teacher then repeat in chorus - Asks Ss listen and repeat after the teacher in chorus - Calls 2 S to read it again

- Listen to the teacher then repeat

- Corrects problems and mistakes for those 2 Ss

- The Ss read, the other listen and find out mistakes

Activity 2: Practice these sentences:

- Listen to T to avoid repeating mistakes again

- Reads the each sentence loudly and asks students to repeat - Listen to T then repeat in chorus then individual 1. Susan loves classical music. 2. I like to listen to jazz records. 3. My aunt likes to watch the film “The Sound of Music”. 4. But my cousin prefers going to concerts. 5. He’s won the first price for singing folk songs. 6. I’d like a piece of bread and some peas, please. - Corrects mistakes for Ss - Listen to T to avoid repeating mistakes - Gives 2 other sentences to Ss and ask them to again practice: Le Huu Nam – 071.E6

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Lesson Plan – Language Focus - Unit 12: Music + It’s six or seven years since Sydney’s sister sang that song

- Listen to T and then practice

+ Zebras in zoos are like dolphins in pools - Corrects pronunciation for students 3. Grammar:(25 minutes) - Asks Ss to look at the picture and makes questions:

- Listen to T to avoid repeating mistakes

+ What is he doing? + What is he swimming for?

- Look at pictures and answer T’s - Writes the Ss’ sentences on the board and underline the questions “to+ infinitive - Introduces the structure “to + infinitive” to express - Look at the blackboard and listen to T purposes to Ss Form: S + V + to-infinitive Meaning: the reason for doing sth Use: to express purpose What for = why? - Takes another example and asks Ss to underline “to + infinitive” to check their understanding: “She gets up early morning to cook breakfast for her family”

- Listen to T and take notes

- Introduces exercises to the students

- Listen to T, do the example, and show the understanding, ask for clarifying things that are not clear

Exercise 1:

- Give some examples

-Asks some students give some similar examples

- Asks students to do Exercise 1 - Explains exercise instruction to Ss: “Work in pair, one person asks and the other uses the words in - Look at Exercise 1 brackets to answer the questions.” - Listen to the teacher and do exercise 1 - Walks round, checks and helps them do the exercise - Calls 5 pairs to ask and answer 5 sentences in the exercise Key: 1to tell her the good news

- Read out loud each sentence

2,to buy a cassette player 3,to win the singing contest 4,to sing French songs 5,to set a good example for the class

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Lesson Plan – Language Focus - Unit 12: Music Extra activity: practice To + infinitive - Divides class into 2 groups

- Introduces the instruction: “One group writes down on a small piece of paper your actions - Listen to the teacher and form group (what you do) and the other group write about - Listen to T’s instruction your purposes. Just use simple present tense.” - Checks if Ss really understand about the instruction

- Collects Ss’ papers

- Show the understanding or ask for more - Picks randomly some papers from the 2 group explanation - Hand in papers and connects them together. - Listen to T Exercise 2: For homework Exercise 3: Wh.questions: - Takes the example in exercise 3 and introduces to Ss Wh-questions Ex: I often listen to music whenever I have free time.

- Listen to T

When do you listen to music? - Explains for Ss about the form and types of Whquestions: Form: Wh + aux.V +S+ V? When? ->

time

Where? ->

place

Who?

->

person

Why?

->

reason

How?

->

manner

What? ->

- Listen to T and take note quickly

Objective/idea/action

- Calls on some students to make up some Whquestions - Introduces Exercise 3 to students and gives - Make questions instruction - Asks Ss to do it individually - Walk round and help Ss Le Huu Nam – 071.E6

- Listen to instruction and ask if it is not clear

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Lesson Plan – Language Focus - Unit 12: Music - Calls some random pairs to practice exercise 3 (one - Carry out the exercise 3 makes question and the other answers) - Checks and corrects mistakes

- Practice exercise 3, the others listen and contribute if they have any other answers

Key: 1, What will you do if it rains? 2, What sort of music does your family enjoy listening to? 3, When did he leave for Ho Chi Minh city? 4, Who wants to talk to you? 5, How did you spend the evening last night? 6, When does the film start? 7. Who is your favourite musician ? 8. Why do you like pop music? Homework : (2 minutes) Asks Ss to do exercise 2, in page 31 in the textbook and prepare for the next lesson. - Listen to T and write out homework in notebooks

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