UNIT 12 – LESSON 4: D. WRITIING
Planning date: Feb 19th Teaching date: Feb 28th
I. Objectives:
1. Education Aims: Students can write a profile.
2. Knowledge: a. General knowledge: The life story of a famous person.
b. Language: - Language used to write a profile .
- The past tenses, to-infinitive and the passive voice.
3. Skills:- Reading: read the information about Van Cao.
- Writing: the life story of Van Cao.
II. Anticipated problems: Use the prompts to write a complete profile..
III. Teaching Aids: board, textbook, chalk.
IV. Procedures:
Teacher's activities Students' activities
1. Homework checking: (5 mins)
- Ask one st to talk about his/her opinion about Quang
Hung's ideas about Van Cao's music.
- Ask other sts to listen to their friend and give remarks.
- Check and give remarks.
2. Before you write: (20 mins)
- Aims: to get sts to recognise what a profile is like and to
read the information about Van Cao.
+ Task 1:
- Introduce the topic of the lesson: Writing a profile.
- Introduce some new words:
+ 'profile (n): a report of a person (usu. in a newspaper
article)
+'mixture (n):
+tune (n):
+ Ragtime (v): a kind of music which is a mixture of
classical European and African beats.
+ rag (n): a Ragtime song
+ beat (n):
+ 'talent (n): a natural skill/ ability.
+ 'talented (a): having talent
+ app'reciate (v): recognise sb's good qualities.
- Ask sts to listen and repeat and then copy down these
words into their notebooks.
- Ask some sts to read these words again.
- Ask sts to read the prompts in task 1 and to make up
complete sentences about Scott Joplin by adding suitable
auxiliaries, articles or prepositions and appropriate verb
tenses.
- Allow sts to work in pairs first to make up sentences
orally and the write them down into their notebooks.
- Move around to help if necessary.
- Ask sts to compare their answer with other sts.
- Get feedback and give remarks.
- Focus sts on some points about writing a profile by
asking some questions:
1. Which tense do you use?
- Listen to their friend and give
remarks.
- Listen to the teacher.
- Listen to the teacher carefully.
- Copy down the words into theit
notebooks.
- Listen and repeat.
- Some sts stand up and read again.
- Read the prompts and do the task in
pairs.
- Write down the sentences into their
notebooks.
- Share their answer with their friends.
- Present their ideas.
1. He learned to play music when he
was very young.
2. Scott learned to play the works of
composers like Bach, Beethoven, and
Mozart as well as to compose music.
3. He quickly became famous.
4. His tune were wonderful mixture of
classical European and African beats
which were known as Ragtime.
5. All in all, he wrote 50 piano rags,
and was called the King of Ragtime.
6. Scott Joplin died in 1917.
- Listen to the teacher.
- Answer T's questions:
1. We use the past simple.
2. the date of birth/death, the place of
birth, family, career, personal life.