UNIT 11 – LESSON 4: D. WRITING
Planning date: Teaching date:
I. Objectives:
1. Education Aims: - Students can write a letter of acceptance or refusal.
2. Knowledge: a. General knowledge: - A letter of acceptance or refusal.
b. Language: - Language used to write an informal letter.
- Expressions: "Yes, I'd like/love to."," I'm afraid I can't come because.....?", etc .
3. Skills: - Reading: read. fill the blanks of the incomplete letters.
- Speaking: Rearrange the sentences to make a letter of acceptance.
- Writing: write a letter of acceptance or refusal.
II. Anticipated problems: Choose suitable expressions to write a letter of their own.
III. Teaching Aids: - board, textbook, chalk.
IV. Procedures:
Teacher's activities Students' activities
1. Homework checking: (5 mins)
- Ask one st to talk about the special features of Cuc
Phuong National Park.
- Ask other sts to listen to their friend and give remarks.
- Check and give remarks.
2. Before you write: (15 mins)
- Aims: to get sts to read the expressions in the table and
to do task 1 and task 2.
+ Task 1:
- Introduce the topic of the lesson: Write a letter of
acceptance or refusal.
- Introduce some new words:
+ a'cceptance (n): the noun of "accept"
+re'fusal (n): the noun of " refuse"
+ dec'line (v): refuse sth offered (politely)
- Ask sts to listen and repeat and then copy down these
words into their notebooks.
- Ask sts to read the expressions in the table in 2 minutes
- Remind sts of three invitation letters that they have
already read in Unit 10 and ask them to work in pairs to
complete three reply letters by using the expressions in
the table.
- Ask sts to do in 3 minutes and move around to help if
necessary.
- Get feedback and give remarks.
+ Task 2:
- Remind sts of the letter Nam wrote to Lam to invite
Lam to spend a weekend with him. And now Lam write a
letter accepting Nam's invitation.
- Ask sts to work in pairs to rearrange the sentences into
a letter.
- Move round to help if necessary.
- Get feedback and give remarks.
3. While you write: (15 mins)
- Aims: Sts practise writing a letter of acceptance or
refusal.
- Listen to their friend and give remarks.
- Listen to the teacher.
- Listen to the teacher carefully.
- Copy down the words into theit
notebooks.
- Do the task in pairs.
- Share their answer with their friends.
- Present their ideas.
1. Accepting: Yes, I'd like/love to.
2. Refusing: I'm afraid I can't come
because
3. Accepting: I'd be delighted to.
- Listen to the teacher.
- Listen to the teacher.
- Work in pairs to rearrange the
sentences into a letter.
- Present their ideas:
1.d 2. e 3. c
4. a 5. f 6. b
- Listen to the teacher.
- Read the requirement.
- Listen to the teacher.
- Do the writing task.