UNIT 16 - LESSON 4: D. WRITING
Planning date: Teaching date:
I. Objectives:
1. Education Aims: - Students can describe a chart.
2. Knowledge: a. General knowledge: Student knows how to read the information
in a chart.
b. Language: - Language used to describe a chart. - The past tenses.
3. Skills:
- Reading: read the model description.
- Speaking: discuss in pairs.
- Writing: write a description.
II. Anticipated problems: Students are not familiar with this type of writing.
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 ancient town of Hoi An.
- 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 know how to write a description
of a chart.
+ Task 1:
- Firstly, ask sts to look at the chart and explain the
information in the chart.
- Ask them to look at the chart and then answer the
questions in pairs.
- Move around to help if necessary.
- Ask sts to compare their answer with other pairs.
- Get feedback and give remarks.
- Introduce some useful words/expressions that sts
can use when describing a chart.
+ Beginning: Answer the question: "What does the
chart show?"
- Answer: The chart shows.................
The chart presents some information ....
+Expressions: As we can see from the chart, .............
It can be seen from the chart that .........
According to the chart, .................
+ Verbs: increase >< decrease
reduce, rise, .....
+ Adverbs: rapidly, quickly, sharply, steadily, etc.
+ Comparatives and superlatives.
3. While you write: (10 mins)
- Aims: Sts practise describing the chart.
+ Task 2:
- Ask sts to write a description of the chart.
- Ask them to use the answers to the questions above
to write.
- Listen to their friend and give remarks.
- Listen to the teacher.
- Read the chart and try to understand the
information in the chart.
- Work in pairs to ask and answer and then
share their answer with their friends.
- Present their ideas.
1. The USA had the biggest number of
visitors to Vietnam in 2001.
2. 99,700 visitors.
3. Australia did.
4. No, it isn't.
5. France did.
6. The number of American visitors to
Vietnam in 2002 increased by 29,497 in
comparison with that in 2001.
- Listen to the teacher.
- Copy down these words into their
notebooks.
- Do the writing task.
- Read their writing: ( a model
description)
" The chart shows the number of visitor
arrivals to Vietnam from the USA, France
and Australia in 2001 and 2002. The
statistics were provided by Vietnam
National Administration of Tourism. It is
clear from the chart that the number of
visitors to Vietnam from the USA, France
and Australia in 2002 is higher than that
in 2001. According to the chart, the USA