UNIT 6: AN EXCURSION
LESSON 4. WRITING
I. Objectives:
1. Education Aims: A confirmation letter responding to a request or an invitation.
2. Knowledge: a. General knowledge: Writing a confirmation latter.
b. Language: - Language used in informal letters.
- The future simple tense and "be going to ".
3. Skills: - Reading: read two sample letters.
- Speaking: work in pairs to discuss the two letters.
- Writing: write confirmation letters.
II. Anticipated problems: Students may not be familiar with confirmation letters.
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 plans for the picnic if
his/ her class could have one.
- Check and give remarks.
2. Before you write: (20 mins)
- Aims:to give sts a chance read the sample letters and
to help sts to prepare vocabulary and information before
they write.
+ Task 1:
- Ask sts to look at two letters in page 69.
- Explain the definition of "request " and
"confirmation" letters:
+ Request is the letter that asks for information or help.
+ Confirmation is the letter that responds to the request.
It confirms whether the help is provided or the
information is available or not.
- Listen and give remarks.
+ Task 2:
- Ask sts to read the situations in this part.
- Explain some new words:
+ bunch (n): things of the same kind grouping together.
Eg: a bunch of bananas/ keys.
+ 'wildlife (n) : life of fre animals/ plants in the nature.
+ a'ccept (v): > < refuse
- Ask sts to listen and repeat and then some sts stand up
to read again.
- Ask sts to read the situations in 2 minutes and then ask
them some questions to make sure they understand the
situations.
- Ask some sts to answer T's questions:
T: What is Lan going to do?
T: What does she ask you to do?
T: Will you help her?
T: What does Minh want to do?
- Remind sts that these are informal letters so they can
- Listen to their friend and give remarks.
- Listen to the teacher.
- Listen to the teacher carefully.
- Copy these words into theit notebooks.
- Read the letters in pairs.
- Share their ideas with other sts.
Requests: "Can you go shopping with
me to buy the things we need for the
trip?"
Confirmation: Certainly, I will help
you to prepare everything you need for
the trip.
I will be waiting for you at 2.30 p.m.
- Listen to the teacher.
S1: She 's going to have birthday party
at.....
S2: She asks me to buy her two bunches
of...
S3: Yes, I will.
S4: he wants to borrow a book
about .....
..................................
- Listen to the teacher and take notes.
- Do the writing task.
- Read their writing:
1. Dear Lan,
It's great to hear about your birthday
party.
Sure, I'll help you with the shopping this
Saturday. It wouldn't be a problem. And
I'll bring them to your house befoer the
party. I want to help you prepare the