UNIT 1: A DAY IN THE LIFE OF…
LESSON 4. WRITING
I. Objectives:
1. Education aims: Students write a narrative.
2. Knowledge: a. General knowledge: - Writing about a hotel fire.
b. Language:
- The past simple tense.
- Connectors (time expressions)
3. Skills:
+ Reading: Read a passage to find verbs in the past simple, the connectors.
+ Writing a narrative using the prompts.
+ Speaking: - Students discuss in groups to share their answers.
II. Anticipated problems:
+ Problems: some expressions in the tasks.
+ Solutions: Explain these words/ expresssions in advance.
III. Teaching aids: A picture, board, chalk, textbook.
IV. Procedures:
Teacher's activities Students' activities
1. Warm- up:(5 mins)
Aims: To raise students' interest.
-Show a picture that teacher prepared in advance
about the explosion in Twin Towers in 2001.
- Ask some questions:
T: What is happening?
T: Do you know where it happened?
- Tell sts that they are going to write a narrative of
past events.
2. Before you write:(20 mins)
- Aims: to provide sts with the materials (vocabulary,
grammar, form) to write.
+ Task 1:
- Ask sts to look at Task 1 .
- Ask them to read through the passage in two
minutes to get the main idea.
- Ask one student to report.
- Explain some new words/ phrases in the passage:
+ stare death in the face (explain the meaning of
each word ,then let sts guess the meaning of the
whole phrase)
+ 'fasten(v)(demonstrate)
+ dip (v): move to a lower level.
- Ask sts to listen and read these words again.
+ Task 2:
- Ask sts to read the passage again and in groups to
do task 2.
- Divide the class into three regions: one identifies
the events, one identifies the climax and the rest
identifies the conclusion.
- Ask sts to work in only 2 minutes.
- Draw the conclusion about writing a narrative.
- Look at the picture.
S: The buildings are on fire.
S: It happened in the U.S.A
S: It happened on September 11th , 2001
S: Two planes carrying bombs crashed into
two buildings and killed a lot of people.
- Look at Task 1.
- Read through the passage individually .
- S: The most frightening experience of the
writer's life when he(she) travelled on a
plane on 14th July 1995.
- Listen and repeat:
+ stare death in the face + fasten + dip
- Read the passage again and do task 1.
+ Verbs used in the past simple: stared, was,
arrived, got, took off, began,thought, were
told, seemed, realised, were, screamed,
thought, had, felt, gained, announced,
landed.
+ Connectors (expressions of time): on that
day, at first, then, a few minutes later.
- Report the answers:
+ The events: people got on plane, plane
took off, hostesses were just beginning to
serve lunch when plane began to shake,
plane seemed to dip, people screamed in
panic.
+ The climax: We thought we had only
minutes to live.
+ The conclusion: the pilot that everything
was all right, we landed safely, it was the
most frightening experience of my life.