Unit 13:HOBBIES-WRITING (E11)

LESSON PLAN
School: THPT Nguyễn Chí Thanh
Class: 11B
Teaching Date: 11/03/2010 Duration: 45 minutes
Textbook: English 11 Unit 13: HOBBIES
Type of lesson: WRITING
Teacher’s name: Trịnh Hoàng Thanh Thảo
I. Description of the class:
- Number of the learners:
- Characteristics: All sts are all teenagers
- Gender: Male: Female:
II. Objectives: At the end of the lesson, the students will be able to write about their hobbies, work in pairs/
groups effectively and do the tasks set by teacher correctly.
III. Assumption: Students have known how to write a paragraph about their hobbies or different topics such as
films, entertainment, recreation, etc…
IV. Anticipated problems and Solutions:
- Problems: Students may not know the names of all kinds of hobbies and the new words related to the context.
- Solutions: Give students some new words.
V. Teaching Aids:
- Textbook ( English 11)
- Blackboard, colored chalks.
- Handouts.
VI. Teaching Procedure: The pre-writing stage, the while-writing stage and the post-writing stage.
Time Stages (Contents) Teacher’s activities Student’s activities Interaction
Patterns/ Aims
2’
3’
3’
1. Checking Attendance & Revision:
- Teacher checks students’
attendance

- Teacher gets students review the
previous lesson by asking them
some questions. The questions are
relevant to their reading: HOBBIES.
2. The Pre-writing Stage:
Game: Hangman game
Teacher tells the whole class that teacher
has a 5 letters word in her mind.
─ ─ ─ ─ ─
Clues:
- It is a noun.
- It is a way to free time.
- Collecting stamps, reading books,
going fishing are examples of this
noun.
Answer key: HOBBY
• Pre-teach vocabulary
- to be crazy about (exp) ~ very
interested in
Ex: Hong Nhung is my favorite singer. I am
crazy about her.
- provide (sb) with (sth) (context):
cung cấp cho ai cái gì đó
Ex: Forests provide us with wood
- Keep (sb) occupied (v)= keep (sb)
busy: làm (ai đó) bận rộn
Ex: Looking after the children keeps me
occupied.
- Enable (sb) to do (sth): có thể giúp
- Teacher asks monitor

“Who’s absent today?”
- Teacher asks students
some questions about
the reading.
-Teacher will give some
clues about the word.
Teacher will write it
down in the correct
position, if students give
the wrong answers.
-Teacher will draw the
head (the arms, the
body, and the legs).
Giving definition and
meaning.
Giving meaning
Giving definition and
meaning
Giving meaning
- The monitor answers
teacher’s question.
- Students answer the
questions.
-Ss have to guess the
letters forming that
word. Ss will have to
give letter by letter, if
they give the correct
one.
-Students are able to

tell what the word is
before the hanged man
is drawn, they win the
game
-Students look at the
board, hear and write
down new words on
their notebooks.
Engage ( to get
learner’s
involvement or
give them some
reasons to write
the paragraph
about the
hobby)
T→ the whole
class
S→ T
To provide
students with
some language
to help students
have more
words to write a
paragraph.
T→ S
S→ T
ai làm điều gì đó.
Ex: Her good English enabled her to get

good marks.
6’
20’
3. The While-writing Stage:
Activity 1: Brain- storming
When you have free time, you want to
relax.
1/ What is your hobby?
2/ When did you start it?
3/ How do you enjoy it?
4/ How much time do you spend on it?
5/ Why do you enjoy it?
6/ How long do you think you will
continue with your hobby?
Suggestion answer:
1/ My hobby is (reading books, playing
games,…)
2/ I started it when (I was a child, I was
ten,…)
3/ (Firstly, I read simple books, then I
read stories and now I read everything) or
(Firstly, I play simple games and now I
play difficult games)….
4/ I spend (three hours,…) on it.
5/ Because (I can learn about many
things from books, I can relax,…).
6/ I would never stop reading them in
my life.
Activity 2: Writing
Topic: Write a paragraph (100-120 words)

about one of your hobbies.
Task:
MY HOBBY
My hobby is reading books. I read story-
books, magazines, newspapers and any
kind of material that I find interesting. I
started when I was eight. I learned to read
-Teacher gives students
some questions to
answer.
-Teacher gives students
some minutes to answer
the questions. After that,
teacher calls some
students to answer them
and write the answers
on the board.
-Teacher asks students
to look at all the ideas
suggested on the
blackboard.
-Teacher asks students
to write about their
hobbies, using the ideas
mentioned in activity 1.
-Students look at the
board and answer the
questions.
-Students write the
answer on their

notebooks
-Students write their
paragraphs on their
notebooks
Practice writing
to write a basic
sentence.
Individuals
T → the whole
class
from my father. At first, I read some simple
books, then stories. Now I can read
everything and I love reading novels.
Especially, I am interested in reading funny
stories. In fact, through reading, I can learn
about many things: about people and how
people live. Books also provide me with
necessary information and facts. They have
certainly helped me so much in my daily
life. I would never stop reading them in my
life.
-Teacher goes around to
offer help
- Teacher calls on two or
four students to go to the
blackboard to write down
their paragraph.
- Teacher together with
students finds out the
mistakes and corrects

them.
-Teacher gives feedback
on students’ work.
-Teacher points out
some common mistakes
made by students when
doing this writing task.
- Some students correct
the paragraphs on the
board.
T→ the whole
class
T↔ S
T↔ S
T↔ S
10 ’ 4. The Post-writing Stage:
Correcting mistakes
One of my hobby is watching TV. My
hobby starts when I was a boy of 5. I would
always ask my parents to turn on the TV
set so that I could enjoy the cartoon films
or advertisements.
Now I find that watching TV enables me
learn many things. I learn a lot about how
people lived in old time. I learn about the
wonders of the world, space travel, tiny
viruses and other fascinating things.TV
programs provides me with so many
information and facts. I can stay at home
and watch almost everything happen

around me.
I think I will continues to watch TV although
TV programs are always useful to me.
Watching TV is actually a good hobby.
Correct mistakes:
1/ hobby → hobbies
2/ starts → started
3/ TV programs provides → TV programs
provide
4/ continues → continue
-Teacher gives handouts
to students. Teacher
asks students to work in
groups of 4 to find out
the mistakes in the
essay given, adding that
there is only one mistake
in each paragraph.
-Students work together
to find out the mistakes
To check
students
‘comprehension
and writing
ability of
students.
T→ S
S→ T
1’
Questions:

Read the text in the activity above again
and answer these questions
1. What is the writer hobby?
2. When did he start it?
3. How useful is the TV set to the writer?
4. Do you share the ideas about watching
TV with the write? Why (not)?
5. Consolidation & homework
Consolidation:
Do exercise 1 and exercise 2 on page
90, 91 on exercises’ books.
Homework :
Topic: Write a short paragraph ( about
50-60 words ) about your collection
-Teacher asks students
to answer the following
questions about the
reading text given in the
activity above, reminding
them to write their work
on their exercise
notebooks
T elicits what has been
learnt
-Students answers
these questions about
the reading after correct
the mistakes.
-Students write the
answer on their

exercise notebooks
Whole class