unit 11-writing- grade 10

Lesson Plan
Name: Vu Quynh Hoa
Unit 11 – Writing ( Grade 10)
Background Information:
Course: Level: Number of Students:
ESL Low- intermediate
Description of Students:
The students are in the 10
th
grade and are all native Vietnamese speakers.
The students have studied ESL for nearly 10 years and several are more
confident with writing and reading than they are with speaking.
Objectives:
By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to:
_Understand the graphs and write a paragraph to interpret the information
from the graph.
_ Be updated with the fomat and the language used in describing graphs.
Skills focus / Grammar structure(s) / Vocablary:
The skill focus is writing and reading.
Grammar structures and vocabulary are presented.
Lesson:
Time Procedure Notes
5’
Warm – up
T shows pictures of two graphs :
T prepares
two large
graphs on
A0-sized
papers
T gives definition of graph

T tells Ss to describe the two above graphs and
give features of a graph
15’
Pre – Writing
Vocabulary
1. Construction debris: mảnh vụn công trình
xây dựng
2. Dispossable diapers: tã lót trẻ em có thể
phân huỷ
3. Major: chính, quan trọng
4. Plastic bottles: chai nhựa
5. Respondents: bị cáo
T writes these
words on the
board
6. Reveal: thể hiện
T asks Ss to make sentences with several above
words to help Ss remember the meaning of these
words
Answer Questions
T asks Ss to answer the following questions:
1. What does the graph show?
2. What can we see on the horizontal line?
3. What can we see on the vertical line?
4. How many percent of disposable diapers are
reported?
5….
T gives correct answers:
1. The graph shows the percentage of particular
items as major causes of garbage problems.

2. The horizontal line shows the items as major
causes of garbage problems.
3. The vertical line shows the percentage of these
items.
4. Disposable dispers are reported by 41 percent.
5…
Gap- filling
T asks Ss to read the paragrap and fill the blanks.
T calls on several Ss to give their answers
T corrects:
1. Disposable diapers
2. Plastic bottles
3. All paper forms
4. Construction debris
T tells Ss to
practise these
tasks
individually.
15’
While- Writing
T tells Ss to look at the graph in the textbook and
T tells Ss to
look at the
title and
answer the following questions.
T calls on a student give his answers and explain.
T gives correct answers:
a. In 1956
b. In Australia
c. 6 gas blowouts occurred in total: 5 in Bass

strait and 1 in the Timor Sea.
study the
graph
5’
Post-Writing
Graph drawing:
T asks Ss to work in groups and draw a graph of
the number of visitors to two national parks(Cuc
Phuong, Nam Cat Tien)
T calls on some groups to show their paintings
and give explaination to their predictions.
T encourages
Ss to predict
the number of
visitors to
these two
national
parks.
T prepares
several A4-
sized papers.
5’
Summarize
T summarize the main points.
T assigns homework.