english 11- unit 15- lwriting

LESSON PLAN
Lê Lợi High school Student: Bùi Lê Hoài Nhân
Class : 11C4 Subject : English Code: ST0652A026
Period: 1 Date: 22/03/2010
Unit 15: SPACE CONQUEST
Lesson: Writing
• Aims : helps Ss to develop writing skill by using connector words to write about someone’s
biography, arranging information order correctly.
• Objectives : By the end of the lesson, SS will be able to:
- know about the order of information in biography writing
- write a biography of Neil Armstrong
• Teaching aids :, Textbook, pictures, handouts
• Procedure
_ Greeting
_ Checking attendance
_ Check up old lesson: ask 2 questions and vocabulary (6’)
1. When was the Apollo 11 launched?
2. When did the astronauts return to the earth?
_ New lesson
Contents Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
* Warm up: Who is he? ( 3’)
1) He is the first human in space.
- Yuri Gagarin
2) He is the first American astronaut to walk on
the moon.
- Neil Armstrong
- Do you know anything about Neil Armstrong?
- today we will find out some information about him
and write a biography of Neil Armstrong
TASK 1. Below is some information about Neil
Armstrong, the first human to set foot on the moon.

Put each of the headings in the box in the
appropriate blank. ( 5’)
Set the scene: You are going to write a biography of
Neil Armstrong, the first human to set foot on the
moon. First of all, put each of the headings in the box
in the appropriate blank.
Career Place of birth
Date of birth Quote Known as
Neil Armstrong
American astronaut
(1) ___________ 5
th
August, 1930
(2) ___________ Wapokoneta, Ohio
(3) ___________ the first person to walk on
the Moon
(4) ___________ 1949-1952: pilot in United
- show picture and ask
- give feedback
- ask Ss
- lead to new lesson
- move on Task 1
- set the scene
- guide Ss that the information in
task 1 is the short biography of Neil
Armstrong
- read 5 words in the box and ask Ss
to repeat
- explain some new words if
necessary

- ask Ss to work in pairs in 2’ to put
each headings in appropriate blanks
- look at the picture
and answer
- listen
- answer
-listen
- look at the
information in task
1
- listen and repeat
- pay attention
- work in pairs
States Navy
1955: receive a B.S. / Purdue
University
1962: join NASA astronaut
program
20
th
July, 1969: become first
human / step / Moon’s surface
1970: receive his M.S. /
University of Southern California
1971: resign / NASA
1971-1979: teach / University
of Cincinnati
1986: appointed vice
chairman / committee /
investigate / space shuttle

Challenger disaster
(5) ___________ “That’s one small step for man,
one giant leap for mankind.”
Answer key:
1) Date of birth
2) Place of birth
3) Known as
4) Career
5) Quote
1. Verb tenses and grammatical structures
_ The simple past is used to talk about an event that
happened and finished in the past
_ The simple present is used to describe facts
_ The passive voice is used occasionally in the
biography
_ Preposition
Task 2: Use the information above to write a
biography of Neil Armstrong.
( 13’)
Suggested paragraph:
Neil Armstrong is an American astronaut. He is
known as the first person to walk on the moon. He
was born on 5
th
August in 1930 in Wapokoneta, Ohio.
He was a pilot in United States Navy from 1949 to
1952. Neil Armstrong received his B. S from Purdue
University in 1955. In 1962, he joined the NASA
astronaut program. On 20
th

July, 1969, he became the
first human to step on the Moon’s surface. He
received his M.S from the University of Southern
California in 1970. He resigned from NASA a year
later. From 1971 to 1979, Neil Armstrong taught in
the University of Cincinnati.
He was appointed vice chairman of the committee
that investigated the space shuttle Challenger disaster.
- go around
- call 5 Ss to answer, correct and
then ask Ss write the answers on the
board
- ask Ss to copy down the correct
answers on the board
- ask Ss to look at the information in
task 1 again, explain so that Ss can
recognize a short biography
- transform to reality
- ask Ss to analyze to know the form
of the short biography
- ask Ss “ How would we write a
full biography? “
- show poster with a biography’s
form
- say that we will write the sentences
with correct subjects, move the time
to the end of each sentence, use
prepositions correctly
- ask Ss to pay attention to the verb
tenses in each sentence

- move on Task 2
- divide the class into 4 groups, each
group will do each part
- ask Ss to read the given
information again and write the
biography in 5 minutes
- go around to check and offer help
- call 4 Ss to write each part of the
biography on the board
- ask another Ss to look at the black
board to find down mistakes
- correct mistake with the whole
- work
- answer, listen to T
and write the
answers on the
board
- copy down
- look at the
information in task
1 again
- listen
- analyze to
recognize the
biography’s form
- think and answer
- look at poster and
take notes
- listen and take
notes

- pay attention
- work in groups
- read the
information again
- write
- write the answers
on the board
- look at the black
board and find the
mistakes
- correct mistakes
He said: “That’s one small step for man, one giant
leap for mankind.”
* Consolidation:
- The form of a biography
HOMEWORK: ( 1’)
- review the way to write a biography of someone
- write a biography of someone you know
class
- show poster with a model
biography
- ask Ss to complete the biography
in their notebook
- remind the class by asking
- ask
with T
- look at poster
- complete the
biography
- listen and answer

- listen and take
notes
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