Lesson Plan (grade 11 – advanced) Period 125 ppt

Lesson Plan (grade 11 – advanced)
Period 125: Preparation date : 20/4/2011
Unit 15: Lesson : writing
I. Aims :
- By the end of the lesson, the students are able to organize accounts
in chronological order.
- By the end of the lesson, the students are able to write a biography
II. Lexical items :
- biography
- chronological order
III. Structures :
- he was born in Dijon, France, in 1832, to a family known for fine
craft work of wood
- he graduated from L’Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, Paris,
in 1855.
IV. Teaching aids:
- textbook - handouts - Sheets of paper
- chalk and board - pictures
V. Techniques :
- writing-based
- Procedures :
State/time Teacher’s and students’
activities
Blackboard Materials

1. warm-
up
(7’)
Games: famous people
- arrange the class into
two groups, A and B

- get the group
representatives to draw
straws for who goes first.
- show SS pictures of or
related to famous people ,
one by one and let the
groups decide whom the









pictures






picture refers to.
- award one point for each
correct answer, and stick
that picture up on the
board. If the group in
question fails to give the
answer, the turn then

passes to the other group.
Play continues until all the
pictures are shown.
- keep a total running of
points for each group.
- the group with more
points wins
- refer back to the pictures
just stuck on the board
and ask SS whose life
they know much about
Transition: do you know
how to write a biography?












Unit 15:
p125:Writing a
biography

That’s the focus of our
lesson today.
- write down on the board:


2. Pre-
writing
(10’)






Activity 1: presenting an
outline
- elicit what to be included
in a biography from SS:
Name, date, and place of
birth, his or her family,
social, cultural.
Educational background
- tell SS that a biography
is normally organized in
chronological, i.e. in the

order of time that the
events take place.
Activity2:introducing

- expressions of
time:
. In his later
years….
. at the age of
20….
. On March 1
st
,
1890 …
. During the
winter, he ….
- clause of time:

Chalk and
board






Chalk and
board
useful language

. she moved to
China when she
was nine
. as soon as she
finished her
degree, she
worked as a
nurse
. after his father
died, his mother
went to work
3. while-
writing
(20’)




Activity 1: Re-arranging
(task b, textbook, p.206-
207)
- divide Ss into small
groups. Each group is
given a poster with
phrases on and a set of
faces: neutral (yellow),
smiling (pink) and sad

Expected
answers:

1. g 2. c 3. i
4. e 5. a 6. h
7. b. 8. d. 9. f


Small
board
cards




(blue)
- Ask Ss to stick a neutral
face next to a refusal one.
- Tell Ss to stick the poster
on the board when they
have finished. The first
group to finish with all
correct answers will win
the game.
- demonstrate using the
phrases on the boar and
then have Ss start.
- go over the answers and
show a poster with the
phrases in 3 categories
Activity 2: identifying
main ideas
- give each student a copy

of the text below (














Headings:




appendix 2)
- put SS into groups of
four.
- ask SS to divide the text
into five paragraphs
according to these
headings
- call on group
representatives to give the
answers.

- introduction
- early
- private life -
later career
- life now

4. Post-
writing
(10’)




Peer correction
- Ask Sts to work in group
of 5, deliver each group 5
pieces of writings and tell
them to read and correct
their friends’ narratives.
- Tell each group to
choose the best piece of
writing, and the most

Card 1- Jack and
card 2 – Sinh are
delivered out Sts.

Handouts
+ sheets
of paper






special story.
- Go around to control and
give help if necessary.
- Call a St. from each
group to read their group’s
best writing, and ask Sts
to give comments.
5.
Homework

(1’)
- Ask Sts to write a
biography as guided at
home for preparing next
time.
textbook