Unit 13-Speaking - Grade 10

Unit 13: Films and Cinema
Grade: 10
Period B: Speaking
Time:45 minutes
I. Objectives.
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
- Ask and answer questions about the plot of a film based prompts.
- Tell what kind of film they like and dislike.
- Express their opinion about a film, using attitudinal adjectives.
- Get knowledge about some kinds of films.
- Know the way to express their opinion about film, using attitudinal
adjectives.
- Develop speaking skills
II. Anticipated problems.
1. Problems
From the lesson
- They might also have difficulty with the structure “ SB find Sth + adj”
and confuse between Adjectives ending in “ ing” and “ed”.
From the students:
- Students might not have sufficient vocabulary to talk about the topic.
- Students may forget grammatical structure or vocabulary so they feel that
it’s difficult to express their opions.
- Students may feel timid and uninteresting so they don’t want to take part in
the lesson.
2.Solutions.
- Teacher should provide new words for students before asking them to talk
about the topic.
- Teacher should make the lesson more interesting by giving some pictures or
playing games.
- Teacher should encourage timid students to express their ideas.
- Teacher should provide more knowledge or background about this topic to

students.
III. Procedure.
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Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
I.Warm- up( 5 mins)
- Show some pictures on the screen.
- Ask students to look at these pictures and answer
the question: “ What kinds of films are they?”
- Check and give correct answers.
Keys: Love story film, Comedy, Cartoon, detective,
action film, horror film, science fiction film, war
film, fairy tale film.
- Lead in: We are going to learn about the way to
express the opinion about film, to talk about a film
using attitudinal adjectives.
- Look at these picture and
answer the question.
- II. Pre-speaking( 6 mins)
- Task 1: How much do you like each kind of film?
- Review some kind of films:
+ Love story film
+War film
+Action film
+Science fiction film
+Cartoon film
+Horror film
+Detective film
+Fairy tale film.
+Thriller
- Call on some students to tell about some kinds of

films they like and dislike.
- Tell about some kind of
films they like and dislike.
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III. While-speaking( 32mins)
Task 2: Discuss with your friend about each kind of
film. Use the words in the table.
- Get students to brainstorm all the adjectives that
can be used to describe film.
- Introduce the structure:
Sb find Sth/ Sb + adj
Which can be used to express one’s opinion about
something or someone.
Example: I find horror films interesting.
- Call on a student t read the model conversation in
the textbook. Correct student’s intonation and
pronunciation if necessary.
- Divide the class into small group of three and
instruct students to find out what the other member
of their group feel about the given types of films.
- Go around offering help.
- Call on some students to report their findings.
While they speak, correct any mistake.
* Task 3: Work in pair: Talk about the preferences
for film.
- Introduce the structure:
Noun Noun
-Brainstorm the adjectives
used to describe films.
+moving

+terrifying
+Boring
+interesting
+……….
- Take note
- Read the model
- Work in groups of three.
- Report
- work in pairs
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Prefer + +to +
V-ing V-ing
Example: I prefer science fiction film to thriller.
He prefers watching TV to listening to
radio.
- Call on two students to read the model
conversation in the textbook. Correct students’
intonation and pronunciation if necessary.
- Instruct students to work in pairs and find out
about their partner’s preference for a particular type
of film, basing them on the model.
- Go around offering help.
- Call on some students to report their findings.
- Read the model.
- Work in pair.
- Report.
IV. post-speaking( 12mins)
Task 4: Talk about a film you have ever seen.
- Instruct students to work in pairs and ask and give
questions about a film they have seen, using the

suggestion given in the textbook.
- Give student an example( show on the screen):
A: Can you tell me a name of the film you have
seen?
B:It’s “ Bong dung muon khoc”.
A:Where did you see it?
B:I saw it on TV.
A:What kind of film is it?
B:It is love story film.
A: Who are main characters?
- Work in pairs
- Listen to the teacher
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B: They are Bao Nam and Truc.
A: How do you feel about it?
B:I feel it interesting.
A: Why do you like this kind of film?
B: Because it’s very moving and amusing.
- Call on some pairs to make conversation
- Check.
- Make conversation.
V. Wrap-up (3 minutes)
- Summarize the main points.
- For homework: + Revise some kinds of films.
+Prepare for listening lesson
- Listen to the teacher.
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