english 10 - unit 13 - language focus

Trainee teacher: Nguyễn Thị Hà Xuyên.
Instructor: Nguyễn Hoàng Diệu Thư
Date: March 10, 2011.
Lesson Plan: English 10.
UNIT 13: FILMS AND CINEMA
LANGUAGE FOCUS
(Period 1)
Objectives:
By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to:
- Distinguish the sounds /f/ and /v/.
- Pronounce the words and sentences containing these sounds correctly.
- Master the use of adjective of attitude, “It is/was not until … that …”, article “a/an and the”.
- Use the structures correctly and appropriately to solve communication talks.
Teaching Method: PPP
Teaching Aids: Textbook, handouts, extra board, etc.
Procedure:
Teacher 's activities Students’ activities
A. Pronunciation:
I. Warm up: (5 minutes)
- Invite Ss joining an exciting game: Bingo.
- Give each S a handout with a table of words.
Fan Vine Van First
View Funny Enough Stephen
Victory Fiction Leave Form
Photograph Film Violet of
- Ask Ss to listen to the words that T read and tick
into the words they hear.
- Give a present to the student who has 4 words in a
row that T reads before.
* Lead to the lesson: pronunciation of /f/ and /v/.
- Work individually.

- Look at carefully the handout and listen to T.
- Tick the word T read.
- Say “Bingo” when having 4 words in a row and
receive a present.
II. Practice:
Activity 1: (5 minutes)
- Distinguish the differences among 2 sounds.
/f/: voiceless sound, we put a sheet in front of our
mouth, when pronouncing /f/, the sheet will be
moved.
/v/: voiced sound, we put a sheet in front of our
mouth, when pronouncing /f/, the sheet will not be
moved.
- Ask Ss to look at the handout in warm-up activity
and distinguish which words belong to the sound /f/
and which belongs to the sound /v/
- Call some Ss to stand up and read aloud the
answers.
- Give feedbacks.
Activity 2: (5 minutes)
- Ask Ss to look at the text book, page 152.
- Have Ss work with their partner and practice to
read 6 sentences.
- Whole class.
- Listen to the T’s instruction.
- Try to distinguish 2 sounds.
- Look at the handout and try to distinguish which
belongs to /f/ and /v/.
- Some Ss stand up and pronounce aloud.
Suggested answer:

/f/ /v/
Funny
Enough
Fiction
Form
First
Photograph
Film
Fan
Vine
Van
View
Stephen
Victory
Leave
Violet
Of
- Work individually.
- Practice reading correctly all sentences in the
textbook.
- Underline the sound they have just learned and try to
1
- Get Ss underline the sound they have just learned
and try to pronounce them correctly.
- Call some Ss to stand up and read aloud.
- Correct some pronunciation mistake.
- Read aloud and ask Ss to repeat again
pronounce them correctly.
- Raise hand and read aloud.
- Repeat all sentences after T again.

B. Grammar:
I. Adjective of attitude:
Activities 1: (5 minutes)
- Give 2 sample sentences with 2 adjectives of
attitude.
Ex
1
: The book is very interesting.
I am interested in this book.
* Lead: Some verbs will become adjectives when we
add the suffix -ING or –ED in the end of these
words.
- Explain how to use adjective ending with –ING and
with –ED:
+ The -ING adjective tells you about something. It
refers an active meaning.
+ The -ED adjective tells you how somebody feels
about something. It refers a passive meaning.
Ex
2
: My job is boring. I always feel bored when I do
this work.
Activities 2: (5 minutes)
- Ask Ss to work in pairs and do quickly the Exercise
1 in the textbook but write 2 forms of adjective (-
ING and –ED).
- Call some Ss to read aloud and write the answer on
the board.
- Give feedback.
Activities 3: (5 minutes)

- Ask Ss to work in pairs and do quickly the
Exercise 2 in the textbook with 2 forms of adjective
(-ING and –ED).
- Call some Ss to read aloud the answer.
- Give feedback.
- Whole class.
- Listen to T’s explanation and write down in the
notebook.
- Give some other examples with Adjectives ending
with – ING and – ED.
- Work in pairs.
- Do quickly the Exercise 1 in the textbook but write 2
forms of adjective (-ING and –ED).
- Read aloud and write the answer on the board.
Suggested answers:
Verbs
Adjective (-ING) Adjective (-ED)
Fascinate Fascinating Fascinated
Excite Exciting Excited
Terrify Terrifying Terrified
Irritate Irritating Irritated
Horrify Horrifying Horrified
Bore Boring Bored
Surprise Surprising Surprised
Amuse Amusing Amused
Embarrass Embarrassing Embarrassed
Frustrate Frustrating Frustrated
- Work in pairs.
- Do quickly the Exercise 2 in the textbook.
- Read aloud the answer.

Suggested answers:
1. a) depressing b) depressed
2. a) interested b) interesting
3. a) boring b) bored
4. a) excited b) exciting
5. a) exhausting b) exhausted
II. It was not until … that …
Activities 1: (5 minutes)
- Give 2 sample sentences illustrating the structure:
Ex
1
: He didn’t smoke until 2010.
- Whole class.
- Listen to T’s explanation and write down in the
2


It was not until 2010 that he smoked.
Ex
2:
He didn’t smoke until he was 20.


It was not until he was 20 that he smoked.
- Give the forms of It is/was not until … that …
* It was not until +time in the past/ clause using Past
Tense + that …
- Ask Ss to write the examples and forms in the
notebook.
Activities 1: (5 minutes)

- Give each Ss a handout and ask them to work in
pairs, using the structure “It was not until … that …”
- Call some Ss to read aloud the answers.
- Give feedback.
Handout:
1. I didn't know she had been rich until she told me.
……………………………………………………
2. Peter hadn’t got married until He was 25.
………………………………………………………
3. Man didn't fly into space until the early 1960s
……………………………………………………
4. They couldn't go on working until the rain stopped
……………………………………………………
5. I shouldn’t go out until half past ten this morning.
…………………………………………….
6. I wouldn’t go out until I finished my homework.
……………………………………………………
notebook.
- Give other example to illustrate the structure.
- Work individually.
- Do quickly the handout.
- Raise hand and read aloud the answers.
Suggested answer:
1. It was not until she told me that I know she had been
rich.
2. It is not until he was 25 that he had got married.
3. It was not until the early 1960s that man flied into
space.
4. It was not until the rain stopped that they could go
on working.

5. It was not until half past ten last night that I should
go out.
6. It was not until I finished my homework that I would
go out.
III. Production: (5 minutes)
- Divide the class into 4 groups.
- Give some sentences with lack of that-clause.
Handout:
1. It was not until 2010 that ……………………………
2. It was not until he told me that ……………………
3. It was not until yesterday that………………………
- Ask each group to write the other half of a sentence
with the structure “It was not until + that-clause” on
the extra board.
- Glue the answers on the board.
- Give feedback.
- Work in groups.
- Each group does as what T says.
- Write the other half of sentences on the extra board.
- Glue the answer on the board.
- Write this exercise in the notebook.
Review and Homework:
- Distinguish the different among 2 sounds: /f/ and
/v/
+ Do again exercise 1 and 2 in the textbook, page
139, 140.
+ Prepare the next lesson: Unit 13 – Films and
Cinema – Language Focus – Period 2.
- Whole class.
- Listen and remember the review.

- Write down the homework into the notebook
- Do the homework at home.
- Prepare the new lesson.
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