Giáo án Tiếng Anh 10 Unit 3: People s background

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Part A: READING (TCT-12)

• Aims
To give sts more practice in reading about certain topics.
• Objectives
- To train students to guess meaning of new words in context, to look for
specific details and to get the whole idea of a passage.
• Methods and materials
Integrated, mainly communicative skills. Textbook (pictures).
• Anticipated problems
• Procedures
Time
Teacher’s activities - Stages
3’

Sts’ activities - possible answer

Warm up
T asks sts the questions in textbook:

Sts answer the question.

1. Can you name some scientists and (answer may vary)
their specializations?
2. Have you ever heard of Marie
Curie?
3. What do you know about her?
7’

Presentation
T presents sts with some new words.
- be born: (example - guessing)
- science - scientific - scientist
- mature (adj) (translation)
-

(im)possible

(adj)

(situation


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guessing)
- interrupt (v) (translation)
- realize a dream (translation)
- degree (n) (situation, guessing)
- die - dead - death (translation)
- take up (translation)
- determine (v) (translation)
- ease (v) (translation) - easy (adj)
- make O Inf (translation)
Practice
5’

5’

T asks sts to read the passage and do

the task.
* Task 1: Matching
T asks sts to match new words with
their meanings.
* Task 2: True / False

5’

T asks sts to tick t or F (why?)

Sts do the task.
1. c

3. a

2. e

4. d

5. b

Sts do the task
1. T
2. F (Her dream was to become a
scientist.)
3. T
4. F (She married PC in 1895.)
5. T

* Task 3: Answering questions.

Sts do the task.


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10’

T asks sts to answer the questions.

1. She was born in Warsaw on
November 7th, 1867.
2. She’s brilliant & mature student.
3. She worked as a private tutor to
save money for a study tour abroad.
4. She was awarded a Nobel prize in
Chemistry for determining the
atomic weight of radium.
5. No, it wasn’t. Her real joy was
“easing human suffering”.

10’

Consolidation
T asks sts to work in groups finding
proofs for her 5 characteristics:
strong willed, intelligent, ambitious,
hard-working, humane.

Part B: SPEAKING (TCT-13)

• Aims
To supply sts with practice in asking and answering about people’s
background..
• Objectives
- To help students know the way to ask for and give information of background
as in a role play.
• Methods and materials
Integrated, mainly communicative skills. Textbook.


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• Anticipated problems
• Procedures
Time
Teacher’s activities - Stages
3’

Sts’ activities - possible answer

Warm up
T asks sts what is mentioned in the Sts look through the passage and
background of Marie Curie.
answer.
- date and place of birth
- education, work
- prize, live
- family...
Presentation

7’

* Task 1:
T asks sts to work in pairs deciding Sts, in pair, do the task.
which items are about people’s
- family, education, appearance
background.
T supplies more of the things sts can
talk about for a background.
Practice

15’

* Task 2: Role play
T asks to make up questions and
answers according to the cues to get
their friends’ background.
- Greeting:
morning..

Hello,

Hi,

- Date/ place of birth:
when/ where were you born?

Good

Sts work in pairs, take turns to be the
interview.

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- Home/ address: where do you live?
- Parents/ brother(s)/ sister(s):
How many ... you have?
What does she/ he do?
- Primary/ secondary school?
What ... did you go to?
- School work/ favourite subjects
Are you good/ bad ...at...?
What do you like (best)?
.........
(T elicits the questions from the sts
and then lets them practice in pairs)
15’

* Task3: Reporting

Sts talk about their partners.

T asks sts to report about their
partner in the form of simple
sentences.
5’

Consolidation
T goes over the topics/ cues that can
be used in a background.

Part C: LISTENING (TCT-14)


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• Aims
To help sts practice listening more about people’s background.
• Objectives
- To help students get needed information and details from a conversation
through True/ False deciding and gap filling.
• Methods and materials
Integrated, mainly communicative skills. Cassette player.
• Anticipated problems
• Procedures
Time
Teacher’s activities - Stages
5’

Sts’ activities - possible answer

Warm up
T asks sts to work in pairs answer Sts answer questions in pairs.
questions in textbook.
1. Can you name some Olympic
champions?
2. What would you like to know
about these people?

3’

Presentation

T lets students listen and repeat Sts listen and repeat
words and expressions from the
conversation.
- Olympic champion
- sport teacher
- teacher’s diploma
- love story - romantic
Practice

12’

* Task 1: True or False

Sts listen and do the task.


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1. In 1995, Sally joined the SSC.

1. T

2. There are 5 people in her family.

2. T

3. She has a lot of free time.

3. F (I don’t have much free time)

4. She likes not only sports but also 4. T

reading.
5. F (I want to be a sport teacher)
5. She wants to be a writer.
10’

* Task 2: Gap filling.

Sts do the task.

T asks sts listen to the conversation
1. a general education.
again to fill in the blanks.
2. lives - family
3. different - swimming
4. love stories
5. teacher’s diploma
13’

After you listen
T asks sts to work in pairs asking Sts ask and answer using cues.
and answering questions about Sally
(students’ questions and answers
according to the cues:
may vary)
-Place of birth
-General education
-Time joining the club
-Home (address)
-Family
-Hobby

-Future


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2’

Consolidation
T goes over the things they can
collect from the conversation.

Part D: WRITING (TCT-15)

• Aims
To help sts write about people’s background.
• Objectives
- To help students know things written in a curriculum vitae and how to write a
paragraph from a CV.
• Methods and materials
Integrated, mainly communicative skills. Textbook.
• Anticipated problems
• Procedures
Time
Teacher’s activities - Stages
3’

Sts’ activities - possible answer

Warm up
T asks sts some questions:

Sts answer the questions.

- What is a curriculum vitae?
- Have you ever written one?
2’

Presentation
T explains some new words:
- attend (v) (translation)
- pass (v) (situation, translation)

Sts write down the words and
expressions.


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- previous (adj) (translation)
- as (prep) (translation)
- travel agency (translation)
Practice
15’

* Task 1: Paragraph writing
T asks sts to read the CV and write a
paragraph about Mr Brown with
cues.

15’

Sts read the CV and write a

paragraph
Sample Paragraph
Mr Brown was born on ... in ... He
went to ... school and passed exams
in ... He worked as a ... from ... to ...
And from ... to ... he was a ... He
likes ...

* Task 2: Filling in a form
T asks sts to fill in the form in pairs Sts ask and answer questions to fill
in the form.
using questions.
What’s your name?
When/ where were you born?
What school did you go to?
What exams did you pass?
What job did you do?
What do you like?

13’

* Task 3:
Write a paragraph about someone Sts write a paragraph about a person.
else.
T asks sts to ask and answer the


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above questions about a person one
know well.

2’

Consolidation
T goes over the form of a CV and
questions used for writing a
paragraph accompanying a CV.

Part E: LANGUAGE FOCUS (TCT-16)

• Aims
To help sts consolidate the tense used in writing a background or paragraph
accompanying a CV and some phonetic points.
• Objectives
- To help students distinguish /e/ and /%/ and consolidate the Past simple tense
and Past perfect tense.
• Methods and materials
Integrated, mainly communicative skills. Textbook.
• Anticipated problems
• Procedures
Time
Teacher’s activities - Stages
3’

Sts’ activities - possible answer

Warm up
T asks sts a question:
Are you a bad man or bed man?
Then distinguish ‘man’ and ‘men’
Pronunciation

Sts listen and distinguish.


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2’

Presentation: /e/ and /%/
T tells sts the difference between /e/
and /%/ through ‘men’ and ‘man’
then lets sts practice the 2 sound in
examples.

Sts pronounce the examples
bed - bad
said - sad
met - mat
send - sand

Practice
5’

pen - pan

T asks sts to pronounce the sentences
and say where /e/ and /%/ are.

Sts pronounce the sentences and
underline /e/ and /%/.

Grammar
10’

Presentation
T explains the form and usage of Past
Perfect.
Form: had + Past Participle
Usage:
An action that finishes before a
Sts give some situations where the
point of time in the past.
PP tense can be used in Vietnamese.
Practice
* Exercise 1: Past Perfect form.

10’

T explains more about why PP tense
is used in the sentences.

Sts do the exercise.
1. had broken

6. had been

2. had done

7. had left

3. had met

8. had moved

4. hadn’t turned 9. hadn’t seen
off


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* Exercise 2:
7’

5. had seen

Past perfect vs. Past simple tense

10. had broken
in

T explains why Past Perfect or Past
1. had just finished - came
Simple is used.
2. had seldom traveled - went
3. went - had already taken

8’

* Exercise 3:

4. managed - had gone - got

Correcting mistakes.

5. had just got - phoned - had been
had climbed  climbed
had turned  turned
had called  called
had heard  heard
already went  had already gone

Consolidation
T goes over /e/ and /%/ and Past
Perfect tense.