Giáo án Tiếng Anh 10 Unit 3: People s background

Giáo án Tiếng Anh 10
UNIT 3: PEOPLE’S BACKGROUND
Period : 12+13
Date of
Class

LESSON 1 : READING
Students absence

Notes

teaching

10…
10…
10…

I. Objectives:
- Students know more about famous scientists especially about Marie Curie,
and admire her.
II. Language focus
1. Vocabulary: Words to describe people’s background and studying.
2. Grammar:
- The past perfect tense.
- Past perfect vs Past simple
III. Skills: - Reading: read the text and do Matching and True or False exercise
and answer the questions.
- Speaking: discuss in pairs and in groups.
IV. Teaching Aids: textbook, chalk, board.

V. Procedures:
Time

Teacher’s activities

Students’ activities

1. Warm-up: Network...
5’

+ Aims: to raise sts' interest in the
reading text.

- Work in groups

- Ask students to work in groups of 3-4
students .
- Ask the students to give a list of

- Some Students report orally.

famous scientists and their inventions.
- Move round to check the activity.
- Ask them to work in 4 minutes and
then get feedback. The group which
has the longest list will be the winner
2. Before you read:
- Aims; to introduce the content of the
text and provide sts with some new
12’

words.
- Students are required to work in pairs
to answer the following questions:
+ Have you ever heard of Marie
Curie?
+ What do you know about her?

- Discuss in pairs and then
answer the questions.
- Some sts stand up to answer.


- give the correct information.
- Read and write new words on the

- Listen to the teacher and Copy

board.

down

+ background (n): lai lịch
+ ease (v): làm dịu
+ mature (adj): full-grown
+ interrupt (v): Đứt quãng
+ humanitarian (adj): Nhân đạo
humane (adj): Nhân đức
+ tragic(adj): bi thương
+ ambitious(adj): tham vọng

+ atomic(adj): thuộc về nguyên tử
- Read each word 3 times and ask the
sts to repeat it.
- Leave sts 1 minute to self-practice.

- Repeat the words.
- Work in pairs to check for each
other.

- Ask 4-5 sts to read all the words
aloud in front of the class
- Listen and help the sts to read the
words correctly.
3. While you read:

- 1 student/ 1 time


- Aims: Sts practise reading and do the
tasks
+ Task 1: Matching.
- Ask the students to read the passage
independently and match the words or
25’

phrases in A with their meaning in B.

- Work individually.

- Tell sts to refer to Vocabulary for

help and encourage them try to guess
the meanings of the words in the
context of the reading.
- Ask them to compare the answers
with their friends.
- Call on some sts to read and explain

- Discuss in pairs to share their
ideas.

their answers aloud in front of the

-Listen and self-correct the

class.

exercise.

- Give feedback and correct answers:

- Copy down

+ Task 2: True or False.
- Ask the sts to read the passage more
carefully and decide whether the

* Key:
1.c

2. e

3. a

5. b

statements are true(T) or false(F).
Correct the false information.
- Ask the sts to highlight or underline
the information in the passage that

- listen to the teacher.
- Students do the work

4. d


helps the students to find the correct
answers.
- Move round to help sts if necessary,
then ask them to share their answers
with their partners.
- Ask some sts to give answers.
- Listen and help the students to do the
exercise correctly

individually.
- Discuss the answers with their
partners.
- some sts do orally while others
watch

+ Key:
1. T
2. F( Her dream was to become a
scientist)

+ Task 3: Answering questions.
- Ask students to work in pairs to
answer the questions.
- Tell the students to compare their
answers with other pairs. Let them
discuss and correct for one another.

3. T
4. F (She married Pierre Curie in
1895)
5. T
- Self-correct the work

- Call some pairs of students to read
aloud the questions and answers in
front of the class.
- Work in pairs orally
- Feedback and give correct answers.
- Share their ideas.
- 9-10 pairs work orally in front
of the class.


Key:
3’

1.Marie Curie was born in
Warsaw on November 7,1867
2.She was a brilliant and mature
students .
3. She work as a tutor to save
4. After you read:

1’

money for a study tour abroad.

- Aims: to check sts' understanding and 4.She was awarded a Nobel Prize
to summarize the text.
in Chemistry for determining the
* For advanced students doing at

atomic weight of radium.

home.

5. No it wasn’t. her real joy was

5. Homework:

“ easing human suffering

- Ask students to write a passage of
about 60 words about a famous sientist.

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UNIT 3: PEOPLE’S BACKGROUND
Period : 14

LESSON 2 : SPEAKING
Date of

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Notes

teaching

Class
10…
10…
10…

I.Objectives:
- Sts know how to interview a person and talk about a person's background.
II. Language focus
1. Vocabulary: Words to describe people’s background and studying.
2. Grammar:
- The past perfect tense.
- Past perfect vs Past simple
III. Skills:
- Speaking: - Asking about another person's background.
- Talking about a person's background basing on what they have

interviewed
IV. Teaching aids:
- board, chalk, textbook.


V. Procedures:
Time

Teacher’s activities

Students’ activities

2.Before you speak
10’

Aims: to guide sts how to do and
to provide them with needed
vocabulary and grammar.
+ Task 1:
- Ask sts to think about people's

- Think about people's background.

background, and then read the - Work in pairs to choose the
correct items.
cues in this task.
- Ask them to discuss in pairs to

+ family

choose which items to tell about

+ experience

+ education

someone's background.
- Work in pairs to discuss the
- Get feedback and give the correct questions.
answers.
- Some pairs stand up to give
- Ask sts to continue working in answers.
pairs to discuss what questions
they can ask when they want to
know about these things.
- Move round to conduct the
activity.
- Ask some pairs to give answers.

Family:
- How many people are there in
your family?
- What does your father/ mother
do?


Education:
- Where did you study at primary
school/ junior secondary school?
- Write the questions on the board

and give remarks.

- What subject do you like best?
- What degree do you have?
Experience:
- How long have you been a
member of our school's speaking
club?

3. While you speak:

- Have you ever won any prizes?

Aims: Sts can practise making an
interwiew and then talking about
the person they have interwiewed.
+ Task 2:
- Ask sts to imagine they are - Work in pairs to ask and answer.
journalists and ask them to work in
pairs to interview their partners
20’

- One pair stand up and report:

about his/her background or that of S1: Hello. Can you tell
something about yorself?
a person he/ she knows well.

me

- Ask them to follow the stages in S2: Oh, of course. What do you
want to know?
the textbook.
- Go around to suggest the S1: When and where were you


questions if necessary.

born?

- Ask one pair to report.

S2: I was born on September 11th,

- Give remarks so that other pairs
can correct their mistakes.

1991 in Hai Duong.
S1: How many people are there in
your family?
S2: There are four: my parents, my
sister and I.
S1: What do your parents do?

+ Task 3:

S2: my dad is a

doctor and my

- Ask sts to work in small groups mum is a nurse.
to talk about the person they have
...............................
learnt about from the interview.
- Ask them to work in 7 minutes.
- Move around to conduct the
activity.

- Discuss in groups using the
information they have got from the
interview.

4- After you speak:
Aims: Sts present what they have
discussed in the previous stage.
- Ask two sts to tell the whole
class

about

the

people

- Sample answer:

they " Quan's cousin, Minh, was born on

interviewed about.
- Listen to them attentively and

November 2nd, 1985 in Hai Duong
City. He is the only child in his
family. His father is an engineer


correct the mistakes.
- Give remarks on the whole
activity.

and his mother is a teacher. As a
brilliant student, he always got
good marks when he was a student
at To Hieu Primary School and
then at Le Quy Don Secondary
School. When he was fifteen , he
passed the exam to Nguyen Trai
High School. He said he liked all
subjects at school but among them
he liked English best. He has
attended

the

English

Speaking

Contest twice and won the fisrt
prize in 2003. At the moment he is

2’

studying at a university in Australia
and he is very successful..."

5- Homework:
- Write about the people they have
interviewed about.

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UNIT 3: PEOPLE’S BACKGROUND
Period : 15

LESSON 3 : LISTENING
Date of

Class

Students absence

Notes

teaching

10…
10…
10…

I. Objectives:
- Sts know about the background of a famous person
II. Language focus
1. Vocabulary: Words to describe people’s background and studying.
2. Grammar:
- The past perfect tense.
- Past perfect vs Past simple
III. Skills: Sts develop the following skills:
- Listening and marking True/False
- Listening and filling in gaps
- Asking and answering about sb’s background.
IV. Teaching aids:


- Handouts
V. Procedures:
Time

Teacher’s activities

Students’ activities

1. Homework checking:
5’

- Two sts tell the whole class about two - Two sts stand in front of the
people's background.

class to speak.

- Listen and give remarks and marks.
2. Before you listen:
10’

Aims: focus sts on the topic and review/
introduce the words and phrases used to
describe the background of a sports
star.
+ Ask sts to work in groups and make a
list of sports and the names of the sports - Work in groups and recall the
competitions, then compare their list names of sports and the names
with other groups’

of the sports competitions then
make a list on a sheet of paper
- Compare theirs notes.

- Introduce the topic of the listening - Listen to the T and open the
text: ‘A conversation between a reporter book
and an Olympic Champion’ and ask sts
to open their books.


T asks sts to work in pairs to ask and - Work in pairs.
answer the questions in the textbook

- Some pairs stand up and

Can you name any Olympic report.
champions?

S1: Can you name any Olympic

What would you like to know about champions?
these people?
- Move around to help sts.

S2: Tran Hieu Ngan, Sergey
Bubka…

- Ask some pairs to present and gives S3: What would you like to
remarks

know about these people?

- Ask sts to work in pairs and recall the S4: Date and place of birth,
forms of question used to get the study,

family,

achievements,

information.

hobbies…

- Ask some sts to speak aloud.

- Note down the forms of
questions:

When/where were you born?

+ Ask sts to look at the words in the
book and read after T / the tape.
- Introduce some new words
- Olympic champion (n): (in the
picture)
- di'ploma (n): sb receive this when
he finishes a course /graduates from

Where did you get a general
education?
What achievement have you
got?
What do you like doing in your
free time?
- Look at the words and read


college or university.

after T /the tape.

- ro'mantic (adj): Romeo and Juliet
is a romantic play.

- Copy the words and phrases.

- Read the words and ask sts to repeat.
- Ask sts to read the words in pairs.

3. While you listen:

- Listen and repeat.

+ Task 1:

- Read the words in pairs and

Aims: Practice listening for specific correct each other’s mistakes.
information by deciding whether

the

given statements are true or false.

- Some individuals read the
words aloud.

- Introduce the conversation between a
reporter and an Olympic champion then
ask sts to listen to the conversation and
tick on the box to indicate True or False
20’

statements.
- Ask sts to have a look at the statements
and read them in pairs and make sure
they understand the statements.
- Ask sts to listen to the tape/T and tick
the box to indicate if the statements are

true or false.
- Read/ play the tape twice.
- Work in pairs to read the


- Ask sts to compare their answer in statements.
pairs.
- Check sts’ answers.
- Read/play the tape once again, stop the
tape where necessary and conduct the

- Listen and do the task.

correction.
- discuss their answers in pairs.

+ Task 2:
-

Aims:

sts

listen

for

specific - Gives their answers:

information to fill in the blanks.

1T; 2T; 3F; 4T; 5F.

- Ask sts to listen to the conversation - Say their answers aloud, and
again and fill in the gaps with the then correct their work if they
suitable words/ phrases.

have the wrong answer.

- Read the conversation twice.
- Ask sts to compare their answer in
pairs.
- Check sts’ answers.
- Listen to the tape / the teacher
- Read/play the tape once again, stop the and do the task
tape where necessary and conduct the
- compare their answers.
correction.
8’

- Give their answers.
1. a general education
stories

4. love


4. After you listen:

2. lives; family

- Aims: to check sts'comprehension in
the previous stage.

5.

teacher's diploma
3. different; swimming

- Ask sts to work in pairs and use the - Check their answers, and then
information in Task 1 and 2 to ask and correct their work if they have
answer about the Olympic champion.

the wrong answers.

- Move round to check the activities and
to make sure that sts are working
effectively.
- Check and give remarks.
- T can ask sts to ask and answer about
2’

- Ask and answer in pairs.

the sports star(s) they like
5. Homework:
- Write a short paragraph about the
Olympic champion .

- One/ two sts present.

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UNIT 3: PEOPLE’S BACKGROUND
Period : 16

LESSON 4 : WRITING
Date of

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Notes


Class

teaching

10…
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10…

I. Objectives:
- Students can write a simple C. V( curriculum vitae)
- They can write about a person's background basing on a C. V
II. Language focus
1. Vocabulary: Words to describe people’s background and studying.
2. Grammar:
- The past perfect tense.
- Past perfect vs Past simple
III. Skills: - Reading: read a model curriculum vitae.

- Speaking: discuss in pairs.
- Writing: fill in a curriculum, write about a person's background.
IV. Teaching Aids: - board, textbook, chalk.
V. Procedures:
Time

Teacher's activities
1. Homework checking:

Students' activities


5’

- Aks one st to talk about Sally in
front of the whole class.
- Give remarks and a mark.

- One st speaks.
- Others listen to their friend.
- Give remarks.

2. Before you write:
20’

- Aims: to focus sts on the topic and
to introduce the structure of a simple
C.V, to guide sts to fill in the C.V.
+ Task 1:
- Ask sts to look at the C.V in the

textbook and introduce some new

- look at the C.V.

words:
+ C.V( curriculum vitae) : a form
with details about somebody's past
education and jobs.
+ tourist guide (n): a person who
goes with tourists to point out
interesting sights on a journey.
+ hotel telephonist (n): a person who
answers the phone in a hotel.
+ travel agency ( n) : a business of
organising travelling for people.
- Read these words aloud and ask sts

- Copy these words into their
notebooks.


to listen and repeat.
- Ask some sts to read again and

- Listen to the teacher and read
these words again.

check.
- Ask sts to read the model C.V in

- Read the C.V in the textbook

the textbook about Mr. Brown and

and answer T's questions.

then answer the questions:

S1: His full name is David

T: What is his full name?

Brown.

T: When and where was he born?

S2: He was born on November
12th, 1969 in Boston.

T: What school did he attend?
T: What exams did he pass?

S3: He attended Kensington High
School.
S4; He passed exams in English,
French and Mathematics.

T: What did he do before?

S5: He was a tourist guide and a

hotel telephonist.

- Ask sts another question:
" What kind of information do you
find in the C.V?"

- Discuss the question in pairs

- Ask sts to discuss this question in

then one of them will answer.

pairs then ask one st to answer.

S: We can find some information

- Give remarks.

such as his name, his date of
birth and his place of birth, his


education and his previous jobs,
- Introduce the elements of a C.V:

etc.

+Personal information: name, sex,
date of birth, place of birth.
+ Education : name of a high

- Copy this part into their
notebooks.

school/ a university...
+ Previous jobs: teacher/ tourist
guide/ etc. ( time)
+ Interest: dancing/ swimming/ etc.
+ Task 2:
- Ask sts to read the incomplete form
in the book.
- Ask them to work in pairs in 5
minutes to ask and answer about

- Read the form .
- Work in pairs to ask and
answer.

their partner's father/ mother then

- Complete the form with suitable

complete the form with suitable

information.

information.
- Move round to conduct the activity
and to help if necessary.
- Ask some sts to read aloud the

information they have collected and
ask some other sts to give remarks.

- Some sts stand up and read
aloud, other sts listen and give


- Check and give remarks.

remarks.

3. While you write:
- Aims: Sts practise writing about a
person's background using the
information in a C.V and the cues in
the textbook.
- Ask sts to look at Task 1 again.
- Ask them to work independently
and write a paragraph about Mr.

- Read Mr. Brown's C.V again.

Brown ,using the suggested words
and phrases.
10’

- Use the suggested words/
phrases to write a paragraph

- Ask sts to use the past simple to

about Mr. Brown.

write.
- Move around to help if necessary.
8’

- Ask sts to write in about 9 minutes,
then compare their paragraph with
their partners'.

- Share their paragraph with their
friends'.

4. After you write:
- Get feedback by asking some sts to
read their work aloud.
- Ask some other sts to give remarks.
- Check and give the correct answer.

- Some sts stand up and read their
work aloud.
- Other sts give remarks.


" Mr. Brown was born on
November 12th, 1969 in Boston.
He went to Kensington High
2’

School and passed examed in
English, French and
Mathematics. He worked as a
tourist guide in a travel agency
5. Homework:
- Because time is not allowed, the
writing activity in Task 3 will be
assigned as homework.

VI-EXPERIENCES:

from June 1991 to December
1998. And from 1999 to 2002 , he
worked as a hotel telephonist. He
likes music and dancing."


UNIT 3: PEOPLE’S BACKGROUND
Period : 17

LESSON 5 : LANGUAGE FOCUS

Date of
Class

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Notes

teaching

10…
10…
10…

I. Objectives:
- Students can distinguish the sound / e / from the sound / æ / and pronounce
them correctly.
- Students revise the past perfect and distinguish it from the past simple.
II. Language focus
1. Vocabulary: Words to describe people’s background and studying.
2. Grammar:
- The past perfect tense.
- Past perfect vs Past simple
III. Skills: + Pronounciation: - Work in pairs to discuss the exercises.
- Read words and sentences aloud.


+Grammar- Read the passages and sentences silently to do the
exercises.
IV. Teaching aids: - board, chalk, textbook.
V. Procedures:
Time

Teacher's activities

Students' activities

1. Homework checking:
5’

- Ask one st to read aloud the paragraph

- One st read his/ her paragraph

that he/she wrote about his/ her

aloud.

partner's parent.
- Listen to him/her.
- Ask one st to give remarks.
- check and give a mark.

- Listen to their friends.
- Give remarks.
- Listen to the teacher.

2. Pronunciation:
- Aims: to introduce two sounds /e/
10’

and /æ/ and help sts to practise these
sounds.
a. Write two sounds on the board and

- Write down two sounds.

pronounce them clearly twice, then ask
sts to repeat.

- Listen to the teacher and
- Tell sts the difference between two

repeat.

sounds.
- Look at the book , listen and
- Ask them to look at the textbook, listen