Giáo án Tiếng Anh 11 Unit 5: Illiteracy

Giáo án Tiếng Anh 11
Unit 5: ILLITERACY
Part 1: Reading
I/ Objectives:
- Help sts understand the fight against illiteracy
II/ Methods:
- Communicative approach
III/ Teaching aids:
- Chalk, textbook, handout, pictures,
IV/ Procedures:
Stages

Teacher’s activities

Pre-

Warm- up:

reading

-T asks sts to look at the picture
-T asks sts to answer the questions:
1. Where do you think the class is?
2. What do you think of the people in
the class? Are they at the same age?
3. What do you think of the teacher?
4. What is this class different from the

Students’ activities

-Sts answer the questions

chorally


class?
While - - T reads the reading text first
reading

-Sts read the text silently

- T explains the new words to help the
sts understand the text
New words:
illiteracy (n)
 to illiterate
campaign (n)
ethnic (a)
to eradicate
Task 1:
- T asks sts to read the text to find the
Vietnamese equivalent to the

- Sts do the task

following expressions.
Keys:
1. Phổ cập giáo dục tiểu
hoc
2. Hội khuyến học VN
3. Xóa mù chữ
4. Kó thuật canh tác

Task 2:

5. Keá hoaïch hoùa gia ñình

-T asks sts to read the text again to do
text 2

- Sts work in pair
Keys: D

Task 3:
-T asks sts to answer the following
sentences:
- T corrects them

-Sts answer the questions

Keys:
94% of the population
The campaign for illiteracy
eradication
600 students in 2000 and 800
students in 2001
They willingly/ voluntarily
spent their vacations
teaching ethnic minority
illiterate people to read and
write

illiteracy will soon be
eradicated


Post-

-T asks sts to answer the following

reading questions
1. Are there any illiterate people in
your neighborhood?
2. What do you think we should do to
help them read and write?
 Homework
- T asks sts to learn by heart the new
words
- T asks sts to prepare part 2: speaking

-Sts work in groups to
answer the question.


Unit 5: ILLITERACY
Part B: SPEAKING
1. Aim : Students can tell us about literacy problems and offer solutions.
2. Times : 45 minutes
3. Teaching aids : Textbook E11 , pictures, blackboard , charts
4. Procedures :

Stages

Time

Teacher’s activities

Students’ activities

Warm-up

3ms

 Teacher asks students

 Students listen to the

some questions.

teacher and answer the
questions.

1. How many students are
there in a common class in

1.Over 45sts in a class

Vietnam ?
2. How many students are
there in your class ?

2. 45sts

3. Do you find it difficult to

Prespeaking

invest your study in such a

3. Students’answers may

crowded class ?

vary .

12ms  Today we will discuss
some problems that many
schools are facing and the
solutions for these.

 Some of these problems
Task 1

are listed in column A ,
please combine each
problem in A with its
appropriate solution(s) in
column B in textbook
(page59) .

 Teacher has students sit

 Students sit in groups.

in pairs and asks them to do  Students do the task
task 1.

individually, then in pairs



Unit 5: ILLITERACY
Part C: Listening
* Objectives :
Aim: Listening to pieces of the reading to get information to make a survey in
English
Lexical items: Introducing some words / phrases that make up a survey
Teaching Aids: cassette, pictures, a message from a survey……………….
Skill: Listening for gist and for special information
* Method: Integrated, mainly communicative
* Procedure :
Teacher’s Activities

Students’
Activities

* Prelistening
(5
minutes )

. Warm –up

- T shows a letter with a survey on it

- Listen and answer
the questions

- T asks guiding questions:
1. What do people do a survey for?
2. Have you ever done a survey?

- Yes / No

3. Do you know where Perth is?
- T introduces some new words / explains

- Write down


them:
. effective ( a )
. maturity ( n )
» mature ( a )
» maturely ( adv )
. performance ( n )
. self- respect ( n )
. academic ( a )
. Perth ( n ) : Western of Australia
- T leads ss to read the new words

* Whilelistening
( 26

minutes )

. Task 1 / 60

- Listen and repeat

- T leads ss to do Task 1
- Asks them to read it carefully ( they can
guess to choose a, b, c, d )

- Listen
- Read Task 1

- T has ss listen the reading 2 times
- T asks some ss to read their answers

- Listen and do

- T plays the cassette again

Task 1

- T gives correct answers:

- A, B , C read


1. D / 2. B / 3. B / 4. B
- Correct
. Task 2 / 6`1

- T asks ss to read the questions carefully
- T plays the tape 2 times
- T asks 2 ss to read their answers

- Read

- T checks again and gives correct answers - Listen
1. It took place in Perth
2. 80 percent of the students

- Correct

3. They felt that they should be allowed to
give some input into school decision
making
* Postlistening
( 12
minutes )

- T ask ss to discus 2 questions
( textbook )
- T goes around and provides some new

- Discus

words if necessary

- A / B read

- T calls 2 ss to read their answers in front

of the class
* Homework ( 2 minutes )
Unit 5: ILLITERACY
D. WRITING


I .Objective:
Helping students to write a paragraph about literacy rates in Sunshine country from
1998-2007
II. Teaching aids: textbook, chalk, table
III. Procedure:
STAGES
Prewriting

TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES

STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES

a. Warm-up(3’)
Ask students some questions about

Pair work

(il)literacy.
What’s the rate of literacy in Vietnam
now?
Are there any illiterate people in your
neighborhood?
What should we do to help them?
What will happen if more and more

people become illiterate?
b. TASK 1(5’)

Listen carefully

- Explain some difficult words:

Take note

to decline: to decrease
dramatic(a): unexpected


dramatically(adv)
steady(a): developing gradually

Individual work

steadily(adv)
sharp(a): not gradual
sharply(adv)
Have the class read the instruction and
do Task 1
- Give the answer key

Suggested answers
varied
rise
declined
different

went up

TASK 2( 25’)
While
writing

Ask students to read the information in
the table.
Give instructions for Task 2
Ask students to work in groups to
describe the information in the table by
using Useful language.
Go around the class and help students
if necessary.

dramatically
Group work.


Ask some students to write some
paragraph on the board to correct
them.
Post
writing

Give feedback.
10’
Ask students to write a paragraph of
about 100 words, describing the
literacy rates in Vietnam.

IV. HOMEWORK(2’)
Prepare Part E – Language Focus
Pronunciation
Grammar

Group


Unit 5: ILLITERACY
E. LANGUAGE FOCUS
I. Aims:
1. Pronunciation: Students can pronounce /pl/, /bl/, /pr/ and /br/ in words and
sentences correctly.
2. Grammar: Students will be able to report some special sayings such as
invitations, requests, advice,… using infinitives.
III. Teaching aids: Textbook, Cassette player and Tape, Handout.
IV. Procedure:
Stages

Teacher’s activities

A.

-Ask students to listen to the

Pronunciation

tape once to help them
distinguish the sounds.

- Instruct the way to
pronounce:
+ /pl/, /pr/ : Close your lips
hard, push air forward in your
mouth. Then open your lips
quickly.
+ /bl/, /br/: Close your lips
hard, push air forward in your
mouth. Then use your voice to
make /b/.

Content


-Ask them to listen to the tape
and repeat in chorus.
-Call some students to repeat
the words clearly.
-Ask students to work in pairs
and practise the sentences.
-Introduce peer correction.

B. Grammar
-Review the meanings of some
1.Presentation: verbs that are usually used in
this kind of reported speech:
Review:
promise + to V: tell s.b that
you’ll definitely do or not do
s.th

advise + O + to V: tell s.b what
they should do
encourage + O + to V: persuade
s.b to do s.th that you think is
good


remind + O + to V: ask s.b to
remember (or not to forget) to
do s.th
-Ask them to pay attention to
the special case:

warn + O + to V: tell s.b to do
or not to do s.th in order to
avoid danger

The special case:
S+V+O: “If I were you, I
would +V’…”
S+V+O: “Why don’t you +
2.Practice:

V’…?”
-Ask students to work
individually and complete the

a. Exercise 1:

S+V+O: “You’d better +V’…”

second sentence so that it has a  S+ advise + O+ to V’…
similar meaning to the first one
using the words given.
-Ask them to compare the
answers with a friend.
-Call some students to go to

Key:
They promised to come back
again.

the BB and write their answers The lifeguard advised us not to
down.

swim too far from the shore.

-Correct the answers.

John asked Peter to close the


window.
The teacher encouraged Eric to
join the football team.
John promised to give it to him
the next day.
b. Exercise 2:

(Make the same steps)

My mum wanted Lan to
become a doctor.
My sister reminded me to lock
the door before going to school.
His boss advised him to go
home and rest for a while.
Suggested answers:
He advised me not to drink too
much beer.
She invited me to come and see

-Ask them to do some more
exercises (Handout).
3.Homework:

her whenever I wanted.
John asked me not to smoke in
his car.
He told Sue to give him her
phone number.
He reminded me to give the
book back to Joe.


He promised not to do it again.
He agreed to wait for me.
John asked her to lend him
some money.