Unit 11: National Park

Name: Lê Hải Yến
Group: 04.1.E14
L e s s o n P l a n
Unit 11: National Park
Period 4: Writing
1. Class description: 29 students, 7 boys and 22 girls in grade 10E, Lomonosov
private school.
2. Time: 45 minutes.
3. Objectives:
After the lesson, students will be able to write letters of acceptance and refusal.
4. Assumed knowledge: Students have already known how to write an invitation
letter.
5. Anticipated problems:
- Ss may not be familiar with expressions used in acceptance and refusal letter, so
teacher should teach them.
- There may be time left, so the teacher should prepare an extra activity.
6. Teaching aids: textbook, handouts, board.
7. Procedure.
Time Teacher Students
6’ 7.1 Pre-stage
- Prepares 3 similar sets of statements which are some
common way of inviting, accepting and refusing.
- Divides the class into 3 groups of 9 or 10.
- Gives each group a set of statements and asks them to put
the statements into the correct column.
- Calls on representative of each group go to board and write
down their answers. (Each group in charge of one column).
Suggested answers:
-Close their
textbooks
- Listen to T.

- Work group
- Give the
answers to T
1. Inviting: A, B, H
2. Accepting: C, E, G, H.
3. Refusing: D, F, I
4’
5’
7.2 While –stage
a. Activity 1 : Filling in the blank ( Task 1, page 117, textbook)
Instruction: You are going to complete the letters on page 117
by filling each blank with one of the ways to accept or refuse
an invitation provided in the table.
- Before Ss do the task, ask Ss to read through the expressions
in the table to understand them.
- Asks Ss to do the task in pairs and reminds them that for each
blank they can have more than one answer.
- Calls on some Ss to go and write their answer on the board.
- Calls for peer correction and gives T’s feedback.
Suggested answers:
1. That’s a great idea! / I’d like to/ I’d love to.
2. I’m afraid I can’t come because... / I’m sorry I can’t come
because...
3. I’d be delighted to.
b. Discuss the features of a letter of acceptance or refusal.
-Analysis 3 letters in the text book to help Ss know how to
write acceptance or refusal letter:
+ Firstly, Ss should thank the addressees for his/ her invitation.
+ Use one of the ways of accepting or refusing to reply
invitation letter. If Ss refuse, they should remember to give

reason for turning down the invitation; and an alternative date
or activity is often suggested.
- Listen to T
- Pair work
-Whole
class.
- Listen to T
5’
5’
10’
c. Activity 2: Ordering (Task 2, page 118, textbook)
Instruction: You are required to arrange the sentences in the
correct order to make a letter of accepting an invitation to
spend a weekend in the country.
- Asks Ss to do the task individually and exchange their answer
with another student when they have finished.
- Calls on a student to read the letter out loud and asks other Ss
to listen and give feedback.
- Comments and gives the correct order:
1d 2e 3c 4a 5f 6b
d. Activity 3: Rearranging 2 letters. (Handout)
- Ask Ss to work in pair and rearrange jumbled sentence to
make two complete letters.
- Calls on 2 students to write their answers on the board.
- Comments and gives the correct order:
Accepting: 1c, 2g, 3b, 4i, 5e/ 1c, 2g, 3b, 4e, 5i.
Refusing: 6j, 7a, 8h, 9d, 10f
e. Activity 4: Writing a letter of acceptance or refusal. (Task 3,
page 118, textbook).
Instruction: One of your friends has invited you to go for a

picnic to Cuc Phuonng National Park next weekend. Write a
reply letter or declining his/ her invitation.
- Ask Ss to write the letter individually.
- Reminds them to pay attention to all the features of this type
of letter.
- While Ss write the letter, T goes around to observe and
provides help.
f. Feedback on Ss’ writings.
- Individual
and pair work
- Pair work
- Individual
work.
7’
- Ask Ss to exchange their letter with another student for peer
correction.
- Goes around and collects mistakes and errors.
- Collects some writings for quick feedback.
- Write Ss’ typical errors on the board and elicits self and peer
correction. T provides correction only when Ss are not able to
correct the errors.
- Pair work
and whole
class
3’
7.3 Post – stage:
- Summarizes the main point.
- Homework: asks Ss to write a letter of acceptance or refusal
(if they have written a letter of acceptance in class, at home
they will write letter of refusal and vice versa)

Whole class
8. Evaluation.
Below are some common ways of inviting, accepting and refusing. Read them and put
them into the correct column.
A. Are you free to…….?
I. I’d love to,
but….
F. I’m sorry I can’t
come
because………..
B. Do you fancy joining us ?…
C. Yes, I’d love to.
D. I’m afraid I can’t
come because………..
E. Yes, that’s a
great idea.
G. Yes, I’d
be delighted
to.
H. Would you like to go
to……?
J. Yes, I’d like to.
Inviting Accepting Refusing
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