Unit 12 Music

LESSON PLAN
Date of planning: March 8
th
, 2008 Guiding teacher: Do Thi Thien Huong
Date of delivery: March 12
th
, 2008 Student teacher: Nguyen Thi Thu Nhan
Unit 12: MUSIC
Lesson 1: READING
I. Objectives
1. Educational Aims: music makes humans different from the other animals and
makes our life more beautiful and diverse
2. Knowledge:
a. General Knowledge: helps Ss recognize the importance of music in our life and the
kinds of music
b. Language: vocabulary about music field: to express: feeling, anger, to convey,
occasion, to set, sense, emotion, joyfulness, atmosphere, to imagine
3. Skills:
- Vocabulary comprehension: gap-fill
- Passage comprehension
II. Method: communicative approach
III. Teaching Aids: extra boards, pictures, handouts, textbooks
IV. Procedures
Time Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
7’
8’
1. Warm up
- T passes out handouts, whose content is the
lyric of a song, with some dropping words to
each of the student
- T asks Ss to work individually to choose from a

word box a suitable word to fill in each blank
- T has Ss listen to the song and check out the
answers
- T asks Ss to share the answers to each other
- T checks the answers. The student who get all
the right answers will get a ‘+’ mark
2. Pre-reading
Instruction: Who can tell me what topic we are going
to learn in Unit 12? That is “music”.
- T asks Ss to give the equivalents of the types of
music.
Instruction: Look at the pictures in the book. What
kinds of music are they playing?
- T asks Ss to work in pairs to match each type of
music in column A with its description in
column B
- T asks some Ss to give the answers
- T checks the answers and write down on the
board
Instruction: Can you tell me some more kinds of
- Use the given words to fill in the
blanks
- Listen to the song and check out their
answers
- Share the answers
- Give the equivalents of the types of
music in the book
- Look at the pictures in the book and
answers the questions
- Expected answers: they are playing

folk music, rock music and classical
music
- Work in pairs and match types of
music with their descriptions
- Suggested answers:
1. B 2. E 3. D 4. A 5. C
7’
8’
music?
Vocabulary (on handouts):
1. express (v): to convey, to reveal
c. funeral (n): the religious ceremony of
burying or burning a dead person
d. solemn (adj): serious, formal
e. lull (v): make people feel sleepy by sing
songs
f. sense (n): body’s organ receive outside
action
g. emotion (n): feeling
h. integral part (exp.):
important portion
i. mournful (adj): sorrowful for the
death of someone
j. delight (v): give great pleasure to
someone
3. While reading
Instruction: You are going to read a passage about
music. While you are reading, do the tasks in the book.
Task 1.
- T asks Ss to read the sentences in task 1 and tell

what the part of speech of each blank is. T
writes the answers on the board
Instruction: Now class, work in pairs, read the
passage in the book quickly, then complete the
sentences in task 1 with the words or phrases in the
box. You should stop at the lines that contain these
words to guess their meanings.
- T goes around for help if necessary.
- T calls on some Ss to answer. Asks them why
they choose the word.
Task 2:
Instruction: You are to quickly read the passage
again and answer the questions in the book.
- some strategies to do the task:
• read through the question quickly
• underline the key words
• find the position of the key words in the
passage
• read carefully to find the answer
- T asks Ss to work in pairs to do the task
- T calls on some Ss to write their answer on the
board
- T checks the answers, and ask them how they
find the answer
- Take notes
- Read sentences
- Identify the part of speech of each
blank
- Work in pairs and read the passage
quickly

- Fill in the blanks
- Expected answers:
1. Communicate
2. Lull
3. Delight
4. Integral part
5. Solemn
6. Emotion
7. Mournful
- Work in pairs, read and answer the
questions
- Suggested answers:
1. Language and music
2. Because it can express ideas,
thoughts and feelings
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6’
2’
4. Post-reading
- T asks Ss to work in groups of 4 to discuss the
questions in the book and write their answers
on a piece of paper
- T goes around to help
- When they have finished, asks every two
groups to exchange their ideas
- T calls on some groups to report their ideas to
class
- T gives feedback to the answers
5. More exercise
• GAME: BINGO

- T asks Ss to draw a nine-square box and use the
vocabulary on the board to fill in the squares
- Explain the game: I will read the words one by
one. Who get three words in a row is the
winner
- Vocabulary:
1. hip hop
2. rap music
3. blue music
4. world music
5. country music
6. pop music
7. dance music
8. R & B music (Rhythm and Blues)
9. soul music
10. disco music
6. Homework
- Learn by heart all the new words
- Find the information about a singer that they
love
3. It adds joyfulness to the atmosphere
of a festival and makes a funeral
more solemn and mournful
4. It makes people happy and excited. It
delights the senses
5. Because it is a billion-dollar industry
- Work in groups, discuss the questions
and answer
- Suggested answers:
1. There are 5 roles:

+ making humans different from all
other animals
+ communicating
+ setting the tone for almost important
events and special occasions
+ entertaining
+ being a big business
2. Depending on Ss’ answers
- Draw a nine-square box
- Fill in the squares with given words
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