Unit12. Reading

Lesson plan
Unit 12: MUSIC
READING
Week: Period:
Time: 45 minutes
1. Objectives: - help students know clearly roles of music in our life
- help students train reading skills
2. Teaching aids: pictures, black board, posters.
3. Procedure:
Time Contents Teachers’ activities Students’ activities
I. WARM-UP
5ms Shows pictures and asks sts to match type of music
with the suitable picture
Look at the pictures and match
Pop music
Rock ‘n’ roll
Folk music
Classical music
T: do you often enjoy music?
What for?
Write on the board what sts answer.
- To know clearly roles of music, we study unit 12.
Sts: Yes/ no
Sts: Relax
II. PRE-WRITING
10 ms Vocabulary:
sadness happiness anger
Emotion (n) : feelings, senses
Integral (adj): important
Show pictures
- What we call these?

- What is synonym?
Reads aloud and writes on the board
We can’t live without water.
Water is _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ to life.
T: Synonym of important?
T: Integral
Reads aloud and asks sts repeat.
T: what is this?
T: when can we see it?
T: “đám tang” in English?
T: a funeral
Reads and asks sts to repeat
Sts: Emotion/ cam xuc
Sts: Feelings
Repeat
Sts: Important
Repeat
Sts: cái hòm
Sts: đám tang
Repeat
Jazz
A funeral (n): đám tang
Mournful (adj): tang thương, buồn thảm

To lull: ru (ngủ)
Shows another picture and circles a person in the
picture.
T: how does he look like?
T: do you know synonym of very sad?
T: mournful

Reads and asks sts repeat
T: when we were young, our mother often did like
that to help us sleep well.
T: “ru ngủ” in English?
T: to lull
Reads and asks sts to repeat.
Asks sts to copy the new words
Checks vocabulary by matching the new words with
suitable pictures.
Sts: he is very sad.
Sts: yes/ no
Repeat
Sts: ru ngủ
Repeat
Copy down the new words
Look at the pictures, go to the board
and put the suitable words.
III. WHILE-WRITING
7ms Task 1: Draws the musical note in the board.
T: look at the passage quickly
T: how many paragraphs are there?
T: each paragraph is a role of music.
Asks sts to read the passage quickly and pick out
the role of music and put it into the blanks.
Asks sts share with their friends
Goes around to help sts
Asks sts to read the answer before going to the
board and write the answer.
Look at the passage (1m)
Sts: 3

Read individually and fill in the
blanks( 2ms)
Share with friends (2ms)
St 1: stands up and gives the answer
St 2: repeat
St 3: go to the board
The ___________ of music
entertai
ns us
helps
us to
commu
nicate
Sets the
tone for
important
events
and social
occasions
10ms
6ms
Task 2:
1. If you know English, you can
____________ with people from English
– speaking world easily
2. Every night, the mother tells her mother
a fairy tale to _________her to sleep.
3. Nam’s success at school ________
his parents.
4. He is an _________ of the team, we

can’t do without him.
5. The teacher criticized him with a
___________ expression on her face.
6. Like a lot of men, he finds it hard to
express his ___________
7. With a____________ look on her face,
he told us about his uncle’s death.
Answer key:
1. Communicate
2. Lull
3. Delights
4. Integral part
5. Solemn
6. Emotion
7. Mournful

Task 3:
1. Does music play an important part in our life?
Yes, it does.
2. Why is music a powerful means of
communication?
It can express ideas, thoughts and feelings.
3. How can music set the tone for events and
special occasions?
It adds joyfulness to the atmosphere of a festival
and makes a funeral more solemn and mournful.
4. How can music entertain?
It makes people happy and excited.
Sticks poster on the board
Gives instruction

Runs through new words, explains how to do
Gives time to sts do
Calls 2 sts go to the board to write the answers
Checks and corrects
Asks sts to read the passage again and answer the
questions.
T: work in group (6 groups)
Asks sts to go to the board and write the answers.
Corrects.
Look at the poster
Listen
Listen and take note
Work individually (3ms)
Share with friends (2ms)
Go to the board to write the answers
Correct
Read the passage (3ms)
Work in group
Go to the board to write the answers.
7ms IV. POST-READING
“Music and me”
Interview your partners about his / her:
 Favorite kind of music and reasons
 Favorite singer / band / musician
 Favorite songs
 Time to listen to music
Kid music, lyrical music, symphony, …
Relaxing, exciting, joyful, soft rhythm,
strong beat
T: work in pair

Asks sts to interview their partner
Sticks poster on the board
Gives example
Goes around class to observe, ask sts to speak
English
Look at the poster
Practice in pair
Homework: - learn by heart vocabulary
- put a sentence with each new word