English 11- unit 11- writing

Prepared by Trần Thị Hạnh
Lesson plan
Unit 11: Sources of energy
Part D: Writing
I. Class description: 41 students of Grade 11 A11, Thang Long High School
II. Objectives:
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to interpret and compare data described in a bar chart.
III. Materials: textbook, handouts, and the board.
IV. Anticipated problems
- Ss may not have sufficient vocabulary and structures to describe a bar chart.
- Interpreting and describing charts might be challenging tasks for Ss, so T should be ready to help them.
V. Procedure
Time Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
3’
Greeting
- Greet the whole class: Good afternoon
- Ask Ss to sit down
- Ask Ss some questions:
How are you, today?
Is there anyone absent to day?
-Greet the teacher: Stand up and
say: Good afternoon, teacher.
- Answer T’s questions
7’
Warm-up: A guessing game
-Divide the whole class into 4 groups.
- Tick the pictures on the board.
- Introduce the rule of the game: Now work in your group and
find out the right names these pictures. After 3 minutes, one
representative of each group will come to the board and write
down the answers. Which group with more correct answers will

be the winner.
1. ………………
-Work in group.
- Come to the board and write
down their group’s answers.
1
3……………………………..
3……………………………..
4……………………………..
2
Answers:
1. Pie chart
2. Line chart
3. Diagram
4. Bar chart
-Ask Ss what the purposes of a chart are.
Expected answer: to show or describe specific information.
-Lead to the task: Today we are going to learn how to describe a
bar chart.
-Answer T’s questions about
purposes of those pictures.
12’
Before writing.
Task1: Gap-fill :( Handout 1. )
- Ask Ss close their books.
- Distribute Ss handout 2 – part A.
- Give instructions:
Now, I would like you to work individually. Your task is to look
at the chart and use the given words in the box to fill in the
blanks. Remember that there are more words than the blanks.

20
40
60
80
100
120
140
40
20
45
57
75
50
Coal
Nuclear & Hydroelectricity
Petroleum
2000
2005
million tones
the energy consumption in Highland
-Listen to T’s instruction.
-Do task 1 individually.
3
The chart shows the (…1…) in Highland in 2000. As can be
seen, the (…2…) energy consumption was 117 (…3…). (…
4…) made up the (…5…) amount of this figure (57 million
tons). This was followed by the (…6…) of coal (40 million
tons). Nuclear and hydroelectricity (…7…) the smallest (…
8…) of energy consumption.
- Remind Ss pay attention to the part of speech of the words

needed to fill in the blanks.
- Let Ss compare with their friends
- Call one volunteer to write the answer on the board.
- Give feedback.
Expected answer:
1. Energy
consumption
2. Total
3. Million tons
4. Petroleum
5. Largest
6. Consumption
7. Made up
8. Amount
- Ask Ss questions to elicit the structure and useful languages of
the paragraph describing a chart.
Expected answer:
* Topic sentence: mention the topic, the time and location:
the chart shows/ describes/ illustrates…………………. +
place +time.
* Supporting sentences:
-a sentence: sums up the general trend:
As can be seen, in general, overall…………
- sentences: describe the chart in detail
To make up the largest/ smallest percentage/ amount/
- Compare the answers with their
friends
- Write the answers on the board
-Check the answer with the whole
class.

-Answer T’s questions
-Take notes.
4
Energy Tons Total Number
Energy consumption Amount Largest
Consumption Million tons Coal Petroleum
Made up
proportion.
This + to be followed by……
To rank first/ second
*Concluding sentence: summarize the main points or draws
relevant conclusion.
To sum up, in conclusion, all in all, etc…

20’
While writing.
Task 2: Now write a paragraph describing energy consumption
in 2005 in 5 minutes.
- Ask Ss to write in their exercise book and call one S come to
the board and write down his/her paragraph.
- Go around to help.
- Ask Ss to exchange their description with their partners and
give feedback to each other.
- Check the description on the board with the whole class.
Sample writing:
The charts show the energy consumption in Highland in 2005.
As can be seen, the total energy was 170 million tons. Nuclear
and hydroelectricity made up the largest amount (75 tons). This
was followed by the consumption of petroleum (50 tons). Coal
made up a slightly smaller proportion with 45 million tons.

Task 3:
Lead-in: Do you know the reason why the energy consumption
in two years is described in the same chart? It is because they
want us to make a comparison.
Now I will provide you with a sample. Read through the sample
carefully and try to pick out the structure or useful language
used to compare.
-Deliver handout 2 to Ss
- Analyze the sample: Ask Ss to pick out the structure and
useful languages.
1. Introduction: The chart shows/ describes/ presents/
indicates/ illustrates/ compares ….
2. Body:
• General trend: Overall, In general,…
• Individual trends which are similar to the general
trend: In fact, …
• The other trends which are different from the general
-Describe the chart individually.
-Exchange their products and give
feedback to each other.
- Check the description on the
board with the whole class.
- Listen to T
-Read through the sample
carefully and pick out the
structure and useful languages.
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