Tiếng Anh 10 Unit 12: Music Reading

UNIT 12: MUSIC
Period 73: Reading
I. OBJECTIVES
1. Knowledges: By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to
- Guess meaning in the context
- Scan for specifics informations
- New words: Words related to music
2. Skills:
- Improve passage comprehension skill
- Reading for specifics information
- Speaking: Talk in pairs and express their opinion
3. Attitude: Active to broaden and percept the knowledge.

II. FOCUS
- To help Ss scan for specific information about music
- To help them improve reading skill.
- The vocans related to Music

III. PREPARATIONS
1. Method: Reading skills (skimming and scanning), asking and answering
2. Teaching aids: Teacher’s book, textbook, chalk, black board, handout, picture, audio

IV. PROCEDURES
1. Organization:
- Hi! How are you today?
- Who’s absent today?
- What’s the date today?
2. The new lesson:
Content

Teacher and students’ activities

I. Warm-up:
- Playing game: Guessing game
Songs:
1. The Man I Love – Billie Holiday
2. I Lay My Love On You – Westlife
3. Gửi Về Quan Họ
4. Moonlight Sonata – Beethoven

- T says: “Before we start to learn, I
would like to give you a game. The
rule of the game is I will play some
pieces of music and your duty is
guessing what kinds of music are
they. If you have right answer, you
will get the candy from me. Are you
ready for the game?”
- T lets Ss play this game

5. Đường Đến Ngày Vinh Quang – Bức Tường
The sample answers:
1. jazz
2. pop music
3. folk music
- Questions:

4. classical music
5. rock 'n' roll

+ Do you like listening to music? Why/Why not?
+ What kind of music do you like best?
+ What is your favourite singer or music band?

II. Pre – reading

- T gives questions and ask Ss to
listen and answer to lead in the new
lesson

- T leads in: “Today, we will learn a
new lesson “Music” to understand
more about how important it is to
our life.”
- T asks Ss to work in pairs, discuss
and match each of the descriptions
to a type of music

• Matching: Work in pairs. Discuss and match

each of the descriptions to a type of music.
Type of music
1. folk music
2. rock 'n' roll
3. pop music
4. classical
music
5. jazz

Description

a. serious and traditional
Westem European music
b. traditional music of a
country
c. a combination of African
and Westem music
d. modem music that is
popular with young people
e. a style of music with a
strong and loud beat

Answers:
1–b
2–e

3–d
4–a

5–c

III. While – reading
• Pre – teach Vocabulary:

1. emotion [i'mouʃn] (n): cảm xúc

- T: “Now, I will play the sample tape
script. Your duty is listening to the
audio and then you have 4’ to read
whole passage and underline the
new words. Is that clear for you?”

- T asks Ss to listen and read whole
passage and underline the new
words
- T goes around the class to remind
Ss to read
- T has Ss to try to guess the
meanings of the new words


(a strong feeling deriving from one's
circumstances, mood, or relationships with others)

- T shows the new words and
picture of each new word.

2. (to) communicate [kə'mju:nikeit]: giao tiếp
(share or exchange information, news, or ideas)

3. integral ['intigrəl] (a): thiết yếu, cần thiết
= essential
Ex: The arms and legs are integral parts of the
human body.
4. funeral ['fju:nərəl] (n): đám tang
(a ceremony or service held shortly after a person's
death, usually including the person's burial or
cremation)

5. solemn ['sɔləm] (a): trang nghiêm
(Formal and dignified)

- T reads the new words and Ss
repeat 2 times
- T gives Ss 1 minute to remember
all the new words
- T gives Ss the handout
- T asks Ss to work individually to
fill the missing words in the
handout
“Now you have 3’ to work
individually to fill all the missing
words. After 3’ I will call one of you


to go to the board to write your
answers. Understand?”
- T goes around
- S goes to the board and write the
answers
- T checks and gives feedback
6. mournful [ 'mɔ:nful] (a): tang tóc, buồn rầu
= sad, sorrowful
7. (to) lull [lʌl]: ru ngủ
- T has Ss work individually to do
this task in 2 minutes
- T calls some Ss to read the
complete sentences
- T corrects their answers

8. (to) delight [dɪˈlʌɪt]: làm vui thích, say mê
= make happy

• Small activity to remember the new words:

Fill in the blanks:
New words

Meaning

Lull
Delight
(3) __________
(4) __________
(5) __________
Solemn
(7) __________
(8) __________

(1) __________
(2) __________
Giao tiếp
Buồn rầu
Cảm xúc
(6) __________
Phần thiết yếu
Đám tang

Keys:
(1) ru ngủ
(2) làm vui thích
(3) communicate
(4) mournful

(5) emotion
(6) trang nghiêm
(7) integral part
(8) funeral

- T has Ss to read 5 questions and
underline the key words
“Firstly, read 5 questions and
underline the key words.”
- T has Ss to read the passage again
to find the answers
- T gives Ss 3 minutes to work in
pairs and do this task
“Read the passage again and work
in pairs in 3 minutes to find the
answers.”
- T calls Ss to go to the board and
write the answers
- T checks and asks Ss where the
answers appear in the passage

• Task 1. The words/phrases in the box below all

appear in the reading passage. Use them to
complete the sentences.
The sample answers:

- T has Ss to do this last part at
home then check in the next period

1/ communicate
2/ lull
3/ delight
4/ integral part
5/ solemn
6/ emotion
7/ mournful
• Task 2. Answer the questions.

1. What are the two things that make humans
different from other animals?
2. Why is music a powerful means of
communication?
3. How can music set the tone for events and
special occasions?
4. How can music entertain?
5. Why has music always been a big business?
Suggested answers:
1. Language and music (P1, line 2)
2. Because it can express ideas, thought and
feelings. (P1, line 3&4)
3. It adds joyfulness to the atmostphere of a festival
and makes a funeral more solemn and mournful.
(P2, line 3&4)
4. It makes people happy and excited. It delights
the senses. (P3, line 1&2)
5. Because it is a billion – dollar industry. (P3, line
3)

IV. Post – reading
Work in pairs. Ask and answer the questions
below.
1. How many roles of music are mentioned in the
text?
2. In your opinion, which of the roles of music is
the most important?
Suggested answers:
1. There are five roles of music mentioned.
2. For my point of view, music is absolutely a mean
of entertaining. Because music is like medicine for


us when the weather is bad and we do not feel
good. If we have a problem, many of us just turn on
a good song to calm down and think what to do
next.

3. Consolidation:
- T summarizes the main points of the lesson.
4. Homework:
- Learn by heart all the new words
- Answers 2 questions in the After you read in notebook
- Translate the passage on page 125 into Vietnamese in notebook
- Prepare next lesson Part B: Speaking . Read and translate the text about Ha Anh on
page 126 in notebook