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Unit 2 making arrangements
Lesson 4 Write
A. The objectives
- By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to understand how to take telephone
messages. They’ll use the language to write the telephone messages.
b. content: Past simple tense, Future forms
C. Materials: cards, poster, sheets of paper, OHP, an answering machine,
transparencies,
Work arrangements: Individuals, pairs, groups, T-WC
Anticipated problems: Students have never taken telephone messages
before.
D. Procedure
I. Warmer
Retelling/ Interviewing
Ask students to retell Bell’s
autobiography and his invention of
the telephone.
II. Checking the old lesson

When/ Where were you born?
Who did you work with at ...?
etc

III. New lesson
 Pre-writing

I. Vocabulary
- a customer:
- delivery service:
- stationery order:
- take a message:
- a racquet = a racket:
- to pick somebody up:

Pre-teach
Eliciting:
Modeling, choral & individual
repetition
Written record, pronunciation, VN
meaning
Checking vocabulary: R.O.R
Gap-fill
Ask students to read the message
and fill in the gaps in the passage
that follows with the information
Students work individually in 3
minutes, then they share and
compare
Teacher gets feedback by reading

II. Write

1. Read the message. Then fill
in the gaps in the passage
that follows with the
information
1. telephoned
2. May 12th
3. speak

5. name
6. delivery
7. Mr. Ha

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the completed passage aloud.

4. took

8. at

Comprehension questions:
Who made the call?
When/ On what day was the
telephone?

What time of the day was it?
What was the customer’s name?
Whom did he wanted to speak to?
What was the message about?
Who took the message?
 While-writing
Read the passage and write the
telephone message:
Read the passage silently
Work in groups of four to write the
telephone message on the
transparencies
Exhibition
Teacher corrects and remarks.
 Post-writing
Set the scene: Tom is making a
call. He wants to speak to Nancy
but she is out and her sister Lisa
answers the phone.
Ask students to listen to the
dialogue twice and complete the
telephone message.
Students work individually, then
pair and compare
Teacher gets feedback
Listen to similar dialogues (using
the answering machine if possible)
IV. Consolidation
V. Homework

2. Read the passage. Write the
telephone message.
Date: June 16th
Time: 12.10
For: Mrs. Van
Message: Mr. Nam called about his
stationery order. He wanted you to
call him back at 8 634 082
Taken by: Mr. Toan
Date:
Time:
For: Nancy
Message: Tom called about playing
tennis this afternoon. He’ll come
over to pick you up at 1.30
Taken by: Lisa

How to take telephone message
Study vocabulary by heart
Dictation and translation
Practice writing telephone
messages
Do the exercises in the Language
focus

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