Nguyen Thi Kim Oanh Lesson Plan-Reading-Unit 12
LESSON PLAN
UNIT 12: THE ASIAN GAMES
Reading Skill
1. Objectives:
- Skill: After the lesson, Ss will be able to develop such reading skills as skimming for
main ideas, scanning for specific information, guessing meaning in context, and
summarizing.
- Language: Ss will be able to build a wider range of vocabularies related to the topic to
make their own report about the development of such popular games.
2. Assumed knowledge:
Students have already known some basic vocabulary items and have had some
background knowledge of the Asian Games.
3. Teaching aids:
Textbook, blackboard, chalk, handouts.
4. Procedure:
4.1. Settlement: Check Ss’ attendance (2m)
4.2. Lecture (41 m)
Time Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
5m Warm-up: Game
- Divides the class into 4 groups.
- Get Ss to look at 7 pictures of different kinds
of sports (soccer, karate do, tennis, fencing,
boxing, weight lifting, basketball) on the board
and get them to name these sports and each
group will send a person to write down the
answers on the board. The group who are
quickest and have the most correct answers will
- Listen to the instruction
- Play the game in groups
- Write down the answer on
the board.
- Correct the answer.
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be the winner.
- Checks the answers and gives explanation if
there is any new word.
- Leads to the lesson
8m Pre-reading:
- Gives each student a piece of paper containing
some sentences and gets Ss to read individually
the sentences which contain the new words in
the passage and guess the meaning of the new
words.
- There are 8 words: effort, to advance, to
appreciate, facility, enthusiasm, aquatic,
intercultural, solidarity.
- Correct the answer, asks for Ss’ explanation.
- Presents some more new words and teach
them.
- Listen to the instruction.
- Do the exercise
individually.
- Correct the answer.
- Pronounce new words.
20m
While-reading:
* Task 1:
- Ask Ss to do task 1 individually in 3 m and
then discuss their answers in pairs.
- Calls some Ss to check and to translate
- Corrects answers and explains.
Key:
1. facility 2. aquatic 3. enthusiasm
4. effort 5. advancing 6. appreciated
* Task 2:
- Asks Ss to listen to the tape containing the
reading passage.
- Listen to the instruction.
- Do the task individually.
- Discuss in pairs.
- Write down the answer on
the board or read the
answers out loud.
- Correct the answers.
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- Gets Ss to do task 2 individually, and then
discuss the answers among the groups.
- Calls 4 Ss of 4 groups to the board and writes
down the answer. (each one is just responsible
for one event)
- Checks the answers.
Key:
1. 1951
2. the 2
nd
Asian Games in Manila, the
Philippines
3. 1958
4. Squash, rugby, fencing and mountain biking
5. 2002
* Task 3:
- Gets Ss to read through 3 questions and
underline the key words, such as purpose, how
many participants, 14
th
Asian games, etc.
- Asks them to scan the passage again, notice the
key words’ position, and locate the necessary
information for each question and to try to
answer the 3 questions individually. Then, Ss
compare your answers in pairs
- Calls 3 pairs to present your answers (one
student asks, one answer)
Key:
1. The purpose is to develop intercultural
knowledge and friendship within Asia
2. 9,919 (from 44 countries)
3. Bodybuilding, billiard and women’s karatedo.
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8m
Post–reading
Activity : summarizing
- Work in the groups of four for 3 minutes to
report the development of the Asian Games
based on the year and events.
- Calls about 2 Ss to give presentation on what
they have discussed.
- Listen to the instruction.
- Discuss in groups.
- Give presentation and
comments.
4.3. Consolidation: - Asks Ss to learn by heart all of the new words and the main ideas,
and to prepare for Part B – Speaking
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