Unit 6: Competitions

- Asking students: Who’s absent today?
Date of teaching Class Absent students
11B1
11B2
11B3
Period 30
UNIT SIX: COMPETITIONS
LESSON ONE : A - READING
A.Objectives:
1. Aims: By the end of the lesson,Student will able to:
- Develop such reading micro-skill as scanning for specific ideas, identifying
meaning in context
- Use the information they have read to discuss the related topic.
- Encourage Ss to participate some game shows to widen general knowledge.
2. Knowledge:
+ Lexical items: Representative (n)
Stimulate (v)
Award (v)
Smoothly (adv)
Competition (n)
+ Structure: - To be sponsored by sb
- To take part in
- To be awarded
3. Skill
+ Main skill: reading
+ Sub-skills: speaking and listening
B.Teaching method: Communicative approach
C.Teaching aids:
- Teacher: Textbook, Sub-board, pictures, handouts
- Students: Textbook,extra-board
D.Procedure:

Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
1. * Check Ss dủing the lesson
2. I. Warm up.(5m)
- Get Ss to work in pairs, matching the 4
given competitions with the correct pictures
on page 66.
- Ss work in groups, discuss.
1- a 2. b 3. c 4. d
- Check the answer with the class.
II. Before you read.(8m)
- Introduce the topic of the lesson and get
Ss to work in pair and answer the questions
on page 67.
- Call on some Ss to answer the questions.
Ask Ss to give reasons for their answer.
- Check with the class and ask Ss to guess
what they are going to read about.
- Give and explain the meaning of new
words.
- Guide Ss to read the new words.
- Get Ss to make sentences with these
words.
- Give correct feedback.
- Listen carefully
- Answer the questions
1. I’d like to participate in the quiz:
“Road to Mount Olympia” because it’s
an interesting game, which helps me to
widen my general knowledge.
2. I’d like to win an English-Speaking

Contest.
3. Winning or losing is not the most
important. The main point our
participation and the enjoyment we can
have from it.
III. While you read.
- Give and explain some new words
*New words
Representative (n)
Stimulate (v)
Award (v)
Smoothly (adv)
Competition (n)
- Ask Ss to read after the teacher
* Task1 (7m):
- Get Ss to read the passage silently and do
task 1
- Check Ss’ understanding of the phrases by
calling on some Ss to tell their equivalents
in Vietnamese
- Check the answers with the whole class
and give corrective feedback.
* Task 2: (8 m)
- Get Ss to read the task requirement and do
the task individually and then find a peer to
compare their answers with.
+ First, Ss should skim the five questions to
understand them
+ Underline the key words
+ Ss should go back the passage and locate

the key words in the passage.
- Listen then take note
- Read in chorus
- Read silently
- Speak out
- Answer
1. d 2. f 3.e
4. c 5. b 6. a
- Read silently
- Individual work
+ Ss should read the key words carefully to
find the answers
- Call on some Ss to read aloud their
answers and ask them to explain their
choices
- Give correct answers.
Task 3: (10 )
- Ask Ss to read the passage again to
complete the sentences
- Get Ss check their answers with a peer
- Call on some Ss to write their answers on
the board and ask them to give their choices
- Give the correct answers
* Answers
1. The representative of three classes of
the speaker’s school.
2. The aim was to stimulate the spirit of
learning English among students
3. The Ss’ Parents Society
4. They had to complete 5 activities in all.

On completion of each activity, they had
to answer the questions in the worksheets
within 2 minutes
5. They had to observe and score the Ss’
performance.
6. A set of CDs for studying English and
an Oxford Advanced Learner’s
Dictionary.
- Read silent again
Answer:
1………..to recite the poem because he
could not remember the last sentence.
2………..became the winner of the
competition.
3. ………60 points
4. ………”For me the important thing was
Our participation in the competition and
the enjoyment we had from it”
IV. After you read. (7m)( Use in 11B12)
- Read the poem aloud once or twice and
get Ss to repeat each line after
- Let Ss practice reciting the poem in their
own groups
- Call on different groups to read the poem
and ask the class to decide who the best
performers are.
- Call on different groups to translate the
poem.
V. Homework: Revise the lesson.
- Work in groups

- Take note

- Asking pupils : Who's absent today?
Date of teaching Class Absent students
11B2
11B3
11B7
Period 31
UNIT SIX: COMPETITIONS
LESSON TWO : B - SPEAKING
A.Objectives:
1. Aims: By the end of the lesson,Student will able to:
- Ask for and give information about types of competitions.
- Talk about a competition or contest.
2. Knowledge:
+ Lexical items: Words and phrases related to this period
+ Structure: - To be sponsored by sb
- To take part in
- To be awarded
- It’s …..to do sth
- What do you think of…..?
3. Skill
+ Main skill: speaking
+ Sub-skills: writing and listening
B.Teaching method: Integrated communicative approach
C.Teaching aids:
- Teacher: Sub-board, textbook.
- Students: textbook.
D. Procedure
Teacher’s activities Students’ activities

* Check Ss dủing the lesson
I. Warm up.(5m)
- Ask Ss some questions:
+ Have you ever participated in a competition?
+ What competition was it?
+ Who was the winner?
Answer freely.
+ Yes, I have
+ It was the: “Who wants to be the
millionaire?”
+ A man who came from Bac Ninh
II. Before speaking
Task1 (10 m)
- Introduce the task and get Ss to do it individually
- Call on a student to read out the answers
- Work individually
- Speak out
- Check with the class and give correct answers
- Explain the new words or check Ss’ understanding
by getting them to translate
the contests into Vietnamese.
- Encourage Ss to explain why they like or
dislike a contest.
III. While speaking
Task 2 (13 m)
- Introduce the task and call on one or two pairs
of Ss to read aloud the sample dialogue
- Go over the table of useful expressions on page 69
and explain new words to Ss when necessary.
- Elicit the structures that are used for asking for

and giving suggestions about contests. Write
these structures on the board and get Ss to do
some practice before putting them in groups and do
the task.
- Put Ss into pairs
- Go around to check and offer help
- Then elicit comments from the class and
provide feedback.
IV. After speaking
Task3 (15 m).
- Put Ss into groups of 3 or 4
- Go around to offer help
- Call on each group to report their ideas to the class
and elicit comments from the class.
- Give corrective feedback and final comments.
V. Homework (2m)
- Ask Ss to write a paragraph about a contest
that they have participated or seen.
- Take note
- Listen carefully
- Speak out
- Pairs work
- Listen carefully
- Pairs work
Answers:
A: What do you think of the General
Knowledge Quiz?
B: Oh, it’s great. It’s an opportunity to
test my general knowledge.
- Group work

Suggested answers:
We’ve seen the final English Speaking
Contest at our school. The contest was
organized by all the teacher of English
in school, and was sponsored by some
former teachers and students. All Ss
who were interested in English
participated in it. After all, the team of
grade 12 won the contest. I enjoy the
contest very much. I think it was a
good opportunity for me, it encouraged
the spirit of learning English in our
school as well. I hope the school will
organize such a contest in the future.
- Take note
- Asking pupils : Who's absent today?
Date of teaching Class Absent students
11B2
11B3
11B7
Period 32
UNIT SIX: COMPETITIONS
LESSON THREE : C - LISTENING
A.Objectives:
1. Aims: By the end of the lesson,Student will able to:
- Develop extensive listening skills as listening for specific information and taking
notes while listening
- Use the information they have listened to for other communicative tasks
2. Knowledge:
+ Lexical items: Race (n)

Association (n)
formally
+ Grammar: Past simple
3. Skill
+ Main skill: listening
+ Sub-skills: speaking and writing
B.Teaching method: Integrated communicative approach
C.Teaching aids:
- Teacher: cassette, textbook.
- Students: textbook.
D.Procedure:
Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
* Check the students the whole lesson
I. Warm up. (5m )
- Divides the class into groups of 3 or 4
- Give each group one card containing 10
words whose letter are jumbled and ask Ss
to rearrange the letters to make good
words. The group which finishes the task
first with the most correct words will be
the winner.
1. tohamarn 6. conpahim
2. sifihn 7. nurning
- Group work
- Answer
1. marathon
2. finish
3. runner
4. athletic
5. race

6. champion
3. renurn 8. centadis
4. crae 9. storp
5. chiatelt 10. cirang
7. running
8. distance
9. sport
10. racing
II. Before you listen. (10 m)
- Use the picture in the textbook to
introduce the topic of the lesson and ask
some questions:
+ What do you see in the picture?
+ What even is it?
+ Where do you think the Boston Marathon
might take place?
+ Who can participate in it?
* New words
Race (n)
Association (n)
formally
- Give and explain the meaning of new
words.
- Guide Ss to read new words.
- Call on some Ss to read new words.
- Answer the questions
- Take note
Read new words in chorus.
III. While you listen.
1. Activity 1:Task 1. (10 m) - Instruction:

You are going to listen about the Boston
Marathon and answer T or F question.
- Get Ss to read through the statements to
underline the key words.
- Check with the class and ask them to
guess the answers
- Play the tape once for Ss to listen and do
the task.
- Get Ss to find a partner to check their
answers with.
- Check the answers with the whole class.
If many Ss can not answer, play the tape
one or two more times and pause at the
answers for them to catch.
2. Activity 2: Task 2. (10m)
- Ask Ss to listen again and answer the
- Listen carefully
- Read silently
- Listen carefully
Answers
1. T
2. T
3. F (2 hours 50 minutes and 10
seconds )
4. F (1967)
5. T
6. F (pass through 13 towns and ends in
centre of Boston)
- Listen carefully