Lesson Plan – Grade 10
Date:February 2nd, 2009
Period: 68
Unit 11:
NATIONAL PARKS
Lesson :
READING
I. Objectives: By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:
- Use vocabulary items related to national parks.
- Guess the meaning of words based on contexts and components of the words.
- Scan for specific information about national parks.
II. Language Focus:
- Grammar: Revision
- New words: Arctic Ocean, Antartic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, bay,
mystery, beneath, marine life . . .
III. Teaching Aids: overhead projector, cassette player, textbook . . . .
IV. Procedures:
Stages/
Time
Warm – up
(5 minutes)
Pre –
reading
8 minutes
While –
reading
7 minutes
Teacher’s Activities
Competition game – Word search
-T divides the class into small groups of 3 – 4 Ss.
Then T distributes the puzzle handouts for Ss to
do in their own groups. Which group finishes first
and has all the correct answers will be the winner.
Discussing the questions
-T asks Ss to look at the pictures of three national
parks on page 112 and tell the class anything they
know about these parks.
-T asks Ss to work in groups of 5 to discuss the
questions in the textbook.
-T goes around to provide help.
-T asks someSs to present their goup’s answers
and others to add any other ideas.
Pre-teaching vocabulary
+ to be located in: to be in a particular place
+ establish (v): set up
+ rainforesr (n): forest in the tropical region
+ orphan (n): a child without parents, an animal
without mother.
+ orphan (v): to make sb an orphan
+ orphanage (n): home for orphans
+ temperate (adj):
+ toxic (adj): involving sth poisonous
-T asks Ss to make sentences with the above
words to check their understanding.
Task 1 – Filling suitable words in the passages.
-T asks Ss to read through the passages silently to
find out suitable words to fill in the blanks.
-T instructs Ss to read the passage quickly and
stop at the lines that contain these words to guess
their meanings.
-T checks that Ss understand the words correctly
by asking them to provide the Vietnamese
equivalents to the words.
-T goes around to help Ss when necessary.
-T asks Ss for their answers and asks other Ss if
Students’ Activities
-Ss enjoy playing the game
in groups of 3 – 4 Ss.
-Ss work in pairs
-Ss
listen
to
T’s
explanation and take notes
new vocabulary.
Whole class, individual
work and pair work.
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Lesson Plan – Grade 10
they agree with their friend’s answers.
-T gives the correct answers.
* Expected answers:
2. contain
3. species
4. survival
5. sub-tropical
6. contamination
Task 2 – Answering questions.
-T asks Ss to work individually to do the task.
-T asks Ss to discuss their answers with their
peers.
-T calls on some Ss to give their answers and asks
them to explain their choices.
7 minutes
-T comments and gives the suggested answers.
* Suggested answers:
1. 200 square kilometers (line 4)
2. Because the rainy season is over (line 7)
3. They can learn about the habits of animals and
how one species is dependent upon anothert for
survival.
4. In the orphanage, orphaned or abandoned
animals are taken care of.
5. Because of the toxic levels of chemicals in the
water.
6.
Plants
and
animals
will
die/be
killed/destroyed.
Post –
-T draws the following table on the board.
reading
Park
Name
Reason(s)`
Cuc Phuong
10 minutes
National
Park
Nairobi
National
Park
Everglades
National
Park
-T asks Ss to go around to interview different Ss
to complete the table.
-T gives Ss 5 minutes to interview.
-T invites some Ss to present their results in front
of the class.
-T correct errors if necessary.
Homework -T summarises the main points in the lesson.
-T asks Ss to learn all of the new words by heart
3 minutes
and prepare SPEAKING for the next period.
Date:February 4th, 2009
Period :69
-Ss work individually and
do the exercise.
-Ss present their answers in
front of the class.
-Ss listen T’s comment and
write
down
the
information.
Individual work and whole
class.
- Ss listen and take notes.
Unit 11(cont.)
NATIONAL PARKS
Lesson :
SPEAKING
I. Objectives: By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:
- express regrets by using conditional sentences type 3.
- talk about an excursion.
II. Language Focus:
- Grammar: conditional sentences type 3.
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Lesson Plan – Grade 10
- New words: food poisoning, fine, get lost, carsick . . .
III. Teaching Aids: textbooks, pictures . . . .
IV. Procedures:
Stages/Time
Teacher’s Activities
Warm – up Competition game – Quick story telling
(5 minutes) - T prepares some posters on the board and tells
Ss to make up a short ans simple story about their
visit to the zoo last weekend.
-T asks Ss to work in groups of 4 and describe
the posters on the board.
Pre –
Task 1 – Matching
speaking
-T asks Ss to read through the sentences in the
two columns.
-T may elicit or teach some words or expression.
10 minutes + food poisoning (n)
+ fine (n): cash paid as punishment
+ get lost (v): unable to find way
+ carsick (adj): feeling sick because of car’s
movement.
-T asks Ss to work in pairs to do the task.
-T goes around to observe Ss working.
-T calls on some Ss to give their answers in front
of the class.
-T gives feedbackand correct answers.
* Expected answers:
1.f
2.e
3.h
4.g
5.b
6.c
7.a
8.d
While –
Task 2 – Showing regrets
speaking
-Before Ss do the task, T asks Ss to read the
examples on page 115 and tell T what
grammatical structure is used in the examples.
12 minites -T elicits or revises the conditional sentence type
3 quickly
[If+S+past perfect, S+would/could+have+ PP]
-T asks Ss to work in groups to do the task.
-T goes around to observe, offering help and
collecting mistakes.
-T calls on some Ss to talk about their ideas and
asks others Ss to add more.
-T gives feedback and correct answers.
* Expected answers:
10 minutes
Students’ Activities
-Ss work in groups.
-Ss read through the task
and take note new words
given and explained by T.
-Ss work in pairs and do
the exercise.
-Ss write down the correct
answer.
-Ss work in pairs
-Ss listen to T and take
notes.
-Ss work in groups and do
the task.
2. If we had brought enough food and drinks, we
wouldn’t have spent a lot of money eatinh in
expensive restaurants.
3. If some of us hadn’t had food poisoning, we
could have enjoyed out visit.
(To be continued)
Task 3 – Asking and answering about the
excursion.
-T asks Ss to work in pairs and gives each pair 2 -Ss work in pairs and do
handouts.
the task given by T.
Handout 1
Handout 2
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-Ask what your friend -Answer your friend’s
did last Saturday?
questions.
-Ask about the means
of transport your -Answer and express
friend used to go to regrets.
Huong Pagoda.
-Ask about food and
drinks your friend -Anwer and express
brought.
regrets.
-Ask
about
the
duration
of
the
excursion.
-Ask what they did in -Tell what they did
Huong Pagoda
and express regrets
-End
up
the
conversation.
-T may model a part of the conversation with a
student.
+T: Last Saturday, I phoned you but you weren’t
at home. Your dad said that you were going on an
excursion. Where did you go?
+S: I went to Huong Pagoda with my class.
+T: Really? Was that fun?
+S: Not really.
+T: Why so?
+S: Most of the things we did went wrong.
+T: Tell me, how did you go there?
......
-T goes around and asks some Ss to comment.
Post –
Task 4 – Writing
speaking
-T asks each of the Ss to make 5 sentences in the
conditional type 3.
6 minutes
-T asks some Ss to write their sentences on the
board and check.
Homework -T summarise the main points in the lesson.
-T requires Ss to prepare LISTENING for the
2 minutes
next period.
Date:February 8th, 2009.
Period :70
-Ss work in individual and
present their ideas in front
of the class.
- Ss listen and take notes
Unit 11(cont.)
NATIONAL PARKS
Lesson :
LISTENING
I. Objectives: By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:
- listen to get specific information about Cuc Phuong National Park.
II. Language Focus:
- Grammar: revision
- New words: threatened, endangered, ethnic minority . . .
III. Teaching Aids: pictures in the textbook, cassette, extra board . . . .
IV. Procedures:
Stages/Time
Teacher’s Activities
Students’ Activities
-T guides Ss to play a game – Match the name of -Ss play the game held by
Warm – up each national park in Vietnam with their suitable the T in pairs.
(5 minutes) pictures shown on the board.
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Lesson Plan – Grade 10
Pre –
listening
10 minutes
Whilelistening
6 minutes
9 minutes
Discussion
-T asks Ss to work in pairs to discuss what may
cause a forest fire.
-T sticks a big paper with 7 questions on the
baord.
1. Where is Cuc Phuong National Park?
2. What is the area of the Park?
3. When is the best time to visit Cuc Phuong?
4. How many species of animals living living in
the park?
5. How many species of plants living in the park?
6. How many people go to visit the park every
year?
7. What ethnic minority live in Cuc Phuong?
-T elicits the answers from Ss and writes them on
the board for checking later.
-T helps Ss to understand some new words
related to the listening task.
+ threatened and endangered specie
+ ethnic minority: an ethnic group that is a
minority within a nation or society
+ flora (n): all the plants found in a particular
country or region.
+ fauna (n): the animal life of a particular region
or country.
+ defeat (v) win a victory over a competitor
+ The Qing invaders
Task 1 – Filling missing information and
verifying the guesses.
-T asks Ss to read through the statements to to
find out suitable words to complete them.
-T plays the tape more than once if necessary.
-T invites some Ss to explain their answers in
front of the class.
-T comments and gives out the correct answers.
* Expected answers:
1. 1960
2. 160 km south west of
3. 100,000 visitors
4. 2,000; 450
5. Quen Voi
Task 2 – Answering questions
-T asks Ss whether they can do the task based on
the previous times of listening.
-If Ss can, T asks them to give the answers and
write them on the board.
-T plays the tape once for Ss to check their
answers.
-T asks Ss to work in pairs to compare their
answers.
-If there are a lot of Ss having the same wrong
answer, play that point of the tape for Ss to check
the answers again.
-T gives feedback and correct answers.
-Ss work in pairs & discuss
the questions given by T.
-Ss listen to T’s guidance
and take note new words,
practise pronouncing them.
- Ss work individually to
listen to the tapes and do
Task 1
-Ss give out the results
after listening to the tape.
- Ss compare their answers
with a friend and present
them on the board.
- Ss work in individual to
listen to the tapes and do
Task 2.
-Ss give out their guesses
before listening to the tape
three times.
- Ss compare their answers
with a friend and present
them on the board.
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Lesson Plan – Grade 10
* Expected answers:
1. It covers 3 provinces: Ninh Binh, Hoa Binh
and Thanh Hoa.
2. It is about 160 km.
3. They come there to see the work being done to
protect endangered species.
4. Nguyen Hue defeated the Qing invaders in the
spring of 1789.
5. They live mainly on bee keeping anf farming.
Post-T asks Ss to work individually to write about the
listening
special features of Cuc Phuong Natinal Park in
five minutes.
10 minutes -T goes around the class and helps Ss.
-T asks Ss to number the sentences they can
write. The student with the biggest number of
sentences will read his/her writing loud. Other Ss
listen and comment.
-T gives feedback and any necessary corrections.
Homework -T summarize the main points.
-T asks Ss to learn by heart all new words
3 minutes
-T asks Ss to prepare WRITING for the next
period.
Date:February 9 th, 2009
Period : 71
-Ss take note the correct
answers on the extra board.
-Ss work individually
writing about the topic
given.
-Ss present their writing in
front of the class.
-Ss listen to T’s remarks.
- Ss listen and take notes
Unit 11(cont.)
NATIONAL PARKS
Lesson
WRITING
I. Objectives: By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:
- write a letter of acceptance or refusal
II. Language Focus:
- Grammar: revision
- New words: revision
III. Teaching Aids: an extra board, textbook . . .
IV. Procedures:
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Stages/Time
Teacher’s Activities
Students’ Activities
game – Ordering
-T prepares a handout with a networks of the
word “letter”
-T divides the class into 8 groups and gives each
group a handout.
-T asks Ss to complete the network with different
types of letter they know.
-Ss play the game in groups
-The winner will be the group with the quickest
and correct answer.
* Suggested answers:
Lesson Plan – Grade 10 Competition
Warm-up
(5 minutes)
Pre-writing
10 minutes
5 minutes
Whilewriting
Refusal
Invitation
Love
Acceptance
LETTER
Rejection
Reference
Thank-you
Application
Task 1 – Filling the blanks
-T asks Ss to read through the expressions in the
table to understand them.
-Ss work in pairs and the
-T asks Ss to do the task in pairs and reminds whole class.
them that for each blank they can have more than
one answer.
-T calls on some Ss to go and write their answers -Ss listen to T’s guidance
on the board.
and do the task.
-T asks Ss to exchange their answers with each
other.
-T gives feedback and correct answers.
* Suggested answers:
-Ss take notes the correct
1. That’s a great idea!
answers.
2. I’d love to, but . . ./ I’m afraid I can’t come
because . . .
3. I’d love to / I’d be delighted to.
-After Ss finish task 1, T can use the letters in the
task as models to elicit or introduce the features
of a letter of acceptance or refusal. T may use
some questions:
+What is the similarity between the three letters?
+What is the similarity between letter one and
letter three?
+How is letter two different from the other two?
+Why did the writer of letter two refuse the
invitation?
...
Task 2 – Ordering
-T asks Ss to do the task individually and
exchange their answers with another student
when they have finished.
-Ss work in pairs and
-T calls on a S to read the letter out loud and asks individually.
other Ss to listen and give feedback.
-T gives feedback and correct answers.
* Expected answers
1.d
2.e
3. c
4.a
5.f
6.b
Task 3 – Writing a letter of accpetance or
refusal.
Teacher
-T asks Ss to pay attention to all the features of in-charge: Nguyễn Thị Lan Anh
these types of letters and be careful with some -Individual work
Lesson Plan – Grade 10
Date:February 11th,2009
Period : 72
Unit 11(cont.)
NATIONAL PARKS
Lesson
LANGUAGE FOCUS
I. Objectives: By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:
- distinguish and pronounce the sound / t / and / d / correctly.
- use the third conditional.
II. Language Focus:
- Grammar: as the above
- New words:
III. Teaching Aids: Textbooks
IV. Procedures:
Stages/Time
Teacher’s Activities
Warm-up Singing contest
-T divides the class into two groups and asks
(5 minutes) them to write as many words having the letter “t”
and “d” in each word as possible.
Activity 1 – Listen and repeat
-T demonstrates the sounds / t / and / d / by
pronouncing them exactly and clearly.
-T instructs the ways to pronounce two sounds.
Pro-T asks Ss to pronounce the sounds several times.
nunciation -T makes sure that Ss are aware of the difference
between the two sounds.
-T reads the wortds in each column all at once.
7 minutes
-T reads the words again, each time with a word
in each column to help Ss distinguish the
differences between the sounds in the words.
-T reads the words and asks Ss to repeat them.
-T asks Ss to practise pronouncing the words in
pairs.
-T goes around to provide help.
-T gives feedback.
Activity 2 – Practise these sentences
-T reads the sentences and asks Ss underlined the
words with the sound and / t / or / d / under them.
-T asks Ss to practise the sentences in pairs.
-T goes around the class and provides help if
necessary.
-T gives feedback.
The third conditional
-T asks Ss to go to the board and write down the
Grammar form of the third conditional (as they have learnt
Vocabulary this in the speaking lesson).
-T calls some Ss to tell the class about the
8 minutes
meaning and use of the third conditional. If Ss
forget, T can do a quick revision.
Exercise 1&2
12 minutes -T asks Ss to do Exercise 1 and 2.
T goes around to provide help.
-T asks them to compate their answers with
others.
Students’ Activities
-Ss work in groups,
playing the game as
guided.
-Ss observe and listen to
teacher’s guidance.
-Ss listen.
-Ss practise pronuncation.
-Ss listen carefully &
work in pairs to read the
sentences.
-Ss work individually.
- Ss listen to teacher’s
explanations and take
notes.(Whole class)
-Ss work individually,
doing the exercise, then
exchange the results with
a partner to take peer
correction.
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Lesson Plan – Grade 10
10 minutes
Homework
3 minutes
-T asks Ss to go to the board to write their
answers.
-T gives correct answers.
* Expected answers:
- Ss listen and take notes.
Exercise 1
1. had known
2. had had
3. would have gone
4. would have passed
5. could have enjoyed 6. had known
7. had stopped
8. had killed
Exercise 2
1. If the driver in front hadn’t stopped so
suddenly, the accident wouldn’t have happened.
2. If I had known that Lam had to get up early, I
would have woken him up.
......
(To be continued)
Exercise 3
-T asks Ss to do exercise 3 in pairs.
-T asks them to compre answers with other pairs.
-T calls on some Ss to read out their answers.
-Ss work in pairs.
-T feedbacks and gives correct answers.
1. If I had been working at the restaurant last
night, I would have waited on your table.
2. If they had been paying attention, they would
have seen the sign marking their exit from the
highway.
.....
(To be continued)
- T asks Ss to continue doing the remaning
exercises.
-Ss listen and take notes
- T asks Ss to prepare Test yourself D
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