UNIT 12: MUSIC
B. Speaking
1. Class description: Fourty four grade 10 students (7 boys, 37 girls) of 10B11, Nguyen Thi Minh Khai high school.

2. Time: 45 minutes

3. Objectives:After the lesson, Ss will be able to:
- Ask and answer questions about music.
- Talk about their favorite types of music.

4. Assumed knowledge: Ss have already known some expressions about music in the reading session.

5. Anticipated problems:
- Ss may not have enough vocabulary to talk about the topic, so T should be ready to provide help.

6. Teaching aids: Textbook, audios, role-cards

7. Procedure:

Time
T’s activities
Ss’ activities
Objectives

6 mins
WARM – UP: Listening to music and guessing
- Asks Ss to listen to 4 pieces of music and guess what types of music they have heard.
- Calls Ss to give their answers.
- Checks the answers.
Answers:
1.Classical music (Fur Elise–Beethoven)
2. Folk music (Bèo dạt mây trôi)
3. Pop music (Hello-Adele)
4. Jazz (Mona Lisa-Nat King Cole)
-Work individually
-Listen to 4 songs and guess what kinds of music they belong to
- To warm Ss up
- To remind them of some different types of music they have learnt in the reading session.


PRE-SPEAKING
(9 mins)
Task 1: Read and anwser questions.
- Chunks the text and highlights the stressed words in each chunk with Ss. Then, T reads the text to provide a model.
- Asks a S to read aloud the passage. T corrects Ss’ intonation and pronunciation if necessary.
- Picks some useful words or structures and introduces their meanings and usage to Ss. Then asks Ss to make sentences with these structures:
+ to keep/make sb happy
+ to be easy to listen to
+ to cheer sb up
+ to have the radio on
-T asks Ss to list some more music genres, adjectives and roles best describing those genres. T mindmaps Ss’ answers on the board.
Suggestions
+Folk music: peaceful, lyrical; help sb forget troubles and worries.
+Rock: exciting, strong; make sb excited
+Classical music: relaxing, gentle, peaceful; make sb relaxed.
+ Pop: easy to listen to; cheer sb up, keep sb happy.
+Jazz: gentle; make sb relaxed
- Whole class do the task.



-A S reads aloud the passage.

- Take note.








-Do the task

-To help Ss pause in the right place and speak with intonation.




- To help them understand the text easily. Ss can make use of these words,expressions for their speaking.



- To help Ss have more clues for Task 2.


WHILE-SPEAKING
(18 mins)
Task 2: Interview two friends (15mins)
−Before Ss do the task, T asks Ss what questions they can ask if they want to know about their friend’s favourite kind of music, reasons for listening to music, favourite band/musician/singer, favourite song/piece of music and when their friends listen to music.
−Suggested questions and answers:
+ What kind of music do you like?
I’m a big fan of…/I’m fond of…/ I’m keen on…/ I’m really into….
+ Why do you like it?
Since/Because/The primary reason is…
+ Who is your favourite singer/ musician?
+ What is your favourite band?
+ What is your favourite song/ piece of music?
My favourite …… is…
I’m crazy about….
I fancy….
+ When do you listen to music?

- T tells Ss to form groups of 4 to interview each other.
- T goes around observing, offering help and collecting any mistakes and errors for later correction.
- Calls one group to stand up and makes the conversation they have just practiced.

Task 3: Report the information (3 minutes)
−Before Ss report, T provides the structures they can use:
+ Both A and B like (pop music) because…..
+ A likes (classical music) but B prefers/likes (jazz). A thinks (classical music) is relaxing and B thinks B is gentle. A’s favourite band is…. and B’s favourite band is….
−T calls on some Ss to report what they have found out about their partners.
−T takes notes of Ss’ mistakes for later correction.

-Give answers







-Listen to T and take notes.
-Interview their friends and take notes.