LESSON PLAN
Lesson: Unit 13: HOBBIES, Part A: Reading.
Class details: Size: 47 students, grade 11B3
Date: 22/03/2012
Aims: To help students learn and practice sub-skills of reading.
Objectives: By the end of the lesson, the students will be able to:
- Explain the meaning in context.
- Read the passage for comprehension
- Remember the main ideas of the passage.
- Talk about their own hobbies.
Skills: Guessing meaning in context, scanning for specific information and passage comprehension.
Teaching aids & materials: textbook, pictures, handout, posters, blackboard.
Lexical items: accomplished, fish tank, accompany, occupied, discard.


PROCEDURE

Stages/ Time
Activities
Work arrangement

I- Warm – up
(5mins)
Game: Bingo!
- T asks Ss to close their book.
- T shows a list of relaxing activities.
- T asks Ss to take a piece of paper.
- T gives the instruction to play game:
“I have a list of activities which people often do in their free time. You will choose any four words and copy them into your paper. I will read out the words in any order. Each time, if you have one of the words that I read, you put a tick next to that word. The first student to tick all four words will say “Bingo!” and win the game.”
- T checks the instruction:
T: How many words do you choose?
Ss: Four
T: What do you do if you have four correct words?
Ss: Say “Bingo!”
- Ss play the game.
- T declares the winner and gives gift.
List of activities:
Playing games Reading books
Keeping fish Swimming
Listening to music Watching TV
Collecting stamps Playing sports
Singing Playing guitar
* Lead - in:
+ T asks Ss the questions:
“What is the common topic of these activities?”
Ss: HOBBIES
+ T introduces: “Today we will read a passage about some hobbies of the writer.”
Individual

II. Pre – reading
(10 mins)
1. Pre-teach Vocabulary: ( 6mins)
* accomplished (adj): Lành nghề, tài ba
+ Eliciting technique: picture and synonyms
+ Eliciting question:
Do you know him? Yes, he is Bi Rain. He could dance and sing very well. Besides, he is also famous actor. He is an accomplished person.
What does “accomplished” mean?
* fish tank (n) : bể cá
+ Eliciting technique: picture and explaination
+ Eliciting question:
What are they? They are fishes, right? So, Can tell me what we call a glass container used for keeping fish in
* accompany (v) : đệm đàn,nhạc
+ Eliciting technique : Pictures and definition
+ Eliciting question:
He is playing guitar while the singer is singing.
Find a verb that means playing a musical instrument while another person sings.
* occupied: bận rộn
+ Eliciting technique: picture
+ Eliciting question:
“Is she very busy?”
“What is another word means “busy”?
( keep S.O occupied = make S.O busy
Example: His hobbies really keep him occupied
* discarded (adj): vứt bỏ, bỏ đi
+ Eliciting technique: synonym and example
+ Eliciting question:
I have a bottle of Pepsi. I drink it. After then, I throw the bottle away. So, the bottle is a discarded thing. What does “discarded” mean?
- T models the word and asks Ss to repeat chorally in twice.
- T calls some students to repeat individually and then shows the word.
- T asks Ss to copy down in 1 minute.
Checking vocabulary : (2mins)
Rub out and Remember
- T asks Ss to close their notebooks and look at the board.
- T uses “Rub out and Remember” to check vocabulary.
- T asks Ss to listen and repeat the words
- T asks Ss to repeat twice.
- T clears word by word and asks Ss to repeat all the words.
- T calls Ss to go to the board and rewrite them.
- T checks the answers
2. True/False statements prediction ( 2 min)
* Setting the scene:
“Today, we are going to reading a passage talking about hobbies of one writer, they are: playing guitar, keeping fish and collecting stamps.”
- T asks Ss to close their books and hangs the poster on the board.
- T gives the instruction: Now, you work individually and predict whether these statements are true or false.
- T declares the handout and asks Ss to do the task.
Statements