Week: 24
Period: 69
P. Date : / / 2013
T. Date: / / 2013
UNIT 11: NATIONAL PARKS
Lesson 4: Writing


Objectives: By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to:
- practice writing a friendly letter of invitation and understand its organization as well as some phrases of accepting and confusing an invitation .
- write a friendly letter of invitation, based on the given situations.
Teaching aids: Textbook, whiteboard, pictures, marker(
Procedure:
Time
Stages and Contents
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities


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I. WARM UP: Chatting
1/ What is it?
2/ How often do you write it?
3/ Who do you often write to?
4/ Have you ever received a confusing letter from your friends?
5/ Have you ever refused an invitation?
Expected answers
1/ It’s a letter/ an envelope.
2/ Sometimes/ Once a week/ etc.
3/ I often write to my friends/ relatives.
4/ Yes, I have.
5/ / Yes, I have.
II. PRE-WRITING:
* Expression of invitation:
Accepting
Refusing

- Yes, I’d like to/ love to
- Yes, that’s a great idea.
- Yes, I’d be delighted to
- I’m afraid I can’t come because..
- I’d love to, but
- I’m sorry I can’t because…


* Task 1:
Filling the blanks (page 117)

Expected answers:

I’d like to
I’d love to

I’m sorry I can’t because...
I’d love to

3. I’d be delighted to


III. WHILE-WRITING:
* Task 2: Arranging to form a letter

Expected answers:
1.d: Thank for your letter
2.e: It’s lovely to hear that you are going to spend the next weekend in the country
3.c: I would really like to come
4.a: you know how much I love spending a weekend in the country after a long and hard term
5.f: I will catch the usual train on Friday evening
6.b: Give my best regards to your parents and hope to see you soon
IV. POST-READING:
* Task 3 writing a short letter of accepting and confusing an invitation to visit about Cuc Phuong National Park.

Expected answers:
Dear Phuong,
Thanh you for inviting me to join your picnic to Cuc Phuong National Park, I’d like to but I can`t come because I’m very busy learning my old lessons to prepare for my coming test, so my parents don`t allow me to go out .
Let’s go another time .
Love,
Hong.
V. HOMEWORK:
- Prepare for the next lesson.
- Write the letter to accept or refuse someone`s invitation of birthday party.

- Showing the envelope with a stamp, then asking ss some questions.

- Asking ss to give the answers

- Giving feedback

- Introducing the lesson


- Eliciting and explaining





- Asking ss to read carefully the expressions, using in accepting and confusing ways
- Asking ss to work in groups to discuss and fill in the opened letters.
-Asking some of the to read aloud these three letters before class.

- Getting feedback and giving remarks
- Asking ss to work in pairs to rearrange the sentences into a letter.

- Moving around to help if necessary.

- Getting feedback and giving remarks.






- Asking ss to read the request carefully.


- Asking ss to think of the greeting, the organization, the ending of the letter they’re going to write first, then think of the reason why they refuse or accept the invitation.
- Asking ss to practice writing a short letter.


- Giving homework.

- Following the T.

- Working in groups


- Answering the questions

- Listening to the T.





- Taking notes






- Reading the letters individually.


- Working in groups


- Discussing to give the answers.


- Saying out the answers.

- Taking notes

- Reading silently and working in groups to make a full letter


- Writing the letter