LESSON PLAN
UNIT 14: The World Cup - Tieng Anh 10 (new version)
(Reading)

Time: 45 mins
Aims: After finishing the lesson, Ss can:
Improve their scanning and skimming skill in reading.
Summarize a reading text.

Stage
Time
Activities

Warm-up
5 mins
Game: Tell the names
- Divide class into 2 groups
- Give instruction:
+ Every member in each group has to think of a name of a famous Vietnamese or foreign football team.
+ T calls any of the members in 2 groups alternatively.
+ Ss tell the name as fast as possible.
+ Ss do not allow to tell the same name as others’.
+ T calls 10 Ss in each group.
+ Which group has the more answers will be the winner.

Before you read
15 mins
1. Activity 1: Giving opinions about favorite football teams or players.
- T calls some Ss to tell about their favorite football teams or players.
2. Activity 2:
- Ss work in groups and discuss the questions in text book.
- T calls some groups to give the answers.
- T checks and gives the correct answers if necessary.
* Questions :
1. How often is World Cup held?
2. What does the abbreviation FIFA stand for?
3. Who is considered the all-time best soccer player?
4. When was the World Cup first held in Asia?
5. Is there a World Cup tournament for women?
* Key :
1. Every 4 years
2. Fédération Internationale Football Association.
3. Pele
4. 2002
5. Yes

3. Teaching Vocabularies : (10 mins)
Tournament (n)
Elimination Games (n)
Trophy (n)
Forward (n)
Win fame (v)
SARS (n)
To honor (v)
To host (v)
- T elicits the meanings.
- T teaches the words that are new to Ss.
* Techniques :
- Translation :
+ Tournament (n) : Giải thi đấu thể thao
+ To win fame (v): có danh tiếng.
+ SARS (n) : bệnh viêm đường hô hấp
+ To honor (v) : tôn vinh
- Explanation :
+ Elimination games (n): the competitions people have to take before going to the final game. [Vòng loại]
+ Forward (n): the position that David Backham played. [tiền đạo]
+ To host (v): to organize an event and invite the others. [đăng cai]
- Reality:
+ Trophy (n): the objects such as cups or medals that is given for you as prizes when you win a competition. [chiến lợi phẩm]
- T teaches pronunciation:
+ Teacher pronounces.
+ Class repeats.
+ Call Some Ss to repeat.
- T teaches word stress
( ( (
+ Tournament + Trophy + Honor
( (
+ Elimination + Forward

* Check : What and Where
- T writes new words inside circles.
- T rubs out one of the words.
- T gets the Ss to repeat the word including the rubbed-out word by pointing at the empty circle.
- T continues until all the circles are empty.
- T asks Ss to come to the board and fill in the circles with correct words.

While you read
20 mins
1. Activity 1 (5 mins): True or False.
- Ss work in pairs in to do task 1 in text book.
- T calls Ss to give the answers.
- T checks the answers with class.
* Questions :
1. Thirty-two nations participated in the first WC tournament.
2. The first time Brazil won the WC in 1970
3. Mexico hosted the WC for the second time in 1986.
4. The 2002 WC was held in 2 Asian countries.
5. The 2003 women’s WC was held in US.
* Answers :
1. F 2. F 3. T 4. T 5. T

2. Activity 2 (5 mins): Complete the sentences.
- Ss work in pairs to do task c in text book.
- T calls Ss to give the answer.
- T checks the answers with class.
* Questions :
1. Why is soccer so ............throughout the world?
2. How many teams ............ in this tournament?
3. Out team got all the way through to the ................ tournament before being beaten.
4. A great cheer went up from the crowd when he held the............ proudly aloft.
5. Will our team attend to................. for the WC next year?
* Answers :
1. popular 4. trophy
2. participate 5. qualify
3. final

3. Activity 3 (5 mins): Answer the questions.
- T gives the handouts that contain the questions in task b.
- T asks Ss to work in groups of six to discuss given questions and write the answers in the handouts in 2 mins.
- T collects handouts and checks with class.
- T calls Ss to write down the correct answers on the blackboard.
* Questions :
1. When was FIFA founded?
2. How do you know that soccer is the most popular sport throughout the world?
3. Why do many soccer fans consider Pele the all-time best soccer player?
4. When and where was the first women’s WC held?
5. Why was the 2003 women’s WC moved from China to the US?
* Key:
1. In 1904
2. Because every 4 years an international soccer tournament is held and well known as the World Cup. More than a billion people around the world watch it on TV.
3. Because Pele won fame for his amazing ball control and powerful shots.
4. In 1991 in China
5. Because severe acute respiratory syndrome(SARS) emerged as a serious health problem in China
4. Activity 4 (10 mins) : Oral reconstruction
- T gives the poster (picture in last page).
- T calls Ss to summarize the text based on the given information on the poster.

After you read
5 mins
Game: Who is he?
- Divide class into 5 groups.
- Give instruction :
+Ask each group choose a balloon
+ Each balloon contains 3 suggestions about a football player. They go from difficult to easy. Having the correct answer with the first suggestion = 3 marks, the second suggestion = 2 marks and the last one = 1 mark.
+ Which group has the highest mark will become the winner.
* Suggestions and Keys :
Ruud Val Nishterooy
He used to play for MU and now he plays for Real Madrid.
He is the Netherian.
His name begins with letter “R”.
David Beckham
He is a half-back of Real Madrid.
He is the richest player in England.
His wife is Victoria.
Thierry Henry
Now, he is the forward of Barcelona.
He has already been the most famous player of Arsenal football team.
His name begins with letter “T”.
Raul Gonzales
He plays for Real Madrid.
He is the captain of this team.
His name begins with letter “R”.
Ronaldo
He is a famous Brazilian player.
He often wears 9th cloth.
He was called “an alien”.



Homework:
- Review vocabularies.
- Prepare listening lesson in advance.