Week: 10
Period: 29
Date: October 4th , 2016







I.AIM: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to identify the sections of the letter. They
will develop writing skill. They can write a guiding informal letter to a friend to notice their study
results.

II. LANGUAGE CONTENT:
New words: result, Lunar New Year, Mid Autumn Festival, Moon festival, enjoyable.
Grammar: Simple tenses (review)
III. TECHNIQUES: Brainstorming, ordering/ matching, synonym, antonym, situation, chitchat,
teacher’s eliciting, substitution writing.
IV. TEACHING AIDS:
V. PROCEDURES:

TEACHER’S AND STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES

CONTENT



BRAINSTORMING
* Students work in small groups. They think
about how they studied in the first mid – term.
* These words may be used:
- excellent
- good
- fair
- bad
- poor
- fail
- pass



* Ex: - My English was not good.
- My literature was fair. …
Chitchat
- Did you finish your first mid- term?
- Yes, I did.
- How did you study in the first mid – term?
- My math was good. My English was not
good.
- What did your teacher say?
- She said I should work harder for it.

Teacher introduces the lesson:
After having your study result, you should
tell something about this. You can write a
letter to your friend.
The lesson today will help you do that.


Matching
Students have to match the four sections
with the parts of a letter:
A/ Body of the letter
B/ Heading C/ Closing D/ Opening
1/ 12 Tran Hung Dao Street. …
2/ Dear Tim,
3/ Thanks for your letter. …
4/ Regards,
* Key: B – 1 D – 2 A – 3 C – 4

Teacher’s eliciting:
- How many parts are there in the letter?
- (Four.)
- What do you call each part?
- (Heading. Opening. Body of the letter.
Closing)
- What can be written in each part?
- (Heading: writer’s address and the date.
- Opening: Dear Tim / name of a receiver
- Body of the letter: Thanks for your letter.
I am pleased to hear you had … all your news.
- Closing: Your friend. Regards, Love.


- Who wrote the letter? …
- Who received the letter? …
- What can be mentioned in the letter?
- Thanks for something, feelings, …
Teacher takes some notes.


Substitution writing
Teacher asks the students to help Lan
write a letter to her pen pal Donna in San Francisco.
Students can use the words/
or cues given:
Students can replace the underlined
parts of the model letter.
Ex: I am pleased to hear that you had an
enjoyable Christmas vacation.
We received our first semester report a few
days ago. …




Students exchange their writings and
help their partners find mistakes.
Teacher gives some students marks
for good writing.
Teacher gives them key.














Teacher helps students with their
homework.
- To develop writing skill.

- To prepare for the new lesson:
Language focus.

+ To consolidate forms of adjectives
and adverbs.


+ To consolidate direct and reported speech.


1. WARM UP/ Brainstorming

My math was fair.

My English was not good.


My music was not bad.

My history was poor.






















2. PRE WRITING
Outline of a letter
1/ Heading: address and date
2/ Opening: Dear …
3/ Body of the letter.
4/ Closing: Love,
Regards,
Best,
Your friend,



Notes:
- Dear Tim, ( name of a receiver)
- Thanks for your letter.
- I am pleased to hear
you had an enjoyable Christmas
vacation. (Present and past tenses)
enjoyable (a), enjoy (v)
The Lunar New Year (1/1)
Mid Autumn Festival //
Moon festival (15/8 Lunar)


- Hoa wrote the letter.
- Tim received the letter.
- What can be mentioned in the letter