Lesson plan Unit 14: THE WORLD CUP Lesson 4: Writing I. Objective By the end of this lesson, Ss will be able to: - Write a short announcement about a sport event II. Method - Communicative approach and task –based learning III. Materials Textbook, handouts IV. Anticipated problem Students may not be familiar with format of an announcement and/ or the language used in it, so T should be ready to assist them.
Teacher’s Activities
Students’ Activities
Warm – up(7m): A matching exercise -
Introduce the task: You are going to read - Listen to the teacher.
different announcements and in their own groups to match the announcements with the correct titles. - Distribute Ss the handouts.
- Get handouts from teacher.
- Ask Ss to work in groups of 3 or 4 to do that - Work in groups of 3 or 4 to do that exercise.
exercise.
- Go around offering help. - Check the answers with the whole class, pointing - Some speak and others listen to. out that Ss can tell what the announcements are - Take notes. about just by looking at the first sentence in each announcement. - Explain in what occasion English native speakers - Listen to the teacher and take notes. write an announcement (e.g. the birth of their children, the death of a close relative, the engagement or wedding of their children, the
retirement of an employee, an upcoming sport, social, or professional event etc.) - Lead in: Today we are going to write a short announcement of a sport event. Handout: 1. An
a.
"The
School
Food
announcement
Services is sorry to announce
of retirement
the temporary closing of our cafeteria from October 24 to November 1 for repair. We recognize that this closing will be inconvenient for both students and teachers. Please accept our sincere apologies
2. An
for this inconvenience" b. "Mary and Joe Lee are
engagement
pleased to announce the birth
announcement
of
their
daughter,
Emmanuelle, on the 31st day 3. An
of January, 2000." c. "With a sense of both joy
announcement
and regret the School wishes
of service
to announce the retirement of
disruption
Mr.
Tim
Cornor,
our
respected Headmaster. Mr. Conor will be retiring at the end of this semester, at which time he will have completed 50 years of service to the school. Though he will be certainly missed
by the School teachers and students, we wish him well in 4. A birth
his retirement". d. "Mr. and Mrs. William
announcement
Smith are happy to announce the
engagement
of
their
daughter, Miss Jennifer Lee Smith, to Mr. Kenneth John Brown, son of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Brown. An August 31st wedding is planned." Answer: 1. c 2.d 3.a 4.b Pre writing (10m) Instruction: You are going to read a model announcement and answer 4 questions in the textbook. - Ask Ss to work individually and read the model announcement and answer 4 questions in the textbook. - Call some Ss to answer the questions. - Give feedback and correct answer. Answer: 1. The national football championship organizing Committee. 2. The postponing of the match between Nam Dinh and Binh Duong, which was initially scheduled on Sunday April 18, due to the bad weather. 3. 3p.m Sunday April 25. 4. My Dinh National Stadium. - Then based on the model text, T elicits from Ss
- Work individually and read the model announcement and answer 4 questions in the textbook. - Some speak and others listen to. - Listen and take notes.
what
possible
details
to
include
in
an
announcement. E.g: Who announces? What event? When? Where? Why? - Call some Ss to fill the table with correct information. - Remind Ss of the structure of a paragraph of this type. E.g. the first sentence is the topic sentence which normally tells who announces what. The remaining sentences provide more details. - Elicit from Ss some useful language to use in an announcement. E.g.: Topic sentence: Subject would like to announce + phrase wish(es) to
clause
is/ are sorry to regret to is/ are pleased to E.g. 1. The Youth Union is pleased to announce their first meeting on Sunday, 24 December 2006. 2.The Youth Union is pleased to announce that their first meeting will be held on Sunday, 24 December 2006 - Stress that the language of announcement is rather impersonal and passive voice is preferred. E.g.: The match will now be played at 3p.m on
- Some speak and others listen to. - Listen to the teacher and take notes.
Sunday, April 25 in My Dinh National Stadium. While-writing (15m) Task 2: - Instruction: You are going to write an announcement about an event sport based on 2 situations in the text book. - Get Ss to read the topics individually
- Listen to the teacher.
- Ask Ss to work with a partner to analyze the topics, using the following table of summary to help them take notes:
- Read the topics individually - Work with a partner to analyze the topics
Who announces? What event? When? Where? Why? - Call on some pairs to write their notes on the board. E.g.:TOPIC 1 Who announces?
The
school
football
What event?
team The school
football
When? Where? Why? TOPIC 2 Who announces?
team Up to you Up to you For new football season The HCM Communist Youth Union of the
What event?
school Friendly
When? Where?
New Stars football club 5 p.m Sunday, April 20 In the football field of
match
with
- Some write their notes on the board and others look at the board.
the New Stars Club - Get Ss to choose one of the topics and write an announcement, based on their notes. T gets across to Ss that they may add more details, E.g. when and where the meeting will be held and how to contact you in Topic (a) and in Topic (b) whether entrance is free for the match or tickets will be sold, and in the latter case, where and when tickets will be sold, etc… - Go around checking and offering help while Ss are - Work individually writing. announcement.
to
write
Post – writing(10) - Collect some writings to correct and give mark. - Give general feedback on Ss' writing and corrects typical errors. T pays special attention to the structure of Ss' paragraphs and whether Ss have covered sufficient details in their announcements. Wrap-up(3m) - Summarize the main points of the lesson. - Assign homework: rewrite an announcement.
- Listen to the teacher and take notes.
- Listen to the teacher and take notes.
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