LESSON PLAN

Teacher’s name: ĐINH HOÀNG BẢO UYÊN

Reference book: Ielts Advantage Writing Skills

Lesson: Problem – Solution essay

Topic vocabulary: Cities

Students’ level: Band 5+

Teaching period: 60 minutes

I. AIMS: This lesson aims to help students to:

- Knowledge: know how to write a Problem – Solution essay
- Language:
+Learn some lexical items related to problems in cities and solutions.
+Revise Conditional sentence (If type 1) and Inversion with Only by
- Skill:
+Practice brainstorming.
+Practice writing a Problem – Solution essay
II. OBJECTIVES: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
- Brainstorming the ideas by themselves about related topic.
- Writing a full essay with clear outline.
III. APPROACH AND TEACHING AIDS:
- Communicative approach
- Board, marker
- Handout.
 IV. TEACHING PROCEDURE:

Stages Teacher’s activities Students’ activities

A. Lead-in -Introduce the topic “Cities” and Problem -
Solution essay.

1.Lead in: Read an article and list the mentioned

(10 minutes) problems.
-Give handouts -Read and list the problems.
-Ask students to work in pair. -Pay attention.
-Check the answers, correct chorally.

2.Vocabularies: -Ask students to work in pair, read again, -Do exercise 2

(10 minutes) and find words in text that has the same
meaning with the given ones.
-Ask some students to give their answer and -Answer
correct it.
-Read aloud and ask students to repeat. -Listen and repeat
-Ask students to use phrases in exercise 2 to -Do Exercise 3 individually.
fill in the blanks of exercise 3.
-Correct the answer chorally. -Answer

B. Problem- Introduce the structure of a Problem – -Listen and take notes

Solution essay Solution essay.
(10 minutes)
C. Brainstorming -Ask students to spend 5 minutes thinking by -Think
(15 minutes) themselves.
-Invite some students to give their own ideas. -Answer
-Give feedback and correct (if necessary) -Listen and take notes.
D. Practice: -Instruct students to paraphrase introduction. -Listen and write
(15 minutes) -Ask students to write body paragraph 1 and -Write
go around to correct.