LESSON PLAN

Lesson: Unit 13: Hobbies

Language Focus
Supervisor’s name: Tran Nguyen Thuy Thoai Lan
Student Teacher’s name: Le Thi Ai Nhi
Class: 11D1
Ss’ level & characteristics: Grade 11, Ele. / Pre-Intermediate level (the majority of Ss are smart and
active, some are shy and passive.)
Teaching time: Period 1 Mon. Afternoon 15/3/2021
Aims: This lesson aims to help Ss to:
- Review relative clauses and their related content: Cleft sentences.
Objectives: At the end of the lesson, students are expected to:
 Be able to use cleft sentence to emphasize on a particular part in a sentence.
Approach: Grammar-Translation Method; Communicative Approach.
Teaching Aids/ Materials: PowerPoint, projector, English 11 supplementary material.
Teaching procedure:
A. Classroom procedure (1’)
1. Greeting
2. Checking attendance
B. Preview the previous lesson (5’): Omission of Relative pronouns:
Decide whether or not the relative pronoun can be omitted in the following sentences:
1. That's the woman whose house has been broken into.
2. She showed me the necklace which she had brought back from South Africa.
3. The smart phone that costs £200 is very good.
4. Mrs. Smith, who is very smart, lives on the fourth floor.
5. This is the car that John bought at an auction.
6. My colleague with whom I'm doing the project should be here as soon as possible.
7. This was the hotel that we stayed in for two weeks.
8. A doctor is a person who looks after people's health.
9. My new motorbike, which I paid a few thousand euros for, is not running well.
10. Where is the letter that arrived this morning?
Key: 2, 5, 7.
B. New lesson ( 35’)

Time Teaching steps, teacher’s activities Students’ activities

10 minutes Warm-up game: Memory Game
T divides the class into 4 teams and gives each team Join the game
one piece of paper.
In 1 minute, T shows a slide which includes Keys: Painting, learn a language,
vocabulary related to hobbies. dog sitting, knitting, sewing,
After 1 minute, the slide will disappear, Ss then try to sculpting, candle making, makeup,
write down as many words they can remember as DIY activities, play an instrument,
possible. cooking, gardening, traveling, play
The team that has the greatest number of correct board games, singing, dancing,
words will be the winner. playing sports.
T introduces the lesson:
Unit 13: Hobbies – Language Focus.
10 minutes 1. Presenting: Cleft sentences
-T shows a picture of a light bulb, and ask Ss to what

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 it is, who invented it and when it was invented.
-T then includes the information into one sentence:
“In 1879, Thomas Edison invented the electric light Answer the questions.
bulb.”
-T shows 3 sentences:
 It was in 1879 that Thomas Edison invented
the electric light bulb.
 It was Thomas Edison that invented the
electric light bulb.
 It was the electric light bulb that Thomas
Edison invented in 1879.
-T asks Ss address the similarly between these Answer the question.
sentences:
a. All the sentences are used to emphasize a
particular piece of information (the time-1879, the
inventor-Thomas Edison and the invention-the
electric light bulb)
b. They all have the same structure:
It was + ….. + relative clause. Take notes.
-T tells Ss that this type of sentences was called Cleft
sentences.
They are used to emphasize a piece of information,
which can be a subject, an object or an adverbial
phrase.
Structure: It+is/was+….+ relative clause.
-T gives students another example:
Jack gave Anna a bunch of flowers for her graduation Make new sentences.
yesterday.
-T calls some students to make a cleft sentence that
emphasizes on a given piece of information.
Ex:
It was Jack that/who gave Anna a bunch of flowers
for her graduation yesterday.
It was Anna that Jack gave a bunch of flowers for her
graduation yesterday.
It was a bunch of flowers that Jack gave Anna for her
graduation yesterday.
It was for her graduation that Jack gave Anna a
bunch of flowers yesterday.
It was yesterday that Jack gave Anna a bunch of
flowers for her graduation.

15 minutes. 2. Controlled – practice

Correct the exercises in the material (p.73) Do the exercises individually
Exercise: Rewrite the sentences using the
appropriate emphatic structure to emphasize the Key:
words in bold type. 1. It was last year that we bought
1. We bought the farm last year. the farm.
2. Craig broke the window. 2. It was the window that Craig
3. I bought the seat covers for my new car. broke.
4. Is Tom going to buy the food? 3. It was for my new car that
5. Charlie sold his car to Mike. I bought the seat covers.
6. She bought the car from Tom. 4. Is it Tom who/that is going to
7. My secretary sent the bill to Mr. Harding buy the food?
yesterday. 5. It was Mike who/that Charlie
8. He already plays for national side; he only turned sold his car to.
professional last year. 6. It was from Tom whom/that she
9. We are coming to stay with Jane this weekend. bought the car.

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 10. Columbus sailed to America in 1492.
11. The president makes the important decisions.
12. I'm not looking forward to physics, but I'm most
worried about, the statistics exam.
7. It was my secretary that sent
the bill to Mr. Harding yesterday.
8. It was only last year that he
turned professional.
9. It is Jane whom/that we are
coming to stay with this weekend.
10. It was in 1492 that Columbus
sailed to America.
11. It is the president that/who
makes the important decisions.
12. It is the statistics exam that
I'm most worried about.

C. Consolidation/Reinforcement (3 - 5’)
- Check students’ understanding by asking concept checking questions.
- Give a quick summary of the lesson.
D. Homework ( 3 - 5’)
- At home, revise the lesson.
E. Comments from supervisor:
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