Class: English 10 - Regular Unit: 12

Theme: Music
WRITING
Time: 45 minutes

I. General aims/focus
1. Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to
- gain knowledge about how to write the profile of a person;
- learn the structures that can be used to write a profile.
2. Language:
Structures: be born in/ at ( a place) into (a family);
attend school at / in…(a place) /learn from someone
(education);
become famous for/as…( achievement); etc.
3. Skills –main skill: writing; subskills: reading, listening,speaking

II. Methods: Integrated, mainly communicative

III. Teaching aids: a picture of Scott Joplin (a famous American musician)
and pictures of some famous people

Teacher’s Content Students’

Activities Activities
A.Warm-up Pictures of Scott Joplin, Van Cao and - Students look
(5 mns.) some other famous people at the pictures
- T shows Questions and answer T’s
pictures and asks 1.What are their names? questions.
questions. 2. What do people want to know about .
famous people?
Answers
1. (The names of people in the
pictures).
2. They want to know about these
people’s life and achievements.
B. Pre-writing
(14 mns.) Task 1 Make complete sentences from - Students work
Task 1 the prompts and read Scott Joplin’s in pairs and do
-T has Ss make profile. Task 1 (page
complete 0.Scott / born / Texas / 1886 / , / poor / 129).
sentences from but musical black family.
the prompts. 0.Scott was born in Texas in 1886, into a
poor but musical black family.
1.He / learn / play music / when / very
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 young.
2. Scott learn / play / works / composers/
Bach/ Beethoven,and Mozart /as well as/
compose music.
3. He quickly / become famous.
4. His tunes / be / wonderful mixture / - Students take
classical European and African beats / turns reading the
which / be / known as Ragtime. sentences in
5. All in all / he write / 50 piano rags /, Scott Joplin’s
/and / he / be called / King of Ragtime. profile.
6. Scott Joplin / die / 1917.

T has Ss work in Scott Joplin’s Profile (model text) - Students work

pairs and read 0.Scott was born in Texas in 1886, into in pairs and do
Scott Joplin’s a poor but musical black family. the task assigned
profile . 1. He learned to play music when he by T.
was very young.
2. Scott learned to play the works of
composers such as Bach, Beethoven,
and Mozart, as well as composed
music himself.
3. He quickly became famous.
4. His tunes were a wonderful mixture
of classical European and African
beats,which were known as Ragtime.
5. All in all, he wrote 50 piano rags,
and he was called the King of Ragtime.
6. Scott Joplin died in 1917.

- Students
T guides Ss to Outline of a Profile discuss and
make an outline 0. Date of birth + family background make an outline.
of a profile based 1.+ 2. Educational background - Students take
on the model text. 3. +4.+5. Career and achievements turns reading the
6. Date of death outline.

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-T has Ss read the Structures used in writing a profile - Students find
profile again and - be born in/ at… (a place) into… the structures,
find the special (a family) write them
structures / - learn from… (someone); down, and take
functional - attend school at / in…(a place) turns reading
language in it. (education); them.
- become famous for /as…
( achievement);
- die /pass away on…(day) /
in…(month / year)
- Tenses of the verbs:simple past and
past perfect
C.
While-writing Task 2 Students write the profile of Van
(16 mns.) Cao with the given information. - Each student
Task 2 does his own
-T has each Name: Van Cao writing on a
student write the Born: November 15,1923 piece of paper.
profile of Van Place of birth: Nam Dinh
Cao. Family: poor workers
Start composing music: when very
young
First song: 1939, quickly became famous
Tien Quan Ca (National Anthem): 1944
Artistic works: songs, poems, paintings
Fame: - a very talented composer;
- well-known for his rousing and
lyrical songs -
Death date: July 10, 1995

D. Post-writing
(10 mns.)
T conducts the
correction of
students’ writing. Suggested complete profile (after
- T has Ss do peer correction). - Students sit in
correction. Van Cao was born on November pairs and
15,1923, in Nam Dinh, into a exchange their
family of poor workers.(Date of birth, pieces of writing
family background) for peer
He started composing music when he correction.
was very young. His first song, which
was composed in 1939, quickly became
famous.Tien Quan Ca (which became
the National Anthem) was composed in
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 1944.(when he composed his first song) - One student
Van Cao’s artistic works included writes the profile
- T guides the Ss songs, poems, and paintings. He got his he has written on
in class to correct fame as a very talented composer, and the board.
the mistakes he was well-know for his rousing and -The other
found in the lyrical songs. (career & achievement) students suggest
profile on the - their ideas for
board. Van Cao died on July 10, 1995. the correction
(date of death)

- T assigns - Students take

homework. notes.

Homework: Each student writes a brief

profile of someone he /she knows well or
a celebrity)