LESSON PLAN

Teacher’s name: Nguyen Dieu Huong

Subject: Writing – Reading 3
Textbook: Real Life Upper intermediate Long man - Unit 4 – Happy & successful
Week 5: Happy and successful
Aims:
- Guessing words from contexts
- Reading for specific information (Open questions/MCQ)
- Writing: Descriptive paragraph (edit your writing, peer editing, write 2 nd graphs)
Time: 9:00 – 12:00 am – Monday 15/07/2019
Teaching aids: Projector, black board, chalks

Session 1:
Tim Stage Tasks
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5’ Warm-up Warm up
Jobs “A-B-C”
- Have students write the name of jobs beginning with the letters of the alphabet.
Divide the class into two.
Team 1: write jobs for the letters A- L (excluding I and K) A B C D E F G H J L
Team 2: for the letters M- Z (excluding Q, U, X and V) M N O P R S T V W Z
2 minutes.

Lead-in Discussion
Which qualities/skills does a good teacher need?
- Have students read the text and underline key words in 3 minutes

5’ Pre-reading - Pre-reading activity adapted from exercise 3 (pg 36) – The inside track)
Teacher pick up some words from the text
Divide class into 2 teams
Teacher shows the definition/synonym/explanation on the screen.
Team which is faster can have a chance to answer. Each turn is in 10 seconds.

After students give the answer; ask them to give out synonyms/antonym/example
or make a sentence
5’ Present “types of context clues”
- Explanation
- Synonym/Antonym
- Example
10’ 2 teams.
Each team has 6 seconds to give the answer.
- Go to the board and write the answer.
“Our baseball team's pitcher has a few eccentric habits, such as throwing exactly
thirteen warm-up pitches and never wearing socks.”
A) normal
 B) strange
C) messy
-> B - clue: example
10’ While- - Students do exercise individually (exercise 5 – page 39)
reading
10’ Post-reading - Share answer in pairs
- Teacher correction

Homework: There are more than 3 ways of guessing words from context. At home,
research other ways (Suggestion: you can use the key word “Context clue”)

Session 2

Tim Stage Tasks

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5’ Pre-reading Discussion:
What is the topic?
How many paragraphs?
10’ Activity pre-reading: Word guessing.
Teacher pick up some words from the text
Teacher shows the definition/synonym/antonym on the screen

- Ask students to underline key words, then locate the needed information.
15’ While- Students do exercise individually (exercise 4 - page 43)
reading - Do exercise on page 38-39

5’ Lead-in Look at the picture of a place and think of as many adjectives as possible” – in
Pre-writing 1 minute.
- Let students make a sentence with the adjective
5’ - Use adjectives
- Use specific language
15’ - Divide class into 4 groups: 1,2,3,4
- How many parts are there in a descriptive paragraph?
Topic, supporting, concluding

- In 10 minutes, each group chooses the places and outlines their paragraph.

Session 3

Tim Stage Tasks

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25’ While-writing - Students write their first draft on their separate piece of paper
- 120-150 words
10’ - peer editing among groups
- peer editing with other groups
10’ Write 2nd paragraph and hand in.
5’ Wrap-up

“Jack quickly entered the didot and cleaned the various misturaes he had been using to repair the
wuipit. He had often thought that this job was extremely yullning. However, he had to admit that
this time things seemed to be a bit easier. When he finished, he put on his redick and went back
to the study to relax. He took out his favourite pipe and settled into the beautiful new pogtry.
What a fantastic schnappy he had made when he had bought the pogtry. Only 300 yagmas!”

What could a 'didot' be?

What part of speech is 'misturaes'?

If Jack used the 'misturaes' to repair the 'wuipit' what do you think the 'mistraes' must be?

What could 'yulling' mean? - What part of speech is often used with an ending '-ing '?

Which synonym could be used for ' yulling '?

 fun
 difficult
 expensive

What type of things do you put on?

Based on the above question, what kind of thing must a 'redick' be?

Is a 'pogtry' used inside or outside?

Which words let you know that the 'pogtry' was cheap?

What must 'yagmas' be?

 Clothes
 Cigarette type
 Type of money

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