Giáo án English 9 - Nguyễn Thị Lệ - Unit 4: Learning a Foreign Language

Nguyễn Thị Lệ
THCS Kim Đồng
Date of planning: 04 . 11 . 2012
Date of teaching: 09 . 11 . 2012
Unit 4 (Cont’d): LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE.
Period 24 : WRITE.
A. Objectives: By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to write a letter inquiry to the institution requesting for more information about the courses and fees.
B. Language contents:
	- Vocabulary: (to) request, detail, express, exactly, edition, (to) look forward to.
	- Grammar: Remind the forms:
	+ Could you please + V-inf?
	+ (to) look forward to + V-ing 
C. Techniques: 
	- Crossword puzzle.
	- Matching.
	- Comprehension questions
	- Writing.
	- Correcting.
D. Teaching aids:	Textbooks, small boards, posters, CPU and Television
E. Procedures:
I. Warm up: 	Crossword puzzle
	- There are 7 crosswords, each crossword has one question.
	- It has a key word:
	- Teacher divides the class into 2 teams: Tom and Jerry. 
- Two teams one – two – three. If Tom wins (or Jerry wins), Tom (or Jerry) can choose the number which it likes.
- In 10 seconds student must answer the question, if they answer right, the teacher gives 10 marks, if they answer wrong another team can answer.
- After 4 crosswords if they find a key word, teacher gives them 20 marks.
	- Which team has more marks, they are winners.
	- Key word: A LETTER.
* T leads to the new lesson by asking some questions:
	- Have you ever written a letter?
	- Look at the letter and tell me: How many parts are there in a letter? (4 parts)
	- What are they: They are heading, opening, body of the letter and closing.
	- T asks students to point the place of each part.
	- How about a request letter, how do you write it? Today we learn unit 4(Cont’d) Period 24: WRITE.	
Act1: Pre - writing: * Pre - teach:
- T introduces the new words by the help of situations, examples, picture, translation. 
- T reads all the newwords, Ss repeat.
- Ss read again.
* Practise the newwords: Matching.
(pairs work)
- SS share their result with other pair
- T and Ss check.
* Set the scence:
- T shows the picture about John Robinson and introduces his letter: This is Mr. Robinson, he wants to attend a Vietnamese course, he writes a letter to send to the leader of this school. But his letter is incorrect about the place of part. 
- Asking SS to order the letter ( individual work)
- T checks and corrects.
- T asks: How many parts are there in a request letter? (4 parts), What are they? ( They are introduction, request, further information and conclusion)
- T asks SS to show where is each part?
- T reminds: When you write a letter, you don’t forget about the address and date. 
Act2: While - writing: 
* Comprehension questions:
- Give Ss 4 parts of a letter of inquiry.
a. Introduction.
b. Request
c. Further information.
d. Conclusion.
- Ask Ss to answer the questions.
( work individual).
- T checks the Ss’s anwers.
* Reading:
- Asking Ss to read the advertisement in 5. READ again, choose one of the schools they want to attend to improve their English. (Choose the New English Institute)
* Writing:
- T reminds the forms:
- T leads the SS to write:
1. Introduction
2. Request
3. Further information.
4. Conclusion
- SS work in group: (6 groups).
- After finishing the letter, two goups exchange their letter to correct it.
Act3: Post - writing: Correction:
- T corrects the letter from Ss
I. Newwords:
- (to) request: yêu cầu, đòi hỏi.
- detail (n): chi tiết.
- (to) express: bày tỏ, biểu lộ.
- exactly (adv): một cách chính xác
- edition (n): ấn bản.
- (to) look forward to: trông đợi, mong chờ.
Ex: I look forward to receiving your message
II. Ordering:
III. Comprehension questions:
1. Where did Robinson see the school’s advertisements ?
 He saw them in Today’s edition of the VietNam News.
2. What language does he want to learn ?
 He wants to learn VietNamese.
3. What aspect of VietNamese does he want to improve ?
 He wants to improve reading and writing.
4. What does Robinson want to know ?
 He wants to know the courses and fees. 
IV. Writing:
25 Le Duan street, Hai Chau District .
DaNang City, VietNam.
November 9th, 2012.
Dear Sir !
I saw your Institute’s advertisement on Today’s TV programs. I’m very interested in learning English and I would like some more informations about your Institute.
I can speak a little English, but I read very slowly and my writing is bad. So, I want to improve my reading and writing. Could you please provide more information about the length of the courses and fees for beginners ? I can supply my record of English study if necessary.
I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Your faithfully.
Thu Ha.
V. Correction:
*HOMEWORK:
- Write the letter in your notebook.
	- Write another letter to attend another language (Chinese or Japansese)
	- Prepare for Revision. 	
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