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LESSON PLANUnit 13: Films and Cinema

Lesson: Reading

Giáo viên hướng dẫn: Hoàng Diệu Thúy

Giáo sinh: Trần Đức Hoàn

1. Class description

- 32 students at grade 10th: 19 boys, 13 girls.

- Level: Elementary.

2. Objectives

- By the end of the lesson, the Ss will be able to:

+ Skill: first steps to skimming for main ideas, scanning for specific details and guessing meaning in the text.

+ Language: use the structure “It was not until... that...” and vocabulary to read and talk about the topic.

3. Materials

- Textbook, visual aids, handouts.

4. Anticipated problems

- T may not have enough time to teach the structure.

- Ss may find reading boring and not very enthusiast.

5. Procedure

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Stages Teacher’s activities Students’ activities

Warm-up(10 min)

I. WARM-UP

Good afternoon class!

Before we move to the lesson, I will show you a short clip contains extracts of some famous films and in your groups, you have to write down as you see the films. After that, the group that has the most correct answers will be the winner.

Key:1. Saw 12. 20123. Fast and Furious4. Iron man (2)5. Oggy (and the Cockroaches)6. Avengers7. The Ring8. Kungfu Panda (1)9. Titanic10. Hulk11. The Walking Dead12. Transformers (3)13. Toy Story (3)

- Group work.

(15min)

II. PRE- WRITING

So, I have some questions for you:- Do you often watch films?- Do you want to watch films at the cinema or on TV?- What kind of films do you like to watch? Why?- Thang, how do you think a film will be made?

Now, can you guess what’s our topic today?

“Films and Cinema”

- Groups of three

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Okay, let’s take a look at the clip again:

(scene of Avengers) What is this? Yes, this is a part of the movie, what do we call it in Vietnamese?

Scene /Si:n/: Cảnh phim

(picture of Avengers fighting on street) Who are they? Do you know their names in the movies? And what do we call them?

Character(s) /K: nhân vật

Now tell me the different of these two pictures. Is the right one moving? How do we call them?

Motion picture: ảnh độngStill picture /stil piktju: - imid3 /: ảnh tĩnh

When we order some related still pictures we have a?

Sequence / sikwns/: chuỗi

Okay now I let them move, how are these two pictures? Yes they are moving, we call it motion

Motion /mouSn/: chuyển động

And what I have done is:Set sth in motion : làm vật gì chuyển động.

That good! (17min)

IV. WHILE READING

Now open the book at page 133 and read through the text, and try to do the task 1.

(open track)

Now can someone stand up and read the whole text for me?

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Task 1:

How can we deal with this task? Take the first one as an example, read the definition and tell me which part of speech is this? Noun, Verb or...?

Okay now check the definition for key words, such as:

After that go back to the passage and,... can you tell me the words?

You have 5 minutes to finish the task.

Key:1. Cinema2. Sequence3. Decade4. Rapidly5. Scene6. Character

Now let’s move to task 2!

Task 2:

Read through the questions in 1 minute. Look at this task, in order to deal with this task, what do we do?

Underline the important words.

What are the important words can you tell me?

1. History of movie, begin2. scientists discovered3. early day, sound4. able to see long films5. sound, introduced6. form of film, appeared.

- Individual

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Look at the text, where can you find the words?

1. The first sentence2. line 2-33. line 13-154. line 95. line 146. line 17

Now what is the answer?

1. In the early 19th century.2. At that time scientists discovered that when a sequence of still pictures was set in motion, they could give the feeling of movement.3. No they didn’t.4. In the early 1910s.5. At the end of the 1920s.6. The musical cinema.

Task 3:Now look at task 3. Read the passage again, which answer do you think is correct? Does the passage mention any particular film-maker? Does it talk about the modern cinema, or just how it formed? So can you guess the answer?

B.

(10min)

IV. POST SPEAKING

In pairs, take this handout and ask each other to fill in the blanks.

If you done, I may call some pairs to stand up and perform asking and giving information.

- Individual

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Wrap-up(1min)

- T summarize the main points- T asks Ss to prepare the next lesson

Evaluation

Extra activities.

Listen to some songs

Sing a song: you are my sunshine.

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