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The University of Can Tho
School of Education

Unit 15: CITIES

WRITING

Nguyen Duy Khang

April 26, 2007

 Objectives

By the end of the lesson, learners will

be able to write a short description
and talk with their friends about a
town or city
city..
 Writing Lesson

 Warm up activity (5 minutes)

 Pre--writing (15 minutes)
Pre
 While--writing (15 minutes)
While
 Post--writing (10 minutes)
Post
 Homework
 Warm Up Activity (5’)
Group A Lucky numbers
Group B

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8 New York/
Make a Vietnamese 1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
located/the meaning of
sentence with
state of New “Museum”
“Although”
Mexico

Make a
Lucky number sentence using Lucky number
relative clause

Adjective Art Gallery Commercial

of history center
Make a lead-
lead-in to the reading text by eliciting
 Pre -Writing

Task 1:
 Ask students to read the text on page 162
and answer 7 questions on page 163.
(individually and orally)
 Possible answers
1. Where is London situated?
 It is situated in southern England, on the
River Thames.
2. How big is it?
It is about/ It covers an area of 1610
square km.
3. What is its population?
 Its population/ It is about 7 million.
4. What kind of city is it?
 It is a capital city.
city.
5. When and by whom was it founded?
 It was founded by the Romans in 43 AD.
AD.
6. What is it famous for?
It is famous for historic buildings,
museums, and etc.
7. What is best about the city?
 The best thing about London is the
parks.
 Pre - Writing

Task 2:
 Deliver handout “supporting information”

 Ask students to fill in the column of

“London” in the chart by taking notes from
the text (page 162) (individually)
Supporting information sheet

London Ho Chi Minh City

Location Southern Vietnam

Area 2.095 sq. km

Population About 6.5 million
Kind of city Modern, industrial
Presidential Palace, Ben
Famous for Thanh market
People Hard working
Best things Economy development
 Structure Revision (Flexibility)

 Ask students to underline the sentences

with relative clauses. (individually)
 Do picture – cue – drill for reviewing
students’ knowledge about making
sentences using relative clauses. (orally)
 - The Tower Bridge / on the River Thames /
- has attracted many tourists.
The Tower Bridge, which is on the River Thames, has attracted
many tourists.
- Ho Chi Minh City/ on the southern of Vietnam
- was renamed from Saigon in 1976
Ho Chi Minh City, which is located on the southern
of Vietnam, was renamed from Saigon in 1976
 While - Writing

 Write – it – up: groups of 4

 Choose a town or city in Vietnam (Ho Chi
Minh City) and describe it.
(hint: students use the information in the
handout of pre-
pre-writing)
 Each group writes down on a poster.
 Post - Writing
Exhibition:
 Each group displays their poster on the
board and the wall.
 One member of each group plays the role
as the representative for answering
questions about the final product.
 Teacher shows students some criteria for
error correction (some structures to
describe the city or town, tenses, and
etc.)
 Post - Writing
 Students share, compare, copy others’,
recognize errors, and etc.
 Students discuss with representative of
other groups about the errors, ideas, and
etc.
 Teacher takes notes, gives comments and
corrects errors at the end of the lesson
(one or two posters).
 Homework
Before assigning homework, ask students to submit the
homework papers of the Grammar lesson.

 Ask students to rewrite the description

about the city or town that they have
chosen.
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