UNIT 6: MONEY LESSON 6E: An opinion essay – Writing I. OBJECTIVES: By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to: 1. Knowledge: - Reading: An essay on how you would spend a million euros to help other people - Exam topic: Starting sentences with a variety of expressions - Writing: Writing an opinion essay on how you would spend a million euros to help other people 2. Ability: - Main skills: reading and speaking skills - Sub skills: reading for specific information - Writing an opinion essay on how you would spend a million euros to help other people 3. Quality: - Have positive attitude in English language learning so that they can participate enthusiastically in all classroom activities, especially with the topic conducted by the teacher - Know how to explain why things have happened using the past perfect II. TEACHER AIDS AND LEARNING MATERIALS: Lesson plan, PPT slides, student’s book, workbook, notebook, personal computer (if any), and projector/TV. Speakers, IWB software. III. PROCEDURES: A. Warm-up (5’) a) Objective: Introduce the new lesson and set the scene for Ss to acquire new language; get students' attention at the beginning of the class by means of enjoyable and short activities as well as to engage them in the steps that followed. b) Content: Warm-up game c) Outcomes: Students can gain more confidence and interest in the lesson d) Competence: guessing, discuss things have happened e) Organization of the activity: TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES STUDENT’S ACTIVITIES CONTENTS Warm-up T-Ss- T/ Ss – Ss Game “Speaking” Warm – up activity: Read the task. In pairs, think of three possible things you could spend the money on. - Refers students to the task above the speech - Look at the task above bubbles the speech bubbles. - Asks the students to think of three things they - Think of three things would spend the money you would spend the on. money on. - Elicits answers and writes them on the board. - Take notes the answer - Keeps them on the board on the board for later in the lesson
B. New lesson (35’)
▪ Activity 1: Vocabulary (3’) a) Objective: Ss know more words about starting sentences with a variety of expressions, writing an opinion essay on how you would spend a million euros to help other people Listening: b) Outcomes: Ss know how to pronounce the new words precisely and use them in appropriate contexts. c) Competence: communication, collaboration, presentation d) Organization of the activity:
PRESENTATION. T -Ss- T/ Ss- Ss/ Individual Teach new vocabulary: (3’) - Uses pictures and - Pay attention to the teacher explanation to present new - Look, listen, and repeat in words. chorus and individuals - Have students practice their - Copy all the new words to pronunciation drills. the notebook. New words: 1. Charity /ˈtʃærəti/ (n): an organization for helping people in need 2. Deserve /dɪˈzɜːv/ (v): to do something or show qualities that mean a particular reaction, reward or punishment is appropriate 3. Facility /fəˈsɪləti/ (n): buildings, services, equipment, etc. that are provided for a particular purpose ▪ Activity 2 Practice (22’) a) Objective: Ss can answer the questions to critical thinking, and they can also finish the tasks in the textbook. Critical thinking skills (guessing/ reasoning) and communication can also be practiced. b) Content: Students answer questions, classify words, choose the correct answer, read and complete, listen and match. c) Outcomes: Ss read and listen, and they can apply the useful language in everyday listening and speaking. d) Competence: collaboration, guessing, matching, communication e) Organization of the activity: TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES STUDENT’S ACTIVITIES CONTENTS PRACTICE. T-Ss- T/ S – S/ Individual Exercise 2 (4’): Read the essay. Does it meantion any of your ideas from exercise 1? Which of the ideas in the essay do you think is best? Why? - Explains the new - Go through the essay vocabulary in the essay together - Gives the students - Take note the suggested suggested answers. answers - Asks the students to do - Do exercise 2 exercise 2. - Checks answers as a - Check answers as a class class Exercise 3 (3’): Answer the questions about the essay. - Gives the students some - Do the exercise time to do the exercise - Checks answers as a - Check answers as a class class
Exercise 4 (5’) Read the
Writing Strategy. How well does the writer in exercise 2 follow this advice? Can you find… - Go through the Writing Strategy together. - Go through the Writing Strategy together. - Check answers as a - Do exercise 3 class - Checks answers as a class Exercise 5 (10’): Imagine you had 1 million Euro to spend but could not spend any of it on yourself. Think of three ways to spend it. Make notes in the table below. Then compare ideas in pairs. - Refers students back to their ideas for spending a million euros in - Look back the ideas for exercise 1. They can spending a million use these or other ideas euros in exercise 1. to complete the table They can use these or - Monitors and helps other ideas to complete with grammar and the table vocabulary where - Ask for help with necessary grammar and - Shows suggest answers vocabulary where necessary - Asks a few students to - Take notes the share their ideas with suggested answers the class - Share your ideas
▪ Activity 3: Outcomes (10’)
a) Objective: Ss can use sentences with a variety of expressions, write an opinion essay on how you would spend a million euros to help other people b) Content: Students work in pairs, speak and discuss c) Outcomes: Ss speak and listen mutually, they can new words they have learnt in their conversation. d) Competence: Collaboration, communication e) Organization of the activity: TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES STUDENT’S ACTIVITIES CONTENTS PRODUCT. S – S/ T – Ss Exercise 6 (10’) Write an essay (120-150 words) using your plan from exercise 5. Include an introduction and a conclusion like the model in exercise 2. - Gives the students in - Listen to the instruction on instruction on what they what they have to write in have to write in their their essay essay - Give the students some - Do the exercise time to finish the essay - Helps the students with - Ask for help with grammar grammar or vocabulary and vocabulary where if needed. necessary - Show suggested - Take note the suggested answers answers C. Consolidation (2’) a) Vocabulary: about starting sentences with a variety of expressions, writing an opinion essay on how you would spend a million euros to help other people b) Talking about a variety of expressions, how you would spend a million euros to help other people D. Homework (3’) - Learn by heart the new vocabulary about a variety of expressions, how you would spend a million euros to help other people - Writing an opinion essay on how you would spend a million euros to help other people - Do exercise in the workbook - Prepare: Unit 6I: The World Bank – I – Culture (page 80 – SB)
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