LESSON PLAN

Unit 13: FILMS AND CINEMA

Period: Speaking Time Allotted: 45 minutes

Class: 10A2 Date: April 4th, 2017

School: Nguyen Cong Tru High School

Teacher: HO NGUYEN TUYET LINH

 Objectives

At the end of the lesson, students will be able to:

- Know more vocabulary about kinds of films and adjectives about feelings.
- Ask and answer about films and cinema, express the attitudes about a film.
- Improve their speaking skill.
- Well-cooperated group work.

 Teaching aids: textbooks, visual aids

 Anticipated problems
- Students easily get bored with the tasks because of their length.
- Students are not used to the way of group work.
- Class management may be difficult because of the speaking lesson.

 Procedure

Time/
Teacher’s Activities Students’ Activities
Stages

-Draw the attention of students.

-Raise the requirements of the lesson.

Warm-up Warm-up: Guessing the types of films -Listen to the instructions

-Play the trailers of 5 films. carefully.
-Ask students to answer what the title of each film is -Answer the questions.
and what kind of film it is. -Guess the names of films.
-Show the trailers of 5 films. -Answer the question after
-Ask questions. giving the names of the films.

Suggested answers:
1. IT – Thriller
2. Sherlock – Detective
3. Peter Rabbit – Cartoon
4. Winchester – Horror
5. Pacific Rim: Uprising – Science fiction
Lead-in -Introduce the lesson: -Listen to the teacher.
Unit 13 – Films and Cinema – Speaking. -Answer the questions.
-Raise the questions to gauge students’ attention.
-Set the scene to gauge students’ interest in the lesson:
You and your friend are going to the cinema. You are
looking at the movie poster to find out your favorite
film. However, the movie poster lacks some
information about the showtime and the names of the
films.

Pre- -Present vocabulary -Listen and take notes

speaking 1. thriller /ˈθrɪl.ə r / (n): phim hồi hộp, tội phạm -Repeat new words
2. science fiction (sci-fi) /ˌsaɪəns ˈfɪkʃn/ (n): khoa học
viễn tưởng
3. heiress /ˈerəs/ (n): nữ thừa kế

- Practice chorally.

While TASK 1: INFORMATION GAP

speaking -Ask students how much they like each kind of film, -Take notes of the structures
based on the given scale: very much/ not very much/
not at all
+ I like________ films very much.
+ I like________ films but not very much.
+ I don’t like________ films at all.

-Present some useful expressions used to ask the -After learning new words and
information in the poster. structures, work in pairs and fill
+ Name of film: What’s on at the cinema? in the blanks in the given poster.
+ Kind of film: What kind of film is it?
+ Showtime: What time is the film on?
+ Plot of film: What’s the film about?
-Demonstrate the questions. -Practice speaking
-Ask students to work in groups of 4 to find out the -Correct the poster
missing information.
-Go around to help students.
-Oral check
-Show the complete poster on the screen.

TASK 2: GOING TO A CINEMA

-Show a video clip about Bieber and Selena asking -Watch the video clip.
each other to go the cinema. -Pay attention to the speaking
-Ask students to pay attention to the expressions used structures during the
to ask friends out to the cinema. conversation.
-After watching, ask students some questions to elicit -Answer the questions.
the expressions.
-Present new words and structures, based on the -Take notes.
sample dialogue.
 1. on /ɔːn/ (adv): happening
e.g. What's on at the movies?
2. Let’s + V1
e.g. Let’s go to school.
3. scary /ˈskeri/ (a): frightening
e.g. The ghosts are so scary.

-Ask students to repeat the new words chorally and -Repeat new words.
individually -Practice the conversation.
-Show the complete the conversation. -Self-correction
-Ask one student to act out the conversation.
-Ask two students to demonstrate.
-Ask students to work in pairs to practice and make
their own conversation.
-Oral check

TASK 3: Talking about your favorite film -Listen to the teacher’s

-Show an outline of questions talking about a favorite instructions.
film.
 What kind of film is it?
 What is it about?
 Who is/are the main characters?
 Why do you like that film?
 Sample answer:
Well, it’s a horror film. The film is about a scary doll -Pay attention to the sample talk.
which is haunted by a bad soul. The doll lives with a
family and always tries to kill the baby so that the
baby will replace her. The film is very exciting with
Annabelle Wallis as Mia, the baby’s mother and Ward
Horton as John, the baby’s father. I enjoy this film
because it is based on the true events and makes me
stay awake at night.
 Name of the film: Annabelle

-Demonstrate
-Ask students to listen and guess the name of the film. -Guess
-Present vocabulary and useful expressions. -Take notes of useful
1. Well/ Let me see/ I think … expressions.
2. First/ Then/ Next/ After that …
3. like = enjoy = prefer
4. because = as = since

-Ask students to talk about their favorite film.

-Ask students to guess the names of their friends’ -Work in pairs.
favorite films. -Guess the names of films.
-Correct students’ mistakes if they have. -Self-correction
-Give feedback

Post -Sum up the lesson. -Check their work

speaking -Ask students to write a paragraph (about 120 words) -Answer the questions
about their favorite film. -Take notes