Nguyễn Thị Anh Đào - Grade 11
Date of preparing: March 12th, 2015 Date of teaching: March 19th, 2015
UNIT 13: HOBBIES
Part E: LANGUAGE FOCUS
I. AIMS
1. Educational aim: Students should pronunciate /pt/ -/bd/and /ps/-/bz/ correctly
2. Knowledge:
- General knowledge: Students should use Cleft sentences: Subject focus, Object focus, Adverbial focus
- Language:
3. Skill: fluency in pronunciating /pt/ -/bd/and /ps/-/bz/ and use of Cleft sentences
II. METHOD: Integrated, mainly communicative
III. TEACHING AIDS: tape, text books, and handout.
III. PROCEDURE
Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
I. PRONUNCIATION (14’)
1. Warm-up:
- Give students 4 pictures and ask them some questions. See pictures and go to the board to
write the answers.
- Ask students to go to the board and write down the
answers.
- Lead-in: /pt/, /bd/, /ps/ and /bz/
2. Distinguish sounds Listen and take-note
- Model the /pt/, /bd/, /ps/ and /bz/
for few times and explains how to pronounce them
ex: 1. jump: - “ed” /pt/
- “s” /ps/
2. rob: - “ed” /bd/
- “s” /bz/ Listen and repeat
- Read once for students to hear the words containing these
sounds.
- Ask students to repeat
3. Practicing sentences containing the target sounds Work in pairs
- Ask students to work in pairs to practise reading the
sentences (p.152) Read and listen
- Call on some students to read the sentences and provides
corrective feedback
4.Task: Choose the underline sounds different from the
other ones Individual work
1. a. dropped b. bumped c. hoped d. robbed Read loud the answers
Key:
2. a. stepped b. nabbed c. grabbed d. stabbed 1.d – 2.a – 3.c – 4.b
3. a. keeps b. cups c. cabs d. caps
4. a. labs b. laps c. crabs d. robs
- Ask students to do the task in individual
- Ask the whole class to read aloud the answers
II. GRAMMAR (30’)
1. Pre:
- Play a video clip “Nobita got 100 marks due to Watch the video
Doraemon’s book.” Answer the question
Nguyễn Thị Anh Đào - Grade 11
- Ask students “What did Doraemon do for Nobita in his Key: Doraemon gave Nobita a book
room last month?” S V IO DO
- Writes the sentence on the BB and analyzes this sentence. in his room last month.
- T gives examples Adv of P Adv of T
Doraemon gave Nobita a book in his room last month.
S V IO DO Adv of P Adv of T
- It was Doraemon who gave Nobita a book last month.
- It was Nobita that/who Doraemon gave a book in his
room last month.
- It was the book that Doraemon gave Nobita in his
room last month.
- It was in his room that Doraemon gave Nobita a book
last month.
- It was last month that Doraemon gave Nobita a book
in his room.
- Call on some students to comment on these examples
- Introduces the lesson. CLEFT SENTENCES
- Explain and writes the structure and usage
Form:
Usage: - focus on a particular part of the sentence (S, O, A)
and emphasize what we want to say.
- We use preparatory it in cleft sentences and join
the words that we want to focus on to the relative clause
with that or who.
- Guide students the way to cleft sentences:
Remarks:
a. Subject focus:
It was Doraemon who gave Nobita a book last month.
It is/was + S + that/who + V + …
b. Object focus:
- It was Nobita that/who Doraemon gave a book in his
room last month.
- It was the book that Doraemon gave Nobita in his
room last month.
It is/was + O + that/who(m) + S + V + …
c. Adverbial focus:
- It was in his room that Doraemon gave Nobita a book
last month.
- It was last month that Doraemon gave Nobita a book
in his room.
It is/was + adv + that + S + V + …
2. Practise:
a. Task 1: Read the following sentences and decide what Individual work
type of cleft sentences in each sentence. Key:
- Ask students to do Exercise 1 in the hand-out 1/ subject focus
- Call some students to read aloud the answers 2/ adverbial focus
- Check and give the correct answer 3/ subject focus
4/ adverbial focus
5/ object focus
b. Task 2: Choose the best answers: Work in pairs
- Ask students to do Exercise 2 in the hand-out Key:
- Call whole class to read aloud the answers 1-D, 2-D, 3-C, 4-D, 5-A, 6-D, 7-C, 8-A,
Nguyễn Thị Anh Đào - Grade 11
- Check and give the correct answer 9-A, 10-A.
c. Task 3: Use the emphatic structure “It is/ was … that” Work in groups of 4
to rewrite the sentences. Key:
- Ask students to do Exercise 3 in the hand-out 1/ It is reading book that keeps me
- Call some students to write the answers on the board occupied.
- Check with the class and give comments 2/ - It was the secretary that/ who sent
Jake the photo last week.
- It was Jake that/ whom the secretary
sent the photo last week.
- It was the photo that/ which the
secretary sent Jake last week.
- It was last week that the secretary
sent Jake the photo.
3/ - It was she that/ who bought him a
computer at this shop.
- It was him that/ whom she bought a
computer at this shop.
- It was a computer that she bought
him at this shop.
- It was at this shop that she bought
him a computer.
4/ It is because of the rain that we can’t
go out.
5/ It is John that I have been waiting for.
6/ It is thanks to new medicines that
III. Homework: many diseases are no longer dangerous.
-Ask students to do tasks 1, 2, 3 on textbook P.152-153
-Ask students to prepare new lesson Do the tasks
