Giáo án Tiếng Anh lớp 10 Unit 12: Music - Lesson 4

Teacher's activities

Students' activities

1. Homework checking: (5 mins)

- Ask one st to talk about his/her opinion about Quang Hung's ideas about Van Cao's music.

- Ask other sts to listen to their friend and give remarks.

- Check and give remarks.

2. Before you write: (20 mins)

- Aims: to get sts to recognise what a profile is like and to read the information about Van Cao.

+ Task 1:

- Introduce the topic of the lesson: Writing a profile.

- Introduce some new words:

+ 'profile (n): a report of a person (usu. in a newspaper article)

+'mixture (n):

+tune (n):

+ Ragtime (v): a kind of music which is a mixture of classical European and African beats.

+ rag (n): a Ragtime song

+ beat (n):

+ 'talent (n): a natural skill/ ability.

+ 'talented (a): having talent

+ app'reciate (v): recognise sb's good qualities.

- Ask sts to listen and repeat and then copy down these words into their notebooks.

- Ask some sts to read these words again.

- Ask sts to read the prompts in task 1 and to make up complete sentences about Scott Joplin by adding suitable auxiliaries, articles or prepositions and appropriate verb tenses.

- Allow sts to work in pairs first to make up sentences orally and the write them down into their notebooks.

- Move around to help if necessary.

- Ask sts to compare their answer with other sts.

- Get feedback and give remarks.

- Focus sts on some points about writing a profile by asking some questions:

1. Which tense do you use?

2. What kind of information is included in a profile?

+ Task 2:

- Ask sts to read the information about Van Cao and to work in pairs to discuss how to write a profile about him.

- Ask them to refer to their writing in task 1 as a sample.

3. While you write: (10 mins)

- Aims: Sts practise writing about a life story of Van Cao.

- Ask sts to write down what they have discussed into their notebooks.

- Let sts write in 10 minutes.

- Move around to conduct the activity.

4. After you write: (9 mins)

Aims: to get feedback and check sts' work.

- Get feedback by asking some sts to read their work aloud.

- Ask some other sts to give remarks.

- Check and give the correct answer.

- If there is enough time, T can have sts exchange their writing among sts within a group so that they can check their friend's work and give remarks.

5. Homework: (1min)

- Part D (page 73 - workbook).

- Listen to their friend and give remarks.

- Listen to the teacher.

- Listen to the teacher carefully.

- Copy down the words into theit notebooks.

- Listen and repeat.

- Some sts stand up and read again.

- Read the prompts and do the task in pairs.

- Write down the sentences into their notebooks.

- Share their answer with their friends.

- Present their ideas.

1. He learned to play music when he was very young.

2. Scott learned to play the works of composers like Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart as well as to compose music.

3. He quickly became famous.

4. His tune were wonderful mixture of classical European and African beats which were known as Ragtime.

5. All in all, he wrote 50 piano rags, and was called the King of Ragtime.

6. Scott Joplin died in 1917.

- Listen to the teacher.

- Answer T's questions:

1. We use the past simple.

2. the date of birth/death, the place of birth, family, career, personal life.

- Listen to the teacher.

- Work in pairs to discuss.

- Do the writing task.

- Read their writing: (a sample paragraph)

"Van Cao was born on the fifteenth of November, 1923 in Nam Dinh. His parents were poor workers. However, he started composing music when he was very young. His first song was written in 1939 and it quickly became famous. The song " Tien Quan Ca", which is the national anthem of Vietnam, was written in 1944. Van Cao was also very good at other artistic works like song writing, poem writing and paintings. He died on the tenth of July,1995. He was known as a very talented musician and highly appreciated by the Vietnamese people.