Giáo án Tiếng Anh lớp 10 Unit 3: People's background - Lesson 4

Teacher's activities

Students' activities

1. Homework checking: (5 mins)

- Aks one st to talk about Sally in front of the whole class.

- Give remarks and a mark.

2. Before you write: (20 mins)

- Aims: to focus sts on the topic and to introduce the structure of a simple C.V, to guide sts to fill in the C.V.

+ Task 1:

- Ask sts to look at the C.V in the textbook and introduce some new words:

+ C.V(curriculum vitae): a form with details about somebody's past education and jobs.

+ tourist guide (n): a person who goes with tourists to point out interesting sights on a journey.

+ hotel telephonist (n): a person who answers the phone in a hotel.

+ travel agency (n): a business of organising travelling for people.

- Read these words aloud and ask sts to listen and repeat.

- Ask sts to read the model C.V in the textbook about Mr. Brown and then answer the questions:

T: What is his full name? T: When and where was he born?

T: What school did he attend? T: What exams did he pass?

T: What did he do before?

- Ask sts another question:

" What kind of information do you find in the C.V?"

- Ask sts to discuss this question in pairs then ask one st to answer. - Give remarks.

- Introduce the elements of a C.V:

+Personal information: name, sex, date of birth, place of birth.

+ Education: name of a high school/ a university...

+ Previous jobs: teacher/ tourist guide/ etc. (time)

+ Interest: dancing/ swimming/ etc.

+ Task 2:

- Ask sts to read the incomplete form in the book.

- Ask some sts to read aloud the information they have collected and ask some other sts to give remarks.

- Check and give remarks.

3. While you write: (10 mins)

- Aims: Sts practise writing about a person's background using the information in a C.V and the cues in the textbook.

- Ask sts to look at Task 1 again.

- Ask them to work independently and write a paragraph about Mr. Brown ,using the suggested words and phrases.

- Ask sts to use the past simple to write.

- Move around to help if necessary.

- Ask sts to write in about 9 minutes, then compare their paragraph with their partners'.

4. After you write: (9 mins)

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

- Check and give the correct answer.

5. Homework: (1min)

- Because time is not allowed, the writing activity in Task 3 will be assigned as homework.

- One st speaks.

- Others listen to their friend.

- Give remarks.

- look at the C.V.

- Copy these words into their notebooks.

- Listen to the teacher and read these words again.

- Read the C.V in the textbook and answer T's questions.

S1: His full name is David Brown.

S2: He was born on November 12th, 1969 in Boston.

S3: He attended Kensington High School.

S4; He passed exams in English, French and Mathematics.

S5: He was a tourist guide and a hotel telephonist.

- Discuss the question in pairs then one of them will answer.

S: We can find some information such as his name, his date of birth and his place of birth, his education and his previous jobs, etc.

- Copy this part into their notebooks.

- Read Mr. Brown's C.V again.

- Use the suggested words/ phrases to write a paragraph about Mr. Brown.

- Share their paragraph with their friends'.

- Some sts stand up and read their work aloud.

- Other sts give remarks.

" Mr. Brown was born on November 12th, 1969 in Boston. He went to Kensington High School and passed examed in English, French and Mathematics. He worked as a tourist guide in a travel agency from June 1991 to December 1998. And from 1999 to 2002, he worked as a hotel telephonist. He likes music and dancing."