Giáo án English 10 - Unit 15: Cities - Lesson 4: D.Writing

Pre : 
Tea: 
UNIT 15: CITIES
Lesson 4: D. WRITING
Week: 
Period: 
I/ OBJECTIVES
 After the lesson, the students will be able to describe a city of their choice, using the structures and vocabulary they have learnt in the lesson.
II/TEACHING METHODS
Communicative method
III/TEACHING AIDS
English book, Blackboard, Handouts
IV/ NEW LESSON: 
Contents
Teacher’s & Students’ activities 
I/ WARM – UP
* Network:
Location
Weather 
History
A City
Famous places
Area
Population
- Divides Ss into small groups of 3 or 4 and asks Ss to brainstorm what they would like to tell people about a city.
- Goes around and observes Ss working.
- Calls on some groups to present their ideas in front of the class.
- Might sum up the class’ ideas by writing the network on the board.
II/ NEW LESSON
Introduces: You are going to write a description of a city that you known well.
TASK 1:
+ “What does the first paragraph describes?” 
+ “What does the second paragraph describes?”
+ “What does the third paragraph describes?”
Questions
Answers
1. Where is London situated?
2. How big is it?
3. What is its population?
4. What kind of city is it?
5. When and by whom was it founded?
6. What is it famous for?
7. What is best about the city? 
1. It is in Southern England, on the River Thames.
2. It is 1,610 square kilometers.
3. 7 million
4. It is the capital of England.
5. It was founded by the Romans in 43 AD.
6. It is famous for its historical buildings, big parks, the House of Parliament. etc
7. it is the parks.
* Attention to the language:
Be situated/ be located
Be found by .. in .
Covers an area of 
Has a population of 
Be famous for
The best thing about is
TASK 2: Write a short paragraph about a city or a town in Viet Nam you know well. 
* Suggested writing:
Vinh Yen is situated in the North of Vietnam and it is 45minutes driving from Hanoi. It was founded over 100 years ago. It is a small town with the population of about 50.000 people. Vinh Yen has changed a lot for the past 6 years. The town is getting bigger and it has some industrial parks attracting thousands workers from metropolitan areas. Vinh Yen is very famous for its holiday resort, Tamdao. If you come here you will find it good for holiday.
- Asks Ss to read the model task silently about London and answer the questions in Task 1.
- Checks the answers with the whole class.
Facilitates Ss by asking questions like
- May draw Ss’ attention to the language that is used to describe the above information:
- Calls on some Ss to present the answers in front of the class.
- Asks Ss to read the task carefully and prepare ideas for writing. 
- Asks Ss to exchange their outline with a partner and provide feedback to each other on ideas, organization, and language use.
- Goes around and observes Ss working.
- Gets Ss to write up their description individually in 10 minutes.
- Gets Ss to work in pairs and correct each other’s writing.
- Goes around and offers help.
- Calls on some Ss to write their notes on the board.
III/ HOME WORK
Collects some writings for quick feedback.