Giáo án English 10 - Unit 7: The Mas Media - D.Writing - Năm học 2012-2013

Pre : 22.11.2012
Tea: 28.11.2012
Unit 7 : THE MAS MEDIA
D. WRITING
Week: 15
Syllable Period: 42 
I. OBJECTIVES:
1. Education aim: Students can write about the advantages and disadvantage of the mass media.
2. Knowledge:
- General knowledge: Help students to get information according to the way to fill in the gaps.
- Language: Words relate to advantages and disadvantage of the mass media.
 3. Skills: write about the advantages and disadvantage of the mass media.
II. METHOD: Mainly communicative.
III. TEACHING AIDS: Some pictures.
IV. PROCEDURE:
1 / Class organization: 
Attendance: 10: ...................................................................
2 / Oral test: 	- Let 2 students go to the board and answer the questions
	 	- Correct their mistakes. 
3 / New lesson:
Contents
Teacher’s & students’ activities
I. WARM- UP: Play game “Sentence Race”
Write each word on two small pieces of paper. That means writing the word twice, once on each paper.
II. PRESENTATION
- Television helps us to learn more about the world.
- Television makes us passive. 
- Which sentence says good about television? Which one is bad?
+ help / encourage someone to do something: help us to learn, encourage us to buy.
+ make someone/ something + adjective: make things memorable, make us aware of, make us passive, make people violent
III. PRACTICE
*Suggestion:
+ it makes people happy / lazy
+ It makes life easier / enjoyable.
+ It provides quickly access to information and entertainment.
+ It enlarges / broadens people’s knowledge and understanding.
+ People can share opinions / experience / knowledge / understanding.
+ It costs people time and money.
+ It interrupts people’s conversations.
+ People get negative models.
+ It has great influence on the way people think/ affects people’s life.
+ It harms people’s eyes.
Radio
Advantages
Disadvantages
It provides you hourly- updated news and information.
It only provides information aurally
Newspapers
Advantages
Disadvantages
It provides news and current affairs updated. 
It's less updated than other kinds of media as there is no more information until the next edition.
The Internet
Advantages
Disadvantages
+ It provides quickly access to information and entertainment.
+ It enlarges/ broadens people’s knowledge and understanding.
+ People can share opinions/ experience/ knowledge/ understanding.
+ It costs people time and money.
+ It harms people’s eyes.
IV. FURTHER PRACTICE
Updated information, convenience and stress relief are three major advantages that radio brings us. Firstly, radio keeps us updated with latest information. The news which is broadcast live hourly helps us understand current events around the world. Secondly, unlike other types of the mass media, radio is easy to use. We can listen to the radio almost everywhere with little cost and great convenience. Lastly, radio helps us to release the stress that we suffer from work and study. Music and entertainment programmes on the radio are effective ways to make us feel happy and refreshed after a hard working day. In conclusion, radio has a lot of advantages that make our life easier and more enjoyable.
- Prepare a list of reviewed vocabulary words about mass media such as newspaper, television
- Write each word on two small pieces of paper. That means writing the word twice, once on each paper.
- Organize the pieces like bundles, 2 bundles, 2 sets of identical words.
- Divide the class into 2 teams. Get them to make creative team names.
- Distribute each list of words to both teams. Every student on each team should have a paper. Both teams have the same words.
- When you call a word, 2 students should stand up, one forms each team. The student must then run to the blackboard and race to write a sentence using their word.
The winner is the one with a correct and clearly written sentence.
- Implicit the meaning of advantage and disadvantage by analyzing the examples:
- Ask Ss to read about the advantages and disadvantages of television.
- Have Ss underline the key words of each idea. And take note some structures
- Go around the class and provide help when necessary.
- Make sure Ss understand all the advantages and disadvantages mentioned in the book.
- Ask Ss to work in pair and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the mass media and write them down in the column.
- Encourage Ss to find the ideas related to the topics. 
- Ask Ss to share the ideas with other pairs.
- Let Ss choose of the three types of mass media to discuss.
- Give suggested answers:
- Ask Ss to write a paragraph about the advantages and disadvantages of one of the mass media discussed in Task 2.
- Let Ss work independently and write under time pressure.
- Introduce peer correction if time allowed.
- Pick up some writing to correct in front of the class as a whole.
- Give suggested writing: