Giáo án Tiếng Anh 11 Unit 6: Competitions

Time

Steps

Work arrangement

5’

WARM UP

- T gets Ss to work in pairs, matching the 4 given competitions with the correct pictures on page 66.

- T checks the answer with the whole class.

- T might want to get Ss to tell which of these competitions they like most and why. T gets Ss to name some other competitions that they know or have ever participated in and elicits their comments on the events.

a. Quiz: Road to Mount Olympia

b. London Marathon

c. Sao Mai Television Singing contest

d. Olympic Games

Pair work & whole class

6’

BEFORE YOU READ

- T  introduces the topic of the lesson and gets Ss to work in pairs and answer the questions on page 67 .

- T calls on some Ss to answer the questions . T should ask Ss to give reasons for their answers . T helps Ss to express their ideas .

- T elicits comments from the class asks Ss to guess what they are going to read about 

Pair work & whole class

8’

WHILE YOU READ

Set the scene: You are going to read about a school’s competition. Then you do the tasks that follow

TASK 1

- T gets Ss to read thye passage silently and then do Task 1. T may want to remind Ss of the strategies for guessing the meaning of new words. For eample, Ss should look for the instances of the new words in the text and read around them. Ss use the context in which the words occur and their knowledge of word formation to understand the  meanings . E.g the word “representative ” found in line 1 may refer “someone who representative a group ” . Ss can undersand this meaning thanks to the phrase “the representatives of three classes ” and their knowledge that representative derives from “represent ”

- T checks the answers wihth the whole class

- T might want to check that Ss understand all these words correctly by calling one some Ss to tell the meanigng of the words in Vietnamese

Answer :

1 . d    2 .f    3 . e    4 . c    5 . b    6 .a

Individual work , pair work & whole class

3’

WRAPPING UP

- T summarises the main points of the lesson

- For homework , Ss write a paragraph to explain whether and why they would agree or disagree with the statenment that “It is not important whether we win or lose a competition . The important thing is our participation in it and the enjoyment we have from it ”

Whole class