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The first term of grade 11
The 1
st
period
Date: 29/ 7/ 2008
Grade 11
Theme: Guiding how to learn and to do English tests
Time: 45 minutes
I. Objectives:
1. Educational aim: Students know about English book in grade 11
2. Knowledge:
Student know: - How to learn English in grade 11
- How to do English tests
- How to use student’s book and workbook
3. Skill : - Reading
- Speaking
- Listening
- Writing
- Doing English tests
II. Teaching aids: Student’s book, student’s workbook, dictionary, some
test papers, etc.
III. Procedure:
Teacher s activities’ Students activities’ Notes
Warm-up :(7 minutes)
- Introduce to students about the teacher
- Ask students about their names and
English knowledge etc.
Guiding: 35 minutes
1. Guiding student’s book and workbook:

write down the things
which will be prepared at
home
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The 2
nd
period
Date: 1/ 8
Unit 1: friendship
Grade 11
Theme: Friendship
Unit 1
Reading
Time: 45 minutes
I. Objectives:
1. Educational aim: Students should know what a friendship is, know how to
keep a friend long.
2. Knowledge:
- General knowledge: Students know about how to make and to keep friends long.
- Language: Sentences and expression for describing qualities of true friendship.
- New words: Words related to qualities of friendship.
3. Skills: Guessing meaning in context, scanning for specific information and
passage comprehension.
II. Method: Integrated, mainly communicative.
III. Teaching aids: Student’s books, note books, chalks board, etc.
IV. Procedure:
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new words which appear in the passage.
Task 1 : (3 minutes)
- Ask students to fill each blank with a
suitable word/phrase.
- Let students work individual or in
groups.
- Help students if necessary.
Keys:
1-mutual; 2-incapable of; 3-unselfish;
4(1)-acquaintance; 4(2)-friend; 5-give-
and-take; 6-loyal to; 7-suspicious.
Task 2: (4 minutes)
- Ask students look through the
passage then try to choose which of the
choices A, B, C,or D most adequately
sums up the idias of the whole
passage.
- Let them work in pairs.
Key: B
- Listen to the teacher and
answer the questions:
- Yes, I have.
- A is my best friend.
- We usualy come to the
library sometimes play foot
ball…
- Listen to the teacher and
open the book – Unit 1,
part A: reading.
- Look at the picture in the

- Ask the teacher if
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Task 3: (6 minutes)
- Ask students to scan the passage and
answer the questions:
- Let them work in pairs.
- Walk round and help students.
- Ask some students to stand up to ask
and answer eachother.
- Walk round the classroom and
correct mistakes.
After you read : (8 minutes)
- Ask students to disuss the question:
“ Why do we need to have friends? ’’
- Let them work in pairs.
- Ask them to report the results to the
class.
- Listen to students and correct
mistakes.
Home work: (2 minutes)
- Ask students to write a passage about
their friendships (80 words)
- Ask students to do Reading exercise
of Unit 1 in workbook and prepare Part
B : Speaking at home
necessary.
- Listen to the teacher then

question.
- The students who are
called to stand up to report
the result to the class
loudly.
- Listen to the teacher and
write down homework
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The 3
rd
Period
Date 3/8
Grade 11
Theme: Friendship
Unit 1
Speaking
Time: 45 minutes
I. Objectives:
1. Educational aim: Students should know how to discribe a person
2. Knowledge:
- General knowledge: Students learn about physical characteristics and
personalities of a person.
- Language: Talking about people’s physical characteristics and personalities.
- New words: words related to people’s physical characteristics and personalities.
3. Skills: talking about people’s physical characteristics and personalities.
II. Method: integrated, mainly communicative.
III. Teaching aids: Student’s book and pictures showing friends, etc.

questions with a partner, using the
information from the picture .
- Let them work in groups
- Walk round and help them
- Ask some students to stand up to talk
again loudly
- Listen and correct mistakes
Post-speaking : (10 minutes)
- Keep books close.
- Listen to the teacher.
- Try to discribe some one
in the class.
- The students who are
called stand to discribe a
friend to the class.
- Try to repeat from
memory
- Try to discribe the
people in the book:
+ The boy is short . He
has a large face , …
+ The girl is ………
- Play roles.
-Present their
performance.
- Work in groups of four .
- List some personalities
of a person.
- State some reasons why
they choose .

time
- Call some pairs to report .
- Walk round and help them
- Ask some students to stand up and
tell loudly
- Listen and correct mistakes
Homework: (3 minutes)
- Ask students to write a passage about
their daily routine (50 words)
- Ask students to prepare Part C-
Listening and do homework
the class and explain why
they do like that
- Make pairs : one is a
journalist , the other is an
interviewee .
- Listen carefully .
- Practise in pairs .
- Pay attention to the
content :
+ physical characteristics
+ personalities
+ reasons why the friends
are famous
- Role play
- Perform their task .
- The students are called
stand up and tell loudly
- Listen to the teacher
- Write down the homework

• Who is your best friend?
What qualities & characteristics of
your best friend do you admire?
Before you listening: (7 minutes)
- Ask students to look at the part:
Before listening
- Let them work in pairs ask and
answer the questions:
1. Who is your best friend?
2. How did you happen to meet him or
her?
3. How long have you known each
other?
4. What qualities do you admire in
your best friend?
- Walk round, listen and help students
- Read loudly the words in the books:
- Ask students to repeat loudly the words
- Listen and check pronunciation
-Explain some new words & phrases:
Residential area, ring (n), ride/ rode/
ridden, motorbike, happen to infinitive
(v), introduce, ever since, college,
great sense of humour, favourite,
interest (n), plays (n), movies, a rough
time.
While-listening: (20 minutes)
-Have students read the true-false
statement list and questions in
textbook silently for several minutes to

repeat the words.
-Students repeat & take
notes
- Repeat loudly the words
and try to remember them
-Students read task1, 2
silently for gist
-Elicited students raise
their hands to interpret.
-Students take notes
during listening.
-Other students watch
and give comments.
-Students work in pairs.
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completely
Homework: (3 minutes)
- Ask students to rewrite their answers
of tasks 2 in their notebooks at home
- Remember them to prepare Part-
Writing at home
-Listen to the teacher and
write down homework
Key content
Where & how they met What they like about their friends
Lan -They used to live in the same
residetial area in Ha Noi.

they like.
2. General knowledge: Students learn how to describe someone’s physical
characteristics and someone’s personalities.
- Language: The simple present of verbs to describe a friend
- New words: Words related to to describe someone’s physical characteristics and
someone’s personalities.
3. Skills: Writing a passage.
II. Method: Intergrated, mainly communicative
III. Teaching aids: Student’s book, notebook, chalks, board…
IV. Procedure:
Teacher s activities’ Students activities’ Notes
Warm-up: (5 minutes)
- Ask students to keep book close
- Ask students some questions about
their best friends.
Pre-writing: (10 minutes)
- Teacher asks students to think about a
friend they like.
-Teacher raises a few guiding
questions.
1. What is your friend name?
2. How old is he / she?
3. Where and when did you meet each
other?
-Teacher uses a picture to gives some
key words to describe someone’s
physical characteristics ( height , hair ,
eyes , face , clothes…) and his / her
personalities
( helpful , sincere…) and some

white. Her lips are very full and she
has got dimples in her checks. Now
she lives very far from me , but we still
keep contact through e- mail .
- Let them work in groups
- Go round, check and help students
Post-writing: (10 minutes)
- Give suggestions and corrections
-Teacher asks students to read / write
some students’passsages on the board
and Teacher gives comments.
- Correct mistakes and mark
Homework: (2 minutes)
- Ask students to do part writing of
Unit 1 in the student’s work book and
preapare part Language Focus
-Students read / write
some students’passsages
on the board.
- Listen to the teacher and
write down homework
The 6
th
period
Date: 7/8
Grade 11
Theme: Friendship
Unit 1
Language Focus
Time: 45 minutes

then introduce to them
*Listen and repeat :
- Read loudly then ask students to repeat
- Introduce : / dʒ / - / t∫/
- Correct pronunciation for the students
* Practise these sentences
- Read the sentences loudly
- Ask students to repeat
- Correct pronunciation for students
Grammar and vocabulary:(4 minutes)
- Introduce exercises to the students
- Let students get their attention to
focus on Infinitve with to and
Infinitive without to.
Exercise 1: (13 minutes)
- Ask students to do Exercise 1
- Introduce how to do it
- Let them work in pairs
- Walk round, check and give mark
Exercise 2 (13 minutes)
- Introduce Exercise 2 to students and
explain how to do it
- Ask students to do it
- Keep book close
- Listen to the teacher and
complete the sentence:
- Jannuary is the first
month of the year.
-Children like eating
sweets.

- Check, correct mistakes
Homework : (2 minutes)
Ask students to do Part Language
Focus and prepare part Reading of
Unit 2 at home
Keys:
1.The police watched
them get out of the car.
2. They let him write a
letter to his wife.
3. I heard them talk in the
next room.
4. The customs officer
made him open the
briefcase.

- Listen to the teacher and
write down
Unit 2 : PERSONAL EXPERIENCES
The 7
th
period
Date : 11/8
Grade 11
Theme: PERSONAL EXPERIENCES
Unit 2
Reading
Time: 45 minutes
I. Objectives:
1. Educational aim:

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answers.
( teacher doesn’t need to give feedback)
- key : d, b, f, e, a, c
- Let’s begin our lesson you’ll know
the whole story.
- Ask students to listen to the tape
While you read: (20minutes)
- Ask students to read the whole story
- Explain some difficult words and
structures
1. embarrass(v)
- embarrassed(adj)
- embarrassing(adj)
- embarrassment(n)
2. idol (n)
3. glance(n/v)
- glance at sb/sth
4. Be busy doing sth
Be busy with sth
EX: I’m sorry. I can’t go with you now.
I am busy with my homework. I’m
busy doing my homework.
5. note (n) banknote
EX
Do you want the money in the notes or
coins?

meaning of the new
words and take notes
- Do Task 1 in pairs
_Take notes
Key:
1. glanced
2. makes a fuss
3. embarrassing
4. idols
5. sneaky
- Do task 2 in pairs
- Take notes
Key:
1.d 2.b 3.f
4.e 5. a 6.c
- Read the questions
silently and answer them
in groups
- Give the answers
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1. She wished to have a red hat-a floppy
cotton hat ( like the one her star idol
wore in her video clip)
2… so that she could buy the hat ( for
herself.)
3. She saw a wad of dollar notes
( exactly like the one that her father had

- Listen to the teacher
and write down
homework to do at home.
The 8
th
period
Date: 6/9
Grade 11
Theme: PERSONAL EXPERIENCES
Unit 2
Speaking
Time: 45 minutes
I. Objectives:
1. Educational aim: Students can talk about their personal experiences
2. Knowledge:
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- General knowledge: Through this unit, students can talk about their personal
experiences.
- Know how to talk again a problem happened.
- Language: Students use sentences, words, phrases and expressions for talking
about their personal experiences.
3. Skills: Talking about past experiences and how they affected one’s life.
II. Method: Intergrated, mainly communicative
III. Teaching aids: Pictures, English textbook 11, chalks, board, hand-outs
IV. Procedures:
Teacher s activities’ Student s activities’ Notes
Warm-up:

3. Native English
speaker
4. Appreciate
- Explains the meanings
+ Structure:
Present Perfect ( Past
simple)
Have you ever………?
Key:
1. D 2. E 3. B
4.F 5. A 6. C
- Work in pairs
Key:
1. B 2. E 3. H 4. A
5. E 6. G 7. C 8. F
- Listen to the teacher
- Answer freely
- Work in pairs
Key:
1.
A. Have you ever feeled
an exam?
- Yes, I have.
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remarks
Homework: (2 minutes)
- Asks students to write a paragraph to

C. How did it affect you?
- It was interesting to talk
to famous pop stars.
- It changed my attitude
to/ towards/ famous pop
stars.
- Write down
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The 9
th
period
Date : 8/ 9
Grade 11
Theme: Personal Experiences
Unit 2
Listening
Time: 45 minutes
I. Objectives:
1. Educational aim: By the end of this lesson, students will be able to develop
such listening micro-skills as listening for specific
information and taking notes while listening
2. Knowledge:
- General knowledge: Students learn about memorable experiences and the
importance of family
- Language: Use past simple
- New words: Words related to memorable experiences
3. Skills: Listening for specific information and comprehension questions

- Ask students to listen to the tape
(twice).
- Asks students to do Task 1
individually.
- Reads the sentences again to help
weak students:
Task 2:
- Asks students to read Task 2 silently
and listen to the tape again.
- Asks two students to write the
answers on the board
- Gives feedback
After-listening: (10 minutes)
- Asks students to work in groups to
discuss the importance of family
- Goes around to provide help if
needed
- Gives suggestion: Family is more
important than things because it
cannot be replaced… It gives you love,
support…
- Calls each group to speak
- Gives comments and corrects
mistakes
- Gives marks
Homework: (2 minutes)
- Read the task and do it
- Listen to the tape
carefully
Key:

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- Asks students to write a paragraph
about the importance of family
- Asks students to prepare part Writing
at home
- Write down
The 10
th
period
Date : 9/ 9
Grade 11
Theme: Personal Experiences
Unit 2
Writing
Time: 45 minutes
I. Objectives:
1. Educational aim: By the end of this lesson, students will be able to write a
personal letter telling about a past experience, using the
structures and vocabulary that they have learned in
previous lessons.
2. Knowledge:
- General knowledge: Students learn about the organization of content of a form
- Language: Words used in a form of writing apersonal letter
3. Skills: Writing a personal letter to describe a past experience
II. Method: Interagrated, mainly communicative
III. Teaching aids: Chalk, textbook
IV. Procedures:
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your relatives,….)
4. How it affected you:
( it changed outlook life / it make me
more careful/ it gave me more
confidence in …./ it taught me the
lesson/…)
- Asks students to work in groups to
tell their experiences to prepare for
their writing
Post-writing: (20 minutes)
- Asks students to write a passage
about the most memorable past
experience.
- Goes round to provide help
- Corrects common mistakes
Homework: (2 minutes)
- Do the writing part, Unit 2, workbook
- Asks students to prepare part
Language Focus at home
- Work in groups to
discuss
- Work individually and
correct mistakes
- Write down
The 11
th
period
Date : 11/ 9
Grade 11

aloud
- Underlines the sounds /m/ /n / / η /
Ex:
- We like singing mery songs on New
Year’s Day.
- They live in a nice small house.
+Pre
- Asks students to look at their books,
listen and repeat the words in the
colums
+While
- Asks students to read the sentences
+Post
- Practises reading the sentences
II. Grammar:
+Warm- up
We’ve already learn the present simple
tense, the past simle tense, the past
progressive tense. Now we are going to
review TENSE REVISION
- The present tense use to tell a story
that happened in the past makes it more
interesting and vivid
+Pre
-Asks students to remember the use of
these tenses
- Listen to the teacher and
bear in mind
- Repeat in chorus then
individually

- Practise reading the sentences
- Write exercise 2,3 in the notebook
- Prepare in Unit 3 part A reading in
advance
4. gets-5. waves 6.
promises
7 carries -8. contains -9.
has baked
10. is -11. is shining
12. are singing -13. is
- Do the task
Key:
1. broke / was playing
2. wrote / was
3. was working/ broke
4. stared / were walking
5. told / were having
- Do the task 3
- Listen to the teacher
Key:
1. had eaten / arrived
2. found / had taken
3. got / had closed
4. got / had left
5. got / had arrived
- Write down
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- Look at the first
picture and answer the
questions
- Look at the second
picture and answer the
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-Asks students to look at the second
picture and ask some questions:
• Are they friends ?
• What are they celebrating ?
• How old are the people in the
picture ?
• How do they feel ?
• How long have they been
married?
* The lesson today gives us some
information about birthday and wedding
anniversaries in the US.
While-reading: (25 minutes)
- Asks students to listen to the tape
- Asks students to read the passage
silently
- Explains some difficult words
New words:
1. celebrate (v)
 celebration (n)
2. joke (v/n)

- Listen to the teacher
and copy down
- Work in pairs
Key:
1&2 (Both)
3&6(Birthday) 4&5
(Anniversary)
- Work in pairs
Key:
1. eighth(seventh)
2. brings(eats)
3. food(presents)
4. anniversaries(age)
5. months(year)
6. 5
th
(50
th
)
7. silver (golden)
- Work in groups to talk
about their birthday
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Post-reading: (13 minutes)
- Asks students to talk about their
birthday party. ( work in groups)(place,
time, guest, foods, drinks, activities)