Lesson Plan (grade 11 – advanced)
Period 125: Preparation date : 20/4/2008
Unit 15: Lesson : writing
I. Aims :
- By the end of the lesson, the students are able to organize accounts in chronological order.
- By the end of the lesson, the students are able to write a biography
II. Lexical items :
- biography
- chronological order
III. Structures :
- he was born in Dijon, France, in 1832, to a family known for fine craft work of wood
- he graduated from L’Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, Paris, in 1855.
IV. Teaching aids:
- textbook - handouts - Sheets of paper
- chalk and board - pictures
V. Techniques :
- writing-based
- Procedures :
State/time Teacher’s and students’ activities Blackboard Materials

1. warm-
up
(7’)
Games: famous people
- arrange the class into two groups, A and
B
- get the group representatives to draw
straws for who goes first.
- show SS pictures of or related to
famous people , one by one and let the
groups decide whom the picture refers to.
Unit 15: p125:Writing a
biography pictures
- write down on the board:

2. Pre-
writing
(10’)


Chalk and
board
Chalk and
board
3. while-
writing
(20’) Activity 1: Re-arranging (task b,
textbook, p.206-207)
- divide Ss into small groups. Each group
is given a poster with phrases on and a
set of faces: neutral (yellow), smiling
(pink) and sad (blue)
- Ask Ss to stick a neutral face next to a
refusal one.
- Tell Ss to stick the poster on the board
when they have finished. The first group
to finish with all correct answers will win


Headings:
- introduction - early
- private life - later
career

Small
board
cards

answers. - life now

4. Post-
writing
(10’)
Peer correction
- Ask Sts to work in group of 5, deliver
each group 5 pieces of writings and tell