LESSON PLAN
Date of planning: March 8
th
, 2008 Guiding teacher: Do Thi Thien Huong
Date of delivery: March 12
th
, 2008 Student teacher: Nguyen Thi Thu Nhan
Unit 12: MUSIC
Lesson 1: READING
I. Objectives
1. Educational Aims: music makes humans different from the other animals and
makes our life more beautiful and diverse
2. Knowledge:
a. General Knowledge: helps Ss recognize the importance of music in our life and the
kinds of music
b. Language: vocabulary about music field: to express: feeling, anger, to convey,
occasion, to set, sense, emotion, joyfulness, atmosphere, to imagine
3. Skills:
- Vocabulary comprehension: gap-fill
- Passage comprehension
II. Method: communicative approach
III. Teaching Aids: extra boards, pictures, handouts, textbooks
IV. Procedures
Time Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
7’
8’
1. Warm up
- T passes out handouts, whose content is the
lyric of a song, with some dropping words to
each of the student
- T asks Ss to work individually to choose from a

folk music, rock music and classical
music
- Work in pairs and match types of
music with their descriptions
- Suggested answers:
1. B 2. E 3. D 4. A 5. C
7’
8’
music?
Vocabulary (on handouts):
1. express (v): to convey, to reveal
c. funeral (n): the religious ceremony of
burying or burning a dead person
d. solemn (adj): serious, formal
e. lull (v): make people feel sleepy by sing
songs
f. sense (n): body’s organ receive outside
action
g. emotion (n): feeling
h. integral part (exp.):
important portion
i. mournful (adj): sorrowful for the
death of someone
j. delight (v): give great pleasure to
someone
3. While reading
Instruction: You are going to read a passage about
music. While you are reading, do the tasks in the book.
Task 1.
- T asks Ss to read the sentences in task 1 and tell

- Fill in the blanks
- Expected answers:
1. Communicate
2. Lull
3. Delight
4. Integral part
5. Solemn
6. Emotion
7. Mournful
- Work in pairs, read and answer the
questions
- Suggested answers:
1. Language and music
2. Because it can express ideas,
thoughts and feelings
7’
6’
2’
4. Post-reading
- T asks Ss to work in groups of 4 to discuss the
questions in the book and write their answers
on a piece of paper
- T goes around to help
- When they have finished, asks every two
groups to exchange their ideas
- T calls on some groups to report their ideas to
class
- T gives feedback to the answers
5. More exercise
• GAME: BINGO

+ making humans different from all
other animals
+ communicating
+ setting the tone for almost important
events and special occasions
+ entertaining
+ being a big business
2. Depending on Ss’ answers
- Draw a nine-square box
- Fill in the squares with given words
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