Lesson Plan: Elective subject 8
Period: 1, 2 TENSES
Date: August 12
th
2008
1/ Objective: By the end of the lesson, Students will be able to use tenses.
2/ Language content:
• Grammar: The present simple and the present progressive, the simple future ( review)
• Vocabulary:
3/ Techniques: pair work, group work, individual work, correction
4/ Teaching aids:
5/ Procedure:
TIME &
STAGES
CONTENT NOTES
* Warm-up:
( 3 minutes)
* Questions:
1/ How are you today?
2/ What’s the weather like today?
3/ Are you happy to see me again?
4/ What time do you often get up?
5/ Do you always go to school on time?
6/ What are you doing now?
T: asks Ss some questions.
Ss: answer.
T: asks Ss to remark the tenses used in
these questions and answers
Ss: tell.
T: remarks and leads in the new
lesson.

T: tells Ss the request.
Ss: + read and do.
+ exchange the result with their
friends.
T: calls to check.
T: tells the request to Ss.
Ss: change in groups.
T: takes feedback.
2/ Activity 2 :
( 15 minutes)
PRESENT PROGRESSIVE
* Form:
* Use:
Ex: We are studying English now.
T: asks Ss to give an example.
Ss: remark and remind the form and
uses of the present tense.
T: remarks and gives Ss the notes.
Ss: gives an example.
Teacher: Nguyen Minh chinh School: Truong Chinh Secondary School
S + am/ is/ are
S + V ( s/ es)
S + am/ is/ are + V- ing
Lesson Plan: Elective subject 8
* Cues: now, at the present, at the moment.
* Practice:
Put the verbs in these sentences with the
present progressive tense.
1/ You ( study) are studying at school now.
2/ Lan ( watch) is watching TV at the moment.

T: gives Ss two examples.
Ss: read, remarks them and remind the
form, cues, use of it.
T: remarks.
T: gives Ss an exercise.
Ss: work in pairs.
T: takes feedback.
Consolidation
(10 minutes)
Put the verbs in parentheses in the correct
form:
1/ They ( not be) farmers. They ( be) workers.
2/ She ( do) her homework now?
3/ Peter ( live) in London.
4/ Be careful! The children ( sleep).
5/ What you ( do) now? – We ( play) chess.
6/ Nam often ( come) to the park on weekends.
7/ A: Let’s go out.
B: Look, it ( snow) outside. It ( come) down quite
hard.
* Answer keys:
1/ are not/ are 2/ Is she doing…?
3/ lives 4/ are sleeping
5/ are you doing…/ are playing… 6/ comes
7/ is snowing…/ is coming…
T: + gives more exercise.
+ tell Ss the request.
Ss: work in groups.
T: takes feedback and gives the
answer keys.

curly ≠ straight
long ≠ short
Activity 1: Ex1: Thien is short
He can’t reach the ceiling
 Thien isn’t tall enough to reach the ceiling
Giving examples on board
Explanation
Ex2: The weather isn’t very cold. We can go
swimming
 The weather isn’t warm enough for us to go
swimming.
(Another)
a. adjectives
b. verbs
c. the position of “enough”
Formation:
S + be (not) adj + enough (for + O) + to inf Students give the form.
When we use it?
Activity 2: Practice: Individual work
Answers:
1. Lan is young. She can’t see the horror film.
1. Lan isn’t old enough to see the horror film.
2. My brother is short. He can’t reach the top shelf
2. My brother isn’t tall enough to reach the top
shelf.
3. Chi is unwell. She can’t go on the picnic with her
classmate.
3. Chi isn’t well enough to go on the picnic....
4. The water here is unsafe. We can’t drink it.
4. The water isn’t safe enough for us to drink.

4/ Teaching aids:
5/ Procedure:
Stages Contents Notes
Warm up * Questions
How are you? Answering
Would you like to come to the cinema with me?
How about playing chess?
Activity 1: Prepositions:
1. Children are fond ______ picture books.
2. My sister is good ______ Moths and English.
3. Why don't you get acquainted ______ them first?
4. Tom is different ______ his parents.
5. Are you interested ______ that topic?
6. It’s very kind ______ you to say so.
Reminding the usage of
prepositions
(position, time)
Answers:
1. of
2. at
3. to
4. from
5. in
6. of
Activity 2: Read and answer questions:
Pablo comes from Venezuela. He lives in an
apartment near school. Abdul and Pablo go to the
same school. They take English classes. Abdul
speaks Arabic as his first language and Pablo speaks
Spanish. They communicate in English. Abdul

Build Hair Character Discuss in groups to
outgoing short straight list them in each
sociable curly shy column
fair slim generous Correction
long kind grey Build: short, tall, fat,
tall small easygoing slim, thin, small
fat mean blond Hair: long, short,
black short thin brown, black, curly,
brown reserved humorous straight.
Character: outgoing easygoing,
kind mean, sociable, generous,
humorous.
Activity 2: Remind kinds of words (Adj, adv or verb) Repetition
Students tell the way to change
one word in other kind.
ex: happy  happiness
humor  humorous
Exercise:
1/ Money as well as fame doesn’t bring ___ to man.
(happy)
2/ He’s not in a ___ mood. (sociability)
Mai is a ___ student, so she always gets good mark
at school. (industry)
4/ We like Nam’s sense of ___. His jokes always
make us laugh ___ . (humorous - happy)
5/ She is two years ___ than her husband (young).
6/ This book has an interesting ___ (introduce).
Asks students to do this exercise
in groups.
Feedback

To express an intention in the future
Introducing new
formation
1/Activity 1: 1/ “Be going to” or “will”:
1. Have you decided what you ___ (do) this weekend?
2. We (have) ___ a quiet day and then on Sunday we (take) ___ a bus up
into the mountains and do some walking.
3. He ___ (come) on Friday.
4. I think I (phone) ___ him up tonight and arrange something.
Ss: work in pairs.
Keys:
1. Are going to do
2. will – will
3. is going to come
4. I’m going to phone...
2/Activity 2: 2/ Making sentences with be going to or will.
Ex: - I’m going to buy you a new book tonight.
- I’ll see you tomorrow morning.
Ss write in a paper
and hand on.
Teacher corrects.
3/Activity 3: 3/ Choose the correct form of the verbs:
1/ A: Why are you working so hard these days?
B: Because I’ll buy/I’m going to buy a car, so I’m saving as much as I
can.
2/ What will you buy/are you going to buy Jill for her birthday a CD
She hasn’t got a CD player.
Oh, I’ll buy/I’m going to buy her a book, then.
3/ I’ve an appointment with the bank manager this morning.
Why will you see/are you going to see him?

- Making sentences with be going to + V
- Reviewing grammar notes
Remember
Teacher: Nguyen Minh chinh School: Truong Chinh Secondary School
Lesson Plan: Elective subject 8
Period: 9,10 S + be going to + V(Inf) (cont)
Date: Sep 9
th
2008
1/ Objective: By the end of the lesson Ss will be able to talk about intention with “be going to”.
2/ Language content: Intentions with be going to - V (inf)
3/ Techniques: pair work, individual work, ask and answer, correction
4/ Teaching aids: extra board
5/ Procedure:
STAGES CONTENTS NOTES
* Warm up * Chatting:
- What are you going to do this summer?
- Where are you going to go?
Reminding the structure “be
going to + Inf”
1/Activity 1: 1/ Make up questions for the following
statements. Use the words in brackets.
1/ I’m very thirsty. (What/ you/ drink?)
→ What are you going to drink?
2/ I’m very hungry. (What/ you/ eat?)
3/ We’re going to the cinema. (What/ you/ see?)
4/ My brother is going to university in September.
(What/ he/ study?)
5/ My grandparents are coming for dinner tonight.
(What/ you/ cook?)

* Check:
Teacher: Nguyen Minh chinh School: Truong Chinh Secondary School
Lesson Plan: Elective subject 8
Period: 11 PREPOSITIONS OF PLACE
Date: Sep 16
th
2008
1/ Objective: By the end of the lesson Ss will be able to remember and use the prepositions of place
well.
2/ Language content: prepositions of place
3/ Techniques: pair work, ask and answer, substitution, correction
4/ Teaching aids: real things, pictures
5/ Procedure:
STAGES CONTENTS NOTES
* Warm up * Playing a game: “What and where”
 stove  oven  fridge
 towel rack  disk rack
 shelf  lighting fixture
 cupboard  rug  stereo
Asking and answering
Pictures of household
Repetition
1/ Activity 1: * Reminding the prepositions of place:
Ex: - The book is on the table
- The table is next to the window.
* List of prepositions of place:
in, on, under, next to, near behind, beside,
opposite, in front of, above, beneath, to (on) the
right (left) of, in the middle of, at the corner of,…
* Practice:

T: Guides.
Ss: work in groups.
Answers:
1. to (on)
2. between.... and
3. above
4. middle
5. In
* Homework: - Reviewing prepositions of place
- Describing your kitchen
Remember
* Check:
Teacher: Nguyen Minh chinh School: Truong Chinh Secondary School
Lesson Plan: Elective subject 8
Period: 12 MODEL VERBS
Date: Sep 16
th
2008 MUST/ HAVE TO/ OUGHT TO
1/ Objective: By the end of the lesson Ss will be able to use the modals: must, have to or ought to
2/ Language content: Grammar: The modals ( must/ have to/ ought to)
3/ Techniques: pair work, group work, ask and answer, correction
4/ Teaching aids: exercise book
5/ Procedure:
STAGES CONTENTS NOTES
* Warm up * Naught and drawn:
late toothache fat
cold headache thin
* Use “ought to” to make sentence - give
advice.
T: guides.

4. must get up
5. have to get
6. have to call
7. have to get up
8. have to take
2/ Activity 2: 2/ Write the second sentences, using ought to:
1. It’s past the children’s bedtime. (they/be/in
bed)
2. These windows are dirty. (you/ clean/ more
often)
3. Peter drives too fast. (he/ drive/ more
carefully)
4. The hotel is too expensive (we/ not stay/
there).
5. He owes you a lot of money (you/not lend
him/ any more)
Answers:
1. They ought to be in bed.
2. You ought to clean more
often.
3. He ought to drive more
carefully.
4. We ought not to stay there.
5. You ought not to lend him
any more.
Individual
* Homework - Reviewing the modal verbs: must, have to,
ought to
Remember
* Check:

f. because the front door’s locked at midnight
* Answers:
1. You mustn’t make any noise after 11.00 because
you’ll wake the other guests.
2. You must take a seat in the dining room because
it gets full very quick
(go on)
T: tells Ss the request and
guides Ss how to do.
Ss: work in pairs.
S1: Why......?
S2: Because.........
T: takes feedback and corrects.

2/ Activity 2: 2/ Make up questions and answer them with
suggested words:
a/ you / get up / early / everyday?
→ I / want / revise / all my lessons
b/ You / should / go to bed / late?
→ I / want / keep / good health
c/ You / learn / English?
→ I / want / read / books in English.
d/ I / shouldn’t / watch / too much TV?
→ You / harm / your eyes.
T: tells Ss the request and
guides Ss how to do.
Ss: work in pairs.
S1: Why......?
S2: Because.........
T: takes feedback and corrects

2/ Activity 2: 2/ Fill in each gap with an appropriate
preposition:
1. I received a letter ___ my pen pal in London this
morning.
2. What does she look ___? She’s very pretty?
3. ___ Christmas, people usually send cards and
presents to their friends and relations.
4. It’s very kind ___ you to help me ___ my
English.
5. My mother is working ___ a local orphanage.
6. Tam spends most ___ his time gardening.
Extra board
Reminding some prepositions
Doing exercise
Answers:
1. from
2. like
3. At
4. of
5. at
6. of
3/ Activity 3: 3/ Rewrite sentences, beginning as shown, so that
the meaning stays the same:
1. Ann can’t carry that suitcase because it’s too
heavy.
 That suitcase isn’t___
2. We can’t go to the movie because it’s too late.
 It isn’t ___
3. Sue can’t go to school because she’s too young.
 Sue isn’t___

should; have to)
5/ The calendar is ______ the clock, ______ the picture
and the lamp. (on/ next to; under/between;
behind/between; above/on)
6/ She worked hard ______ she could pass the final
exams. (so that; in order to; as result; so as to)
7/ Did you succeed ______ the problem? (to solve; on
solving; in solving; solving)
8/ What was wrong with you? Why ______ go to
hospital? (had you to; did you have to; must you; did you
must)
T: tells Ss the request and
guides Ss how to do.
Ss: read and work in groups.
T: calls some Ss to check and
gives Ss the answer keys.
* Answer keys:
1. themselves
2. to put
3. teaspoons
4. have to
5. under/between
6. so that
7. in solving
8. did you have to
2/ Activity 2: II/ Supply the correct form of the verbs in
brackets.
Although I (1)_____ (have) a car. I prefer (2) _____
(travel) by train, especially if I have to (3)_____ (make)
along journey. As the train (4)_____ (travel) at full speed

T: tells Ss the request and
guides Ss how to do.
Ss: read and work in groups.
T: calls some Ss to check and
gives Ss the answer keys.
* Answer keys:
1. at
Teacher: Nguyen Minh chinh School: Truong Chinh Secondary School