Date of preparing: 25/03/2010
Date of teaching: 30/03/2010
Class: 10A6
LESSON PLAN
Supervisor: Nguyễn Thị Tâm
Student : Tống Thị Thùy Dung
Unit 15: CITIES
A- Reading
A. Objectives
By the end of the lesson students will be able to:
- Develop such reading micro- skills as scanning for specific information and guessing
meaning in context.
- Use the information they have to read to talk about New York City.
B. Teaching aids
Textbook, posters.
C. Language focus
- Understanding new words/ expressions in context.
- Deciding on True or False statements.
- Passage comprehension.
D. Procedure
Teacher’s activities Time Students’ activities Aids
Warm up
Matching
-T asks Ss to match the name of cities with
the name of countries.
Countries:
1. China
2. England
3. USA
4. Thailand
5’

2. What do you know about the city?
-T calls on some Ss to answer.
-T gives suggestion answers:
1. New York is in New York State.
2. It is the most populous city in the
United State.
5’
-Ss work in pairs.
-Ss answer
1-a, 2-b, 3-d, 4-c.
Textbook
II- While you read
1.New words
* To be located in: nằm ở.
* To found: sáng lập, thành lập.
* Global finance: tài chính thế giới.
* To be characterised by: có đặc điểm là.
5’
Whole class
Textbook
-T reads aloud new words and calls on some
Ss to read.
2.Task1: Matching words in A with their
definitions in B.
-T gets Ss to read the passage silently and
then do task 1.
-T asks Ss to go back to the passage to locate
and read these words so that they can guess
their meanings.
-T calls on some Ss to give the answers.

8’
-Ss read after the T
-Ss read aloud
-Ss work individually
-Ss write down the
answers.
1-d, 2-c, 3-e, 4-a, 5-b
-Ss read the questions
-Ss give the answers
1. T
2. F
3. T
4. T
5. T
Poster
Textbook
-T asks Ss should skim the five questions to
understand them. Then Ss underline the key
words to decide what information they need
to find in the text.
-T gets Ss to check their answers with a peer.
-T calls on some Ss to write their answers on
the board and ask them to explain their
choices.
-T gives the correct answers:
1. It is in the southeastern part of New
York State ( lines 1-2).
2. 7 million people in the city and 19
million people in the metropolitan
region ( lines 9-11).

communications, and
business.
5-The Statue of
Liberty, the Empire
State Building, the
Wall street, and the
Broadway theatre
district.
III- After you read
-T asks Ss to work in groups to discuss the
question:
If you could visit New York, which place (s)
of interest there would you like to see?
Why?
-T calls on some group to present in front of
class.
-T gives feedback and a model answer:
5’
-Ss work in groups
-Ss present in front of
the class
Texbook
If I could visit New York, I would like to visit
The Statue of Liberty because it is very
beautiful and is one of the most typical
symbol of New York.
E- Wrapping up
T summarises the main points of the lesson.
- understanding new words/ expressions in
context.