LESSON PLAN
Class detail: Students in Grade 11
Lesson: Unit 3 – A party.
Skill: Listening
Time allotted: 45 minutes
I. Aim:
- To help Ss practice Listening skill for gist and for details..
- Use the language to summarize the information that they’ve listened.
II. Objectives: By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to:
- Talk about someone’s birthday party.
- Get to know more about how to plan a birthday party.
III. Teaching aids and materials:
- Tape, pictures, handouts, textbook, blackboard.
IV. Anticipated problems:
- Ss may not have sufficient vocabulary to talk about the, so T should be ready to
assist them.
V. Procedure
Time Stages Activities/Steps
Work
arrangements
7 mins Warm-
up
Aim: Let Ss guess about the topic of their lesson.
Activity: “ Tam sao thất bản” game.
- T divides the whole class into 2 teams (team A
and team B) to play the game.
- T shows the box with some things that related to
the topic inside ( such as present, candy, cake,
candle, flower, Coca-Cola…)
- T gives instruction:
+ each team has 2 representatives to play this

choose the group playing first.
- Ss begin playing game.
Group work
7 mins Pre-
listening
Lead-in: Look at all the words in the BB. What do
you think when you read these words?
Expected answer: A birthday party
 Good. In today’s listening lesson, we will
listen to a passage about Mai’s birthday party.
Aim: Focus Ss on the topic and introduce some
words or phrases used in the tasks.
1. Vocabulary:
a. Teaching vocabulary
- clap [klæp] (v) : vỗ tay.
Technique: miming
+ T does the action of clapping and asks Ss:
“ What am I doing?”
- decorate ['dekəreit] (v): trang hoàng, trang trí
Technique: picture + example.
+ T shows a picture of a Christmas tree and tells
Ss: “What is this?”  Christmas tree.
+ T says: There are lots of colorful electric lights
on the tree. Can you fill in this gap with a verb?
The children………….the Christmas tree with
colorful electric lights.
- icing ['aisiη] (n): lớp kem phủ trên mặt bánh
Technique: picture + definition.
+ T says definition: a sweet mixture of sugar,
water, milk and butter or egg white that is used to

- T gives the instruction:
“You are going to listen to a girl telling about the
birthday party that she has been to. You will listen
and decide whether the statements are True or
False .You has only 2 times to listen to the
passage.”
Checking instruction:
1. What are you going to listen to?
2. How many times do you listen to the tape?
3. Has everyone got the worksheet?
- T holds up a worksheet and explains for the Ss
how to work on it.
( If the statement is true, Ss will put a tick in T
column. If the statement is false, Ss will put a tick
 in F column).
- T plays the tape one time.
- T asks Ss to give their answers.
* Feedback on the tasks after listening:
- T plays the tape the last time, stops the tape when
necessary and checks Ss’ answers.
- T gives answer key:
1. F (the party began at about 3 in the afternoon).
2. F (over 20).
3. F (at 4:30 they cut the cake).
4. T
5. F (other kids left, only one stayed to help)
Individual
Task 2: Listen and answer the following questions
- T asks Ss to work in pairs.
-T tell Ss to listen again and answer the questions.

pairs to perform the role play in the front of the
class”.
- T gives some cues for Ss to do the role-play:
+ place ?
Pair work