Giáo án English10 - Period 41 - Unit 7: THE MASS MEDIA - Lesson 4: Writing

Week: 	 Date of teaching: //2008
Period 41
Unit 7: THE MASS MEDIA
Lesson 4: Writing
A. Objectives
After the lesson, Ss are able to:
-write a paragraph about advantages and disadvantages of television and other types of mass media
B. Method: Integrated/ Communicative
C. Teaching aids: Lesson plan, textbook, some pictures for illustration.
D. Procedure
Stages/ Time
T’ activities
Ss’ activities
I. Warm- up
(3’)
- Ask students some questions:
1. How often do you watch T.V?
2. Is it good or bad?
- “Ok, look at the book. Today we will discuss the good and bad points of T.V and the mass media”
- Answer the questions freely
II. Pre- writing
(10’)
- Implicit the meaning of advantage and disadvantage by analyzing the examples:
1. T.V helps us to learn more about the world.
2. T.V costs us much time.
-Which sentence is good for watching T.V? Which one is bad?
* Task 1: 
- Ask students to read about the advantages and disadvantages of T.V
- Have students underline the key words of each idea.
- Go around the class and provide help when necessary
- Make sure students understand all the advantages and disadvantages mentioned in the book
-Listen to the teacher and take notes quickly
* New words: 
- memorable: ['memərəbl] (adj) đáng ghi nhớ
- popularity [,pɔpju'lærəti] (n) ttính đại chúng
- violent ['vaiələnt](adj) hung bạo
- interfere [,intə'fiə] (v) gây trở ngại; cản trở
- Read the task carefully
- Ask the teacher if needed
III. While- writing
(20’)
* Task 2: 
- Ask students to work in pairs and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the mass media and write them down in the column
- Let students choose of the three types of mass media to discuss
- Encourage students to find the ideas related to the topics
- Ask students to share the ideas with other pairs
- Give suggested answers
- Work in pairs and practise the task
* Suggestions: 
Types
Advantages
Disadvantages
Listening to radio
-Make people happy/ life easier
- Relax.
-Broaden knowledge and understanding/ share opinions.
-provide info aurally, so it can be boring as we can’t see visual images.
- waste time
- make people passive.
Reading newspapers
-Get current information on many fields, culture, art, business, relax and entertainment.
-not expensive, mobile and easily to bring them along wherever we go.
- harm people eyes/ be short-sighted
-less update than other kinds of the mass media as there is no more info until the next edition.
-rather boring without vivid pictures and live broadcasts.
Using the Internet
-Make people happy/ life easier
- Relax.
-A rich source of information on many fields, culture, art, business, relax and entertainment.
-A very good way to study with online course, chat with friends.
- harm people eyes/ be short-sighted and damage our health.
- cost time and money.
- influent on the way from activities such as sport.
-make us confused when there is too much info to choose.
-bring bad effects on children as it contains “unhealthy” websites such as sex and violence. 
IV. Post- writing
(10’)
* Task 3: 
- Ask students to write a paragraph about the advantages and disadvantages of one of the mass media discussed in task 2
- Let students work independently and write under time pressure
- Introduce peer correction if time allowed
- Pick up some writings to correct in front of the class as a whole
- Work individually
- Listen to the teacher and correct mistakes if necessary
V. Homework
(2’)
- Ask students to choose one of the following topics to write about advantages and disadvantages
1. Listening to music
2. Reading newspapers
3. Using the Internet
4. Watching T.V
5. Using computer
-Note down the homework