Lesson plan Tran Huu Luu
Unit 5: Competitions
Beauty contests
Reading Comprehension (2)
( Objectives:
1. Educational aims: To provide Ss with some knowledge about competitions in general and some kinds of beauty contests in particular
2. Knowledge:
a. General knowledge: competitions in general and some kinds of beauty contests in particular
b. Language:
New words: Words and phrases related to competitions in general and some kinds of beauty contests in particular
3. Skills: Reading for gists and for specific information
4. Methods: Integrated and communicative approach
5. Teaching aids: PowerPoint aid
Procedures
Stages/time
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
Interactions

I. Warm-up:
(6minutes)
Event Naming






































II. Pre- reading:
1.Pre-teach Vocabulary
(9 minutes)













2. Vocabulary Check
(5 minutes)




















III. While reading:
(10 minutes)

Task 1: Subheadings
(4 minutes)









Task 2: Information Transfer
(6 minutes)



IV. After reading:
(14 minutes)





Rules:
-Teacher (T) gets students (Ss) to play the game in groups.
-T shows six pictures
-Ss look at the pictures and name the events
-Ss have 2 minutes to play the game
-The group which has more correct answers is the winner.
-T takes one picture as an example








→ “The FIFA World cup” is the name of the event related to this picture












T gets Ss to play the games
■Lead-in
Open Ended Questions:



-Separate (adj.) (Situation/ Picture): Are Joe and Jim in the same bed? No, They are in separate beds.
-Degrade: (v) [di’greid]( Picture and situation)
-Who are they?
-Look at these players. Are they too violent?
-Does violence make the image of football more beautiful?
→Degradation [,degrə’dei∫n]
-degrading (adj.)
-Purity (n): (Situation) Tom and Mary have been in love for a long time. They don’t want to have sex before getting married because they want to keep their……………….
■Pure (adj.)
-Object (v) [əb’dʒekt]( Picture)

Running context
Instructions: Fill in each gap with the correct form of the word taken from the box


Tom and Mary, two close friends, had a quarrel about love last month. Tom supported high-school student love with the reason that “when students are in love, they feel excited and happy, which helps them study better”. Mary, however, (1)…………… it. She said that, “love at high school makes students study worse and even (2)…………… the fresh image of schoolgirls and schoolboys”. It seemed that the quarrel could keep them (3)…………… forever. Luckily, thanks to the (4)…………… and sincerity of their friendship, they made up and became best friends again.
Keys:
1. objected
2. degrades
3. separate
4. purity


Instructions: Match the paragraphs with the subheadings.
a. The origin of modern beauty contests
b. Different opinions towards beauty contests
c. Conditions for women to take part in beauty contests
d. Kinds of beauty contests
Keys:
1. Paragraph 3
2. Paragraph 4
3. Paragraph 2
4. Paragraph 1




Instructions: Fill in the gap with no more than two words (Handout 2)
Keys:
1. men 2. teenagers 3. celibate
4. not 5. Miss World 6. year
7. many feminists 8. many



FIND SOMEONE WHO
Instructions: Go around the class and find the one who … (Hand-out 3)
Homework (1 minute)
-Summarize the text based on Task 2
-Learn the vocabulary
-Prepare the listening lesson
(Ss play the game in groups