LESSON PLAN

UNIT 13
FILMS AND CINEMA
Part A: Reading
Supervisors name: Cao Th H
Student Teachers name: L Th Thy Phng
Class: 10C2
Students level & characteristics: Grade 10
Teaching time: Period 2

I.
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II.

Wed afternoon 11/3/2015

Aims: This lesson aims to help students to

learn some vocabulary items concerning cinema
develop the skills of reading for main idea and specific information about cinema

Objectives: At the end of the lesson, students should be able to:

Language:
Vocabulary:
- understand the following passive vocabulary items:
sequence
motion
decade
spread
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III.
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understand and use the following active vocabulary items:

scene
character
audience

Skills:
Reading:
- Skim the reading passage to understand its main idea by doing multiple choice
question
- Scan the reading passage to understand the important details by doing T/F task
and completing the table
Relevant previous knowledge:
students have finished Unit 12

IV.

Approach & Teaching Aids:

a. Mostly Communicative Approach
b. BB, computer, textbook, handouts, 4 worksheets

V.

Teaching procedure
A. Classroom procedure:
o Greeting
B. New lesson
Teachers Activity

Students
Activities

PRE-READING:
1. Lead-In:
Tell students to sit in groups.
Show the pieces of a picture
and ask students to rearrange
them.
o Picture of movie theatre
Give feedback
Ask students these questions
o Why do you go to the
movie theatre?
o Did we have films in the
past? When?

Unit 13
FILMS AND CINEMA
Reading
Sit in groups
Do as directed
See appendix 1
Listen and answer

2. Present new vocabulary:

Present the form and meaning of
some lexical items.
SEQUENCE
o Show students three pictures of a
man riding a horse and explain
that they are series of pictures or
a sequence of pictures.

Listen

MOTION
o Give the situation of a horse
jumping and explain that they
are its action of or its motion of
jumping.
o Give the collocation.

Listen and practice

pronunciation

DECADE

Content

Listen and practice

pronunciation

VOCABULARY:

sequence (n): a series of connected

events, actions
See appendix 2

motion (n) : a particular movement

See appendix 2
set sth in motion: move

o Show students a picture of tenyear time and explain that a

period of ten years is a decade.
SCENE
o Show students two pictures of a
film and explain that they are
two different parts from a film or
they are two scenes of that film.
o Give students an example.
CHARACTER
o Show students a picture of two
characters in a film and explain
that these actor and actress are
persons in the film or they are
the characters of this film.
o Ask some students this question.

Listen and practice

pronunciation

decade (n): a period of ten years

See appendix 3

Listen and practice

pronunciation

scene (n): part of a film

See appendix 4

E.g. The movie opens with a scene in

a beautiful kingdom.
Listen and practice
pronunciation

character (n): a person in a film

See appendix 4

Answer

Which characters do you like most?

AUDIENCE
Listen and practice
o Show students a picture of
people watching film and explain pronunciation
that they are watching film or the
audiences are watching film.
o Give students an example
SPREAD
o Give students the situation of
seeing film on the Internet and
explain that people all over the
world start to see films online
more and more or nowadays,
watching films on the Internet
spread quickly.
o Give students an example

audience (n): viewer or listener

See appendix 6
E.g. This film was watched by 50
million audiences over the world.
spread (v): be used or known by
many people

E.g. Nowadays, watching films on the

Internet spreads quickly.

II. WHILE-READING:
Part 1:
Read silently and answer the
questions
Give feedback
Part 2:
Read silently and complete the

Do as directed
Raise answers

See appendix 8

Do as directed

See appendix 9

table
Give feedback

Part 3:
Ask students to read silently and
answer the question
Give feedback
III. POST-READING:
Give the instruction
Show a video of five films and ask
students to write the names of them.
Asking summary questions

Raise answers

Do as directed
Raise answer

Watch the video

Raise answers

C. Consolidation and homework

Learning the new words
Preparing for the next lesson
APPENDIX
Appendix 1

Appendix 2

Appendix 3

Appendix 4

Appendix 5

Appendix 6
Decide which is the best title for the passage:
A. The Story of a Film Maker
B. A brief History of Cinema
C. The History of the Film Industry
Appendix 7
Task 1. Decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F) according to the reading
passage.

T
1. The history of cinema began in the early 19th century.
2. At that time, when only one still pictures was set in motion, it could give
the feeling of movement.
3. In the first 10 years of its existence, the cinema developed rapidly.
4. In those early days, films were about one minute long.
5. Films in the early days already had sound.
6. The musical cinema appeared when the old silent films were being
replaced by the spoken ones.
Answer: 1.T

2. F

3. T

4. T

5. F

6. T

Appendix 8
Task 2. Complete the table below with the cues given
19th century
sound

1915
long films

1905
five or ten

cinema

musica
l
cinema

(1)_________

History of (2)__________ began.

(3)_________

Films were about (4)____________ minutes long.

1910s

The first (5)_____________ were made.

(6)_________

Cinema became an industry.

Films became even longer and better.

1920s

(7) _________ was introduced and the old silent films

were replaced by the spoken ones.
(8)__________ appeared.

Answer:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.

19th century
cinema
1905
five or ten
long films
1915
Sound
Musical cinema

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