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Hệ thống GD Nguyễn Bình Khiêm
Trường THPT Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm
LESSON PLAN
Unit 13: Films and Cinema
Lesson: Reading
Giáo viên hướng dẫn: Hoàng Diệu Thúy
Giáo sinh: Trần Đức Hoàn
1. Class description
- 32 students at grade 10th: 19 boys, 13 girls.
- Level: Elementary.
2. Objectives
- By the end of the lesson, the Ss will be able to:
+ Skill: first steps to skimming for main ideas, scanning for specific details and
guessing meaning in the text.
+ Language: use the structure “It was not until... that...” and vocabulary to
read and talk about the topic.
3. Materials
- Textbook, visual aids, handouts.
4. Anticipated problems
- T may not have enough time to teach the structure.
- Ss may find reading boring and not very enthusiast.
5. Procedure

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Stages Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
Warm-up
(10 min)
I. WARM-UP
Good afternoon class!
Before we move to the lesson, I will show you a short
clip contains extracts of some famous films and in your
groups, you have to write down as you see the films.
After that, the group that has the most correct answers
will be the winner.
Key:
1. Saw 1
2. 2012
3. Fast and Furious
4. Iron man (2)
5. Oggy (and the Cockroaches)
6. Avengers
7. The Ring
8. Kungfu Panda (1)
9. Titanic
10. Hulk
11. The Walking Dead
12. Transformers (3)
13. Toy Story (3)
- Group work.
(15min)
II. PRE- WRITING
So, I have some questions for you:
- Do you often watch films?
- Do you want to watch films at the cinema or on TV?
- What kind of films do you like to watch? Why?
- Thang, how do you think a film will be made?
Now, can you guess what’s our topic today?
“Films and Cinema”
- Groups of three

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Okay, let’s take a look at the clip again:
(scene of Avengers) What is this? Yes, this is a part of
the movie, what do we call it in Vietnamese?
Scene /Si:n/: Cảnh phim
(picture of Avengers fighting on street) Who are they?
Do you know their names in the movies? And what do
we call them?
Character(s) /K: nhân vật
Now tell me the different of these two pictures. Is the
right one moving? How do we call them?
Motion picture: ảnh động
Still picture /stil piktju: - imid3 /: ảnh tĩnh
When we order some related still pictures we have a?
Sequence / sikwns/: chuỗi
Okay now I let them move, how are these two
pictures? Yes they are moving, we call it motion
Motion /mouSn/: chuyển động
And what I have done is:
Set sth in motion : làm vật gì chuyển động.
That good!
(17min)
IV. WHILE READING
Now open the book at page 133 and read through the
text, and try to do the task 1.
(open track)
Now can someone stand up and read the whole text for
me?

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Task 1:
How can we deal with this task? Take the first one
as an example, read the definition and tell me
which part of speech is this? Noun, Verb or...?
Okay now check the definition for key words, such
as:
After that go back to the passage and,... can you
tell me the words?
You have 5 minutesto finish the task.
Key:
1. Cinema
2. Sequence
3. Decade
4. Rapidly
5. Scene
6. Character
Now let’s move to task 2!
Task 2:
Read through the questions in 1 minute. Look at
this task, in order to deal with this task, what do
we do?
Underline the important words.
Whatare the importantwords can you tell me?
1. History of movie, begin
2. scientists discovered
3. early day, sound
4. able to see long films
5. sound, introduced
6. form of film, appeared.
- Individual

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Look at the text, where can you find the words?
1. The first sentence
2. line 2-3
3. line 13-15
4. line 9
5. line 14
6. line 17
Now whatis the answer?
1. In the early 19th century.
2. At that time scientists discovered that when a
sequence of still pictures was set in motion, they
could give the feeling of movement.
3. No they didn’t.
4. In the early 1910s.
5. At the end of the 1920s.
6. The musical cinema.
Task 3:
Now look at task 3. Read the passage again, which
answer do you think is correct? Does the passage
mention any particular film-maker? Does it talk
about the modern cinema, or just how it formed?
So can you guess the answer?
B.
(10min)
IV. POST SPEAKING
In pairs, take this handout and ask each other to fill in
the blanks.
If you done, I may call some pairs to stand up and
perform asking and giving information.
- Individual

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Wrap-up
(1min)
- T summarize the main points
- T asks Ss to prepare the next lesson
Evaluation
Extra activities.
Listen to some songs
Sing a song: you are my sunshine.