English 11 – Unit 13: Hobbies

Date of teaching: 23/11/2017 Level of students: Intermediate 
Duration: 45 minutes Number of students: 42
ENGLISH 11 – UNIT 13: HOBBIES 
LESSON 1: READING
I, Objectives 
 1, Knowledge 
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
+ Have general information about hobbies
+Use vocabulary items: accomplished, accompany, modest, avid, discarded, indulge in, keep sb occupied, guitarist, local stamps, foreign stamps.
 2, Skills
+ Guessing meaning in context
+ Scan for specific information to do tasks
 3, Attitudes 
+ Students are aware of their hobbies 
II, Preparation 
1, Teacher: Lesson plan, textbook, speaker, handout, laptop and projector.
2, Students: textbook.
III, Approach: Communicative language teaching
IV, Procedures 
Time/ Stages
Teacher’ s activities
Students’ activities
1, Warm up
(5minutes)
- Show a video 
- Ask students to remember and list the names of activities in the video
- Call students to answer 
Keys: 
1, Keep fish
2, Go shopping 
3, Keep stamp
4, Go fishing 
5, Play the piano 
6, Play the guitar 
7, Play soccer
- Lead to the topic “Hobbies” of the lesson by pointing 3 activities “Play the guitar”, “Keep stamp” “Keep fish” appeared in the reading text. 
- Listen to teacher’s instruction 
- List the names of activities in the video
2, Before you read
( 10 minutes)
- Show some pictures, 10 new words, the meaning of them and examples 
Accomplished /əˈkʌmplɪʃt/ (adj): 
tài ba, tài hoa
Accompany /əˈkʌmpəni/ (v): 
đệm đàn, đệm nhạc 
Modest /ˈmɒdɪst/ (adj): 
khiêm tốn, giản dị
Avid /ˈævɪd/ (v): 
Say mê, khao khát
Discarded /dɪˈskɑːdid/ (adj): 
đã bị bỏ đi, vứt bỏ
Indulge in /ɪnˈdʌldʒ ɪn/ (v): 
Say mê, say sưa việc gì đó
Keep sb occupied /kiːp sb ˈɒkjupaɪd/ (phr.v): làm cho ai đó bận rộn
Guitarist /ɡɪˈtɑːrɪst/ (n)
nghệ sĩ, người chơi ghita
Local stamp /ˈləʊkl stæmp/ (n): 
tem địa phương 
Foreign stamp /ˈfɒrən stæmp/ (n): 
tem nước ngoài 
- Ask students to listen and repeat 
- Call one or two students to check pronunciation.
- Ask students to close their books and check their mind by an exercise:
Matching the words in column A with 
the meaning of them in column B
A
B
1.accomplished
a.khiêm tốn, giản dị
2.accompany
b.làm cho ai đó bận rộn
3.modest
c.nghệ sĩ ghita
4.avid
d.tem nước ngoài
5.discarded
e.tài hoa, có tài
6.indulge in
f.tem địa phương
7.keep sb occupied
g.đệm đàn, đệm nhạc
8.guitarist
h. bị bỏ đi, vứt bỏ
9.local stamp
i.say mê, khao khát
10.foreign stamp
j. say mê, say sưa
- Show the keys:
1e, 2g, 3a, 4i, 5h, 6j, 7b, 8c, 9f, 10d
- Write down on the notebook.
- Repeat after the techer 
- Work in pairs in 2 minutes. 
- Check the answers
3, While you read
(20 minutes)
Activity 1: Read the text ( page 147) and choose the best answers.
- Give students the handouts.
- Ask students to read the tasks and give some suggestions.
- Ask students to work in individually in 4 minutes
- Call students to answer
- Check and correct.
- Handouts:
Activity 1: Read the text ( page 147) and choose the best answers:
1. What are the writer’s hobbies?
 A: Play the guitar, keep fish.
 B: Keep stamps, keep fish.
 C: Play the guitar, keep stamps.
2. Where does he collect the stamps?
 A: Magazines.
 B: His relatives, friends.
 C: Discarded envelopes.
3. What kind of stamps does the writer get more?
 A: Local stamps
 B: Foreign stamps
 C: Not mention
Suggested answers:
1.A
2.C
3.A
Activity 2: Read the text ( page 147) and answer the questions.
- Give students the handouts
- Ask students to read the tasks and give some suggestions.
- Ask students to work in pairs in 4 minutes
- Call students to answer
- Check and correct.
+ Handout:
 Activity 2: Read the text ( page 147) and answer the questions.
1. Is the writer an accomplished guitarist?
2. Why does the writer admire his uncle?
3. How did he collect his fish?
4. What does the writer do with less common stamps and with the common ones?
Suggested answers:
1.No, he isn’t.
2.Because he’s an accomplished guitarist and he’s good at accompanying people singing with his guitar.
3.He bought some from the shop and collected some from the rice field near his house.
4.He keeps the less common ones inside a small album. The common ones he usually gives away to others or if no one wants them he simply throws them away.
- Listen carefully
- Work in individually.
- Answers the questions
- Listen and correct.
- Listen carefully.
- Work in pairs.
- Answers the questions
- Listen and correct.
4, After you read
(10 minutes)
1.Play a game: Ring the golden bell
- Give the rules of game
- Call 4 students to answer 
+Answers:
1. to practice
2. discarded
3. hobby
4. keep
2. Checking: Write the words in English
- Divide the class into 2 groups
- Give suggestion
- Call 6 students from 2 groups go to the board and write the words in English
+ Answers:
1. Accomplished
2. Accompany
3. Foreign stamp
4. Avid
5. Discarded
6. Indulge in
4. Homework
- Summary the lesson
- Give the homework
-Listen to teacher
-Choose the best answer 
-Listen to teacher
- Write the words in English
- Listen to teacher
- Take some notes
-Listen to teacher
-Learn new words by heart and make sentences with them