Giáo án Tiếng Anh lớp 10 Unit 7: The mass media - Lesson 4

Teacher's activities

Students' activities

1. Homework checking: (5 mins)

- Ask one st to talk about one of the news stories that he/she is interested in.

- Check and give remarks.

2. Before you write: (20 mins)

- Aims: to get sts to read about the advantages and disadvantages of television and to help sts to prepare vocabulary and information before they write.

+ Task 1:

- Advantages and disadvantages of television.

- Explain some new words:

+ 'memorable (adj): easy to remember

+ en'joyable (adj): pleasant

+ popu'larity (n): the noun of "popular"

+ be a'ware of (v): realize

+ brain (n): part of the body inside the head

+ 'violent (adj): fighting, killing, etc.

+ inter'fere with (v): get in the way of something

- Ask sts listen to the teacher and repeat , then write these words into their notebooks.

- Ask sts some questions to make sure that they understand all the advantages and disadvantages of television.

What are the (dis) advantages of television?

- Listen and give remarks.

+ Task 2:

- Divide the whole class into three groups and ask each pair in group 1 to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of radio, each pair in group 2 discuss those of newspapers, and each pair in group 3 discuss those of the internet.

- Ask sts to work in 7 minutes.

- Listen and give remarks.

3. While you write: (10 mins)

- Aims: Sts practise writing a paragraph about the advantages and disadvantages of one of the mass media.

- Ask sts to write a paragraph about the advantages and disadvantages of one of the mass media they have discussed in task 2.

- Move around to conduct the activity.

4. After you write: (9 mins)

- Get feedback by asking three sts to read their work aloud.

- If there is enough time, T can have sts exchange their writing among sts within a group so that they can check their friend's work and give remarks

5. Homework: (1min)

- Write a paragraph about another types of mass media.

- Read the table in pairs.

- Structures:

+ help/encourage someone to do something: help us to learn, encourage us to buy...

+ make someone/ something + adjective: make things memorable, make us aware of, make us passive, make people violent...

S: Television helps us to learn more .............

- Work in pairs to discuss.

- Some sts stand up to give their ideas.

* Radio:

+ Advantages:

- It helps us to get updated news and infofmation.

- It helps us to listen to music, dramas, etc.

- It is not harmful to people's eyes.

+ Disadvantages:

- It is rather boring because we can't see anything.

- The programmes are not very vivid, there are no games and films, etc.

- Listen to the teacher and take notes.

- Do the writing task.

- Read their writing: (a sample paragraph)

"The Internet is now the largest source of information and entertainment for people. Firstly, you can get a lot of information about any places in the world. The Internet provides you with the latest changes in the markets such as the increase or decrease in the price of gold or oil. You can relax by watching films or football matches, listening to music on-line or chatting to friends or relatives living thousands kilometres away. However, the Internet can be dangerous because you can be exposed to harmful websites, for example, the websites containing violent scenes. Moreover, chatting or playing games online can take you a lot of time. In short, the Internet can be good or bad so you should know how to use it properly."