KiÒu Xu©n Ho¹ - TiÕng Anh 9 Trêng THCS CÇn KiÖm Monday, March 22 nd , 2010 Unit 9: Natural disasters Period 5 7: Write I. Preparation: A. Aims: Writing a story about a typhoon. B. Objective: By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to write a story. C.Language content: * Vocabulary: behave, shelter, all of sudden D. Teaching aids: Textbook, computer, project. E.Ways of working: T- whole class, pair work, individual work. F. Anticipated problem: speak wrong some ideas in speaking. II. Procedure: Stage Teacher's activities Student's activities Warm up ( 5 minutes) * Jumble words: - Write the words whose letters are in a random order on showing machine. - Divide the class into two teams. Ss from two teams go to the board and write the correct words. - The teams which writes more correct words first wins the game. 1. otnophy 3. lacono 2. damotro 4. tearquahke 5. ormst T - whole class typhoon volcano tornado earthquake storm Pre - writing (11 minutes) I.Pre- teach vocabulary: - behave (v): c xö, øng xö (trans) - shelter (n): chç tró ngô ( definition: a place of safety) - all of sudden (IDM): bÊt ngê, bçng dng. ( synonym: suddenly) * Checking vocabulary: What and where. II. Telling: - Show six pictures on showing machine. - Set the scene: This is Lan's family, they are at home. - Ask some questions to elicit the story. 1.Picture 1: - Who is this ? - Where is she ? - What is she doing ? 2. Picture 2: - How is the dog ? T - whole class Listen and guess the words from T's eliciting Repeat in chorus individually Copy them T - whole class T - whole class It's Lan. She's outside/ in the garden. She's playing with her dog, Skippy ⇒ Lan is outside playing with her dog. It looks strange. Perhaps it is scared. ⇒ All of a sudden, the dog behaves strange. KiÒu Xu©n Ho¹ - TiÕng Anh 9 Trêng THCS CÇn KiÖm 3. Picture 3: - What's on TV ? - What does Lan's mother say ? 4. Picture 4: - What are they doing ? 5. Picture 5: - What's the weather like now ? 6. Picture 6: - What's the weather like now ? - How are they now ? The weather forecast. She tells Lan that she has just heard on TV that there is a typhoon coming. ⇒ Lan ran home and her mother tells her that there is a typhoon coming. They are gathering and talking about the coming typhoon. ⇒ Mrs. Quyen gathers her family and asks them to find shelter in the house. It's very dark. It has strong wind and heavy rain. ⇒ Suddenly, it becomes dark. The storm comes with strong wind and heavy rain. It's fine. They all are happy. ⇒ The storm finishes soon and everyone is glad. While - writing 22 minutes - Ask some Ss to look at the pictures and retell the story. - Have Ss write a story individually The cues in the box on page 79 will help Ss to write easily. - Ask Ss to use past tense. - Go around and help Ss to write. * Sample: It was a beautiful day. The sun was shiny, the sky was blue and the weather was perfect. Lan was outside playing with her dog, Skippy. All of a student, the dog began behaving strangely. She kept running around circles. Lan ran home with her dog to tell her mother what Skippy was doing. Lan’s mother, Mrs. Quyen told Lan that she heard on TV that there was a typhoon coming. Mrs. Quyen gathered her family and told them to find shelter in the house. Suddenly, the sky became very dark. The storm came with strong wind and heavy rain. Mrs. Queen and her family were scared, but soon the storm finished and everyone was glad. What a clever dog Skippy is. She saved LAN from being caught in the typhoon. - Get Ss to share with their partners and correct mistakes. Individual work Individual work Post - writing 5 minutes * Correction: - Take some writings to correct on front of the class. - Ask Ss to rewrite their writings. - Collect their papers and correct. T - whole class Home work - Sumarize the main points of the lesson. - Learn by heart new words. Write down Kiều Xuân Hoạ - Tiếng Anh 9 Trờng THCS Cần Kiệm 2minutes - Do exercise 7 (page 64) - Prepare: Unit 9: Language focus Wednesday, March 24 th , 2010 Unit 9: Natural disasters Per io d 5 8: L a n guage f o cus I. Preparation: A. Aims: Further Practice in defining Relative clauses and non defining Relative clauses. B. Objective: By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to distinguish between defining Relative clauses and non defining Relative clauses. C.Language content: * Vocabulary: sweep, destroy, extensive, border D. Teaching aids: Showing machine E.Ways of working: T- whole class, pair work, group work, individual work. F. Anticipated problem: Do wrong some sentences in Language focus. II. Procedure: Stage Teacher's activities Student's activities Warm up ( 5 minutes) - Prepare twelve cards with number on one side and the words on the other. - Stick the cards on the board so that the students can only see the numbers, make sure the words are mixed up in pairs. - Divided the class into two teams. Each team chooses two numbers. - Turn over 2 cards at a time. If they match that team gets one mark. If not, turn the cards over again and ask the next team. - Continue until all the cards are turned over. Kangar oos Tokyo Lang Son Sacram ento Pompe li Italy Neil armstr ong Japan Austral ia The USA Ky Cung Canifor nia T- whole class Presentation I. Pre-teach vocabulary - sweep swept swept : quét, cuốn đi, tràn qua(mime) - destroy (v): phá huỷ (define: pull down or break to pieces) - extensive (adj): lớn, rộng lớn (synonym : wide, large) - border (v): tiếp giáp với (visual) * Checking vocabulary: ROR II. Defining and non defining Relative clauses: T - whole class Listen and guess the words from T's eliciting Repeat in chorus individually Copy them T - whole class KiÒu Xu©n Ho¹ - TiÕng Anh 9 Trêng THCS CÇn KiÖm - Give students two pairs of sentences and ask them to use Relative pronoun who or which to combine them. 1. The Novel has been lost. You gave me the novel on my birthday. The Novel which you gave me on my birthday has been lost. 2. Vietnam, exports rice. Vietnam is in the Southeast Asia. Vietnam, which is in the Southeast Asia, exports rice. - Help students distinguish between defining and non-defining Relative clauses. - Defining Relative clauses identify nouns; these clauses tell us which person or thing the speaker means. - Non-defining Relative clauses give more information about a person or thing already identified. When we write these clauses, we put commas at the beginning of the clause (and often at the end of the clause) * We can not use “that ” in a non – defining Relative clause. * In a non – defining Relative clause we cannot leave out who or which. Practice I. Quiz - Divide the class into two teams - Call out the questions and the students have to answer as quickly as possible. The team having the right answers gets good marks. The team which has more marks wins the game. 2. Recognizing – defining Relative clause. - Have students to do the exercise in Language Focus 3 on page 82 - Ask students to underline the Relative clause in each sentence, and then add commas to separate the non defining Relative clause from the rest of the sentences. - Get students to work in pair, and then ask some students to write the sentences on the board. Group work b.The country which won the 1998 Tiger Cup is Singapore c.The animal which had one or two horns on its snout is rhinoceros d.The explorer who discovered American is Christopher Columbus. e.The planet which is closest to Earth is Venus f.The animal which was chosen to be the logo of Sea games 2003 is buffalo. g. The ASEAN country which is divided into two regions by the sea is Malaysia. h.The food which can you chew but you can’t swallow is the chewing gum and the thing can you swallow but you can’t chew is water. Pairwork a. Kangaroos, which come from Australia, have long tails. b. Ba, who lives Trang Tien Street, likes playing the guitar. c. The novel that you gave me on birthday, has been lost D. Neil Armstrong, who first walked on the room, lives in the USA. e. The chair that I bought yesterday, is broken (defining Relative clause) F. Mrs. Lien, who sings very well, is my English teacher. KiÒu Xu©n Ho¹ - TiÕng Anh 9 Trêng THCS CÇn KiÖm 3. Matching - Have students do the exercise in Language Focus 2 on page 81-82 - Ask students to match each of the sentences in column A with related sentences in column B, and then use a suitable relative pronoun to join them. - Get students work individual, then share with their partners. Individual work 1-e: Andrew is flying to Sacramento, which is the capital city of California 2-g: It snowed in Lang Son, which is on the Ky Cung River, in Winter of 2002. 3-f: Pompeii, which is an ancient city of Italy, was completely destroyed in AD 79 by an eruption of Mount Vesuvius. 4-a: Hurricane Andrew, which swept through southern Florida in August 1992, killed 41 people and made more than 200.000 homeless. 5-c: The cyclone of November 1970 in Bangladesh, which is bordered by the Bay of Bengal on the south, was one of the worst natural disasters of the 20 th century. 6-d: The most disasters earthquake in Japanese history, which occurred in 1923, damaged Tokyo and yokohama and killed about 150.000 people. 7-b: The October 1989 Loma Pieta earthquake, which measured 7.1 on the Richter scale, caused extensive damage to older buildings in San Francisco Bay area. Production * Writing: - Have students rewrite the sentences in Language focus 3 exercise on page 82 - Ask students to replace each underlined clause with their own clause. - Let students use facts or their imagination Pairwork a. Vietnam, which is a small country, exports rice. b. Kangaroos, which are called “Chuot tui” in Vietnamese, have long tails. c. Ba, who is my best friend, likes playing the guitar. d. (defining) e. Neil Armstrong, who is a famous astronaut, lived in the USA. f. (defining) g. Miss. Lien, who teachers us English, is a beautiful woman Homework - Sumarize the main points of the lesson. - Learn by heart new words. - Do exercise 2 + 5 (page 59 + 61) - Prepare: Unit 10: Getting started + Listen and read. Write down . whole class typhoon volcano tornado earthquake storm Pre - writing (1 1 minutes) I.Pre- teach vocabulary: - behave (v): c xö, øng xö (trans) - shelter (n): chç tró ngô ( definition: a place of. quét, cuốn đi, tràn qua(mime) - destroy (v): phá huỷ (define: pull down or break to pieces) - extensive (adj): lớn, rộng lớn (synonym : wide, large) - border (v): tiếp giáp với (visual) * Checking. Mount Vesuvius. 4-a: Hurricane Andrew, which swept through southern Florida in August 199 2, killed 41 people and made more than 200.000 homeless. 5-c: The cyclone of November 197 0 in Bangladesh, which is