Unit 10 Life on other planets Period: 63 Lesson 1 : Getting started Listen and Read A / Aims and objectives : - By the end of the lesson , Ss will be able to talk about UFOs with ba
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Period: 63 Lesson 1 : Getting started
Listen and Read
A / Aims and objectives : - By the end of the lesson , Ss will be able to talk about
UFOs with basic information received through discussion and the reading
B / Teaching aids : Text book , picture and posters about UFOs and cassette
C / Procedure :
7 min
I / Warm up : Getting started - Question and answer
- Explicit the meaning of UFOs = Unidentified Flying Object
- Ask Ss to work in pairs and discuss the following questions :
1 Have you ever heard of UFOs ?
2 Do you think they really exist ?
3 Have you ever seen any films on UFOs ?
4 What are they about ?
5 What do you want to know about UFOs ?
6 If you saw a UFOs , what would you do ?
- Listen and copy
- Work in pairs to answer the questions
- Demonstrate in the front
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=> Gather their ideas and provide some facts about
UFOs - Lead in the new lesson
II / Presentation :
1 Vocabulary pre- teach:
- Introduce the aims of the lesson and some new words
to students :
- Meteor (n) : small mass of matter from outer space
entering atmosphere
- Sighting ( n) : act of seeing
- Alien (n) person from another world
- Sample (n) : example , demonstration
- Spacecraft (n) : craft for traveling in outer space
- Egg-shaped (adj) : being looked like and egg
- Plate – like (adj ) : having features and physical
appearance like a plate
- Treetop (n) : the uppermost part of a tree
* Checking technique : What and where
- Remark and set the scene of the text : “ UFOs are
strange flying objects that some people report that have
seen in the sky and believed to be spacecraft from
another planet Mane scientists do not believe , so they
- Listen carefully
- Listen and repeat in chorus individually
- Guess its meanings and give examples
- Copy down
- Play games
- Listen carefully
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say that if people see a UFO , it might be an aircraft, a
weather balloon ,a meteor However , there is still
evidence for people to believe in the existence of UFOs
III / Practice :
1 Finding contextual meanings of the words :
- Ask Ss to work individually and find the words in the
text having meanings as in the book instructed
- Call on some Ss to read their answers in front of class
loudly
- Feedback and give correct answers :
1 Evidence (roof, support )
2 Meteor ( falling star or shooting star )
3 Aliens ( unknown / strange people or things )
4 Collecting ( bringing together or gathering )
5 Captured ( caught as prisoner )
-Work individually and compare their answers with their friends ( Guess the meaning of the words in the context
of the passage )
- Report their answers and explain their answers
- Read it aloud
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* Ask Ss to read the text aloud
- Listen and correct pronunciation
2 Completing the notes :
- Ask Ss to practice reading the text and doing the
exercise
- Call on some Ss to report in the front
- Give correct answers :
a An aircraft , a weather balloon or a meteor …
b … nine large round objects traveling at about 2,800
meters an hour
c … 1,500 sightings …
d … a UFO above their …
e an egg-shaped object in one of his fields and also
aliens collecting soil samples …
f … Claimed they were captured by aliens and taken
aboard a spacecraft
g,and his plane disappeared after sighting a UFO
h, … that he saw a plate –like device at a treetop 30
meters away…
- Work in pairs and read the passage again to complete the notes
- report in front of class
- Copy down
Work in group to do the matching
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3 min
III / Production : Matching
A
B
1.1947
a A woman
2 1952
b A farmer
3 1954
c Kenneth Arnold
4 1964
d A young pilot
5 1971
e 1,500 UFOs sightings
6 1978
f Two men
- Report their answers in front of class
- Copy
- Write down
Trang 6- Give feedback : 1.c ,2.e ,3.a ,4.b 5.f 6 d
IV / Homework :
1 Summarize main points
2 Rewrite the exercises in their notebooks
3 Prepare the next lesson