Teacher: Vu Quynh Hoa Course book: Basic English 10 Date of making: 24/03/2010. Date of teaching: 31/03/2010. Unit 15: Cities A. Reading I. Objectives By the end of the lesson students will able to: - develop such reading micro-skills as scanning for specific ideas and guessing meaning in context. - use the information they have read to talk about New York City. II. Time: One period of 45 minutes. III. Students’ level: 10 th grade students. IV. Class size: 48 students V. Teaching aids: - Textbook, handouts, board, extra boards. VI. Anticipated problems: - Students may not have sufficient vocabulary to read and talk about the topic, so teacher should be ready to help them. VII. Procedure: Time Steps Work arrangement 3’ WARM-UP -T shows a picture of Statue of Liberty and asks Ss to answer some questions relating to this statue: + Do you know what it is? + Where is it? (in which country or city) -T gives Ss more information about Statue of Liberty: It is in New York Harbour. This statue is the symbol of freedom. It was made by the French in 1884. - T introduces the topic of the lesson: Today, we are going to read about New York (it is one of biggest cities in the world) Individual work 12’ BEFORE YOU READ - T can explain Ss the meaning of the places. - T gets Ss work in pairs and match the pictures on page 156 of the Individual work, the whole class. textbook with the correct places. - T checks. T might want to ask checking questions like “What can you see in the picture 1?”, “what about picture 2”, “What makes you think it is the UN Headquarters?” - T gives Ss some information about these places (T may speak in Vietnamese ): 1. The Empire State Building: It is an office building in Manhattan, New York City, which was put up in 1931. It is the tallest building in the world with a height of 381m and 102 floors. 2. The United Nations Headquarters is a distinctive complex in New York City that has served as the official headquarters of the United Nations since its completion in 1952. It is located in the Turtle Bay neighborhood of Manhattan. Though it is in New York City, the land occupied by the United Nations Headquarters is considered “international territory”. 3. Central Park: is an urban park that occupies about 1.2 square miles in the heart of Manhattan in New York City. With about 25 million visitors annually, Central Park is the most visited city park in the United States. 4. Times Square: ia located in the central Manhattan in New York City. It’s famous for its Broadway theaters, cinemas, supersigns. Times Square, nicknamed “the crossroads of the world”. It’s one of those places that make New York a city that never sleeps. - T guides Ss to answer two questions about New York in the page 157 + T may divide the class into small groups of 4 and write down as much information about New York that they know as possible. +T might use the following network to help Ss generate ideas. T may explain new words in this network. +T might distribute Ss the handouts of some suggested answers. • Population: 7 million people live in the city, and 19 million live in the whole metropolitan region. • Famous places: Statue of liberty, Wall Street, Empire State Building. • Location: Southeastern part of New York State. • Area: 946 km2, the largest city in the USA. -T calls on 2 groups to present their information. Vocabulary -To be located in/at/on: nam o… - Found (v) : thanh lap - Global finance (n): tai chinh the gioi -To be characterized by: co dac diem la Some examples: My house is located in a beautiful street The school was found in 1965. Hanoi is characterized by many lakes, green trees and old, narrow streets. 8’ 6’ WHILE YOU READ -T introduces the passage: Now, we read about New York city, the largest city in the USA. Task1 -Before doing this task, T should ask Ss to read through the text and mark the lines of the passage by numbers. T may write the words in column A in the task 1 on the board. - T tells Ss to study the phrases in column B. Ss can guess parts of speech of the words mentioned in column A. For example, “mix with” they may need to supply a verb. - T asks Ss to locate and read around these words so that they can guess their meanings. For example:” metropolitan region” found in line 11 - T gets Ss work individually. -T checks the answers with the whole class. Answers: 1. d 2. c 3. e 4. a 5. b Task 2 -T gets Ss read through all the 5 statements in task 2 and identify the key words in each statement. For example, in statement 1, the key words are “name”, “state”, “city”. - T instructs Ss to go back to the passage and locate these words. Ss read around these words carefully to find the answers to the questions. - T calls on some Ss to present and explain their answers. Answers: 1. T(line1-2) Individual work, the whole class 8’ 2. F(line7) 3. T(line3-5) 4. T(line 18-19) 5. T(line 15-17) Task 3 -T should give Ss some strategies: +First, Ss should skim the five questions to understand them. • Ss underline the key words to decide what information they need to find in the text. + Then Ss go back to the passage and locate the key words in the passage. They read around these words to find the correct answers. -T calls on some Ss to write their answers on the board and ask them to explain their choices. -T gives the correct answers Answer: 1. It is in the southeastern part of New York State (lines 1-2) 2. 7 million people in the city and 19 million people in the metropolitan region (lines 9-11) 3. Because it was founded by the Dutch and the capital of the Netherlands was Amsterdam (lines 15-16). 4. It is the home of the UN and the centre of global finance, communications, and business (lines 18-19) 5. The statue of liberty, the Empire State Building, the Wall Street, and the Broadway theatre district. (lines 23-25) 5’ AFTER YOU READ -T divides the class into small groups of 4 and asks Ss to discuss: “If you could visit New York, which places of interest there would you like to see? why?” - T may introduces about Wall Street, Broadway theater district (t can show pictures about two these places) 1. Wall Street: Wall Street is a street in Lower Manhattan, New York City.It is the first permanent home of the New York Stock Exchange. Nowadays, Several major U.S. stock and other exchanges remain headquartered on Wall Street. 2. Broadway theater: refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 large professional theaters with 500 seats. The Broadway Theatre district is a popular tourist attraction in New York City. -T calls on 2 Ss to give their ideas. Group work 3’ WRAPPING UP -T summarizes the main points of the lessons. - For homework, T asks Ss to learn by heart the new vocabulary and makes sentences with them. -For new lesson, Ss have to prepare information about London. . Teacher: Vu Quynh Hoa Course book: Basic English 10 Date of making: 24/03/2 010. Date of teaching: 31/03/2 010. Unit 15: Cities A. Reading I. Objectives By the end of the lesson. have read to talk about New York City. II. Time: One period of 45 minutes. III. Students’ level: 10 th grade students. IV. Class size: 48 students V. Teaching aids: - Textbook, handouts, board,. City, which was put up in 1931. It is the tallest building in the world with a height of 381m and 102 floors. 2. 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