UNIT 10 NATURE IN DANGER PART A: READING OBJECTIVES: Aims:To help students know nature in danger and have the concept and importance of conservation. Lexical items: Vocabulary: To present new vocabulary in the text. Teaching aids : pictures Skills: Reading for gist and for specific information METHOD: Integrated, mainly communicative PROCEDURE: T Contents T & Ss ‘activities Warm-up (3ms) - Teacher shows 2 pictures( A: a beautiful forest and B: a forest with cut-down trees), saying: “Now look at the 2 pictures please. - T gives feedback and sticks B on the board. - T shows the other 4 pictures: What is the difference between the 2 pictures?” C: a clean beach D: a dirty beach E: living elephants F: killed elephants - Teacher points to the pictures on the board, saying: “ Our nature is being destroyed. Many trees are cut down. Water is not clean any more and many animals have been killed. Pre-reading(8ms) - T asks Ss look at the pictures in the textbook and say what they are. -Vocabularies: T asks Ss to have a look at the text quickly and pick out . the same meaning words : people, T asks students: “Who does these things?” - Teacher gives feedback, introduces the lesson and writes the title on the board. Students listening to the teacher, look at the pictures and answer the questions. Ss answer the questions. T has Ss work in pairs , read the facts about ……………………. the verbs referring to destroy nature: influence, affect,……………………… the verbs referring to protect environment: protect, save,……………… some expressions: have a great influence on, result in, * Expected answers: - people, human race, human beings - change, destroy, kill, cut, disappear -set up ,raise, prohibit, establish - as the result, so ….that , in danger of becoming extinct While-reading(24ms) endangered species and then discuss the questions in the textbook (P.114 T reads or plays the recording of the reading . Task 1: The words in the box appear in the passage .Fill each blank with a suitble word . * Keys 1. extinct 2. protect 3. decreasing 4 .pollutants 5. endangered 6.infterference Task 2: T asks Ss to work in pairs , read the text again and then circle A, B, C, or D that best sums up each paragraph. *Keys: 1.C 2.B 3.A 4.C Task 3: T asks Ss to work in pairs and read the text carefully to answer the questions in T gives feedback text T has Ss do task 1 -Ss listen to T or to the recording. -Ss read the text and give the answers to task 1 -T gives feedback -Ss read the text again and do the activity.*Keys: (Pair- work) . the textbook. *Keys: 1. Four ways that people change the world are: -changing the environment the environment by building cities and villages. -affecting the water supply by using water for industry and agriculture. - changing weather conditions by cutting down trees in the forests. - destroying the air by adding pollutants like smoke from factories and fumes from cars. 2. The serious consequences of people’s interference with the environment are: - many kinds rare animals are killed. -Ss read the text again and do the activity: (Pair-work) - T gives feedback - the environment where these animals are living is badly destroyed. - the numbers of rare animals are decreasing so rapidly that they are in danger of becoming extinct. Post-reading(8ms): Find out why some animals have become extinct -T asks Ss to work in groups and discuss and find out why some animals have become extinct. -T corrects them when necessary. Homework (2ms) T ask Ss to prepare the next skill -Discuss (group-work) -Do the homework . decreasing so rapidly that they are in danger of becoming extinct. Post-reading(8ms): Find out why some animals have become extinct -T asks Ss to work in groups and discuss and find out. -changing the environment the environment by building cities and villages. -affecting the water supply by using water for industry and agriculture. - changing weather conditions by cutting. UNIT 10 NATURE IN DANGER PART A: READING OBJECTIVES: Aims:To help students know nature in danger and have the concept and importance of