Unit 9: Week: 31, Period: 58 Date: 01/4/2009 NATURE DISASTERS LANGUAGE FOCUS I AIMS: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to distinguish between defining relative clauses and non-defining relative clauses II LANGUAGE CONTENTS: Grammar : - Relative pronouns: who, that, which - Relative clauses Vocabulary : III TEACHING AIDS: - Posters, pictures, textbook, IV PROCEDURES: CONTENTS TECHNIQUES Warm up: (5’) Answer the questions: - Teacher asks students the questions in 1) Which country won the 1998 Tiger Cup? the text book on page 81 2) Which animal has or horns on its snout? 3) Which explorer discovered America? + Students use their knowledge to answer 4) Which planet is closest to the earth? the questions 5) Which animal was chosen to be the logo of SEA Games 2003? + Individual 6) Which ASEAN country is divided into two regions by the sea? + Pairs 7) Which food can you chew but can’t swallow? 8) Which thing can you swallow but can’t - Feedback chew? Practice: (15’) 1) Use “Who”, “which” or “that” to answer the - Teacher reminds the use of relative questions (P 81) pronouns “who”, “which” a The city which was struck by a huge earthquake in 1995, is Kobe + Students listen and repeat b The country which won the 1998 Tiger Cup, + Whole class is Singapore + Individual c The animal which has one or two horns on its snout, is rhinoceros - Teacher asks students to the exercise d The explorer who discovered America, is in language focus on page 81 Christopher Columbus + Students answer the questions, using e The planet which is closest to the earth, is the relative pronouns which or who Mars + Individual f The animal which was chosen to be the logo + Pairs of SEA Games 2003, is buffalo g The ASEAN country which is divided into - Feedback regions by the sea, is Malaysia h The food that you can chew but can’t swallow - Teacher corrects the mistakes and gives is the chewing gum, and the thing you can the correct answers 134 swallow but you can’t chew is water Further Practice: (15’) 2) Matching: (P 81, 82) – g: It snowed in Lang Son, which is on the Ky Cung River, in the Winter of 2002 – f: Pompeii which is an ancient city of Italy, was completely destroyed in AD 79 by an eruption of Mount Vesuvius – a: Hurricane Andrew, which swept through Southern Florida in August 1992, killed 41 people and made more than 200,000 homeless – c: The cyclone of November 1970 in Bangladesh, which killed about 500,000 people, was one of the worst natural disasters of the 20 th century – d: The most disastrous earthquake in Japanese history, which occurred in 1923, damaged Tokyo and Yokohama and killed about 150,000 people – b: The October 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake which measured 7.1 on the Richter scale, caused extensive damage to older buildings in San Francisco Bay area Production: (8’) 3) Underline the relative clause in the sentences: (P 82) Answers: b Kangaroos, which come from Australia, have long tails c Ba, who lives in Trang Tien street, likes playing the guitar d The novel that you gave me on my birthday, has been lost e Neil Amstrong, who first walked on the moon, lives in the USA f The chair that I bought yesterday, is broken g Mrs Lien, who sings very well, is my English teacher Writing: - Students replace each underlined clause with their own clause: Ex: Viet Nam, which is a small country, exports rice etc Homework: (2’) - Study the lesson carefully - Write about sentences with non–defining relative clauses in your exercise books - Teacher asks students to match each of the sentences in column A with a related sentences in column B then use suitable relative pronoun to join them + Students work in pairs + Students go to the board and write their sentences on the board + Individual - Feedback - Teacher corrects the mistakes and gives the correct answers + Students read the sentences again + Individual - Teacher asks students to underline the relative clause in each sentence, then add commas to separate the non defining relative clause from the rest of the sentence + Students work in pairs + Students go to the board and write down + Individual - Feedback - Teacher corrects the mistakes and give the correct answers - Teacher asks students to replace each underline clause with their own clause + Students rewrite the sentences on P 82 + Individual > pairs - Feedback -Teacher guides students what to at home 135