Date: 08 / 01 / 09 Unit: Ten Period: 61 LESSON PLAN ***** A. OBJECTIVES: By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to: I. Knowledge: - Develop such reading micro-skills as identifying main ideas and guessing in context. - Use the information they have read to discuss environmental destruction and conservation. II. Skills: - Reading, Listening, Speaking. B. PROCEDURE: I. Settlement (2'): - Who's absent today? II. Checking (5'): - Call on 2 Ss to do exercises. III. New lesson: Part A: READING TEACHER'S ACTIVITIES STUDENTS' ACTIVITIES I. Warm up: (5') Brainstorming - Divide the class into small groups of 3-4. Then T distributes the handout for Ss to match the causes with effects and then brainstorm solutions to the problems. - Call different groups to present their answers. Cause Effect Solution 1. Cutting down trees a. Rare animals disappearing 2. Producing harmful gases b. Reducing water supply 3. Killing animals c. Destroying the air 4. Using water for industry and agriculture d. Changing weather - Introduce to the topic: Nature in Danger. - Work in groups - Present their answers: Solution Planting forests Banning cutting trees Banning releasing harmful chemicals into the environment Enlisting rare animals in the red books. Banning killing animals for food or industry. Breeding and raising rare animals Building dams for water storage. Calling people to save water - Listen and take notes II. Pre-reading (7') - Get Ss to look at the pictures on page 114 and name the animals. Vocabulary: + result in (v): cause + prohibit (v): ban, not allow + off-spring (n): children + coexist (v): live together * Rub out remember - Ask Ss to discuss and answer the questions on page 144: 1. The number of the animals is decreasing. They may disappear from the earth if we do not take action to protect them. - Give feedback - Work in pairs and name the animals + cheetah, pandas, and Siberian tigers - Listen and take notes + do, bởi + cấm, không được phép + con, con cháu + cùng tồn tại chung sống - Discuss and answer the questions: 2. People kill rare animals for food. They destroy forests and pollute the air, soil and water, so animals’ lives have been badly affected. III. While-reading (16') Set the scene: You are going to read about how we have destroy our environment and affected other species and what we can do to save endangered animals. Then you do the tasks in the textbook. TASK 1: - Listen - Get Ss to read the passage silently and then do task 1. Then T may want to remind Ss of the strategies for guessing the meaning of new words. - Get Ss to do the task individually, then discuss the answers in pairs - Call on Ss to give their answers - Check the answers with the whole class and give feedback TASK 2: - Get Ss to read the passage again and do Task 2 individually. - Call on some Ss to give their answers and ask them to explain their choices and write their answers on the board. - Elicit feedback from the other Ss and give the correct answers - Give feedback and correct answers TASK 3: - Check if Ss can answer the comprehension questions in task 3 without having to read the passage again. If Ss can not, T gets them to read the questions carefully. - Ask Ss to underline the key words to decide what information they need to find in the text - Instruct Ss to guess where in the passage they can find the information, - Get Ss to check their answers with a friend - Call on some Ss to give their answers - Give feedback and correct answers - Read the passage silently and then do Task 1 and give their meaning. - Do the task individually, then discuss the answers in pairs - Give their answers: 1. extinct 2. protect 3. decrease 4.pollutants 5.endangered 6.interferences - Listen - Read through the passage again individually - Give their answers: 1. C (A & B are too narrow, D is not supported by information in text) 2. B. (A is too broad. C & D are not supported by information in text) 3. A (B is too narrow, C & D are not supported by information in text) 4. C (A, B and D are not supported by information in text) - Check their answers with a friend - Listen. - Listen and answer - Underline the key words to decide what information they need to find in the text - Listen and take notes - Check their answers with a friend - Give their answers 1. Four ways that people change the world are: + They are changing the environmental by building cities and villages + They are affecting the water supply by using water for industry and agriculture. - Listen IV. Post-reading (5') - Ask Ss to discuss to find out solutions to protect the rare animals. (what do you think? I think .In my opinion, ) - Go around to check and offer help. - Call on the groups to present their ideas - Give feed back - Listen and discuss in groups - Present their ideas - Listen and take notes IV. Consolidation (3'): - Summarize the main point of the lesson V. Homework (2'): - Ask Ss to learn by heart all of the new vocabularies and the main ideas - Ask Ss to prepare Part B - Speaking . 08 / 01 / 09 Unit: Ten Period: 61 LESSON PLAN ***** A. OBJECTIVES: By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to: I. Knowledge: - Develop such reading micro-skills. have read to discuss environmental destruction and conservation. II. Skills: - Reading, Listening, Speaking. B. PROCEDURE: I. Settlement (2'): - Who's