- By the end of this lesson, students will be able to listen and read the dialogue between Duong and Nhi to understand the details then do some more tasks to understand more about what[r]
(1)UNIT 12: LIFE ON OTHER PLANETS I Objectives
By the end of this unit, students will be able to:
- pronounce correctly the words ending in -ful and -less in isolation and context. - use the lexial items related to the topic "Life on other planets"
- use may and might correctly - report questions
- read for general and specific information about life on other planets - talk about what life may be like on other planets
- listen for specific information about aliens - describe an alien
- Students will be developed skills: speaking , listening , reading and writing - Students will know about life on other planets
II Teaching aids
- Textbook, lesson plans, board, chalks, cues, posters, real objects, pictures, computer and the CD record
III Procedure.
Lesson 1: Getting started
A closer look Lesson 2: A closer look Lesson 3: Skills
Lesson 4: Skills
Date of preparing: Period: 83 UNIT 12: LIFE ON OTHER PLANETS
LESON 1: GETTING STARTED A CLOSER LOOK 1
A OBJECTIVES:
- By the end of this lesson, students will be able to listen and read the dialogue between Duong and Nhi to understand the details then some more tasks to understand more about what could happen to Earth
(2)+ Grammar:
- Skills: practice and develop listening, reading and speaking skills
- Political thought and moral sense: Help Ss to know about what could happen to the Earth
B TEACHING AIDS:
- Textbook, teacher’s book, lesson plan, board , chalks, pictures, posters, stereo and the CD record
C METHODS:
Brainstorming, networds, pre-questions, comprehension questions, matching, gap filling, game “ What and where”
D CONTENTS: I Organization:
II Revision / Warmer: (5’): Brainstorming.
- T draws the nets with the words transportation, communication, housing and enery on the board
- T gives the instructions: two groups of four Ss will list the future technologies they expect to see in these fields
- T models the first one Flying car -T checks Ss' understanding
- Ss think and prepare in about minute
- One by one student from each group comes to the board and writes one answer - The time is up The team with more items wins
+ Possible answers
ballon, spacecraft, submarine, flying bike III New lesson:
* Open prediction questions: ( 2’) T shows the picture on page 58, asks Ss to look at the tittle of the conversation and asks some questions:
- Where are Duong and nhi? - What are they doing?
(3)- T encourages Ss to answer the Qs Their Ans can be as simple as one word or a phrase
- T plays the recording , asks Ss to listen to the conversation without reading the text to see if their predictions are correct or not
Activity 1: Vocabulary.( 5minutes): T asks Ss to find out the new words from the text
- series ( n) : phim truyền hình nhiều tập - terrorist(n): kẻ khủng bố
- fight (v) : chiến đấu - run ( v) : điều hành
- alien( n): người hành tinh + Checking vocabulary: R- O- R * Listen and read (18’)
- Let Ss listen to the tape again, notice the pronunciation and intonation - T asks Ss to practice the conversation in pairs.T calls some pairs to practise reading
Activity 2: 1.a.Ticktrue or false
- T runs through four situations and check the meanings
- Playing the recording and have Ss work independently Pause the recording at appropriate places if Ss need help with comprehension
- Ss share answers in pairs
- T checks their answers and corrects
Key : F T F T F
Activity 3: 1.b.Questions- Answers.
(4)- First, ask ss not to look at the conversation to answer the questions, then have them read the conversation again and check their answers If time allows, have them show where to find the answers in the conversation
Key:
1 James Kirk is the captain of the spaceship They went to Nibiru planet
3 It happens in 2259
4 It's the name of the spaceship that the crew travels on He wants to destroy Earth
* Ask Ss to look at the conversation again and underline the sentences in reported speech Have ss read aloud the sentences
Key:
1.That's funny, Trang also asked me what I thought would happen to Earth in the future
2 I said I didn't know but that Earth might be run by aliens! * Further practice: (12’)
Activity 1: Part 2: Label the pictures with the words / phrases in the box - Run through words / phrases in the box
- Have Ss work in pairs to match the words with pictures - T corrects with whole class
Key:
1 aliens space buggy UFO weightless galaxy spaceship solar system planet
Activity 5: Part 3: Use the words / phrase in to fill in the blanks - Have Ss work independently to fill the words/ phrases in the blanks - Ask SS to check with partners
(5)Key: 1.aliens 2.UFO space buggy 4.planet:planet weightless 6.solar system 7.galaxy 8.spaceship
Activity 6: Use the names of the planets in the box to label the diagram of the solar system.
- Now have Ss open the books and work independently - Ask them to share their answers with a partner
Activity 7: Scan the passage and check your answers.
- Have Ss work in pairs, read the passage and check their answers in Then check Ss' answers as a class
Key: A.Mercury B.Venus C.Mars D.Jupiter E.Saturn F.Neptune Activity 8: Write the names of the planets that match the Roman Gods. - T runs through the information in part Make sure Ss to understand the meanings
- Have Ss work individually to fill in the blanks without reading the passage again - Check Ss' answers as a class
Key: Neptune Saturn Mars Jupiter 5.Venus * Pronunciation: .(10’) stress in words ending in – ful and –less Activity 1: Listen and repeat the words( part 5)
- SS listen and repeat Then have Ss say the words individually
- Have Ss look at the ‘ remember’ and mark the stress in the words and say the words aloud
- T plays the recording for Ss to listen, check and repeat Key : 'thoughtless 'meaningful 'helpless
'meaningless 'helpful thoughtful
'useless plentiful 'useful
(6)- Put the italic words on the board Have volunteer Ss come and mark the stress in the words first Ask for a show of hands from the rest of the class if they think the strees is correct or not Then play the recording Ss listen, check and say the
sentences Hace Ss correct the stress on the board if necessary - Call on some Ss to say the sentences individually
- T corrects Ss’ pronunciation IV Summary:(2’)
- T asks students to repeat the main contents of the lesson: vocabulary and the words stress in words ending in - ful and - less
V Homework:(3’)
- Learn by heart vocabulary
- Practice the words stress in words ending in - ful and - less - Do the exercises: 1, in U8- part A- W.B
- Prepare the new lesson: Unit 12: Lesson 3: A closer look
-Date of preparing: Period: 84 UNIT 12: LIFE ON OTHER PLANETS
LESON 2: A CLOSED LOOK 2
- By the end of the lesson, students will be able to use the reported speech in questions
+ Vocabulary:
+ Grammar: review May and might; repoted speech in questions - Skills: practice and develop speaking and writing skills
- Political thought and moral sense: help Ss to know how to use the reported questions correctly
(7)- Textbook, teacher’s book, lesson plan, board, chalks, cassette, CD record, computer
C METHODS: Verb form, correct the mistakes, complete the sentences, discuss. D CONTENTS:
I Organization: II Warm up.(4')
Ask SS to go to the board to change these into reported speech " I am watching a film on TV"
He said that
2 "You have to finish your homework before going to class" She told me that " I have finished my drawing."
Lan said that " I will be a teacher when I grow up"
Nam said that T checks the answers with whole class
III New lesson
Activity 1: May and might : review( part 1p 61)(10’)
Draw Ss's attention to the remember! box Then ask some more able Ss to give examples
Note Ss that in relation to point and in the REMEMBER! box, may and might are both equally correct in the activity
Remind SS to distinguish between may and might in point in the box: May for permission
Eg: The Teacher says we may / might leave when we've finished Ss over fifteen may bring a phone to school.
(8)- Ask SS to run through all sentences Make sure Ss to understand the meanings - Ask Ss to work individually to fill in the gaps Have them compare the answer with a partner and explain their answers
- Check the answers as a class and ask for Ss' explainations Key:
1 may/ might may/ might may/ might may may/ might may/ might may/ might may Activity 2: Reported questions ( 25')
- Ask Ss about the rules of changing statements from direct into reported speech that they learnt in the previous unit Tell them that in this lesson they are going to learn about reported questions
1 W-H questions
- Ask Ss to read again the conversation between Duong and Nhi in GETTING STARTED to find the question in reported speech
- Have a student read aloud the reported question and write it on the board
- Get a student to come to the board to rewrite the question in direct speech Correct it if necessary
Trang also asked me what I thought would happen to Earth in the future "what you think will happen to Earth in the future?"
Ask Ss to look carefully at the two questions( one is reported and one is direct) to compare them in terms of the verb tense, order of verb and auxiliary Then ask them what verb is used as reporting verb have some Ss answer, give feedback 2 Yes / No questions
- Write the question that Nhi asked Duong in GETTING STARTED:
(9)order of verb and the connection between and reporting verb and the question part If the S does not write the reproted question correctly, ask the whole class to give comments and correct it
"Could Earth ever be that kind of danger?"
Nhi asked Duong if Earth could be that kind of danger.
Now draw Ss'attention to the language box on the reported questions Ask them to read the box carefully
Ex2.( p62) Read the dialoge and complete the sentences
- Have Ss work in pairs and the exercise Ask some Ss to read out their answer, and correct the answers as a class
key
1 what have seen; have landed what had been going had looked had been; had looked like had seen had hidden Ex3.( p62) Circle the correct word in italics to complete each sentence. - Let Ss work individually and check their answers with a classmate
- T corrects the answer as a class
Key: Ask If Before Diffirent Ex4.( p62) : Change questions into reported questions. - Run through questions
- Remind Ss wh- questions and yes/ no questions
- Ask Ss to work individually to write questions in reported speech
- Have one student write the answer on the board and get feedback from other Ss - T checks the answers as a class
Key:
(10)4 He asked why Nick hadn't taken a photo of alien
5 The interview asked howlong the UFO had stayed there The interview asked if Nick had seen any UFOs since then Ex5.( p62) Role play.
- Have ss work in groups of three for to 10 minutes One is Nick and the others are Nick's friends Ask and answer questions about what Nick saw Then report the the friends' questions and Nick answer to the whole class
- T goes around to see if Ss need help Then ask the student who play Nick' role to report orally the question he was asked Get another student in the group to report what Nick answered Ask the whole class to listen carefully and give feedback Correct this group's work if neccessary And other groups to the same if there is enough time
IV Summary: (2’)
- T asks students to repeat the main contents of the lesson: reported questions V Homework: (3’)
- Learn by heart the grammar- complete the exercises - Do the exercises: 5,6 in U12- part B - WB
- Prepare the new lesson: Unit12: Lesson 4: Communication
Date of preparing: Period: 85 UNIT 12: LIFE ON OTHER PLANETS
LESON 3: SKILL 1 A OBJECTIVES:
- By the end of the lesson, students will be able to read for general and specific information about life on other planets
(11)- Skills: develop and practice reading and speaking skills
- Political thought and moral sense: help Ss understand more about another planet B TEACHING AIDS:
- Textbook , teacher’s book , lesson plan , board , chalks, pictures and posters, computer, project
C METHODS: discussion; matching; answer the questions, discussion. D CONTENTS:
I
Oganization:
II Revision / Warmer: (5’) discussion
- T shows Ss the pictures Ask SS some questions
1 What are the names of the two planets in the pictures A and B How you think the pictures are different?
III New lesson 1- Reading(20’)
*Activity 1: Vocabulary Human (n) Con người Atmosphere(n) khơng khí Layer(n) địa tầng
Go through (v) trải qua, kinh qua
*Activity 2: Part b: Read and check answer in part a Earth and Mars
2.The color: one has lives and one hasn’t got lives
*Activity 3: Read and find words in the passagethat has similar meanins to these words and phrases.
- Have SS work in pairs to scan the passage to find the words in red and match them with the definitions
- T checks the answers as a class
(12)5 surface Climate Accommodate *Activity 4: Match the heading with the passage: - Run though the headings Underline the keywords - Make sure ss understand the meanings of the headings
- Have SS to work individually to skim the text again, using the keywords in the headings to the matching
Key:1C 2B 3A
*Activity 5:Questions and answers
- Run through the questions Make sure SS understand the meanings - Have SS read the text again and answer the questions individually - Have SS pair compare
- T corrects with whole class Key:
1.It is also called the Red Planet
2 The lowest temperature is – 87 degree Celsius and the highest may be a bit higher than zezo
3 Because 95% of the atmostphere is carbon dioxide A day on Mars is a bit longer
5 It is twice as long as a year on Earth 2- Speaking(15’)
*Activity 1: Work in pairs One is a human and the othe is Martian Use the suggestion to ask and answer about life on Earth and life on Mars.
- Have SS read the table of information carefully
- Ask Ss to work in pairs to ask and answer question based on the suggested information in the table and the example
(13)*Activity 2: Swap pairs
- Ask the “humans' and “Martian” to form new pairs
- Ask them to use reported speech to report their previous partner’s answers IV Summary (2’)
- T asks students to repeat the main contents of the lesson V Homework: (3’)
- Learn by heart all the vocabulary