- Takes time for Ss to work - Goes around and provides help - Calls some pairs to present their ideas. - Gives comment and introduces some useful expressions to give opinion:[r]
(1)LESSON PLAN
Unit7: World population Speaking
1 Class description:
- 40 students (Ss) in 11A2 class at Ngo Thi Nham high school 2 Level:
- Intermediate 3 Time: 45 m 4 Objectives:
By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to: talk about the causes of population explosion, problems of population booms and solutions to these problems
5 Assumed knowledge:
- Ss have already known some vocabulary items related to the topic 6 Anticipated problem(s):
(2)- There may be time left, so the teacher (T) should spend more time for Ss doing task
- Ss may not have enough vocabulary to talk about the topic, so T should be ready to provide help 7 Teaching aids:
- Books, handouts, visual aids, chalks and board
8 Procedures:
Time Stage Aims Techniques Teacher’s activities Students’ activities Note
3 minutes Warm up To lead in the topic
Eliciting technique
*Picture description:
- Shows Ss the prepared picture - Asks Ss some questions:
+ What can you see in the picture?
Suggested answer: There is a big family with parents and their five children They are poor and look so sad
+ What does the picture tell you?
Suggested answer: The picture tells us about the poverty It is one of the problems of overpopulation - Elicits the answers from Ss - Introduces the topic: Overpopulation
- See the picture - Answer the questions
5-7 minutes
Task 1 To help Ss express their own ideas about causes
- Gives Ss instruction: You are going to put the following causes to overpopulation in order of
importance and explain your
(3)of population explosion
- Step by step
decision.
- Asks Ss to read through the causes provided on page 83 and makes sure that Ss understand these statements - Give Ss instructions:
Task 1:Work in pairs Read the causes of population explosion Put them in order of importance and explain why.
□ Fewer children die at birth □ People are not aware of the problem of overpopulation
□ People are not properly educated □ People believe that having many children means happiness
□ Religion doesn’t encourage people to have fewer children □ Many people believe that having a large family is a form of
insurance
- Takes time for Ss to work - Goes around and provides help - Calls some pairs to present their ideas
- Gives comment and introduces some useful expressions to give opinion:
+ In my point of view, ……. + In my opinion, ………….
- Listen to T
- Work in pairs - Answer to T
(4)+ To my mind, ……… + As far as I’m concerned, …………
+ I think that ………. + It would seem/ appear to me that ……….
7-9 minutes
Task 2 To help Ss express their opinion about effects of
overpopulation - Step by step
- Giving corrective feedback
- Give Ss instruction: You are going to work in pairs to list the problems facing poor and overpopulated countries.
- Asks Ss to read the useful language on page 83
- Explains some new words in the useful language
- Reminds Ss about matching the words/ phrases on the left with the words/ phrases on the right
- Give Ss instructions: Work in pairs List the problems of poor and overpopulated countries.
- Takes time for Ss to work in pairs - Goes around and provides help - Calls some pairs to report their answers
- Comments Ss’ answer
Suggested answers:
+ poor living condition + low living standard
- Listen to T
- Work in pairs - Answer to T - Listen to T
- T can explain in Vietnamese if
(5)+ not enough food
+ lack/ shortage of school/ hospital/ teacher/ doctor/ nurse
+ social evils + illiteracy + unemployment + crime
+ social conflict and War + traffic jam
+ species extinction + loss of fresh water + loss natural habitat + global warming + pollution + climate change + epidemic 10-12
minutes
Task 3 To help Ss express their opinion about solutions of overpopulation
- Step by step
- Translation
- Gives Ss instructions: Now you will work in groups of to find out the solutions to the problems of overpopulation.
- Asks Ss to read the useful language and pre-teaches some words/ phrases:
+ exercise/ implement (v) thực thi, áp dụng
+ carry out (phr v) tiến hành + reward and punishment policy: sách thưởng phạt
- Asks Ss to the task Ss may
- Listen to T - T can explain in Vietnamese if
(6)- Giving corrective feedback
work out other solutions - Takes time for Ss to work in groups
- Goes around to offer help
- Calls on some Ss to present their groups’ idea
- Gives comment
Suggested answers:
+ raise an awareness of the problems of overpopulation
+ raise the people’s living standard + exercise/ implement reward and punishment policy
+ carry out population education program/ family planning program + use birth control methods
+ eradicate illiteracy
+ educate people about the dangers of overpopulation
+ implement strictly the policy having only child in each family
- Work in groups of
- Answer to T
10-13 minutes
Task 4 To create chances for Ss to present their opinion about the effects and solutions of overpopulation
- Step by step - Gives Ss instructions: Now you are going to work in groups of to talk about the problems of
overpopulation and offer solutions, using the results of Tasks and 3. - Reminds Ss to give a short presentation of the problems of
- Listen to T - T can explain in Vietnamese if
(7)population explosion and the solutions to them
- Shows the poster with useful languages for Ss
- Gives the list of transition signals for Ss:
+ first/ firstly, second, next, etc + the first one, the second one, etc + the first problem is that…., the next solution is that………, etc
- Delivers handouts of the model structure of Ss talk to help them make reference
Nowadays, overpopulated
countries are facing up to serious problems The first one is
……….… … The second one is ……… And the next one is
………. To solve these problems, the government should
……… Besides, people have to
……… and ………
- Takes time for Ss to work in
(8)- Giving corrective feedback
- Goes around to observe, provides help if necessary and collects Ss’ typical mistakes and errors - Calls on some group representatives to present - Gives comment on Ss’
presentation and corrects collected mistakes
- Present their group work
- Listen to T
1 minute Wrap-up - Summarizes the main points of the
lesson
- Asks Ss to prepare the next lesson