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(1)Lesson Plan (grade 11 – advanced) Period 112 : Preparation date : 27 /3/2008 Unit14 : Lesson : Space Conquest ( Reading) I Aims : - By the end of the lesson, the students are able to skim for general ideas - By the end of the lesson, the students are able to scan for specific details II Lexical items : -conduct -envisage -frontier -sponsor -ferry -explore III Structures : -Moon buses may transport guests on low gravity excursion IV Teaching aids: - textbook - picture / drawings - chalk - handouts V Techniques : - Skill – based ( reading, speaking) VI Procedures : State/time Teacher’s and students’ activities Blackboard WarmGame: Cut – up Pictures up & lead- -Divide the class into three groups ,A,B , C in -Give each group the pieces of pictures cut up and shuffled (Yuri Gagarin, Neil (7’) Armstrong, and an astronaut) (appendix) -tell the groups to put the pieces together to have complete pictures and then write the names in the space provided -When they have finished, stick their pictures on the board -The first group to finish and get all correct scores points With a correct name, the group wins another points -the group with more points wins the game -Check SS’ understanding of instructions and have them start the game -Declare the winner -From the pictures, elicit from SS the topic of the next unit: ‘These pictures represent the topic of the next unit What is it?’ Transition: - Yes, and that’s the topic of Unit 14 In the reading today, we ‘ll get to know Period : Unit :14 more about space exploration in the world - write down on the board: Space Conquest ( Reading) Prereading (5’) Teaching Vocabulary -Teach some vocabulary items through a multiple choice task -Ask SS to choose the word or phrase that is closest it meaning to the word in bold Expected answers: 1.b 2.a 3.a 4.b 5.c -Have SS listen and repeat the words, one by one Lop6.net 1….the market research on the demand for space tourism a equipment b need c request 2… the first research was conducted in Japan a carried out b indicated c Materials photocopies Chalk and board Chalk and board (2) Checking General Knowledge ( task a, p 192) -Read the question in task a and ask SS to choose the best answers to each question - Check with the whole class investigated This survey revealed that… a showed b proved c proposed NASA is sponsoring a project… a working on b supporting financially c preparing Wimberley Allison Tong & Goo envisages a hotel a builds b constructed c imagines while reading (15’) Activity 1: True – False Statements ( task a, p 193) - T ask Ss to read the text and the statements about the space exploration and decide if the they are true or false - Tell Ss to compare answers with a partner - Call on SS to read the sentences aloud and say their choice Ask SS to give explanations for false sentences -check with the whole class Activity 2: Questions and answers (task b, p 193 ) -Tell SS to read the text again and find the answers to the questions - Ask Ss to work with a partner, ask and answer the questions -Call on pairs to ask and answer them and check with the whole class Task a: Postreading (15’) Discussion -Arrange SS to work in small groups of or - Ask them discuss the following questions: - go around monitor and give help if necessary - call on SS to report about their groups’ and invite to give comments a If affordable, would you like to take a space trip? Why? Why not? b Where would you go? c How long would you stay there? d What would you to there? Sentence Building Homework - Tell SS to make meaningful sentence using the cues given (2’) Many people/ willing / pay/to/three months/salary/trip/outer space 2.Tow Japanese/pay/about $ million /join/Russian space trip/ 2001 Lop6.net Chalk + book + small board textbooks Book and notebook (3)