While writing: Describing the chart of the distribution of world population by region * Asking the students to look at the?. STUDENTS' ACTIVITIES * Dividing the class into two teams * Li[r]
(1)LESSON PLAN Unit : WORLD POPULATION Period : 42 Classes : 11 A2 , A3 , A4 Date of preparation : 14 / 12 / 2007 Date of teaching : 15 / 12 / 2007 Teaching item : WRITING I) AIMS AND OBJECTIVES + LANGUAGE CONTENT : * To provide students with some statistics on world population by region + LANGUAGE FUNCTION : * To interpret statistics on world population from the chart + EDUCATIONAL AIM : * To educate in students about birth-control method and family planning policy 1/ Languages : * Vocabulary : + distribute (v) + unevenly (adv) + account for (v) * Structures: + The chart shows the distributions of world population by region + It can be seen that …………… 2/ Skills : Productive writing , listening, 3/ Educational factor: * To help students aware of overpopulation II) TEACHER AND STUDENTS' PREPARATION 1/ Method : Communicative approach 2/ Techniques : Game: General Knowledge Quiz 3/ Materials needed : Lesson plan , Textbook , Handout , Colour chalk 4/ Students' preparation : * Read the guiding books and grammatical books before going to school * Prepare the writing III) PROCEDURES IN CLASS Stabilization : (1 minute) * Greeting the students and asking them something about the attendance , their health, the weather and preparation Checking-up the previous knowledge : (5 minutes) * Calling one student to B/B : + Put an accent on the following words developing improvement generation punishment particularly inexpensive * Answer the questions: What will the population of the world be by the year 2015 ? Where is the highest population growth rate ? Why the population of the world increase fast ? According to you, what you have to to reduce population growth rate ? * Correcting the mistakes , giving remarks and marking: The suggested answers: The population of the world will be over billion by the year 2015 The highest population growth rate is Asia Because people are not aware of the problem of overpopulation and they are not properly educated… I have to use birth-control method and family planning policy Presentation of the new materials SPECIFIC STAGES Lop11.com (2) TIME 7ms 8ms 10ms TEACHER'S ACTIVITIES Warmer: Game: General Knowledge Quiz * Dividing the class into two teams (The group has more answer will win) * Reading questions What country has the largest population in the world ? How many continents are there in the world ? What continent is the smallest ? What continent has the largest population in the world ? What is the population of Vietnam now ? Which continent ranks second in population ? What is the date for the world population ? Lead– in: * Asking the students to look at the chart in the textbook and answer some more questions What is it ? What you call it exactly in English ? What is it about ? * Emphasizing on the students’ work and introducing the new lesson Unit : WORLD POPULATION Period 42 : WRITING Pre writing: Provide the students with some useful languages You can begin the description with : + The chart shows …………………… + According to the chart of ………… Main content + rank first / last + account for … percent + more than, double the population of + half as much as / nearly half of + As can be seen from the chart that …/ It can be seen that … + distributed unevenly / unsteadily / irregularly While writing: Describing the chart of the distribution of world population by region * Asking the students to look at the STUDENTS' ACTIVITIES * Dividing the class into two teams * Listening to the teacher read the questions and then raising their hands to answer the questions China (Asia , Europe , Africa, America, Oceania, Antarctic) Oceania Asia over 82 million Europe 11 / /1987 THE CONTENT OF THE LESSON Unit : WORLD POPULATION Period 42 : WRITING It’s a chart / graph It’s a pipe chart It’s about the distribution of world population * Writing the title of the lesson * Writing the useful languages down Useful languages You can begin the description with : + The chart shows ………… + According to the chart of Main content + rank first / last + account for … percent + more than, double the population of + half as much as / nearly half of + As can be seen from the chart that …/ It can be seen that … + distributed unevenly / unsteadily / irregularly Write a paragraph of 100120 words describing the information in the chart * Looking at the chart and Lop11.com The chart shows the (3) TIME TEACHER'S ACTIVITIES chart and write a paragraph of 100120 words describing the information in the chart * Going around the class to control and giving help if necessary * Collecting some students’ writing to give comments in front of the class as models MODEL : STUDENTS' ACTIVITIES THE CONTENT OF THE LESSON write a paragraph of 100-120 words describing the information in the chart distribution of world population by region The continent, which has the largest population, is Asia 32% of the population of the world is in South Asia and East Asia ranks second with 26% On the contrary, Ocean is the region which has the smallest population with only 2% Europe accounts for 15%, which is nearly half of/half as much as the population of South Asia The population in East Asia is more than double that in Africa, with the rate of 11% But the proportion of the population in Latin America, about 8% is 3% less than that in Africa Northern America, which has 6% of the world population, ranks after Latin America With these data, it can be seen that/As can be seen from the chart that the world population is distributed unevenly on earth * Listening and watching correct the writings The chart shows the distribution of world population by region The continent, which has the largest population, is Asia 32% of the population of the world is in South Asia and East Asia ranks second with 26% On the contrary, Ocean is the region which has the smallest population with only 2% Europe accounts for 15%, which is nearly half of/half as much as the population of South Asia The population in East Asia is more than double that in Africa, with the rate of 11% But the proportion of the population in Latin America, about 8% is 3% less than that in Africa Northern America, which has 6% of the world population, ranks after Latin America With these data, it can be seen that/As can be seen from the chart that the world population is distributed unevenly on earth 8ms 1m Post writing: Peer correction * Sticking a piece of Sts’ writing on B/B and having the sts give comments relating the format (steps) , the language use , and the story * Giving feedback and comments * Looking at the piece of Sts’ writing on B/B and giving comments HOMEWORK: * Asking the students to write down the homework: + Prepare LANGUAGE FOCUS * Writing down the homework: Read aloud the writing HOMEWORK: + Prepare LANGUAGE FOCUS Self-evaluation: …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….………………………………………………………………………………… … Lop11.com (4) Suggested writing No The chart shows the distribution of world population by region As can be seen in the chart, the population was distributed unevenly throughout the world The region that has the largest population is South Asia Its population is 32 percent of the world population The population of East Asia is 26 percent of the world population more than double the population of Africa, which is 11 percent of the world population The population of Europe is as much as 15 percent of the world population while the population of Latin America is more than half of it, percent of the world population The population of Northern American is percent of the world population The region that has the smallest population is Oceania Its population is only percent of the world population Lop11.com (5)