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(1)LESSON OUTLINE ……
Time Procedure Aim Focus
5 Warm-up - To get Ss involved
- To give Ss background of national park
T Ss Ss Ss 7 Pre-teaching
- Discuss - Eliciting vocabulary - Check vocabulary
- To help Ss brainstorm the topic
- Give Ss background before reading.
- Memory vocabulary
Ss Ss T Ss T Ss
18 While- reading 1 Task1 2 Task 2
Practice scanning & guessing meaning of words
T Ss Ss Ss 12 Post – reading
Interview
Practice speaking skill Ss Ss
3 Homework To practice writing skill T Ss
LESSON PLAN: READING
(2)Name of the lesson: National Park Class: 10th form
Students in charge: Võ Thị Thu Hiền Huỳnh Thị Cẩm Loan Bạch Thị Như Thảo Time allotted : 45 minutes
Aims: To help students practice reading skill: Scan for specific information
Guessing the meaning of words based on contexts Use vocabulary items related to the topic
Skills: Reading for specific information Sub skill: Speaking about the topic
Anticipated problems: Ss may not know much about the marine life and related vocabulary, so T should be ready to give explanation
Teaching aids: Textbook, pictures, posters… PROCEDURE * Warm-up (5 min.): Play game “competition”
T sticks the diagram of pictures on the blackboard (The diagram includes pictures of animals)
T asks Ss to work in groups of 5-7 and give each group a set of five flash cards with the names of the animals in English
T asks Ss to look at the pictures on the diagram and match the names with appropriate pictures
The quickest group will go to the blackboard and can stick the names on the answer sheet
The group who finds the correct answer in the shortest time is the winner * Check instructions:
T asks
- What are you going to do? - What will you first? - Who will be the winner?
Expected answers:
Play a game
Look at the pictures and match the names with suitable ones
The quickest group has correct answers
* Lead-in:
(3)Stage I: PRE-READING (7 min.) 1 Discussing the questions:
T asks Ss work in pairs to discuss the questions following: Have you ever been to a national park?
Can you name some of the national parks in Vietnam and in the world? What trees and animals can you see in a national park?
T goes around providing help
T asks some Ss to present their answers 2 Eliciting vocabulary:
- Rainforest (n): rừng mưa nhiệt đới Eliciting technique Translation How you say “rừng mưa nhiệt đới” in English?
- Tropical (a): thuộc nhiệt đới Example Amazon forest, Cuc Phuong forest are examples of tropical thick forests Do you know meaning of “tropical”?
- Establish (v): thành lập Synonym What’s another word for “set up”?
- Toxic (a): độc Explanation Toxic chemicals make water polluted What does “toxic” mean?
3 Checking vocabulary: Rub out and remember STAGE II: WHILE-READING (18 min)
Setting the scene: You are going to read three passages about three national parks
While you are reading, the tasks below: Task 1: Word guessing
Instruction: You are required to find the word in the passage that can match with the given definition
1 ………… : to have something inside .………… : be situated in a place
3 ………… : a state of continuing to live or exist ………… : related to an area near a tropical area ………… : a state of being polluted
Checking instruction: T asks - What are you going to do? - What you next?
Expected answers: Find words in the passage
(4) T asks Ss to read through the passage silently
After Ss finished reading the passage, T gives Ss some strategies to the task
First, read through the definition provided in the task to identify kind of word to match each:
Ex: ………: to have something inside
Should be a Verb
Second, go back to the passage and find the suitable words to fill blanks
T goes around to help Ss (if any)
T asks Ss to check their answer in pairs
T calls Ss to present and explain their answers T gives Ss the correct answer
Answer key:
1 contain 2 be located 3 survival 4 sub-tropical 5 contamination
Task 2: Answering the questions
Instruction: You are to read the passage again and answer the question What is the area of the rainforest in Cuc Phuong National Park? When should the tourists go to this park? And why?
3 What the visitors go to the Nairobi National Park for? Where is Everglades National Park located?
5 Why is Everglades National Park in danger? T asks Ss how to this task
T gives Ss some strategies to the task Skim each question to understand it
Underline the key words
Look for the question words E.g., what percentage find the
number
(5) Read the passage carefully to find the answer You can use your own word
T asks Ss to work individually
T asks Ss to discuss their answers with their peers
T calls some Ss to write their answer on the blackboard and asks them explain
T feedbacks and gives the correct answer Answer key:
1 200 km2
2 During the dry season from October to April/ because the rainy season is over
3 They can learn about the habits of animals, how to recognize the different species of animals and plants, and how one species is dependent upon another for survival.
4 In the southeastern United States
5 Because of the toxic levels of chemical in the water
STAGE 3: POST-READING Role-play: Interview
T draws a table on the blackboard
Name National park(s) Reason(s)
T asks Ss to take a piece of paper and draw the table
Instruction 1: You are required to interview different friends to find out their
favorite national park(s) and the reasons why they like them, then complete the table.
Checking instruction 1: T asks
- Is my instruction clear enough?
- What are you going to do? - What you next?
Expected answers Yes
Interview
Complete the table
(6) T asks Ss of the first row turn back to the second one, similar to the third row
Instruction 2: All of you will interview the opposite partner, and then each of you
in the second and fourth rows will move to the next position to make another interview
Checking instructions 2: T asks
- Who belongs to the first and third rows, raise your hands?
- Do you move after making an interview?
- Ss of the second and fourth rows, what will you after each
interview?
Expected answers Ss raise their hands
No
Move to the next position
Very good, let’s start
After finishing the interviews, T calls some of Ss to report their findings in front of the whole class
HOMEWORK:
Write a passage using the information about their friend(s) when Ss make interviews in class
Prepare for new lesson
(7)P1
P2 P3
P4 P5
2 Answer sheet:
Group Group Group Group
(8)3 Answer key for warm-up:
4 Text for while-reading P1 …………
P2 ………… P3 ………… P4 ………… P5 …………
P1 ………… P2 ………… P3 ………… P4 ………… P5 …………
P1 ………… P2 ………… P3 ………… P4 ………… P5 …………
P1 ………… P2 ………… P3 ………… P4 ………… P5 …………
(9)Unit 11 NATIONAL PARKS
A READING
Cuc Phuong National Park, Vietnam
Cuc Phuong National Park is located 160 kilometres south west of Hanoi It is the first of Vietnam’s nine national parks to be established, and it contains over 200 square kilometres of rainforest Tourists go there to study butterflies, visit caves, hike
mountains and look at the 1,000-year-old tree The best time to visit the park is during the dry season, from October to April, when the rainy season is over.
Nairobi National Park, Kenya
Nairobi National Park is Kenya’s smallest park, but you may be surprised at the large variety of animals that live there Visitors, especially children, can go there to learn how to recognize the different species of animals and plants They also learn about the habits of animals and how one species is dependent upon another for survival An interesting feature of this park is the Orphanage, where lots of orphaned or abandoned animals are taken care of.
Everglades National Park, USA
Everglades National Park is a sub-tropical wilderness in the southeastern United States This national park is special because it has plants and animals from both tropical and temperate zones Due to