OBJECTIVES: Teaching aim: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to understand the text about the problem of people from the countryside moving to the city.. PREPARATIONS: Book,[r]
(1)Week: 17 Period: 49 Date of preparing: 07/12/ 2013 Date of teaching: 09/ 12/ 2013 UNIT 8: COUNTRY LIFE AND CITY LIFE Lesson 3: READ I OBJECTIVES: Teaching aim: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to understand the text about the problem of people from the countryside moving to the city II PREPARATIONS: Book, cassette tape, extra - board III PROCEDURES: Teacher’s activities Students’ activities (2) Warm – Up: (5’) Organize game: “Brainstorming” Difficulties of farmers’ life - Whole class + floods/ droughts/ typhoons + lack of money / clean water / electricity / … + insects destroy harvest/ Pre – Reading: (10’) - Whole class - Ask Ss some questions to introduce the lesson: Do you think many people move to live in the city? Yes Why they want to go to the city? get (well-paying) job, get more money, better facilities, What problems may happen when so many people move to the city? overcrowded, population increase, strains on social services, … - Listen and write - Explain vocabulary: + rural (adj) + urban ≠ rural (adj) + plentiful (adj) + struggle (n) struggle with nature + (to) destroy (v) + (to) increase (v) + overcrowding (n) + strain (n) + tragedy (n) + migrant (n) + (to) provide (v) + (to) create (v) While – Reading: (15’) - Ask Ss to read the text to complete the summary leaving problems home schools city hospitals rural problem city 10 world - Ask Ss to read the text again to the exercise a of the country rural b as many as needed plentiful c become greater or lager increase d a great pressure strain e a terrible event tragedy f of the city or the city life urban - Ask Ss to read the text to answer the questions a Are many going to the cities? Yes, there are many people going to the cities b What many farmers when they need more money? They look for other work c What they to to solve their difficulties? - Whole class - Read and complete - Pair works (3) They move to the city to get well-paying jobs d What happens to the families whose parents go and live in the city? Families members have to live apart Post – Reading: (13’) - Ask Ss to list the pressing issues in big cities - Group works + overcrowding + strain on schools, hospitals, water and electricity supplies Homework: (2’) - Write some advantages and disadvantages of the country life and city life Take note - Prepare next lesson: Unit – Write/ page 76 IV COMMENTS: _ _ (4)