Planning date 28/12/2014
Period 37. Unit 6: the environment
Lesson 1: getting started - listen and read + language focus 4, 5 p.47, 56
I. Aims:
- To introduce the topic of the environment and practise the conditional sentence Type 1.
- To help students read a text about the protecting the environment for details.
- To develop students` skills.
II. Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to know more about the environment problems, talk about the things they`ve done to keep the environment clean and beautiful, what they think might happen if the pollution continues.
- Students practise the conditional sentence Type 1.
III. Ways of working: T - WC, pair work, individual work.
IV. Materials: Textbook. pictures in the textbook, tape and cassette player.
V. Anticipated problems: The lesson may take time.
VI. Teaching steps:
1. Warm up: (1 minute) Greet and check the students` attendance.
2. Revision:
3. New lesson:
STAGES
ACTIVITIES
ON BOARD

PRE READING
(12 minutes)
* Preteach vocabulary:
- Teacher uses techniques to teach students new words.
- Checking understanding:
Rubout and remember.



* Matching:
Getting started P.47
- Students match the environment problems to the pictures.
* Prequestions:
What do you usually do to protect our environment?

I. New words:
garbage dump:
deforestation:
dynamite fishing:
spraying pesticides:
dispointed (adj):
the shore:
bãi đổ rác thải
sự tàn phá rừng
việc đánh bắt cá bằng thuốc nổ
việc phun thuốc diệt sâu bọ
thất vọng
bờ biển

II. Matching:




a) b) c)




d) e) f)
* Key:
a) air pollution
b) spraying pesticides
c) garbage dump
d) water pollution
e) deforestation
f) dynamite fishing

WHILE READING
(20 minutes)
* Listen and read P.47 - 48:
* Set the scene:
Mr. Brown is talking to some volunteer conservationists.
- Students answer the prequestions.
- Teacher gets students read the text as they listen to it.
* Matching :
- Students match the names in column A with the task in the column B
- Teacher elicits the model sentences:
- Concept checking:
+ Những câu này có nghĩa tiếng Việt là gì?
+ Khi nào thì sử dụng cấu trúc câu này?
+ Câu gồm mấy mệnh đề? Mệnh đề If ở thì nào? Mệnh đề chính ở thì nào?
* Comprehension questions:
- Students answer the comprehension questions on page 48.
III. Listen and read:





1. Match the names in column A with the task in column B:
* Answer key:
1 + f 2 + e 3 + b
4 + a 5 + c 6 + d
2. Model sentences:
- If you can`t find your place, I will help you get there with this map.
- If we work hard, we`ll make this beach a clean and beautiful place again.



III. Answer the comprehension questions:
* Key:
1. The speaker is Mr. Brown.
2. The listener are (member of) the volunteer conservationists.
3. They are on the beach.
4. They are going to clean the beach.
5. If they work hard today, they will make the beach clean and beautiful again soon.

POST READING
(10 minutes)
* Language focus 4, 5:
- Teacher gets students to do the exercises and then correct them.














+ Students base on the cues given to write the main clause of the sentences:

IV. Language focus:
1. Language focus 4. P.56:
* Answer key:
1-e: If we pollute the water, we will have no fresh water to use.
2-a: If you cut down the trees in the forests, there will be big floods every year.
3-c: If there is too much exhaust fume in the air, more and more people will cope with respiratory problems.
4-d: If you can keep your neighborhood clean, you will have an ideal place to live.
5-b: If people stop using dynamite for fiahing, a lot of sea creatures will be well preserved.
2. Language focus 5. P.56:
* Answer key