Bài soạn môn học Tiếng Anh 11 - Unit 16: The wonders of the world - Lesson 2: Speaking

PERIOD: 100 
Unit 16 the wonders of the world
 Lesson 2 Speaking
Preparing date
Teaching date: B1B2B3B6..
 A. Aims and Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to: 
 - Express their own ideas about facts and opinions.
 - Use facts and opinions to talk about features of man-made places.
B. Teaching Aids: Textbook, handouts.
C. Procedures:
TEACHER’S Activities
Students’ Activities
1. Warm-up (5 minutes)
T. Give some information about the Great Pyramid.
1) 20 years 2) 147 metres 3) 230m2
4) 2 millions.
- Asks Ss to work individual after that check up couples.
- Correct answer.
- T. Today we practice speaking about The Great Pyramid
- Answer freely
1) It took them over 20 years to complete The Great Pyramid or The Great Pyramid was build over 20 years
2) The Great Pyramid was 147 m high.
3) The Great Pyramid was built on base of 230m2.
4) The structure consisted of 2 millions blocks of stone.
2. Pre-speaking (8 minutes)
+ Lead-in:
- T sticks the picture of the Great Pyramid on the board and asks Ss:
1. What is this? 
2. Is the Great Pyramid high? 
3. What do you think about the Great Pyramid? - T writes on the board: 
+ The Great Pyramid is high.
+ The Great Pyramid is great.
- T asks Ss: Which sentence describes fact and which one describes opinion?
+ Expected answers: The first describes fact and the second describes opinion.
- Answer the questions
1. The Great Pyramid
2. Yes
3. I think it is great
3. While-speaking (20 minutes)
* Activity 1: Distinguish facts and opinion
- Ask Ss to work in pairs to read the statements and decide if each one describes fact or opinion.
- Walk round and help them, give the some information.
+ Feedback: Teacher asks some Ss to give their answers.
* Activity 2: Pair-work
+ Useful language:
- To express opinions and facts:
I think/ I am sure...
It is said/ believed/ thought that...
They might/ may / can have...
Probably/ Maybe they...
Example: 
 I think the Great Pyramid was built by an enormous giant.
- Ask Ss to work in pairs and tell their partner about some facts and opinions of the Great Pyramid of Giza, using the information in Task 1.
 Example:
- Walk round and help them, give the some information.
+ Feedback: Teacher asks some Ss to give their answers.
- Work in pairs to read the statements and decide if each one describes fact or opinion.
- Suggested answers:
- Facts: 2, 3, 4.
- Opinions: 1, 5, 6, 7.
- Put the sentences
Fact: The Great Pyramid of Giza was 147 metres high.
Opinion: The Great Pyramid is believed to have been built over a 20-year period.
4. Post –speaking (10 minutes)
* Group work
- Ask Ss to discuss possible answers to the following questions.
- Walk round and help them, give the some information.
- Listen to Ss and collect their mistakes for indirect correction.
- T gives feedback.
- Discuss possible answers to the following questions.
+ Suggestions:
- The Great Pyramid of Giza was built by an Egyptian Pharaoh Khufu.
- It is said that it took him a 20-year period to complete it.
- They are now many theories about it. One theory says the stones were taken from the site on the Giza Plateau, about 5 km away, and one other theory says the stones were transported from the east side of the Nile River from a distance of over 500 miles.
- These stones might have been transported on wooden sleds.
5. Homework (2 minutes)
- Write a report on what your friend told you about how the Great Pyramid was built in activity above.- Prepare the next part.
- Work at home