Lesson plan - Unit7: World population - Speaking

LESSON PLAN
Unit7: World population
Speaking
1. Class description:
- 40 students (Ss) in 11A2 class at Ngo Thi Nham high school
2. Level:
- Intermediate
3. Time: 45 m
4. Objectives:
By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to: talk about the causes of population explosion, problems of population booms and solutions to these problems.
5. Assumed knowledge:
- Ss have already known some vocabulary items related to the topic.
6. Anticipated problem(s):
- There may be lack of time, so the teacher (T) can cut down amount of time to do task 4.
- There may be time left, so the teacher (T) should spend more time for Ss doing task 4.
- Ss may not have enough vocabulary to talk about the topic, so T should be ready to provide help.
7. Teaching aids:
- Books, handouts, visual aids, chalks and board.
8. Procedures:
Time
Stage
Aims
Techniques
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
Note
3 minutes
Warm up
To lead in the topic
Eliciting technique
*Picture description:
- Shows Ss the prepared picture 
- Asks Ss some questions:
+ What can you see in the picture?
Suggested answer: There is a big family with parents and their five children. They are poor and look so sad.
+ What does the picture tell you?
Suggested answer: The picture tells us about the poverty. It is one of the problems of overpopulation.
- Elicits the answers from Ss
- Introduces the topic: Overpopulation
- See the picture
- Answer the questions
5-7
minutes
Task 1
To help Ss express their own ideas about causes of population explosion
- Step by step
- Gives Ss instruction: You are going to put the following causes to overpopulation in order of importance and explain your decision.
- Asks Ss to read through the causes provided on page 83 and makes sure that Ss understand these statements. 
- Give Ss instructions: 
Task 1: Work in pairs. Read the causes of population explosion. Put them in order of importance and explain why.
□ Fewer children die at birth.
□ People are not aware of the problem of overpopulation.
□ People are not properly educated.
□ People believe that having many children means happiness.
□ Religion doesn’t encourage people to have fewer children.
□ Many people believe that having a large family is a form of insurance.
- Takes time for Ss to work
- Goes around and provides help
- Calls some pairs to present their ideas.
- Gives comment and introduces some useful expressions to give opinion:
+ In my point of view, .
+ In my opinion, .
+ To my mind, ..
+ As far as I’m concerned, ..
+ I think that .
+ It would seem/ appear to me that .
- Listen to T
- Work in pairs
- Answer to T
- T can explain in Vietnamese if necessary.
7-9 minutes
Task 2
To help Ss express their opinion about effects of overpopulation
- Step by step
- Giving corrective feedback
- Give Ss instruction: You are going to work in pairs to list the problems facing poor and overpopulated countries.
- Asks Ss to read the useful language on page 83
- Explains some new words in the useful language
- Reminds Ss about matching the words/ phrases on the left with the words/ phrases on the right
- Give Ss instructions: Work in pairs. List the problems of poor and overpopulated countries.
- Takes time for Ss to work in pairs.
- Goes around and provides help
- Calls some pairs to report their answers
- Comments Ss’ answer 
Suggested answers:
+ poor living condition
+ low living standard
+ not enough food
+ lack/ shortage of school/ hospital/ teacher/ doctor/ nurse
+ social evils
+ illiteracy
+ unemployment
+ crime
+ social conflict and War
+ traffic jam
+ species extinction
+ loss of fresh water
+ loss natural habitat
+ global warming
+ pollution
+ climate change
+ epidemic
- Listen to T
- Work in pairs
- Answer to T
- Listen to T
- T can explain in Vietnamese if necessary.
10-12
minutes
Task 3
To help Ss express their opinion about solutions of overpopulation
- Step by step
- Translation
- Giving corrective feedback
- Gives Ss instructions: Now you will work in groups of 4 to find out the solutions to the problems of overpopulation.
- Asks Ss to read the useful language and pre-teaches some words/ phrases:
+ exercise/ implement (v) thực thi, áp dụng
+ carry out (phr v) tiến hành
+ reward and punishment policy: chính sách thưởng phạt
- Asks Ss to do the task. Ss may work out other solutions.
- Takes time for Ss to work in groups
- Goes around to offer help
- Calls on some Ss to present their groups’ idea
- Gives comment
Suggested answers:
+ raise an awareness of the problems of overpopulation
+ raise the people’s living standard
+ exercise/ implement reward and punishment policy
+ carry out population education program/ family planning program
+ use birth control methods
+ eradicate illiteracy
+ educate people about the dangers of overpopulation
+ implement strictly the policy having only 1 child in each family
- Listen to T
- Work in groups of 4
- Answer to T
- T can explain in Vietnamese if necessary.
10-13 
minutes
Task 4
To create chances for Ss to present their opinion about the effects and solutions of overpopulation
- Step by step
- Giving corrective feedback
- Gives Ss instructions: Now you are going to work in groups of 4 to talk about the problems of overpopulation and offer solutions, using the results of Tasks 2 and 3.
- Reminds Ss to give a short presentation of the problems of population explosion and the solutions to them
- Shows the poster with useful languages for Ss 
- Gives the list of transition signals for Ss: 
+ first/ firstly, second, next, etc
+ the first one, the second one, etc
+ the first problem is that., the next solution is that, etc
- Delivers handouts of the model structure of Ss talk to help them make reference
Nowadays, overpopulated countries are facing up to serious problems. The first one is .. . The second one is . And the next one is .
To solve these problems, the government should . Besides, people have to  and ..
- Takes time for Ss to work in groups
- Goes around to observe, provides help if necessary and collects Ss’ typical mistakes and errors.
- Calls on some group representatives to present
- Gives comment on Ss’ presentation and corrects collected mistakes.
- Listen to T
- Work in groups
- Present their group work
- Listen to T
- T can explain in Vietnamese if necessary.
1 minute
Wrap-up
- Summarizes the main points of the lesson
- Asks Ss to prepare the next lesson
- Listen to T