Unit 10: Nature in danger - Period 61: Reading

UNIT 10 : NATURE IN DANGER
Period: 61 READING
Preparing date: .
Teaching date: B4.....................
I. OBJECTIVES
 Aims: Educate Ss to protect the environment in Vietnam and on the world. 
 - Guides Ss to read the text.
 - Develop such reading micro-skill as scanning for special ideas and skimming for general information.
 - Use the information they have read to discuss and practice the tasks.
 * Lexical items: Words or phrases to related reading.
 * Skills: Reading for gist and for specific information.
II. METHOD: Integrated, mainly communication.
III. TEACHING AIDS: Cassette, tape, textbook, lesson plan.
IV. Procedure:
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
1. Warm-up 
- Asks Ss to work in pairs to read these facts about endangered species and look at the picture discuss the questions.
1. What do you understand from the facts above?
2. Can you explain why the numbers of the animals have become small?
Warm-up 
- Listen and prepare.
- Answer freely.
- Listen.
2. Before you read 
- Gives Ss to read the new words and word phrases then explain the meaning.
+ agriculture: + prohibit:
+ extinct:
- Asks Ss to read after the teacher some times.
- Asks Ss to make sentences with the above words to check their understanding at home.
- Asks Ss to read the word phrases careful to understand them.
- Calls some Ss to read the words and phrases
in front of the class.
Before you read
- Copy down
- Read in chorus and individually.
- Read aloud the words
3. While you read
Task 1
* Introduce: The words in the box all appear in the passage. Find each blank with a suitable word.( change the from of word and use the dictionary when necessary).
- Asks Ss to read the text carefully.
- Plays cassette and ask Ss to listen once time or twice times.
- Asks Ss to read the words in the box carefully to understand them then put the words on.
- Walks around the class to help when necessary.
- Asks them to compare their answers with friends 
- Calls Some Ss to read aloud their answers. 
- Gives corrected answer.
While you read
Task 1
- Read the words in the box carefully to understand them then put the words on..
- Read the text carefully.
- Work individually.
- Listen once or twice times
- Compare the answers with friends.
- Read aloud the answers.
- Write the correct answers:
1. extinct 2. protect 
3. decreasing 4. pollutants
5. endangered 5. interference
Task 2 
Circle the letter( A, B, C, or D) that best sums up each paragraph.
- Asks Ss to read the sentences and options carefully then circle. 
- Walks around the class to help when necessary
- Asks Ss to compare their answers with friends.
- Calls some Ss to read their answers and explain the meaning in front of the class.
- Give correct answers.
 1. C, 2. B, 3. A, 4. C
Task 2 
- Read the sentences and options carefully then circle. 
- Compare the meanings with friends.
- Read the answers and explain the meaning in front of the class.
- Compare T’s answer.
1. C, 2. B, 3. A, 4. C
Task 3
Instruction: You are required to answer the seven questions in the book.
Divides class into 4 groups.
Group 1: Answer the question 1, 2.
Group 2: Answer the question 3, 4.
Group 3: Answer the question 5,1.
Group 4: Answer the question 2,3.
- Guides Ss to make some strategies in task 2
- Asks Ss to read carefully questions to understand them.
- Asks Ss to answer the questions
- Asks Ss to read scan the text again and underline the key words to decide what information they need to find in the text to answer the questions.
- Walks around the class to help when necessary.
- Asks Ss to compare their answers with friends.
- Calls Some Ss to read their answers in front of the class.
- Gives correct answers:
Task 3
- Work in groups.
- Read carefully questions to
understand them.
- Read the passage carefully.
- Read scan the text again and underline the key words to decide what information they need to find in the text to answer the questions.
- Compare the answers with friends.
- Read aloud the answer in front of the class.
- Write the correct answers.
1. For ways that people change the world are:
- They are changing the environment by budding cities and villages.
- They are affecting....................................
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2. The serious consequence of people’s interference with the environment are:
- Many kinds of ........................................
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3. Many things have been done to protect endangered nature, such as:
- Many organizations have been set up.......
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4. After you read
- Asks Ss to work in groups to find out why some animals have become extinct.
- Guides Ss to make some strategies.
- Walks around the class to help Ss when necessary.
- Asks Ss to compare their answers with friends.
- Calls Ss to read the answers in front of the class.
- Remark and give opinions.
After you read
- Work in groups to find out why some animals have become extinct.
- Compare the answers with friends.
- Write the correct answers.
1...................................................... 
- Compare T’s answer.
5. Homework 
- Asks Ss to do the tasks again.
- Asks Ss to prepare the new lesson
Homework
- Work at home.