Week: 34 Unit 12: LIFE ON OTHER PLANETS
Period: 100 Lesson 1: Getting started – What could happen to the Earth?
I.Aims
Helping students to know how to use the lexical items related to the topic ‘Life on other planets’
II.Objectives
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to talk the topic ‘Life on other planets’
III.Teaching aids: - Pictures, textbook, cassette ....
IV.Procedure:

Time
Stages & Contents
T’s activities
Ss’ activities

5’








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8’











25’




























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2’
I. WARM-UP
Guessing game : What kind of film is it?
1.It is very intresting
2.It talks about the adventures to other planets
3.The stars in the film usually use spaceships to travel
4.It often makes the viewers feel frightened when they see a person who lives in that planet ....
Key: science – fiction film
* Set the scene:
Chatting:







What are Duong and Nhi talking about?
II/. VOCABULARY:
* Pre-teach vocabulary:
1. alien (n) : người lạ, người ngoài hành tinh
2. crew (n): thủy thủ
3. series (n) : phim nhiều tập
4. destroy (v): phá hủy
5. weightless (adj): không trọng lực
6. galaxy (n) : thiên hà
7.space buggy(n) : xe vũ trụ
8.solar system (n) : hệ mặt trời
9.terrorist (n) : kẻ khủng bố
* Checking vocabulary:
R. O. R
III/. PRACTICE:
* Activity 1:
Task a: Read the talk and tick T or F
Key:
1. F 2. T 3. F 4. T 5. F


Task b:Read the talk again and answer the questions
Key:
1. James Kirk is the captain of the spaceship.
2. They went to Nibiru planet.
3. It happens in 2259.
4. It’s the name of the spaceship that the crew travels on.
5. He wants to destroy Earth.
* Activity 2: Use the words or phrases in the box to label in the pictures
Key:
1. aliens 2. space buggy 3. UFO
4. weightless 5. galaxy 6. spaceship 7. solar system 8. planet
* Activity 3: Use the words or phrases in 2 to fill the blanks
Key:
1. aliens 2. UFO 3. space buggy
4. planet; planet 5. weightless 6. solar system 7. galaxy 8. spaceship
IV. Further practice:
STRUCTURE:
Ask students to read the talk again and underline the sentences in reported speech:
Key:
1. That’s funny, Trang also asked me what I thought would happen to Earth in the future.
2. I said I didn’t know but that Earth might be run by aliens!
Form: S + asked + O wh – question + S + V(past)
S + said + S + V(past)
IV. HOMEWORK:
- Learn the vocabulary by heart.
- Prepare Lesson 2: A Closer Look 1

- give hints

-give the answer








-sets the sence







- uses the steps of teaching new
vocabulary






-checks

- plays the recording.
- has Ss read the talk and do task
- gives feedback
- has students do the task in group
- gives feedback



- asks Ss to practice in pairs then go to the board.
-corrects
-observes


- asks Ss to work in pairs
-observes
-gives FB



-calls



-checks and introduces the structure


-asks.

- listen and guess
-check









-listen and answer.






- listen , guess, repeat and copy down






-write the word
- Listen and read
- work in pairs
- give the answers.

- correct

- do task
- correct




- do exercise and write on the board.
-correct
-work in pairs



-do task


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