LESSON PLAN
UNIT 2: HUMANS AND THE ENVIRONMENT
LESSON 1: GETTING STARTED - GO GREEN CLUB
I. OBJECTIVES
By the end of this lesson; students will be able to
- gain an overview about the topic Humans and the Environment
- gain vocabulary to talk about activities to adopt a greener lifestyle
- develop communication skills and environmental awareness
- be collaborative and supportive in pair work and teamwork
- actively join in class activities
- develop a greener lifestyle and awareness of environmental issues
- be responsible to the environment
II. LANGUAGE FOCUS
- Key terms/ Vocabulary: adopt (v), awareness (n), carbon footprint (n.p), set up (vp), raise, reduce…
- Structure: the future with will and be going to, Passive voice
III. INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES
- Grade 10 textbook, Unit 2, Getting started
- TV, audio file (track 11)
IV. PROCEDURES
Contents and techniques for organizing
Expected products and
Stages
students' learning activities
assessment of students' work
A. WARM-UP
HANGMAN
Expected answers:
ACTIVITY
ENVIRONMENT
(7 minutes)
___________

B. KNOWLEDGE
FORMATION
ACTIVITIES
(7 minutes)

- T sets the rules; the key word has 11 letters.
- Ss play in 2 big groups.
- Ss guess the letters.
- T monitors and decides the winner.
ACTIVITY 1: LISTEN AND READ
Look at the photo (page 18-19), and answer
the question:

Expected answers:
- Some students are collecting
garbage.
- T asks Ss to look at the picture (p.18) and
- Some students are planting
answer the questions:
trees.
- T plays the recording once, has Ss listen to the
…..
conversation, read along and underline the
voluntary activities in the conversation.
- Ss do the task individually.
- Ss share their answers with a partner.
- T checks their answers with the whole class.
- T has the Ss read the conversation in pairs.
- One pair read aloud.
- T collects common pronunciation mistakes and
gives comments.
What are they doing?

C. PRACTICE
ACTIVITIES
(21 minutes)

ACTIVITY 2: Read the conversation again and
answer the questions. (p.19)
1. Who set up the Go Green Club?
2. What does the club want to achieve?
3. What does Nam think the club will do in the
future?
- T asks Ss to work individually to read the
questions and underline the key words, then
share their ideas with a partner who sits next to
them.
- Ss do Task 2 individually first.
- Ss share and discuss with their partners about
the key words.
- T corrects their answers as a class.
- T asks Ss to scan the conversation, locate the
key words to find the answer for each the
question with the partner who sits behind them.
- Ss do the task in pairs.
- T divides the class into two big teams, has Ss in
each team take turns to choose a number in the
game Lucky number to check the answers.
1.
ACTIVITY 3: Match the verbs or phrasal verbs
in A with suitable nouns or noun phrases in B.
(p.19)

- T helps students revise some collocations for
the environment so that they can use them in the
lessons.
- T helps students practise scanning.
- T has Ss locate the verbs or phrasal verbs in the
conversation, find the nouns or noun phrases
after each verb/ phrasal verb to do the matching.
- Ss work individually.
- Ss share their answers with a partner.
- T checks and gives the correct answers with the
whole class, and has them say the meaning of
each collocation.
- Students can revise some collocations for
talking about environment.
ACTIVITY 4: Complete the following
sentences based on the conversation in 1.

Expected answers:
1. It was set up by the Youth
Union in Nam's school.
Thông tin: Well, it was set up by
the Youth Union in my school.
2. The club wants to improve the
environment and encourage
people to adopt a greener
lifestyle.
Thông tin:Its aim is to improve
our environment and encourage
people to adopt a greener
lifestyle.
3. The club will organise more
activities to raise local people's
awareness of environmental
issues.
Thông tin:Not yet, but I think
we'll organise more activities to
raise local people's awareness of
environmental issues.
Expected answers:
1 - c: raise awareness: nâng cao
nhận thức
2 - d: reduce your carbon
footprint: giảm lượng khí thải
cacbon của bạn
3 - e: clean up the school: vệ sinh
trường học
4 - b: adopt a greener lifestyle: áp
dụng lối sống xanh hơn
5 - a. set up a club: thành lập câu
lạc bộ

Expected answers:
1. was set up 
2. are going to 
3. will 

D. APPLICATION
ACTIVITIES
(5 minutes)

E. HOMEWORK
(5 minutes)

- T has Ss read each sentence, try to complete it
with an appropriate verb phrase without
referring to the conversation.
- Ss do the task individually.
- Ss share the answers with a peer.
- T asks the whole class the call out the verb
forms first, then call on individual students to
read the complete sentences.
ACTIVITY 5: DISCUSSION
Talk about activities you are going to do to
Sample Talk:
make your community a better one.
To make my community a
* Teacher: gives Ss clear instructions in order to
make sure Ss can do effectively; encourages Ss to better one, I am going to join a
local environmental group to
talk about some activities including following
clean up the park every Sunday
information:
or volunteer at an orphanage. I
+ What activity are you going to talk about?
play games with them or tell
+ Where do you do those activities?
them stories that I usually hear
+ Who do you do with?
from my father. I enjoy the work
+ How often do you do those activities?
very much because I like doing
- observes Ss while they are talking, note their
something good for my
language errors.
neighbourhood.
* Ss do as instructed.
* Teacher gives Ss feedback.
- chooses some useful or excellent words/
phrases/ expressions/ word choices Ss have
used to give suggestions to other students.
- chooses some typical errors and correct as a
whole class without nominating the Ss' names.
PROJECT PREPARATION
* Teacher tells Ss about the Project Planning activities for a Go Green
requirements, asks Ss open their books at page Weekend Event
27, look at the table and say what the topic of the
Project is.
+ Ss will have to find information about a
volunteer project in the community.
+ Ss give an oral presentation about that
volunteer project in the last lesson of the unit.
Their presentation should include information
related to the guiding questions.
+ Ss can choose different ways to present their
findings (PPT presentation, Poster presentation,
recording a video about the project).
- Encourages Ss to use photos and / or pictures
to illustrate their ideas.
- Explains to Ss how they can get the information,
e.g: search the Internet, read newspapers, go to
their local community centre and talk to people
there.
- Puts Ss into groups and have them choose their
group leader. Then ask them to assign tasks (e.g.
who will collect information, who will prepare
the slides / record the video, who will write the
report, and who will present) for each group
member, making sure that all group members
contribute to the group work.

* T helps Ss set deadlines for each task and
supports them throughout the process.