LESSON PLAN
Unit 9. DESERTS
A. READING
Class:Grade 12
Date: 20/08/2017
I. Objectives.
A. Formation of behavior: Ss should protect the environment and deserts
B. Knowledge:
1. Language function: reading the passage about deserts and scan for specific information.
2. Language material:
- Voc:
+ n:dune,crest, spinifex, corridor, shrubland
+ v: stretch
+adj: aerial
B. Skills: Reading, speaking.
C. Method:Communicative Approach.
D. Teaching aids:slides, pictures, …
II. Teaching steps: 45 minutes.
A. Warm up: Guessing word: 3 – 5 minutes.
Teacher’s
Activities
Students’
Activities
Content

- Introducing the game: Guessing word.
- Giving some clues.


- Guessing word.
+ Playing game: Guessing word

Clues:
-large areas of sand
-very hot during the day
- very cold during the night
- very little rainfall
- very few people and animals
live there
=> Key: DESERTS


B. Today’s lesson: # 35 minutes
Steps and timing
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
Content

Pre-
- Asking Ss to answer the questions
- Giving feedback.


- Introducing new words.






- Asking Ss to do Task 1.
- Answering the questions.





- Repeating and taking note.





- Doing task 1
Work in pairs.Ask and answer the following questions.( before you read p/96)




Teaching vocabulary
Dune (n) => picture
Spinifex (n) => picture
Corridor (n) => picture
Shrubland (n) => picture
Crest (n) => picture
Stretch (v) => explaining (make sth longer or wider)
Aerial (adj) => explaining (in the air)

Task 1: Give the Vietnamese equivalents to the following words or phrases
/

While-


- Asking Ss to work in pairs
- Giving feedback



-Explaining how to play a game
-Dividing the class into two groups
-Giving feedback














- Working in pairs
- Giving the answers.



-Discussing
-Giving the answers

















Task 2: Decide whether the statements are true (T) or false (F) (p/98)
Answers: 1.F 2.F 3.T 4.F 5.F 6.T


Task 3: Answer the following questions (p/98)
(play a game: Lucky numbers)
Answers:
They are Great Victoria Deserts, Gibbon, Great Sandy and Tanami Deserts and Simpson Desert.
It lies between Lake Eyre in the south , the MacDonald Ranges in the north, the Mulligan and the Diamantina Rivers in the east , and the Macumba and Finke Rivers in the west .
In 1845
He was the president of the sount Australian Branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australia .
They took camels across the desert
In the western part, they are short, mostly less than 10 metres high, and in the northern part, they are parallel and are up to 20 metres high
Two. They are hummock grass and spinifex

Post-
-Asking Ss to read the story



-Asking Ss to discuss
-Reading the story
-Answering the questions

-Discussing


Activity 1: Answer the questions
1. Is the story funny?
2. Where is the fun?


Activity 2: Discussing
What do you think about weather, plant, people, animals, water, … in deserts?


III. Homework: (1-2 minutes)
- Learning vocabulary by heart.
- Aking students to prepare for the next period: Unit 9 - Speaking (page 99)
IV. Feedback: