Lesson plan
Unit 11: Sources of energy
Part B: Speaking
Class description:41 students of grade 11A11, Thang Long High School
Objectives
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
Use the required language and knowledge to talk about the advantages and disadvantages of using alternative sources of energy.
Use the required language and knowledge to talk about the use of alternative sources of energy in the future.
Materials
Textbook, handouts and the board
Anticipated problems
Students may not have enough vocabulary and structure to talk about the topic, so the teacher should ready to help
Students may be shy to speak; therefore, the teacher should find suitable ways to motivate them by creating variety of interesting activities.
Procedure.
Time
Stages
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities

2’
Greeting
Greet the whole class: Good afternoon
Ask Ss to sit down.
Ask Ss some questions:
How are you, today?
Is there anyone absent today?


- Greet the teacher: Stand up and say: Good afternoon, teacher.
-Answer T’s questions

6’



Warming-up: lucky flowers.
-Prepare a game: prepare 6 flower-shaped pieces of paper, in each of which a source of energy is mentioned and Ss’ task is to guess what source it is.
-Introduce the rules: There are 8 flower-shaped pieces of paper. In each piece, information related to one source of energy is mentioned. Your task is to guess what source of energy it is?
Anyone wants to join in the game will come here and pick up one piece, read aloud your question and then answer it. If you can’t give the answer, the turn is for the others .Also, there are some pieces are lucky ones, which has the words”gook luck”. If you pick up a piece of paper like this, you will receive a present without having to do something
- Get Ss to join in the game.
- Check Ss’ answers and give presents to Ss who have correct answers.
- Questions:
What source of energy is it?
1. It is not only plentiful and unlimited but also clean and safe.
2. It includes oil, coal and natural gas.
3. It is a clean source of energy. However, if the wind does not blow, there is no energy at all.
4. It costs a lot of money because people have to build dams to use this source of energy.
5. It comes from deep inside of the earth.
6. It can provide enough electricity for the world’s needs for hundreds of years, but it can be very dangerous.
Answers:
Solar energy
Fossil fuels
Wind power
Water power
Geothermal heat
Nuclear energy

-Listen to the rule of the game
- Join in the game voluntarily



6’

Before speaking
Vocabulary: Prepared handouts
- Deliver handouts to Ss and asks them to work individually:
All of you received the handouts, right? Your task is to match the words in column A with the right answers in column B. Work individually in 2 minutes.
HANDOUT 1 (individual work):
Match the words in column A with the right answers in column B.
A
B

Enormous (a)
The sending out of heat, energy, etc in the form of rays

Radiation (n)
ANTONYM: limited

Abundant (a)
SYNONYM: huge

Renewable (a)
Complete the sentence: we have……… rice. There’s no rice left.

Run out (v)
That is replaced naturally.


- Check the answers.
-Ss work individually to match the words in column A with the right answers column B in the handouts.
- Ss present their answers.




29’




While you speak
Answer :
C
A
B
E
D

Task 1: (8’)
- Lead-in task 1: And now we move to task 1.
-Ask an S to read aloud the requirement of task 1: Who can help me read aloud the requirement of task 1.
So in this task, we have to identify which statement talk about advantage and which statement talk about the disadvantage. Write A for advantage and D for disadvantage.
- Ask Ss to do task 1 individually. Do task 1 individually and then I will call one of you to come to the board and write down the answers.
- Call on an S to come to the board and write down the answers.
- Check the answers with the whole class.
- Ask Ss to work in pairs (one asks and one answers): And now work in pairs: one asks and one answer. For example, the 1st statement talks about the disadvantage of fossil fuels so one asks: What is the disadvantage