Planning date: January 12th 2009
Period 37
Unit 6: the environment
Lesson 1 Getting started + Listen and read + L.focus 2
A. Aim: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to know some vocabulary about environment problems and conditional sentence type 1
1, Teaching aids: - posters, tape.
2, Ways of teaching: - pair work, individual
B. Procedures::
I. Warm up: - Greetings * Brainstorm:
- Hang on the pictures on p.47
- Let Ss to look at them and ask them question:
What make our environment polluted?
- Elicit the words/ phrases from Ss through the pictures above and get them to repeat.
- Ask them to match the words/ phrases to the pictures.
- T’s correction.
II. Pre teach vocabulary:
Deforestation:(n) sự tàn phá rừng (explanation)
Garbage dump:(n) đống rác (picture)
Dynamite fishing:(n) việc đáng bắt cá bằng thuốc nổ (picture)
Spraying pesticides:(n) việc phun thuốc diệt sâu bọ (picture)
Sewage: (n) nước thải (translation)
Disappointed: (adj) thất vọng (explanation)
- Checking vocabulary: What and where
III. Presentation:
- T. uses the pictures above to elicit the environment cleaning activities that Ss often do in their school/ neighborhood.
Ex: - cleaning the schoolyard/ roads.
- planting trees....
- collecting the garbage.....
- Ask Ss read the text on p.47 to compare.
IV. Practice:
1. Matching:
- Ask Ss to read out the text.
- Ask them to do Ex.1 on p.48
- Get Ss go to the board and match.
- Check the answer with the whole class.
* Answerkey:
1/ Matching:
1.f; 2.e; 3. b; 4. a; 5. c; 6. d
2. Answer questions:
- Let Ss to read the text again then answer the questions on p. 48
- Work in pair.
- Ask some pairs to answer.
* Answer key:
1/ The speaker is Mr. Brown
2/ They are voluteer conservationists
3/ They are on the beach
4/ They are going to clean the beach.
5/ Ss’ answer
6/ Ss’ answer
- Modal sentence:
If they work hard, they will make the beach clean.
- T. introduces the conditional sentence type 1
* Form: If + S + V(s,es) , S + will + V.
- Ask Ss to give an example
- Ex: If you work hard, you will pass the exam.
- Language focus 2:
Adverb clause of reason ( as/ because/ since)
- Ask Ss to look at the pictures and combine two sentences in to one using as/ because/ since
* Ex: Ba is tired because he stayed up late watching TV
V. Production:

Activities Mr. Brown and the volunteer are going to do

Mr. Brown does
The volunteer do










- Hang on the poster on board.
- Ask Ss to look at the table then complete them.
- Work in groups.
- Ask Ss to write on board.
VI. Homework: - Learn by heart vocabulary
- Do exercise 1 in workbook.
- Prepare for “ Speak + L.F 4,5”

Planning date: January 15th 2009
Period 38
Unit 6: the environment
Lesson 2 Speaking + L.focus 4,5
A. Aim: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to persuade their
friends to protect the environment.
1, Teaching aids: - posters, tape.
2, Ways of teaching: - pair work, individual
B. Procedures::
I. Warm up: - Greetings
- Ask Ss a question:
What do you do to protect the environment?
- Ss answer: + plant more trees
+ collect papers, bottles, bags to recycle....
II. Preteach vocabulary:
energy (n) : năng lượng (example)
(to) wrap : bọc, bao bọc (mime)
leaf (n) : lá (realia)
(to) dissolve : phá huỷ (translation)
(to) prevent : ngăn