Unit 11: NATIONAL PARKS
Part 1: READING

AIMS OF THE LESSON :
1. Teaching aims:

Help students have some knowledge of national parks in the world, their features and usefullness.
Help students have awareness of protecting national parks in their country and in the world.
2. Language skills :
Reading and guessing word meanings in context.
Intensive reading for answering the questions.
Summarizing the text.
3. Language focus :
Pronunciation : /d/ - /t/
Vocabulary : Words related to the topic “National parks” :
animals & plants : butterflies, animals, orphanage, species…
directions: northward, southward, through, across, eastern end…
quality: expensive, dangerous, comfortable,…
Grammar :
Conditional sentence type 3.
II. TEACHING AIDS : cassette player, chalks, pictures, handouts, charts , real objects
III. PROCEDURE :

Stages
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
Notes

Warmer
(3’)

-Show some pictures and ask :
1. What can you see in these pictures?
2. Where can they co-exist (or live together)? In the mountain or in the national park?
- Correct sts mistakes and then introduce new lesson.
-Look at these pictures and answer:
1. We can see trees, plants, animals, mountains, caves.
2. They co-exist in the national park.
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Pre-reading
(5’)
 -Ask students to discuss the questions briefly.
1. Can you name some of the national parks in Vietnam you know or hear about?
2. What national park is located in your province?
* Help students if necessary.
- Introduce 3 national parks in textbook and write 2 guiding questions on the board:
1. Where are 3 national parks (Cuc Phuong, Nairobi & Everglages) located?
2. What are their features?

-Listen and discuss the answers to the questions.
1. Cuc Phuong, Nam Cat Tien, Cat Ba, U Minh, Bach Ma.

2. Nam Cat Tien is located in my province.

- Listen and discuss .




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While-reading
(25’)
- Introduce three tasks.
-Have students read the whole passage (once or twice) and do the tasks.
* TASK 1:
-Guide students how to do this task.
-Ask them to do it.




-Ask students to repeat the meanings of these words without looking at the book.
-Correct mistakes.

* TASK 2:
- Ask sts to read again the passage carefully to fill the missing information in the table:

NATION-AL PARKS
CUC PHUONG
NAIROBI
EVERGLADES

Location





Special features



















TASK 3
- Ask sts to work in pair to answer the questions on page 114/ textbook
- Observe the class and help students.
- Ask some sts to give oral answers and then write them on the blackboard.
- Correct mistakes.









- Listen.
- Do as instructions.
-Read silently.


-Give answers:
1. establish (example)
2. contain
3. species
4. survival
5. sub-tropical
6. contamination.
- Repeat the meanings of these words without looking at the book.
-Take notes.



- Do as instructions.

NATION-AL PARKS
CUC PHUONG
NAIROBI
EVERGLADES

Locati-
on
SW of Ha noi, VN

In Kenya
In the Southeastern United States.

Special features
-butterflies, caves, 1000- year- old trees
-200 sq km rain forest
- large variety of animals & plants.
- lots of orphaned animals are taken care of.
Plants & animals from both tropical & temperate zones.
-toxic levels of chemical in the water.



- Work with the partner and give the answers.
1. 200 square km.
2. Because the hard forest rain is over.
3. They can learn about the habits of animals and how one species is dependent upon another for survival.
4. In the Orphanage, orphaned and/ or abandoned animals are taken care of.
5. Everglades National Park is endangered because of the toxic levels of chemicals in the water.
6. If more chemicals are released into the water , plants, and animals will die / be destroyed.
- Write their answers on the blackboard.
- Copy down into their notebooks.





individual/ pairs