Planning date: 10/ 01/ 2014
Period: 39
Teaching date: 14/ 01/ 2014
UNIT 6 : THE ENVIRONMENT
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I. Objectives:
- By the end of this lesson, Ss will be able to understand the poem about the environmental problem.
1. Knowledge:
a. Vocabulary: Related to the environment
b. Grammar: Conditional sentence type 1.
2. Skills: Reading, less speaking, listening and writing.
3. Attitude: Ss will be educated about how to protect the environment.
II. Teaching methods:
Communicative approach.
Techniques: Eliciting, explanation, asking, answering, individual work, pairwork.
III. Teaching aids:
a. Teacher: Book, lesson plan, aiding board, colored chalks, smart pen.
b. Students: Notebook, book, pen, ruler ...
IV. Procedures:
1. Greeting and taking attendance (1’)
2. Preview of the previous lesson (4’)
- T calls one pair of Ss to make conversation to persuade their partners to do something to protect the environment.
3. New lesson (35’)

Teacher’s and students’ activities
Content

- Teacher asks, Ss answer the questions.

* Warm up “Chatting”
- Have you ever polluted the environment?
- How did you do?
- What should you do to protect the environment?
- Have you ever ask your relatives to save the environment?

- T introduces the content of the poem: “A mother and her son are having a picnic in the park. The son sees that the place is polluted. He asks his mother about the problems of pollution. What does the mother think about the pollution?”
1. Read
* Pre – Reading




- T plays the tape once.
- Ss listen to the tape.
- T helps Ss know the way how to read the poem : 1-2, 3-4-5-6, 7-8, 9-10, 11-12?-13-14-15-16.
- T has Ss read the poem in silience
And do exercise a.
- Ss compare the answers in pairs.
- Ss give the answers before the class.
- T checks and corrects the answers as well as introduces and explains new words.
- Ss practices reading new words.
* While - Reading
a. Match each word in A to an appropriate explanation in B.
A
B

1. junk-yard
a. a row of things forming a fence.

2. end up
b. people

3. treasure
c. a piece of land full of rubbish





Teacher’s and students’ activities
Content


- Some Ss read new words before the class.
- T corrects students’ pronunciation if necessary.

- T gets Ss read the poem and ask, answer the questions in pairs.
- Some pairs of Ss ask and answer the questions before the class.
- T checks and corrects the answers.
- Ss copy down the answers in their notebooks.
4. foam
d. a flow of water

5. stream
e. mass of bubbles

6. hedge
f. valuable or precious things

7. folk
g. reach a state of

Keys: 1-c, 2-g, 3-f, 4-e, 5-d, 6-a, 7-b
b. Answer. Then write the answers in your exercises book.
Keys :
1. If the pollution goes on, the world will end up like a second hand junk-yard.
2. She thinks other folk pollute the environment except her and her son.
3. If the boy keeps on asking such questions, his mother will take him hom right away.
4. No, because he is right. If he throws the bottles that will be polluting the woods.
5. The poet wants us to learn that everyone is responsible for keeping the environment from pollution / stopping pollution.
6. Students’ answers.
Ex:
- Put the garbage bins around the schoolyards.
- Pick up the rubbish? garbage and put into the rush bin.

- T asks, Ss answer the questions.
* Post – Reading
What can you learn from this poem?

4. Consolidation (4’)
T calls some Ss read the poem before the class exactly, then answer the questions :
a. What does the poet want us to learn about keeping the environment un polluted ?
b. What can you do at school/ your hourses to minimize pollution ?
5. Homework (1’)
Ss learn new words, practice reading the poem and prepare lesson “Write”.
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