Planning date:5 - 3- 2012
Period 54. Unit 9: Natural disasters
Lesson 1: getting started + listen and read. P.74 – 75
I. Aims:
- To help students read about the weather forecast for details.
- To develop students’ skills.
II. Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to understand the dialogue.
III. Ways of working: T- WC, pair work, individual work.
IV. Materials: Textbook, pictures in the textbook, tape.
V. Anticipated problems: The lesson may take time.
VI. Teaching steps:
1. Warm up: ( 1`): Teacher greets and checks the students’ attendance.
2. New lesson:

STAGES
ACTIVITIES
ON BOARD

GS (4`)
* Matching: ( Getting started)
- Students match the picture with its name.
* Matching:
Key:





1-snowstorm 3-volcano
2-earthquake 4-typhoon

PRESEN TATION
(8 minutes)
* Preteach vocabulary:
- Teacher uses techniques to teach students new words.

- Checking understanding:
Rubout and remember.
* Set the scene:
Thuy is talking to her grandmother. They are both watching TV, listening to the weather forecast on TV.
I. New words;
(to) turn up: điều chỉnh to lên
(to) expect: mong đợi, chờ đón
thunderstorm: bão có sấm sét, mưa to.
delta (n): vùng châu thổ
just in case: phòng khi, lỡ khi.


PRACTICE
(20 minutes)
* Listen and read. P.74 – 75:
- Students look at their books while listening to the dialogue and then practice the dialogue in group of three.

- Students read the dialogue again and fill in each blank with one word or phrase from the dialogue.







- Students read the dialogue for the third time and then answer the comprehension questions.






- Teacher hold the game: Lucky number.
(Number 3, 4, 8 are lucky numbers)
II. Listen and read. P.4 – 75:
1. Practice.




2. Gap fill. (Part b. P.75)
Answer key:
1. turn up
2. rainy
3. central highlands
4. have temperatures
5. weather forecasts; watching them



3. Answer these questions:
a) Why does Thuy’s grandmother ask her to turn up the volume?
b) What will the weather be like in Ha Noi tomorrow?
c) Where will there be thunderstorms over?
d) What is Thuy doing tommorrow?
e) What does Thuy’s grandmother want her to do?
Lucky numbers!
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

POST READING
(10 minutes)
* Write:
- Students write the answers to their notebooks.
Answer key:
1(a) Because she wants to listen to the weather forecast.
2(b) It will be sunny.
5(c) The central highlands.
6(d) She is meeting her old friends who she hasn’t met since she left school and they are going to a park on the other side of river.
7(e) She wants her to bring a long rain coat.


3. Summary (1`):
- Repeat the content of the lesson.
4. Homework ( 1`):
- Learn by heart all the new words.
- Do exercise: 5. P.61 (workbook)





















Planning date:10- 3- 2012
Period 55. Unit 9: Natural disasters
Lesson 2: speak and listen. P.76 – 77
I. Aims:
- To help students practise speaking in preparations that should be made for a typhoon.
- To help students listen for details about how to live with earthquakes.
- To develop students’ skills.
II. Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to know some preparations
that should be made for a typhoon and understand the listening.
III. Ways of working: T - WC, team work, pair work, individual work.
IV. Materials: Textbook, pictures in the textbook, tape.
V. Anticipated problems:
- Listening may be difficul for some students.
- The lesson may take time.
VI. Teaching steps:
1. Warm up ( 5`): * Brainstorming:
- Students write preparations should be made for a typhoon.
* Discussion:
The question raised:
- What will happen if there is a typhoon?