UNIT 9 – UNDERSEA WORLD READING
I. Objective: By the end of the lesson students will be able to understand the texts about the invention of telephone (reading 1) and the way people`s lives are affected by IT. ( reading 2) through doing exercises.
II. Teaching aid; handouts, extra board
III. Procedure:
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities

I. ACTIVITY 1 READING 1
T hangs the poster and asks SS to match the words in A with the words in B
A
B

1. brain
2. drowning
3. do tricks
4. rescue
5. kill
A. cứu sống
B. bộ não
C. làm trò
D. giết chết
E. chìm

T corrects
T introduces the reading 1 – runs through the questions
T reviews how to do this kind of reading – gap -fill
T corrects
III. ACTIVITY 2 READING 2
T hangs the poster and asks SS to match the words in A with the words in B
A
B

1.hunt
2. becoming extinct
3. aware of
4. population
5. grow
A. bị tuyệt chủng
B. nhận thức
C. dân số
D. gia tăng
E. săn bắt

T corrects
T introduces the reading 2 – runs through the questions
T reviews how to do this kind of reading – gap -fill
T corrects
IV. HOMEWORK
T asks ss to learn the above new words at home and read the texts again

Tell the usage of these grammar points.
Work individually to choose the best answers.

* Keys:

1B 2. E 3. C 4. A 5. D


Work in pairs to match the words in A with the words in B
Some SS read the answers
* Keys: (Gap-fill)
1. B 2. D 3.A 4. D 5. B

Listen to the teacher
Take notes when T runs through
Work in groups
Read the passage – choose the best answers.

* Keys: (Gap-fill)

1. E 2.A 3.B 4. C 5. D

Working in pairs to match the words in A with the words in B
Some SS read the answers

* Keys:
1. A 2.D 3. B 4. A 5. C

Listen to the teacher and do the task.

1. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word for each of the blanks.
How clever are dolphins?
Dolphins do have fairy large brains. There are many stories, ancient and modern, about dolphins saving sailors from (1)__________. Ever since the film Flipper, we have all seen how clever they are at learning how to do (2)__________. However, the truth is that dolphins are no more (3)__________than rats, which can also be trained to do tricks. The stories about them (4) __________ people are true, but they automatically rescue anything, which is about the same size (5) __________ themselves. Sometimes they kill sharks and then immediately try to rescue them.
1. A. swimming B. drowning C. sailing D. surfing
2. A. things B. exercise C. performance D. tricks
3. A. intelligent B. quick C. smart D. Sensitive
4. A. attacking B. hunting C. threatening D. rescuing
5. A with B. as C. of D. for

2. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B , C , or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.
People have been hunting whales for at least a thousand years, and there were no real problems until 20th century. What happened was that fishing technology became much more efficient and the ships were much faster, so more and more whales were caught. In the 1960s the main whaling countries were killing more than sixty thousand whales a year, and everyone began to realize that something had to be done.
It was environmental groups like Greenpeace that really made things change. They set out to make people aware of the fact that whales were fast becoming extinct. But even now we don’t know if all this interest has become too late. Let’s take the great blue whale for example, which at thirty to forty metres long is the biggest animal there has ever been – now there are perhaps about two thousand or so left. In fact they have been protected for quite a long time, but there is no sign that the population is growing.
1) How long have people been hunting whales?