SAIGON UNIVERSITY
FOREIGN LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT
School: Nguyen Huu Tho High School
Supervisor: Ms Phạm Thanh Hằng
Class: 11A
Student teacher: Trần Thị Mộng Oanh
LESSON PLAN
TIENG ANH 11
UNIT 11 SOURCES OF ENERGY
READING
Objectives By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
Identify alternative sources of energy.
Scan the passage to list the advantages and disadvantages of each alternative source of energy.
Be aware of saving energy in order to protect the environment.
Practice reading skills.

Language focus
Vocabulary:
+ Fossil fuel (n) / ˈfɒsl ˈfjuːəl /
+ exhausted (adj) / ɪɡˈzɔːstɪd / = used up
+ Alternative (adj) / ɔːlˈtɜːnətɪv /
+ Geothermal heat (n) / ˌdʒiːəʊˈθɜːml hiːt /
+ release (v) / rɪˈliːs /
+ Infinite (adj) / ˈɪnfɪnət / = unlimited
Techniques:
+ Listing game.
+ Group work, Pair work, individual work.
+ Reading skills: word-attack, skimming, scanning (top-down process).
Teaching aids:chalks, black-board, pictures, sticker ball, group boards, and markers
Time: 45 minutes
Procedures
Greetings(1’)
Review of the previous lesson (4’)
New lesson

Stages
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities

1.Warm-up
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2. Pre-reading
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3. While- reading
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4. Post-reading
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5. Homework
(1’)

Listing game
T divides class into 4 groups.
T shows some icons of some home appliances and introduces that they all need electricity to operate.
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T asks Ss to work in 4 groups and list home appliances that use electricity as much as possible in 3 minutes, and then Ss stick the group boards on the black board.
Which group has the most things gets the highest marks.
T checks understanding the rule
T gives each group 1 group board.
T organizes the game.
After 3 minutes, T calls 4 Ss to check amount of words and spelling on 4 group boards.
T announces the result.






Lead-in “Home appliances need to electricity to operate”.
-T asks “Where does electricity come from?” and elicits some answers giving clues “Đa Nhim, Trị An, Đa mi,…”; “It’s in the morning sky”T reminds Ss to rememberThe Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disasteron 11 March 2011,

- T introduces the lesson: “Today we are going to study Unit 11SOURCES OF ENERGY PART A READING”

- T presents new words by using appropriate techniques.
+ fossil fuel (n) / ˈfɒsl ˈfjuːəl /
T explains the meaning and sticks pictures related to the explanation on the board.
Fossil fuels are fuels formed inside the earth from the remains of plants and animals after millions of year.

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The fossil fuels are non-renewable (limited) sources of energy so they should be conserved.
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T asks “What does it mean?”

+ exhausted (adj) / ɪɡˈzɔːstɪd / = used up
T draws an oil can and explains
“It’s full.” T cleans the board gradually until there is still a little oil at the bottom. T says: “It’s going to be empty.” Or “It’s exhausted”. “Who can tell me the Vietnamese meaning of “exhausted”?”.

+ alternative (adj) / ɔːlˈtɜːnətɪv /
T explains “Because fossil fuels are limited and polluted, we need alternative sources of energy to replace fossil fuels (nuclear energy, sun power, water power,…)
“