- Week: 20, 21, 22 - Form: 9A 4, 6, 8, 9
- Period: 37, 38, 39, 40, 41 - Date of teaching: 26 /12 /2016 ->11 /01/2017

UNIT 6: THE ENVIRONMENT

PERIOD 37 : GETTING STARTED – LISTEN ( READ

I.OBJECTIVES:

- Developing sts’ reading skill.
- After studying the lesson, sts. will be able to know more about the environmental problems and solutions.
- Sts. realize the importance of clean environment and they know what they should do to protect the environment.

II. LANGUAGE CONTENTS:
1. Grammar: - adj/ adv ; conditional sentence (type1) - review
- adjective + that clause
2. Vocabulary: The words relating to the environmental problems

III. METHOD AND TEACHING AIDS:
1. Method: Audio-lingual method, communicative approach.
2. Teaching aids: - Pictures, cassette player, tape, textbook …

IV. TEACHING PROCEDURES:

1-Warm up:
- Ask sts to think about the environmental problems in their city
- Get sts to go to the board and write down their ideas

* Possible answers
- rubbish, garbage, trash, sewage…
- dust, smoke from cars, motorbikes and factories …

* Getting started: ( Matching )

- Ask sts to look at the six pictures in their textbooks
- Ask them to match the words or phrases in the box with the correct pictures
- Call on some sts. to give their answers -> correct -> explain new words :
+ Garbage (n) / rubbish/ trash
+ dump (n)
-> garbage dump
+ polutte (v) -> polluted (a) # unpolluted (a)
-> pollution (n) -> air pollution / water pollution
+ forest (n)
+ deforest (v)
+ deforestation (n)
+ dynamite (n) -> dynamite fishing
+ spray (v)
+ pesticide (n)
* Answer:
Picture a: air pollution Picture d: water pollution
Picture b: spraying pesticides Picture e: deforestation
Picture c: garbage dump Picture f: dynamite fishing

2. Presentation
- Set the scene: “Mr. Brown is talking to some volunteer conservationists. Listen to the tape then tell the place where they are now and what they are going to do.”
- Let sts listen to the tape twice. (keep the books closed)

* Answer: They are on a beach now and they are going to clean the beach.

- Introduce the text and explain some more new words and structures.
* Vocabulary
+ conserve (v)
+ conservation (n)
+ conservative (a)
+ conservationist (n) -> volunteer conservationist
+ shore (n)
+ check (v)
+ rock (n)
+ spoil (v)

* Conditional sentence ( review )
Ex: If we work hard, we’ll make this beach a clean and beautiful place again.

* adj/ adv ( review)
kind (a) ->kindly (adv)

* That clause after adjective
Ex: I’m disappointed that people have spoiled this area.
adj. that clause

3. Practice
- Ask sts. to read the text in silence.
a) Read and Match (p48)
- Have sts. work in pairs to match the names in column A with activities in column B.
- Give feedback and correct
* Answers: 1-f, 2-e, 3-b, 4-a, 5-c, 6-d

b) Comprehension questions (p48)
- Have sts. read text again to find out the answers for the questions 1->5.
- Call on some pairs of sts. to ask and answer the questions in front of class -> correct
* Answers:
1. Mr. Brown is the speaker.
2. The listeners are members of volunteer conservationists.
3. They are on the beach.
4. They are going to clean the beach.
5. If they work hard, they will make the beach a clean and beautiful place again.

4. Consolidation
* Discuss questions 6, 7 (p48) in group:
- Call on some sts. to give their ideas to the questions 6,7 before class ( speaking )

6. Sts’ answer ( Yes, I have. I clean our school / collect rubbish and put it into the garbage bin…)
7. Sts’ answer ( If the pollution continues, the environment around us won’t be good and it will be harmful to our health