UNIT 6 THE ENVIRONMENT Grade 9
Week 19
Period 37
Lesson 1 GETTING STARTED + LISTEN AND READ P 47-48
Objectives: to understand the reading about environmental problems.
Materials: pictures, posters, textbooks, cassette…
Procedure
Timing
CONTENTS
Teacher’s and Sts’activities

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 PICTURES WORDS
a garbage dump
b deforestation
c air pollution
d dynamite fishing
e water pollution
f spraying pesticides
Answer Key
a. air pollution
b. spraying pesticides
c. garbage dump
d water pollution
e deforestation

These activities have destroyed our environment. Today, you will learn about how to clean up the beach.


a volunteer người tình nguyện
a conservationist người bảo vệ
to walk along đi dọc theo
to collect thu thập
a collection sự thu thập
to spoil làm hỏng
disappointed (adj) thất vọng
V + Adv
Ex: I want everyone to listen carefully.
S + be + Adj + (that) + S + V
Ex: I am disappointed that people have spoiled this area.
If + S + Vo/V-s/-es, S + will + Vo
Ex: If we work hard, we will make this beach clean.
Mr. Brown is talking to some volunteer conservationists about how to clean up the beach.
Have you ever gone to a beach?
Is it clean?
How can you clean up the beach?



Match the names in column A with the tasks in column B. Then write the full sentences.
A
1. Group 1
2. Group 2
3. Group 3
4. Mr. Jones
5. Mrs. Smith
6. Mr. Brown
B
a. collect all the bags and take them to the garbage dump
b. check among the rocks
c. provide picnic lunch for everyone
d. give out the bags
e. check the sand
f. walk along the shore
Answer Key 1f 2e 3b 4a 5c 6d

Questions
1. Who is the speaker?
2. Who are the listeners?
3. Where are they?
4. What are they going to do?
5. What will they achieve if they work hard today?
Answer Key
1. The speaker is Mr. Brown.
2. The listeners are some volunteer conservationists.
3. They are on the beach.
4. They are going to clean the beach.
5. They will make the beach a clean and beautiful place again if they work hard.






1. Have you ever done anything similar? I yes, what did you do?
2. If the pollution continues, what might happen?
Suggested Answers
1. Yes, I have done something similar. Every Saturday morning, we clean the surroundings of our houses. We also sweep the school yard and collect trash there.
2. If the pollution continues, the environment will be worse and more diseases will occur, we may not have fresh air to breathe or safe water to drink and fertile land to cultivate.

Learn by heart vocabulary.
Read the text + answer the questions again.
Prepare Unit 6 Lesson 2 SPEAK + LISTEN
Vocabulary: wrap, dissolve, trash, exhaust fume, marine life, waste materials,…

I. Warmer
Matching
. Sts work in 2 groups
. Which group matches more correct words is the winner


. T gives feedback + checks their answers





Introduction of the topic

II. Pre-stage
Pre-teach vocabulary
- situation
- situation
- mime
- explanation
- situation
- situation
- situation






Setting the scene



Open Prediction
. Sts discuss in groups

III. While-stage
Matching
. Sts work in 2 groups
. Which group matches more correct words first is the winner
. T gives feedback + check their answers











Comprehension questions
. Sts read the text again + answer them in groups.




. T gives feedback + check their answers




Listen + Read
. Sts listen to the text + underline the new words that they have just learned
. T checks the words underlined
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