Period: 97
Unit 12: AN OVERCROWDED WORLD
Communication
I. Objectives
1. Knowledge, Skills, Attitude:
By the end of the lesson Ss will be able to talk about what they should do and shouldn’t do while taking tourist trips.
a. Knowledge:
- Vocabulary: the items related to things to overcrowded cities
- Grammar: Comparisons of quantifier: more, less / fewer
b. Skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing.
c. Attitude: Be concerned about the causes and effects of overpopulation
2. Capacity is formed and developed for students
- Self – learning capability
- Communicative competence
II. Preparation
1. Teacher: text book, extra board, cassette tape and real objects.
2. Students: textbook, notebook, workbook.
III. Students’ activities
1. Warm up (5’) Aims: Ss can Talk about what they should do and shouldn’t do while taking tourist trips.
Sts’ and T’s activities
Contents

Preparation: Ss have five pieces of paper on which the following phrases are written: grow flowers and trees, speak English, visit Temple of Literature, buy souvenirs.
T explain how the game is played;


Game cards.


2. Knowledge formation activities (36’)
Sts’ and T’s activities
Contents

Aim: developing their speaking skill

- Ss complete the exercise independently. Then T divides Ss into pairs and asks them to compare their answers.
- Ss write their answers on the board.
- T gives feedback.
1. Look at the pictures and discuss.
1. big city, desert
2. - Big city is beautiful with bridges, buildings. It’s overcrowded.
- The desert is quiet.

- Ss complete the exercise independently.
- T asks them to explain their choices.

2. Match the words below with the places in 1.
Big city - high living standard, clean water, densely-populated, good education, crime.
Desert - poor healthcare, crime, malnutrition, hunger.

- T tells that the readings give the same kind of information.
- To help less advanced Ss, T can draw a table on the board on like this
- Then T asks Ss to fill the table with the information before talking about the differences.
- Encourage Ss to guess the meanings of the extra words such as: density, physician, slavery…., Then T checks Ss’s understanding of all these words and gives definitions for any words that Ss still do not understand.

3. Read the information about the two places. 
Facts
Mauritania
Hong Kong

Area
1,030.700km2
1,104 km2

Population
Over 3 million
Over 7 million

Density
Three/km
Over six thousand/km

Economy
Mainly agriculture
Mainly service industry and tourism

Healthcare
Poor, high infant death rate
One of the best healthcare systems in the world

Problems
Three quarter desert, slavery, child labour, hunger
Overcrowded, crime

Unusual facts
Obese women are considered beautiful
Most skycrapers in the world



- T encourages Ss to talk about the differences.
- T then can call some pairs to share their ideas with the class.

4. Work in pairs. Use the information in 3 to talk about the differences between the two places. 
- The population of Mauritania is very small, only over three million people. Hong Kong is much larger. It has more than 7 million people.
 - The area of Mauritania is very large, 1.030.700km2. Hong Kong is smaller, it is only 1.104km2.
- The main economy is agriculture in Mauritania. Hong Kong has service industry and tourism for economy.

3. Consolidation 4’
Practice fluently
4. Using knowledge (option)
5. Further practice (option)
Review
IV. Experience:

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Period: 98
REVIEW 4
Language
I. Objectives
By the end of the lesson, Ss can be able to review the 4 skills related to the topics that they have learnt among unit 10-11-12.
1. Knowledge, Skills, Attitude:
a. Knowledge:
- Vocabulary: unit 10, 11, 12
- Grammar: unit 10, 11, 12
b. Skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing.
c. Attitude: hard, concentrated and active.
2. Capacity is formed and developed for students
- Self – learning capability
- Communicative competence
II. Preparation
1. Teacher: text book, extra board, cassette tape and real objects.
2. Students: textbook, notebook, workbook.
III. Students’ activities
1. Warm up
Sts’ and T’s activities
Contents

Preparation: Ss have five pieces of paper on which the following phrases