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PERIOD 55 - UNIT 7: POLLUTION
LESSON 1: GETTING STARTED
SUBJECT: ENGLISH 8
(Total: 7 lessons)
A. OBJECTIVES:
1. Knowledge:
After the lesson, students will be able to use lexical items related to the topic ‘Pollution’ to talk about types of pollution; use words and phrases showing cause/ effect relationships to describe the causes and effects of pollution
2. Competences:
- Talking about the environment problems today.
- Pair work/ group work/ individual
3. Quality:
- To teach SS to love their home, country and know the way to protect the environment.
B. TEACHING AIDS:
- Students: Materials: book, board.
- Teacher: Equipment: laptop, projector.
C. TEACHING PROCEDURES:
New lesson :
I. Activity 1: Warm up
* Play game: Who’s winner?
*Aims: To check Ss’understanding of pollution
- Ask Ss to talk about the environment problems today.
*Content: Look at the picture and answer:
* Output: Ss can relate to the topic of unit 7.
* Process:
1.Transfering the learning task:
- Make a paper ball. Throw the ball to a student in group A and he/ she has to call out one fairytale. If he/ she is right, group A gets one point, then he/ she throws the ball to a student in group B. The game stops when time is up. The group with more points wins.
Now start the lesson.
2. Doing the task:
- Ss work in groups A and B.
3. Reporting the task result and discuss:
- Find the winner group
4. Giving the remarks to their doing the task:
- Ask Ss if they know any story about the environment or pollution.
- Write the unit title on the board ‘Pollution’. Ask Ss to call out things which cause pollution, e.g., cars, factories, cows,...
II. Activity 2: Form the new knowledge:
T AND SS’ ACTIVITIES | MAIN CONTENTS |
1. Teaching vocabulary *Aims: - Ss know how to read new words, identify their meanings and use them to make sentences and know what they are going to listen. *Content: reading new words. *Output: Ss make examples with some new words *Process: | |
1. Transfering the learning task: Elicit some new words (gym, equipment, ….) 2. Doing the task: - Ss: listen and repeat in individual first then the whole class. 3. Reporting the task result and discuss: - Call 3- 4 Ss to read the words again. 4. Giving the remarks to their doing the task: *Checking: rub out and remember | New words: - to dump: vứt, bỏ, thải - to illustrate: minh họa - poison (n,v): chất độc, làm độc - poisonous (adj): độc, độc hại - aquatic animal (n): động vật dưới nước - presentation (n): trình bày - radioactive (a): thuộc về phóng xạ - radiation (n): phóng xạ - thermal (a): thuộc về nhiệt - visual (a): thuộc về thị giác |
III. Activity 3: Practice
*Aims: SS get the content of the conversation between Nick and Mi and then complete the exercises.
*Content: Read the conversation and complete the exercises.
* Output: Almost all the students can understand the conversation and complete the exercises.
* Process:
* Set the scene: ? Look at page 6 - Ask Ss to open their books and look at the picture. Ask them some questions: Who can you see in the picture? Where do you think they are? What can you see in the picture? What do you think the people in the picture are talking about? - Ss answer the questions as a class. - Play the recording and have Ss follow along. After that, Ss can compare their answers with the information in the dialogue and add some more details to their answers. - Teacher gets feedback Ex1a. - Ss work independently to find the words with the given meanings in the conversation - Ask Ss to read out the lines in the conversation that contain the words. - Have Ss look at the Watch out! box and quickly read the information. Ask them if they know what I can't believe my eyes means. Then explain to them that this expression means you are very surprised at something you see Ex1b: 1.Transfering the learning task: - Ask Ss to do task 2. Doing the task: - Ss work independently. - Ss exchange their answers with a classmate 3. Reporting the task result and discuss: - T calls some to go the board to write their answer 4. Giving the remarks to their doing the task: - Correct and give marks - Feedback Ex1c: - Ask them firstly to decide if the sentences are true, false or there is no information without reading the dialogue. - Have some Ss write their answers on the board. -Ask Ss to read the conversation again to check their answers - Confirm the correct answers. Ex2: - Have Ss look at the pictures. - Explain the new words so that Ss can understand the pollution types. - Ss do this activity in pairs. - Call on some 5s to give their answers and write them on the board.
Ex3 - Have Ss read through the sentences to get a general understanding. T may teach some words which T thinks Ss do not know such as contamination. - Ss do this activity individually and then compare their answers with a classmate. - Call on some Ss to stand up and give their answers. - Confirm the correct answers. | 2. Practice:
Ex1. Listen and read.
a. Find a word or phrase that means: Key: 1. dead 2. aquatic 3. dump 4. poison 5. polluted 6. to come up with
b. Answer the questions. Key: 1. They are in Mi's home village. 2. It's almost black. 3. She's surprised because she sees the fish are dead. 4. It's dumping poison into the lake. 5. He's sneezing so much because the air is not clean.
c. Tick True (T), false (F) or no information (NI) Key: 1. F (It's polluted by the factory.) 2.T 3. NI 4.T 5.T
Ex2. There are different types of pollution. Write each type under a picture. Key: A. radioactive pollution B. noise pollution c. visual pollution D. thermal pollution E. water pollution F. land/ soil pollution G. light pollution H. air pollution Ex3. Complete the sentences with the types of pollution 1. thermal pollution 2. air pollution 3. radioactive pollution 4. light pollution 5. Water pollution 6. Land/Soil pollution 7. Noise pollution 8. visual pollution |