Period 61
Date of preparation: 10/01/09
Date of teaching: 13/01/09
Unit 10: Nature in danger
Part A: reading

I. Objectives: By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to:
- identify meaning of words in context.
- scan for information, ask and answer about the reading passage and fill in the gaps
II. Skills: Reading and speaking
III. Teaching aids: textbook, pictures
IV. Procedure:
Time
Teacher’s activities
Content
Students’ activities



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- ask Ss to read the fact about endangered species and answer the questions








- introduce vocabulary.





















- read new words and ask Ss to repeat word by word.
- rub out some words and ask Ss to remember them.



- ask Ss to read the text individually in 5’.

- ask Ss to read the sentences carefully and have them fill in each blank with a suitable word.
- call on some Ss to give their answers
- give comments and correct answers.


- ask Ss to work in groups to do the task
- go around the class to check and help.
- call on some Ss to give answers
- give correct answers



- have Ss work in pairs
- go around the class to offer help if necessary
- call some pairs to present in front of the class.
- comment and give correct answers
























- ask Ss to work in groups.
- go around the class and offer help.
- call the representative of each group speak out their ideas


- assign homework

Warm up
Answers:
The fact above shows that the number of some wild or rare animals such as cheetahs, pandas and Siberian tigers become small or extinct.
The number of these animals becomes small because they are killed for food, medicines, fur or skin

Pre-reading
I. Vocabulary
1. cheetah (n) [`t∫i:] gepa
2. species (n) [`spi:∫i:z]
3. to exist [ig`zist] tồn tại, sống, hiện có
4. pollutant (n) [pə`lu:tənt] chất gây ô nhiểm
5. endangered (a) bị nguy hiểm, bị tàn phá
6. extinct (a) [iks`tiηkt] bị tiêu diệt, tuyệt chủng
7. to disappear [,disə`piə] biến mất
Disappearance (n)
8. effort (n) [`efət] sự cố gắng; sự ráng sức
9. to establish [is`tæbli∫] lập, thành lập, thiết lập
10. to prohibit []
( to prohibit somebody / something from doing
something) ;
11. interference (n) [,intə`fiərəns]
( interference in / with something) sự can thiệp; sự
xen vào; sự xía vào
12. off spring (n) [`ɔ:fspriη] con cháu
13. to co-exist sống chung, cùng tồn tại
II. Reading the new words



III. checking vocabulary: Rub out and remember


While-reading
* reading the text

Task 1: Fill in each blank with a suitable word
Answers:
extinct
protect
decreasing
pollutants
endangered
interference


Task 2: Circle A, B, C or D that best sums up each paragraph
Answers:
c
b
a
c



Task 3: Answer the questions
Answers
1. Four way that human beings are changing the world:
They are changing the environment by building cities and villages.
They are affecting the water supply by using water for industry and agriculture.
They are changing weather conditions by cutting down trees in the forests.
They are destroying the air by adding pollutants like smoke from factories and fumes from cars.
2. The serious consequences of people’s interference with the environment are:
Many kinds of rare animals are killed.
The environment