Date of preparing:……/..../200….. Date of teaching:……/ …./200….. Class:………………
Unit 9
Deserts
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Period No 55 - Lesson 1: Reading

I. Objectives:
1. Educational aim:
- Guessing the meaning in the context. Deciding true or false statements
- Passage comprehensions and Understanding the humour of the story.
2. Knowledge:
- General knowledge: Lives of plants animals in deserts.
- Language: Common knowledge of the life of plants and animals in the deserts
- New words: Words related to the lives of plants and animals in deserts.
3. Skills:
- Guessing meaning in context, deciding on true or false and passage comprehension.
II. Method:
- Integrated, mainly communicative.
III. Teaching aids:
- Picture, board, chalks, textbook, handouts
IV. Procedure:

Time

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Teacher’s activities

- ask Ss to fill in the blank with the most suitable word.



- ask Ss to look at the picture on page 96 and ask and answer the questions.
- go around the class and offer help if necessary.
- call on some Ss to ask and answer in front of the class.
- comment.

- read word by word.
- ask Ss to repeat in chorus and individual and write them on the blackboard.






- say some words in English and ask Ss to speak them out in Vietnamese.
- ask Ss to read the passage in silence and do task 1.
- ask Ss to compare the answer with a partner.
- call on some Ss to answer in front of the class.
- comment and give correct answer.





- present the task: Read the passage and choose the statements are True or False.

- get students to work in groups and discuss about the passage.
- go round the class to control the discussion.
- state the best option.
- correct mistakes
- ask Ss to work in pairs to ask and answer about the passage
- go around the class and offers help if necessary.
- call on some Ss to answer in front of the class.
- comment and give correct answers.










- ask Ss to read the story.
-ask them for the humour of the story.
- explain.
- summarize the main points.
- assign homework.
Content

A. Warm- up (3): Fill in the blank with the most suitable word:
A……..is a hot, dry sandy place.
Answer:
Desert
B. Pre- reading:
I. Ask and answer the questions:
Suggested answers:
1. dry, few trees, little or no water, little rainfall, few people and animals live in a desert………
2. camels, scorpions, cactus………..
3. Egypt, Australia, China………..




II. Vocabulary:
- aerial (adj) [`eəriəl] : trên không
- dune (n) [dju:n] : đụn cát
- stretch (n) [stret∫]: dải đất, dải nước
- aborigine (n) [,:z] : thổ dân
- hummock (n) [] : gò, đống
- slope (n) [sloup] : dốc, đường dốc
- corridor (n) [:] : đường hành lang
- crest (n) [krest] : đỉnh
- spinifex (n) [`spainifəks] : cỏ lá nhọn sống ở vùng hoang mạc nước
III. Check vocabulary


C. While- reading
I. Task 1:
Answers:
1. kéo dài, căng ra
2. có cát,
3. trắc lượng trên không
4. Hội địa lý hoàng gia Austra
5. thổ dân Australia
6. cồn cát, đụn cát
7. độ dốc, dốc thoai thoải
8. dốc đứng, dốc ng