unit 6 : the environment
I. Aim
Helping students:
- to ask for and give reasons.
- to persuade somebody to do something.
- to complete a questionnaire.
- to write a letter of complaint.
II. Language focus
1. Adverbs clauses of reason.
2. Adjective + that clause
3. Conditional sentences type1.
III. Vocabulary
Verbs: Adjectives: Nouns:
(to) cover disappointed deforestation garbage
(to) minimize polluted dump hedge
(to) persuade unpolluted dynamite junkyard
(to) prevent environment mass
(to) provide fence pesticide
(to) reduce flow rock
(to) spray fly row
(to) wrap foam sewage
(to) pollute folk trash
pollution
V. Unit Allocation
Lesson 1
(1) Before you read
(2) Listen and Read.
(4) Listen
Reading about the work of a group of conservationists and listening for details to complete the notes.

Lesson 2
(3) Speak
Practice in persuading somebody doing something.

Lesson 3
Language Focus 1-3
Revision of some adjectives and adverbs and practive in adjective + the clause.

Lesson 4
(5) Read
Reading a poem for details about the environment.

Lesson 5
(6) Write
Practice in writing a letter of complaint

Lesson 6
Language Focus 2-5
Practice in Conditional sentences type 1 and adverb clause of reason beginning with because, since, as...

Period 37: Date of planning 16- 01 2008
Date of teaching 22- 01- 2008 (9B, 9D)
unit 6 : the environment
Lesson 1: Section: - Getting started (page 47)
- Lesten and read (page 47, 48)
- Listen (page 50)
Aim: Reading about the work of a group of conservationists and listening for details to complete the notes.
Objective: By the end of the lesson, students will know more about th environment problems and the solutions.
Teaching aids
Text books, pictures.
Procedure

Stage/Steps/ Activities
Work
arrangement
Note board/ Contents

I: Warm-up
*Brainstorming
- Ask students to think of the environmental problems in their city.

- Get students to go to the board and write down their ideas.
air pollution





T-whole class



* Possible answers:
- the destruction of the forests.
- rubbish/ garbage/ trash
- smoke from cars, motorbikes...
- smoke from factories

II. Pre-reading
1. Pre-teach vocabulary
- Elicit words from Ss
(explanation: the destruction of the forests)

(picture)

(picture)

(synonym)
*Checking vocabulary:
what and where.
- Write the words on the board, put word in each circle





T-whole class
.


I. Vocab
-deforestation (n) : sự tàn phá từng
- garbage dump (n): đống rác
- dynamite fishing (n): việc đánh bắt cá bằng thuốc nổ
- spraying pesticides (n): việc phun thuốc diệt sâu bọ.
- disappointed (by/ about/ at something) (adj): thất vọng, buồn rầu.
- sewage (n): nước thải, nước cống.








2. Matching
- Ask students to look at the six pictures on page 47 in their text books.
- Ask them to match the words in the box with the correct pictures

3. Prediction.
- Ask students to keep the books closed.
*S et the scene: “Mr. Brown is talking to some volunteer conservationists. Guess the place where they are going to work.”
- Give students 1 minute to guess.
- Give feedback.

III, While reading
- Ask students to open their books and read the text on page 47-48
- Let students check their prediction.
1. Matching
-Ask students to match the names in column a with the activities in column B (exercise 2a on page 48)
- Ask them to read the text again and work in pairs to match






IV. Post reading
V. Home work





Individual
work






Individual work-.






Pair work


*Answer key
Group 1