UNIT 12: LIFE ON OTHER PLANETS
Lesson 1: Getting started
I/ OBJECTIVES
By the end of the lesson, students - listen and read the conversation about the series "Star Into Darkness" for details and then do some related exercises.
- Knowledge:
- Grammar: - reported speech ,may and might review
- Lexical items : lexical items related to life on other planets.
- Pronunciation:
- Skills:
- Listening, Speaking, Reading,Writing and interactive skills
- Attitude:
- Cooperation, respect, having right and friendly attitudes with friends, teachers in the new school
- Quality and competence:
- Be confident and friendly with the new school environment
- Develope listening, speaking skills and cooperative interaction
II/ TEACHING AIDS (MATERIALS)
1.Teacher’s preparation:
- Lesson plan, Pictures, posters ,textbook,CD-MP3(Computer-Multi projector/cassette/ “sách mềm”) and other materials
- Students’ preparation:
- Textbook, notebook, school things.
III/ WORKING ARRANGEMENTS( WAYS OF WORKING )
- Pair work , individual work, group work, T-WC
IV/ TEACHING PROCEDURE:
1-Greeting`and checking students’ adtendence: Total: In: ......... Out: .......... .
2-Checking the old lesson
3-New lesson:
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Teacher’s activities |
Students’ activities |
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Warmer (5'): Brainstorming - On the board, write the words transportation, communication, housing and energy. ? Work in groups of four Ss to list the future technologies they expected to see in these fields. - Set a time limit and the game stops when the time is up. The team with more items wins. ? Where and how fast think we can travel with new technology. - Ask them if we could travel to other planets with those means of transport that they have listed. |
* Suggested answers: 1. Transportation: flying car, spaceship.... 2. Communication: telepathy, video chatting, codes.... 3. Housing: wireless TV, robbots.... 4. Energy: solar energy, nuclear energy..... |
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I. Presentation (10') 1. Vocabulary - Teacher use different techniques to teach vocabulary (situation, realia) - Follow the seven steps of teaching vocabulary
* Checking vocab: What and where
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- trek (v/n) hành trình, du hành - series (n) chuỗi, phim nhiều tập - crew (n) thủy thủ đoàn - terrorist (n) kẻ khủng bố - aliens (n) người ngoài hành tinh - galaxy (n) dải ngân hà - space buggy (n) xe vũ trụ - weightless ( adj) không trọng lượng
- Repeat in chorus and individually - Copy all the words |
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1. Listen and read (P58) * Introduction: ? Look at the pictures and the heading What could happen to Earth? but cover the text. - Brainstorm questions with Ss and write them on the board. Where are Duong and Nhi? What are they doing? What might they be talking about? - Listen to the conversation without reading the text to see if their predictions were correct. - Follow up with the same questions.- Accept all possible answers from Ss. Remember not to give correction at this stage. |
- Answer the questions individually. * Suggested answers:
- They are outside. - They are going to school. - They may talk about the Earth in the future.
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II. Practice (20'') 1a. True or false (P59) - Run through all the statements. - Listen to the conversation then tick T or F.
1b. Answer the quetions (p59) - Ss work individually to answer the questions. - Ss compare answers with a partner and then discuss as a class. - Have Ss say where they found the answers in the converdation.
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1a.Key 1. F 2. T 3. F 4. T 5. F
1b.Key: 1.James Kirk is the caption of the spaceship. 2.They went to Nibiru planet. 3.It happens in 2259. 4.It’s the name of the spaceship that the crew travels on. 5. He wants to destroy Earth. |
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1c. Find the sentences... (p59) - Ask Ss to look at the conversation again and underline the sentences in reported speech. - Have Ss read aloud the sentences.
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1c.Key: 1.That’s funny, Trang also asked me what I thought would happen to Earth in the future. 2. I said I didn’t know but that Earth might be run by aliens! |
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2. Lable the picture.. (P59) - Run through all the words in the box. - work in pairs to match the words with the pictures. - Then check their answers. Explain that UFO is an acronym, which stands for unidentified flying object. Afterwards, have Ss repeat the words chorally. - Correct their pronounciation if necessary. Check their understanding if necessary. |
2.Key: 1. aliens 2. space buggy 3. UFO 4. weightless 5. galaxy 6. spaceship 7. solar system 8. planet
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3. Gap fill.. (p59) - Have Ss work independently to fill the words/phrases in the blanks, then check with a partner. - Elicit Ss’answers. |
3.Key: 1. aliens 2. UFO 3. space buggy 4. planet; planet 5. weightless 6. solar system 7. galaxy 8. spaceship |
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III. Production ( 6') Summary the conversation - Work in groups. - Summary the conversation |
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IV. Consolidation (2') - Sum up the main content of the lesson. V. Homework (2') - Learn by heart all the new words. - Do Ex B1,2 P44 - 45 (Workbook) - Prepare: Closer Look 1 |
- Answer individually
- Take note |