UNIT 7: POLLUTION
Lesson 1 - GETTING STARTED
I/ OBJECTIVES
By the end of the lesson, students can:
- Listen and read the dialogue about a factory in Mi's home village for details and then do some related exercises.
- Use lexical items related to the topic ‘Pollution’ to talk about types of pollution
- Lexical items related to the topic ‘Pollution’
1. Knowledge:
a. Grammar :
- Grammar: because/ since + clause, so + clause, due to/ because of + sth
b. Lexical items : - Vocab: lexical items related to the topic ‘Pollution’, ending in –ic and –al
c. Pronunciation: - Clusters:
2. Skills:
- Listening, Speaking, Reading,Writing and interactive skills
3. Attitude:
- Cooperation, respect, having right and friendly attitudes with friends, teachers in the new school
4. 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
2.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:
Teacher’s activities Student’s activities
Warmer (5'): Shark attack
- Teacher gives instruction
? Guess one by one letters.
- Teacher gets feedback.
A project on pollution
(-/ -------/ --/ ----------)
I. Presentation (10')
1. Vocabulary
- Teacher use different techniques to teach vocabulary (situation, realia)
- Follow the seven steps of teaching vocabulary
2.There are different type of pollution... (P7)
* Checking vocab: Matching (Activity 2 P7) - poison (n/v): chất độc, làm ô nhiễm
- dump (v): vứt, bỏ
- Aquatic (a):dưới nước
- Illustrate (n) hạt chuỗi
- Thermal pollution (n) sự ô nhiễm nhiệt
- Radioactive (a): ô nhiễm phóng xạ
- Visual pollution (n) ô nhiễm ánh sáng
- Billboard (n): biển quảng cáo ngoài trời
- Repeat in chorus and individually
- Copy all the words
2.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
1. Listen and read (p6)
* Set the scenes:
- 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 twice.
- Listen and read then check your answer for the last question.
- Accept all possible answers from Ss without any correction. - Answer the questions individually.
* Suggested answers
- Nick and Mi.
- They are near a factory.
- I/We can see a factory dumping exhaust fume and poison into the lake.
- They are talking about pollution.
- Listen and read
II. Practice (20'')
1a. Find the words / phrases... ( P7)
- Share answers with your partner.
- Teacher gets feedback
- 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.
1b.. Answer the questions ( P7)
- Have Ss read the questions to make sure they understand them. Ss read the conversation again to answer the questions.
- Ss exchange their answers with a classmate. Call on some Ss to write their answers on the board. Check their answers.
1a.Key:
1. dead 2. aquatic 3. dump
4. poison 5. polluted 6. to come up with
This expression means you are very surprised at something you see.
1b.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.
1c. Tick T, F or NI... ( P7)
- Read the sentences quickly
- Firstly to decide if the sentences are true, false or there is no information without reading the dialogue.
- Then have some Ss write their answers on the board.
- Read the conversation again to check - Confirm the correct answers. 1c.Key:
1. F ( It’s polluted by the factory).
2. T
3. NI
4. T
5. T
3. Complete the sentences ...( P7)
- Work individually to do the task then compare their answers with a partner.
- T may teach some words which T thinks Ss do not know such as communication.
3.Key:
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
I. Production ( 6')
4.Work in groups... (P7)
- Work in groups of five or six.
- In five minutes, Ss write down the pollution types their neighbourhood
- Discuss and write the pollution types their neighbourhood faces and rank them in order of seriousness.
faces and rank them in order of seriousness. They also have to give reasons for their order.
- Call group representatives to present their group’s order and reasons.
- Vote for the group with the best reasons.
(If time does not allow, do not have Ss do this activity. Instead just ask Ss to quickly review the pollution types.)
- Present
IV. Consolidation (2')
- Make a list of types of pollution?
V. Homework (2')
- Learn by heart all the new words.
- Do Ex B1,2 , 3 P4 (Workbook)
- Prepare: Closer Look 1
- Answer individually
- Take note