GA AV 9-UNIT 9

Objectives: By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to get the information about weather from the weather forecast.. - Ask Ss to look at the map and play the role of the weatherman to

Date: March 17th , 2010

UNIT 9: NATURAL DISASTERS

Period 58: Lesson 1: - GETTING STARTED

- LISTEN AND READ

A Aims: Reading a dialogue for details about the weather forecast.

B Objectives: By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to get the information about weather from the

weather forecast

C Teaching aids:picture, poster, cassette

D Procedure:

I Stabilization: Greetings, Absentees

II Warm up: Matching

- T hangs and shows the four pictures on the Bb (P 74)

- Ss match them with the four words: snowstorm, earthquake, volcano, typhoon

- Give feedback

* Answer key:

1 snowstorm 2 earthquake

III Pre-reading:

1 Pre-teach Vocab:

- (to) turn up: điều chỉnh to lên (âm thanh) (mime)

- (to) expect: mong đợi, chờ đợi (picture)

- (to) trust: tin tưởng, tin là thật ( explaination)

- thunderstorm(n): bão có sấm sét và mưa to (picture)

- Delta (n) : vùng Châu thổ (vísual)

- Just in case : phòng khi, lỡ khi (translation)

* Checking Vocab: What and Where

2 Set the scene: Thuy is talking to her grandmother while they both are watching TV

What are they watching?

3 True/ False statements:

- T gives statements on a poster

1 Thuy and her grandmother are watching the weather forecast on T.V

2 Ha Noi and areas to the north will be raining tomorrow

3 The south central coast and the central highlandscan expect therderstorm

4 HCM city will be the hottest city tomorrow

5 Thuy and her friends are going to have a picnic at the beach

6 Thuy won’t bring a raincoat when going for a picnic

- Ss Guess

IV While reading:

1/ Check prediction:

- Have Ss read silently and listen to the cassette at the same time to check their prediction

5 – F (at the beach  at a park on the other side of the river)

6 F ( won’t bring  will bring)

2/ Comprehention questions: ( Lucky numbers)

1 Why does Thuy’s Grandmother ask her to turn up the volume?

2 L N

3 Which city will be the hottest tomorrow ?

4 Where is Thuy going ?

5 L N

6 What does Thuy’s Grandmother want her to do?

7 L N.

8 What is the weather today ?

9 Did you wacth the weather forecast on TV lastnight ?

V Post- reading: Gap filling: (do exercise 2b on P.75)

1 Fill in the blank with one word or phrase from the dialogue.

- Ss complete the sentences

- Get them to share their anwsers with their friends

- Give feedback

* Anwser key:

1 turn up / weather forecast

2 raining

3 thunderstorms

4 have temperature

5 weather forecast

6 watching them

- Ss work in pairs

- Give feedback

2 Role-play: ( If have enough time)

- Ask Ss to read again the weather forecast on TV

- Ask Ss to look at the map and play the role of the weatherman to present the weather forecast, based on the information in the lesson

- Check some Ss

- Delay correction

Homework: - Learn vocab + Practice Dia

- Do exercise 2.b again

- Prepare: Speak

Date: March 17th , 2010

UNIT 9: NATURAL DISASTERS

Period 59 Lesson 2 : SPEAK +LISLEN / P 76-77

A Aims: - Practice speaking about preparations for a typhoon

- Listen for details to complete a table

B Objectives: - By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to talk about what they want to buy and do

to prepare for a typhoon

- By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to get some ideal on how to live with earthquakes by listening

C Teaching aids: - poster

-cassette, tape, poster

D Procedure:

I Stabilization: Greetings, Absentees

II Warm up: Brainstorm

Buy candles buy food

Buy oil / gas

cut some banches of high trees Store water

in………

Check the roof Check the doors and the windows

III

1 Pre-teach Vocab:

- bucket (n) (visual / picture)

- leak (n) (visual / picture): chỗ thủng, chỗ dột

- (to) tie :cột, trói (mime)

- latch (n) (picture / vísual):cái chốt cửa

- ladder (n) (pic): cái thang

- blanket (n) (pic): cái mền

- available (adj): có sẵn (translation)

- (to) damage: phá hỏng, làm thiệt hại (synonym of : hurt or spoil)

* Checking Vocab: RO&R

2 Revision: Modal Verbs : Must, may

1 Form: S + must / may + inf

2 Use: in deduction or prediction

3 Open-Prediction: What happens if there is a typhoon?

- Give feedback

* Possible answers:

+ The water pipe may be damaged

+ There must be strong wind blowing

+ There may be a power cut

+ There must be heavy rain

+ Big trees may fall down

+ The market may be closed

+ There may be a flood

V Practice:

1 - Ask Ss to do exercise 3a P.76

- They have to check what preparations they think should be made for a typhoon

- Give feedback

* Answer key:

Preparation for

a typhoon

+ Buying some canned food

+ Buying candles

+ Buying matches

+ Filling all buckets with water

+ Buying a ladder

+ Fixing the leak in the roof

+ Tying the roof to the ground with pegs and ropes

+ Checking all the window and door latches

2 Comprehension questions: 3b P.76

1/ Why do we need to buy food?

2/ Why do we need to fill all buckets with water?

3/ Why do we need to buy a ladder?

4/ Why do we need to check all the window and door latches?

3 Practice speaking:

- Ask Ss to use the expressions on P.77 when talking to one another

I think……….

I think you should …………

Yes, I think so / I agree with you

What for? / Why?

* Production:

- Ss work in pairs to talk about what they think they want to buy and do to prepare for a typhoon; explain why? The ideas in the box on P 76 may help them

- T moves around and helps Ss

- Encourage Ss to show their own ideas

II While listening:

- Ask Ss to listen to the tape twice

- Ss discuss in pairs

- Give feefback

- Ss listen once more, and check their answers again

- Give feedback

* Answer key:

Living with earthquake

Heavy fixtures, furniture, and appliances:

Place heavy books on the (1) bottom shelf of the bookshelf

Block the rollers on your (2) fridge and (3) washing machine

Flying glass:

Check the (4) mirrors

Don’t put your bed near (5) a window

Earthquakes drill:

Stay (6) inside

Sit (7) under a table or (8) a door way

Stand in the (9) conner of a room

III Post listening:

- T asks Ss retell what we should do to live with earthquakes basing on the questions:

1 Where should we place heavy books?

2 What should we do with our fridges and washing machines?

3 Why should we check the mirrors?

4 Where should we put our beds?

5 Where should we stay / sit / stand during an earthquakes?

- Ss work in pairs

- T asks some Ss to retell before class

TAPE TRANSCRIPT:

If you live in an earthquake zone, you should take some time to look around your house Place heavy books on the bottom shelf of your bookshelves Block the rollers on your fridge and washing machine

to prevent them from moving Put hanging potted plants in plastic containers Check the mirrors in your bathroom and bedroom Make sure they can’t move Don’t put your bed next to a window

Homework:

- Write S.th about what they have to do to prepare for a typhoon

- Write what we should do to live with earthquakes

- Prepare: Read

Date: March 24 th , 2010

UNIT 9: NATURAL DISASTERS

Period 60 Lesson 3 : READ / P 78-79

A Aims: Reading a Text about natural disasters for details

B Objectives: By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to get more information about the natural

disasters in the word

C Teaching aids: poster, pictures

D Procedure:

I Stabilization: Greetings, Absentees

II Warm up :

- Ask Ss to look at the four pictures on P 74

- Ss answer some questions:

1.What are the pictures about?

2 Name some natural disasters do you know?

3 How do you fell when they happen?

III Pre-reading:

1 Pre-teach Vocab:

- a Ring of Fire (translation): vòng đai lửa

- Tidal wave (n) : sóng thần (explanation/ picture)

- abrupt (adj) (synonym of sudden, quick)

- shift (n) ( definition: change of position)

- cyclone (n) (in Australia) = typhoon (in Asia)

- (to) erupt – eruption (n)

- (to) warn (translation)

- Tornado(n): cơn lốc xoáy

- funnel – shaped (adj): có hình phễu

- (to) suck up : hút lên

- Majority (n): đa số, phần lớn

* Checking Vocab: R.O.R

2 True / False predictions: (poster)

- Set the scene: There are 6 statements about the information of some natural disasters All of you

have to read them and guess whether they are true or false

- Ss work in pairs to guess the answers

- Give feedback

IV While reading:

1 Ss read the Text silently to check their predictions

- Give feedback

- Get Ss to correct the false statements

1T, 2T, 4T, 6T

3F In the 1960s, a huge tidal wave hit Anchorage, Alaska The tidal wave traveled from Alaska to California

5F The eruption of Mount Pinatubo is the world’s largest volcanic eruption in more than 50 years

2.Complete the sentences:

- Ask Ss to read the Text again and to work in pairs to complete the sentences in exercise 5b P 79

- Give feedback

Key:

1 The majority of earthquakes occur around the Pacific Rim.

2 During the earthquake in Kobe, many people were killed when home, officeblocks and highways collapsed.

3 A tidal wave can only occur when there is an abrupt shift in the underwater movement of the Earth.

4 In Australia, a tropical storm is known as a cyclone.

5 The Chinese language gave us the word “typhoon”

6 A tornado is a type of storm that passes over land below a thunderstorm and suck up anything

that is in its path

V Post- reading: LUCKY NUMBER

1 Why do people call the Pacific Rim “Ring of Fire”

(Because 90% of earthquakes occur around the Pacific Rim)

2 What does typhoon mean? ( It means “big wind”)

3 LUCKY NUMBER

4 Can we predict a volcano? (Yes The scinetists can warn us about the eruption.)

5 LUCKY NUMBER

6 LUCKY NUMBER

7 What will happen when there is an abrupt shift in the underwater movement of the earth?

( Tidal waves will happen)

8 Which natural disasters happen in VN?- (Typhoon)

Homework: - Learn Vocab

- Do 5b again

- Prepare :Write

Date: March 3rd , 2010

UNIT 9: NATURAL DISASTERS

A Aims: Writing a story about a typhoon

B Objectives: By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to write a story

C Teaching aids:picture, poster

D Procedure:

I Stabilization: Greetings, Absentees

II Warm up: Jumbled words

1 otnophy = typhoon

2 danotro = tornado

3 laconov = volcano

4 tearquahke = earthquake

5 ormst = storm

III Pre-writing:

1 Pre-teach Vocab:

- perfect (adj):

- All of a sudden = Suddenly (adv) ( synomym)

- (to) behave strangely: cư xử, ứng xử 1 cách lạ thường (translation)

- shelter (n) : chỗ trú ngụ (dèfinition)

* Checking Vocab: ROR

2 Telling the story:

- T hangs six pictures on the Bd

- Set the scene: This is Lan’s family, they are at home

- Ask some questions to elicit the story

Pic1: - Who’s this? – It’s Lan

- Where is she? – She’s outside / in the garden

- What is she doing? – She’s playing with her dog, skippy

Lan is outside palying with her dog

Pic 2:- How is the dog? – It looks strange Perhaps it is scared.

All of a sudden, the dog behaves strangely

Pic 3:- What’s on TV? – It’s the weather forecast

- What does Lan’s mother say? – She says that she has just heard on TV that there is a typhoon coming

Lan ran home and her mother tells her that there is a typhoon coming

Pic 4: What are they doing? – They are gathering her family and asks them to find shelter in her

house

Pic 5: What’s the weather like now? – It is very dark It has strong wind and heavy rain.

Suddenly, it becomes dark The storm comes with strong wind and heavy rain

Pic 6: What’s the weather like now? – It’s fine

How are they now? – They all are happy

The storm finishes soon and everyone is glad

IV While writing:

- Ask Ss to look at the pictures and retell the story

- Have Ss write a story in group, using cues in the box on P.79

- T divides class into 4 groups, each group- two pictures

- T goes around and help Ss to write

V Post writing: Correction

- T takes the writings of 4 groups to correct on front of the class

- Give feedback

Homework: - Write the complete writing in your exercise

- Prepare: Language focus

UNIT9:NATURAL DISASTERS

Period 62 Lesson 6: L FOCUS 2-4

A Aims:Further practice in defining Relative clauses and non-defining Relative clauses

B Objectives: By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to distinguish between defining Rel-Cl and

non-defining Rel-Cl

C Teaching aids: poster

D Procedure:

I Stabilization: Greetings, Absentees

II Warm up:

- T hangs the poster in which there are two following sentences:

1* The city which was struck by a huge earthquake in 1995 in Japan is Kobe

2* Tom, who is very intelligent, is one of my closest friends

- Ask Ss to show the Relative pronouns and the Rel –Clauses in these sentences

- T explains grammar notes

III Grammar notes:

1 Defining Rel-Clauses: identify nouns, these clauses tell us that person or thing the speaker means (Ex: 1*)

2 Non-defining Rel-Clauses:

- Give more information about a person or thing already identified When we write these clauses we put commas at the beginning of the clause and of the end of the clause

- We can’t use “that” in a non-defining Rel-cl

- In a non-defining Rel-Cl we can’t leave out “who” or “which” (Ex: 2*)

IV Practice:

LANGUAGE FOCUS :1-2

Revision of Who – Which – That

- Ask Ss to remind the usage of Who – Which – That

- Give feedback

+ Who is used for people

+ Which is used for thing

+ That is used for both who and which

- Ask Ss to work in pairs to do the exercise in LF 1 P 81

- Ask Ss to answer the questions, using the Relative pronouns Which or Who

- Give feedback

1 Language focus 3:

- Ask Ss to read and to do exercise on P.82

- Ss underline the relative clause in the sentence, then add commas to separate the non-defining relative clause from the rest of the sentences

- Get Ss to work in pairs

- Give feedback

Answer key:

b Kangaroos, which come from Australia, have long tails

c Ba, who lives in Trang Tien street, likes playing the guitar

d The novel that you gave me on my birthday has been lost

e Neil Armstrong, who first walked on the moon, lives in the USA

f The chair that I bought yesterday is broken

g Mrs.Lien, who sings very well, is my English teacher

2 LF 2 P 81-82 : Matching

- Ask Ss to match each of the sentence in column A with a related sentence in column B Then use a

suitable relative pronoun to join the two sentences

- Ask Ss to read example

- Ss work in pairs

- Give feedback

Key: 1e (which), 2g (which), 3f (which), 4a (which), 5c (which), 6d (which), 7b (which)

V Production: Writing LF 4 P 82

- Ask Ss to replace each underlined clause with their own clause Ss may use facts or your imagination.(Use exercise 3)

Ex: Vietnam, which is a small country, has a lot of beautiful beaches

c/ Ba, who is my best friend, likes playing the guitar d/ The novel that you gave me on my birthday was very interesting

e/ Neil Armstrong, who is a famous astronaut, livedin the USA

f/ The chair that I bought yesterday is very strong

g/ Miss Lien, who teaches me English, is a kind woman

Homework:

- Review Unit 8-9

- Prepare: Check one period