Time Steps Work arrangement — T calls on some Ss to give their answers and comments on the answers.. Time Steps Work Instruction: You are going to listen to Dr Brown talk about th
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Develop such listening micro-skills as listening for specific information and listening for general information
ll Materials
Textbook, cassette tapes, handouts
lil Anticipated problems
Ss may not also be familiar with the note-taking task so T should provide them some tips to deal with the task
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Then T distributes the following puzzle handout for Ss
to do in their own groups Which group finishes first
and has all the correct answers will be the winner
— A variant of this activity: T draws or prepares two
three big copies of the word search and hang them on
the board T calls three pairs of Ss to go to the board
and ask them find all the adjectives as quickly as
possible The pair with the quickest and most correct
answers will be the winner
Find the words hidden in this puzzle The words go
across, up, down, backward and diagonally
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— T asks Ss to discuss the questions on page 17 in
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— T calls on some Ss to give their answers and
comments on the answers
— T gets Ss to guess what they are going to listen
about
Suggested answers:
4 Yes, our world is overpopulated because it has more
than 6 billion people
5 Asia has the largest population with China the most
populated country in the world and India the second
Vocabulary Pre-teaching
— Before eliciting / Pre-teaching the new words, T
helps Ss to pronounce the words given in the book T
may read aloud first or play the tape and ask Ss to
repeat in chorus and individually
— T elicits / teaches some of these words or / and those
taken from the listening passage:
Latin America: Chau MY Latinh
Rate of population growth: ty lé ting dan sé
Developing countries: cdc nu&éc đang phái triển
To rank: to have a position on a scale according to
quality, importance, success, etc (xép hang)
Rank (n): the position, especially a high position, that
sb has in a particular organization, society, etc (thir
hang)
Fall (n): decrease (su giam)
Generation (n): all the people who were born at about
the same time (thé hé)
— T may get Ss to make sentences with the words and
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Instruction: You are going to listen to Dr Brown talk
about the world population While listening, choose the
best answer A, B, C or D to complete the statements or
answer the questions
— T gets Ss to read the statements and questions
carefully and work out what information they need to
concentrate on while listening Then T checks with the
whole class
— T gets Ss to read the options in each question
carefully and underline the words that make them
different IT checks with the whole class (e.g in
question 1 these are "over 6.7", "about 6.7", "6.7",
"6.6"; 1n question 2 they are "66 million", "76 billion",
"about 66 million", "about 76 billion", etc.)
— T gets SS to guess the answer to each question and
then tells them they need to listen attentively to check if
their guesses are confirmed
— T plays the tape (or reads the tapescript) once for Ss
to listen and do the task
— Then T gets Ss to find a partner to check their
answers with
— T checks the answers with the whole class If many
Ss cannot answer the questions, T plays the tape one or
two more times and pauses at the answers for them to
catch
Answers:
IA 2D 3C 4D SA 6C
TASK 2
Instruction: You are going to listen to the tape again
Individual work, group work &
whole class
Individual work, pair work & whole class
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— T checks if Ss can answer the questions in TASK 2
without listening again If they cannot, T plays the tape
for them to listen again but before doing this, T should
encourage Ss to read through all the questions, identify
the information they need to look for in each question
(by finding the key words and the question word, e.g
"what, "where', "when", "how", etc.) and if possible,
predict the answers
— Then T plays the tape again for Ss to listen and
answer the questions
— T gets Ss to check their answers with a partner Then
T checks with the whole class T should play the tape
again and pause at difficult points if many Ss cannot
complete the task
Answers:
6 It will be over 7 billion
7 The population growth rates in some parts of the
world are not the same
8 The reason is the improvement of public health
services and medical care
9 They are shortage of foods, lack of hospitals and
schools, illiteracy, and poor living conditions
10 The experts offered four solutions They are (1) to
educate people and make them aware of the danger of having more children, (2) to provide safe, inexpensive birth— control methods, (3) to strictly implement a family planning policy, and (4) to exercise strict and fair reward and punishment policies
Tapescript:
Interviewer: | Good evening ladies and gentlemen In
our program tonight we are privileged to have Dr Brown, a_ world-famous
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Well, there are over 6,700 million people
in the world today, and the total is increasing at the rate of about 76 million
a year Experts at the United Nations calculated that the population of the world could be over 7 billion by the year
than others Latin America ranks first,
Africa ranks second, and Asia ranks third
Could you tell the audience what the main reason for the population explosion
is?
Well, I think the main reason is a fall in
death rates This is duc to the improvement of public health services and medical care Many more babies now survive at birth They grow up and
become parents, and more adults are
living into old age so that the populations are being added at both ends
I believe that the explosion of population has caused many problems for the world
Don't you think so?
You're quite right The explosion of
population has caused many problems for
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the world, particularly for developing countries Scientists say that if the
population of the world continues to grow
at this rate there will be shortage of
foods, lack of hospitals and schools,
illiteracy, and poor living conditions
Interviewer: Can you suggest some solutions to the
problem?
Expert: I think there are a number of solutions to
the problem of overpopulation The first
is to educate people and make them
aware of the danger of having more children The second is to provide safe,
inexpensive birth— control methods The
third is to strictly implement a family planning policy And the fourth is to exercise strict and fair reward and
punishment policies Only in doing so can
we have a better world for us and our younger generations
Interviewer: | Thank you very much for being with us
tonight, Dr Brown
Expert: You're quite welcome
— T gets Ss to work in groups to orally summarise the
main ideas of the listening passage T might give Ss
some cues to base their summary on:
a world population today
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— T may also encourage Ss to use transition signals to
make their summary more coherent
— T goes around to offer help and collect Ss' mistakes
— T calls on some groups to present their summary
— T elicits feedback from the class and gives final
comments
— T summarises the main points of the lesson
— T asks Ss to learn by heart all new words and do the
Extra exercise as homework
EXTRA EXERCISE
Write a summary of the listening passage
— Your summary should include all the main points of the passage
— You should use proper transition signals
— Your teacher will give you mark for the written summary in the next lesson
Period 4: WRITING
I Objectives
By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to:
Write descriptions of pie charts, using appropriate language
ll Materials
Textbook, handouts
lll Anticipated problems
Ss may not have sufficient vocabulary to write about the topic, so T should
be ready to assist them
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divides the class into small groups of 4 students and asks
Ss to work 1n groups to transfer the table into a pie chart
The group with the quickest and most correct answer will
be the winner
The table shows the number of students in a class who
achieved each grade
— T prepares a handout with a description of a pie chart
T asks Ss to work 1n pairs to discuss the organization and Pair work
& whole class
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other characteristics of the description T writes the
following questions on the board:
A
are they?
What does the first part tell you?
C What information does the second part give you?
the second part? Underline them
What does the last part tell you?
How many parts are there in the description? What
What language items should you pay attention to in
The graph shows the chief uses of the apple crop in the US
Overall, the bulk of the harvest is either eaten fresh or
made into juice
The biggest slice of the pie—chart is taken up by fresh fruit
About 60% of the crop is eaten fresh This is three times as
much as the next use, which is for juice Less than 20% of
apples in the US are turned into apple juice A further 12%
is canned, and a total of 5% is either frozen or dried Other
remaining uses, such as apple vinegar, account for just 5%
of the crop
It's clear that although a small amount of apples are
processed into frozen, dried or canned products, most of
the crop is sold straight from the tree
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— T elicits the answers from the whole class, focusing on
the remarkable characteristics of the description T can
base his / her explanation on the following notes:
1 There are three parts in the description of a chart:
introduction, body and conclusion
— Introduction should describe what the chart is about,
its dates and location, and say what overall trends you
see
— Body should describe the most important trends, while
all information is summarized to avoid unnecessary
details Notice how many distinctive features diagram
has
Important! You need to write about all the periods of time
and all the subjects of graph Remember, summarizing
doesn't mean throwing away information The secret here
is to select what's important, organize it, compare and
contrast
— Conclusion should sum up the global trends shown on
the figure and compare them if possible
2 Language use:
— The language and structures are given in the book
— Other language items:
+ make up less than percent,
+ the most + adj, the second most + adj,
+ ,.substantially / somewhat / slightly more + adj
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+ What is the general trend of the chart?
+ Which region has the largest population? Which
comes second?
+ Which region has the smallest population?
+ Where does most of the world population live?
— T checks the answers with the whole class
— Then Ss work individually to write the description of
the pie chart, using the sentence given in the book to
begin their description
— T goes around to observe and offer help
Sample writing:
The pie chart shows the distribution of the world
population by region Overall, more than half of the
world's population lives in South and East Asia
South Asia is the biggest region, making up 32% of the
world population The second largest area is East Asia
with 6% less than South Asia Europe ranks third with
15% Coming next is Africa with 11% Together, Latin
America and North America have 14% of the world
population Finally, Oceania is the least populated
region with the smallest percentage of 2%
As can be seen, the greatest concentration of the world's
population is in Asia, with Europe far behind
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— T collects some writings for quick feedback
— T writes Ss' typical errors on the board and elicits self
and peer correction T provides correction only when Ss
are not able to correct the errors
— Finally, T provides general comments on the writings
— For homework, T asks Ss to improve their writing,
taking into consideration their friends' and _ T's
suggestions and correction and do the extra exercise
Hydro-electric Power 16.2%
Nuclear
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l In 1970, coal production 46% of US electricity production
2 Almost a quarter of US electricity in 1970 using natural gas
3 Hydro-electric power stations just over 16% of US power in 1970
4 Nuclear power less than 2% of US electricity supplies in
1970
5 The main fuel used to generate electricity in 1970 in the US
coal
6 Almost half of US electricity in 1970 from coal
7 About of US electricity came from oil—fired power stations
8 Gas and coal provided of US electricity in 1970
9 Nuclear power contributed a tiny of US electricity in
1 accounted for 7 one-eighth
2 was produced 8 three-quarters
By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to:
Distinguish the clusters / kl /,/ gl /,/kr/,/ gr/, and / kw /
Pronounce the words and dialogue containing these clusters correctly
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