Lesson Plan (grade 11 – advanced) Period 113 potx

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Lesson Plan (grade 11 – advanced)

Period 113 : Preparation date : 30 /3/2011 Unit14 : Lesson : Space Conquest –Reading (cont)

I Aims :

- By the end of the lesson, the students are able to skim for general ideas

- By the end of the lesson, the students are able to scan for specific details

II Lexical items :

- architect - propose - complex - domed structure

III Structures :

-Moon buses may transport guests on low gravity excursion

IV Teaching aids:

- textbook - picture / drawings

- chalk - handouts

V Techniques :

- Skill – based ( reading, speaking)

VI Procedures :

State/time Teacher’s and students’

activities

Blackboard Materials

1

Warm-up &

lead-in

(7’)

Checking Vocabulary:

“Rub out and remember”

- rub out the words and leave the explanations on the board

- point at each explanation and have SS speak out the word

- again, point at any explanation ( not in the order written on the board) and have SS to

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Transition: to understand more clearly about the text, today we’ll learn the comprehension - write down on the board:

Unit :14

Space Conquest

– reading (cont)

Chalk and board

2

Pre-reading

(10’)

Summarize the main ideas of p1 and p2

- call on a St to

summarize the text which they learnt last time

- comment and correct them

out the word

1.Brainstorming

-Ask SS the following question to elicit

vocabulary about the

Chalk and board

topic:

‘What do you know

about space exploration?’

-Tell SS to write down

words in the mind map

People

Equipment

Yuri Gagarin Space

Spacesuit

Exploration

Country

Achievement

USA Other

spacewalk

NASA

Checking General

Knowledge ( task a, p

192)

-Read the question in task a and ask SS to choose the best answers

to each question

- Check with the whole class

3 while -

reading

(20’)

Activity 1: Questions and answers (task b, p

193 )

-Tell SS to read the text again and find the

answers to the questions

- Ask Ss to work with a partner, ask and answer the questions

-Call on pairs to ask and answer them and check with the whole class

Activity 2: Which

This is the handout:

Read the text and write A, B or C beside each question

Which section mentions:

A space station for holiday makers?

Surveys on the demand for space

Chalk + book + small board

Section? Which information?

-Put SS into pairs and give out handouts of pieces of information from the passage

-Ask SS read the text and answer the questions by writing the section which mentions the piece of information in the space provided

-Tell SS to compare answers in small groups and then go over the answers with the class

Expected answers: 1.B 2.A 3.B 4.C 5.A 6.B 7.C 8.B

tourism?

The price of c ticket into space?

A hotel powered

by solar energy?

The percentage

of people who wish to travel into space?

A hotel that orbits the Earth?

The use of lunar ice for drinking water?

The space trip taken by two Japanese businessmen?

4

Post-reading

(10’)

Discussion

-Arrange SS to work in small groups of 4 or 5

- Ask them discuss the following questions:

a If affordable, would you like to take a space trip? Why? Why not?

b Where would you go?

c How long would you stay there?

d What would you to there?

- go around monitor and give help if necessary

- call on SS to report about their groups’ and invite to give comments

textbooks

5

Homework

(2’)

Ask SS to complete the rest of the exercises in

notebook