Unit 6_Reading_Hội giảng huyện

Mummy, oh Mummy“ Mummy, oh Mummy, what’s going to happen If all the pollution goes on?” “ Well the world will end up like a second- hand junk yard, With all of its treasures quite gone..

Warmly welcome all the teachers attending class 9A4 today !

Did you learn a lot of Vietnamese poems?

Have you read any English poems?

Mummy, oh Mummy

“ Mummy, oh Mummy, what’s going to happen

If all the pollution goes on?”

“ Well the world will end up like a second- hand junk yard,

With all of its treasures quite gone.

The field will be littered with plastics and tins, The streams will be covered with foam.

Now throw those soda bottles over the hedge, Save us from taking them home.”

“ But Mummy, oh Mummy, if I throw the bottles,

Won’t that be polluting the woods?”

“Nonsense| That isn’t the same thing at all, You just keep quiet and be good.

If you’re going to start getting silly ideas, I’ll take you home right away.

Because pollution is something that other folk do,

P O L L U T I O N

What do you think of?

ENGLISH 9 – UNIT 6

Period 39:

(a) junk-yard : bãi phế thải

(a) stream : dòng suối

foam (n) : bọt

(a) hedge:

hàng rào

nonsense (n) : lời nói dại dột

(a) junk-yard : bãi phế thải

(a) treasure : kho báu

(a) stream : dòng suối

foam (n) : bọt

(a) hedge : hàng rào (cây)

nonsense (n) : lời nói dại dôt

What and Where

stream treasure

pollution

GUIDING QUESTIONS:

• 1 How many people are there in this

poem? What is their relationship?

• 2 Where are they?

• 3 What problem of the environment is

mentioned in the poem?

Read this poem about the environment

MUMMY, OH MUMMY

“Mummy, oh Mummy, what’s going to happen

If all the pollution goes on ?”

“Well the world will end up like a second-hand junk-yard, With all of its treasures quite gone

The field will be littered with plastics and tins, The streams will be covered with foam.

Now throw those soda bottles over the hedge, Save us from taking them home.”

“But Mummy, oh Mummy, if I throw the bottles, Won’t that be polluting the woods ?”

“Nonsense ! That isn’t the same thing at all, You just keep quiet and be good.

If you’re going to start getting silly ideas, I’ll take you home right away.

Because pollution is something that other folk do,

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10

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• There are two ( mum and son ).

• Probably in the park ( in the forest)

• Pollution

HEDGE FOLK JUNK-YARD STREAM

FOAM TREASURE END UP

1 A row of things forming a fence

2 People

3 A piece of land full of rubbish

4 A flow of water

5 Mass of bubbles of air or gas

6 Valuable or precious things

7 Reach a state of

4 Do you think the boy’s question

(lines 9 – 10) is silly? Why not?

5 What does the poet want us to learn about keeping the environment unpolluted?

2 2

2 2

2 2

2

2

Điểm

1 According to the mother, what will happen if the pollution goes on?

If the pollution goes on, the world will end up

like a second hand junk-yard.

The mother thinks other folk pollute the

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3 What will happen to the boy if he keep on asking his mother such questions?

His mother will take him

home right away.

2

điểm

4 Do you think the boy’s question (lines 9 – 10) is silly? Why not?

No, because he is right; If he throws the bottles

that will be polluting the woods

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Điểm

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5 What does the poet want us to learn

about keeping the environment

What could you do in your school / house to minimize

pollution?

POSSIBLE ANSWERS

- Put the garbage bin around the school

yard ( the house )

- Pick up the rubbish / garbage & throw it into a trash bin

- Don’t litter the rubbish on the ground or

in classroom.

- Sweep & clean the class ( house ) every day.

• Learn the Vocabularies by heart.

• Read the poem at home.

• Complete the exercises a, b in your notebooks.

• Prepare: UNIT 6 ( cont)

Lesson 4 WRITE

• + The format of the complaint letter.

• + Read the letter on page 52.

• + Write a complaint letter to the head of local

authorities ………