E9 unit 9

*Main points: By the end of the lesson, ss will be able to get the information about weather from the weather forecast and to practice forecasting the weather in English.. - Ss read the

Date of planning: 16/3/2011 Date of teaching: 17/3/2011

Unit 9: natural disasters

Tiết 54: lesson 1: Getting started + Listen and read

*Aims: To help students read a dialogue about the weather forecast

*Main points: By the end of the lesson, ss will be able to get the information about weather from the weather forecast and to practice forecasting the weather in English

*Aids: Text book - Pictures

* Ways of working: T-WC, group-work, pair-work, ind-work

*Procedure:

I- Warm - up

Getting started:

-Uses:“Brainstorming”about “Natural

disasters”

- Then asks Ss to look at the pictures

P.74 and match with the words

II- Presentation:

- Elicits some vocabulary

Checks by “What and Where”

*Set the scene: Thuy is talking to her

grandmother while they are both

watching TV

III- Practice:

- Ss listen to the tape

typhoon earthquake drought -flood

1- snowstorm 2- earthquake 3- volcano 4- typhoon

1- Vocabulary:

(to) turn up (mime) điều chỉnh to lên

(to) expect (trans) mong đợi, chờ đón

coast = seaside bờ biển, bãi biển

thunderstorm (picture) bão có sấm sét, ma to

delta (visual) vùng châu thổ

(to) trust = (to) rely on tin tởng, tin là thật

- just in case (trans) Phòng khi, lỡ khi

2

Pre - question

What are they watching?

1 Check their answer:

- Ss practice the dialogue in group.

- Ss check the answer

- Ss read the dialogue and find out the

meaning of some phrases by matching

- Ss fill in each blank with one word or

phrase from the dialogue (group work)

*Comprehension question:

- Hangs on an extra board with

questions and asks aa to work in pair

to answer the questions

IV- Production:

- Asks ss to look at the map and play

the role of the weather man to present

the weather forecast based on the

information given

V- Homework:

- Learn by heart new words

- Write a weather forecast

- They are watching the weather forecast on T.V

2 Matching:

- Areas to the North - Bờ biển Nam Trung Bộ

- The south - central cost KV đồng bằng sông Cửu Long

- The central highlands Các tỉnh Bắc Bộ

- The Cuu Long Delta Cao Nguyên Miền Trung

1- turn up - weather forecast 2- rainy (raining)

3- thunderstorm: central highlands 4- have temperature

5- weather forecast

3- Answer the questions

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

- Because she wants to listen to the weather forecast

2- Which city is the hottest today?

- HCM city 3- Where is Thuy going?

- She is going to a park/on a picnic 4- What does Thuy’s grandmother want her to do?

- She wants her to bring along a raincoat

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Date of planning: 22/3/2011 Date of teaching: 23/3/2011

Unit 9: natural disasters

Tiết 55: lesson 2: Speak & Listen

*Aims: To help students practice speaking about the preparations for a

typhoon

+ understand the listening text on how to live with earthquakes

*Main points: 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

*Aids: Text book - Posters

* Ways of working: T-WC, group-work, pair-work, ind- work

* Procedures:

I- Warm – up

*Chatting

II- Pre- speaking

- Check by “Slap the board”

- Ss read and check () what

preparations you think should be

made for a typhoon

- Checks Ss answers by asking some

questions

III- While - speaking

- Elicit some questions and get Ss to

practice in pairs to make a dialogue

using the ideas in the box as cues

- What may happen to people’s life when there is a typhoon?

+ No food available, no fresh water,

no electricity, houses collapse, trees fall down

1- Vocabulary:

- bucket : (visual) cái xô

- leak : (picture) chỗ thủng/ dột

- (to)tie : (mime) cột, trói

- latch : (picture) cái chốt cửa

- candle: (realia) cây đèn cầy

- canned food :(visual) thức ăn, đồ hộp

- ladder : (picture) cái thang

- blanket : (picture) cái mền/chăn

2 Pre – questions:

Do you buy some canned food?

Do you paint the house?

1 Why do we need to buy food?

2 What food do we need to buy? 3.Why do we need to buy candles?

4 Why do we need to fill all buckets with water?

IV- Post- speaking

* Listen - An expert is giving a

talk on how to live with earthquakes.

Ss listen to the talk, then complete

the table.

Living with earthquakes

Heavy fixtures, furniture and

appliances.

* Place heavy books on the

bottom shelf of your bookshelves

* Block the rollers on your fridge

and washing machine.

Flying glass.

* Check the mirrors.

* Don’t put your bed near a

window.

Earthquakes drill.

* Stay inside.

* Sit under a strong table or

doorway.

* Stand in the corner of a room.

5 Why do we need to buy a ladder?

6 Why do we need to check all the windows and door latches?

V- Homework

- Ss write what their families do to prepare for a typhoon

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Date of planning: 29/3/2011 Date of teaching: 30/3/2011

Unit 9: natural disasters

TiÕt 56: lesson 3 : Read

*Aims: To help students practice reading a text about natural disasters for details

*Main points: By the end of the lesson, ss will be able to get more information about the natural disasters in the world

*Aids: Text book - Pictures - Extra board

* Ways of working: T-WC, group-work, pair-work, ind- work

I- Warm – up

Uses “Jumbled words

Chatting: “Have you ever experienced

any of the natural disasters What

happened? How did you feel?

II- Pre - reading

- Checks by “Rub out and Remember”

*True/False statements

- Hangs on an extra board with

statements ans asks ss to guess

III- While - reading

- Ss read the text and check their

TORMSWONS = SNOWSTORM QUAKETHEAR = EARTHQUAKE LVONOCA = VOLCANO SRTEDISAS = DISASTERS OOTUPHN = TYPHOON

1- Vocabulary:

- tidal wave (n) (translation) : sóng thần

- abrupt (adj) (synonym: quick, sudden) bất ngờ, đột ngột

- shift (n) (definition: change of position): sự chuyển dịch, thay đổi

- funnel - shaped (adj) (visual): có hình phẫu

- (to) suck up (translation) - hút lên

- tornado (n) : cơn lốc xoáy

2.True/False statements:

1- (Most of) the earthquake in KoBe

in 1995 caused severe damage 2- Most of the earthquakes in the world occur in the Ring of Fire 3- A huge tidal wave traveled from California to Alaska and hit

Anchorage in the 1960s 4- Typhoon, hurriance and tropical storm are differentwords for the same natural disasters

5- The eruption of Mount Pinatubo

is the world’s largest ever volnaco eruption

6- A tornado looks like a funnel

- Ss correct the false statements

- Ss work in pairs to complete the

sentences

V- Post - reading

- Ss work in group to dicuss some

question

V Homework:

Have Ss write the exercise 5b into their

notebook, using their ideas

1 Read and check:

1 - T 2 - T

3 - F  A huge tidal wave traveled from Alaska to California

4 - T

5 - F  The eruption in more than 50 years

6 - T

2- Complete the sentences:

1- occur around the Pacific Rim 2- people were killed when homes, office blocks and highways

collapsed 3- there is an abrupt shift in the underwater movement of the Earth

4- a cyclone

5- the meaning of the world

“Typhoon”

6- looks like a funnel

1- Why do people call the Pacify Rim “Ring of Fire”?

- Because 90% of earthquakes occur around the Pacify Rim

2- What will happen when there is

an abrupt shift in the underwater movement of the earth?

- Tidal waves will happen 3- What does “typhoon” mean?

- It maen “big wind”

4- Can we predict a volcano?

- Yes, the scientists can warn us

about the eruption.

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Date of planning: 30/3/2011 Date of teaching: 31/03/2011

Unit 9: natural disasters

TiÕt 57: lesson 4: Write

*Aims: To help studens write a story about a typhoon

*Main points: By the end of the lesson, ss will be able to write a story

*Aids: Text book - Pictures

* Ways of working: T-WC, group-work, pair-work, ind-work

*Procedure:

I- Warm - up

II- Pre - writing

* Jumbled words.

1 OTNOPHY

(typhoon)

2 DANOTRO

(tornado)

3 LACONOV

(volcano)

4

TEARQUAHKE (earthquake)

5 ORMST

(storm)

- Checks by “What and Where”

*Pictures - word cue drill

- Hangs on six pictures on board and

set the scene: “This is Lan’s family,

they are at home”

- Asks some questions to elicit the

story

III- While - writing

- Asks some students to retell the story

using the picture and word cue

- Next asks them to write the story

individually

IV- Post - writing

- Gets ss share with partners

- Corrects common mistake

- Asks some to read alound their

writing

1- Vocabulary

- (to) behave (translation) c sö, øng sö

- shelter (n) (definition: a place of safety): chç tró ngô

- all of sudden = suddenly bçng d-ng

- scared (adj) = afraid sî h·i

2- Questions

1- What was the weather like that day?

2- What was Lan doing outside? 3- What did the dog suddenly do? 3- What was on TV?

4- What did Lan’s mother tell her and the family?

6- What happened next?

7- How did Lan’s family feel during and after the storm?

8- What do you think about Lan’s dog?

Sample: It was a beautiful day The sun was shining, the sky was blue and the weather was perfect

Lan was outside playing with her dog, Skippy All of sudden, the dog behaved strangely She kept

running around in circles Lan ran home with her dog and told her mother what Skippy was doing Lan’s mother, Mrs Quyen told Lan that she heard on TV that there was

a typhoon coming Mrs Quyen

V- Homework

- Ss write another story

- Do exercises in the work book

gathered her family and told them

to find shelter in the home

Suddenly the sky became very dark The storm came with strong wind and heavy rain Mrs Quyen and her family were scared But soon the storm finished and everyone was glad What a clever dog Skippy is!She saved Lan from being caught in the typhoon

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Date of planning: 5/4/2011 Date of teaching: 6/4/2011

Unit 9: natural disasters

TiÕt 58: lesson 5: Language focus 2 - 3 - 4

*Aims: To help students further practice in defining relative clauses and non- defining relative clauses

*Objectives: By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to distinguish between defining and non- defining relative clauses

*Aids: Text book - Cards

*Procedure:

I- Warm- up

*Pelmanism

II- Presentation

- Elicit some newwords

- Give two pairs of sentences and ask

Ss to combine using relative pronouns

Kangaroos Tokyo LangSon Sacramento Pompeii Italy Neil Amstrong The USA KyCung California Japan

1- Vocabulary:

-(to) sweep (mime)

- extensive = wide, large réng lín

- (to) border ( use map) tiÕp gi¸p víi

- homeless (adj) : kh«ng cã nhµ cöa.

2 Relative clauses :

1 The novel has been lost You

“Who” or “Which”.

- Help them to distinguish between

defining and non- defining relative

clause

*Note:

+ Defining relative clauses identify

nouns, these clauses tell us which

noun, thing or person the speaker

means We can use “That” instead, and

we can leave out “Who” or “Which”

+ Non- defining relative clauses give

more information about a person or a

thing already identified When we

write these clauses, we put “comma” at

the beginning of the clause WE can’t

use “That” in these clauses, we can’t

leave out “Who” or “Which”

III- Practice

- Ss do LF3

- Ss match the sentences in column A

with ones in colun B, then use suitable

relative pronouns to join the two

sentences

gave me the novel on my birthday

The novel which you gave me on

my birthday has been lost

2.VietNam exports rice VietNam is

in the Southeast Asia

VietNam, which is in Southeast Asia, exports rice

1- Language focus 3:

b- Kangaroos, which come from Australia, have lonh tails

c- ba, who lives in TrangTien Street, likes playing guitar

d- The novel that you gave me on

my birthday has been lost

e- Neil Amstrong, who first wawlked on the moon, lived in the USA

f- The dhair that I bought yesterday

is broken

g- Mrs Lien, who sings very well, is

my English teacher

Ex:

Next Ss do LF 2 in pairs.

IV- Production

a- VietNam, which is a small country, export rice

b- Kangaroos, which are called

“Chuot tui” in Vietnamese, have long tails

c- Ba, who is my best friend, likes playing guitar

e- Neil Amstrong, who is a famous astronaut, lived in the USA

g- Mrs Lien, who teaches us English, is a beautiful woman

2- Language focus 2:

1 + e : Andrewis flying to Sacramento, which is the capital city of California

2 + g : It snowed in LangSon, which

is on the KyCung river, in the winter of 2002

3 + f : Pompeii, which is an ancient city of Italy, was

completely Vesuvius

4 + a : Hurricane Andrew, which swept through , lilled 41

people homeless

5 + c : The cyclone of November

1970 in Bangladesh, which is bordered , was one of the worst century

6 + d : The most disastrous earthquake in Japanese history, which occurred in 1923

7 + b : The October earthquake, which measured 7.1 on , caused

- Ss rerwrite the sentences in LF 1, 4

Ss use their knowledge to answer the

questions Use who, which, that “ ”

- Ss rewrite the sentences in Ex 3.

V- Homework

- Ss write 5 sentences using non-

defining relative clauses

- Do exercises in workbook

extensive

1 Language Focus 1

b) The country which won the

1998 Tiger Cup is Singapore

c) The animal which animal has one or two horns on its snout is rhinoceros

d) The explorer who discovered America is Christopher Columbus e) The planet which is closest to the earth is Venus

f) The animal in Viet Nam was chosen to be a logo of Sea Games

2003 is the buffalo

g) The ASEAN country is divided into two regions by the sea is

Malaysia

h) The food you can chew but you can’t swallow is the chewing

gum and which one you can swallow but you can’t chew is water

2 Language Focus 4

Ex Kangaroos which are called

“Chuot tui“ in VNese have long tails