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By the end of the lesson, students will be able to distinguish between defining relative clauses and non-defining relative clauses
II LANGUAGE CONTENTS:
Grammar : - Relative pronouns: who, that, which
- Relative clauses
Vocabulary :
III TEACHING AIDS:
- Posters, pictures, textbook,
IV PROCEDURES:
1 Warm up: (5’)
Answer the questions:
1) Which country won the 1998 Tiger Cup?
2) Which animal has 1 or 2 horns on its snout?
3) Which explorer discovered America?
4) Which planet is closest to the earth?
5) Which animal was chosen to be the logo of
SEA Games 2003?
6) Which ASEAN country is divided into two
regions by the sea?
7) Which food can you chew but can’t swallow?
8) Which thing can you swallow but can’t
chew?
2 Practice: (15’)
1) Use “Who”, “which” or “that” to answer the
questions (P 81)
a The city which was struck by a huge
earthquake in 1995, is Kobe
b The country which won the 1998 Tiger Cup,
is Singapore
c The animal which 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
Mars
f The animal which was chosen to be the logo
of SEA Games 2003, is buffalo
g The ASEAN country which is divided into 2
regions by the sea, is Malaysia
h The food that you can chew but can’t swallow
is the chewing gum, and the thing you can
- Teacher asks students the questions in the text book on page 81
+ Students use their knowledge to answer the questions
+ Individual
+ Pairs
- Feedback
- Teacher reminds the use of relative pronouns “who”, “which”
+ Students listen and repeat
+ Whole class
+ Individual
- Teacher asks students to do the exercise
in language focus 1 on page 81
+ Students answer the questions, using the relative pronouns which or who
+ Individual
+ Pairs
- Feedback
- Teacher corrects the mistakes and gives the correct answers
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Unit 9: NATURE DISASTERS
Week: 31, Period: 58 LANGUAGE FOCUS
Date: 01/4/2009
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3 Further Practice: (15’)
2) Matching: (P 81, 82)
2 – g: It snowed in Lang Son, which is on the
Ky Cung River, in the Winter of 2002
3 – f: Pompeii which is an ancient city of Italy,
was completely destroyed in AD 79 by an
eruption of Mount Vesuvius
4 – a: Hurricane Andrew, which swept through
Southern Florida in August 1992, killed 41
people and made more than 200,000 homeless
5 – c: The cyclone of November 1970 in
Bangladesh, which killed about 500,000 people,
was one of the worst natural disasters of the 20th
century
6 – d: The most disastrous earthquake in
Japanese history, which occurred in 1923,
damaged Tokyo and Yokohama and killed about
150,000 people
7 – b: The October 1989 Loma Prieta
earthquake which measured 7.1 on the Richter
scale, caused extensive damage to older
buildings in San Francisco Bay area
4 Production: (8’)
3) Underline the relative clause in the sentences:
(P 82)
Answers:
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 Amstrong, 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
Writing:
- Students replace each underlined clause with
their own clause:
Ex: Viet Nam, which is a small country, exports
rice
etc
5 Homework: (2’)
- Study the lesson carefully
- Write about 5 sentences with non–defining
relative clauses in your exercise books
- Teacher asks students to match each of the sentences in column A with a related sentences in column B then use suitable relative pronoun to join them
+ Students work in pairs
+ Students go to the board and write their sentences on the board
+ Individual
- Feedback
- Teacher corrects the mistakes and gives the correct answers
+ Students read the sentences again
+ Individual
- Teacher asks students to underline the relative clause in each sentence, then add commas to separate the non defining relative clause from the rest of the sentence
+ Students work in pairs
+ Students go to the board and write down
+ Individual
- Feedback
- Teacher corrects the mistakes and give the correct answers
- Teacher asks students to replace each underline clause with their own clause
+ Students rewrite the sentences on P 82 + Individual > pairs
- Feedback
-Teacher guides students what to do at home
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