- Language: Common knowledge of the life of plants and animals in the deserts - New words: Words related to the lives of plants and animals in deserts.. - look at the picture on page 96
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Unit 9
Deserts -oOo -Period N o 55 - Lesson 1: Reading
I Objectives:
1 Educational aim:
- Guessing the meaning in the context Deciding true or false statements
- Passage comprehensions and Understanding the humour of the story
2 Knowledge:
- General knowledge: Lives of plants animals in deserts.
- Language: Common knowledge of the life of plants and animals in the deserts
- New words: Words related to the lives of plants and animals in deserts.
3 Skills:
- Guessing meaning in context, deciding on true or false and passage comprehension
II Method:
- Integrated, mainly communicative
III Teaching aids:
- Picture, board, chalks, textbook, handouts,…
IV Procedure:
Time
3’
3’
5’
2’
10’
Teacher s activities’
- ask Ss to fill in the
blank with the most
suitable word
- ask Ss to look at the
picture on page 96 and
ask and answer the
questions
- go around the class
and offer help if
necessary
- call on some Ss to ask
and answer in front of
the class
- comment
- read word by word
- ask Ss to repeat in
chorus and individual
and write them on the
blackboard
- say some words in
English and ask Ss to
speak them out in
Vietnamese
- ask Ss to read the
passage in silence and
do task 1
- ask Ss to compare the
answer with a partner
- call on some Ss to
Content
A Warm- up (3): Fill in the blank with the
most suitable word:
A…… is a hot, dry sandy place
Answer:
Desert
B Pre- reading:
I Ask and answer the questions:
Suggested answers:
1 dry, few trees, little or no water, little rainfall, few people and animals live in a desert………
2 camels, scorpions, cactus………
3 Egypt, Australia, China………
II Vocabulary:
- aerial (adj) ['eəriəl] : trên không
- dune (n) [dju:n] : đụn cát
- stretch (n) [stret∫]: dải đất, dải nớc
- aborigine (n) [,ổbə'ridʒini:z] : thổ dân úc
- hummock (n) ['hʌmək] : gò, đống
- slope (n) [sloup] : dốc, đờng dốc
- corridor (n) ['kɔridɔ:] : đờng hành lang
- crest (n) [krest] : đỉnh
- spinifex (n) ['spainifəks] : cỏ lá nhọn sống
ở vùng hoang mạc nớc úc III Check vocabulary
C While- reading
I Task 1:
Answers:
1 kéo dài, căng ra
2 có cát,
3 trắc lợng trên không
Students activities’
- fill in the blank with the most suitable word
- look at the picture on
page 96, listen to the teacher then ask and answer the questions in the book
- work in pairs
- some Ss ask and answer in front of the
- listen carefully
- repeat after the teacher in chorus and individual and write down
- do the task individually
- read the passage in silence and do task 1
- compare the answer with a partner
- some Ss answer in
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5’
2’
answer in front of the
class
- comment and give
correct answer
- present the task: Read
the passage and choose
the statements are True
or False
- get students to work
in groups and discuss
about the passage
- go round the class to
control the discussion
- state the best option
- correct mistakes
- ask Ss to work in pairs
to ask and answer
about the passage
- go around the class
and offers help if
necessary
- call on some Ss to
answer in front of the
class
- comment and give
correct answers
- ask Ss to read the
story
-ask them for the
humour of the story
- explain
- summarize the main
points
- assign homework
4 Hội địa lý hoàng gia Austra
5 thổ dân Australia
6 cồn cát, đụn cát
7 độ dốc, dốc thoai thoải
8 dốc đứng, dốc ngợc
9 gò, đống
10 đỉnh (gò/đống)
11 cỏ lá nhỏn mọc trên hoang mạc
II Task 2: True- false
Answers:
1 F
2 F
3 T
4 F
5 F
6 T
III Task 3: Answer the question
Answers:
1 They are Great Victoria Deserts, Gibbon, Great Sandy and Tanami Deserts and Simpson Desert
2 It lies between Lake Eyre in the south, the Macdonnel Ranges in the north, the Mulligan and the Diamantina Rivers in the east, and the Macumba and Finke Rivers in the west
3 In 1845
4 He was the President of the South Australian Branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australia
5 They took camels across the desert
6 In the western part, they are short, mostly less than 10 metres high, and in the northern part, they are parallel and are up to
20 metres high
7 Two They are hummock grasses and spinifex
D Post- reading:
E Wrapping
front of the class
- listen to the teacher then read the passage and choose the statements are True or False
- work in groups to discuss about the passage
- finish the task
- compare their results with the other groups, and correct
- work in pairs to ask and answer about the passage
- some Ss answer in front of the class
- read the story
- learn new words by heart
- prepare for the next lesson
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Date of teaching: …… … / /200 …
Class:………
Unit 9
Deserts -oOo -Period N o 56 - Lesson 2: Speaking
I Objectives:
1 Educational aim:
- Explaining why some kind of trees and animals can exit in the deserts
2 Knowledge:
- General knowledge: The lives of trees and animals in the deserts.
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+ The tenses
- New words: words related to the trees and animals in the deserts.
3 Skills:
- Talking about nature features of the deserts
- Explaining why some thing should be brought along while going across a desert
II Method:
- Integrated, mainly communicative
III Teaching aids:
- Board, chalks, textbook, handouts
IV Procedure:
5’
12’
15'
- read words of animals and
trees
- ask Ss to listen and write
down the words they have
heard
- go around the class and
offers help if necessary
- call on some Ss to give
their answers
- give feedback and
suggested answers
- ask some questions
- guide Ss how to practise
- ask Ss to work in pairs
- explain some new words
- walk around and help
them
- call Ss to say
- correct their mistakes
- guide Ss how to practise
- ask Ss to work in pairs
- help Ss with new
structures
- walk around and help
them
- call some pairs of Ss to
stand up and report in front
of the class
- correct their mistakes
A Warm- up: Listen and write down
words of animals and trees:
Answers:
Grass, goat, sheep, buffalo, banana, camel, horse, date palm, cactus
Questions:
- Which animals and plants can’t live in the desert?
- buffalo, banana, horse
- Why?
- Because they can’t stand the heat and need a lot of water
B Pre- speaking: Task 1:
Model:
- What kinds of trees and animals on this list do you think might exist in the desert?
- I think date palms, cactus, grass, camels and lizards can exist in the desert because they don’t need a lot of water and can survive under difficult conditions
- What about banana trees?
- I don’t think they can live in such hot weather Moreover, we have never seen banana trees in pictures taken in the desert, have we?
………
C While- speaking: Task 2:
Useful expressions:
- hot
- dry
- little rainfall, much sunshine, few grasses, few animals, few people, sandy……
Model:
- What do you know about the climate in the desert?
- It is said that it’s very hot in the daytime but it’s very cold at night
- I see, but it says in the books that there are some cold deserts where it’s very cold
at some time of the year
- And please tell me about the rainfall
- listen and write down words read by the teacher
- some Ss give their answers
- answer the teacher’s questions
- listen to the teacher
- work in pairs
- some Ss to say
- listen to the teacher
- work in pairs
- some pairs of Ss stand up and report in front of the class
- imagine your life
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10’
3’
- guide Ss how to practise
- ask Ss to work in groups
- call some groups of Ss to
stand up and practise
- correct their mistakes
- summarize the main
points
- assign homework
How often does it rain here?
- It rarely rains there so everything is very dry
- Are there 4 seasons in the deserts?
- I am not sure but as far as I can remember
in some cold deserts there are hot summer and very cold winter
………
D Post-speaking: Task 3:
Suggested answer:
- What are five things you should bring along with you if you are going on an expedition across the desert?
- I think I should bring a knife in case I need food to eat It’s also used to protect
me from the attack of dangerous animals or bad people
- And what about a mosquito net? Would you need one?
- Oh, no I would have a face net and clothes long enough to cover my whole body
- And what else would you need?
- Food is next things because it’s very difficult to find food in the desert I think
we should bring as much food as possible because we could get stuck there
- Why don’t you bring a cell phone? It could be very helpful if you got lost
Someone could come and rescue you
- Are you joking? Do you think there would be telephone waves/ signals in the desert? And how can we charge the battery?
…………
E Wrapping:
in ten years Say at least five sentences about yourself and your family
- listen carefully to
guiding
- work in groups
- some groups of Ss stand up and practise
- write a passage to say why desert is not
a favorable place for people and animals
to live (in not more than 50 words
- prepare the listening at home
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Unit 9
Deserts -oOo -Period N o 57- Lesson 3: Listening
I Objectives:
1 Educational aim:
- Listening, mastering the content of the tape.
- Doing the tasks fluently (true or false statements and the details)
2 Knowledge:
- General knowledge: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to understand how
to make the lives in the deserts better
- Language: The present simple tense.
- New words: Words related to the topic
3 Skills:
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- Listening for details and gap-filling
II Method:
- Integrated, mainly communicative
III Teaching aids:
- Tape, cassette player, board, chalks, textbook
IV Procedure:
3’
3’
3’
12’
10’
- ask Ss to complete the
following sentence with
their own word
- go around the class and
offers help if necessary
- call on some Ss to answer
in front of the class
- give feedback and correct
answers
- ask Ss to look at the book
on page 100 and answer
the questions
- let them work in pairs
- listen and correct for
them
- turn on the tape and ask
students to listen
- let Ss listen again and
repeat
- write some words on
board and ask Ss to read
them aloud
- correct
- let Ss read the statements
for about 1 or 2 minutes
- play the CD player and
lets Ss listen to the passage
- play the CD player the
second time for Ss to catch
information they need
- let Ss listen to the tape
one more time if needed
and check the answers with
the whole class
-call on some Ss to give the
answers
- give feedback
- let Ss listen again
- have Ss play the Game
“Lucky number”
- check the answers with
the whole class
- give correct answers
A Warm- up: complete the following
sentence with your own word
A desert is a place ………
Suggested answers:
- …….where there are no roads, buildings, cars, rivers
-…… where it’s hard to live
- …… where it is very hot during the daytime but very cold at night
- ………where there are no plants but cactus
-……… where space seems to be endless
B Pre- listening:
I Ask and answer the questions:
Suggested answers:
1 A desert is a place there are no roads…
3 Human beings can contribute in the making of desert because we cut down trees and destroy forests These actions can lead
to the changes of climate
II Listen and repeat:
- frightening speed ['fraitniη spi:d]: tốc độ kinh khủng
- Sahara (n): sa mạc Sahara
- petroleum (n) [pə'trouliəm] :dầu mỏ
- Australia(n) [ɔs'treiljən]
- firewood (n)['faiəwud]: củi
- Mauritania
C While-listening:
I Task 1: True or False
Answers:
1T 2T 3T 4F 5T
II Task 2: Listen again and answer the questions:
Answers:
1 It examines deserts, what are they and how they are formed
2 It is hot, dry and sandy place It is a beautiful land of silence and space The sun
following sentence with their own word
- some Ss answer in front of the class
- look at the book on page 100 and answer the questions
- listen and repeat
- preactise in pairs
- read the new words aloud in chorus then individual
- read the statements for about 1 or 2 minutes
- listen carefully
- some Ss to give the answers in front of the class
- listen again carefully
- play the game “Lucky number”
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6’
2’
- ask Ss to read the
question quickly
- guide Ss the how to do
the task
- let Ss listen one or twice
times
- ask Ss to stand up and
speak their answers
- correct
- ask Ss to discus the
guided questions, find the
answer then write about
deserts
- let them work in groups
- move around to help if
necessary
- give remarks or even
suggestions
- summarize the main
points
- assign homework
shines, the wind blows and time and space seem endless
3 Natural and humans
4 They contribute by eating every plant they can find This makes the land become deserts
III Task 3: Fill the missing words
Answers:
1.90%
2 smaller plants
3 prevent
4.spreading 5.capital 6.canals
D Post-listening: Summarize the main
ideas of expert’s talk:
Suggested answers:
- It is hot, dry, sandy place Also a beautiful land of silence and space The sun shines, the win blows and time and space seem to be endless Only trees with hard needles can grow in the deserts
- Nature and humans contribute to the growing of deserts Human beings cut down trees for firewood When the trees are gone, smaller plants die and there is nothing but sand and the land turn into desert
E Wrapping:
- read the questions once to get the main contents
-listen to the tape and
do the task
- find evidences to each
of the answers
- represent if being asked
- listen then answer
- listen to the teacher’s explanation then correct the answers oneself
- discuss the guided questions in groups and write about the deserts
to correct oneself
- do exercise 2 on page
60, 62 in the students' workbook
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Unit 9
Deserts -oOo -Period N o 58 - Lesson 4: Writing
I Objectives:
1 Educational aim:
- Describing main features of a desert
2 Knowledge:
- General knowledge: Writing about the Sahara deserts.
- Language: + The tenses.
+ Connectors (time expressions)
- New words: Words related to the Sahara desert.
3 Skills:
- To practise students’ speaking and writing skills
- To help students to able to write about the Sahara deserts
II Method:
- Integrated, mainly communicative
III Teaching aids:
- Board, chalks, textbook and notebook
IV Procedure:
3’ - show the world map to Ss
and ask them identify the
Sahara desert on the map
A Warm- up: Identify the Sahara desert
on the map - look at the shownmap and identify the
Sahara desert on the map
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2’
7’
5’
12’
9’
- reads words by word
- asks Ss to repeat in chorus
and individually and write
them down
- rubs out some words and
asks Ss to remember
- ask Ss some questions
about the Sahara desert
- tell Ss to work in pairs to
ask and answer the
questions
- call on some Ss to give
the answers in front of the
class
- go over the answers with
the whole class
- explain how to write a
composition about the
Sahara Desert
- supply the useful
expressions
- ask Ss to write a
composition about the
Sahara Desert
- go around the class and
help them if necessary
- call a student to write on
the blackboard
- ask some groups to
represent their work, ask
B Pre - writing:
I Vocabulary
- extend (v) [iks'tend] : kéo dài, vơn tới
- arid (adj) ['ổrid] : khô cằn
- oasis (n) [ou'eisis] : ốc đảo, nơi thoải mái
- tableland (n) ['teibllổnd] : bình nguyên
- gazelle (n)[gə'zel] : linh dơng nhỏ rất dễ thơng, linh dơng gazen
- antelope (n) ['ổntiloup] : con sơn dơng
- fox (n) [fɔks] : con cáo
- jackal (n) ['dʒổkɔ:l] : chó rừng
II Check vocabulary:
III Answer the questions:
Questions:
1 Where is the Sahara desert?
2 How large is it?
3 How is it climate?
4 Name some of the natural features of the Sahara?
5 What kind of animals and plants can live in the desert?
IV The way to write a composition about the Sahara Desert:
* Tenses used: Simple present
* General Outline of the Description:
- Introduction
- General description:
+ geography (location) + area
+ natural features ( climate/ rainfall/
elevation/ trees/ animals)
- Conclusion
C While-writing:
Sample writing:
The Sahara is the largest desert in the world It is in the northern of Africa, East of Atlantic Ocean and the west of the Red Sea and Iraq It lies largely in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Mauritania, Mali, Niger and Sudan
This desert has a total area of more than 9,065,000 square kilometers with 1610 kilometers width and 5150 kilometers in length from the east to the west There is a total absence of moisture so it is very dry It
is very hot in summer and extremely cold in winter
The Sahara is on a tableland with an elevation of 400 to 500 meters It is an arid sandy land with few oases but many large sand dunes
Very few forms of animal and vegetable life exist there The main trees which can be found there are cacti, the date palms, and a form of acacia Only animals like gazelles, antelopes, foxes, jackals and camels are found in this desert
D Post-writing:
- listen carefully
- repeat in chorus and individual and write them down
- do the task individually
- answer the teacher’s questions
- work in pairs to ask and answer the questions
- some Ss give the answers in front of the class
- listen to the teacher carefully
- note down the useful expressions
- do the task individually
- a student writes on the blackboard
- exchange the writing to other
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others to give remark
- choose some good
writing to read in class and
give remark
- summarize the main
points
- assign homework E Wrapping:
groups to check and give remarks
- represent the task
on board if being asked
- read the writing to get others’ remarks
- do as the teacher asked
- rewrite the task at home and prepare
Focus at home.
Date of
preparing: …… / /200 …
Date of teaching: …… … / /200 …
Class: ………
Unit 9
Deserts -oOo -Period N o 59 - Lesson 5: Language focus
I Objectives:
1 Educational aim:
- Full and contracted forms of auxiliaries
- So, but, however and therefore
2 Knowledge:
- General knowledge: Combining the sentences.
- Language: Know how to use so, but, however and therefore.
- New words: Words related to the exercises.
3 Skills:
- To practise students’ pronunciation and writing skills
- To help students to be able pronounce the full forms and the contracted forms of auxiliaries and introduce to them the use of so, but, however and therefore
II Method:
- Integrated, mainly communicative
III Teaching aids:
- Board, tape, cassette player, chalks, textbook and notebook
IV Procedure:
Time
3’
5'
Teacher s activities’
- read some words
- ask Ss to listen and
check if there are
differences between
every two words
- go around the class
and offer help if
necessary
- call on some Ss to
give their answers in
front of the class
- give feedback and
correct answers
- leads in the new
lesson
- explain how to
pronounce full and
contracted forms of
auxiliaries
- play the CD
Content
A Warm- up: Listen and check if there are
differences between every two words
Suggested answers:
1 he’s - his
2 hill – he’ll
3 there – they’re
4 your – you’re
5 time – I’m
Lead in: Today we’ll learn about the full
form and contracted form of auxiliaries
B Pronunciation
I Presentation 1: The full and contracted forms of auxiliaries
Students activities’
- listen carefully
- check if there are differences between every two words
- some Ss give their answers in front of the class
- listen carefully and note down
- listen carefully
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10’
8’
6’
6’
- ask Ss to repeat in
chorus and individual
- ask Ss to work in pairs
to practice reading the
sentences in their
textbook on page 103
- call on some Ss to
read the sentences
aloud
- make correction if
needed
- gives some examples
- ask Ss to express the
sentences in another
way so that the
meaning stays the
same
- elicit the use of the
conjunctions from Ss
- have Ss play the game
“Lucky number”
- check the answers
with the whole class
- explain the example
carefully
- ask Ss to work in pairs
to do the exercise
suggested
- ask Ss to discuss the
answers with their
friends
- asks some of the
students to do the
exercise orally
- asks other Ss to give
comments
- give the suggested
answers if necessary
- explain the example
carefully
- ask Ss to work in pairs
II Practice
C Grammar:
I Presentation 2: Linking words: but/ so/
however/ therefore
1 It began to rain, so I opened my
umbrella.
2 They were late, but they didn t hurry.’
Answers:
1 It began to rain, therefore I opened my
umbrella
2 They were late However, they didn’t
hurry
3 Although they were late, they didn’t
hurry
*The use of the conjunctions
1 Similar meaning to but E.g.: - Although she is much younger than
me, we get on very well together
- Her father was extremely angry
with her However, he didn’t say anything.
2 Similar meaning to so
We use so, therefore, as a result or for this reason to introduce the result of
something
E.g.: - He was late so he ran to the station.
- It was raining hard As a result, we didn’t go out
II Exercise 1:
Suggested answers:
1 so 5 so
2 but 6 but
3 so 7 but
4 but 8 so
III Exercise 2
Suggested answers:
1 but 5 but
2 however 6 However
3 yet 7 however
4 so 8 but
IV Exercise 3:
Suggested answers:
1 therefore
2 so 3.so,
- repeat in chorus and individual
- work in pairs to practice reading the sentences in their textbook on page 103
- some Ss read the sentences aloud
- listen carefully and note down
- express the sentences
in another way so that the meaning stays the same
- do as the teacher asked
- some Ss give their answers in front of the class
- play the game
“Lucky number”
- notice the teacher’s explanation
- work in pairs: Do the exercise given in the textbooks
- discuss the answers with their friends then correct the mistakes themselves
- some of the Ss to do the exercise orally
- other Ss give comments
- take notes of the suggested answers
- notice the teacher’s explanation
- work in pairs: Do the exercise given in the
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to do the exercise
suggested
- ask Ss to discuss the
answers with their
friends
- ask some of the Ss to
do the exercise orally
- ask others to give
comments
- give the suggested
answers if necessary
- summarize the main
points
- assign homework
4 therefore
5 however
6 Therefore
7 so
8 However.
D Wrapping
textbooks
- discuss the answers with their friends then correct the mistakes themselves
- some of the Ss to do the exercise orally
- other Ss give comments
- take notes of the suggested answers
- redo exercises