Educational aim: Students should appreciate the nature.. Knowledge General knowledge: Students learn about the nature Language New words: Words related to the nature, especially sea ani
Trang 1WEEK 19 – PERIOD 55
UNIT 9: UNDERSEA WORLD-Reading
• OBJECTIVES
1 Educational aim:
Students should appreciate the nature
2 Knowledge
General knowledge: Students learn about the nature Language
New words: Words related to the nature, especially sea animals and the names of
the waters
3 Skills:
Reading for gist and for specific information about the nature, especially sea animals and the names of the waters
• METHOD: Integrated, mainly communicative
TEACHING AIDS: Real objects and pictures showing the nature, especially sea
animals and the names of the waters
Warm-up (4 mn)
Teacher asks Ss to work with their
partners , looking at the map and
giving the Vietnamese names for the
oceans on the map ( Before you read)
Pre-reading (7 mn)
a) Look at the pictures at the bottom
of page 94 and give the name of the
animal in each picture The first letter
of each word has been given to help
you
Teacher conducts the correction
While-reading (20 mn)
Ask Ss to read the passage silently
Students’ answers may vary
Students do the task
Answers Seal Jellyfish Turtle Shark
Students do task 1
Trang 2Task 1
The words in the box all appear in
the passage Fill each blank with one
of them There are more words than
needed
Teacher walks around the class
and offers ideas and comments
when students need help
Teacher selects some students at
random to provide the answers in
front of the class and then to
translate the sentence into
Vietnamese
Task 2
b) Teacher has the class read the
text again, this time more slowly,
to scan the details and answer the
questions in Task 2
Teacher walks around the class
and offers ideas and comments
when students need help Then
teacher selects some students at
random to provide the answers in
front of the class
Post-reading (12 mn)
1) tiny 2) investigate 3) gulf 4) Biodiversity 5) samples
.
Students sit in pairs
Students do the task
Suggested answers:
1) 75% of the earth’s surface 2) By using modern devices 3) They investigate the seabed and bring samples of marine life back to the surface for further study.
4) We can know a wide range of information, including water temperature, depth and undersea population
5) They are those that live on or depend on the bottom like starfish, those that move independently of water currents and those that are carried along by the currents
6) Marine life would be at stake
if the sea biodiversity were not maintained
Students work in pairs, discussing the phrases in the box and providing the answers
Answers:
1 three- quarters.
Trang 3Teacher has students work in
pairs to complete the summary
of the reading passage by filling
each blank with a word or phrase
given in the box (After you
read)
Teacher gives suggestions and
comments
Teacher suggests students’
homework
Comments (2 mn)
2 mysterious
3 modern
4 discoveries
5 biodiversity
6 huge
7 plants and animals
8 closely connected