Skills: Listening for gist and for specific information about the nature, especially sea animals and the names of the waters • METHOD: Integrated, mainly communicative TEACHING AIDS: pic
Trang 1WEEK 19 – PERIOD 57
UNIT 9: UNDERSEA WORLD-Listening
• OBJECTIVES
1 Educational aim:
Students should appreciate the nature
1 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
1 Skills:
Listening for gist and for specific information about the nature, especially sea animals and the names of the waters
• METHOD: Integrated, mainly communicative
TEACHING AIDS: pictures showing whales; CD player
Warm-up (3 mn)
Have Ss work in pairs Show the pictures and ask
Ss to ask and answer the questions:
1 Have you ever seen a whale before?
2 Where did you see it?
Pre-listening (7 mn)
Teacher: Work in pairs Discuss the following
questions
1 Do you think whales are fish? Why (not)?
2 Why do people keep hunting whales?
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
Students’ answers may vary
Suggested answers:
Suggested answers:
1 The whale is a mammal because it raises its young on milk.
2 Because they want to catch whales for food, oil, leather and other products
Trang 2translate the sentence into Vietnamese
Have Ss listen and repeat the words:
Mammal; blue whale; Atlantic; Pacific; krill;
whaling; migrate; conservation
While-listening (20 mn)
Task 1
a) Teacher: Listen to some information about
whales and decide whether the statements are
true (T) or false (F) (Teacher plays the
recording twice.)
Teacher walks around the class and offers
ideas and comments when students need help
Task 2
Teacher: Listen again and answer the questions in
Task 2( Teacher plays the recording once or twice)
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
Teacher conducts the correction
Teacher plays the recording 3 times:
• 1st time, for the correction of task a)
• 2nd time, for the correction of task b)
• 3rd time, for the correction of task c)
Student work individually
udents listen and do task 1 Answers:
1.F ; 2.T ; 3.T ; 4.F ; 5.T
Students listen and do task 2 Answer:
1 The blue whale grows to 30 meters in length and over 200 ton in weight
2 Because there is a lot of krill, their favorite food in cold waters
3 Cold waters in the North and South Atlantic Ocean and the North and South Pacific Ocean are their favorite feeding grounds
4 Heavy hunting is the main reason for the decrease in whale population
5 They have asked the International Whaling Commission to stop most whaling
6 If we don’t take any measures to protect whales, they would appear forever
Trang 3Post-listening (12 mn)
Teacher has students sit in groups of four and
talk to one another about the information about
whales
–their length and weight
– their feeding grounds and food
–the reason for protecting whales
Teacher assigns homework
Comments (2 mn)
Students correct their work
Students’ answers may vary
Homework: Students prepare the writing lesson of U 9