UNIT 9: Natural disasters

Objectives: By the end of the lesson , students will be able to read and understand natural disasters which are very dangerous for people.. Vocabulary: huge, strike, collapse, tidal wave

Date of preparing:24/3/08

Date of teaching:27/3 /08

Week

: 28 Period : 56

UNIT 9: Natural disasters

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I Objectives:

By the end of the lesson , students will be able to read and understand natural disasters which are very dangerous for people

II Language content:

1 Vocabulary: huge, strike, collapse, tidal wave, abrupt, shift, erupt, tornado, funnel shapeed ,

suck up , path

2 Grammar:

Relative clauses

III Techniques:

- Reading skill and other help skills

- Pair work – Groupwork – Individual work – Play games

IV Teaching aids:

Pictures , cassette, sub-boards, books,

V Procedures:

1.Organization:

2 Cheking- up :

3 New lesson :

.Pre- reading

- Greeting

- Check numbers

- Other questions T: Ask sts to play game Sts: Play game : Network T: Remark and mark T: Ask questions Sts: Answer

T: Hang the picture Sts: Remark

T:Introduce the lesson and ask some guiding questions

Sts: Answer T: play the tape Sts: Listen

Typhoon

Thunderstorm

READ :

Which disasters are there in the text ? What are they ?

New words :

-Pacific Rim = Ring of Fire

- huge ( adj) < synonym>

-struck (v) ( translation> tàn phá

Natural disasters

While -reading

Post-reading

4.Homework

T:Read and explain some new words and grammar

Sts: Listen and answer T: Read

T: Repeat T: Let sts play game : slap the board Sts: Work in group

T:Remark

T: Let sts read the text silently Sts: Read silently

T: Explain Sts: Listen and answer T: call some of them read Sts: Read

T: Guide them check True or False Sts: Listen

T: Let Ss work in group Sts: Work in group T: Ask them to talk Sts: Talk to each other T: Correct

T: Ask Sts read the text again and complete these sentences

Sts: Work in group < write on their sub-board

T: Remark and correct Sts: Read the complete sentences

T: Let sts talk about the damage of these natural disasters

Sts: Discuss and answer T: Correct

Remind Sts to learn new words by heart Read the text and translate into Vietnamese

- collapsed (adj) < translation>

-tidal wave < example>

-abrupt shift : sự thay đổi đột ngột -hurrican ( in America>

- cyclone ( in Australia)

- typhoon ( in Asia )

- erupt (v) < example>

- eruption (n)

- tornado(n) < picture>

Funnel shaped ( adj) < picture>

-suck up < translation>

* Grammar:

Relative clauses : Ex: Tornadoes are funnal shaped storm

which pass overland below a thunderstorm

a True or false :

1 T

2 T

3 F < from Alaska to california>

4 T

5 F < more than 50 years >

6 T

b.Complete the sentences :

1……… occur around the Pacific Rim

2 ……… many people were killed when homes , office blocks and highways collapsed

3 ………… there’s an abrupt shift in the under water movement of the earth

4 …… a cyclone

5 …….the word “ typhoon”

6 … pass over land below a thunderstorm and can suck up anything

* Earth quakes : struck the city, kill people

* Tidal waves: Killed people , struck houses

* typhoons: people , struck houses

* Volcanoes:

Tornadoes :