Anh 11 CB Unit 10 Reading

Warming up for readingText title: Nature in Danger Part 1: Instruction: Following the title of the text, try to ask at least 3 questions that a text with this title should answer.. Aft

Welcome to our lesson!

…… class Nguyen trai High School

Thursday, February 16th 2006

Unit 10: Nature in Danger

A: Reading

1. Warming up for reading

2. Pair work

3. Key words of the text

1 Warming up for reading

Text title: Nature in Danger

Part 1:

Instruction: Following the title of the text, try to ask at least 3

questions that a text with this title should answer Also write in the vocabulary list possible words that you could find in that text After that, read the text and check which of your

“predictions” are true.

Pre-questions

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Vocabulary List 1………

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Part 2: Think of another title for the text. ………

 Discuss the 2 following questions :

a) What do you understand from the facts ?b) Why have the numbers of these animals become small?

3 Key words

exist (v): live

co-exist (v): live at the same time

affect (v): have influence on

pollution pollute pollutant

some examples of pollutants: CO 2 , CO, SO 2 , NO 2

extinct (adj): no longer living

effort (n): sù nç lùc, sù cè g¾ng

prohibit (v): express the idea of saying that sb

mustn’t do sth

interference (n): sù can thiÖp

off-spring: young of the animal

consequence (n): result (usually bad)

Read the text and check which of your

‘predictions’ are true

II While you read

reputation (n): danh tiÕng, tiÕng t¨m

decreasepollutants

endangered

interferences

Task 1: Fill each blank with a suitable word

1 Dinosaurs became millions of years ago

2 She tries to her reputation

3 It is time governments of the developing countries did something to the population growth

4 The chemical from cars and factories

make the air, water and soil dangerously dirty

5 The whale is an species

Task 2: Circle A, B, C or D that best states the main idea of each paragraph.

Paragraph 3: A Paragraph 2: B Paragraph 1: C

Paragraph 4: C

Task 3: Answer the questions

Q1: What are the four ways that human beings are changing the world?

-They are destroying the air by adding pollutants like smoke form factories and fumes from cars

-They are affecting the water supply by using water

for industry and agriculture

-They are changing the environment by building

cities and villages

-They are changing weather conditions by cutting

down trees in the forests

-The environment where these animals are living is badly destroyed.

-The numbers of rare animals are decreasing so

rapidly that they are in danger of becoming extinct

-Many kinds of rare animals are killed

Q2: What are the serious consequences of

people’s interference with the environment ?

Q3: What has been done to protect endangered nature?

-Laws have been passed to prohibit killing endangered animals

-Many organizations have been set up and money

has been raised

-Thousands of national parks have been established

III After you read

3-2-1 chart

Write down:

3 Things You Have Learned from the Text:

2 Interesting Things:

1 Question You Still Have:

Group work

What can you do as an individual

to protect endangered nature?

IV Homework

Write some sentences explaining why a lot

of rare animals have become extinct.