SKKN TIẾNG ANH: Integrating environmental education in English through Unit 6 read in Tieng Anh 9.

Sáng kiến kinh nghiệm dạy học tiếng anh được viết bằng tiếng anh là tài liệu tham khảo dành cho giáo viên dạy học bậc phổ thông. ý tưởng được đưa ra dựa vào thực tiễn giảng dạy và kinh nghiệm của bản thân.

When construction of individual lessons in subjects in English class, the teacherwill easily see the content of this lesson related to the knowledge from which tobuild towards integrated lesson plans, exploration, and development extensiveknowledge in other subjects With lessons have content related to landmarks like

Unit 11 Traveling around Viet Nam in grades 8, teachers can exploit the

geographical position, climate, human characteristics, flora and fauna of NhaTrang, Da Lat , Ha Long and Sa Pa as geography or biology The students willenjoy participating in learning activities for all sites on the popular tourist spot thatsomeone could have ever been to or seen much on TV The lesson of architectural

culture, history as Unit 14 Wonders of the World (also in Grade 8), teachers can

integrate into that knowledge of history, geography or art The work was built bywhom? where? of which country? geographic location like? Or that work -related events, historical figures? or its highlights the beauty of architecture, art

worthy to be remembered? Lessons related to the environment such as Unit 16 Man and the environment (in grade 6), Unit 10 Recycling (In grade 8), Unit 6 The environment (in grade 9), teachers are able to integrate knowledge from disciplines

geography, biology or civic education by giving students learn aboutenvironmental concepts? The current environmental situation in Vietnam? In yourarea? How polluted is it? What should you do to protect the environment, reducepollution? some actions you have done?

When teaching English, teachers can be able to integrate knowledge from differentsubjects and when such integration, lessons will be lively, to attract more students.Since then students will actively study when presented his insights in other areas,other subjects in English class To present fluent knowledge of other subjects andknowledge from reality, they should try to learn vocabulary; grammar can expresswell, and so that they are actively learning, learn English a stimulating and active

To catch up with new trends as well as recognizing the potential of students, Iinstalled several integrated lessons to help them receive lessons interesting andmore confident when using the language expressing their knowledge So I choose

the topic: "Integrating environmental education in English through Unit 6 read

in Tieng Anh 9".

Through this writing, I want to create excitement for the children to study and tounderstand the importance of the environment So they will take the right actions

to help protect the environment

PART II: IMPLEMENTATION

a sustainable future of the country

Specifying and implementing the policy of the Party and the State, January 31st

2005, the Minister of Education and Training has issued directives to strengthenenvironmental protection education, determination key tasks for 2010 andsubsequent years for general education is to equip students with the knowledge andskills about the environment and environmental protection in the form of matching

in the subject and through activities extracurricular activities, modeling green –clean - beauty school matching regions

2 Practical backgrounds.

a About water resources:

Population growth and increased economic activity and task management of waterresources are not well made in Vietnam are being overuse and pollution

Pollution of water resources in HaNam

In recent times, in Vietnam took place water scarcity Central parts of the statehave expressed desertification, coastal areas salinisation and salinisation In thecentral region, the Central Highlands, Southeast and other areas has occurredtension of water Cities like Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Hai Phong, Bien Hoa contaminated water to a critical level Environment water in some rivers such asRiver Bridge (in Tonkin), Thi Vai River, Saigon River, Vam Co Dong river (in theSoutheast) were heavily contaminated Freshwater resources for production anddaily life of people is increasingly diminishing Not only in Vietnam but alsoworldwide shortage of fresh water also become a serious problem

Lack of fresh water

b About forest resource:

Forests are valuable resources of our country Forests as climate regulation, soilprotection, water retention and groundwater is a repository of valuable geneticresources However, the forest cover of the country in the long term downwardtrend, many forests are seriously damaged, making the ecological environment isreversed, the habitat of the animals shrunk, endangered rare animals

Indiscriminate deforestation

c About the air

In Vietnam, the air pollution is a pressing problem for the urban environment,industrial and handicraft villages

Vietnam is among 10 countries with the most polluted air in the world, according to

an annual study of the environment by the US universities perform and announced atthe World Economic Forum in Davos recently

Air pollution caused by dust in Hanoi

Cement factory dust in Anh Son white painting of sky

d About garbage:

Along with the development of the economy and life growing up, the amount ofwaste is also increasingly more The increase in population, urbanization situationquickly has increased the amount of waste

Huge amounts of waste daily in big cities

Besides the environmental reality of national stature, then in locally where they liveenvironment issues are also coming to an alarm Especially in the populated areasthrough as the marketplace, trench, sewer Despite sanitation teams regularlycleaned but because people are not aware of self to the community, clean indoor butnot be interested in the streets

Garbage everywhere

Also infrastructure did not meet the requirements, as well as a garbage dump wheregarbage processing technique does not ensure pollution caused phenomenon

Over 5 ha landfills are likely to cause pollution of drinking water for the inhabitants of the Quynh Tan,

Quynh Luu district.

Even in school, although thoroughly, regular reminders of school administrators aswell as the total charge of the daily and labor department are assigned alternatelyclass, direct labor to clean up But not so self conscious of some students to stay inschool grounds, corridors and school building as well as in the classroom still see thearrival of the garbage

Students littering

3 Solution and implementation:

Today, life is growing increasingly modern, materialistic life and spirit of thepeople increasingly improved, however, opposed to it, environmental pollution hascomplex developments Environmental pollution is a serious problem not only for

a certain region, but everywhere, both rural and urban, mountainous and coastalregion, both the water and the air

To overcome the consequences on the need for a long time, continuity, now andcosts a lot of effort and money Consequently, environmental protection shouldbegin by educating the sense of environmental protection, especially for pupils andstudents Currently, education awareness, equipped with knowledge aboutenvironmental protection in schools is not focused properly, environmentalprotection has not been considered as a subject at the high school level, exceptsome universities and colleges have specialized courses on the environment ThisDivision has only been integrated in biology, civics, geography and someextracurricular lessons Some environmental contest was held in the school, ingeneral, are still largely formal Therefore, awareness of environmental protection

so clearly not formed in school classes and students

For the education of environmental awareness in schools is effective, when theeducation of environmental protection can not be a class, they need to educatestudents starting in the job, the smallest actions planting and care of trees; Hygieneschools; organizes environmental forum for students to participate in a democraticmanner; educate students consciously save energy such as electricity and water,encourage students with innovative ideas recycling

In the process of composing lectures, teacher meticulously thorough preparation ofvisual aids and activities on how to stimulate the dynamism, interest in learning instudents Also encouragement the children involved in the process of preparing allthe scrap using at home, at school they collected to create useful items

3.1 Procedures:

Step 1 Select Unit 6: Lesson 4: Read in Tieng Anh 9 to study

Step 2 Design or collect a selection of pictures/ teaching aids that we could use topresent our lesson

Step 3 Write a lesson plan for that unit

Step 4 Teach a lesson and takes notes on how it is carried out

Step 5 Evaluate of the effectiveness of our lesson

Step 6 Write a report about our teaching experience

3.2 Data analysis

Analyze: Unit 6: Lesson 4: Read in Tieng Anh 9

This is a poem written about the environment This topic is very high educational inschool, but rarely transmit because poetic language is very confusing The poemtalks about outing of the mother and child He was asking her mother what wouldhappen if the environment is polluted His mother replied that everything will

become very bad, the world would like a waste, any treasure would disappear, thefield will be filled with garbage, the river will be the white foam dong Thatmeans mothers explained to him the harmful effects of environmental pollutants Itdid not make sense Reading this we seem to think that the sense of the good mother.But no, after he explained about the harmful effects of environmental pollutants, themother told the boy to throw the grass drinking soda over the fence just to help tobring home After hearing the boy seemed to disagree, not only child support, themother also tells the boy is silly because only other people pollute the environmentare the only mother he just throw a few cans of soda are not saturate anywhere Yourmother can not fault him at all, they are just trying to enjoy their holidays only.

3.3 Teach the lesson and take notes on how it is carried out.

Before presenting the lesson, I asked students to prepare the lesson in goups Eachgroup will made me some products made from garbage to show in front of theclass This will help students to feel more interesting and more united inunderstanding the lessons together Then I taught this lesson for 120 students inour school And I followed the lesson plan I had made and carried out all thethings I prepared with my students

I organized the following activities:

Activity 1: The reading skill was taught in this lesson, a poem about environment,

so before reading I improve a video about environmental problem in city, letstudents watch and answer some easy questions to find the message from it in order

to lead them to the topir of the reading task

Some photos from video

Activity 2: Teaching vocabularies: To help students understand the passage easily,

I provided some new words by using pictures and synonyms before they practicedreading for detail

Activity 3: Matching: In order to check vocabulary understanding and save the time

I choose task 1(p.51) in text book in this activity

Activity 4: True or False statements.

In order to make students have the first thought about the content of the readingpassages I asked students: “Look at the picture and answer some questions Is thisplace clean or not? Is that polluted or unpolluted?” I got some quick answers andthen I give them T/F statements to guess more about the reading task After someminutes I asked students to give their prediction

Activity 5: Answer the questions:

To check student’s comprehension we asked them to do task b(p.51) in pairs

“Read the poem about the environment carefully and answer the followingquestions Then write the answers in your exercise books.” While they did, I wentaround the class to give the help if necessary and control their working After that

we checked their answers by letting them play a game “Lucky numbers” Duringthis activity, all the students took part in the activity cheerfully and we found thatthis is the best way to check the students’ understanding and to motivate students

in learning, especially students can easily give the answers without shyness

Activity 6: Discussion

We give students this exercise in order to reinforce and consolidate theinformation about the environment and to relate the poem with students’experiences and backgrounds and interest about environmental protection I askedthem to work in 2 big groups:

Group 1: What could you do in your school to minimize pollution?

Group 2: What could you do in your house to minimize pollution?

While I moved around the class to give the help if necessary However, I foundthat only good students took part in this activity and the bad ones kept quiet or nomore ideas

Ater a few minutes, I collected their idea by asking the representative to presentinfront of the class Then I gave them a mindmap that I prepared

A) Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:

- Understand the poem with some old English by doing matchingexercise and answering questions

   - Know how to protect environment at home, at school, in publicplaces and know remind their friends commit

B) Language focus: - Vocabulary: end up, junk-yard, folk, stream, treasure, foam,

hedge

- Grammar / Structure:

C) Teaching aids: text book, extraboard, pictures, flash cards, tape.

D) Teaching skill: reading

? Do you like watching film?

? Do you like watching film now?

- Gets students to watch a short film

carefully and find out the answer: What

do you think about these people’s

actions?

- Plays video Then asks:

? What can you see on this film?

? Is there a garbage bin? Are there any

people?

? Are these people throwing the trush

into the garbage bin?

? Are they doing the right or wrong?

? Should you throw things like that?

Why?

- Leads in: Nowadays, our environment

is polluted Who polluted it? How do

they polluted it? Today, we’ll read a

poem about environment pollution in

- Calls on some students to read

- Corrects students’ mistakes

1 New words:

+ junk-yard (n): bãi phế thải+ treasure (n): kho báu+ foam (n): bọt

+ end up (v): kết thúc+ stream (n): dòng suối+ hedge (n): hàng rào+ folk (n): người (Tiếng Anh cổ)

- Read after teacher

*) Checking vocabulary: “Matching”

2 Matching:

- match

- Asks students to close their notebooks

and do matching (p 51)

- Corrects and gives the keys

- Sets the scene: Shows the picture on

screen:

? Who are they?

? Where are they?

? Are they having a picnic?

? Is this place clean or not?

? Is that polluted or unpolluted?

- “So what do they think about pollution?

They think the same or different We will

read the following funny poem to know

Before reading, I would like you to do T/

F prediction”

a The world will end up like junk-yard

if the pollution goes on

b The fields will be clean with plastics

and tins

c The streams will not be covered with

foam

d The mother thinks she and her son

pollutes the environment

- Read and check

4 Answer the quetions:

- Work in pairs

- Play game in group