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Lesson 3 Listening
@ Objectives: By the end of the lesson, ss will be able to listen and understand about people’s life expectancy in the future by deciding True / False and answering the questions
@ Teaching aids: Posters, pictures, extra boards, cassette tape
@ Procedure:
I WARM – UP: (5’) Multiple Choice
- setting up the activity: asking ss to try to pick out the
word which is pronounced differently from the others.
1 A
predict
B eating C healthy D early
2ø A
nobody
B
themselve s
C
exercise
D general
3 A
cigarette
B
expectancy
C
eradicate
D
impossible
4 A
cancer
B factor C fatal D improve
5 A
according
B
advantage
C century D
important
- controlling + congratulating the winners
-leading into the new lesson: “In the listening section
today, you’ll listen to the interview about people’s life
expectancy.”
II BEFORE YOU LISTEN: ( 12’)
1 Pre – teach: (eliciting / modelling / recording)
1 ▫curable (adj.) = ▫treatable: có thể chữa trị (synonym)
2 (a) cente▫narian : người sống lâu trăm tuổi (picture)
3 e▫ternal (adj.): trường cửu, vĩnh hằng (situation)
4 (to) ▫mushroom: mọc nhanh như nấm (situation)
5 (to) bring under con▫trol = (to) con▫trol : kiểm sóat
(explanation)
- checking: Multiple Choice
1 Fatal diseases like AIDS and cancer can now
be
A curable B treatable
C untreatable D A & B
2.AIDS will also under control
- participating in the activity in groups
- writing on board
* Expected answers:
- listening
- listening and trying to guess the words
- repeating in chorus and individuals
- copying into notebooks
- looking at the poster
- sharing in groups
- Choosing the best answer
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C to bring D bringing
3 A is a person who lives over 100 years
A scientist B secretary
C centenarian D interviewer
4 The population in VN today
A is mushrooming B mushroom
C has mushroomed D mushroomed
5 So far, life is just a science fiction But with
the advance of science, it’s not impossible.
A eternal B medical
C confidence D effect
2 Set the scene: by using pictures and asking ss to
discuss the question: Which of the following factors do
you think might help people have a long and healthy life?
1 eating healthy food
2 doing exercise
3 laughing a lot
4 going to bed early
5 drinking a lot
6 eating a lot of meat
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3 Prediction:
True / False Prediction ( Task 1, p 89)
- using an extra board
- setting up the activity : asking ss to try to guess whether
the statements are true or false.
1 Nobody can predict how long we will be
able to live in the 21st century
2 People’s general health will improve
because they eat a lot of mushrooms
3 Nowadays, if people look after
themselves, they can live to be 90
4 Within 30 years, 80% of cancers will
be curable
5 Eternal life isn’t impossible
- monitoring
III WHILE YOU LISTEN ( 17’)
1 Activity 1 : Listen and check
- playing the cassette player the first time
- asking if there is any answer
- playing the cassette player the second time
- monitoring / giving feedbacks
- congratulating the winner
- listening and participating in building the lesson
- looking at the poster
- guessing individually
- sharing with partners
- sharing in groups
- giving the evidence:
1 Many scientists predict that in the 21th century people will be living into the incredible age of 130
2 The centenarian population is mushrooming as our general health improves
3 A century ago, average age expectancy
in Europe was 45 Today, providing we look after ourselves, eat more healthily, cut down on things like butter, alcohol and
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Multiple Choice ( Task 2, p 89)
- setting up the activity : asking ss to “listen again and try
to answer the question about the interview.”
1 What are the factors that help people have
longer life expectancy?
A cutting down on things like butter, alcohol and
cigarettes
B looking after ourselves
C eating more healthily D all are correct
2 Which factor is the most important one?
A the development in medical science.
B the development in telecommunication.
C the inventions of labour-saving devices.
D The growth of world population.
3 Why is the development in medical science the
most important factor?
A Because eternal life is just science fiction.
B Because people just die from the diseases that
affect people when they get older.
C Because scientists are trying to find cures for
fatal diseases like cancers and AIDS.
D Because centenarian population is mushrooming
as our general health improves
4 What will we have been able to do about AIDS
in ten years’ time?
A It will not be curable.
B It will be brought under control.
C It will no longer be a fatal disease.
D Nobody will be died of it.
5 How many percentages are cancers curable
nowadays?
A 15% B 50% C 80% D 90%
- introducing the game : Lucky Numbers
- playing the cassette player (twice)
- monitoring / giving feedbacks
- congratulating the winner
IV AFTER YOU LISTEN : (10’)
Read the passage carefully then choose the word
that best fits the space:
Many scientists predict that in the 21st century
people (1) into the incredible age of 130
They have reasons to be (2) about that In
cigarettes, we can add nearly 35 years to that figure.
- looking at the poster
- guessing individually
- sharing with partners
- participating in the game in groups
- looking at the poster
- guessing individually
- sharing with partners
- sharing in groups
- Choosing the best answer
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fact that the centenarian population is mushrooming as
our general health improves A century ago, average
age (3) in Europe was 45 Today, providing we
look after ourselves, eat more healthily, cut down on
things like butter, alcohol and cigarettes, we can add
nearly 35 years to that figure But (4) factor
is the development in medical science Nobody die
from old age, but just from diseases that affect people
when they get older Nowadays, about 50% of cancers
are curable, and within 30 years this will increase to
80% And in ten years’ time, AIDS will also brought
under control, too so far, eternal life is just science
fiction, but with the advance (5) science, it’s
not impossible
1 A live B lived C have lived D will be living
2 A confident B confidently
C unconfident D confidence
3 A centenarian B fiction
C life expectancy D research
4 A important B as important
C more important D the most important
5 A in B of C with D on
- monitoring / assisting / conducting feedbacks
V HOMEWORK: (3’) asking ss to :
- do the sentences in their notebooks
Mistake Recognition
1.Now that I’ve become old, I can’t read as quick as I
A B C
used to.
D
2 Despite he is old, he wants to travel around the
A B C Dworld
3 If she is ten years younger, she’d apply for that job
A B C D
4 Many people stopped to smoke cigarettes because
A B
smoking is harmful for their health.
C D
5 Who will look at the cat when I am on business?
A B C D
- prepare Lesson 4 Writing
- listening and taking notes into their notebooks
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