- Students are required to work in pairs to answer the following questions:.. + Have you ever heard of Marie Curie.[r]
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LESSON 1 READING
I Objectives:
1 Education aims: Famous scientists especially about Marie Curie, and admire her.
2 Knowledge: a General knowledge: - Background knowledge about Marie Curie.
b Language:- the past simple tense - vocabulary concerning study
3 Skills: - Reading: Matching and True or False exercise and answer the
questions - Speaking: discuss in pairs and in groups
II Anticipated problems: Students may lack of information about Marie Curie.
III Teaching Aids: textbook, chalk, board.
IV Procedures:
1 Warm-up: Network (5 mins)
+ Aims: to raise sts' interest in the reading text.
- Ask students to work in groups of 3-4 students
- Ask the students to give a list of famous scientists and
their inventions
- Move round to check the activity
- Ask them to work in 4 minutes and then get feedback
The group which has the longest list will be the winner
2 Before you read: (10 mins)
- Aims; to introduce the content of the text and provide sts
with some new words.
- Students are required to work in pairs to answer the
following questions:
+ Have you ever heard of Marie Curie?
+ What do you know about her?
- give the correct information
- Read and write new words on the board
+ background (n): + ease (v):
+ mature (adj): full-grown + interrupt (v):
+ humanitarian (adj): + humane (adj):
+ tragic(adj): + ambitious(adj): +
atomic(adj):
- Read each word 3 times and ask the sts to repeat it
- Listen and help the sts to read the words correctly
3 While you read: (20 mins)
- Aims: Sts practise reading and do the tasks
+ Task 1: Matching.
- Ask the students to read the passage independently and
match the words or phrases in A with their meaning in B
- Tell sts to refer to Vocabulary for help and encourage
them try to guess the meanings of the words in the context
of the reading
- Ask them to compare the answers with their friends
- Call on some sts to read and explain their answers aloud
in front of the class
- Give feedback and correct answers:
+ Task 2: True or False.
- Ask the sts to read the passage more carefully and decide
- Work in groups
- Some Students report orally
- Discuss in pairs and then answer the questions
- Some sts stand up to answer
- Listen to the teacher and Copy down
- Repeat the words
- Work in pairs to check for each other
- 1 student/ 1 time
- Work individually
- Discuss in pairs to share their ideas -Listen and self-correct the exercise
- Copy down
* Key:
1.c 2 e 3 a 4 d 5 b
- listen to the teacher
- Students do the work individually
- Discuss the answers with their partners
- some sts do orally while others watch
+ Key:
1 T
2 F( Her dream was to become a scientist)
Trang 2whether the statements are true (T) or false (F) Correct the
false information
- Ask the sts to highlight or underline the information in
the passage that helps the students to find the correct
answers
- Move round to help sts if necessary, then ask them to
share their answers with their partners
- Ask some sts to give answers
- Listen and help the students to do the exercise correctly
+ Task 3: Answering questions.
- Ask students to work in pairs to answer the questions
- Tell the students to compare their answers with other
pairs Let them discuss and correct for one another
- Call some pairs of students to read aloud the questions
and answers in front of the class
- Feedback and give correct answers
4 After you read: (9 mins)
- Aims: to check sts' understanding and to summarize the
text.
- Ask presentatives of some groups to report in front of the
whole class
- Listen andgive remarks
5 Homework: (1 min)
- Ask students to write a passage of about 60 words about a
famous scientist
3 T
4 F (She married Pierre Curie in 1895)
5 T
- Self-correct the work
Key:
1.Marie Curie was born in Warsaw on November 7,1867
2.She was a brilliant and mature students
3 She work as a tutor to save money for a study tour abroad.
4.She was awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for determining the atomic weight of radium.
5 No it wasn’t her real joy was “ easing human suffering
- work in groups orally and try to find the evidence in the reading text
- Some sts report in front of the ckass
- Others listen to their friends and give remarks
- Listen to the teacher