Unit 15. Space conquest

TEACHER AND STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES CONTENTS AND BOARD DISPLAY WARM UP:( 5 minutes ) Work in groups.. Matching cards with the pictures.[r]

Haiphong Department of Education and Training

Le Quy Don High School

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Lesson Plan

ENGLISH 11 Unit 15

SPACE CONQUEST

Student teacher: Khoa Thi Mai

Anh Class: 11B1, 11B2 Haiphong, March 11.2016

Date of planning: 19th March.2016

Date of teaching: th March.2016

Unit 15: SPACE CONQUEST

Part A: Reading (p.166)

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

1 Knowledge:

- Vocabulary: read, write and understand words and phrases related to space conquest

+ gravity (n): the pull of the earth

TEACHER AND STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES CONTENTS AND BOARD DISPLAY

WARM UP:(5 minutes) Work individual

-Teacher asks students to look at the pictures in the textbook and

answer the following questions:

1 What do you see in picture 1 & 2?

2 What do you call a person who flies a plane / a spaceship?

3 Between them which job do you prefer? Give reasons for your

answer.

-Teacher requires students to work in pairs and present their ideas

in front of the class

-Teacher goes around the class and helps students

* Expected answers:

1 It’s a plane / a spaceship (spacecraft)

2 A person who flies a plane is called a pilot and a person who

flies a spacecraft is called an astronaut (cosmonaut)

3 I like pilot because I want to travel everywhere

I like to be an astronaut because I want to go the moon /fly into

the space.

Lead – in

-Teacher can ask students some questions to lead in the new lesson:

 In today’s lesson, you are going to read something about Space

Conquest

Monday,13 th March, 2015

Unit 15

SPACE CONQUESTPart A: Reading(p.166)

NEW LESSON

I Pre - read ing : (6 minutes)

-Teacher asks studens to look at the pictures again and answer the

questions above the pictures

-Teacher elicits or explains some new words before reading by

using pictures and synonyms

-Teacher helps students to pronounce the new words

I Pre - read ing

Work individual

* Suggested answers:

1 The first human to fly into space is Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin.

2 The first humans to set foot on the moon are Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.

3 The first Vietnamese to fly into space is Pham Tuan

* Vocabulary +orbit (n) + plane crash (n) + gravity (n): the pull of the earth + cosmonaut (n): astronaut + astronaut (n)

+lift off (v) +mile per hour (n) + orbit (n)

+ psychological tension (n)

- read for specific and general information

- guess the words’ meanings in context

- work in pairs and groups

3 Attitude and competencies:

- know more some basic information about Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, the first human to fly into space

- feel more interested in researching about space

Anticipated problems and solutions:

1 Students may have difficulty in understanding meaning of new words so the teacher should give the meaning

IV Procedure: XX XX XX

XX XX XX

XX XX

Manned (adj) : Có người điều hành

Spacecraft (n) Phi thuyền

Astronaut (n) = cosmonaut: Phi hành gia/ nhà du hành vũ trụ

Mark (v): Đánh dấu

Milestone (n): Bước ngoặt, mốc lịch sử

Project (n): Dự án

Artificial (adj): Nhân tạo

Sputnik / satellite (n): Vệ tinh

Orbit (n): Quỹ đạo

Aboard (n): Boong tàu

- Language: use sentence structures, vocabulary to speak

2 Skills:

- work in pairs and groups

- develop presentation skills

- present in class

3 Attitude and competencies:

- have a positive behave on which they learn

- feel more interested in researching about space

Anticipated problems and solutions:

1 Students may have difficulties in pronouncing some words so teacher should let students practice with their friends

TEACHER AND STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES CONTENTS AND BOARD DISPLAY

WARM UP:(5 minutes) Work in pairs

- Teacher gives out six pictures of famous astronauts in the world

- Teacher asks students to look at the pictures and to answer

1) Who are they?

2) What are their nationalities?

- Teacher calls on some pairs to ask and answer in front of the

class

- Teacher comments and gives suggested answers:

+ Picture 1- He’s Pham Tuan – Vietnamese astronaut

+ Picture 2- He’s Yuri Gararin – Russian cosmonaut

+ Picture 3- He’s Amstrong- American astronaut

+ Picture 4- He’s Buzz Aldrin- American astronaut

+ Picture 5- She’s Valentina Tareshkova – Russian cosmonaut

+ Picture 6- He’s Liwei- Chinese astronaut

- Teacher introduces the new lesson

Lead – in : the new lesson

Monday,13 th March, 2015

Unit 15

SPACE CONQUESTPart B: Speaking(p.166)

NEW LESSON

I Pre - speaking

-Teacher elicits or explains some new words before reading by

using pictures and synonyms

-Teacher helps students' pronounce the new words

II While- speaking

Task 1 Read the following piece of news, then ask and answer

question.

- Teacher asks students to read a piece of news about manned

spacecraft of China, and then asks them to work in pairs and

answer questions about the text

- Teacher goes around offering helps

- Teacher suggesses students to make questions with:

+ When ?

+ What ?

I Pre - speaking Vocabulary:

 Launch (v) into… : Phóng

 Manned (adj) : Có người điều hành

 Spacecraft (n) Phi thuyền

 Astronaut (n) = cosmonaut: Phi hành gia/ nhà du hành vũ trụ

 Mark (v): Đánh dấu

 Milestone (n): Bước ngoặt, mốc lịch sử

 Project (n): Dự án

 Artificial (adj): Nhân tạo

 Sputnik / satellite (n): Vệ tinh

 Orbit (n): Quỹ đạo

 Aboard (n): Boong tàu

II While- speaking

1 Task 1: Work in pairs

* Example:

A: What is the name of china’s first maned spacecraft?

B: Its name’s Shenzhou 5 A: What is the name of the astronaut?

B: His name’s Yang LiweiA: How old was he when he flew into space?

2 Students find it difficult to talk about news so teacher should provide more live examples.

2 Skills:

- listen for listen for specific and general ideas about the first human moon landing, one of the most important historical events in the

20th century

3 Attitude and competencies:

- have a positive attitude towards what they have learn

- understand and actively respond to relevant matters or situations.

II Preparation:

- Teacher:

+ lesson plan

+ handouts

+ laptop

+ speakers

- Students: notebooks, pencils, pens, sub-boards.

Anticipated problems and solutions:

1 Students may not know much about the topic, the structure and related vocabulary, so T should be ready to give explanation.

TEACHER AND STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES CONTENTS AND BOARD DISPLAY

WARM UP:(5 minutes) Work in groups

Matching cards with the pictures

Pictures Cards

Picture 1 Orbiting

Picture 2 The Apollo crew

Picture 3 Walking on the moon

Picture 4 The Moon landing

Picture 5 The first foot print on the Moon

- Teacher devides the class into 3 groups

- Students close the books and representative of each group write

the answer on the board

- Group which gives the correct answers quickly will be the winner

Question:” From the pictures can you guess what topic we are

Listen and repeat: Say STOP if you hear one of these words

from the listening passage

- Teacher asks students to open the book and look at the words

carefully

- Teacher plays the recorder, and stuednts say STOP

- Teacher stops the recorder to check

* Vocabulary

-Teacher asks studens to look at the pictures again and answer the

questions above the pictures

-Teacher elicits or explains some new words before reading by

using pictures and synonyms

-Teacher helps students to pronounce the new words

II While - listening: (24 minutes)

1 Task 1: Circle the words, phrases or number in the listening

passage you hear Congress, 11, suitcase, later, press, the first,

carry, marry, oxygen, chicken, 7, step, spacesuit, Apollo,

cosmonaut, temperature, ect……

2 Task 2: (Task 1 page 173): Decide true /false statements.

- Teacher gives students handouts and has them work in pairs

I Pre - listen ing

II While – listening

1 Task 1: (Work individual)

2 Task 2: (Task 1 page 173): True /false statements.

X X

XX XX

XX XX XX

- Vocabulary: read, write and understand words and phrases which are used to write

+ Career (n) = Job, profession

+ The simple past

+ The simple present

+ The passive voice

2 Skills:

- write a paragraph

3 Attitude and competencies:

- have a positive attitude towards what they have learn

- understand and actively respond to relevant matters or situations.

II Preparation:

- Teacher:

+ lesson plan

+ handouts

+ laptop

+ speakers

- Students: notebooks, pencils, pens, sub-boards.

Anticipated problems and solutions:

1 Students may not know much about the topic, the structure and related vocabulary, so teacher should be ready to giveexplanation.

TEACHER AND STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES CONTENTS AND BOARD DISPLAY

WARM UP:(5 minutes) Work in groups

- Introduces the lesson by using the picture of the astronaut

Neil Amstrong and put questions:

1 Look at the picture and say who he is

2 Is he a Russian or an American astronaut?

3 Who did he set foot on the moon with?

Answer:

1 He is Neil Amstrong

2 He is an American astronaut

3 He set foot on the moon with Buzz Aldrin

Question:” From the pictures can you guess what topic we are

NEW LESSON

I Pre - writing: (6 minutes)

- Teacher asks students to read through Task 1 on page 174

and asks students what a biography is and what to be

included in a biography

- Teacher introduces the lesson

Task 1

- Teacher explains new words if necessary

appoint vice chairman, committee, investigate, challenger

shuttle disaster

- Teacher asks students to do the task

II While - writing: (24 minutes)

II While – writing

Task 2

Neil Amstrong is an American astronaut He is known as the first

Biography

XX XX XX

Unit 15: SPACE CONQUEST

Part E: language Focus (p.175)

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

- use could/ be able to

- write sentences with tag questions

3 Attitude and competencies:

- have a positive attitude towards what they have learn

Anticipated problems and solutions:

1 Students may feel difficult to pronounce the sounds /nt/, /nd/ /n/, /ns/, /nz/ so teacher should let students practice themseveral times

2 Students may not know distinct with "could" and "be able to" so teacher should explain and give the examples for each

of them.

TEACHER AND STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES CONTENTS AND BOARD DISPLAY

WARM UP:(5 minutes)

Game: Find the other part of your life

- Teacher asks two students to vonlunteer to play the game They

should be a boy and a girl The boy and the girl have to stand back

to back

- Teacher asks the boy five questions and all he has to do is to nod

or shake his head to express his agreement or disagreement Then

teacher writes his answers on the board

-Teacher asks the girl the same five questions The girl can say yes

or no to answer If the boy and the girl have more than three same

answers they will become couple of the day

* Suggested questions:

1 Can you swim?

2 Can you sleep 10 hours a day?

3 Can you play a sport?

4 Can you eat durian?

5 Can you sing very well?

Lead – in:

- Teacher asks students if they can use another way to ask the

above questions

Are you able to swim / sing well?

- Teacher leads in the new lesson

Monday,13 th March, 2015

Unit 15

SPACE CONQUESTPart C: Listening(p.172)

NEW LESSON

I Pronunciation (6 minutes)

Activity 1 – Listen and repeat

- Teacher demonstrates the sounds /nt/, /nd/, /nθ/ , /ns/ and /nz/ by

pronouncing them exactly and clearly

- Teacher instructs the ways to pronounce the sounds

- Teacher asks students to pronounce the sounds several times

- Teacher makes sure that students are aware of the difference between the

sounds

Activity 2 – Practise these sentences

- Teacher plays the tape and asks them to repeat

- Teacher calls on some students to repeat the sounds clearly and slowly

- Teacher asks students to work in pairs and practise the sentences

- Teacher introduces peer correction

- Teacher goes around the class and provides help if necessary

II Grammar (10 minutes)

I Pronunciation (6 minutes) Activity 1 – Listen and repeat

the sounds /nt/, /nd/, /nθ/ , /ns/ and /nz/

Activity 2 – Practise sentenceson page 175

II Grammar (10 minutes)

1 Could / be able to