- Takes time for Ss to work in groups - Goes around to offer help - Calls on some Ss to present their groups’ idea - Gives comment Suggested answers: + raise an awareness of the problems[r]
Trang 1LESSON PLAN Unit7: World population
Speaking
1 Class description:
- 40 students (Ss) in 11A2 class at Ngo Thi Nham high school
2 Level:
- Intermediate
3 Time: 45 m
4 Objectives:
By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to: talk about the causes of population explosion, problems of population booms and solutions
to these problems
5 Assumed knowledge:
- Ss have already known some vocabulary items related to the topic
6 Anticipated problem(s):
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- There may be time left, so the teacher (T) should spend more time for Ss doing task 4
- Ss may not have enough vocabulary to talk about the topic, so T should be ready to provide help
7 Teaching aids:
- Books, handouts, visual aids, chalks and board
8 Procedures:
3 minutes Warm
up
To lead in the topic
Eliciting technique
*Picture description:
- Shows Ss the prepared picture
- Asks Ss some questions:
+ What can you see in the picture?
Suggested answer: There is a big
family with parents and their five children They are poor and look so sad
+ What does the picture tell you?
Suggested answer: The picture
tells us about the poverty It is one
of the problems of overpopulation
- Elicits the answers from Ss
- Introduces the topic:
Overpopulation
- See the picture
- Answer the questions
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own ideas about causes
of population explosion
- Step by step
going to put the following causes to overpopulation in order of
importance and explain your decision.
- Asks Ss to read through the causes provided on page 83 and makes sure that Ss understand these statements
- Give Ss instructions:
Task 1: Work in pairs Read the
causes of population explosion Put them in order of importance and explain why.
□ Fewer children die at birth
□ People are not aware of the problem of overpopulation
□ People are not properly educated
□ People believe that having many children means happiness
□ Religion doesn’t encourage people to have fewer children
□ Many people believe that having
a large family is a form of insurance
- Takes time for Ss to work
- Goes around and provides help
- Calls some pairs to present their ideas
- Gives comment and introduces
- Listen to T
- Work in pairs
- Answer to T
explain in Vietnamese
if necessary
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+ In my point of view, …….
+ In my opinion, ………….
+ To my mind, ………
+ As far as I’m concerned,
…………
+ I think that ……….
+ It would seem/ appear to me that ……….
7-9
minutes
Task 2 To help Ss
express their opinion about effects of overpopulation - Step by step
- Give Ss instruction: You are going
to work in pairs to list the problems facing poor and overpopulated countries.
- Asks Ss to read the useful
language on page 83
- Explains some new words in the
useful language
- Reminds Ss about matching the words/ phrases on the left with the words/ phrases on the right
- Give Ss instructions: Work in
pairs List the problems of poor and overpopulated countries.
- Takes time for Ss to work in pairs
- Goes around and provides help
- Calls some pairs to report their
- Listen to T
- Work in pairs
- Answer to T
- T can explain in Vietnamese
if necessary
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answers
- Comments Ss’ answer
Suggested answers:
+ poor living condition + low living standard + not enough food + lack/ shortage of school/ hospital/
teacher/ doctor/ nurse + social evils
+ illiteracy + unemployment + crime
+ social conflict and War + traffic jam
+ species extinction + loss of fresh water + loss natural habitat + global warming + pollution + climate change + epidemic
- Listen to T
10-12
minutes
Task 3 To help Ss
express their opinion about solutions of overpopulation
- Step by step
- Translation
- Gives Ss instructions: Now you
will work in groups of 4 to find out the solutions to the problems of overpopulation.
- Asks Ss to read the useful
- Listen to T - T can
explain in Vietnamese
if necessary
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language and pre-teaches some words/ phrases:
+ exercise/ implement (v) thực thi,
áp dụng + carry out (phr v) tiến hành + reward and punishment policy:
chính sách thưởng phạt
- Asks Ss to do the task Ss may work out other solutions
- Takes time for Ss to work in groups
- Goes around to offer help
- Calls on some Ss to present their groups’ idea
- Gives comment
Suggested answers:
+ raise an awareness of the problems of overpopulation + raise the people’s living standard + exercise/ implement reward and punishment policy
+ carry out population education program/ family planning program + use birth control methods
+ eradicate illiteracy + educate people about the dangers
of overpopulation + implement strictly the policy
- Work in groups of 4
- Answer to T
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10-13
minutes
Task 4 To create
chances for Ss
to present their opinion about the effects and solutions of overpopulation
- Step by step - Gives Ss instructions: Now you
are going to work in groups of 4 to talk about the problems of
overpopulation and offer solutions, using the results of Tasks 2 and 3.
- Reminds Ss to give a short presentation of the problems of population explosion and the solutions to them
- Shows the poster with useful languages for Ss
- Gives the list of transition signals for Ss:
+ first/ firstly, second, next, etc + the first one, the second one, etc + the first problem is that…., the next solution is that………, etc
- Delivers handouts of the model structure of Ss talk to help them make reference
Nowadays, overpopulated countries are facing up to serious problems The first one is
……….… … The second one is ……… And
- Listen to T - T can
explain in Vietnamese
if necessary
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the next one is
……….
To solve these problems, the government should
………
Besides, people have to
………
and ………
- Takes time for Ss to work in groups
- Goes around to observe, provides help if necessary and collects Ss’
typical mistakes and errors
- Calls on some group representatives to present
- Gives comment on Ss’
presentation and corrects collected mistakes
- Work in groups
- Present their group work
- Listen to T
1 minute Wrap-up - Summarizes the main points of the
lesson
- Asks Ss to prepare the next lesson
- Listen to T