While-speaking 20 minutes * Activity 1: Distinguish facts and opinion - Ask Ss to work in pairs to read the statements and decide if each one describes fact or opinion?. - Walk round and[r]
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Unit 16 the wonders of the world
Lesson 2 Speaking
Preparing date…
Teaching date: B1………B2………B3………B6…………
A Aims and Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
- Express their own ideas about facts and opinions
- Use facts and opinions to talk about features of man-made places
B Teaching Aids: Textbook, handouts.
C Procedures:
1 Warm-up (5 minutes)
T Give some information about the Great Pyramid
1) 20 years 2) 147 metres 3) 230m2
4) 2 millions
- Asks Ss to work individual after that check up
couples
- Correct answer
- T Today we practice speaking about The Great
Pyramid
- Answer freely 1) It took them over 20 years to complete The Great Pyramid or The Great Pyramid was build over 20 years 2) The Great Pyramid was 147 m high 3) The Great Pyramid was built on base
of 230m2
4) The structure consisted of 2 millions blocks of stone
2 Pre-speaking (8 minutes)
+ Lead-in:
- T sticks the picture of the Great Pyramid on the
board and asks Ss:
1 What is this?
2 Is the Great Pyramid high?
3 What do you think about the Great Pyramid? - T
writes on the board:
+ The Great Pyramid is high
+ The Great Pyramid is great
- T asks Ss: Which sentence describes fact and which
one describes opinion?
+ Expected answers: The first describes fact and the
second describes opinion
- Answer the questions
1 The Great Pyramid
2 Yes
3 I think it is great
3 While-speaking (20 minutes)
* Activity 1: Distinguish facts and opinion
- Ask Ss to work in pairs to read the statements and
decide if each one describes fact or opinion
- Walk round and help them, give the some
information
+ Feedback: Teacher asks some Ss to give their
- Work in pairs to read the statements and decide if each one describes fact or opinion
- Suggested answers:
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+ Useful language:
- To express opinions and facts:
I think/ I am sure
It is said/ believed/ thought that
They might/ may / can have
Probably/ Maybe they
Example:
I think the Great Pyramid was built by an
enormous giant
- Ask Ss to work in pairs and tell their partner about
some facts and opinions of the Great Pyramid of
Giza, using the information in Task 1
Example:
- Walk round and help them, give the some
information
+ Feedback: Teacher asks some Ss to give their
answers
- Facts: 2, 3, 4
- Opinions: 1, 5, 6, 7
- Put the sentences
Fact: The Great Pyramid of Giza was
147 metres high
Opinion: The Great Pyramid is believed
to have been built over a 20-year period
4 Post –speaking (10 minutes)
* Group work
- Ask Ss to discuss possible answers to the following
questions
- Walk round and help them, give the some
information
- Listen to Ss and collect their mistakes for indirect
correction
- T gives feedback
- Discuss possible answers to the following questions
+ Suggestions:
- The Great Pyramid of Giza was built
by an Egyptian Pharaoh Khufu
- It is said that it took him a 20-year period to complete it
- They are now many theories about it One theory says the stones were taken from the site on the Giza Plateau, about
5 km away, and one other theory says the stones were transported from the east side of the Nile River from a distance of over 500 miles
- These stones might have been transported on wooden sleds
5 Homework (2 minutes)
- Write a report on what your friend told you about
how the Great Pyramid was built in activity above.-
Prepare the next part
- Work at home
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