Unit 11 National Park Reading

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LESSON OUTLINE

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5 min Warm-up - To get Ss involved

- To give Ss background of national park

T  Ss

Ss  Ss

7 min Pre-teaching

- Discuss

- Eliciting vocabulary

- Check vocabulary

- To help Ss brainstorm the topic

- Give Ss background before reading.

- Memory vocabulary

Ss  Ss

T  Ss

T  Ss

18 min While- reading

1 Task1

2 Task 2

Practice scanning & guessing meaning of words

T  Ss

Ss  Ss

12 min Post – reading

Interview

Practice speaking skill Ss  Ss

LESSON PLAN: READING

UNIT 11: NATIONAL PARK

Name of the lesson: National Park

Class: 10th form

Students in charge: Võ Thị Thu Hiền

Huỳnh Thị Cẩm Loan Bạch Thị Như Thảo

Time allotted : 45 minutes

Aims: To help students practice reading skill:

 Scan for specific information

 Guessing the meaning of words based on contexts

 Use vocabulary items related to the topic

Skills: Reading for specific information

Sub skill: Speaking about the topic

Anticipated problems: Ss may not know much about the marine life and related

vocabulary, so T should be ready to give explanation

Teaching aids: Textbook, pictures, posters…

PROCEDURE

* Warm-up (5 min.): Play game “competition”

 T sticks the diagram of pictures on the blackboard (The diagram includes 5 pictures of animals)

 T asks Ss to work in groups of 5-7 and give each group a set of five flash cards with the names of the animals in English

 T asks Ss to look at the pictures on the diagram and match the names with appropriate pictures

 The quickest group will go to the blackboard and can stick the names on the answer sheet

 The group who finds the correct answer in the shortest time is the winner

* Check instructions:

T asks

- What are you going to do?

- What will you do first?

- Who will be the winner?

Expected answers:

 Play a game

 Look at the pictures and match the names with suitable ones

 The quickest group has correct answers

* Lead-in:

T: Can you guess the topic today?

Ss: National park

Stage I: PRE-READING (7 min.)

1 Discussing the questions:

 T asks Ss work in pairs to discuss the questions following:

 Have you ever been to a national park?

 Can you name some of the national parks in Vietnam and in the world?

 What trees and animals can you see in a national park?

 T goes around providing help

 T asks some Ss to present their answers

2 Eliciting vocabulary:

- Rainforest (n): rừng mưa nhiệt đới Eliciting technique  Translation How do you say “rừng mưa nhiệt đới” in English?

- Tropical (a): thuộc về nhiệt đới  Example Amazon forest, Cuc Phuong forest are examples of tropical thick

forests Do you know meaning of “tropical”?

- Establish (v): thành lập Synonym What’s another word for “set up”?

- Toxic (a): độc  Explanation Toxic chemicals make water polluted What does “toxic” mean?

3 Checking vocabulary: Rub out and remember

STAGE II: WHILE-READING (18 min)

Setting the scene: You are going to read three passages about three national parks

While you are reading, do the tasks below:

Task 1: Word guessing

Instruction: You are required to find the word in the passage that can match with

the given definition

1 ………… : to have something inside

2 .………… : be situated in a place

3 ………… : a state of continuing to live or exist

4 ………… : related to an area near a tropical area

5 ………… : a state of being polluted

Checking instruction:

T asks

- What are you going to do?

- What do you do next?

Expected answers:

 Find words in the passage

 Match them with definition given

 T asks Ss to read through the passage silently.

 After Ss finished reading the passage, T gives Ss some strategies to do the task

 First, read through the definition provided in the task to identify kind

of word to match each:

Ex: ………: to have something inside

Should be a Verb

 Second, go back to the passage and find the suitable words to fill blanks

 T goes around to help Ss (if any)

 T asks Ss to check their answer in pairs

 T calls Ss to present and explain their answers

 T gives Ss the correct answer

Answer key:

1 contain

2 be located

3 survival

4 sub-tropical

5 contamination

Task 2: Answering the questions

Instruction: You are to read the passage again and answer the question

1 What is the area of the rainforest in Cuc Phuong National Park?

2 When should the tourists go to this park? And why?

3 What do the visitors go to the Nairobi National Park for?

4 Where is Everglades National Park located?

5 Why is Everglades National Park in danger?

 T asks Ss how to do this task

 T gives Ss some strategies to do the task

 Skim each question to understand it

 Underline the key words

 Look for the question words E.g., what percentage  find the number

 Decide what information you need to find in the text.

 Read the passage carefully to find the answer You can use your own word

 T asks Ss to work individually

 T asks Ss to discuss their answers with their peers

 T calls some Ss to write their answer on the blackboard and asks them explain

 T feedbacks and gives the correct answer

Answer key:

1 200 km 2

2 During the dry season from October to April/ because the rainy season is over

3 They can learn about the habits of animals, how to recognize the different species of animals and plants, and how one species is dependent upon another for survival.

4 In the southeastern United States

5 Because of the toxic levels of chemical in the water

STAGE 3: POST-READING

Role-play: Interview

 T draws a table on the blackboard

 T asks Ss to take a piece of paper and draw the table

Instruction 1: You are required to interview different friends to find out their

favorite national park(s) and the reasons why they like them, then complete the table.

Checking instruction 1:

T asks

- Is my instruction clear

enough?

- What are you going to do?

- What do you do next?

Expected answers

 Yes

 Interview

 Complete the table

 T divides the class into 2 groups The first and second rows belong to group

1, and the third and fourth ones belong to group 2

 T asks Ss of the first row turn back to the second one, similar to the third row

Instruction 2: All of you will interview the opposite partner, and then each of you

in the second and fourth rows will move to the next position to make another interview

Checking instructions 2:

T asks

- Who belongs to the first and third

rows, raise your hands?

- Do you move after making an

interview?

- Ss of the second and fourth rows,

what will you do after each

interview?

Expected answers

 Ss raise their hands

 No

 Move to the next position

 Very good, let’s start

 After finishing the interviews, T calls some of Ss to report their findings in front of the whole class

 Write a passage using the information about their friend(s) when Ss make

interviews in class

 Prepare for new lesson

APPENDIX

1 Diagram of pictures for Warm-up

P2 P3

P4 P5

2 Answer sheet:

Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4

NATIONAL PARK

3 Answer key for warm-up:

4 Text for while-reading

P1 …………

P2 …………

P3 …………

P4 …………

P5 …………

P1 …………

P2 …………

P3 …………

P4 …………

P5 …………

P1 …………

P2 …………

P3 …………

P4 …………

P5 …………

P1 ………… P2 ………… P3 ………… P4 ………… P5 …………

P1 BIRD P2 ZEBRA P3 BUTTERFLY P4 ELEPHANT P5 MONKEY

Unit 11 NATIONAL PARKS

A READING

Cuc Phuong National Park, Vietnam

Cuc Phuong National Park is located 160

kilometres south west of Hanoi It is the

first of Vietnam’s nine national parks to be

established, and it contains over 200

square kilometres of rainforest Tourists go

there to study butterflies, visit caves, hike

mountains and look at the 1,000-year-old tree The best time to visit the park is during the dry season, from October to April, when the rainy season is over.

Nairobi National Park, Kenya

Nairobi National Park is Kenya’s smallest park, but you may be surprised at the large variety of animals that live there Visitors, especially children, can go there to learn how to recognize the different species of animals and plants They also learn about the habits of animals and how one species is dependent upon another for survival An interesting feature of this park

is the Orphanage, where lots of orphaned or abandoned animals are taken care of.

Everglades National Park, USA

Everglades National Park is a sub-tropical

wilderness in the southeastern United

States This national park is special

because it has plants and animals from

both tropical and temperate zones Due to

an increase in population and the use of nearby land for farming, there are toxic levels of chemicals in the water This contamination has threatened the park and many of the animals in it