Educational aim: Students can read and know about Marie Curie and make questions and answer them well2. Skills: Reading for general or specific information.[r]
Trang 1Unit 3: People s Back Ground ’
LESSON 1- Reading
I Objectives:
1 Educational aim: Students can read and know about Marie Curie and
make questions and answer them well
2 Knowledge:
- General knowledge:
- Language:
- New words: Words to describe people’s back ground: name, age, place/date of birth, education, job, interest
3 Skills: Reading for general or specific information
II Method: Integrated, mainly communicative
III Teaching materials: text books, board, chalks….
IV Procedures:
activities
Notes
Warm up - T asks some questions:
1 Have you ever heard of Marie Curie?
2 What do you know about her?
* Marie Curie - scientist - famous -physicist -cancer -Nobel
Answer the questions
Before you
read
Vocabulary Pre-teach -T explains some new words and phrases
+ general education(n): giáo dục phổ thông + brilliant(a):clever, quick at learning + mature (a) : fully-grown/ developed in character and power ( trưởng thành) + harbour the dream of: foster/ keep in mind the deam of doing sth ( nuôi ước mơ trở thành….)
+ flying colours: leave university with excellent grade ( tốt nghiệp đại học loại ưu) + private tutor (n):gia sư
+ to interrupt(v): gián đoạn
Write down Listen and repeat
Trang 2+PhD: Doctor of Phylosophy: tiến sĩ +tragic death: die painfully: cái chết đau khổ
+to be awarded: được trao giải +atomic weight of radium: trọng lượng nguyên tử
+humanitarian wish : mong muốn nhân đạo
- T asks sts to listen and repeat
- T asks some sts to read again
While you
read
- T asks sts open the book and read silently while teacher reads aloud and correctly
Task 1:Matching -T asks sts to read the passage and match
the words or phrases in A with their meaning in B
- T asks sts to try to guess the meanings of the words in the context of the reading
- T asks sts to work in pairs to do the task within 3 mins
- After 3 mins, T asks sts to read and explain their answers in front of the class
- T gives comments and corrects their answers
Suggested answer
1.c 2.e 3.a 4.d 5.b
Task 2
- T asks sts to read through all the statements in task 2
Work in pairs
Trang 3- T asks read the passage more carefully and
decide whether the statements are true (T)
or false (F) Correct the false information
-T asks sts to underline the information in
the passage that helps them to find the
correct answers
- T asks sts to work in pairs within 3 mins
- After 3mins, T asks them to give their
answers and their explaining
- T comments and corrects their answers if
necessary
Suggested answers
1.T
2.F (Her dream was to become a scientist)
3T
4F (She married Pierre Curie in 1895)
5T
Task 3
- T asks sts to read through all the questions
in task 3 before reading the text again
-T asks sts to work in groups to answer the
questions within 3 mins
- After that, T asks some groups to write
their answers on the board
- T comments and corrects their answers if
necessary
Suggested answer
1 Marie Curie was born in Warsaw on
November 7, 1867
Work in pairs
Work in groups
Trang 42 She was a brilliant and mature student.
3 She worked as a private 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”
After you
read
- T guides the good sts to retell the
background of MC, using these questions at home:
1 Where was she born? when?
2 Why did she become so famous?
3 What made her become famous?
4 Who was her husband?
5 When did she found radium?
6 When did she die?
Good sts write down and do at home
Wrapping - T summarizes the main points of the
lesson
- T asks sts to learn all the new words, do all the tasks at home and prepare for speaking lesson
Listen to the teacher