- Ask Ss to give feedback on the board - Ask Ss to listen to it for the last time and Keys: explain why they make True or False 1- The blue whale grows to 30 meters in - Give feedback ag[r]
Trang 1Unit Nine : UNDERSEA WORLD
C:LISTENING
Time: 45 minutes
I Objectives
1 Educational aim: Ss should take part in preserving and protecting the natural
environment
2 Knowledge:
a General knowledge: Through this unit, Ss will be able to get the main ideas to decide
True-False statements and to answer the questions
b Language: Words related to the information about the whale.
II- Skill: Listening for gist and for specific information.
III- Method: Integrated, mainly communication
IV- Teaching aids: Tape, pictures showing the shape of the whale.
V- Procedure:
Teacher’s activities Students’ activities Warm-up ( check the old lesson ) (4mn)
- Ask Ss to give some ways to protect sea
Environment
- Lead to the new lesson
Pre-listening: (10mn)
- Give a picture of whales and asks:
What are they ?
- Write the questions on the board:
1- Do you think whales are fish ? Why (not)
2 Why do people keep hunting whales ?
- Introduce the new words reading in the tape:
- Check Ss’
pronunciation
While listening:(21mn)
* Task 1 :
- Close the books and answer the question
- Close the book and answer:
They are whales
- Work in pairs and give the reason Answers:
Keys:
1 Whales are not fish because they raise their young on milk
2 Because they want to catch whales for food, oil, leather and other products
- Listen and repeat
- Read five sentences and try to get their
Trang 2- Ask Ss to read five sentences
- Walk round for help
- Underline the key word in each sentence:
1 third
2 most
3 warm
4 increase
5 food
- Remind these words reading in the tape
- Ask Ss to listen to the tape for the first time
- Ask Ss to give feedback on the board
- Ask Ss to listen to the tape again for the last
time and explain why they make True or False
- Give feedback again
* Task 1 :
- Ask Ss to read six sentences
- Walk round for help
- Underline the key words or phrases in each
sentence:
1 the length and weight
2 why to feed in the cold ocean
3 what – good feeding grounds
4 what – main reason – decrease whale
population
5 what- groups asked to do
6 what happen – didn’t take any
measures to protect
- Remind these words reading in the tape
- Ask Ss to listen to it for the first time
- Ask Ss to give feedback on the board
- Ask Ss to listen to it for the last time and
explain why they make True or False
- Give feedback again
meaning ( work individually)
- Work individually and compare with the partners
- Give feedback
- Listen again and explain
Keys
1 F 2 T 3 T 4 F 5 T
- Read six sentences and try to get their meaning ( work individually)
- Work individually and compare with the partners
- Give feedback ( Maybe the main ideas)
- Listen again and explain
Keys:
1- The blue whale grows to 30 meters in
length and over 200 tons in weight
2- Because there is a lot of krill-their
favorite food in cold water
3- Cold water in the North and South
Atlantic Ocean and the North and the South Pacific are their good feeding
Trang 3After listening (8mn)
- Ask Ss to work in groups, using the cues:
1 their length and weight
2 their feeding grounds and food
3 the reasons for protecting whales.
- Walk round for help
- Ask some groups to report
- Give feedback if necessary
Homework:
- Write a paragraph ( 40 – 50 words ) to describe
the feature of whales
- Prepare the new lesson:
Comments: (2mn)
grounds
4- Heavy hunting is the main reason for
the decrease in whale population
5- They have asked International
Whaling Commission to stop most whaling
6- If we didn’t take any measures to
protect whales, whales would disappear forever
- Work in group
- Report in front of the class
- Another groups listen and remark