Date:
Class:
I) AIMS AND OBJECTIVES :
-Educational aim:. Through the unit , Sts will have the sense of protecting sea animals.
-Knowledge:
+ General knowledge: Ss will listen to a paragraph about the whales, their measurements &
their living environment
+ Language: Ask and answer WH- questions, choose T or F.
II) TEACHING AIDS : a tape, a cassette player and a card board of “Warm-up”.
III) METHOD : Listening -Communicative approach .
IV) PROCEDURE :
Teacher’s and students’ activities contents WARM –UP: (5ms)
-Ss close their books .
-T shows the chart, containing 2 columns A and B.
- Ss fill in the chart with what they should do or shouldn’t do to protect sea animals.
-T introduces new lesson: Today we’re going to listen about whales: their length and weight, their feeding ground and food & the reason for
What we should do What we shouldn’t do
1.
2.
3.
1.
2.
3.
*Solutions :
1.Place plastic bags in proper dustbins 2.(Governments)
Don’t let people sell whale products 3.Be banned .
4.Punish captain.
5.Clean up the water before running into the sea .
protecting them.
BEFORE YOU LISTEN: (10ms)
-Ss practice in pairs,asking and answering these two questions:
1. Do you think whales are fish? Why(not)?
2. Why do people keep hunting whales?
- T lets Ss read the words ( will appear) in the tape script, pay attention to the way of pronunciation and the meanings (if any).
- Ss read these words in silent.
-T corrects them before the class.
WHILE YOU LISTEN:
Task1: (10ms)
- T asks Ss to read the sentences given and underline the important words.
- T explains the sentences that Ss don’t understand.
- T turns on the cassette player twice.
- Ss work in individual.
- T asks Ss to answer and correct them.
Task 2: (10ms)
- T asks Ss to read these 6 questions in advance and find out important words.
- T suggests some main expressions:
The length and weight.
Why - feed in the cold ocean.
What- good feeding grounds.
What-main reasons- decrease whale population.
What happen- didn’t take any measures to protect.
- T turns on the cassette player twice.
- Ss work in groups to discuss and prepare.
-While listening, good Ss can repeat the whole answer, bad Ss can repeat one word they’ve listened.
AFTER YOU LISTEN:
Task3: (10ms)
-Ss work in groups to share the information they’ve listened about whales:
+ their length and weight
+ their feeding grounds and food + the reasons for protecting whales
-T asks one S of each group to report to the
Vocabulary:
Activity 1:
Suggested answers:
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.
Activity 2: Listen and repeat
-mammal (n): animals that give birth to live babies and feed their young on milk.
-krill(n): tiny shellfish
- migrate(v): move from one place to live in another
-decrease(v) ≠ increase(v) . Answer keys:
1.F 2.T 3.T 4.F 5.T
Suggested answers:
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 South Pacific are their good feeding 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, whale would disappear forever .
class what his group has discussed.
-T corrects these reports before class.
HOMEWORK: (2ms) - Learn by heart new words, rewrite some whales’ special features.
- Prepare “ Writing”.
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UNIT 9 : UNDERSEA WORLD
LESSON 4 : WRITING
PERIOD : Date:
Class:
I) AIMS :
-Educational aim: Ss will have the love of sea animals.
-Knowledge:
+ General knowledge: Through the unit , Ss will know about the sperm whales and their special features.
+ Language: Ss know how to interpret the information from the table into a paragraph.
II) TEACHING AIDS : a card board of “Warm-up”, a picture of a dolphin.
III) METHOD : Communicative approach . IV) PROCEDURE :
Teacher’s and students’ activities contents WARM –UP: (5ms)
-Sts close their books .
-T asks the Ss to play jumbled words:
PRMES, EAHLWS, REA, THE, IGSTEGB, NMLSAIA, NO, ERHTA, HTAT, HVEA,ETHET.
-T introduces new lesson: Today we’re going to study about the sperm whales and dolphins & their special features.
BEFORE YOU WRITE: (8ms) Task 1:
Activity 1:
- T explains the new words and expressions.
- Ss open their books and read in silent the description.(3 ms)
WHILE YOU WRITE:
Task1: (10ms) Activity 2:
- Ss work in groups to fill in the table( page 100).
Suggested answers:
Sperm whales are the biggest animals on earth that have teeth.
Vocabulary:
-sperm whale -carnivore(n) - diet (n): food
-male(n)/(a) ≠ female (n)/(a) -calf(n): young sperm whale
-trap(n ) entrap(v) entrapment(n)
-gestation(n) -due to +V-ing -squid(n):
-off spring:
- T walks round to help .
-.T may suggests them by asking questions:
1) Where can sperm whales be found?
2) Which water do they prefer?
3) Would you tell me the length and the weight of a male /female whale?
4) What do they eat?
5) How long is a gestation period?
6) How many years can whales be?
7) What are their special features?
8) Why should people be concerned about endangered whales?
-T corrects these information before class.
Task 2: (10ms)
- T reminds Ss of referring to the description in task 1
- Ss Practice in groups to write the description for dolphins .( each group must have a secretary ) - T goes round to help them or gives the meanings of new words. (if any )
POST-SPEAKING:
-T asks one S of each group to report to the class what his group has discussed.
-T corrects these reports before class.
Suggested answers:
Range &
Habitat
All Oceans
Prefer waters with high squid
populations Size
Mafe:18m in length : 54.000 kg in weight Femafe:12m in length :17.000 kg in weight
Feeding
Carnivores; eat mainly squid
Eat up to 1.500kg of food daily
Off spring
Give birth to one calf every 5—7 years .
Gestation period :14-19 months Life Span Up to 60-70 years Special
Features
Biggest animals that have teeth on Earth .
Have the largest brain of all mammals Conservation
Concerns
At risk due to
hunting and
accidental fishing net entrapment . Suggested answers:
Dolphins are not fish. They are mammals that live in the water.
Dolphins are among the most intelligent animals on Earth . Although they can be found in all oceans in the world, dolphins prefer coastal waters and bays. The size of dolphins vary greatly. The smallest dolphin is just about 50kg in weigh and 1.2 meters in length while the largest one can weigh up to 8.200kg and is 10 meters long . Dolphins are carnivores and they eat mainly fish . A female dolphin gives birth to one calf every two years after a gestation period of eleven to twelve months. A dolphin can normally live from twenty-five to sixty-five years and some species of dolphins can even live longer.
Dolphin populations are at risk due to the pollution of their habitat and
accidental entrapment in fishing nets .
HOMEWORK: (2ms) -Learn by heart new words and expressions.
- Write a passage of approximately 100 words about a sea animal they like.
- Prepare “ Language focus”.
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