I. OBJECTIVES: By the end of this lesson, students will be able to: talk about space travel history and life on a space station
1. Knowledge:
a. Vocabulary: vocabulary related to astronomy and space travel b. Grammar: Past simple and past perfect (review)
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2. Competences: Groupwork, independent working, pairwork, linguistic competence, cooperative learning and communicative competence.
3. Qualities: Ss will be more responsible for and be more aware of discovering and developing space to travel.
II. TEACHING AIDS
1. Materials: Textbooks , plan.
2. Equipment: computer, projector.
III. PROCEDURE
1. Checking: During the lesson 2. New lesson:
Teacher’s and students’ activities Content 1. Warm up
Aim: To warm up the class and lead in the new lesson Content: do the following tasks and practise skills
Organization
- T write “The international Space Station – ISS”
on the board and asks Ss if they know anything about it.
- T shows the photo of the ISS, Have Ss think how the astronauts live on the ISS. Write the list on the board.
Expected outcome Group word and presentation
2. Presentation
Aim: Ss can know some vocabulary related to astronomy and space travel Content: do the following tasks and practise skills
Organization
T goes through the extra vocabulary with students, if they don’t know -> T teaches some words
Check vocabulary
Expected outcome
* New words
- attach (v) : buộc, gài - maintenance (n) : tình trạng - crew (n) : Phi hành đoàn
- rinseless (adj): không cần xả nước
- Mission Control Center: Trung tâm kiểm soát chuyến đi
3. Practice
Aim: Ss can understand and do exercises Content: do the following tasks and practise skills
Organization Activity 1:
-Ask Ss to work in pairs to complete the exercise after they have looked at the pictures (taking a shower, sleeping in a sleeping bag, listening to music, pouring salt).
Expected outcome
1. Put a tick () next to the things you think ISS astronauts do and cross (x) next to the things they don’t. Then read the text and
Accept all answers from Ss and remember to ask them to explain their decisions. Do not give corrective feedback at this point.
Now ask Ss to read the text. Tell them to pay special attention to any information that helps them to check
their earlier answers. Tell them to notice any new words as well.
Now give correction.
Activity 2:
Have Ss work individually and then in pairs for this task.
- After Ss have finished, ask them to study the three photos of the 155 in the textbook and connect these photos with the information in the text.
If time allows, T may provide some of the latest photos and blog posts produced by astronauts who are living aboard the ISS They are available at WWW.blog.nasa.gov.
Now ask Ss to come back to the question list which has been created earlier on the board and try to answer them with the information from this lesson. If there are some questions that cannot be answered with the text, encourage Ss to find more about them by themselves (using the Internet, books, etc.). T may provide the NASA blog URL above as an additional resource.
Activity 3:
This activity can be organised as a debate.
Have Ss work in small groups and agree on the three items they
will bring to the ISS for each need in 2 . When all groups are ready with their list, the class gets together
and decides on a new three-item list. Each group has to persuade the others that their items should be on this list, rather than those of the other groups.
check your answers.
1.D. sleeping in space
2. E. morning routine in space.
3. B. working in space 4. C. eating in space 5. A. time off in space.
2. Life on the ISS. Match the subheadings with the paragraphs of the text in 1.
3.Work in groups. Imagine that you are going to spend one month abroad the ISS. Discuss and agree on three things that your team will bring to the ISS to meet each need in 2. Then share your list with other groups and explain your decision.
Activity 4:
Have Ss work individually and write down a personal thing they will take aboard the ISS because they cannot live without it. Then ask Ss to work in pairs to share what they have written. Ss need to explain to their partner why this item is so important to them.
4. Now work in individually and write on the piece of paper one thing you will take with you to the ISS as a personal item because you can’t live without it. Then tell your partner what you have written.
4. Further practice
Aim: Ss can know more information about Vietnamese in Space Content: do the following tasks and practise skills
Organization T asks some questions
Ss answer the questions
Expected outcome *Question for the good students:
Who was the first Vietnamese in Space?Tell somethings about him if you know?
*Question for the bad students:
Do you know Pham Tuan?
3. Guides for homework
- T: guide Ss how to do exercises in workbook and what to prepare for the new lesson - Ss: write down in their notebook.
- Write new words then learn them by heart.
- Copy the exercise into notebooks.
Week: 29 Period 86