unit 10 : LIFE ON OTHER PLANETS
I. Objectives :
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
- to talk about possibility - to seek information.
- to write an exposition.
II. Teaching aids : text book, poster, picture, cards, cassette.
III. Procedure :
Lesson 1 Getting started Listen and Read
Reading a text about UFOs for details to complete the notes.
Lesson 2 Speak Practicing speaking about Mars.
Lesson 3 Read Reading a text about a space trip.
Lesson 4 Write Writing an exposition about the existence of UFOs.
Lesson 5 Listen
Language Focus 1 Listening to the description of the moon for details and further practice in modal verbs may, might.
Lesson 6 Language Focus 2,
3, 4 Further practice in conditional sentences type 1 and type 2.
Date of preparing: ...
Period: 63
UNIT 10 : LIFE ON OTHER PLANETS LESSON 1:
- Getting started- Listen and read
A. Objectives : By the end of the lesson, students will be able to know more about UFOs.
B. Teaching aids : Text book, pictures , poster.
C. Methods: Guessing Words, Chatting, Guessing the meaning of the words, Complete the notes, Discussion.
D. Contents :
I. ORGANIZATION (1 minute)
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Steps/ Activities Content
STEP 2 : WARM UP
(5 minutes)
Guessing Words:- Have students guess three words.
- Give students the number of the letters of each word and give the definitions so that students can guess the words.
1) This word has 12 letters. It is the opposite of identified.
2) This word has 6 letters. It means moving through the air as a bird does.
3) This word has 7 letters. It is in form. It means a thing that can be seen or touched.
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STEP 3 : NEW LESSON
(35minutes)
I. Pre Reading:1. Chatting:
- Show the pictures on page 83 to the students and ask them some questions about UFOs.
- What can you see in the pictures?
- What do we call them in Vietnamese?
- Do you know another word for UFOs?
( Flying Saucer )
- Do you think they really exist?
- Have you ever seen any films on UFOs?
- Do you want to see a UFOs? What do you want to know about UFOs?
- If you saw a UFOs, what would you do?
2.Vocabulary : ( picture )
( visual, picture )
( definition: anything that makes clear, show or proves) ( definition: person on other planets )
( synonym: catch ( by force ) arrest ) ( translation )
( translation ) Sts : - listen.
- listen and repeat (chorally then individually).
- copy.
* Checking vocabulary:
- Have students repeat the words chorally then rub out word but leave the circles. Remember to let students repeat before and after rubbing out each word.
- Go on until students can remember the words.
Answer keys:
1) Unidetified 2) Flying
3)UFOs ( Vật thể bay không xác định )
1.Vocabulary :
- spacecraft ( n ): tàu vũ trụ - meteor ( n ): sao băng - evidence ( n ): bằng chứng - alien ( n ): người ở hành tinh khác
- capture ( v ): bắt
- device ( n ): dụng cụ, thiết bị - claim ( v ): đòi quyền, nhận là.
- Get students to write the words again in the correct circles.
II. While Reading :
1. Guessing the meaning of the words
- Get students to read the text and find the words in the text that have meanings given words in the text that have the meanings given in * 2a on page 84:
- Ask students to work in pair.
- Give feedback.
2. Complete the notes
- Have students to do exercise 2b on page 84.
- Get students to read the text again and complete the notes. They have to work individually then compare with their partners.
- Call on some students to read aloud their sentences.
* Answer keys:
UFOs Sightings
a) An aircraft, a weather balloon or a meteor can be mistaken for an alien spacecraft.
b) In 1947, a pilot saw nine large round objects traveling at about 2,800 meters an hour.
c) There were over 1,500 UFO sightings worldwide in 1952.
d) In 1954, a woman and her children saw a UFO above their house.
e) A farmer saw an egg - shaped object in one of his fields and also aliens collecting soil samples in 1964.
f) In 1971, two men claimed they were captured by aliens and taken aboard a spacecraft.
g) A pilot and his plane disappeared after sighting a UFO in 1978.
h) In 1981, a Frenchman reported that he saw a plate - like device at a treetop 30 meters away from his garden.
III. Post Reading :
2. Reading :
* 2a on page 84 Answer keys:
- proof, support = evidence - falling star or shooting star =
meteor
- unknown/ strange people or thing = aliens
- bringing together or gathering
= collecting
- caught as a prisoner = captured - became impossible to see =
disappeared
* 2b on page 84.
Discussion:
- Have the whole class discuss the topic “UFOs”.
- Choose a good student to be the leader.
- Get the leader to make a summary of the evidence of the existence of UFOs and then discuss with his/ her friends.
- Give the leader some questions for him/ her to ask his/
her friends.
+ Do you believe in Kenneth Arnold or the woman who saw a UFO above her house?
+ Have you ever seen a picture of an alien? Can you imagine what the aliens are like? Are they small or big?
+ Are they intelligent? ( If yes ) Why do you think so?
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STEP 4 : SUMMARY
(2 minutes)
Reading about UFOs.STEP 5 : HOMEWORK
(2 minutes)
- Have students write the notes on page 84 in their notebooks.
3. Homework :
E. Evaluation :
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