Giáo án Tiếng Anh 10 - Unit 11: National parks - Lesson 1: Reading

LESSON PLAN
Date: 02/02/2015
Grade: 10
Class: 10A2
Lesson: unit 11: National Parks
Type of lesson: Language Focus
Student’s name: Võ Khánh Linh 
Student’s code: DAV111011
Teacher’s name: Phan Trần Quốc Trí
UNIT 11: NATIONAL PARKS
Lesson 1: Reading
Objectives:
Education aims: 
By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to know what can endanger to National Parks in Vietnam and in the world.
Students can recognize the importance of natural conservation.
Knowledge:
General knowledge: Students can know special features of Cuc Phuong National Park in Vietnam as well as some famous national parks in the world.
Language: 
Vocabulary about National Parks.
Ways to describe a place.
Skills:
Reading: Read for general information as well as specific details by using skimming and scanning skills.
Guess the meaning of the words in contexts.
Discuss in groups and in pairs to do the tasks.
Teacher’ preparation:
Textbook, potster, and handouts.
Student’s preparation: textbook
Procedure:
Time
Content
T and ss’ activities
5’
I. WARM - UP: KIM’S GAME
Rainforest
 Trees
 Animals
 Caves
 Plants
 Fauna
 Flora
 Located 
 Sub-tropical
 Farming 
- T shows the name of the game to class: “Kim’s Game”.
- T divides class into 2 teams: A and B
- T gives instruction: “I will show you list of words on the screen. You have 30 seconds to see and remember these words. Then, you will go to the board and rewrite these words in 1 minute. Remember 1 student - 1 word. After 1 minute, which team has more correct answers will be the winner”.
- Ss listen carefully to the teacher.
- T checks ss’ understanding:
+ Will you have 2 minutes to rewrite the words on the board?
+ Can 1 student write 2 words?
+ How long?
+ Do you work in group or in pair?
- Ss answer T’s questions.
- Ss join in the game.
- Time is off, T asks Ss to show their answers
- Ss go to the board and write the answers
- T corrects with Ss
2’
J Questions:
1. Have you ever travel to a park?
2. What can you see in a park?
J Set the scene:
“Most of us know the park, and today we will learn about the bigger park where conserve lots of animals and trees. It is NATIONAL PARKS”
“Many of you haven’t ever been to a national park. Today, we visit Cuc Phuong and two famous national parks in the world through Unit 11 – National Parks, lesson Reading”
- T asks ss one by one question.
- T elicits ss to answer the questions.
- Ss answer one by one question.
- From ss’ answers, T sets the scene.
- Ss listen carefully to T
8’
3’
II. PRE – READING:
* Pre – teach vocabulary:
- rainforest (n): rừng nhiệt đới (picture) 
- orphan (n): trẻ mồ côi 
(explanation: children have no parents)
à orphanage (n): trại trẻ mồ côi
- abandon (v): bỏ rơi (synonym with give up) 
- wilderness (n): vùng hoang vu
(picture + explanation: a place that no one lives) 
- temperate zones (n): vùng ôn đới (translation)
- toxic (n): chất độc
(explanation: cholesterol, 3MCPD, chất bảo quản)
Checking vocabulary: Rub out and remember
*Pre- activity: Prediction:
“Imaging, you are in the national park, What can you see?”
No endangered species
The different species of animals and plants
Rainforest
 Study lots of things such as caves, mountains, the 1000-year-old tree 
- T elicits new words for ss through vocabulary teaching techniques.
- Ss guess the words.
- T models the new words.
- Ss repeat them chorally and individually.
- T checks new words’ meanings and stresses.
- T asks ss to copy down new words into their notebooks.
- Ss take notes. 
-T gives instruction: “I have some phases here, You will work individually in 2 minutes to think which one that belong to the national park, put the tick √ , if not, put the tick X”.
- T checks the instructions:
+ Do you work in pair or individually?
+ will you stick the phases
+ How long?
-T asks Ss to show their idea
- Ss give their ideas
7’
10’
III. WHILE – READING:
Task 1: Matching
Match the words in A with their possible definitions in B
A
B
1. establish 
a) to start an organization that is intended to continue for a long time.
2. contamination
b) to have something inside
3. sub – tropical 
c) a group/groups of animals and plans
4. species
d) a state of continuing to live or exist
5. survival
e) related to an area near a tropical area
6. contain
f) a state of being polluted
* Answers: 
1. a 2. f 3. e 4. c 5. d 6. b
2. Task 2: Choose the best answer
* Questions:
1. Where is Cuc Phuong National Park located?
A. It is over 200 square km.
B. It is located 160 Km2 south west of Hanoi.
C. In rainforest
D. Not mention
2. What can you see in the Nairobi National Park?
A. The large variety of animals.
B. The different species of animals and plants.
C. The Orphanage
D. All are correct
3. What does the word “there” in paragraph 2 line 2 mean?
A. Kenya
B. The large variety of animals
C. Visitors
D. Nairobi National Park
4. Which place is a tropical and temperate zone?
A. Rainforest
B. Everglades National Park
C. Nairobi National Park
D. The Orphanage
5. What can people learn in Nairobi National Park?
A. How to recognize the different species of animals and plants.
B. How one species is independent upon another for survival.
C. The toxic levels of chemicals in the water have threatened the park. 
D. They only learn about the habits of animals.
* Checking by the small game: Lucky animals
* Suggested answers:
1.B 3.D 5.A
2.D 4.B 
- T delivers handouts to ss.
- T runs through Task 1.
- T asks ss to work in pairs and scan the passages in textbook in 4 minutes to do task 1.
- Ss do task 1
- T goes around the class to help ss if necessary.
- After 4 minutes, T calls some pairs to give their answers.
- Ss give their answers to T.
- T shows the answers and checks.
- Ss take notes.
- T delivers handouts to ss.
- T runs through the questions in the handout.
- T divides class into 2 teams: A and B
- T gives instruction: “There are 7 Animals. 2 of them will be lucky animals and the others will be numbers from 1 – 5, represent for the questions in your handout. Two teams will take turns to choose an animal. If you answer correctly, you’ll get 10 marks for your team. If not, no mark for your team. If you choose “Lucky animal”, you’ll get 10 marks and don’t need to answer. The winner is the team who gets higher marks”.
- Checks ss’ understanding:
+ Do you choose 1 animal?
+ Do you have 10 marks if you answer correctly?
+ Do you answer the question if you choose “Lucky animal”?
- Ss listen carefully.
- Ss follow T’s instruction
- Ss play the game.
- T controls the game, checks the answers and raises the winner.
- T delivers handouts of the answers.
5’
IV. POST – READING: INTERVIEW
* Which of the three national parks would you like to visit most? Why?
 Examples:
-Which of the three national parks would you like to visit most?
→ I like to visit Cuc Phuong National Park
- Why do you like to visit Cuc Phuong National Park?
 → Because I can look at the 1,000-year-old tree.
- T asks Ss to work in pair in 3 minutes
- T gives instruction: “In pair, one ask and one answer the question, then change the role. You can base on the answers of the game in your handouts to find the answer
- T checks ss’ understanding: 
“Do you work individually or in pair?
Will you ask and answer the question?
How long?” 
- T gives an example.
- Ss listen carefully, follow T’s instruction and do the exercise.
- T goes around the class to help ss if necessary.
- After 3 minutes, T calls some ss from some pair come to share their answers.
- Ss present their answers.
- T checks and gives feedback.
2’
V. HOMEWORK:
- Learn vocabulary
- Review the reading passages.
- Prepare new lesson, Speaking, on page 114.
- T shows what ss must do at home.
- T explains carefully what ss will do.
- Ss listen carefully.
- Ss take notes carefully for the homework.
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