Period: 37 Date: 18/01/2014
Unit 6 : THE ENVIRONMENT
Lesson 1: GETTING STARTED & LISTEN AND READ
LANGUAGE FOCUS 2

I. Aim
By the end of the lesson, Students will be able to understand the reading about environment problems and related words / phrases and the use adverb
clauses of reason: as, because and since .
- Teaching aids: text book, cassette, posters about environment or pictures
- Anticipated problems: It may be difficult for Ss to learn and use vocabulary about environment.
II. Procedure
1. Warm up
- Brainstorming: Ss work in group of 3 to 4. Ask Ss to discuss and make a list of people activities that destroy the environment.
- Suggested answers: throw garbage in the street, cut down trees, leave the lights on when unnecessary.
2. Vocabulary
- garbage dump (n) place where the garbage is stored:bãi đổ rác,nơi chứa rác
- deforestation (n): cutting down the trees in the forest : sự phá rừng
- dynamite fishing(n)fishing that uses explosive substances: đánh cá bằng chất nổ
- spraying pesticides (n) It uses to kill insects on the farm: phun thuốc trừ sâu
- (to) spoil (translation) làm hư hỏng, làm hại
Checking: Ask Ss to make sentences with the words they have learned.
3. Pre reading
- Get Ss to match 6 pictures with 6 cuewords in the textbook .
4. While reading
- 1st reading: Ask Ss to read silently and then check their matching.
- 2nd reading: Ss give correct answers:
a. air pollution b. spraying pesticides c. garbage dump
d. water pollution e. deforestation f. dynamite fishing
- Tell Ss to listen and read the passage. Call on some Ss to read again.
- Give these words and get Ss to read after: shore, provide, whole, disappointed.
- Ask Ss to match the names in colunm A with the tasks in colunm B. Then write the full answers:
- Group 1 + f. walk along the shore
- Group 2 + e. check the sand
- Group 3 + b. check among the rocks
- Mr. Jones + a. collect all the bags and take them to the garbage dump.
- Mrs. Smith + c. provide a picnic lunch for everyone.
- Mr. Brown + d. give out the bags
* Play a game : Using flowers with the questions in it
1. Does Mr Jones collect all the bags and take them to the garbage dump?

2. Should group 2 check among the rocks?
3. What does group 3 have to check?
4. Which group walks along the shore?
5. Please sing a song about the environment?
6. Did Mrs Smith provide a picnick lunch for everyone?
7. Who give out the bags?
8. Please read a poem or tell a short story about environment?
5. Post reading
Let Ss discuss the questions 6 and 7
6. Have you ever done anything similar? If yes, what did you do? Where did you do it? -> Yes, we have. We often collect the garbage and sweep up our school yard. Our school clearn uo the city streets, especially on days before great national holidays.
7. If the pollution continues, what might happen? -> If the pollution continues, our world becomes a harmful and unpleasant to live.
T gives model sentences about Adverb clauses of reason
Ba is tired because / as / since he stayed up late watching TV
- Concept check: Which is main clause? What is itsduty? What position does it stand? What function is because / as / since ? Who gives form:
Main Clause + because / as / since + subordinate clause
Use: Conjunctions: because, as , since , for (bởi vì) , now that / because now (bởi vì bây giờ) -> As / Since thường đứng ở đầu câu
- Rút gọn mệnh đề trạng ngữ chỉ nguyên nhân thành cụm giới từ because of , due to , owing to (bởi vì) + N / V-ing khi 2 S giống nhau
because + Pro + be + Adj -> because of + Poss.adj (of Pro) + N (of Adj)
because + N + be + Adj -> Because of + the + Adj + N .
because + S + V + O/A -> due to + Gerund (of V) + O/A.
- Khi mệnh đề nguyên nhân chỉ hành động xẩy ra trước đổi thành:Having PII
T explains how to do the language focus 2 (P.54)
Give some sentences to get Ss to do in the textbook.
Ss make sentences
6. Homework
- Learn vocabulary by heart.