English 11- Unit 6 – Global Warming - Reading
Date of preparation: July 15th
Date of teaching: July 18th
Unit 6: Global Warming
Lesson 3: Reading
1. Objectives:
- By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
+ Read for general ideas and specific information about the causes and effects of global
warming.
+ Understand some words and phrases related to the topic of global warming.
2. Skills:
+ Main skill: reading.
+ Sub-skill: speaking and listening.
3. Methods:
+ The whole lesson: Integrated, mainly communicative.
4. Teaching aids:
+ Teacher: Textbook, lesson plan, handout, pieces of papers and projector.
+ Students: Textbook, notebook.
5. Anticipated problems:
Problems
Solutions
Some students may need help during pair
The teacher should be ready to offer help to
work, group work or discussion.
them.
Students may lack knowledge about some
Provide students with the meaning and
lexical items.
pronunciation of words.
Students may have underdeveloped reading,
- Let students read the text again (if
speaking and co-operating skills.
necessary).
- Create a comfortable and encouraging
environment for students to speak.
- Encourage students to work in pairs, in
groups so that they can help each other.
- Provide feedback and help if necessary.
6. Evaluation:
+ The teacher may give good marks or prizes to students or groups who actively
participate in the activities.
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7. Procedures:
Time/Stages
I. Warm up
5 minutes
Aims
Teacher’s activities
To lead the
students in the
new lesson
*Kim’s Game (individual work)
- Ask students to work individually and
explain the rules of the game:
+ There are 6 pictures related to
environmental issues on the screen in 10
seconds.
+ Students try to guess the name of
environmental issues.
+ Students write the answers in 2 minutes.
- Ask 2 students to go to the board and
write the answers.
- Check the answers.
- Give comments and good marks to the
best student.
Students’
activities
- Listen to the
rules.
- Write the
answers.
Suggested answers:
1. deforestation
2. pesticides
3. chemical fertilizers
4. vehicle exhaust
5. exhaust smoke
6. trash/ rubbish
- Lead Ss in the new lesson:
II. Prereading
13 minutes
Unit 6: Global Warming
Lesson 3: Reading
Global warming is real
To introduce
1. Discussion (pair-work)
the topic of the - Have students look at 3 pictures on
reading and get screen.
students
- Ask students to work in pair to discuss the - Discuss and
involved in the question:
answer.
lesson.
What environmental problems do you see
in the pictures?
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Suggested answers:
1. Factories are burning fossil fuels that
increases the amount of CO2 in the
atmosphere.
2. Running cars are sending smoke and
fumes into the atmosphere.
3. Trees are being cut down.
To provide
some lexical
items and
useful
languages
2. Vocabulary (whole class)
- catastrophic /ˌkætəˈstrɒfɪk/ (adj) : thảm
họa
- famine /ˈfæmɪn/(n): nạn đói kém
- absorb /əbˈzɔːb/ (v): thấm, hút
- capture /ˈkæptʃə(r)/ (v): bắt lấy, chụp lấy,
giữ
- atmosphere /ˈætməsfɪə(r)/(n): khí quyển
- ecosystem /`i:kəʊsistəm/ (n): hệ sinh thái
- diversity /daɪˈvɜːsəti/(n): sự đa dạng
- Use pictures to teach vocabulary.
- Read and ask students to repeat the words
again.
- Have students take notes.
*Check vocabulary by matching
(Handout).
- Ask students to work in pairs to match the
word with its definition within 30 seconds.
Words
1. absorb
2. catastrophic
3. ecosystem
4. capture
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- Listen,
answer,
repeat and
take notes.
- Do the task
Definitions
a. disastrous
b. catch and keep
somebody/
something in a place
c. take in ( gas,
liquid, heat) from
the space or surface
around
d. all living
creatures and plants
in a certain area and
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the relations
between them.
5. diversity
e. when many
people do not have
enough food and
many die
6. famine
f. the fact of having
many different types
of people, animals,
plants or things
III. Whilereading
17 minutes
To develop
reading skills
for general
information
Suggested answers:
1- c 2-a 3-d 4-b 5-f 6-e
- Call on two Ss to go to the board and
write the answers, then let them check the
partner’s work.
- Give comments and good marks to the
best student.
1. Choosing main idea (individual work)
- Ask students to open the book (p.10),
read through the texts quickly and tell the
main idea of the texts.
- Give their
answers.
- Listen and
take notes
- Read the
text and
choose main
idea.
A. Global warming is the rise in the
world’s temperature
B. Global warming leads to the extinction
of millions of species in the world
C. Global warming is mainly caused by
humans and has negative impacts on
people’s lives
D. People have to work together to reduce
the risks of global warming
- Call some students to give the answer and
explain which sentence gives them the
information.
- Check with the whole class.
- Listen and
Suggested answers: c
take notes.
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- To practise
reading for
specific
information.
- To practise
scanning.
- To develop
students'
knowledge of
vocabulary for
global
warming.
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2. Answering questions. (Individual
work)
- Ask students to work individually to read - Do
the questions and underline the key words, individually
then share their ideas with a partners who
sits next to them.
- Correct the answer as a class.
- Share and
1. Who is mainly responsible for global
discuss with
warming?
partners
2. What happens when coal is burnt to
about the key
make electricity?
words.
3. How does deforestation contribute to
global warming?
4. What could happen to people when sea
levels rise?
5. How can high temperatures affect
crops?
6. Why is widespread loss of species a
matter of great concern for humans?
- Ask students to scan the texts, locate the
key words to find the answer for each the
question with the partner who sits behind
them.
*Game: Lucky star (Group work)
- Divide the class into two big teams, and
have students in each team take turns to
choose a number to check the answers.
- Ask one student to lead the game and one
student to assist.
- Observe and give help when necessary.
- Do the task
in pairs.
- Join the
game
Suggested answers:
1. Humans/People/We are responsible.
2. It releases a large amount of carbon
dioxide into the atmosphere.
3. Deforestation disrupts the process of
absorbing and capturing CO2 from the
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atmosphere, which causes the world’s
temperature to rise.
4. They could lose their homes.
5. They can reduce crop harvests globally.
6. Because humans cannot exist without
species diversity on Earth.
III. Post- To help Ss
* Presenting (group work)
reading
use the ideas Set the scene: Next week, we are going to
and language have “Hes’s Ambassador Contest”- The
7 minutes
in the reading Final round. Our class will choose the best
to talk about student to take part in this contest.
- Call on 4 representatives of the four
solutions to
groups to present their group’s projects of
- Present
the causes
and effects of the solutions to protect our school
environment which were prepared at home.
global
- Give students one minute to prepare.
warming.
- Ask the rest of students to be the judges
- Check Ss’
understanding to find the best student.
- Listen
of the reading - Give feedback and marks to the groups
performing well.
passage.
- To help some
Ss enhance
presentation
skills.
To consolidate * Creating mindmaps (group work)
- Work in
IV.
- Ask Ss to create mindmaps about what
groups
Consolidation what students
have learnt in
they have learnt in groups.
- Give
the lesson
- Call on one representative of one group to answer.
2 minutes
present.
To review the
- Listen and
V.
(Individual work)
lesson they
- Learn vocabulary by making sentences
take notes
Homework
have learnt and with the words.
prepare for the - Ask Ss to write a paragraph about the
1 minute
next lesson:
solutions to the causes and effects of global
Speaking
warming and prepare for speaking lesson.
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