UNIT 6: THE ENVIRONMENT
I. Aim
Helping students:
to ask for and give reasons.
to persuade somebody to do something
to complete a questionnaire
to write a letter of complaint.
II. Language focus:
Adverbs clauses of reason
Adjective + that clause
Conditional sentences type 1.
III. Vocabulary:
Verbs: Objectivities: Nouns:
(to) cover disappointed deforestations garbage
(to) minimize polluted dump hedge
(to) persuade unpolluted dynamite junkyard
(to) prevent environment mass
(to) provide fence pesticide
(to) reduce flow rock
(to) spray fly row
(to) wrap foam sewage
(to) pollute fold trash
Pollution
V. Unit Allocation:
Lesson 1
(1) Before you read.
(2) Listen and Read
(4) Listen.
Reading about the work of a group of conservationists and listening for details to complete the notes.

Lesson 2
(3) Speak
Practice in persuading somebody doing something


Lesson 3
Language Focus 1-3
Revision of some adjectives and adverbs and practice in adjective + that clause


Lesson 4
(5) Read
Reading a poem for details about the environment.


Lesson 5
(6) Write
Practice in writing a letter of complaint.


Lesson 6
Language Focus 2-5
Practice in Conditional sentences type 1 and adverb clause of reason beginning with because, since, as …



UNIT 6: THE ENVIRONMENT
Lesson 1: Section - Before you read (page 47)
Period 37: - Listen and read (page 47, 48)
Aim
Reading about the work of a group of conservationists and listening for details to complete.
Objective
By the end of the lesson, students will know more about the environment problems and the solutions.
Teaching aids
Text books, picture
PROCEDURE
Stage
Steps/Activities
Work arrangement

Warm-up















Pre-reading
















































While reading



































Post reading
* Brainstorming:
- Ask students to think of the environment problems in their city.
- Get students to go to the board and write down their ideas.
Air pollution dirty street






* Possible answers:
- The destruction of the forests.
- Rubbish/ garbage/ trash.
- smote from cars, motorbikes…
- smote from factories.
I. Pre-teach vocabulary:
- deforestation (n): sự tàn phá rừng
(explanation: the destruction of the forests)
- garbage dump (n): đống rác
(picture)
- dynamite fishing (n): việc đánh bắt cá bằng thuốc nổ.
(picture)
- spraying pesticides (n): việc phun thuốc diệt sâu bọ
(picture)
- Disappointed (by/about/at something) (adj): thất vọng, buồn rầu.
(synonym)
- Sewage (n): nước thải, nước cống
* Checking vocabulary: what and where
Write the words on the board, put one word on each circle.









- Have students repeat the words in chorus, then rub out word by word but leave the circle.
- Go on until all the words are rubble out.
- Point to each circle and ask students to repeat chorally the English words.
- Ask students to go to the board and write the words again in their correct circles.
II. Matching
- Ask students to look at the six pictures on page 47 in their text books.
- Ask them to match the words in the box with the correct picture.
* anskeys:
- Picture a: air pollution
- Picture b: spraying pesticides.
- Picture c: garbage dump
- Picture d: water pollution.
- Picture e: deforestation
- Picture f: dynamite fishing
III. Prediction:
- Ask students to keep the books closed.
* Set the scene: Mr. Brown is talking to some volunteer conservationists. Guess the place where they are going to work
- Give students 1 minute to guess
- Give feedback
- Ask students to open their books and read the text on page 47-48
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