Period 40 lesson 4 : read
A/ Aims and Objectives : By the end of the lesson , Ss will be able to understand
the poem with some old English by doing Matching exercise and Answering
questions .
- Practice read a poem .
B / Teaching aids : Textbooks , cassette , chalks and some boards .
C/ Procedure :
7 min
10 min
I / Warm up : Question and answer
1. Do you like poetry ?
2. Do you often read poetry ?
3. Who is your favorite poet ?
4. Have you ever read a poem in English ?
5. What is it ? Do you understand it ?
- Have Ss work in groups , ask and answer the questions
above .
- Call on Ss to practice in front of class.
II / Pre – reading :
Vocabulary pre- teach :
- End up (v) : use up / finish
- Second – hand (a) : used
Work in groups
Practice in front of
class.
Listen and repeat in
chorus and
15 min
- Junk-yard (n) : a place to store rubbish and waste .
- Treasure(n) : valuable / precious things
- Stream (n) : current or flow of water / small river .
- Foam (n) : mass of bubbles of air or gas
- Nonsense(n) : meaningless words or ideas
Checking technique : Jumbled words :
- Write new words in the wrong order :
+ maof / aryd- kujn / maetsr/ esnesno/ pu den/ esurraet /
daso /
- Call on some Ss to write the good words . Correct and
give the correcct answers :
+ foam / junk – yard / stream / nonsense / end up /
treasure / soda .
- Call Ss to read the correct words aloud .
III / While – reading :
Set the scene “ We will listen to a poem about : A
mother and her son are having a picnic in a park .
The son sees the place is polluted . He asks his
mother about the problems of pollution “
1. True / false statements prediction
1. The boy is really interested in the problems of pollution
individually.
Guess its meanings
and copy .
Play games
Write the good words
on the boards
Read them aloud .
.
2. He does not want to make the place more polluted .
3. His mother is aware of the danger of pollution .
4. His mother thinks she should protect the environment
even when she is on holiday .
- Call on some Ss to read their predictions and write them
on the board .
2. Prediction check :
- Turn on the tape 2 times and ask Ss to read the poem to
check their predictions . Then compare their results with
friends .
- Call on some Ss to read their answers aloud .Correct and
give answers : 1.T 2.T 3.F 4.F
3. Match each word in A to an appropriate explanation in
B .
- Ask Ss to work individually to match .
- Get Ss to compare their answers with a friend .
- Call on some Ss to read their answers aloud .
- Correct and give correct answers :
A
Listen carefully
Work in groups to
predict .
- Report their
predictions aloud .
Listen to the tape
carefully , read the
poem and check their
predictions .
Read them aloud , and
copy down .
B
1. Junk-yard
c. a piece of land full of rubbish
2. end up
g. reach a state of
3. treasure
f. valuable or precious things .
4. foam
e. mass of bubbles of air or gas
5. stream
d. a flow of water
6. hedge
a. a row of things forming a fence
7. folk
Work individually to
do the exercise .
- Read their answers
aloud .
Write down .
- Listen and copy
- Read the example
aloud .
10 min
b. people
4. Answer :
* Quick grammar presentation :
Conditional sentence type 1 :
If S + V ( present simple ) , S + will + V
Example :
If the pollution goes on , the world will end up like a
second- hand junk – yard.
* Answering question
- Ask Ss to read the poem more carefully and answer the
questions
- Call on some Pairs to read their answers aloud in class.
- Give correct answers :
1. If the pollution goes on , the world will end up like a
second – hand junk – yard .
2. The mother thinks other folk pullet the environment but
not her and her son .
3. If the boy keeps on asking such questions , his mother
will take him home right away .
4. No. Because he is right : If he throws the bottles that
- Work in pairs
- Practice in front of
class.
Read the correct
answers aloud .
Read the passage
aloud .
3 min
will be polluting the woods .
5. The poet wants us to learn that everyone is responsible
for keeping the environment from pollution .
+ Call Ss some Ss to read the correct answers aloud .
Then read the passage loudly .
- Check Ss
,
pronunciation and intonation .
IV / Post – reading : Discussion
- Ask Ss to work in group of four to discuss question 6
What we could do in our school / house to minimize the
pollution ?
+ Suggested ideas :
- Put the bins around the school yard .
- Pick up the rubbish / garbage and throw it into a
trash bin .
- Should not litter / spit on the ground ….
- Call on some representatives from each group to
demonstrate in front of class.
- Correct and give further information to the questions
V/ Homework :
1. Learn by heart new words and copy down .
2. Do the exercises in the workbook .
- Work in groups
- Demonstrate in the
front .
- Listen and copy .
3. Prepare the next lesson .