UNIT 10 NATURE IN DANGER
PART A: READING
OBJECTIVES:
Aims:To help students know nature in danger and have the
concept and importance of conservation.
Lexical items:
Vocabulary: To present new vocabulary in the text.
Teaching aids : pictures
Skills: Reading for gist and for specific information
METHOD: Integrated, mainly communicative
PROCEDURE:
T
Contents T & Ss ‘activities
Warm-up (3ms)
- Teacher shows 2 pictures( A: a beautiful
forest and B: a forest with cut-down trees),
saying: “Now look at the 2 pictures please.
- T gives feedback and
sticks B on the board.
- T shows the other 4
pictures:
What is the difference between the 2
pictures?”
C: a clean beach
D: a dirty beach
E: living elephants
F: killed elephants
- Teacher points to the pictures on the
board, saying: “ Our nature is being
destroyed. Many trees are cut down. Water
is not clean any more and many animals
have been killed.
Pre-reading(8ms)
- T asks Ss look at the pictures in the
textbook and say what they are.
-Vocabularies: T asks Ss to have a look at
the text quickly and pick out .
the same meaning words : people,
T asks students:
“Who does these
things?”
- Teacher gives
feedback, introduces
the lesson and writes
the title on the board.
Students listening to
the teacher, look at the
pictures and answer
the questions.
Ss answer the
questions.
T has Ss work in pairs
, read the facts about
…………………….
the verbs referring to destroy nature:
influence,
affect,………………………
the verbs referring to protect
environment: protect,
save,………………
some expressions: have a great influence on,
result in,
* Expected answers:
- people, human race, human beings
- change, destroy, kill, cut, disappear
-set up ,raise, prohibit, establish
- as the result, so ….that , in danger of
becoming extinct
While-reading(24ms)
endangered species
and then discuss the
questions in the
textbook (P.114
T reads or plays the
recording of the
reading
.
Task 1: The words in the box appear in the
passage .Fill each blank with a suitble word
.
* Keys
1. extinct 2. protect
3. decreasing 4 .pollutants
5. endangered 6.infterference
Task 2: T asks Ss to work in pairs , read the
text again and then circle A, B, C, or D that
best sums up each paragraph.
*Keys: 1.C 2.B 3.A 4.C
Task 3: T asks Ss to work in pairs and read
the text carefully to answer the questions in
T gives feedback text
T has Ss do task 1
-Ss listen to T or to the
recording.
-Ss read the text and
give the answers to
task 1
-T gives feedback
-Ss read the text again
and do the
activity.*Keys: (Pair-
work)
.
the textbook.
*Keys:
1. Four ways that people change the world
are:
-changing the environment the
environment by building cities and villages.
-affecting the water supply by using water
for industry and agriculture.
- changing weather conditions by cutting
down trees in the forests.
- destroying the air by adding pollutants
like smoke from factories and fumes from
cars.
2. The serious consequences of people’s
interference with the environment are:
- many kinds rare animals are killed.
-Ss read the text again
and do the activity:
(Pair-work)
- T gives feedback
- the environment where these animals are
living is badly destroyed.
- the numbers of rare animals are
decreasing so rapidly that they are in danger
of becoming extinct.
Post-reading(8ms): Find out why some
animals have become extinct
-T asks Ss to work in groups and discuss
and find out why some animals have
become extinct.
-T corrects them when necessary.
Homework (2ms) T ask Ss to prepare the
next skill
-Discuss (group-work)
-Do the homework