Giáo án Tiếng Anh lớp 11: UNIT 11 SOURCES OF ENERG-READING ppsx

UNIT 11 SOURCES OF ENERGY
PART A: READING


A.OBJECTIVES:
Aims :
- Helping students to understand the importance of saving energy and
using alternative sources of energy.
- Helping students to use the words related to the sources of energy
through reading and writing.
Vocabulary : fossil fuels, alternative, nuclear energy, geothermal
heat/energy, solar power/panel, potential, to release, to create,
exhausted, limited, plentiful, infinite
Teaching Aids: pictures of sources of energy; projector (if available);
textbook
B.PROCEDURE:


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Contents T & Ss’activities
I). WARM UP: (5 MINUTES)
Al the pictures should show different
kinds of producing energy, such as
wind power, solar energy,
hydroelectric plant, etc.

 Write the words of different
sources of energy on the board and ask
students to match the words with the
right pictures.


Teacher may use the
pictures in the Unit 11
Textbook page 124, or
provides some mores
pictures on cardboard or by
projector.
 Students look at the
pictures on the board
 Check the results and
correct them if necessa(or in
their books) and try to
distainguish the sources of
energy.

II). PRE-READING: (10 minutes)

- What do we need energy for?
- What kind of energy is the most
popular in Vietnam?
1.Vocabulary:
fossil fuels(n) : nhien liêụ hoá thạch
alternative (a): thay th ê
nuclear energy (n) : n ăng l ư ơng
nguy ên t ư
geothermal heat/energy(n) : h ơi nong

đ ịa nhi êt
solar power/panel(n): Tam thu năng l
ư ơng m ăt trơì
potential (n) Tiem n ăng
to release (v) th ải ra
to create(v) : t ạo ra

Exchange with their
partners and match the
words given with the right
pictures.

 Ss Listen to the teacher's
comments and repeat the
words.
 Teacher explains some
important words using
pictures or giving meaning
(some words need to be
described in Vietnamese,
especially to students of
lower-level classes).
 Teacher ask these
questions and has students
exhausted(a) c ạn ki ẹt
limited,(v)
plentiful(a)
infinite(v)

Suggested answers:

- We need energy to light and warm
our houses, run automobiles and other
machines, operate factories, and so on.

- The most popular kind of energy in
Vietnam is from oil. We also use
power produced by hydroelectric
plants.
III). WHILE READING: (25
MINUTES)
1.Task 1:The words in the box
all appear in the passage .Fill in the
work in groups before
giving their answers: 
Students get to understand
these words:
fossil fuels; alternative;
solar panel; dam; nuclear;
available; potential; limited;
unlimited
 Students copy the words
in their notebooks after the
teacher's corection on the
board.

 Students work in groups
discussing the teacher's
questions.
 Teacher has students
blank with a suitable word( Use

dictionary when necessary)

Suggested answers:
1. released 2. alternative 3. energy

4. limited 5. exhausted

2.Task 2: Scan the passage and write
down the advatages and disadvantages
of each altenative source of energy



Suggested answers:

Sources Advantages Disadvant.
listen to the recording of the
passage two times, then read
it in silence. (Teacher
should go round to check
and give help where
necessary.)
 Students discuss Task 1
with their partners.
 Teacher has students
work in pairs and complete
Task 1 (pp. 125 - 126,
Textbook).
 Teacher has students
work in pairs studying the

table in Task 2 (pp. 126,
Textbook) and then
discussing the advantages
Nuclear unlimited dangerous
Solar Plentiful and infinite,
clean Not strong enough at
present
Water clean expensive
Wind Clean, safe not always
available
Geothermal Clean Not
available
*Task 3: Answer the questions:
1. How many sources of energy are
mentioned in the passage? What are
they?
2. In your opinion, which one is the
most potential? Why?
Suggested answers:
1.These sources of energy are
and
 Students listen to the
recording and then read the
text in silence.
 Students discuss the table
with their partners and try to
find the answers to Task 2.


 Students reread the text

and group work to find the
answers.



 Teacher has students read
the passage again then ask
mentioned in the passage: fossil fuels,
nuclear, geothermal, solar, water, and
wind power.
2. In my opinion, solar energy is the
most potential because it is clean, safe
and not expensive, and people can get
it almost everywhere on earth. (There
can be different answers to this
questions.)
IV). POST-READING: (5 minutes)
 Teacher has students work in pairs
and complete the summary of the text
on pages 126&127 in Textbook.

Suggested answer:
1. energy 2. one 3. fuels 4.
limited
them to work in groups in
order to work out the
answers to theses questions:

 Students reread the text
and group work to find the
answers.






5. alternative 6. sources 7.
unlimited
8. environment



 Homework: Teacher has students
write a short paragraph to express
their own choice of the alternative
source of energy including some
reasons for their choice.




 Students read the
summary and discuss the
completion with their
partners.