Giáo án Tiếng Anh lớp 10: Unit10 : Life on other planets Lesson 1 : Getting started, Listen and read. pot

Unit10 : Life on other planets
Lesson 1 : Getting started, Listen and read.
A. Aims:
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to read the text for details and
know something about UFOs
* Teaching aids:
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Tape + picture
B. Content:
I. Pre
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reading:
1. Warm
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up: Chatting
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Have you ever heard about UFOs?
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Do you think UFOs really exist?
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If you saw a UFO, what would you do?
2.Pre
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teach:
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Aircraft (n) : máy bay, kinh khí cầu (picture)
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Spacecraft(n) : tàu vũ trụ (picture)
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Meteor (n) : sao băng (translation)
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Evidence (n) : bằng chứng (definition)
Anything that makes clear, shows on proves
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Alien (n) : người hành tinh khác (explanation)
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Sight (v) : chứng kiến (synonym) => sighting (n)
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Soil sample (n) : mẫu đất (explanation)
* Checking: (ROR) ordering
3.Pre-questions :
a. Do you believe there are UFOs?
b.Has anybody seen UFOs?
c.What did they look like?
- Ask Ss to answer 1st question personally then read the text and find the answers for
questions b,c.
II. While
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reading:
1. Answer pre-questions:
b. Yes, many people have.

c. They were large round objects.
egg-shaped objects
plate-like device.
2. Finding the meaning of the words : (Ex. a. P.84):
- Get Ss to read the text and find the words in the text that have the meanings
given(pairwork).
- Give feedback and correct.
*Key:
1.

evidence
2.

meteor
3.

aliens
4.

collecting
5.

(caught as a prisoner) = captured
6.

disappeared
3. Complete the notes: (Exb
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P84)
- Have Ss read the text again and complete the notes.They have to work individually

then compare with their partners.
*Key:
a.

An aircraft, a weather balloon or a meteor …
b.

……nine large round objects traveling at about 2,800 meters an hour.
c.

… 1,500 UFO sightings …
d.

… a UFO above their house
e.

… an egg
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shaped object in one of his fields and also aliens ollecting soil
sample ….
f.

… claimed they were captured by aliens and taken abroad a spacecraft.
g.

…. and his plane disappeared after sighting a UFO …
h.

…. that he saw a plate
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like device at a treetop 30 meters away….
III.Post
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reading:
1.Discussion:
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Have the whole class discuss the topic “UFOs”
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Choose a good student to be the leader
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Get the leader to make a summary of the evidence of the escistence of UFOs and
then discuss with the classmates
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Give the leader some questions for him/her to ask the rest student
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Eg:
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Do you believe in Kennth Arnold?
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Have you ever seen a picture of an alien? Can you imagine what the
aliens are like? Are they small or big? Are they intelligent? (If yes, why
do you think so?, )
2.Grammar awareness:

T gives a question : What would you do if you saw a UFO? -> Ss answer
-Write Ss’ answer on board : If I saw a UFO, I would take a photo.
Form : If + S + V (past) …… , S + would + V (bare)
Be-> were
Meaning : Nếu … thì …
Use : Conditional sentence II (unreal situation at the present)
Concept check : Did you see a UFO? (No)
Did you take a photo? (No)
Is it real situation? (No)
Does the situation belong to the past or present? (Present)
Is the past tense used in If-clause?
Is “would” or “will” used in the main clause?
IV. Homework:
1.

Complete exercises a+b (P.84)
2.

Learn by heart vocabulary, form, use
3.

Write 5 things you would do if you saw a UFO?
4.

Find out new vocabulary in “Speak” (P.85)
V.Teacher’s self-evaluation: