grade10_lesson 9:reading

Grade level: Upper-secondary school
Subject: English


I. Duration: 45 minutes
II. OBJECTIVES:
-Educational aim: Sts know more about the life of sea animals and oceans in the
world
-Knowledge: Through the unit, Sts will have the sense of protecting sea
environment.
III) TEACHING AIDS :
-Pictures of sea animals, some card board
-An extra board
IV) METHOD:
-Communicative approach.
V) PROCEDURE:
Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
WARM –UP: (8ms)
Play a game: Crossword puzzle.
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Divides class into group of six Ss
Gives each group : One paper with names of the animals
in the crossword puzzle
Other paper is crossword puzzle with
pictures
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- Play the game

Lesson plan
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Jellyfish
Seal
Seabed
Shrimp
Sea
turtle
Whale
Sea fish
Cuttle
Sea nail
Coral
red
Crab
Octopus
Shark
C U T T L E
S E A N A I L
C O R A L R E D
S E A F I S H
C R A B
S H R I M P
J E L L Y F I S H
S E A L
W H A L E
O C T O P U S
S H A R K
S E A T U R T L E
S E A B E D

Each group has 3minutes to play the game.
Which group has correct answer in the shortest period of
time will win
Says again the answer : Undersea world
-T introduces new lesson: To understand more clearly
about sea animals and their environment, today we’re
going to study unit 9, period 1: Reading
Before you read (15ms)
Names of ocean
- gives the Vietnamese names of the ocean on the map on
the board
- asks the whole class to match the Vietnamese names and
appropriate English names.
Finding the names of sea animals
- Ask Ss to give the Vietnamese names of the animals in
the picture
- Ask Ss to look at crossword and find the English name
of these animals.
1. Seal
2. Jellyfish.
3. Sea turtle
4. Shark
* Pre-teach Vocabulary:
- bay (n): vÞnh
- (to) challenge: thö th¸ch
- a mystery(n): bÝ Èn
- beneath(prep): díi
- a submarine: tµu ngÇm
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Ss guess the meaning

of the words based on
the contexts in the
sentences and the
components of the
words

Do task 1 followed T’s
instruction
Lesson plan
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Jellyfish
Seal
Seabed
Shrimp
Sea
turtle
Whale
Sea fish
Cuttle
Sea nail
Coral
red
Crab
Octopus
Shark
- marine life(n): cuộc sống dới biển
- to fall into: đợc chia thành
- (to) exist: tồn tại
- water current(n): dòng nớc
- an organism: sinh vật

- (to) contribute: góp phần
- (to) maintain: duy trì
- at stake: bị tấn công
While you read (12ms)
* Task 1: gap filling
- instructs Ss to read the passage quickly and stop at the
lines that contain these words to guess their meanings.
- checks Ss understanding by asking them to provide the
Vietnamese equivalents to the words.
- instructs some strategies to do task 1
- asks Ss to work in groups, read in silent, scan for
information and do the task.
- Call some Ss to tell their answer and explain
- Feedback
Key:
1. Tiny
2. Investigate
3. Gulf
4. Biodiversity
5. samples
- give the meaning of the new words in the box and in the
sentences in Vietnamese.
* Task 2 : answering questions
- instructs Ss to use some strategies to do the task
- Ask Ss to work in pairs, answer the questions.
- then asks Ss to discuss their answers with their partner
- Have some Ss answer then write on the board and
explain their choices
- Correct Ss answers on the board.
Key:

1. 75 percent

Take note answers
Work in pair
Play the game
Lesson plan
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2. By using modern services
3. They investigate the seabed and bring samples of the
marine life back to the surface for the further study
4. They provide the wide range of information, including
water temperature, depth and the undersea populations
5. - The group1 that live on or depend on the bottom like
the starfish.
- The group 2that move independently of water
currents such as fishes and sharks
- The group 3 that are carried along by the currents like
the jellyfish.
6. The marine life would be at stake if the sea biodiversity
was not maintained.
After you read (10ms)
- instructs some strategies to do the task
- asks Ss to work in a group of 5 for 5minutes
- sticks uncompleted summaries of reading passage on the
board.
- gives Ss small papers in which a word or phrase is given
from the box to each leader of each group
- asks leaders to stick answer in the blanks quickly as
possible
- The winner is the group who finds the correct answers.

Keys:
1. three –quarters
2. mysterious
3. modern
4. discoveries
5. biodiversity
6. huge
7. plants and animals
8. closely connected
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