Giáo án Tiếng Anh 10 unit 9: Undersea world

English 10 – Giáo án
WEEK 19 – PERIOD 55
UNIT 9: UNDERSEA WORLD-Reading
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OBJECTIVES
1. Educational aim:
Students should appreciate the nature.
2. Knowledge
General knowledge: Students learn about the nature
Language
New words: Words related to the nature, especially sea animals and the names of
the waters
3. Skills:
Reading for gist and for specific information about the nature, especially sea
animals and the names of the waters

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METHOD: Integrated, mainly communicative
TEACHING AIDS: Real objects and pictures showing the nature, especially sea
animals and the names of the waters

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PROCEDURE
Teacher’s Activities
Warm-up (4 mn)

Student’s Activities

Teacher asks Ss to work with their Students’ answers may vary.
partners , looking at the map and
giving the Vietnamese names for the
oceans on the map ( Before you read)
Pre-reading (7 mn)

Students do the task.

a) Look at the pictures at the bottom Answers
of page 94 and give the name of the Seal Jellyfish Turtle Shark
animal in each picture. The first letter
of each word has been given to help
you.
Teacher conducts the correction .
Students do task 1.
While-reading (20 mn)
Ask Ss to read the passage silently


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Task 1
The words in the box all appear in
the passage. Fill each blank with one
of them. There are more words than
needed.
Teacher walks around the class
and offers ideas and comments

1) tiny

when students need help.

2) investigate

Teacher selects some students at

3) gulf

random to provide the answers in

4) Biodiversity

front of the class and then to

5) samples

translate

the

sentence

into

Vietnamese.

.
Students sit in pairs.

Task 2

Students do the task.

b) Teacher has the class read the

Suggested answers:

text again, this time more slowly,
to scan the details and answer the

1)

75% of the earth’s surface.

questions in Task 2

2)

By using modern devices.

3)

They investigate the seabed

Teacher walks around the class
and offers ideas and comments

and bring samples of marine life back to the

when students need help. Then

surface for further study.

teacher selects some students at

4)

We can know a wide range of

random to provide the answers in

information, including water temperature,

front of the class.

depth and undersea population .
5)

They are those that live on or
depend on the bottom like starfish, those that
move independently of water currents and
those that are carried along by the currents

6)

Marine life would be at stake
if the sea biodiversity were not maintained .

Students work in pairs, discussing the phrases in
the box and providing the answers.

Answers:
Post-reading (12 mn)

1. three- quarters.


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Teacher has students work in 2. mysterious
pairs to complete the summary 3. modern
of the reading passage by filling 4. discoveries
each blank with a word or phrase 5. biodiversity
given in the box. (After you 6. huge
read)

7. plants and animals
8. closely connected

Teacher gives suggestions and
comments.

Teacher

suggests

homework.
Comments (2 mn)

students’