Lesson plan 12-Unit 8-Listening

Date of preparation : 5.12.2008 Unit 8 : LIFE IN THE FUTURE
Date of teaching : 9.12.2008 Section: Listening
I AIMS AND OBJECTIVES :
 Language content:
To help Ss listen for general ideas and specific information
To introduce some new words relating to the topic
- Vocabulary : incredible, centenarian, life, expectancy, fatal, eradicate, eternal life
- Structure : the simple past tense, the simple present
 Language function:
- listen for the understanding of the passage.
Educational aim :
- Students should know about the factors help people have a long and healthy life.
Skill : Integrated skills : listening
II. TEACHER AND STUDENTS’ PREPARATION:
1. Method : Communicative Approach.
2. Techniques: Repetition, explanation, group work, asking – answering.
3. Materials needed : Textbook, pictures, real thing.
4 Students’ preparation : Reading the lesson at home, prepare the new words
5 Previous exercises:
III. PROCEDURE IN CLASS.
1. Stabilization : (2ms)
a. Warm – up : Greetings.
b. Checking absence : Who’s absent today ?
2. Checking up previous knowledge:
Time needed: (5ms)
Questions
Key to questions:
3. Presentation of the new material :
Time Teacher’s activities Student’s activities The content of the lesson
3ms
10ms

Warm-up:
- A story about age.
Before-listening:
Before you listen:
- Ask students to look at the book
and answer the question in the
book.
- Let them work in pairs.
- Listen and correct for them.
Listen and repeat
- Turn on the tape and ask
students to listen
- Let students listen again and
repeat.
- Explain the words that will
appear in the listening text.
+ incredible (a)
+ centenarian (n)
+ life expectancy (n)
+ fatal (a)
T- whole class
Answer the questions
copy down
repeat guess the
meaning of the new
words
Unit 8 : LIFE IN THE
FUTURE
Period3: Section : Listening
New words

+ incredible (a)
+ centenarian (n)
+ life expectancy (n)
10ms
10ms
3ms
+ eradicate (v)
+ eternal (a)
- Correct.
While-listening:
Task 1:
Ask students to read the
statement at least once first.
Ask them to guess the answers
Play the tape once then check
how many answers can students
find.
Play the tape again.
Check and give remarks.
Call some students to say out
their answers and the evidences
they get to prove their answers.
Keys:
1 F 2F 3 F 4 T 5 T
Task 2:
- Ask them to guess the answers.
Play the tape once then check
how many answers can students
find.
Play the tape again.

Check and give remarks.
- Call some students to say out
their answers and the evidences
they get to prove their answers.
- Let students work in pairs.
1. Eating more healthily food,
cutting down on things like
butter, alcohol and cigarettes.
2. The development in medical
science. Because nobody dies
from old age, just from diseases
that affect people when they get
older.
3. In ten years’ time AIDS will
also be brought under control.
After-listening:
- In group, ask students to discus
the guided question, find the
answer.
- Move around to help if
necessary.
- Give remarks or even
suggestions.
Advantages :
+ do many things they want to do
+ see their children and
grandchildren grow up
individual work
Listen to
Speak out

Work in pairs
Copy down
Work in groups
+ fatal (a)
+ eradicate (v)
+ eternal (a)
Task 1:
True or false
1 F 2F 3 F 4 T 5 T
Task 2 :
Answer the questions
1. Eating more healthily food,
cutting down on things like
butter, alcohol and cigarettes.
2. The development in medical
science. Because nobody dies
from old age, just from
diseases that affect people
when they get older.
3. In ten years’ time AIDS will
also be brought under control.
+ help their children and
grandchildren
Disadvantages
+ too weak to do things
+ feel lonely when their children
are busy with work
.5. Consolidation
Confirms the content of the
lesson.

4. Homework: (2ms) Asks Ss to learn by heart all new words.
5. Preparation for the next lesson ()
- Prepare for section : Writing
- Self – evaluation : ………………………………………………………………….
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