UNIT 9: Natural disasters

Date of preparing
:24/3/08
Date of teaching
:27/3 /08
Week
: 28
Period
: 56

UNIT 9: Natural disasters
READ
I. Objectives:
By the end of the lesson , students will be able to read and understand natural disasters which are
very dangerous for people .
II . Language content:
1. Vocabulary: huge, strike, collapse, tidal wave, abrupt, shift, erupt, tornado, funnel shapeed ,
suck up , path
2. Grammar:
Relative clauses
III. Techniques:
- Reading skill and other help skills
- Pair work – Groupwork – Individual work – Play games
IV. Teaching aids:
Pictures , cassette, sub-boards, books,
V. Procedures:
1.Organization:
2. Cheking- up :
3. New lesson :
.Pre- reading
- Greeting
- Check numbers

- Other questions
T: Ask sts to play game
Sts: Play game : Network
T: Remark and mark
T: Ask questions
Sts: Answer
T: Hang the picture
Sts: Remark
T:Introduce the lesson and ask some
guiding questions
Sts: Answer
T: play the tape
Sts: Listen
Typhoon
Thunderstorm
READ :
Which disasters are there in the text ?
What are they ?
New words :
-Pacific Rim = Ring of Fire
- huge ( adj) < synonym>
-struck (v) ( translation> taøn phaù
Natural
disasters
While -reading
Post-reading
4.Homework
T:Read and explain some new words
and grammar
Sts: Listen and answer

T: Read
T: Repeat
T: Let sts play game : slap the board
Sts: Work in group
T:Remark
T: Let sts read the text silently
Sts: Read silently
T: Explain
Sts: Listen and answer
T: call some of them read
Sts: Read
T: Guide them check True or False
Sts: Listen
T: Let Ss work in group
Sts: Work in group
T: Ask them to talk
Sts: Talk to each other
T: Correct
T: Ask Sts read the text again and
complete these sentences
Sts: Work in group < write on their
sub-board
T: Remark and correct
Sts: Read the complete sentences
T: Let sts talk about the damage of
these natural disasters
Sts: Discuss and answer
T: Correct
Remind Sts to learn new words by
heart . Read the text and translate into

Vietnamese
- collapsed (adj) < translation>
-tidal wave < example>
-abrupt shift : söï thay ñoåi ñoät ngoät
-hurrican ( in America>
- cyclone ( in Australia)
- typhoon ( in Asia )
- erupt (v) < example>
- eruption (n)
- tornado(n) < picture>
Funnel shaped ( adj) < picture>
-suck up < translation>
* Grammar:
Relative clauses :
Ex: Tornadoes are funnal shaped storm
which pass overland below a
thunderstorm .
a. True or false :
1. T
2. T
3. F < from Alaska to california>
4. T
5. F < more than 50 years >
6. T
b.Complete the sentences :
1……………………….. occur around the Pacific
Rim
2. …………… many people were killed when
homes , office blocks and highways
collapsed

3. ………….. there’s an abrupt shift in the
under water movement of the earth.
4. ……..a cyclone
5. …….the word “ typhoon”
6. …..pass over land below a thunderstorm
and can suck up anything.
* Earth quakes : struck the city, kill
people
* Tidal waves: Killed people , struck
houses
* typhoons: people , struck houses
* Volcanoes:
Tornadoes :