Unit 9 (5 tiet)

Theme: Nature and Environment Date of Preparing: January 8
th
, 2007
Lesson: Reading Date of Teaching: January 11
th
, 2007
UNIT 9: UNDERSEA WORLD
A. OBJECTIVES:
1. Educational aim: Pupils should be conscious of conserving oceanic environment.
2. Knowledge:
a. General knowledge: Pupils learn about oceans as well as marine plats and animals.
b. Language: Words related to undersea world.
3. Skills: Scanning for details.
B. METHOD: Intergraded, Communicative approach
C. TEACHING AIDS: world map, pictures and extra boards.
D. PROCEDURE:
Teacher’s Activities Students’ Activities
I. Warm-up:
- Have the pupils look at the map of the world and
give the names of the oceans on the map.
 The Pacific Ocean
 The Atlantic Ocean
 The Indian Ocean
 The Antarctic Ocean
 The Artic Ocean
II. Pre-reading:
- Have the pupils look at the pictures and name the
sea animals in each picture.
- Have the pupils rearrange the water areas into
bigger and bigger size:
sea bay ocean gulf

III. While-reading:
 Task 1: Gap-filling
- Have the pupils listen to the text.
- Help with some new words: marine, undersea,
seabed, organism, to be at stake
- Have the pupils read the text again.
- Have the pupils give the meanings and parts of
speech of the words in the box then do the gap-
filling exercise.
- Go around to check and help.
- Correct the answers.
 Task 2: Answer the questions.
- Have the pupils read the questions then answer in
groups.
- Have the pupils write their answers on the extra
boards.
- Go around to check and help.
- Correct the answers.
IV. Post-reading:
- Have the pupils complete the summary of the
reading passage by filling each blank with a word or
a phrase given in the box.
V. Homework:
Read the passage carefully, redo the exercises into
the textbook and learn by heart all the new words.
Group work: Look at the map and stick the name of each
ocean on its right place.
Give the Vietnamese meanings of the oceans.
Pair work: Look at the pictures to name the animals they
see.

Rearrange the words: bay

gulf

sea

ocean
Give the meanings of the words.
Read the text in silence and give the meanings of the words
Compare the answers with the partner.
Keys: 1. tiny; 2. investigate; 3. gulf; 4. biodiversity; 5.
samples
Translate the answers into Vietnamese.
Group work
Each group answers one question on the extra board.
Other group will correct the answers.
Keys: 1. 75% of the earth surface.
2. By using modern devices.
3. They investigate the seabed and bring samples of marine life
back to the surface for further study.
4. We can know a wide range of information, including water
temperature, depth and the undersea population.
5. They are those that live on or depend on the bottom like the
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.
Pair work: Complete the summary as guided.
Keys: 1. three-quarters
2. mysterious

3. modern
4. discoveries
5. biodiversity
6. huge
7. plants and animals
8. closely connected
Comments:
Theme: Nature and Environment Date of Preparing: January 12
th
, 2007
Lesson: Speaking Date of Teaching: January 15
th
, 2007
UNIT 9: UNDERSEA WORLD
A. OBJECTIVES:
1. Educational aim: Pupils know human’s role to protect the sea and what they should do to preserve the water.
2. Knowledge:
a. General knowledge: Pupils are able to talk about the things should be done to protect the ocean.
b. Language: pupils have correct use of “should” and “should not”
3. Skills: speaking.
B. METHOD: Intergraded, Communicative approach
C. TEACHING AIDS: picture, extra boards.
D. PROCEDURE:
Teacher’s Activities Students’ Activities
I. Warm-up:
- Have the pupils look at the picture of the polluted
sea.
What happened to the sea?
What should we do to make the sea clean?
II. Practice:

 Task 1:
- Explain the situation, have the pupils understand
the sentences.
- Have the pupils work in pairs to put the order of
importance, using “we should…” or “we shouldn’t…”
- Go around to check and help
- Have some pupils report their answers before the
class.
 Task 2:
- Have the pupils understand the threats to the
health of the oceans.
- Have the pupils work in groups to discuss the
consequences that might occur and offer some
possible solutions.
- Go around to check and help
- Have 2 groups report their work.
 Task 3:
- Have one or two pupils report to the class about
the things they have discussed from task 2.
III. Homework:
Write a short paragraph of 80 – 100 words about
what we should or should not do to keep the sea
fresh and clean.
Answer the questions.
Pair work.
Put the actions in the order of importance about the things
they should or should not do to protect the sea.
Examples:
1. We should place rubbish and plastic bags in proper
dustbins.

2. We should use water sparingly and do not pollute it.
3. We shouldn’t use herbicides, pesticides and fertilizers
that harm the environment.
……………………
Group work.
Talk about the results that might happen and offer some
possible solutions.
Pupils can use the ideas from task 1 as suggested
solutions.
Examples: Beaches are filled with plastic bags, pieces of
glass and cigarette butts. This makes the sea polluted and
endangers sea plants and animals.
We should clean beaches and tell other people not to litter
them.
……………………
Individual work.
Report the discussion to the class.
Comments:
Theme: Nature and Environment Date of Preparing: January 12
th
, 2007
Lesson: Listening Date of Teaching: January 16
th
, 2007
UNIT 9: UNDERSEA WORLD
A. OBJECTIVES:
1. Educational aim: Pupils should contribute their parts to the preservation of undersea world.
2. Knowledge:
a. General knowledge: Pupils can get some information about whales.
b. Language: words related to whales.

3. Skills: Listening.
B. METHOD: Intergraded, Communicative approach
C. TEACHING AIDS: cassette player, tape, picture.
D. PROCEDURE:
Teacher’s Activities Students’ Activities
I. Warm-up:
- Show the picture and raise questions:
1. What it this?
2. Do you think whales are fish?
3. Why do people keep hunting whales?
II. Pre-listening:
- Have the pupils listen and repeat some basic
words:
mammal, blue whale, whaling, krill, migrate,
conservation, Atlantic, Pacific
- Help with the meanings of the words above.

III. While-listening:
 Task 1:
- Explain the task: pupils will listen to a then
arrange the pictures in the passage about the whales
then do the T rue – False sentences.
- Have the pupils read the sentences to make sure
that they understand them clearly.
- Have the pupils listen for the first time.
- Check the answers.
- Have the pupils listen again to correct their
answers.
 Task 2:
- Have the pupils read the questions to make sure

that they understand them clearly.
- Have the pupils listen to the tape.
- Get the answers from the pupils.
- Have the pupils listen one more time to check their
answers.
- Give feedback.
IV. Post-listening:
- Have the pupil work in groups to talk about the
information they have got from the lesson about
whales.
V. Homework:
Prepare for Writing lesson.
Answer the questions.
Repeat and give the meanings of the words.
Listen and decide whether the sentences are True or False.
Keys: 1F; 2T; 3T; 4F; 5T;
Listen to the tape and answer the questions:
Keys: 1. The blue whale grows to 30 meters in length and
over 200 tons in weight.
2. Because there is a lot of krill-their favorite food in cold
waters.
3. Cold waters in the North and South Atlantic Ocean and
the North and south Pacific are their favorite feeding
grounds.
4. Heavy hunting is the main reason for the decrease in
whale population.
5. They have asked the International Whaling Commission
to stop most whaling.
6. If we didn’t take ant measures to protect whales, they
would disappear forever.

Talk about the information they have got from the lesson
about whales.
Comments:
Theme: Nature and Environment Date of Preparing: January 14
th
, 2007
Lesson: Writing Date of Teaching: January 17
th
, 2007
UNIT 9: UNDERSEA WORLD
A. OBJECTIVES:
1. Educational aim: Pupils learn to read and write information from the table.
2. Knowledge:
a. General knowledge: Pupils get more information about sea animals.
b. Language: vocabulary and structures used in describing facts and figures.
3. Skills: Scanning for details.
B. METHOD: Intergraded, Communicative approach
C. TEACHING AIDS: table, extra board.
D. PROCEDURE:
Teacher’s Activities Students’ Activities
I. Warm-up:
- Have the pupils answer the questions:
1. What is the most dangerous animals in the world?
2. What is the largest animals in the world?
II. Pre-writing:
 Task 1:
- Have the pupils work in pairs, reading the story
silently to make sure that they understand it.
- Help with some expressions:
 carnivore

 high squid population

eat up to

be up to

calf > calves

accidental entrapment
- Have the pupils get the information from the passage
to fill in the table.
- Teacher may help with some questions:

Where are sperm whales seen?

What is the weight/ length of a male/ female whale?

How long can a whale be?

How long does a whale live
- Go around to check.
III. While-writing:
 Task 2:
- Have the pupils read the table to get information
about the dolphin.
- Introduce the pupils to write a paragraph that
describes the facts and figures provided in the table.
- Help with some questions:

Where are the dolphin seen?


What is the weight/ length of a dolphin?

How long can a dolphin be?

How long does a dolphin live?
- Go around to check and help.
- Compare the answers and get feedback.
IV. Post-writing:
- Corrects the common mistakes and reinforce the way
to get information from a paragraph or a table.
V. Homework:
Each pupil write one complete paragraph from task 2.
Answer the questions.
Pair work.
Read the passage then scan the information to fill in the
table.
Answer the questions.
Fill in the table with the information from the passage.
Group work:
Read the table about the dolphin.
Write a paragraph that describes the facts and figures
provided in the table.
Each group write one paragraph.
Answer the questions.
Comments:

Theme: Nature and Environment Date of Preparing: January 16
th
, 2007

Lesson: Language focus Date of Teaching: January 18
th
, 2007
UNIT 9: UNDERSEA WORLD
A. OBJECTIVES:
1. Educational aim: Pupils practise some basic grammatical points.
2. Knowledge:
a. General knowledge: “should/ shouldn’t” ; conditional sentences type II.
b. Language: pronounce correctly the three vowels / / - / / - / /.
3. Skills: writing, speaking, listening and reading.
B. METHOD: Intergraded, Communicative approach
C. TEACHING AIDS: exercise book.
D. PROCEDURE:
Teacher’s Activities Students’ Activities
I. Pronunciation:
- Have the pupils identify the three vowels by reading the
words aloud:
beer – pair - poor
- Give modal pronunciation of the vowels.
- Explain the differences of the sounds.
- Have the pupils give more words that contain these
sounds.
- Have the pupils pronounce the words aloud.
- Have the pupils read the sentences in textbook and
underline the words that have the sounds above.
- Check the answers and give feedback.
III. Grammar and Vocabulary:
Exercise 1:
- Have the pupils practise using “should” or “shouldn’t”.
- Have the pupils write advice/ suggestion from the cues

given.
- Go around to check and help.
- Correct and give feedback.
Exercise 2:
- Have the pupils read the situations and write sentences
with “I think/ I don’t think … should…”
- Have the pupils give the meanings of the adverbs then
put each of them in its appropriate place in the sentences.
Exercise 3:
- Have the pupils review the usage and formation of
conditional type II.
- Have the pupils work in pairs to fill in the blanks with the
correct form of the verbs.
- Have the pupils write their answers on the extra boards.
- Go around to check and help.
- Correct and give feedback.
V. Homework:
Do exercise 1 and 2 in workbook.
Listen and repeat the words.
Practise the sentences and fin out the words that has
the three vowels above.
‘should’ and “shouldn’t” are used to express an advice
or a suggestion.
Keys: 1. She should go away for a few days.
2. You should look for another job.
3. he shouldn’t go to bed so late.
4. You should take a photograph.
5. She shouldn’t use her car so much.
Write the sentences from the cues to express an advice.
Keys: 1. I don’t think they should get married.

2. I think smoking should be banned, especially in
restaurants.
3. I don’t think you should go out this evening.
4. I think the boss should resign.
Keys: 1. didn’t go
2. would feel
3. would take
4. refused
5. wouldn’t get
6. closed down
7. pressed
8. would be
9. didn’t come
10. borrowed
11. walked
12. would understand
Comments:
Theme: Nature and Environment Date of Preparing: January 20
th
, 2007
Lesson: Revision Date of Teaching: January 22
nd
, 2007