unit 11- speaking

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Lesson plan
Unit 11: Sources of energy
Part B: Speaking
I. Class description:41 students of grade 11A11, Thang Long High School
II. Objectives
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
- Use the required language and knowledge to talk about the advantages and
disadvantages of using alternative sources of energy.
- Use the required language and knowledge to talk about the use of alternative
sources of energy in the future.
III. Materials
Textbook, handouts and the board
IV. Anticipated problems
- Students may not have enough vocabulary and structure to talk about the
topic, so the teacher should ready to help
- Students may be shy to speak; therefore, the teacher should find suitable
ways to motivate them by creating variety of interesting activities.
V. Procedure.
Time Stages Teacher’s activities Students’
activities
2’ Greeting -Greet the whole class: Good afternoon
- Ask Ss to sit down.
-Ask Ss some questions:
How are you, today?
Is there anyone absent today?
- Greet the
teacher:
Stand up and
say: Good

afternoon,
teacher.
-Answer T’s
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questions
6’
Warming-
up: lucky
flowers.
-Prepare a game: prepare 6 flower-shaped pieces of paper,
in each of which a source of energy is mentioned and Ss’
task is to guess what source it is.
-Introduce the rules: There are 8 flower-shaped pieces of
paper. In each piece, information related to one source of
energy is mentioned. Your task is to guess what source of
energy it is?
Anyone wants to join in the game will come here and pick
up one piece, read aloud your question and then answer it.
If you can’t give the answer, the turn is for the others .Also,
there are some pieces are lucky ones, which has the
words”gook luck”. If you pick up a piece of paper like this,
you will receive a present without having to do something
- Get Ss to join in the game.
- Check Ss’ answers and give presents to Ss who have
correct answers.
- Questions:
What source of energy is it?
1. It is not only plentiful and unlimited but also clean and

safe.
2. It includes oil, coal and natural gas.
3. It is a clean source of energy. However, if the wind does
not blow, there is no energy at all.
4. It costs a lot of money because people have to build dams
to use this source of energy.
5. It comes from deep inside of the earth.
6. It can provide enough electricity for the world’s needs for
-Listen to the
rule of the
game
- Join in the
game
voluntarily
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hundreds of years, but it can be very dangerous.
Answers:
1. Solar energy
2. Fossil fuels
3. Wind power
4. Water power
5. Geothermal heat
6. Nuclear energy


6’
Before
speaking

Vocabulary: Prepared handouts
- Deliver handouts to Ss and asks them to work
individually:
All of you received the handouts, right? Your task is to
match the words in column A with the right answers in
column B. Work individually in 2 minutes.
HANDOUT 1 (individual work):
Match the words in column A with the right answers in
column B.
A B
1. Enormous (a) A. The sending out of
heat, energy, etc in
the form of rays
2. Radiation (n) B. ANTONYM: limited
3. Abundant (a) C. SYNONYM: huge
4. Renewable
(a)
D. Complete the
sentence: we
have……… rice.
-Ss work
individually
to match the
words in
column A
with the right
answers
column B in
the handouts.
- Ss present

their
answers.
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There’s no rice left.
5. Run out (v) E. That is replaced
naturally.
- Check the answers.
29’ While you
speak
Answer :
1. C
2. A
3. B
4. E
5. D
Task 1: (8’)
- Lead-in task 1: And now we move to task 1.
-Ask an S to read aloud the requirement of task 1: Who can
help me read aloud the requirement of task 1.
So in this task, we have to identify which statement talk
about advantage and which statement talk about the
disadvantage. Write A for advantage and D for
disadvantage.
- Ask Ss to do task 1 individually. Do task 1 individually
and then I will call one of you to come to the board and
write down the answers.
- Call on an S to come to the board and write down the
answers.

- Check the answers with the whole class.
-Read the
requirement
and do task 1
individually
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- Ask Ss to work in pairs (one asks and one answers): And
now work in pairs: one asks and one answer. For example,
the 1
st
statement talks about the disadvantage of fossil fuels
so one asks: What is the disadvantage of fossil fuels? And
the other answers: Fossil fuels will be exhausted within a
relatively short time.
Do you understand? so now do as the example.
-Ask some pairs to stand up and present.
Task 2:(11’)
-Lead-in task 2: From task 1, you have known that
alternative sources of energy have both advantages and
disadvantages to our life, so when we want to talk about
their advantages and disadvantages how we say it in
English. Let look at the samples in the book.
- Read aloud the sample: Listen to me
- Ask Ss to practice the dialogue in pairs.
* Analyze the dialogue:
Now look at the dialogue again and pick out the
structures used to ask for opinions, expressing opinions.
What structures are used to ask for opinion?(Ss answer)

Do you know any other structures? (Ss answer)
What about structures used to express opinions? (Ss
answer).
Any other structures? (Ss answer)
* And now I will provide you with more structures: (T
distributes handouts to Ss). Look through all the structures,
if you have any questions, feel free to ask.
-Work in
pair: one asks
and one
answer.
-Listen to T
- Practice the
dialogue in
pairs
- Pick out
structures to
ask for and
give opinions
in the sample
dialogue.
-Give more
structures
they have
known.
- Learn some
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