Giáo án Tiếng Anh 12 - Unit 2: Cultural diversity (Reading 1)

Unit 2: CULTURAL DIVERSITY

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READING 1

I. Objectives:
1. Educational aim:
- Students read passage comprehension about role of cultural diversity
- Students know how to use the new words through asking and answering
2. Knowledge:
- General knowledge: - Through this unit, students know more about cultural diversity
- New words: Words related to the topic (culture, society....)
3. Skills:
-Guessing meaning from context
-Summarizing main idea
-Passage comprehension
II. Method: Intergrated, mainly communicative
III. Teaching aids: Board, tape, cassetteplayer, chalks, textbook and notebook
IV. Procedures:
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
Warm-up: (4 minutes)
- Ask students to list out the factors that create a
- Listen to the teacher
happy life
- Answer the question
-Let students work in pairs
-Ask students questions
_Lead in: Today, we’ll study a new lesson Unit 2- part
A :Reading

Pre-reading: (7 minutes)
- Ask students to work in groups of four
Work in groups to talk about the
and guess what are happening in the picture.
activities in the pictures
Hang on the blackboard the table of the questions
- Look at the questions and try to
to help students to guess the activity in each
answer them in groups to discuss.
picture:
- Which of the following factors is the most - One student speaks out his/her
important for a happy life ?W hy ?
ideas in front of the class .
- Love, money, parents’ approval, a nice house,a
good job, good health...etc.
- Ask the representatives of the groups to express - Look at the board, note down.
their ideas in front of the class.
- Give the feedback
+ Pre-teach some new words
- Read the new words in chorus
- precede (v)
- counterpart(n)
twice.
- confide(v)
- sacrifice (v)
- Work in groups to guess meanings
- Ask students to read up in chorus twice.
of the words.
- Ask students to guess the meaning of the new - Listen to the teacher
words.

+ Introduce the situation of the passage
+ Show students the tasks of the reading
While-reading: (20 minutes)
- Make the class read the small talks, to scan the Read the passage in skim
details and do the tasks
Task 1:


Ask students to read the passage in skim to make
sure the meaning of the words.
- Call some students to show the meanings
- Ask students to read the passage again and do the
task in groups of four
- Call on some students to read the answers in
front of the class.
- Ask students to read the sentences with the words
given

- Show the meaning of the words.
- Work in groups to fill in the
blanks.
- Read the italicized words/ phrases
and explain in front of the class:
1, precede: happen or exist
2, determine: find out
3, confide: tell somebody about
something very private or secret
4, sacrifice: willingly stop having
something you want
5, obliged: having a duty to

something.

Task 2
- Ask students to work in groups of 8 to answer the - Work in pairs to answer the
questions given.
questions.
- Call on some students to show the class the right A: What are the four key values
answers
in the survey?
B: They are Physical attractiveness,
-Listen to the students and help them if neccesary.
Confiding,........
A: Who are much more concerned
with physical...........?
B: The young Americans are much
more concerned than the young
Indians and the Chinese........
A: What are the Indian students’
attitudes on a partnership of equals ?
B: The Indian students agree that a
woman gas to sacrifice........

Post-reading: (12 minutes)
Ask students to work in groups to discuss about the
question:
+ What are the differences between a traditional
Vietnamese family and a morden Vietnamese
family?
- Give some suggested words to talk about a
family :number of children, the house they like to

have, the head of the family, who works, who takes
care of the housework and children, the income...
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- Read the questions carefully and
work in pairs to answer the
questions.
A: - I think a modern family has
fewer children than a traditional one.
the head of the family in a modern
family is both a husband and wife,
they share the household chores and
take care of their children....
- Work in groups to discuss to
compare to other groups.

Call on some representatives on the groups to - Talk in front of the class about the
talk about the differences
class.


Homework : (2 minutes)
-Do reading text in workbook
-Prepare the next lesson

-Listen to the teacher and take note