Week : 32
03/04/2015
Period: 64
08/04/2015
Date of preparation:
Date of teaching:
UNIT 10 : LIFE ON OTHER PLANETS
Lesson 1: GETTING STARTED – LISTEN AND READ
I. OBJECTIVES:
- By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to talk about UFOs with basic information received
through discussion and the reading.
II. PREPARATION: pictures, extra board.
III. PROCEDURE:
TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES
1/ Warm-up: (8’)
Getting started
- Ask Ss to look at the pictures and elicit the
meaning of UFOs.
- Ask Ss to work in pairs and discuss the
following questions.
a. Have you ever heard of UFOs? Do you think
they really exist?
b. Have you ever seen any films on UFOs?
What are they about?
c. If you saw a UFO, what would you do?
- Gather ideas and provide some facts about
UFOs (see supplements)
2/ Presentation: (12’)
- Ask Ss to look at Listen and read.
- Elicit the new words.
I. New words:
object (n): vật thể
Alien (n): người ngoài hành tinh
strange (n): lạ
Spacecraft (n): tàu vũ trụ
planet (n): hành tinh
another (a) : khác
Plate – like (a): hình đĩa
evidence (n): bằng chứng
capture (v): bắt giữ
examine (v): khám xét
mistake (v): nhầm
STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES
- Observe.
- Group in pair, find out the answers.
+ UFOs = Unidentified Flying Objects
- Listen.
- Open the book.
- Listen, guess and take note.
not : không
disappear (v): biến mất
aboard (adv): lên tàu
- Check Voc.: R.O.R
- Play the tape and set the scene: "UFOs are
strange flying objects that some people report
that they have seen in the sky and believed to be
spacecraft from another planet, Many scientists
do not believe so, they say that if people see a
UFO, it might be an aircraft, a weather balloon
or a meteor however, there is still evidence for
people believe in the existence of UFOs".
3/ Practice: (15’)
Activity 1:
- Tell Ss to work in pairs and find the words in
the text having meanings as in the book
instructed.
- Ask Ss to compare their answers with a friend.
Encourage Ss to guess the meaning of the words
in the context of the passage.
- Do as directed.
- Listen and read.
- Work in pairs.
- Compare with friends, and then read aloud.
* Answers:
1. Evidence
2. meteor
3. aliens
4. collecting
5. captured
6. disappeared
Activity
2:
- Ask Ss to work in groups and read the passage - Work in groups to complete the sentences.
a. An aircraft, a weather balloon or a meteor
to complete the sentences.
can be mistaken for an alien spacecraft.
b. ……………. nine large round objects
traveling at about 2.800 meters an hours
c. ……….. over 1.500 sightings ……..
d. ……….. saw a UFO above their ……
e. ………. Saw an egg – shaped object in one
of his fields and also aliens collecting soil
samples ……..
f. ……… claimed they were captured by aliens
and taken abroad a spacecraft.
g. …… and his plane disappeared after sighting
a UFO…
h. ……….. that he saw a plate like device at a
treetop 30 meters away …
4/ Production: (8’)
- Divide class into small groups. Ask them to - Work in groups.
match the timeline in A to the events in B when
* Answers:
the game is finished, ask Ss to recall the passage
1- c
and present it to class.
2- e
3- a
A
B
4- b
1. 1947
a. a woman
5- f
6- d
5/ Homework: (2’)
- Have Ss:
+ Learn new words by heart.
+ Rewrite the sentences in notebook.
+ Prepare for the next lesson 2: Speak + Listen.
- Write assignments.
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