Giáo án Tiếng Anh 9 Unit 6: The Environment - Period 40: Reading

Planning date: 25/01/2013
Unit 6: 	The Environment
Period: 40. Reading
A/ Aims: By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to understand a poem about the environment.
- Teaching aids:	Poster
B/ Content:
* Warm up: Chatting.
T. asks Ss some questions about the poetry.
- Do you like poetry?
- Do you think it is easy to understand?
- Have you read an English poem?
- Do you understand it?
I/ Pre- reading:
1) Pre- each vocabulary:
- Junk yark (n):	bãi phế thải	( explanation )
- treasure (n):	kho báu	( translation )
- hedge (n):	hàng rào	( visual )
- nonsense (n):	điều vô nghĩa , dại dột	( translation )
- foam (n):	bọt	( picture )
* Checking:	R.O.R
2) Set the sence:
Two people are going on a picnic. They are talking about the pollution.
* Questions:
a) Who are the people in the poem?
b) Where are they?
- Have Ss to work in pairs to get the answer.
II/ While – reading:
- Ask Ss to read the poem and check their answers.
* Answer key:
a) The mother and her son.
b) They are in the park.
* Matching:
Have Ss to practise guessing the meaning of the words by matching each word in column A with one in B.
A	B
1. junk yark	a) a row of thing forming a fence
2. end up	b) people
3. treasure	c) a piece of land full of rubbish
4. foam	d) a flow of water
5. stream	e) mass of bubbles of air or gas
6. hedge	f) valuable or precious things
7. folk	g) reach a state of.
* Comprehension questions:
1. According to the mother, what will happen if the pollution goes on?
- The world will end up like a second hand junk yark.
2. Who does the mother think pollute the environment?
- She thinks other folk pollute not her or her son.
3. What will happen to the boy if he keeps on asking his mother such questions?
- His mother will take home right away.
4. Do you think the buy’s questions is silly? – Why not?
- No, because he is right, if he throw the bottles that will be polluting the wood / park.
5. What does the poet want us to learn about keeping the environment unpolluted?
- The poet wants us to learn that everyone is responsible for keeping the evironment from pollution.
III/ Post- reading:
Discussion:	Open question:
What could you do in your house to miimize pollution?
What could you do in your school to minimize polluton?
T devides class in to four groups.
Have Ss write their answers on the poster.
T. gives feedback and correct.
IV. Homework:
- Learn by heart vocabulary.
- Write five things that you can do to keep the environment clean.
- Do exercise in work book.
- Prepare for writing lesson.