Giáo án Tiếng Anh Lớp 10 (Thí điểm) - Unit 9: Preserving the environment - Lesson 4: Speaking

UNIT 9 PRESERVING THE ENVIRONMENT
SKILLS - SPEAKING – Environmental impacts of human activities
I. AIMS/OBJECTIVES OF THE LESSON 
1. Knowledge
At the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
- To help learners get started with some language items in Unit 9.
- For vocabulary, they will get words and phrases related to the topic “preserving the environment”.
- For pronunciation, they will practice stress in three-syllable nouns.
2. Skills
- In Speaking: they’ll talk about consequences of polluted environment; about WWF and solutions to the environment pollution.
+ Students will pronounce those sounds correctly. They’ll also be able to use reported speech in context.
+ They’ll finish the given exercises, and consolidate and enrich their vocabulary and structures.
3. Qualities
- For weaker students, 
- The lesson helps students get started with the topic “preserving the environment”
- The unit aims at building students’ awareness of helping one another in a community.
II. TEACHING AIDS
- Teacher: laptop, board, chalk, textbook
- Students: textbook, workbook, pen, pencil
III. PROCEDURE
1. Class organization
2. New lesson
1. Activity 1
WARM UP
a. Aim: Visualize what the topic is and supply the background knowledge
b. Content: finish the task and presentation
c. Outcome: Suggestions
Label the photos with the types of pollution by game “digging gold”.
1. soil/ air pollution 
2. water pollution 
3. air pollution 
4. noise pollution 
Activity 2. Watch video, read the text again and do task 2
- Pair work 
d. Organization: 
- Divide class into 3 groups, play games and get points.
- Ask students to watch video, read the reading text again and do task 2 
2. Activity 2
PRESENTATION
a. Aim: elicit new words, supply structures and grammatical knowledge 
b. Content: finish the task and presentation 
c. Outcome: Expected answers
Work in pairs. Each pair will talk about what the impact of environment is.
- Pair work, showing their (dis)agreement expressions and point out their explanation.
Pair work - practice the model.
Student A: We are facing severe environmental pollution despite the fact that many organizations are working hard to reduce it.
Student B: Well, it is a result of human activities in modern times. For example, air pollution is a consequence of fossil fuel burning by motor vehicles, factories, aircraft and rockets.
Student A: You're right. It leads to a series of environmental problems such as acid rain, greenhouse effect, global warming, and health problems.
Student B: Well, if this goes on, the earth may soon become a dangerous place to live on. Therefore, we must do something before it is too late.
d. Organization
- Ask students to work with a partner from other group. Share their opinions.
- Supply them with some vocabulary they need.
- Get two or three representatives from different groups to go to the board and give their presentations.
- Ask the rest to listen to the representatives and take notes.
3. Activity 3
PRACTICE 
a. Aim: practice skills
b. Content: finish the task and presentation
c. Outcome: Suggested answer:
Work with group-mates. Focus on the given questions.
- Group work - Students' choice may vary.
Student A: Pose the issue
Student B: Give the causes
Student B: Give the effects
Student A: Mention solutions
d. Organization: 
Member in each group brainstorm ideas and vocabulary and present them to the whole class.
- Get two or three representatives from different groups to go to the board and give their presentations.
4. Activity 4
APPLICATION
a. Aim: use languages to practice in pairs/groups
b. Content: finish the task and presentation
c. Outcome: Act out the conversation.
- Oral work
d. Organization: Get two or three representatives from different groups to go to the board and give their presentations.
- Ask the rest to listen to the representatives and take notes.
IV. Consolidation (1 min)
- Speaking skills: making presentations; presenting in front of the class.
V. Homework: (1 min)
- Vocabulary related to environmental problems and solutions to each.
- Speaking skills: - Making presentations about environmental problems and solutions to each.
- Do the tasks again.