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UNIT 2: GLOBAL WARMING AND ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS

Lesson – Unit 3a Reading (Page 36)

1. OBJECTIVES
By the end of this lesson, students will be able to…
1.1. Language knowledge & skills
- read for specific information (sentence completion).
- read for general information (purpose identification)
- practise new vocabulary related to global warming: effect, marine, conditions, extreme weather,
extinct.
1.2. Competences
- improve students’ communication, collaboration, analytical, and critical thinking skills.
1.3. Attributes
- be aware of global warming and its effects.
2. TEACHING AIDS AND MATERIALS
- Teacher’s aids: Student’s Book and Teacher’s Book, Class CDs, projector / interactive
whiteboard / TV (if any), IWB (Phần mềm tương tác trực quan), PowerPoint slides
- Students’ aids: Student’s Book, notebook
3. ASSESSMENT EVIDENCE

Performance Tasks Performance Products Assessment Tools

- Guess the content of the text. - Students’ answers - Teacher’s feedback


- Read for specific information and
complete sentences. - Students’ answers - Teacher’s observation / Teacher’s
- Read for general idea of the text. feedback
- Talk about ecological problems caused - Students’ answers - Teacher’s feedback
by global warming and how to improve - Students’ answers/ - Teacher’s feedback/Peers’ feedback
global warming. performance

4. PROCEDURES
A. Warm-up: (5’)
a) Objectives: to introduce the new lesson and set the scene for students to acquire the new language
knowledge and skills; get students' attention at the beginning of the class with enjoyable and short
activities and engage them in the follow-up steps.
b) Content: Reviewing some words related to ecosystems that they have learned.
c) Expected outcomes: Students have general ideas about the topic of the new lesson.
d) Organisation of the activity:

Teacher’s activities Students’ activities


- Ask Ss to work in pair and watch a video about - Watch the video.
global warming then answer the questions. - Work in pair.
Link video: https://www.youtube.com/watch? - Answer the questions.
v=oJAbATJCugs&t=39s
Questions:
1. What is the video about? Suggested answer key:
2. Name one cause of global warming. 1. The video is about global warming.
2. Factories have burnt fossil fuels such as oil that
released cacbon dioxide and other gases into
atmosphere.
B. New lessons (35 minutes)
1. Pre-reading: 10 minutes
a. Objectives: to introduce the topic and predict the content of the text.
b. Contents: Task 1 (SB).
c. Expected outcomes: Students can have some general ideas about the text.
d. Organisation:

Teacher’s activities Students’ activities


1. Guessing the content of the text
- Ask students to look at the pictures, read the title of - Look at the pictures, read the title of the text, and
the text, and guess what it is about. guess what the text is about.
- Elicit the students’ answers.
- Present their ideas in front of the class when invited.
Suggested Answer Key
The text is about the effects of global warming on
Earth's ecosystems. It discusses how rising
temperatures are causing problems such as melting ice
caps, rising sea levels, floods, droughts, wildfires, and
the decline of animal populations.
2. Pre-teaching vocabulary
- Listen to the teacher and take notes.
- Teach students new words
 effect (n)
 marine (adj)
 conditions (n)
 extreme weather (phr)
 extinct (adj)
- Ask students to read the text and underline the words - Read the text and underline the words.
above.
- Get students to try guessing their meanings in the - Try guessing their meanings in the context.
context first.
- Explain the meanings of the words. - Listen to the teacher and take notes on the meanings
of those words.
 effect /ɪˈfekt/ (n): sự ảnh hưởng
 marine /məˈriːn/ (adj): (thuộc) biển
 conditions /kənˈdɪʃ.ənz/ (n): điều kiện (sống)
 extreme weather (phr): /ɪkˈstriːm ˈweð.ə(r)/: thời
tiết khắc nghiệt
 extinct /ɪkˈstɪŋkt/ (adj): tuyệt chủng

- Ask students to listen and repeat chorally and - Listen and repeat chorally and individually.
individually.

2. While – reading: 20 minutes


a. Objectives: to help students to read for specific information and author’s purpose
b. Contents: Task 2 (SB), Task 3 (SB).
c. Expected outcomes: Students can read for detailed information and complete tasks.
d. Organisation:
Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
Task 2. Read the text. Complete each sentence with
NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the text.
- Go through the Note box and tell Ss this
tip will help them to complete the task - Listen to the teacher and take notes.
successfully.

- Explain the task and then give them time to


complete the task.
- Check Ss’ answers. - Listen and complete the task.
- Give their answers when invited.
- Check their answers.
Answer Key
1. past 100 years
2. losing their homes
3. deserts and grasslands
Task 3. Read the text again and identify the author’s 4. endangered species
purpose. Choose the best answer.
- Ask Ss to read the text again and read the
choices A–D.
- Give Ss time to complete the task.
- Check Ss’ answers.

3. Post-reading: 5 minutes
a. Objectives: To help students expand the topic, use the language and information in the real
situation, and develop critical thinking.
b. Contents: Task 4 (SB)
c. Expected outcomes: Students can use the learned vocabulary to talk about their dream job.
d. Organisation:

Teacher’s activities Students’ activities


Task 4. What is your dream job? Tell your
partners.
- Ask Ss to talk in pairs about their dream job. - Work in pairs about their dream job.
- Have some pairs share their answers with - Speak in front of the class when invited.
the class. Suggested Answer Key
My dream job would be a journalist for a major
newspaper. To land my dream job, I should get
good grades in English and study Journalism
or Communications at university. I should also
find the chance to do an internship at a local
paper if possible. Then, when I have completed
my degree, hopefully, I can get my dream job
writing for a big news company.

C. Consolidation and homework assignment: 5 minutes


1. Consolidation
- Vocabulary: catch-up meeting, creative, fascinate, degree, problem-solving, strategy,
technical.
2. Homework assignment
- Learn by heart the words learned and make sentences using them.
- Do the exercises on page 15, WB.
- Prepare for the next lesson (page 25, SB).

5. REFLECTION
a. What I liked most about this lesson today:
…………………………………………………………………………………………
b. What I learned from this lesson today:
…………………………………………………………………………………………
c. What I should improve for this lesson next time:
…………………………………………………………………………………………

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