Lesson plan unit 11 english 11

LESSON PLAN
Supervisor’s name: Le Thi Tuyet Minh Student Teacher’s name: Vo Thi Ngoc Thuyen Class: ……. Students’ level & characteristics: Grade 11/Pre-Intermediate level (the majority of students are shy and passive, some are smart and active...) Lesson: Listening – Unit 11 (English 11 – Basic Edition) Teaching time: Period 1 Tuesday morning Jan 26th 2010
Aims: This lesson aims to
Language:
To help students listen to a short passage and understand specific information about two groups of natural resources.
To present and practice some vocabulary items concerning groups of natural resources and how to use them carefully.
Skill:
To give students practice in listening for gist and detail.
To help improve students’ writing skill via the task in the post-listening stage
Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
Develop such listening micro-skills as listening for specific and detailed information.
Improve their skill of writing about the use of natural resources.
Use the acquired language and knowledge to write a paragraph about different kinds natural resources
Relevant Previous Knowledge: Students have finished the Reading and Speaking sections of Unit 11

Approaches and Teaching Aids: a. Grammar-Translation Method + Communicative Approach b. BB, computer, projector, realia, textbook, handouts…..
Anticipated problems:
The majority of students may not be familiar with the topic “Sources of Energy”
Most of the students are not good at listening.
( Solutions: Teacher gives students a short warm-up activity on the topic in order to familiarize them with the topic.
Teaching procedure
Classroom procedure (1’) * Greeting * Checking attendance
B. New Lesson: (42’)
Teacher’s activities + Timing
Students’ activities
Content

Pre – Listening:
Warm-up: (5’)
Divide the class into 2 groups and tell the instructions of the crossword.
“Each group will choose a number, and then answer the question of this number. 10 marks for the correct answer. If that group can’t answer the question, the chance is for the other, 5 marks for the correct one. After 2 groups find out all words here, you’ll have 10 seconds to guess the key word today by arranging letters in each answer. Raise your hand if you have the answer first and 20 marks for the key word.”
Check students whether they understand the rule.
Set the game in motion
After all the words are made known, introduce the topic of the today’s lesson: “The key word here is RESOURCE, so today we’re going to listen to a text about natural resources.”
Presenting vocabulary: (8’)
RESOURCE (n)
Show some pictures of natural resources and elicit:
“ People say that our country is rich in mineral supplies such as steel, iron or coal, also has a huge amount of forest, water, wind and solar. All of these are called resources, natural resources.”
Ask students for its meaning.
Give students an example.
VITAL (a)
Ask students to list something we cannot live without them.
Elicit the meaning:
“People can’t live without these resources, right? So, the natural resources are very necessary for our life. Or we can say, the natural resources are vital for our life.”
Ask students for synonyms.
Give students an example
ECOLOGY
Ask them to name some animals and the place they live.
Eliciting the meaning:
“So, these animals have the relation with their own environment. And the science that studies the relation between the environment and animals is ecology.”
Ask them to translate into Vietnamese.
If they cannot, give them the Vietnamese meaning.
RENEWABLE (a)
Show pictures of solar panel and windmills.
Eliciting meaning by asking some questions:
+ What source of energy does each picture refer to?
+ Do we use these sources of energy every day?
+ How long does it take them to be replaced?
Lead to the meaning:
“Ok, these sources of energy are replaced quickly and naturally, so we call them renewable energy.”
Ask students for the Vietnamese meaning.
Give students the opposite word.
FERTILIZE
Show 2 contrast pictures: the first one is a barren area; the other is an area with green plants.
Ask students for comparisons.
Lead to the meaning:
“Ok, the soil in the first picture is dry so flowers or trees can’t grow in this soil; whereas you can see plants grow very well in the second picture, right? Maybe people add more substances to soil to make plants grow well, or we can say the soil is fertilized.”
Ask students for the Vietnamese meaning.
Give student the family word and an example.
Conduct repeatition
T reads the words aloud.
Ask students to repeat the new vocabulary chorally and individually.
Guiding Questions:
Give the guiding questions for the talk that