UNIT 10 CONSERVATION READING

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UNIT 10 : Conservation
Reading
Designed by: My Ngan- Thuy Quynh
* The class is divided into two groups
* There are 6 apples in the tree
* Each group will choose one and answer the questions hiding inside the apples
* When having correct answer, you will get one mark
* Which group gets more marks will become the winner
 
Warm up
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What is the name of an animal with a long neck?
This animal almost live in China?
Which animal is the king of the forest?
The most beautiful bay in Viet Nam.
An ____ a day keeps the doctor a way.
A place where a stream or river falls from a high place?
Forest fires
Forest clear-cutting (deforestation)
Oil tanker spill
Liquid pollution
Forest fires
Air pollution
extinction
Environmental problems
Before you read
Vocabulary:
+ destruction (n)
+ dam (n)
 A hydroelectric dam
+ circulation (n)
+ run-off (n)
+ defence (n)
+ conservation (n)
sự bảo tồn
sự tàn phá
đập (ngăn nước)
đập thuỷ điện
sự lưu thông
sự tháo chảy
sự bảo vệ
conserve (v)
+ erosion (n)
sự xói mòn
[ di`fens ]
[ ,kɔnsə:`vei∫n ]
[ dis`trʌk∫n ]
[ dæm ]
[ ,haidrou i`lektrik ]
bảo tồn
[,sə:kju`lei∫n ]
[ `rʌn`ɔ:f ]
[ i`rouʒn ]
+ to play an important part in sth
[ kən`sə:v ]
While you read
Matching the word in A with a suitable definition in B
A
B
eliminate.
circulation
run-off
hydroelectric
the movement of something around a closed system.
concerning or producing electricity by the power of falling water
c. remove or get rid of completely
d. liquid which flows off or from (something)
Task 1
1) Each year about fifty hundred species of plants and animals are eliminated
Decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F):
2) Many kinds of plants could be used to treat various dangerous diseases: cancer, AIDS,…
3) Water can be held on land by vegetation
T
T
T
Task 2
4) Man is constantly doing harm to the
environment
5) Plants may cause floods and erosion
6) We can do nothing to save the earth
T
F
F
Task 2


Choose the most suitable main idea for each paragraph.
1. We cannot live without water.
2. Let’s do something to save the earth.
3. Forests give us a lot of valuable things.
4. Vegetation can help conserve water.
Task 3
After you read
Answer the following questions:
1) What is the consequence of losing forest?
2) How important is water in our life?
3) What should we do for the future of our planet?
Homework
- Learn by heart all the new words
- Do the exercises in work book
- Prepare the next lesson
Thanks for your listening