Unit 6. The environment

Saturday, January 9th , 2010
UNIT 6: THE ENVIRONMENT
Lesson 3: Read
Teacher: Ngo Sach Thieu
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You have learnt a lot of vietnamese poems?
Have you read any English poems?
Mummy ,oh Mummy

“ Mummy, oh Mummy, what’s going to happen
If all the pollution goes on?”
“ Well the world will end up like a second- hand junk yard,
With all of its treasures quite gone.

The field will be littered with plastics and tins,
The streams will be covered with foam.
Now throw those soda bottles over the hedge,
Save us from taking them home.”
“ But Mummy, oh Mummy, if I throw the bottles,

Won’t that be polluting the woods?”
“Nonsense| That isn’t the same thing at all,
You just keep quiet and be good.
If you’re going to start getting silly ideas,
I’ll take you home right away.

Because pollution is something that other folk do,
We’re just enjoying our day.”
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What do you think of?
vocabulary
Junk- yard: a piece of land full of rubbish.
Junk -yard
A piece of land full of rubbish
vocabulary
Junk yard: a piece of land full of rubbish.
Foam: mass of bubble of air or gas
Mass of bubble of air or gas
Foam
vocabulary
Junk yard: a piece of land full of rubbish.
Foam: mass of bubble of air or gas
Stream: a flow of water
A flow of water
Stream
Junk yard: a piece of land full of rubbish.
Foam: mass of bubble of air or gas
Stream: a flow of water
Fence: a row of thing
Hedge: a row of thing forming a fence
hedge
a row of thing forming a fence
fence
Junk yard: a piece of land full of rubbish.
Foam: mass of bubble of air or gas
Stream: a flow of water
Fence: a row of thing
Hedge: a row of thing forming a fence
Treasure: valuable or precious thing
treasure
valuable or precious thing
End up:
reach a state of
Junk yard

End up
Treasure

Foam
Stream

Hedge
Folk
nonsense
A row of things forming a fence
Peopl
A piece of land full of rubbish
A flow of water
Mass of bubbles of air or gas
Valuable or precious thing
Reach a state of
Silly ideas
MATCHING
* Matching : Match each word in A to an appropriate explaination in B
Mummy ,oh Mummy

“ Mummy, oh Mummy, what’s going to happen
If all the pollution goes on?”
“ Well the world will end up like a second- hand junk yard,
With all of its treasures quite gone.

The field will be littered with plastics and tins,
The streams will be covered with foam.
Now throw those soda bottles over the hedge,
Save us from taking them home.”
“ But Mummy, oh Mummy, if I throw the bottles,

Won’t that be polluting the woods?”
“Nonsense| That isn’t the same thing at all,
You just keep quiet and be good.
If you’re going to start getting silly ideas,
I’ll take you home right away.

Because pollution is something that other folk do,
We’re just enjoying our day.”

Mummy ,oh Mummy

“ Mummy, oh Mummy, what’s going to happen
If all the pollution goes on?”
“ Well the world will end up like a second- hand junk yard,
With all of its treasures quite gone.

The field will be littered with plastics and tins,
The streams will be covered with foam.
Now throw those soda bottles over the hedge,
Save us from taking them home.”
“ But Mummy, oh Mummy, if I throw the bottles,

Won’t that be polluting the woods?”
“Nonsense| That isn’t the same thing at all,
You just keep quiet and be good.
If you’re going to start getting silly ideas,
I’ll take you home right away.

Because pollution is something that other folk do,
We’re just enjoying our day.”

Mother and son
They are walking in the woods
Read the poem and check T/F
1. The world will end up like junkyard if the pollution goes on.

2. The fields will be clean with plastics and tins
3. The stream will be covered with foam.

4. She and her son are polluting the environment
Mummy ,oh Mummy

“ Mummy, oh Mummy, what’s going to happen
If all the pollution goes on?”
“ Well the world will end up like a second- hand junk yard,
With all of its treasures quite gone.

The field will be littered with plastics and tins,
The streams will be covered with foam.
Now throw those soda bottles over the hedge,
Save us from taking them home.”
“ But Mummy, oh Mummy, if I throw the bottles,

Won’t that be polluting the woods?”
“Nonsense| That isn’t the same thing at all,
You just keep quiet and be good.
If you’re going to start getting silly ideas,
I’ll take you home right away.

Because pollution is something that other folk do,
We’re just enjoying our day.”

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According to the mother, what will happen if the pollution goes on?
=> If the pollution goes on, the world will end up like a second-hand junk yard.
Who does the mother think pollution the environment?
=>She thinks other people pollution the environment except her and her son.
What will happen to the boy if he keeps on asking his mother such questions?
=> If the boy keeps on asking his mother such questions, he will be taken home right away
* Sum Up
* The mother asked her son to throw the soda bottles over the hedge.
* The mother thinks other folk pollute the environment but not her and her son.
What does the poet want to tell us?
/keeping the environment from pollution.
* The mother and the son are walking in the woods.
Do you think the boy’s question (line 9-10)is silly? Why? or Why not?
No. I don’t think so. Because he says throwing the bottles
over the hedge will also cause pollution
….But Mummy, oh Mummy, if I throw the bottles,

Won’t that be polluting the woods?”
….
What could you do in school / house to minimize pollution ?

What could you do in school / house to minimize pollution ?

- Answer the questions again
(exercise b / page 51)
- What do you think about littering and using electricity to catch fish?- Listing your ideas.