Giáo án English 9 - Period 59, Unit 9: Natural Disaters - Ngô Thị Hương

Week: 30 Date of preparing: 23/03/2014 Period: 59 Date of teaching: 25/03/2014 UNIT 9: NATURAL DISASTERS Lesson 3: READ I. OBJECTIVES: 1. Educational aims: Ss should be alert and careful with natural disasters warned by scientists. 2. Teaching aims: By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to practice the reading for details about the natural disasters in the world: earthquakes, tidal waves, typhoons, volcanoes, tornadoes. II. PREPARATIONS: book, cassette tape, extra – board. III. PROCEDURES: Teacher’s activities Students’ activities 1. Warm – up (5’) - Review name some natural disasters earthquake typhoon Natural disasters drought tidal wave Volcano food snow -Whole class 2. Pre - reading (10’) - Introduce some new words: + (to) collapse (v) + (to) strike – struck (v) + (to) suck up (v) + shift (n) + tidal wave (n) + (to) warn (v) + tornado (n) + abrupt (adj) + (to) erupt (v) a eruption (n) + funnel-shaped (adj) - Have Ss practice the new words. - Check vocabulary. - Set the scene: you are going to read a text about some major natural disasters in the world - Have Ss read the sentences and guess which sentence is true, which is false - Guess the meaning of new words - Practice. - Whole class - Listen. - Guess the sentences 3. While - reading (20’) - Have Ss read the text and check their prediction - Call Ss to get feedback Answer key: 1 - T, 2 - T, 3 - F, 4 - T, 5 - F, 6 – T - Have Ss read the text again and complete the sentences - Call Ss to get feedback Answer key: occur around the pacific Rim People were killed when homes, office blocks and highways collapsed There is an abrupt shift in the underwater movement of the earth. as a cyclone the word “typhoon” passed overland below a thunderstorm and sucks up anything that is in its path. - Read the text and check. - Read the answer. - Work in group - Read the answer. 4. Post – reading: (8’) - Have Ss work in group to discuss the questions: “How can we do to decrease damage of natural disasters?” - Get feedback - Work in group. - Give the answer. 5. Homework: (2’) - Have Ss learn by heart vocabulary Prepare next lesson: Unit 9- Write/ p.79 Take note IV. COMMENTS: _________________________________ b"&"a _________________________________