Giáo án Tiếng Anh lớp 11 - Period 113

Lesson Plan (grade 11 – advanced) Period 113 : Preparation date : 30 /3/2008 Unit14 : Lesson : Space Conquest –Reading (cont) Aims : By the end of the lesson, the students are able to skim for general ideas. By the end of the lesson, the students are able to scan for specific details. Lexical items : - architect - propose - complex - domed structure - surface - excursion - vast - frontier Structures : -Moon buses may transport guests on low gravity excursion Teaching aids: - textbook - picture / drawings - chalk - handouts Techniques : - Skill – based ( reading, speaking) Procedures : State/time Teacher’s and students’ activities Blackboard Materials 1. Warm-up & lead-in (7’) Checking Vocabulary: “Rub out and remember” - rub out the words and leave the explanations on the board. - point at each explanation and have SS speak out the word - again, point at any explanation ( not in the order written on the board) and have SS to call Transition: to understand more clearly about the text, today we’ll learn the comprehension - write down on the board: Period 113 : Unit :14 Space Conquest – reading (cont) photocopies Chalk and board. 2. Pre-reading (10’) Summarize the main ideas of p1 and p2 - call on a St to summarize the text which they learnt last time - comment and correct them out the word. 1.Brainstorming -Ask SS the following question to elicit vocabulary about the topic: ‘What do you know about space exploration?’ -Tell SS to write down words in the mind map. People Equipment Yuri Gagarin Space Spacesuit Exploration Country Achievement USA Other spacewalk NASA Checking General Knowledge ( task a, p. 192) -Read the question in task a and ask SS to choose the best answers to each question. - Check with the whole class. Chalk and board 3. while - reading (20’) Activity 1: Questions and answers (task b, p. 193 ) -Tell SS to read the text again and find the answers to the questions. - Ask Ss to work with a partner, ask and answer the questions. -Call on pairs to ask and answer them and check with the whole class. Activity 2: Which Section? Which information? -Put SS into pairs and give out handouts of pieces of information from the passage. -Ask SS read the text and answer the questions by writing the section which mentions the piece of information in the space provided. -Tell SS to compare answers in small groups and then go over the answers with the class. Expected answers: 1.B 2.A 3.B 4.C 5.A 6.B 7.C 8.B This is the handout: Read the text and write A, B or C beside each question. Which section mentions: A space station for holiday makers? Surveys on the demand for space tourism? The price of c ticket into space? A hotel powered by solar energy? The percentage of people who wish to travel into space? A hotel that orbits the Earth? The use of lunar ice for drinking water? The space trip taken by two Japanese businessmen? Chalk + book + small board 4. Post-reading (10’) Discussion -Arrange SS to work in small groups of 4 or 5. - Ask them discuss the following questions: a. If affordable, would you like to take a space trip? Why? Why not? b. Where would you go? c. How long would you stay there? d. What would you to there? - go around monitor and give help if necessary. - call on SS to report about their groups’ and invite to give comments. . textbooks 5. Homework (2’) Ask SS to complete the rest of the exercises in the text book Book and notebook