UNIT 10 NATURE IN DANGER

PART A: READING

OBJECTIVES:
Aims:To help students know nature in danger and have the
concept and importance of conservation.
Lexical items:
Vocabulary: To present new vocabulary in the text.
Teaching aids : pictures
Skills: Reading for gist and for specific information
METHOD: Integrated, mainly communicative
PROCEDURE:
T Contents

T & Ss activities

Warm-up (3ms)

- T gives feedback and

- Teacher shows 2 pictures( A: a beautiful

sticks B on the board.

forest and B: a forest with cut-down trees),

- T shows the other 4

saying: Now look at the 2 pictures please.

pictures:

What is the difference between the 2

T asks students:

pictures?

Who does these

C: a clean beach

things?

D: a dirty beach

E: living elephants

feedback,

F: killed elephants

the lesson and writes

- Teacher points to the pictures on the

Teacher

gives

introduces

the title on the board.

board, saying: Our nature is being

destroyed. Many trees are cut down. Water

Students listening to

is not clean any more and many animals

the teacher, look at the

have been killed.

pictures and answer

Pre-reading(8ms)

the questions.

- T asks Ss look at the pictures in the

textbook and say what they are.

Ss answer the

-Vocabularies: T asks Ss to have a look at questions.

the text quickly and pick out .
the

T has Ss work in pairs

same meaning words : people, , read the facts about

endangered

species

the verbs referring to destroy nature: and then discuss the

influence,

questions

affect,

textbook (P.114

the

verbs

referring

environment:

to

in

the

protect
protect,

save,
some expressions: have a great influence on,
result in,
* Expected answers:
- people, human race, human beings
- change, destroy, kill, cut, disappear
-set up ,raise, prohibit, establish
- as the result, so .that.., in danger of
becoming extinct

T reads or plays the

recording

While-reading(24ms)

reading

of

the

T gives feedback text

Task 1: The words in the box appear in the T has Ss do task 1

passage .Fill each blank with a suitble word
-Ss listen to T or to the
.

recording.

* Keys
1. extinct

-Ss read the text and

2. protect

give the answers to

3. decreasing

4 .pollutants

task 1

5. endangered

6.infterference

-T gives feedback

Task 2: T asks Ss to work in pairs , read the -Ss read the text again
text again and then circle A, B, C, or D that and do the
best sums up each paragraph.
*Keys: 1.C 2.B 3.A 4.C

activity.*Keys: (Pairwork)

Task 3: T asks Ss to work in pairs and read

the text carefully to answer the questions in .

the textbook.
*Keys:

-Ss read the text again

1. Four ways that people change the world and do the activity:
are:
-changing

(Pair-work)
the

environment

the - T gives feedback

environment by building cities and villages.

-affecting the water supply by using water
for industry and agriculture.
- changing weather conditions by cutting
down trees in the forests.
- destroying the air by adding pollutants
like smoke from factories and fumes from
cars.

2. The serious consequences of peoples

interference with the environment are:
- many kinds rare animals are killed.

- the environment where these animals are

living is badly destroyed.
- the numbers of rare animals are
decreasing so rapidly that they are in danger
of becoming extinct.
-Discuss (group-work)
Post-reading(8ms): Find out why some
animals have become extinct
-T asks Ss to work in groups and discuss
and find out why some animals have -Do the homework
become extinct.
-T corrects them when necessary.

Homework (2ms) T ask Ss to prepare the

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