WELCOME TO

THE UNDERSEA
WORLD
Presenters: Nguyễn Trần Lê
Phạm Thị Hà Mi
 READING
Pre-reading
Warm-up
Presenting vocabulary
While-reading
Activity 1
Activity 2
Post-reading
Listening task
Speaking task
• 5 oceans of the world • challenge
• gulf • investigate
• bay • organism
• submarine • offspring
• starfish • at stake
• jellyfish • biodiversity
• whale & sperm whale • life span
• seal • habitat
5 OCEANS OF THE WORLD
• gulf (n)
• meaning: a large
area of land that is
partly surrounded
by sea

Gulf of
California
• bay (n)
• meaning: a part of
the sea, or of a large
lake, enclosed by a
wide curve of the
shore

Crescent
Bay
• submarine (n)
• meaning: a ship that can travel underwater
starfish (n)
jellyfish (n)
 whale
(n)

sperm whale
(n)
seal (n)
challenge (n) a new or difficult task that test sb’s
ability or skill.
Ex: New technology is one of the challenges
schools must face.
• (v) to test sb’s ability or skill, especially in an
interesting way.
Ex: The job doesn’t really challenge her.
challenger (n)
challenging (a)
Ex: Protecting environment is a challenging
matter.
• investigate (v)
– meaning: to find out more information and
facts about a subject or problem by study or
research
– Ex: The research investigates how the
increase of population effects the
development of our country.

investigation (n)
investigator (n)
• organism (n)
meaning: a living thing, especially one that is
extremely small

• offspring (n)
meaning: the young of an animal or plant

• at stake : meaning: in danger

Ex: If we don’t pay more attention to the
protection of marine life, it may be at stake.
• biodiversity //
(n)

– bio- : connected with living things or human life

– diversity : the quality of including a range of
people or things

meaning : the existence of a large number of

different kinds of animals and plants which
make a balanced environment
• habitat // (n)
meaning : the place where a particular type of
animal or plant is normally found
Ex: The panda’s natural habitat is the bamboo
forest.

• life span / / (n)

meaning : the length of time that sth is likely to
live
Ex: The life span of a dog is about 10 - 15
years.
FIND THE WORD IN THE TEXT
THAT MEANS :
 connected with the sea
 very small
 a part taken from a group and used in
tests
 supply
 under
 very large
READ THE TEXT AND ANSWER
THESE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:

1. Describe 5 oceans in the world.

2. What technologies help us study the
undersea world and its marine life?
3. How do we classify the marine plants
and animals? Can you give some
examples for each group?
Listen to the song and do
the following tasks

 Task 1

 Task 2
 Fill in the blanks:

The ___ is always greener

In somebody else's lake
You ___ about going up there
But that is a big ___
Just look at the world around you
Right here on the ___ floor
Such wonderful things surround you
What more is you ___ for?
 Rearrange the following sentences:

 Out in the sun they slave away

 Under the sea, under the sea
 Darling it's better down where it's wetter
 Under the sea, ha ha...
 Up on the shore they work all day
 While we're devoting full time to floating
 Take it from me
 SPEAKING

 Work in pairs to discuss the following

questions:
1. List at least 5 reasons why marine life is at
stake.
2. Can you suggest some possible solutions.
 HOMEWORK Name

Complete the table with Habitat

the information of a
marine animal you like. Appearance
Habits
Use the information from
the table to write a Offspring
paragraph describing that Life span
animal
Special
features