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LESSON PLAN
Unit 10: NATURE IN DANGER
A. READ (page 114)

I. OBJECTIVES
1. Formation of behavior, language knowledge and knowledge skill:
By the end of the lesson, the students will have:

- Collected more new words and information related to the nature.

- Located new words in the blanks by guessing the meaning in context.
- Had practice in identifying the main idea of the passage.
- Discussed their own ideas about the importance of protecting nature in
danger and endangered animals.
2. Language Materials:
a. Vocabulary:
- Noun: pesticide, habitat.
- Verb: threaten.
- Adjective: vulnerable.
b. Grammar: the tense and passive voice…
c. Skills: skimming, developing reading.
3. Time: (45 minutes)
4. Method: Integrated and mainly communicative.
5. Teaching Aids: Textbook, lesson plan, laptop, power point, projector, black
board…

II. PROCEDURES: 45 minutes

Steps & Students’

Teacher’s Activities Content
Timing Activities
Warm- - Ask students to access the website - Access the The website address:
up address given to play a matching game. website https://bitly.com.vn/zw5tuq
(7’) - Give instruction of the game. - Listen to
teacher
The instruction: “Tap a
pair of tiles at a time to
reveal if the picture and the
- Let students play the game individually in - Play the name are a match. The time
 2 minutes. game will be counted when you
- Declare the winner. - List the flip the card but you have
- Ask students to list the name of the name of the maximum 2 minutes to
animals that appear on the game to check animals finish”.
if they participate in the game. - Answer the
- Ask some questions about those animals. questions

- List of animals: elephant,

tiger, panda, rhinoceros,
zebra, koala bear.
- Give feedback to students’ answers and - Listen to
lead in to the lesson. teacher
Lead-in: “From the activity, you know the - Questions:
numbers of many animals have become 1. Where do these animals
smaller. Why have they become smaller? live?
What makes them become smaller? Let’s Expected answer: In the
start our lesson today to answer these jungle.
questions”. 2. Have the numbers of
these wild animals
become larger or smaller?
Expected answer: They
have become smaller.
 Pre- - Introduce the topic of the unit: Nature in - Look closely + Activity:
_____ Danger at the picture. INSTRUCTIONS
(10’) - Activity: Show students a picture of a -Listen - The teacher will show 2
white rhino. carefully questions. Students
- Answer knowing the answers will
ICQs raise their hands to take the
turn. The one with the
correct answer will get 1
point.

SAMPLE ANSWERS:

Questions 1: What kind of

- Ask the student to answer questions - Answer the animal is it?
related to the picture teacher’s Answer: It’s a rhino.
- Give instructions. question.
- Ask ICQs to check students’ -Listen Question 2: What happened
understanding. carfully to its horn? Why?
- Check student’s answers. -Answer Answer: It got cut off. In
CCQs order to protect it from
- Repeat the poachers.
- Present the vocabulary items which are vocab items
necessary for the reading task.
- Use techniques to help students guess the
meaning of the words.
- Ask CCQs.
- Ask the whole class and individual to
repeat the vocabulary items.

- Noun:
✦ pesticide /ˈpes.tɪ.saɪd/ (Definition +
picture: a chemical substance used
to kill harmful insects, pests, small animals)
 ✦ habitat /ˈhæb.ɪ.tæt/ (Definition + picture:
the natural environment in which
an animal or plant usually lives)
- Adjective
✦ Vulnerable /ˈvʌl.nər.ə.bəl/ (context,
definition): able to be easily hurt,
infuenced.
Pandas are vulnerable, they can be easily
hurt and attacked because their living
environment is badly destroyed)
- Verb
✦ Threaten /ˈθret.ən/ ( Definition): to
be likely to cause harm or damage to
something or someone.

+ Memory check the words by showing the

pictures and objects and ask students to say
out loud the word.

While -gives instruction -listen to the *Instructions:

you read instruction - Find keywords in the
(15’) answers. Teacher ask
some students to find the
keywords infront of the
class.
-Read the paragraph again
- Match the keyword with
the paragraph which tell
the main idea of the
paragraph.

Task 2. Circle A, B, C or
-asks students to underline keywords. -underline the D that best sums up
keywords. each paragraph.
-asks students to answer what the keywords -answer the 1. Paragraph 1
are. teacher A. Human beings need to
grow food.
B. Human beings pollute
the environment.
C. Human beings interfere
with nature.
 D. People should stop living
in cities and villages.
2. Paragraph 2
A. Many animals are
disappearing.
B. Human beings are
responsible for the
changes in the
environment.
-sets time (4 minutes) -do the task C. People are in danger of
becoming extinct.
-helps students if they need any help -ask teacher if D. The human race is also
they need any an endangered species.
help 3. Paragraph 3
A. Human beings have
-invites 4 students to answer the questions -answer the made efforts to protect
and 4 students to correct each student that questions and the environment.
answered the 4 questions correct the B. Scientists have made a
answers of the long list of endangered
4 students: species.
C. People should be kept
-note the away from animals and
-corrects the questions answers plants.
D. Rare animals do not
disappear.
4. Paragraph 4
A. The survival of
endangered species
B. The Earth − a happy
planet
C. Conditions for a peaceful
co-existence
D. People’s interference
with the environment
-Keywords:
1.
A. Human beings need to
grow food.
B. Human beings pollute
the environment.
C. Human beings interfere
with nature.
D. People should stop living
in cities and villages.
2.
A. Many animals are
disappearing.
B. Human beings are
responsible for the
changes in the
environment.
C. People are in danger of
becoming extinct.
D. The human race is also
an endangered species.

3.
A. Human beings have
made efforts to protect
the environment.
B. Scientists have made a
long list of endangered
species.
C. People should be kept
away from animals and
plants.
D. Rare animals do not
disappear.
4.
A. The survival of
endangered species
B. The Earth − a happy
planet
C. Conditions for a peaceful
co-existence
D. People’s interference
with the environment

-Answer keys:
1. C
2. B
3. A
4. C
 Task 3. Work with
partner. Answer the
-listen to the questions and note where
-gives instruction instruction did you find the information
in the passage.
1.What are the four ways by
which human beings are
changing the world?
2. What are the serious
consequences of people's
interference with the
environment?
3. What has been done to
protect the environment?

-Keywords:
-underline the 1. “the four ways by which
-asks students to underline keywords. keywords. human beings, changing the
-answer the world’’
-asks students to answer what the keywords teacher 2. “the serious
are. consequences of people's
interference with the
environment”
3. “What has been done,
protect the environment”
-listen to the
-gives students scaffolding teacher -Scaffolding: base on the
underlined keywords. Find
the information that mostly
match with the keywords
and underline the clues.
-answer the
-asks ICQ to check: teacher -Answer keys:
1. clue: paragraph 1: line 3
-do the task to line 8
-sets time (4 minutes) - Four ways that people
-ask teacher if change the world are:
-helps students if they need any help they need any
help + changing the
environment by building
-answer the cities and villages.
-invites 3 students to answer the questions questions and
and 3 students to correct each student that correct the + affecting the water
answered the 3 questions answers of the supply by using water for
 3 students industry and agriculture.

-note the + changing weather

answers conditions by cutting down
-corrects the questions trees in the forests.

+ destroying the air by

adding pollutants like
smoke from factories.

2. clue: paragraph 2: line

10 to line 14

- The serious consequences

of people's interference
with the environment are:

+ Many kinds of rare

animals are killed.

+ The environment where

these animals are living is
badly destroyed.

+ The numbers of rare

animals is decreasing so
rapidly that they are in
danger of becoming
extinct.

3. clue: paragraph 3: line

21 to line 22

- Many things have been

done to protect endangered
nature, such as:

+ Many organizations have

been set up and money has
been raised to save rare
animals.
 + Thousands of national
parks have been
established.

+ Laws have been passed

to prohibit killing
endangered animals.

After you - Introduces the requirement - Listen to the - The requirement: Based
read requirement. on the clues in the handout,
(10’) prepare your own speaking
about an endangered
animal.
- Gives instruction - Listen to the
instruction
- Instruction:
+ I'll give you some clues
for your speaking.
+ You have 5 minutes to
- Answer work individually, and
- Asks ICQs ICQs connect your idea to a
complete talk.
- Gives the handouts to the students. - Look at the + After 5 minutes, I'll call
handout and you randomly to talk in
read the clues front of our class.

- The clues:
+ Name of the animal you
are going to talk about
(panda, blue whale, tiger,
gorilla,…)
+ Where do they live?
- Monitors and supports the students if - Prepare their ( forest, cave, sea,…)
necessary. speaking + Why do they become
based on the endangered? ( changing
clues. temperature, hunting,
pollution, ….)
- Invites some students to present - Talk in front + Give some solutions to
 of the class. save them. (criticize
hunting, plant more trees,
- Gives feedback - Listen to T's protect the environment,…)
feedback and
correct the
mistakes.

-Asks the students to listen and repeat all - Listen to the

the new words. teacher.

- Shows the vocabulary and reads all of - Repeat after - Now, you will listen and
them the teacher repeat all the new words
after me.
- Invites some students to read the new - Read aloud
words. the new - Vocabulary:
words + Pollutant (n)
+ Interference (n)
+ Extinct (adj)
- Gives homework - Listen and + Endangered (adj)
take note the + Pesticide (n)
homework + Habitat (n)
+ Vulnerable (adj)
+ Threaten (v)

- Homework:
+ Learn by heart the new
words
+ List 7 reasons why
endangered animals become
extinct.
+ Prepare part D: Writing.

III. FEEDBACK:
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