Date of teaching: 09-13/01/2017
Class: 8A5, 8A7
Week: 22
Period: 64
UNIT 10: RECYCLING
Lesson 1: LISTEN AND READ (p.p.89+90)
I. OBJECTIVES:
1. Knowledge: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to do something to protect the environment and save natural resources.
a. Grammar: 1. Passive forms: future and present 2. Adjectives followed by an infinitive and a noun clause
b. Vocabulary: leaves, wrap, garbage, fertilizer, representative, reduce, reuse, recycle, product, overpackaged, envelope...
2. Skills: Listening - Reading - Speaking
3. Attitude: Sts will try their best to save the natural resources and protect the environment.
II. PREPARATION:
1. Teacher:
- Prepare the lesson carefully: (teaching aids make lesson plan by power point, book, laptop, sound)
2. Students:
- Learn the previous lesson by heart.
- Prepare the new lesson at home: (write new words; read text; answer questions)
III. STEPS FOR TEACHING:
1. Check the previous lesson: (5’)
- T asks Sts to combine two sentences, using in order to, so as to
2. New lesson: (40’)
Stage
Steps/Activities
Work Arrangement




Warm up
(5’)

Brainstorm:
- Draw the circle with an example on the board.
- Ask Sts to think of ways to reduce the amount of garbage they produce.
I. GETTING STARTED




Possible answers:
Use cloth bags, use tree leaves to wrap things, make garbage into fertilizer, make vegetable matter into animal food...
- T leads to the new lesson.
Whole class
















Pre-Reading
(10’)

- Explain the form sentence
- Ask Sts use the phrases in the box to make the sentences
We should use tree leaves ...
We should use ....
We ....
- Correct
II. LISTEN AND READ
Vocabulary
- T uses techniques to introduce the new words.
representative
(to) protect: to keep so/ sth safe from danger.
natural resources: (coal, mines, oil, gold,...)
(to) contact: (to) communicate with
- Present new words on the board
- Have Sts copy
- Guide Sts to read them in chorus
- Ask Sts to listen to the situation
- Put the chart with the statements on the board.
- Ask Sts to work in pairs to decide if the statements are true or false
- Ask Sts to open their books, listen to the tape while reading the dialogue.
- Call Sts to correct the false statements
Set the scene:
A representative from Friends of the Earth, Miss Blake, is talking to the students of Quang Trung School, friends of the Earth shows people how to protect the environment and save natural resources.
True or False?
1. Friends of the Earth is an organization to help people make friends with each other.
2. Miss Blake asks the students to remember 3 things: reduce, reuse, recycle.
3. Reduce means buying the products which are overpacked.
4. We cannot reuse things like envelopes, glass, plastic bottles, old plastic bags.
5. Miss Blake says that we should use cloth bags and shouldn`t use plastic bags at all.
6. Recycling means not just throwing things away but trying and finding another use for them.
Answer Key:
1. False ( an organization to help people protect the environment and save natural resources
2. True
3. False ( Reduce mean not buying……
4. False ( We can reuse things…
5. True.
6. True.

Whole class









Whole class















Whole class




While-Reading
(10’)

III. COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS
- Ask Sts to look at the questions on p. 90 and work in pairs.
- Monitor and help Sts with their work.
- Call some pairs to ask and answer the questions.
- Give feedback.
Answer Key:
a. Reduce means not buying products which are overpacked.
b. We can reuse things like envelopes, glass, plastic bottles and old plastic bags.
c. Recycle means not just throwing things away. Try and find another use for them.
d. We can look for information on recycling things by having a contact with an organization like Friends of the Earth, going to the local library or asking your family
and friends.
e. (Students` answers)
(Possible answer