Giáo án môn Tiếng Anh 11 - Unit 14 Lesson: Space Conquest (Reading) - Period 112: Preparation

Lesson Plan (grade 11 – advanced)
Period 112 : 	Preparation date : 27 /3/2008
Unit14 :	Lesson : Space Conquest ( Reading)
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 :
-conduct	 -envisage	 -frontier	 -sponsor	-ferry	-explore
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’)
Game: Cut – up Pictures
-Divide the class into three groups ,A,B , C
-Give each group the pieces of 3 pictures cut up and shuffled. (Yuri Gagarin, Neil Armstrong, and an astronaut). (appendix)
-tell the groups to put the pieces together to have complete pictures and then write the names in the space provided.
-When they have finished, stick their pictures on the board.
-The first group to finish and get all correct scores 5 points. With a correct name, the group wins another 5 points.
-the group with more points wins the game.
-Check SS’ understanding of instructions and have them start the game.
-Declare the winner.
-From the pictures, elicit from SS the topic of the next unit: ‘These pictures represent the topic of the next unit. What is it?’
Transition: - Yes, and that’s the topic of Unit 14. In the reading today, we ‘ll get to know more about space exploration in the world.
- write down on the board:
Period : Unit :14 
Space Conquest ( Reading)
photocopies
Chalk and board.
2. Pre-reading 
(5’)
Teaching Vocabulary
-Teach some vocabulary items through a multiple choice task.
-Ask SS to choose the word or phrase that is closest it meaning to the word in bold.
Expected answers: 1.b 2.a 3.a 4.b 5.c 6
-Have SS listen and repeat the words, one by one. 
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.
1.the market research on the demand for space tourism
a. equipment b. need c. request
2.. the first research was conducted in Japan
a. carried out b. indicated c. investigated
3. This survey revealed that
a. showed b. proved c. proposed
4. NASA is sponsoring a project
a. working on b. supporting financially c. preparing
5. Wimberley Allison Tong & Goo envisages a hotel
a. builds b. constructed c. imagines
Chalk and board
3. while - reading
(15’)
Activity 1: True – False Statements ( task a, p. 193)
- T ask Ss to read the text and the statements about the space exploration and decide if the they are true or false.
- Tell Ss to compare answers with a partner.
- Call on SS to read the sentences aloud and say their choice. Ask SS to give explanations for false sentences
 -check with the whole class.
Activity 2: 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.
Task a:
Chalk + book + small board
4. Post-reading
(15’)
Discussion
-Arrange SS to work in small groups of 4 or 5
- Ask them discuss the following questions:
- go around monitor and give help if necessary.
- call on SS to report about their groups’ and invite to give comments.
. 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?
textbooks
5. Homework
(2’)
Sentence Building
- Tell SS to make meaningful sentence using the cues given.
1. Many people/ willing / pay/to/three months/salary/trip/outer space.
2.Tow Japanese/pay/about $ 8 million /join/Russian space trip/ 2001.
Book and notebook