LESSON PLAN 1

Unit 11: Sources of energy
Lesson: Listening
Class: 11/7
Time allotted: 45’
Aim: To help students learn and practice sub-skills of listening.
Objectives: By the end of the lesson, the students will be able to:
Practice listening for gist
Listen to a monologue for comprehension
Use the new words and information from listening task to retell the main ideas.
Teaching aids and materials: Textbook, blackboard, handouts, projector.
Procedure:

Stages/ time
Activities
Work arrangements

I. Warm-up
( 5’)
Game: Bingo!
Objective: to involve Ss in the lesson and lead in the topic of the listening.
- T asks Ss to close their book
- Ask Ss to take a piece of paper
- T gives the instructions to play game:
+ Ask Ss to list kinds of energy used in their house on their paper
+ Ss are asked to list as many as they can within 2 minutes
+ T shows in turn each kind of energy and Ss will put a tick (√) next to that word
+ The first student to tick all 4 words will shout “Bingo!” and win the game
- T allows Ss to play game.
- Expected answers:
Kinds of energy used in your house:

- coal
- petroleum
- solar energy
- oil
- wind power
- gas
- water power

- T declares the winner and gives gift

Lead in:
+ T asks Ss some questions:
“Which kinds of energy do you think are renewable?”
Ss: solar energy, wind power, water power
“Which kinds of energy do you think are nonrenewable?”
Ss: coal, petroleum, oil, gas
+ T continues to ask the question:
“Why do you think Coal is nonrenewable?”
Ss: Because it takes too many years to make coal.
- T introduces: “Today we will hear a short paragraph about the importance of some vital natural resources.”
Teacher – whole class


II. Pre- Listening
( 15’)
1. Pre-teach Vocabulary:
Objective: to help Ss learn some basic words before doing tasks.
* Ecologist (n): Nhà sinh thái học
- Eliciting technique: translation
- Eliciting question:
How do you say “nhà sinh thái học” in English?
* Fossil fuels (n): Nhiên liệu hóa thạch
- Eliciting technique: example
- Eliciting question:
“Oil, coal, natural gas” are called…
* Unlimited (a): không giới hạn
- Eliciting technique: definition
- Eliciting question:
What is the word means “may or can be passed”, “without limit”?
* Renewable (a): Có thể phục hồi, có thể thay thế
- Eliciting technique: example
- Eliciting question:
“Wind and solar power are called replaceable energy. In other word, they are…”

2. Checking: Rub Out and Remember
Objective: to help Ss remember the words that they’ve just learned.
- T rubs out new words one at a time.
- T points to the Vietnamese translation and gets Ss to call out the word in English.
- T calls on some Ss to rewrite the English words on the blackboard.

3. Prediction:
Objective: to help Ss predict the information before listening to the tape
- T shows the sentences on the screen:

1. Ecology is the study of _____.
A. human beings and animals
B. the environment and solar energy
C. natural and alternative resources
D. human beings and their environment
2. The natural environment consists of _____.
A. the oceans and the land
B. the sun and the air
C. all natural resources
D. the air and the oceans
3. If the resource can be _____, it is called renewable.
A. burnt quickly
B. used easily
C. divided properly
D. replaced quickly
4. Grass for animals is a _____ resource.
A. renewable
B. nonrenewable
C. limited
D. clean
5. According to the passage, coal is nonrenewable because it takes _____ to make it.
A. billions of years
B. millions of years
C. three million years
D. three billion years


- T asks Ss to predict which choices A, B, C, or D maybe suitable for each sentence
- T collects Ss’ answers and writes them down on the blackboard.

Teacher – whole class




















Teacher – whole class







Individual work


III. While- Listening
(12’)