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Lesson Main Aim: By the end of the lesson, students will have practiced their reading for gist and detailed comprehension about the escape in a
voyage.
Subsidiary Aim(s):
- To practice reading for gist and details.
- To learn vocabulary in the text.
- To give their opinions about the text.
Personal Aims:
- to improve questions to check students' understanding.
- to hold interesting game to promote a communicative environment.
- to analyze vocabulary in greater depth and use more cohesion between vocabularies to help students understand words easier.
Context: an escape
Materials / Resources
Naomi Simmons. Family and Friends 4. 1st edition. Oxford University Press, p87.
Converted book: page updated later
Lead in - Tell a story about an escape the teacher or the teacher's pets had.
Reading for gist (5-7m) - Read paragraph 1 and retell the paragraph in one sentence. (They can use L1)
- Read three first sentences and the last sentence of paragraph 2.
- Summarize the main idea of the text. What is the text is about? - It is about a
crew having an accident and getitng stuck amidst the ocean but in the end, despite
all the difficulties, they escape.
- T will read the text or play the audio.
Listen and read (10m)
- T let S read aloud and then give them time to read again on their own
Guess the words (10m) - explorer, melt, frozen, sink (sank), lifeboat, survive, storm, wave, rescue. (1)
- let them check their guesses and report how many words they have guessed right.
Vocabulary:
Vocabulary items Pronunciation Part of speech Elicitation Meaning Example
Explorer /ɪkˈsplɔːrə(r)/ Noun Đây là một người mà đi Nhà thám hiểm - Columbus is a famous
đến nhiều nơi chưa ai explorer.
biết để tìm hiểu về nó.
Melt /melt/ Verb Ở Bắc cực có rất nhiều Tan chảy - The sun had melted the
tảng băng, khi Mặt Trời snow.
lên cao và nắng gay gắt - The ice-cream is
thì tảng băng đó sẽ như melting.
thể nào nhỉ?
- The crew had to wait
on the ship for the ice to
melt.
Frozen /ˈfrəʊzn/ Adj Frozen là từ trái nghĩa Đông cứng - My hands are frozen
với Melt. Melt là tan - a fronzen pizza
chảy thì Frozen ngược
- The crew left the ship
lại sẽ là...
and camped on the
frozen ocean.
Sink(sank) /sɪŋk/ Verb Ở trong bài, con thuyền Chìm - The wheels started to
đã bị vỡ. Khi bị vỡ, con sink into the mud.
thuyền sẽ ngập trong - The ship sank to the
nước. Nếu ngập trong bottom of the sea.
nước thì mọi người có
còn ở trên thuyền được
nữa không? Vì sao nhỉ?
It will sink. Vậy sink
nghĩa là gì nhỉ?
Lifeboat /ˈlaɪfbəʊt/ Noun What will happen when Thuyền cứu sinh - The man survived the
the boat sinks? Khi con storms and waves of 16
thuyền chìm dần, mọi metres in a lifeboat.
người sẽ phải lên một
con thuyền khác để được
quay trở lại bờ an toàn.
Vậy con thuyền mà đưa
mọi người trở về bờ an
toàn chúng ta sẽ gọi
là ...?
Rescue /ˈreskjuː/ Verb If we stuck amidst the Giải cứu It took a further three
ocean, there will be months to rescue
people in the shore come Shackleton's men from
to save us. In other Elephant Island, but
words, they rescue us. amazingly 22 men
Can you guess what survived.
does rescue mean?