LESSON PLAN

ENGLISH 10: Unit 10: Conservation

Part B: Speaking

I. OBJECTIVES:
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
- learn vocabulary related to conservation.
- talk about disadvantages and advantages of the new kind zoos and know
how to express their agreements and disagreements when they’re talking
about the certain issues
- express information and improve the skill of speaking for details.
II. Time: 45’
III. Techniques: Pair/Group work, question and answer, communicative language
discussion, ...
IV. Lexical items and structure(s):
 Vocabulary:
Verb: imprison, reconstruct, suffer
Nouns: condition
Adjectives: famous
Adverb: at times
 Structure: Expressions of agreement and disagreement
V. Teaching aids: mini boards.
VI. Procedures:
1. Class organization:
- Greetings.
- Checking the attendance.
2. Check old lesson:
3. New lesson:

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 Stages Teacher’s activities Students’ activities Suggested answers

WARM UP Game “Catch the word”

(5’)
- Introduces the rule of the game:

 Divides the class into 2

groups
 Teacher shows the pictures
to the students
 Students will guess the
name of the animals in
picture
 Students who guess the
correct will receive for
their team

- Lets students play the game

PRE – - Teach new vocabularies.

SPEAKING
 imprison(v): giam cầm
- Listen to teacher's
(12’) prison (n): nhà tù
instruction
 reconstruct (v): tái thiết,
xây dựng lại
reconstruction (n): sự
- Underline key words of
tái thiết
each question.
 famous(a) = well-known:
nổi tiếng
famous for
- Work in pairs in 2
 at times (adv) =
minutes to answer the
sometimes: đôi khi
questions.
 suffer (v): chịu đựng
suffer from
 condition(n): điều kiện

Task 1: Read the paragraphs Key words:

and answer the questions
1. Purpose, zoos of
- Introduce the task - Listen to teacher's the new kind
instruction 2. Main features
- Give instruction on how to do
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the task

- Let the students underline key - Underline key words of Answer keys:
words of each question. each question.
1. They are opened
- Ask students to notice that the to help
word “they” in passage A refers endangered
- Work in pairs in 2 species develop.
to “zoos nowadays” to help
minutes to answer the 2. The animals are
them do the task easier. not kept in cages.
questions.
- Ask students to work in pairs They can live in
their natural
in 2 minutes to answer the
environment.
questions. - Give answer and clue -
for each question
- Ask ICQs to check students'
understanding

- Let students do task 1

- Ask students to swap their

answers with another pair.

- Calling on some pairs to ask

and answer the questions and
give clues for their answers.

- Give feedback to students’

answers.

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 WHILE- Task 2: Put a tick () in the
SPEAKING
right box to show your
(20’) agreement or disagreement.
Share your idea with a
partner.
- Give students some
structures to express
agreements and
disagreements
-Ask students to work in
pairs.
-Give instructions
-Ask ICQs
-Give demo
-Take notes on teacher’s
-Invite randomly 5 students to feedback.
come to the front and give
their own answers.
-Ask each of them to explain
briefly their opinion.
-Give feedback
Task 3:
- Divides the class into four
groups. The first two groups
will discuss the advantages
and the 2 others will discuss
the disadvantages.
-Asks Ss to classify which
sentences are advantages and
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-Listen to the teacher’s Suggested answer:
instruction.
In the zoo of the new
- Listen and answer kind, I think animals
Teacher’s ICQs. may have better food.
This is because the
- Work in group and do
food are always
as what is instructed.
carefully checked if
-Go to the front and give
they are in good
own answer. Give
quality or not by the
reason(s) to that opinion.
zookeepers.
Suggested answers
- Classify which *Advantages:
sentences are advantages
and disadvantages -The conditions the
animals are in: the
animals can live in a
- Work in groups. better environment
and are safer than
when they are in
 disadvantages in 4 sentences - Discuss in groups of
four.
-Asks Ss to work in groups in
- Present in front of the
3 minutes
class.
nature
-The animals that
people can visit:
Visitors can see many
kinds of animals with
their own eyes

- Walks around the class and *Disadvantages:

- Answers may vary
helps students if necessary,
-The money spent on
then selects some groups to
reconstructions of the
present.
-Correct the mistakes animals’ natural
environment: It’s very
expensive to
-Give feedbacks reconstruct animals’
natural environment.

-The dangers that

keepers may have :
They can be injured or
killed by the animals

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POST – Task 4 - Listen to teacher’s  Useful expressions:
SPEAKING - Gives instructions to instructions.  First(ly) … /First of
(8’) students: - Work in group all ...
“All of the groups have 3
 Second(ly) … /
minutes to make a small report
passage talking about Third(ly)
disadvantages or advantages in …/Moreover … /
task 3” Furthermore …
- Asks the students use their  Lastly…/
ideas in task 3 Finally…/Last but
- Gives a sample answer not least
- Give some useful expressions  In conclusion …/
- Goes around to provide help. -Present students’ As a result
- Calls randomly some Ss to group ideas with the
stand in rest of the class
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 front and give their talk. - Listen to the teacher  Sample answers:
- Gives feedback. On behalf of my
-
group, I will present
the discussion result
of our group. Firstly,
It is very expensive to
reconstruct animal's
natural environment.
Secondly, the
condition in which
wild animals live is
not so good and
comfortable as that in
the nature. Last but
not least, keepers can
be injured or killed by
the animals. As a
result, we shouldn't
develop zoo of new
kind.

VII. Homework:

-Learn by heart vocabulary and the structure to express agreements and

disagreements.

-Do task 4 in your notebook.

-Prepare: unit 10-listening/ page 115-116.

VIII. Teacher’s comment

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