Giáo án Tiếng Anh 9 tiết 63 - Unit 10: Life on other planets - Lesson 1: Section: Getting started - Listen and read

Week:33	 Date of preparing : April 28, 2010
Period :63 	 Date of teaching : April 29, 2010 
UNIT 10: LIFE ON OTHER PLANETS 
Lesson 1: Section:	- Getting started
	- Listen and read
Objectives :	After finishing the lesson , students( Ss) will be able to talk about UFOS with basic information received through discussion and the passage.
Language contents:
Structures:	Unreal present conditional sentence.
Vocabulary	: On UFOS.
Techniques:	Chatting - network. 	
Teaching aids:	a cassette player - pictures 
V. Procedures:
Teachers’ activities
Students’activities
1.Warm up: (5ms)
- Ask Ss to look at the pictures .
-Elicit the meaning of UFOs = unidentified Flying Object.
-Ask Ss to work in pairs and discuss the following questions:
Have you ever heard of UFOs ? Do you think they really exist?
Have you ever seen any films on UFOs ? What are they about?
What do you want to know about UFOs ?
If you saw a UFO, what would you do?
Gather ideas and provide some facts about UFOs .
2.Pre-Reading: (15ms)
-Give new words.
1.Meteo(n): small mass of matter from outer space entering atmosphere.
2.Sighting (n)= act of seeing
3.Alien(n)= person from another world.
4.Sample(n) example, demonstration
5.Spacecraft (n)
6.Egg-shaped (a)=being looked like an egg.
7.Plate-like (a)=look like a plate
8.Treetop(n) the uppermost part of a tree
9.Capture(v) : bắt cóc
10.Weather balloon(n): Khí câu Báo thời tiết
Checking vocabulary by rub out and remember.
Set the scene :” UFOs are strange Flying objects that UFO Sightings
 . . . . .or . . . . . . . .. can be mistaken for an alien spacecraft.
In 1947, a pilot saw.. . . . . . .
There were over. . . . . . . . .worldwide in 1952.
In 1954, a woman and her children saw . . . . . . . . . . .
A farmer saw . . . . . . . in 1964
In 1971,two men.. . . . . . . . . .
A pilot . . . . . . . .in 1978.
In 1981, a Frenchman reported. . . . . . . . . . . . . from his garden.
some people report that they have seen in the sky and believed to be spacecraft from anther planet.
Let’s begin to read the passage to know there is existence of UFOs.
Give the tape.
3.While-Reading : (12ms)
Ask Ss to read the passage and find contextual meanings of the words .
Give the key.
1.evidence= proof ,support
2.meteor= falling star
3.aliens== strange people
4.collecting= gathering
5.captured =caught as prisoner 
6.disappeared =became impossible to see.
Call Ss to work in groups and read the passage again to complete the notes.
Call Ss to exchange the notes with other groups 
and compare.
Ask Ss to write the notes on the board.
Correct.
An aircraft, a weather balloon or meteor can be mistaken for an alien spacecraft.
Nine large round objects traveling at about 2,800 meters an hour.
There were over 1,500 sightings worldwide in 1952.
In 1954, a woman and her children saw a UFO above their house.
A farmer saw an egg-shaped object in one of his fields and also aliens collecting soil samples in 1964
In 1971,two men claimed they were captured by aliens and taken aboard a spacecraft.
A pilot and his plane disappeared after sighting a UFO in 1978.
In 1981, a Frenchman reported that he saw a plate-like device at a treetop 30 meters away from his garden.
4.Post-Reading: (10ms)
Matching
Divide class into small groups and give the table then call Ss to finish it.
A	B
- Ask Ss to give the answer.
- Give the key.
1.c ; 2.e; 3.a; 4.b ; 5.f; 6.d
Summarize main points .
5.Homework : (3ms)
Ask Ss to redo the exercise and prepare part Speak
Look at the pictures and guess the meaning of UFOs .
Work in pairs and discuss the following questions:
a, Have you ever heard of UFOs ? Do you think they really exist?
B, Have you ever seen any films on UFOs ? What are they about?
What do you want to know about UFOs ?
d. If you saw a UFO, what would you do?
Answer in front of the class.
Give the meanings of new words.
Copy new words .
Read the new words
Read aloud the new words without looking at the English words.
Look at the picture and listen to teacher’s introduction.
Listen to the tape. 
Read the passage and find contextual meanings of the words .
Give the choice.
Compare and correct .
 Copy the key.
Work in groups and read the passage again to complete the notes.
Exchange the notes with other groups and compare.
Write the notes on the board.
Correct and copy the key.
Look at the table and work in groups to match the year and the event.
A	B
1.1947	a.A woman
2.1952	b.A farmer
3.1954	c.Keneth Arnold
4.1964	d.A young pilot
5.1971	e.1,500 UFO sightings 
6.1978	f.Two men
Give the answer.
Look at the table to listen to the summary from the teacher.
Copy the task.
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