Giáo án Tiếng Anh 9 - Tuần học 31 - Unit 9: Natural disasters

Date of planning:	
Period: 62nd 	Week: 31	UNIT 9: NATURAL DISASTERS
Lesson 3: Read
I. OBJECTIVES:
 	- By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to get more information about the natural disasters in the world. 
- Focus on speaking and reading skills.
II.TEACHING AIDS. 
 Lesson plan, text book, tape, cassette,... 
 III.PROCEDURES	
Warm up
Teacher’s activities
Student’s activities
Content
* Matching: 
-Ask Ss to match the words in column A with the phrase words in column B.
-Matching.
1 d
2 e
3 g
4 e
5 b
6 a
7 f
A
B
snowstorm
2. earthquake
3. volcano
4. typhoon
5. thunderstorm
6. tidal wave
7. tornado
a./ a very large wave 
b./a storm with a lot of rain, thunder and lighting 
c./ a sudden strong shaking of the ground
d./ a storm with a lot of snow and strong winds
e./ a tropical storm with strong winds
f./ a very strong wind that goes quickly around in a circle 
g./ a mountain with a hole in the top where lava sometimes come out 
2. Pre – Reading
Teacher’s activities
Student’s activities
Content
-Get Ss to look at the pictures on page 78 and answer the questions:
 +What can you see in these pictures?
+Where do these natural disasters often happen?
+Where is Kobe? What happened in Kobe in 1995?
+Do you watch the tidal waves on December 26th 2004in Thailand on TV?
-Pre-teach vocabulary: 
Elicit words from Ss.
-Checking vocabulary:
“Jumbled words”: 
lloapces » collapse
hifst » shift
urircnaeh » hurricane
oleyncc » cyclone
-True – False predictions: Ask Ss to look at the ex (a) on page 79 and get Ss to guess.
-Look at the pictures on page 78 and answer the questions:
- We can see natural disasters 
- Japan, Thailand, India, Indonesia
- In Japan. Earthquake
..................
-Listen, read and write.
-Play a game:
-Look at the ex (a) on page 79 and get Ss to guess.
*New words
-The Pacific Rim: Vành đai Thái Bình Dương
-strike (struck) (v): Làm sập
-collapse (v): Đổ sập
-abrupt (adj): bất ngờ, thình lình
-shift (n): Sự chuyển dịch
-hit (v): đập vào, đánh vào
-hurricane (n): bão nhiệt đới » -tropical storm » typhoon=cyclone
- tornado (n): cơn lốc
-funnel – shaped (adj): có hình cái phễu
-suck up (v): thấm, hút
3. While –Reading
Teacher’s activities
Student’s activities
Content
-Let Ss read the text and check the prediction. 
-Ask Ss to compare the answers with the partners.
-Call on some Ss to give the answer before the class.
 -Give feedback.
-Ask Ss to read the text again and do ex (b).
 - Call on Ss to answer.
 - Listen and comment. 
-Read the text and check the prediction
-Compare the answers with the partners.
-Answer before the class.
-Copy.
-Read the text again and do ex (b).
-Answer before the class.
*Key a
1 T
2 T
3 F. A huge tidal wave traveled from Anchorage, Alaska to California
4 T
5 F. The eruption of Mount Pinatubo was the world’s largest in more than 50 years
6 T 
*Key b
1..... occur around the Pacific Rim
2 ...... houses, office buildings and highways collapsed
3 ........ there ‘s an abrupt shift in the underwater movement of the earth
4 ......... a cyclone
5 ......... the word “typhoon”
6 .......... has a funnel shape and sucks up anything in its way/path
4. Post – Reading
Teacher’s activities
Student’s activities
Content
* Grid: 
-Ask Ss to fill in the table.
-Groupworks
Natural Disasters
Where
When
Result
Earthquake
Kobe -
Japan
1995
-a large number of people were killed
-house, office, ways
collapse
Tidal wave
Alaska
-California
1960s
- hit Anchorage
Volcanoes
- Philippines
1991
- hundreds of people died
Tornado
- Italy
1981
- lifted a baby in carriage into the air 
Homework
	- Leant by heart some new words. 
	- Prepare the next lesson Unit 9 Write pages 79-80.
IV.FEEDBACK
SIGNATURE – WEEK 31
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Date of planning:	
Period: 62nd 	Week: 31st	UNIT 9 NATURAL DISASTERS
Lesson 4: Write
 I. OBJECTIVES:
	- By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to write a story. 
	- Focus on writing and speaking skills.
 II. TEACHING AIDS. 
 	Lesson plan, text book,... 
 III.PROCEDURES
	1.Warm up
Teacher’s activities
Student’s activities
Content
* Gap – fill: Ask Ss to fill in the gaps.
- Ask Ss to fill in the blank.
- Check and give feedback.
- Follow
-Fill in the gaps:
earthquake
hurricane
tornadoes
waves
 5. typhoon
1/ Ninety percent of .......occur around the Pacific Rim known as the “ Ring of Fire”
2/ A ... is a tropical storm which reaches 120 km per hour
3/ . are funnel-shaped storm which pass overland below a thunderstorm
4/ Tidal ... are the result of an abrupt shift in the underwater movement of the Earth
5/ The word .... means “ big wind” 
2. Pre – Writing
Teacher’s activities
Student’s activities
Content
- Have Ss look at the pictures on page 80 and present: “They are Lan, her family member and Skippy – her dog.”
- Ask Ss some questions
+What was Lan doing in picture 1?
+What happened in picture 2?
+In picture 3, what did Lan do?/ Who did Lan talk to?
+What did her mother talk about ?
+In picture 4, What did Lan’s family do ?
+What was there in picture 5?
+What can you see in picture 6?
-Get Ss to write a story base on the pictures and prompts on page 79.
-Look at the pictures and listen to the T.
-Answer the questions:
She was playing with her dog
Her dog behaved strangely
She talked to her mother
She talked about the weather forecast on TV 
They gathered inside
There was a typhoon heavy rain and strong winds
The storm finished. Everyone is happy 
-Listen and prepare to write.
* Vocabulary:
- Behave(v): cư xử
- Shelter(n): Chổ trú ngụ
- all of sudden=suddenly
3. While –Writing
Teacher’s activities
Student’s activities
Content
-Let Ss write a story individually. 
-T goes round the class to help them.
-Get Ss to compare the writing with the others.
-Write a story individually
-Compare the writing with the others.
*Suggested writing:
	It was a beautiful day. The sun was shining, the sky was blue, and the weather was perfect. Lan was outside playing with her dog, Skippy. All of a sudden, the dog began behaving strangely. She kept running around in circles (and didn’t seem to be herself). Lan ran home with her dog to tell her mother what Skippy was doing . Lan’s mother, Mrs. Quyen, told Lan that she heard on TV that there was typhoon coming. Mrs. Quyen gathered her family and told them to find shelter in the home.
	Suddenly, the sky became very dark. The storm came with strong wind and heavy rain. Mrs Quyen and her family were scared. But soon the storm finished and everyone was glad. What a clever dog Skippy is. She saved Lan from being caught in the typhoon.
4. Post – Writing
Teacher’s activities
Student’s activities
Content
-Call on some Ss to read the writing before the class. 
- T listens and comments. 
- Retell the story: Get Ss to retell the story: Changing Lan ->I and some adverbs of time and some information: 
Ex: Its was Sunday. The sun was shining and the weather was fine. I was outside .............
-Read the writing before the class. 
-Listen.
-Retell the story.
5. Home work.
	-Write the story in the notebook.
	- Prepare the next lesson unit 9 Language focus pages 81-82-83.
IV.FEEDBACK