Date of pre: UNIT 10: NATURE IN DANGER
Date of tea: LESSON: READING
Period:

OBJECTIVES:
+ Students read and find the meaning of the words in the context.
+ Realise the consequences which man has done to his environment.
+ Educate Ss the importance of the nature, and how to protect the surrounding.
MATERIALS:
+ Textbook, cassette tapes.
PROCEDURES
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TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES
STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES


WARM-UP
Give some pictures with some rare animals, and make questions.
1. What animals can you see in these pictures?
2. Where do these animals often live?
3. What would happen if their habitats were destroyed?
Introduce the new lesson
NATURE IN DANGER.
BEFORE READING
Activity1:
Let Ss work in pairs to discuss the questions.
1. What do you understand from the fact above?
2. Can you explain why the numbers of the animals become small?
Activity 2: T give some verbs ask Ss put them in the right column.
Establish, kill, destroy, save, protect, prohibit, set up, cut down, plant, ban, burn, hunt.
Verbs of positive impacts
Verbs of negative impacts.






+ Let Ss find the causes danger to environment.
E.g: garbage
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WHILE READING
Activity 1: Ask Ss read the requirement of the task 1 the find the suits answers for the definitions.
____: a substance that causes pollution.
____: natural conditions e.g: land, water, air, in which we live.
____: no longer existence.
___: to be in danger.
___: become smaller or fewer.
+ Call Ss read out
+ give the feedback.
Activity 2: Do the task 2
Circle A,B,C or D that best states the main idea of each paragraph
Ask Ss read the questions carefully
Goes around and offer help.
Activity 3: Task 3
Ask Ss summarise each paragraph filling in the blanks with missing information.
1. Ways that people are changing the world:
People are:
Changing _________ by _______
Affecting __________ by ______
Changing _________ by _______
Destroying ________ by _______
2. Serious consequences caused by people to the environment.
Consequences:
Many kinds of __________
The environment _________
The numbers of rare animals _______
3. Things should be done to protect these animals.
Protection:
Many organisations ________.
Thousands of national parks _______
Laws have been _________
+ Let Ss work in pairs
+ Go around and offer help.

AFTER READING
Ask Ss answer the questions in groups
1. What are four ways that human beings are changing the world?
2. What are the serious consequences of people’s interference with the environment?
3. What has been done to protect endangered nature?

Answer:
1. It’s a tiger.
It’s an elephant.
It’s a bear
It’s a lion.
2. They often live in the forests, zoos, or National Parks.
If their habitats were destroyed, animals would die/ the environment would be polluted/ nature would be in danger.

Ss work in pairs.
Sugested answer:
1. The fact above show that the numbers of some wild or rare animals such as cheetahs, pandas and Siberian tigers become small or extinct.
2. The numbers of these animals become small because they are killed for food, medicines, fur or skin.
Ss work in groups.
Verbs of positive impacts
Verbs of negative impacts.

-Protect
- establish
- save
- prohibit = ban
- plant
- destroy
- kill
- cut down
- burn
- hunt


+ They are:
wastes from factories and hospital
smoke from vehicles.
Oil spills from ship
Forest fire
People’s carelessness
Silent read the text the circle the word that has the opposite meaning to the italised word.
- read aloud
- Answer: Task 1
pollutant
environment
extinct
endanger
decrease
Answer:
1. C ( Human beings interfere with nature)
2. B (Human beings are responsible for the changes in the environment)
3. A. (Human being have made efforts to protect endangered nature.)
4. C ( Condition for a peaceful co-existence.)
Ss work in pairs
Answer
People are
- changing the environment by building cities and village where forest once stood.


- affecting the water supply using water for industry and agriculture.


- changing the weather condition by cutting down trees in the forest.


- destroying the air by adding pollutants to it.


Con
sequences
Many rare of animals are killed