Giáo án Tiếng Anh 9 Global Success Unit 10 Looking Back

Anticipated difficulties

Solutions

Students may have underdeveloped speaking, writing and co-operating skills when doing the project.

- Encourage students to work in pairs, in groups so that they can help each other.

- Provide feedback and help if necessary.

Some students will excessively talk in the class.

- Define expectation in explicit detail.

- Have excessively talkative students practise.

- Continue to define expectations in small chunks (before every activity).

TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES

STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES

CONTENTS

Brainstorming

- Have Ss play in two groups.

- Give each group slips of paper with words / phrases / short sentences to stick to either of the columns (habitats / actions to protect habitats). Give them more phrases than needed.

- Set a time limit for the game. Stop the game when the time is up.

- Check Ss’ answers and declare the winner.

- Work in groups to play the games.

- Examples of words / phrases / short sentences can be: flora and fauna, oceans, landforms, water bodies, grasslands, forests, animals, stop cutting down forests, bring home more new plants and animals, change climate, preserve habitats, habitat loss, maintain ecological balance.

TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES

STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES

CONTENTS

Task 1: Fill in the table with words and phrases about habitats. (5 mins)

- Have Ss work individually to write down the words / phrases in the columns. Remind them of the words / phrases they have just used in the game. Have Ss read out their phrases.

- Check answers as a class.

- Correct Ss pronunciation if necessary.

- Do activity individually.

- Read out

- Check

Answer key:

Task 2: Complete the passage, using words/phrases in the box.(5 mins)

- Have Ss work individually to fill in each blank with the correct words /phrases from the box. Check answers as a class.

- Ask some Ss to read aloud the passage. Correct Ss’ pronunciation if necessary.

- Do the task individually

- Read aloud the passage

Answer key:

1. Climate change

2. food chain

3. ecological balance

4. natural reserves

5. habitat loss

TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES

STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES

CONTENTS

Task 3: Complete each sentence (1-5) with a non-defining relative clause (A-E).(5 mins)

- Have Ss work individually to match the clauses 1-5 with non-defining relative clauses A-F. Remind them to pay attention to the nouns before the commas (,) if the noun refers to persons, possessions or something or somebody. Then choose the appropriate clauses A- F.

- Then ask Ss to work in pairs to swap and check their answers.

- Check answers as a class.

- Ask one student to read out the sentences. Correct his / her pronunciation if necessary.

- Work individually to do the task.

- Work in pairs to swap and check answers.

- Read out the sentences.

Answer key:

1. E

2. B

3. A

4. D

5. C

Task 4: Combine the two sentences into one, using a non-defining relative clause. (5 mins)

- Ask Ss to work individually to combine the pairs of sentences as requested in their book.

- Ask one or two students to go to the board and write their sentences with non-defining relative clauses.

- Then ask the class to work in pairs. - Tell them to swap their writings and check their partner’s answers.

- Check the sentences that some Ss have written on the board.

- Have all Ss correct their partner’s answers.

- Ask some Ss to read out their sentences. Correct Ss’ language and pronunciation if necessary.

- Work individually to do the task.

- Write sentences on the board.

- Work in pairs to swap and check answers.

- Correct partner’s answers.

- Read out.

Suggestions:

1. Boreal forests, which are also called Taiga, cover vast areas in Canada, Alaska, and Russia.

2. Polar bears, whose natural habitat is the Artic, are endangered animals.

3. Julie Arblaster, who is an Australian scientist, focuses on studying climate change.

4. Antarctica, which is surrounded by the Southern Ocean, is Earth’s least populated continent.

5. The natural world is the world of living things, which include plants and animals.