Unit 10
Life on other planets

Period: 63 Lesson 1 : Getting started
Listen and Read
A / Aims and objectives : - By the end of the lesson , Ss will be able to talk about
UFOs with basic information received through discussion and the reading .
B / Teaching aids : Text book , picture and posters about UFOs and cassette
C / Procedure :
7 min I / Warm up :
Getting started - Question and answer
- Explicit the meaning of UFOs = Unidentified Flying
Object .
- Ask Ss to work in pairs and discuss the following
questions :
1. Have you ever heard of UFOs ?
2. Do you think they really exist ?
3. Have you ever seen any films on UFOs ?
4. What are they about ?
=> Gather their ideas and provide some facts about
UFOs - Lead in the new lesson .
II / Presentation :
1 Vocabulary pre- teach:
- Introduce the aims of the lesson and some new words
to students :
- Meteor (n) : small mass of matter from outer space
entering atmosphere .
- Sighting ( n) : act of seeing .
- Alien (n) person from another world .
- Sample (n) : example , demonstration .
- Spacecraft (n) : craft for traveling in outer space .
- Egg-shaped (adj) : being looked like and egg.
- Plate – like (adj ) : having features and physical
appearance like a plate .
- Treetop (n) : the uppermost part of a tree.
* Checking technique : What and where
- Remark and set the scene of the text : “ UFOs are
strange flying objects that some people report that have
seen in the sky and believed to be spacecraft from
another planet . Mane scientists do not believe , so they
- Listen carefully .
say that if people see a UFO , it might be an aircraft, a
weather balloon ,a meteor . However , there is still
evidence for people to believe in the existence of UFOs
.
III / Practice :
1. Finding contextual meanings of the words :
- Ask Ss to work individually and find the words in the
text having meanings as in the book instructed . - Call on some Ss to read their answers in front of class
loudly .
- Feedback and give correct answers :
1. Evidence (roof, support )
2. Meteor ( falling star or shooting star )
3. Aliens ( unknown / strange people or things .)
4. Collecting ( bringing together or gathering )
5. Captured ( caught as prisoner )

6. Disappeared ( became impossible to see )
* Ask Ss to read the text aloud
- Listen and correct pronunciation .
2. Completing the notes :
- Ask Ss to practice reading the text and doing the
exercise .

- Call on some Ss to report in the front .
- Give correct answers :
a. An aircraft , a weather balloon or a meteor …
b. … nine large round objects traveling at about 2,800
meters an hour .
c. … 1,500 sightings ….
d. … a UFO above their …
e. an egg-shaped object in one of his fields and also
aliens collecting soil samples ….
f. … Claimed they were captured by aliens and taken
aboard a spacecraft .
g,and his plane disappeared after sighting a UFO

3 min
III / Production : Matching
A
B

1.1947
a. A woman

2. 1952
b. A farmer

3. 1954
c. Kenneth Arnold

4. 1964
d. A young pilot

5. 1971
e. 1,500 UFOs sightings

6. 1978
f. Two men
- Report their
answers in front of
class.

- Copy