Lesson Plan 12 – Ham Thuan Bac High School
UNIT 9 DESERTS
Period 56 SPEAKING
A. Aims: Help students list some kinds of trees and animals living in deserts and talk about natural features of
deserts
1. Knowledge:
- General knowledge: Trees and animals living in deserts and natural features of deserts.
- Language: + Express their ideas about trees and animals living, natural features of deserts
+ The tenses.
- New words: words related to trees and animals living, natural features of deserts.
2. Skills:
- Improve students’ speaking skill
- Use the Future Perfect Tense to talk about trees and animals, natural features in deserts.
B. Methods: Words of subject and activity
Communicative approach
C. Teaching aids : Textbook, posters, pictures, ….
D. Procedures:
TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES
I. WARM – UP ( 5min.)
- Ask Ss to discuss the questions.
→ Introduces the new lesson.
"In today’s speaking section, you will practice
Talking about natural features of deserts"
II. PRESENTATION ( 35 min.)
1. Pre-speaking:
- Ask Ss to study the requirements in tasks then find
out the new words
- Help Ss with the vocabulary and pronunciation
- Elicit some useful expressions:

Rub out and remember

trees and animals
can live in deserts?
Lesson Plan 12 – Ham Thuan Bac High School
A: What kind of trees can live in a desert?
B: I think it is ………
A: Why can ………….. live in a desert?
B: Because …………………………….
The Simple Tense can be used
- Invite some Ss to read aloud their dialogue.
- Correct mistakes if necessary.
Task 2: Find out natural features of a desert.
- Guide Ss to do Task 2,
- Ticks a poster to supply materials:
hot, little rainfall, wet, sandy , dry, much rainfall,
few people , much sunshine, many flowers , few
animals , windy , snowy ...
NATURAL FEATURES
* Climate: - dry, hot, windy… very cold (night)
* Rainfall: - very little,
* People / animals: - few
* Sunshine: - much
* Soil: - sandy, hot
* Seasons: hot
- Asks Ss to find out among them, what are the
natural features.
- Asks Ss to work in pairs
- Feed back: Give marks to better pairs
3. After – speaking:
Task 3 You are going on an expedition across a
desert with some of your friends. Choose the five

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