Lesson Plan 12 – Ham Thuan Bac High School
UNIT 10 ENDANGERED SPECIES
Period 61 SPEAKING

A. Aims: Help students ask and answer some questions about endangered animals and talk about the
information of some endangered animals
1. Knowledge:
- General knowledge: Endangered animals
- Language: + The way to make suggestions or predictions
+ The tenses.
- New words: words related to endangered species.
2. Skills:
- Improve students’ speaking skill
- Talking about the information of some endangered animals
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.
1. What is the most famous animal in China?
2. What kind of animal can be called "King of the
beasts"?
3. Which animal has a long trunk?
……………..
→ Introduces the new lesson.
"In today’s speaking section, you will practice
Talking about life and habitat of some animals"
II. PRESENTATION ( 35 min.)
1. Pre-speaking:

5- Bark ( a ) : vỏ cây
Column B
a. What is the height of pandas?
b. How many years can pandas live?
c. Where do pandas live?
d. Why do pandas become extinct?
e. What is the population of pandas in the world?
f. What do pandas eat?
 Answers keys
1. c 4. f
2. e 5. b
3. a 6. d
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Lesson Plan 12 – Ham Thuan Bac High School
A: ________(6)_________
B: Habitat destruction and illegal trading.
2. While – speaking
Task 1: Answer the following questions
- Asks Ss to practice "ASK and ANSWER" in their
textbooks
- Ask students to work in pairs to discus the four
questions and find the answers.
- Move round to make sure that all students are
working and to help them if necessary.
- Ask some students to report and give feedback.
- Correct the students’ work and give remark.
Task 2: Ask and answer questions about 4
endangered animals.
- Asks Ss to read the information about the giant
panda, tiger, rhino, elephant.

-Students divide in pairs.
-Students express their opinions..
FEED BACK 2:
- work in pairs to do task 2
A: where do giant pandas live?
B: They live in bamboo forests in the mountain in
central and western China
A: What is the population of pandas in the world?
B: Only about 600.
A: How are they?
B: about 1.2 to 1.5m
A How much do they weigh?
B: About 75 kg to 160 kg
A: what do they eat
B: Bamboo
A: Why are they in danger?
B: People destroy their habitat and hurt them for trade.
FEED BACK 3:
- Work in group to give an oral report.
Example
Group 1: Giant pandas live in bamboo forests in the
mountain in Western China .only about 600 pandas are
living there. They attain a height of 1.2m to 1.5m and
weigh from 75kg to 160 kg they are in danger because
People destroy their habitat and hurt them for trade.
Group 2: Rhino
Group 3: Tiger
Group 4: Elephant
- Discuss in groups of four Ss
- Asks Ss to discuss and practice in groups

→ Lead in " Our lesson today will focus on some
features of deserts and how they are formed "
II. PRESENTATION ( 35 min.)
1. Pre-listening
Choose the best answer A, B, or C:
- Ask students to work in pairs to discuss and choose the
best answer A,B,C
- Guide the students to answer if necessary.
- Give further information.
- Explain the words that will appear in the listening text.
- Ask students to read in chorus then individually.
Listen and repeat
-Ask Ss to listen to the T’s pronunciation and repeat
Gorilla (n): Sociable (a): Sub-adult (a):
Nest (n) Bared teeth (n): Silverback (n):
Civil war (n): Forest rangers (n)
- Explains unfamiliar words to students
2. While – listening:
Task1: Listen the passage and Choose the best answer
A, B, C, or D
- Ask students to read the statement at least once first.
- Ask them to guess the answers
- Play the tape once then check how many answers can
- Ss pay attention to Teacher and find out the
correct answers.
Expected answers:
1. It is very hot.
2. Camels, cactus…
3. It is dry, hot. The rocks are hard …
4. Answers ….

Ss find.
- Play the tape again.
- Check and give remarks.
- Call some students to say out their answers and the
evidences they get to prove their answers

3. Post – listening :
Work in groups: Ask students to Summarize the main
ideas of the passage, using the information and the
answer in Tasks 1 and 2.
- In group, ask students to summarise the main ideas of
the passage ,using the information and the answers in task
1 and 2.
- Move around to help if necessary.
- Give remarks or even suggestions.
III. CONSOLIDATION & HOMEWORK (5')
- Prepare part D - WRITING
- Listen to the tape
- Do the task individually and compare the
answers with others
Feedback2: a. Expected answers
1. peaceful
2. plant-eating
3. a few females and their young
4. plants and a few insects.
5. in trees
6. in grasses
7. civil wars
8. forests being cut down
3. Post – listening :