Lesson plans of English 10
05
th
January, 2008
Period 1
Unit 9: UNDERSEA WORLD
A. READING (Page 94 – 96)
I. Objectives:
A. Educational aim: By the end of this lesson, students will understand more about marine life and have
some proper attitudes towards protecting them.
B. Knowledge:
a) General knowledge: By the end of this lesson, students can understand the reading and do the
tasks below.
b) Language:
i. Vocabulary: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Antarctic, and Arctic Oceans, marine, gulf, bay,
starfish, biodiversity, at stake, to maintain
ii. Grammar: simple present tense
C. Skill : Reading
D. Teaching aid: Textbook, board, and chalks
E. Techniques : Pair work, group work, separate work.
II. Procedure:
A. Classroom arrangement and taking attendance:
B. Today’s lesson:
Unit 9: UNDERSEA WORLD
A. READING (Page 94 – 96)
Teacher’s and students’
activities
Content
_ T divides class into 2 groups,
asks Ss to list out some marine
life that they know.
The sea animals:
Seal, Jellyfish, Turtle, Shark
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_ T plays the tape 1 to 2 times,
then asks students to do task 1.
_ T asks Ss to find where the
words provided in the box are in
the text, find their classification
(N, adj, adv, v, ..)
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Ss do task 1
in groups of 3 to 4 students.
_ T invites some Ss to do the task
one by one
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Ss answer,
translate into Vietnamese and
write the answers on the board.
_ T checks the answers.
_ T asks Ss to do the task 2 in
groups of 3 or 4, answer the
questions
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Ss discuss and

2. reveal
3. gulf
4. biodiversity
5. samples
 Task 2:
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Suggested answers:
1. 75%
2. By using more sophisticated tools
3. To investigate the seabed and bring samples of the marine life
back to the surface for the further study.
4. Provide a wide range of information, including water
temperature, depth and the undersea populations.
5. Group 1: live on or depend on the bottom like the starfish.
Group 2: swimming animals such as fishes and sharks that
more independently of water currents.
Group 3: tiny organisms that are carried along by the currents
like the jellyfish.
6. If the sea biodiversity was not maintained, the marine life would
be at stake.
IV. After you read:
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starfish, biodiversity, at stake, to maintain
Grammar: simple present tense
C. Skill : Speaking
D. Teaching aid: Textbook, board, and chalks
E. Techniques : Pair work, group work, separate work.
II. Procedure:
A. Classroom arrangement and taking attendance:
B. Review of the previous lesson:
T asks 3 students to read the passage and translate into Vietnamese, then answer the following
questions:
1. How many oceans are there in the world?
2. What do we use submarine for?
3. The marine life is divided into 3 ,main groups. What are they?
C. Today’s lesson:
Unit 9: UNDERSEA WORLD
B. SPEAKING (Page 94 – 96)
Teacher’s and students’
activities
Content
_ T asks Ss the question. Ss try to
express their ideas in English.
_ T checks and lead in today’s
lesson
_ T helps Ss to discuss in pairs,
using the following suggestions
_ Ss do the task in pairs. After
that, T presents the models beside
and asks Ss to practice.
_ T invites some pairs to present
their discussions.

carefully, then asks them to work
in groups, discuss the
consequences that might occur
and offer some possible solutions.
_ T invites some groups to go to
the board and report what they
have discussed.
_ Some Ss report, others asks
some questions for their
presentation
_ T gives comments and mark for
the groups.
_ In my opinion
_ As far as I’m concerned
_ We should
_ We shouldn’t
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Suggested answers:
A: What do you think of placing rubbish and plastic bags in proper
dustbins?
B: I think it is essentially to protect the environment from being
polluted.
III. While you speak:

Task 2:


blown off the
fields into the sea
_ Polluted water _ Clean up the
water before
running into the sea
IV. After you speak:
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Task 3:
Report to the class what you have just discussed.
D. Consolidation:
Question: What should you do to protect the environment?
E. Homework:
Practice speaking with the suggestions above and learn by heart all new words and structures
F. Preparation for the next lesson:
Unit 9: (cont)
C. Listening (Page 98 – 99)
G. Teacher’s comment on students’ attendance and participation.
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