UNIT 9 – LESSON 4: D. WRITING
I. Objectives:
1. Education Aims: - Students can write a paragraph to describe information from a
table.
2. Knowledge: a. General knowledge: - Information about the sperm whale and the
dolphin.
b. Language: - Language used to describe animals. - The present simple tense.
3. Skills: - Reading: read the sample paragraph.
- Speaking: work in pairs to find information to complete the table .
- Writing: write a paragraph to describe the facts and figures provided in
the table.
II. Anticipated problems: difficulty in using the information to write a full
paragraph.
III. Teaching Aids: - board, textbook, chalk.
IV. Procedures:
Teacher's activities Students' activities
1. Homework checking: (5 mins)
- Ask one st to talk about whales.
- Ask other sts to listen to their friend and give remarks.
- Check and give remarks.
2. Before you write: (20 mins)
- Aims:to get sts to read the sample paragraph and to help
them to prepare vocabulary and information before they
write.
+ Task 1:
- Introduce the situation.
- Explain some new words:
+ sperm whale (n): a kind of whale that is hunted for an oily
substance in its head.
+ 'carnivore (n): an animal that eats meat
+ squid (n): mùc èng
+ ges'tation period (n): the process of carrying the young
baby inside the mother's body.
+ life span (n): the period from birth to death
+ en'trapment (n): sù m¾c bÉy
+ 'offspring (n): con c¸i
- Ask sts to listen to the teacher and repeat , then write these
words into their notebooks.
- Ask sts to work in pairs to read the paragraph and then
complete the table that follows.
- Move round to help if necessary.
- Ask sts to compare their ideas with other pairs.
- Draw a table on the board and ask some sts to go to the
board and complete the table.
- Look at the board and give remarks.
+ Task 2:
- Ask sts to work in pairs in 3 minutes to read the second
table with some information about the dolphin.
- Move round to help if necessary.
- Listen to their friend and give
remarks.
- Listen to the teacher.
- Listen to the teacher carefully.
- Copy these words into theit
notebooks.
- Listen to the teacher and then read
these words in chorus and
individually.
- Read the paragraph in pairs and do
the task.
- Share their answer with their
friends.
- Present their ideas.
+ Range and habitat: all oceans.
Prefer the waters with high squid
populations.
+ Size:
Male: 18 m in length, 54,000 kg in
weight
Female: 12 m in length, 17,000 kg in
weight.
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- Listen to the teacher.
- Work in pairs to read the table and
try to understand the information.
- Do the writing task.
- Read their writing: ( a sample