Giáo án Tiếng Anh 12 - Unit 1: Home life

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 2/. Completing the outline(Task b P119-120)
 _ Write the sentences in the correct place in 
 the outline
 _ Compare the answer with the partners
 _ Give the answers and check with the class 
 3/. Identifying parts of a topic sentence :
 _ Work in pairs and do as requested 
 _ Try to finish quickly
 _Give the answer 
Suggested answer :
 1/. Life in or near a desert is very difficult 
 Topic controlling ideas 
 2/.If you want to travel across a desert , you
 Topic 
 need to bring with you some essential things 
 controlling ideas 
 _ Give comments as many as posible 
 _ Listen carefully 
 _ take notes
 C/. While _writng ( 32’) :
 1/. Activity 1 : Discussing and writing an 
 outline
 _ Choose one of the topic to write 
 _Look at the poster and do as requested
Suggested ideas
 a/. Topic 1:
 1/. – difficult / hard
 2/.Harsh/ too hot during the day/
 too cold at night
 3/. Very little or no water
 4/. Very little or no food ( very few or no trees, 
 fruit, and animals
 5/.difficult because of harsh climate,scarce 
 food, and water shortage 
 b/. Topic 2 : 
 1/. Sunglasses, a large hat, light- colored clothes
 2/. A wrist compass 
 3/. A kife
 4/. Because they help us survive in case you 
 get lost
 _ work in small groups 
 _ discuss the ideas and do as requested
 _ group and organize the ideas and write 
 outline of the paragraph
 _ try to finish soon
 _ exchange drafts to correct and give 
 comments each other 
 _ try to finish soon
 _ write their ideas on the 
 Board
 _ take notes
 2/. Activities 2 : Writing a pharagraph : 
 _ Repeat and give more transition signals or 
 linking words to write a paragraph
 _ Give suppliments and comments 
Sugested answer :
 + most of them /some other /the third / such a
 + first/ second another thing / in addition..
 _ Try to do quickly
 _ Ask teacher when needed
 _ Exchange their writing with their partner to 
 correct or support more ideas 
_Ask Ss to do as requested 
D/. Post – writing (20’): 
 _ When finishing writing ,work in small
 groups 
_ exchange the writing with the partner 
 to correct again and do as requested 
 _ write the paragraphs on the board
 _ read the paragraphs together and suggest
 corrections and improvement
 _ try to give different options
 _ take notes 
 E/. Homework : (3’) : 
 _ write a paragraph to develop 
 the rest topic sentence as requested 
UNIT 9: DESERTS
Lesson 5: LANGUAGE FOCUS
§ OBJECTIVES:
1. Aim(s): By the end of the lesson, the students are able to recognize and use plural forms of nouns, subordinate conjunctions: so, but and conjunctive adverbs: therefore, however and “unless” in conditional sentences.
2. Lexical items: Words/ phrases related to plural forms of nouns, subordinate conjunctions and conjunctive adverbs, and conditional sentences.
3. Teaching Aids: handouts, textbook, poster, chalks
§ METHOD: integrated, mainly communicative
§ PROCEDURE:
Teacher’s Activities
Students’ Activities
s WARMER (5 mn)
- Ask Ss to close all books
- Hang up a poster with some pictures on the board (select some pictures such as egg, orange, leaf, fish, banana....on the Internet to illustrate).
- Divide the class into two groups and call them find out plural nouns of the things in the poster.
- Go around and control the class.
- Call two head of the groups write the answer on the board.
- Check and declare the winner.
- Give feedback and introduction the new lesson.
+ Transition: Today we will learn more about plural forms of nouns and other grammar points. 
s WORD STUDY (30 minutes)
- Give handout and explain more about plural forms of nouns, especially regular plural and irregular forms of nouns. 
- Then call Ss do all the exercises in textbook.
ú Task a)
- Tell Ss to look up the dictionary for the plural forms of the words given and cross out the incorrect plural forms in the book in pairs.
- Go around explaining more and helping Ss if necessary.
- Call Ss share results together then read aloud them in front of the class.
- Call other pairs comment.
- Check again and give feedback.
ú Task b)
- Do the same task a) but then make 5 sentences, using at least two plural forms of these in one sentence.
s GRAMMAR POINTS (53 mn):
ú Subordinate Conjunction And Conjunctive Adverbs
- Give handout and explain more about how to use subordinate conjunction and conjunctive adverbs.
- Call Ss do all the exercises in textbook.
ú Task a)
- Ask Ss to work in pairs to do the task. 
- Call Ss rewrite the following sentences, using “however” or “therefore”.
- Go around and help Ss.
- Call Ss write the results on the board after sharing together.
- Check again and give feedback.
ú Task b)
- Change the task into multiple-choice task in a poster.
- Then ask Ss to work in pairs read the following sentences in book and choose the best answer from four options A, B, C or D.
- Go around and help Ss if necessary. 
- Call Ss write the answer on the board.
- Check again and ask Ss “Why they choose it”. 
- Give feedback.
ú “Unless” In Conditional Sentences
- Give handout about “unless” in conditional sentences and explain more then call Ss do all exercises in book.
ú Task a)
- Change the task into multiple-choice exercise on a poster and hang up it on the board.
- Call Ss work in pairs and look at the poster to read the task then choose the best answer. 
- Go around and help Ss if necessary. 
- Call Ss give the answer in front of the class.
- Check again and ask Ss “Why they choose it”. 
- Give feedback.
ú Task b)
- Call Ss work in pairs and explain more about how to do the task.
- Make an example and go around helping Ss.
- Call Ss share the results together then write them on the board.
- Call other student comment.
- Check again and give feedback.
ú Homework:
- Ask Ss to do some exercises in Workbook about Language Focus.
- Work in groups to draw.
- Draw it on the board.
- Comment and listen teacher.
- Listen teacher’s explanation. 
- Work in pairs and look up the dictionary for the plural forms of the words given and cross out the incorrect plural forms in the book. 
- Share results together then read aloud in front of the class.
- Comment.
- Take notes.
Suggested answers in teacher’s book page 158
- Do the same task a).
Suggested answers in teacher’s book page 158
- Listen teacher’s explanation.
- Work in pairs to rewrite the following sentences using “however” or “therefore”.
- Write the results on the board and give the comments.
- Take notes.
Suggested answers in teacher’s book page 159
- Look at the poster and listen teacher’s introduction.
- Work in pair to do.
- Share results with a partner.
- Write the answers on the board and explain more about their choices.
Suggested answers in teacher’s book page 159
- Listen teacher’s explanation.
- Work in pairs to do.
- Give the answers in front of the class.
- Give comment and take notes.
Suggested answers in teacher’s book page 159
- Work in pairs to do.
- Share the results together
- Write the results on the board.
- Comment.
- Take notes.
Suggested answers in teacher’s book page 160
s REMARKS (2 mn)
s COMPLEMENTARY PARTS: 
HANDOUT:
Unit 9: DESERTS
Lesson: LANGUAGE FOCUS (90 minutes)
I. WORD-STUDY:
1. Noun (consonant + Y) à N (Y à I) + ES 
Ex: lady à ladies; family à families
2. Noun (_ o) à N+ ES
Ex: tomato à tomatoes; mango à mangoes
3. Noun (_ F/FE) à N (F à V) + ES
Ex: knife à knives; leaf à leave
4. 
s Irregular Plural Nouns:
–a à-e : man à men; woman à women
–ouse à -ice: mouse à mice; lose à lice
-oo à ee: foot à feet; goose à geese
ox à oxen; child à children
s Unchanged Nouns:
bison, deer, grouse, reindeer, sheep-cod, fish, halibut, mullet, salmon, shellfish, gallows, fruit.........
in the context of hunting or when you are saying that there are large numbers of them.
Ex: They hunt gazelle.
When you refer to a large number of trees or plants growing together.
Ex:....the rows of willow and cypress which lined the creek.
5. Foreign plural nouns: 
a) –us à -i: alumnus à alumni; fungus à fungi
b) –sis à-ses: parenthesis à parentheses; thesis à theses
c) –on à -a: criterion àcriteria
d) –um à –a: medium à media
II. GRAMMAR POINTS:
1. SO, THEREFORE, BUT, HOWEVER
Subordinate Conjunctions
Conjunctive Adverbs
Use
so
therefore
- Linking two independent clauses.
- Introducing a result or consequence.
but
however
- Linking two independent clauses.
- Introducing a contrast idea.
s Following a comma
- Following a semi-colon or a period (if standing at the beginning of the clause).
- Followed by a comma.
Ex: Finding water in the forest is relatively easy, but the search for water can become somewhat tenuous in the desert.
à Finding water in the forest is relatively easy; however, the search for water can become somewhat tenuous in the desert.
 à Finding water in the forest is relatively easy. The search for water, however, can become somewhat tenuous in the desert.
2. “UNLESS” IN CONDITIONAL SENTENCES:
a) Unless = If........not: Unless is used in the context of bad or unfortunate happenings. 
Ex: I’ll be at your place at 9.00 unless the bus is late. (= if the bus isn’t late.)
b) Unless is not used: 
1. In question:
Ex: What will you do if you don’t catch the last bus home? (Not...unless you catch the last bus home?)
2. In type 1 conditionals: to talk about feeling which would result from something not happening.
Ex: I’ll be surprised if she doesn’t win the tennis championship. (Not...unless she wins the tennis championship.)
c).Unless should be used in unreal conditions to introduce an afterthought.
Ex: I could have got to the meeting on time, unless I had caught an earlier bus. (the speaker didn’t get to the meeting on time) (Not....if I hadn’t caught an earlier bus)
d) Transformation: If à Unless:
Ex: I’ll go swimming if it is not cold.
à I’ll go swimming unless it is cold.