Giáo án tiếng Anh 10 Unit 5: Inventions

Form

Pronunciation

Meaning

Vietnamese equivalent

1. invent (v)

/ɪnˈvent/

to produce or design something that has not existed before

phát minh, sáng chế

2. improve (v)

/ɪmˈpruːv/

​to become better than before; to make something/somebody better than before

cải thiện, trở nên tốt hơn

3. suitable (adj)

/ˈsuːtəbl/ or /ˈsjuːtəbl/

right or appropriate for a particular purpose or occasion

phù hợp

4. app (n)

/æp/

a piece of software that you can download to a device such as a smartphone or tablet

ứng dụng

5. convenient (adj)

/kənˈviːniənt/

useful, easy or quick to do; not causing problems

tiện lợi, thuận lợi

Anticipated difficulties

Solutions

- Students may not know the meanings of some words in the conversation.

- Students may not know how to work in teams.

- Provide students with some lexical items before listening and reading the conversation.

- Give short, clear instructions and help if necessary.

Date of teaching

UNIT 5: INVENTIONS

Lesson 1: Getting started

* Warm-up: Guessing game

I. Vocabulary

1. invent (v): phát minh, sáng chế

2. improve (v): cải thiện, trở nên tốt hơn

3. suitable (adj): phù hợp

4. app (n): ứng dụng

5. convenient (adj): tiện lợi, thuận lợi

II. Practice

Task 1: Listen and read.

Task 2: Read and answer the questions.

Task 3: Find three nouns and three adjectives.

Task 4: Fill in the gaps.

* Homework

Stage

Stage aim

Procedure

Interaction

Time

WARM-UP

- To activate students’ knowledge on the topic of the unit.

- To create a lively atmosphere in the classroom.

- To lead into the new unit.

GUESSING GAME

* T gives instructions:

- T brings 3-5 pictures of technological inventions made in the past few centuries such as computers, laptops, smartphones, and calculators.

- T folds each picture in half (or as many times as necessary), then shows each folded picture to the class and asks the class to guess what it is.

- If no one can guess correctly, T unfolds part of the picture in front of the class until someone can guess the name of the invention.

** Ss look at each of the folded pictures and guess what it is.

*** Ss work in 4 groups, look at each of the folded pictures from the teacher, quickly discuss with each other, and guess what it is.

**** T checks and corrects if Ss spell or pronounce the words/ phrases incorrectly.

- T asks: What is common between these pictures?

Suggested answer: They are all the result of advances in modern technology.

- T leads in the lesson: Technological inventions have brought a lot of benefits to our lives. We are going to find out more about these inventions: what they are and how they facilitate your studies.

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5 mins

VOCABULARY

To help students use key language more appropriately before they read and listen.

* T asks Ss to look at the explanation and the photos to guess the meaning of new words.

** Ss say the Vietnamese meaning of the word.

1. invent (v) /ɪnˈvent/: phát minh, sáng chế

2. improve (v) /ɪmˈpruːv/: cải thiện, trở nên tốt hơn

3. suitable (adj) /ˈsuːtəbl/ or /ˈsjuːtəbl/: phù hợp

4. app (n) /æp/: ứng dụng

5. convenient (adj) /kənˈviːniənt/: tiện lợi, thuận lợi

*** Other Ss correct if the previous answers are incorrect.

**** T shows the Vietnamese meaning, says the words aloud and asks Ss to repeat them.

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5 mins

PRACTICE

- To get students interested in the topic.

- To get students to learn some vocabulary to be learnt in the unit.

TASK 1. LISTEN AND READ (p.52)

* T asks Ss to look at the picture (p.52) and answer the questions:

* T plays the recording twice, has Ss listen to the conversation, read along and underline the words and phrases describing inventions for education.

** Ss do the task individually.

*** Ss share their answers with a partner.

**** T checks their answers with the whole class.

Suggested answer:

Laptops: useful, allowed us to study better and work faster, completely changed our lives in the last 20 years.

Smartphones: improved the way we work and study, suitable for learning, a lot of fun to learn with educational apps, convenient for learners to use, allow us to communicate and learn at the same time.

* T has the Ss read the conversation in pairs.

** Ss read the conversation.

*** One pair reads aloud.

**** T collects common mistakes and gives comments.

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8 mins

- To practise reading for specific information

- To practise scanning

- To develop students’ knowledge of inventions for education.

TASK 2. READ THE CONVERSATION AGAIN AND ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS. (p.53)

* T asks Ss to work individually to read the questions and underline the key words, then share their ideas with a partner sitting next to them.

** Ss do task 2 individually first.

*** Ss share and discuss with their partners about the key words.

**** T corrects their answers as a class.

Suggested answer:

1. What inventions are Phong and his dad talking about?

2. How useful are laptops?

3. Why is it fun and convenient to learn with educational apps on smartphones?

* T asks Ss to scan the conversation, locate the key words to find the answer for each question with the partner sitting behind them.

** Ss do the task in pairs.

**** T divides the class into two big teams, has Ss in each team take turns to choose a number in the game Lucky number to check the answers.

Key:

1. They are (talking about) laptops/ computers and smartphones.

2. (Since they were invented,) Laptops have allowed us to study better and work faster.

3. Because you can use educational apps that allow you to communicate and learn at the same time.

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10 mins

- To help Ss revise some collocations for inventions so that they can use them in the following lessons.

- To practise scanning.

TASK 3: FIND THREE NOUNS AND THREE ADJECTIVES IN THE CONVERSATION IN 1 TO TALK ABOUT INVENTIONS. FOLLOW THE EXAMPLE. (p.53)

* T has Ss find three nouns and three adjectives from the conversation in task 1.

** Ss work individually.

*** Ss share their answers with a partner.

**** T checks and gives the correct answers with the whole class, elicits the meaning of any words Ss don’t know or find hard to understand.

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4 mins

To help students identify some future structures with the present perfect tense, gerunds, to-infinitives, and how they are used in sentences.

TASK 4. FILL IN THE GAP IN THE SUMMARY OF THE CONVERSATION WITH ONE WORD FROM 1. (p.53)

* T has Ss read a summary of the conversation, fill in each gap in the summary with ONE word from task 1.

** Ss do the task individually.

*** Ss share the answers with a peer.

**** T checks answers as a class, asks individual students to read out the sentences, and writes the missing words on the board.

Answers:

1. for

2. have

3. improved

4. to

5. to

6. learn

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6 mins

CONSOLIDATION

- To help students memorise the target language and skills that they have learned.

- To prepare for the unit project

WRAP-UP

T asks Ss: what have we learnt today?

- Some lexical items about Inventions.

- Reading for specific information.

- Scanning.

HOMEWORK

- Talk about one invention for education and its usefulness (for a minute).

- Do exercises in the workbook.

- Project Preparation

- Ask Ss to open their books at the last page of Unit 5, the Project section, look at the picture and say what the topic of the Project is (Inventions for the classroom).

- Tell Ss about the project requirements: Ss will have to think of a useful invention for the classroom and then give an oral presentation of their ideas in the last lesson of the unit. The invention can be either real or imaginary.

- alternatively, asks Ss to prepare a poster presenting their ideas. In a poster presentation, Ss will display their inventions on posters and hang them around the classroom. One representative from each group will stand next to the poster. The rest will walk around, study the posters and talk to any representative of a group if they want to learn more about an invention. Then the class will sit down and vote for the best invention.

- Suggest the steps Ss should follow:

1. Collecting information (searching the Internet, reading newspapers, etc.)

2. Illustrate their inventions on computer or on posters, etc.

3. Rehearse for the oral or poster presentation.

- Put Ss into groups and have them choose their group leader. Then ask them to assign tasks for each group member, making sure that all group members contribute to the project work.

- Help Ss set a deadline for each task.

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7 mins