Giáo án Tiếng Anh lớp 10 Unit 3: People's background - Lesson 1

Teacher’s activities

Students’ activities

1. Warm-up: Network... (5 mins)

+ Aims: to raise sts' interest in the reading text.

- Ask students to work in groups of 3-4 students .

- Ask the students to give a list of famous scientists and their inventions.

- Move round to check the activity.

- Ask them to work in 4 minutes and then get feedback. The group which has the longest list will be the winner

2. Before you read: (10 mins)

- Aims; to introduce the content of the text and provide sts with some new words.

- Students are required to work in pairs to answer the following questions:

+ Have you ever heard of Marie Curie?

+ What do you know about her?

- give the correct information.

- Read and write new words on the board.

+ background (n): + ease (v):

+ mature (adj): full-grown + interrupt (v):

+ humanitarian (adj): + humane (adj):

+ tragic(adj): + ambitious(adj): + atomic(adj):

- Read each word 3 times and ask the sts to repeat it.

- Listen and help the sts to read the words correctly.

3. While you read: (20 mins)

- Aims: Sts practise reading and do the tasks

+ Task 1: Matching.

- Ask the students to read the passage independently and match the words or phrases in A with their meaning in B.

- Tell sts to refer to Vocabulary for help and encourage them try to guess the meanings of the words in the context of the reading.

- Ask them to compare the answers with their friends.

- Call on some sts to read and explain their answers aloud in front of the class.

- Give feedback and correct answers:

+ Task 2: True or False.

- Ask the sts to read the passage more carefully and decide whether the statements are true (T) or false (F). Correct the false information.

- Ask the sts to highlight or underline the information in the passage that helps the students to find the correct answers.

- Move round to help sts if necessary, then ask them to share their answers with their partners.

- Ask some sts to give answers.

- Listen and help the students to do the exercise correctly

+ Task 3: Answering questions.

- Ask students to work in pairs to answer the questions.

- Tell the students to compare their answers with other pairs. Let them discuss and correct for one another.

- Call some pairs of students to read aloud the questions and answers in front of the class.

- Feedback and give correct answers.

4. After you read: (9 mins)

- Aims: to check sts' understanding and to summarize the text.

- Ask presentatives of some groups to report in front of the whole class.

- Listen andgive remarks.

5. Homework: (1 min)

- Ask students to write a passage of about 60 words about a famous scientist.

- Work in groups

- Some Students report orally.

- Discuss in pairs and then answer the questions.

- Some sts stand up to answer.

- Listen to the teacher and Copy down

- Repeat the words.

- Work in pairs to check for each other.

- 1 student/ 1 time

- Work individually.

- Discuss in pairs to share their ideas.

-Listen and self-correct the exercise.

- Copy down

* Key:

1.c 2. e 3. a 4. d 5. b

- listen to the teacher.

- Students do the work individually.

- Discuss the answers with their partners.

- some sts do orally while others watch

+ Key:

1. T

2. F( Her dream was to become a scientist)

3. T

4. F (She married Pierre Curie in 1895)

5. T

- Self-correct the work

Key:

1.Marie Curie was born in Warsaw on November 7,1867

2.She was a brilliant and mature students .

3. She work as a tutor to save money for a study tour abroad.

4.She was awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for determining the atomic weight of radium.

5. No it wasn’t. her real joy was “ easing human suffering

- work in groups orally and try to find the evidence in the reading text.

- Some sts report in front of the ckass.

- Others listen to their friends and give remarks.

- Listen to the teacher.