Giáo án tiếng văn Unit 3: People’s Background The 12th period Date: Grade 10 Theme: People’s Back Ground Unit Reading Time: 45 minutes I Objectives: Educational aim: Students can read and know about Marie Curie and questions and answer them well Knowledge: - General knowledge: make - Language: - New words: Words to describe people’s back ground: name, age, place/date of birth, education, job, interest Skills: Reading for general or specific information II Method: Integrated, mainly communicative III Teaching aids: Some photos of famous people and some information about them IV Procedures: Teacher’s activities Students’ activities Warm-up: (4 minutes) - Give some famous persons’ - Do themselves names in the column A and and then work in their job in the column B pairs Notes - Let students match the - Some of them people with their jobs A To on the board B teacher Hong Nhung Mr scientist A Hoai B singers Marie and speak out Curie To writer Hoai Curie writer Marie scientists Ha Hong Nhung - Recheck and introduce the new lesson: Marie Curie singer Mr Ha teacher Pre-reading: (7 minutes) - Listen to the teacher - Ask some questions about some famous people and Marie Curie Can you name and tell some scientists and their - Write down in specializations? their papers and What are their jobs? then discuss in Where are they? their groups Have you ever heard of - Some students stand up and Marie Curie? What you know about answer in roles A: her? - Let students write some Can you name…? Marie B: They Newton, Curie with model given information are about What you already know about her Darwin, and Marie Curie What you want to know about her - Work in pairs to discuss to fill - Let each student stand and some necessary speak their opinions inform about - Go around and help them Marie Curie if necessary - Speak out their knowledge about Marie Curie A: Marie Curie is a scientist B: I want to While-reading: (20 minutes) where she was - Let students open the book and read know when and silently born while teacher reads aloud and correctly - Ask students to read themselves and write down some information Class organization: students it in - Let students work in pairs pairs to the task - Read silently Task - - Read words in A and ask: some Remember With flying colors, what information about Marie does it mean? - Let students translate them Curie into Vietnamese - Ask students to reread and answer some questions to - Read quickly practice with some words and give some above sentences in the text which are in A - Predict meaning words the of - Match words A with B 1-C: very well, To whom these words refer? - What about her? with a very high mark/grade 2-E: find exactly Who passed the exam with flying colors? Task - Let students read all sentences and explain some new words if necessary out by making calculations 3-A: having a fully developed mind 4-D: make less severe 5-B: keep in the - Listen and correct if mind needed - Work in pairs and answer some questions Task - Let students work in pairs - Read quickly and find information to compare to the sentence given: True of False? Post-reading: (10 minutes) - Work in pairs, -Ask students to close their then one reads books and practice telling the sentence and something about Marie the Curie - Let students reread the corrects it other passage quickly to find - Work in pairs evidence from the passage to find to prove each of them information a strong willed answer b ambitious c hard-working to the questions A: Where and when was Marie d intelligent e humane - Listen and explain some born? B: She was born… use of the words: work as; in spite of; worked together on; took up the position - Work in pairs and some of them stand and say about Marie Curie - Work in groups and discuss which sentences go with the word Homework (4 minutes) - Reread the passage and given - Speak out: write about another famous person (about 100 words) a strong willed: harbored dream scientific the of a career, impossible for a woman at that time b Ambitious: kept moving up in her career c hard-working: difficult living