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<b>LESSON PLAN</b>

<b>Unit7: World population</b>

<b>Speaking</b>

<i><b>1. Class description:</b></i>

- 40 students (Ss) in 11A2 class at Ngo Thi Nham high school
<i><b>2. Level:</b></i>

- Intermediate
<i><b>3. Time: 45 m</b></i>
<i><b>4. Objectives:</b></i>

By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to: talk about the causes of population explosion, problems of population booms and solutions
to these problems.

<i><b>5. Assumed knowledge:</b></i>

- Ss have already known some vocabulary items related to the topic.
<i><b>6. Anticipated problem(s):</b></i>

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- There may be time left, so the teacher (T) should spend more time for Ss doing task 4.

- Ss may not have enough vocabulary to talk about the topic, so T should be ready to provide help.
<i><b>7. Teaching aids:</b></i>

- Books, handouts, visual aids, chalks and board.

8. Procedures:

<b>Time</b> <b>Stage</b> <b>Aims</b> <b>Techniques</b> <b>Teacher’s activities</b> <b>Students’ activities</b> <b>Note</b>

3 minutes <b>Warm up</b> To lead in the
topic

Eliciting
technique

<b>*Picture description:</b>

- Shows Ss the prepared picture
- Asks Ss some questions:

+ What can you see in the picture?

<b>Suggested answer:</b> There is a big
family with parents and their five
children. They are poor and look so
sad.

+ What does the picture tell you?

<b>Suggested answer:</b> The picture
tells us about the poverty. It is one
of the problems of overpopulation.
- Elicits the answers from Ss
- Introduces the topic:
Overpopulation

- See the picture

- Answer the
questions

5-7
minutes

<b>Task 1</b> To help Ss
express their
own ideas
about causes

- Gives Ss instruction: <i>You are </i>
<i>going to put the following causes to </i>
<i>overpopulation in order of </i>

<i>importance and explain your </i>

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of population
explosion

- Step by step

<i>decision.</i>

- Asks Ss to read through the causes
provided on page 83 and makes sure
that Ss understand these statements.
- Give Ss instructions:

<b>Task 1:</b><i>Work in pairs. Read the </i>

<i>causes of population explosion. Put </i>
<i>them in order of importance and </i>
<i>explain why.</i>

□ Fewer children die at birth.
□ People are not aware of the
problem of overpopulation.

□ People are not properly educated.
□ People believe that having many
children means happiness.

□ Religion doesn’t encourage
people to have fewer children.
□ Many people believe that having
a large family is a form of

insurance.

<i>- </i>Takes time for Ss to work
- Goes around and provides help
- Calls some pairs to present their
ideas.

- Gives comment and introduces
some useful expressions to give
opinion:

<b>+ In my point of view, …….</b>
<b>+ In my opinion, ………….</b>

- Listen to T

- Work in pairs
- Answer to T

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<b>+ To my mind, ………..</b>
<b>+ As far as I’m concerned, </b>
<b>…………..</b>

<b>+ I think that ……….</b>
<b>+ It would seem/ appear to me </b>
<b>that ……….</b>

7-9
minutes

<b>Task 2</b> To help Ss
express their
opinion about
effects of

overpopulation - Step by step

- Giving
corrective
feedback

- Give Ss instruction: <i>You are going</i>
<i>to work in pairs to list the problems</i>

<i>facing poor and overpopulated </i>
<i>countries.</i>

- Asks Ss to read the <i>useful </i>
<i>language</i> on page 83

- Explains some new words in the
<i>useful language</i>

- Reminds Ss about matching the
words/ phrases on the left with the
words/ phrases on the right

- Give Ss instructions: <i>Work in </i>
<i>pairs. List the problems of poor and</i>
<i>overpopulated countries.</i>

- Takes time for Ss to work in pairs.
- Goes around and provides help
- Calls some pairs to report their
answers

- Comments Ss’ answer

<b>Suggested answers:</b>

+ poor living condition
+ low living standard

- Listen to T

- Work in pairs
- Answer to T
- Listen to T

- T can
explain in
Vietnamese
if

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+ not enough food

+ lack/ shortage of school/ hospital/
teacher/ doctor/ nurse

+ social evils
+ illiteracy
+ unemployment
+ crime

+ social conflict and War
+ traffic jam

+ species extinction
+ loss of fresh water
+ loss natural habitat
+ global warming
+ pollution
+ climate change
+ epidemic

10-12

minutes

<b>Task 3</b> To help Ss
express their
opinion about
solutions of
overpopulation

- Step by step

- Translation

- Gives Ss instructions: <i>Now you </i>
<i>will work in groups of 4 to find out </i>
<i>the solutions to the problems of </i>
<i>overpopulation.</i>

- Asks Ss to read the useful
language and pre-teaches some
words/ phrases:

+ exercise/ implement (v) thực thi,
áp dụng

+ carry out (phr v) tiến hành
+ reward and punishment policy:
chính sách thưởng phạt

- Asks Ss to do the task. Ss may

- Listen to T - T can
explain in
Vietnamese
if

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- Giving
corrective
feedback

work out other solutions.
- Takes time for Ss to work in
groups

- Goes around to offer help

- Calls on some Ss to present their
groups’ idea

- Gives comment

<b>Suggested answers:</b>

+ raise an awareness of the
problems of overpopulation

+ raise the people’s living standard
+ exercise/ implement reward and
punishment policy

+ carry out population education
program/ family planning program
+ use birth control methods

+ eradicate illiteracy

+ educate people about the dangers
of overpopulation

+ implement strictly the policy
having only 1 child in each family

- Work in groups of 4

- Answer to T

10-13
minutes

<b>Task 4</b> To create
chances for Ss
to present their
opinion about
the effects and
solutions of
overpopulation

- Step by step - Gives Ss instructions: <i>Now you </i>
<i>are going to work in groups of 4 to </i>

<i>talk about the problems of </i>

<i>overpopulation and offer solutions, </i>
<i>using the results of Tasks 2 and 3.</i>
- Reminds Ss to give a short
presentation of the problems of

- Listen to T - T can
explain in
Vietnamese
if

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population explosion and the
solutions to them

- Shows the poster with useful
languages for Ss

- Gives the list of transition signals
for Ss:

<b>+ first/ firstly, second, next, etc</b>
<b>+ the first one, the second one, etc</b>
<b>+ the first problem is that…., the </b>
<b>next solution is that………, etc</b>

- Delivers handouts of the model
structure of Ss talk to help them
make reference

<b>Nowadays, overpopulated </b>

<b>countries are facing up to serious </b>
<b>problems. The first one is </b>

<b>……….…. …. The second </b>
<b>one is ………. And </b>
<b>the next one is </b>

<b>……….</b>
<b>To solve these problems, the </b>
<b>government should </b>

<b>………. </b>
<b>Besides, people have to </b>

<b>……… </b>
<b>and ………..</b>

- Takes time for Ss to work in

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- Giving
corrective
feedback

- Goes around to observe, provides
help if necessary and collects Ss’
typical mistakes and errors.
- Calls on some group
representatives to present

- Gives comment on Ss’

presentation and corrects collected
mistakes.

- Present their group
work

- Listen to T

1 minute <b>Wrap-up</b> - Summarizes the main points of the

lesson

- Asks Ss to prepare the next lesson

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