Giáo án Tiếng Anh 10 Unit 3: People's background

Teacher’s activities

Students’ activities

Notes

Warm-up: (4 minutes)

- Give some famous persons’ names in the column A and their job in the column B

- Let students match the people with their jobs

     A                               B

To Hoai                      singers

Marie Curie                teacher

Hong Nhung               writer

Mr Ha                         scientist

- Recheck and introduce the new lesson: Marie Curie

Pre-reading: (7 minutes)

- Ask some questions about some famous people and Marie Curie

1. Can you name and tell some scientists and their specializations?

2. What are their job?

3. Where are they?

4. Have you ever heard of Marie Curie?

5. What do you know about her?

- Let students write some information about Marie Curie with model given

What you already know about her

What you want to know about her

- Let each student stand and speak their opinions

- Go around and help them if necessary

While-reading: (20 minutes)

- Let students open the book and read silently while teacher reads aloud and correctly

- Ask students to read themselves and write down some information

- Let students work in pairs to do the task 1

Task 1

- Read words in A and ask:

1. With flying colors, what does it mean?

- Let students translate them into Vietnamese

- Ask students to reread and answer some questions to practise with some words above

1. To whom do these words refer to?

- What about her?

2. Who passed the exam with flying colors?

Task 2

- Let students read all sentences and explain some new words if necessary

- Listen and correct if needed

Task 3

- Let students work in pairs

Post-reading: (10 minutes)

-Ask students to close their books and practise telling something about Marie Curie

- Let students reread the passage quickly to find evidence from the passage to prove each of them

a. strong willed

b. ambitious

c. hard-working

d. intelligent

e. humane

- Listen and explain some use of the words: work as; in spite of; worked together on; took up the position

Homework (4 minutes)

- Reread the passage and write about another famous person (about 100 words)

- Do themselves and then working pairs

- Some of them do on the board and speak out

    A                   B

To Hoai            writer

Marie Curie     scientists

Hong Nhung    singer

Mr Ha              teacher

- Listen to the teacher

- Write down in their papers and then discuss in their groups

- Some students stand up and answer in roles

A: Can you name…?

B: They are NewTon, Darwin, Marie Curie...

- Work in pairs to discuss to fill some necessary inform about Marie Curie

- Speak out their knowledge about Marie Curie

A: Marie Curie is a scientist

B: I want to know when and where she was born

Class organization: students do it in pairs

- Read silently

- Remember some information about Marie Curie

- Read quickly and give some sentences in the text which are in A

- Predict the meaning of words

- Match words A with B

1-C: very well, with a very high mark/grade

2-E: find out exactly by making calculations

3-A: having a fully developed mind

4-D: make less severe

5-B: keep in the mind

- Work in pairs and answer some questions

- Read quickly and find information to compare to the sentence given: True of False?

- Work in pairs, then one reads the sentence and the other corrects it

- Work in pairs to find information to answer the questions

A: Where and when was Marie born?

B: She was born…

- Work in pairs and some of them stand and say about Marie Curie

- Work in groups and discuss which sentences go with the word given

- Speak out:

a. strong willed: harboured the dream of a scientific career, impossible for a woman at that time

b. Ambitious: kept moving up in her career

c. hard-working: difficult living conditions- work hard

d. Intelligent: Nobel Prize

e. Humane: easing humane suffering

- Some others repeat

- Copy the words

- Listen and copy