By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to talk about UFOs with basic information received through discussion and the reading.

Teacher’s activities

Students’ activities

3.1. Warm up:

- Ask Ss to look at the pictures and explicit the meaning of UFOs.

- Asks Ss to work in pairs and discuss the following questions.

a. have you ever heard of UFOs? Do you thing they really exist?

a. Have you ever seen any films on UFOs?

What are they about?

c. What do you want about UFOs?

d. If you saw a UFO, what would you do?

- Gather ideas and provide some facts about UFOs (see supplements)

3.2. Presentation:

- Ask Ss to look at Listen and read.

- Explicit the new words.

- Play the tape and set the scene: "UFOs are

strange flying objects that some people report that they have seen in the sky and believed to be spacecraft from another planet, Many scientists do not believe so, they say that if people see a UFO, it might be an aircraft, a weather balloon or a meteor however, there is still evidence for people believe in the existence of UFOs"

3.3. Practice:

- Tell Ss to work individually and find the words in the text having meanings as in the book instructed.

- Ask Ss to compare their answers with a friend. Encourage Ss to guess the meaning of the words in the context of the passage

- Call on some Ss to read aloud their answers in front of class. Ask Ss to explain their answers:

- Feedback and give correct answers.

- Ask Ss to work in pairs and read the passage  

3.4. Consolidation:

- Divide class into small groups. Ask them to match the timeline in A to the events in B when the game is finished, ask Ss to recall the passage and present it to class.

1. Getting started:

- Group work, find out the answers.

+ UFOs = Unidentified Flying Objects

1. New words:

+ Meteor (n):

+ Alien (n):

+ Sample (n):

+ Spacecraft (n):

+ Egg – shape (a): h

+ Plate – like (a):

+ Treetop (n):

2. find contextual meanings of the words:

- Individual work and pair work.

* Answers:

1. Evidence
2. meteor
3. aliens
4. collecting
5. captured
6. disappeared

3.  Completing the notes:

a. An aircraft, a weather balloon or a meteor can be mistaken for an alien spacecraft.

b. ……………. nine large round objects traveling at about 2.800 meters an hours

c. ……….. over 1.500 sightings ……..

d. ……….. saw a UFO above their ……

e. ………. Saw an egg – shaped object in one of his fields and also aliens collecting soil samples ……..

f. ……… claimed they were captured by aliens and taken abroad a spacecraft.

g. …… and his plane disappeared after sighting a UFO…

h. ……….. that he saw a plate like device at a treetop 30 meters away …

- Group work.

* Answers:

1. C
2. E
3. A
4. B
5. F