Date :
Period 12
Unit 3 PEOPLE’S BACKGROUND
Lesson: READING

I. Objectives: By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:
Read and understand about Marie Curie
II. Language Focus:
Grammar: Revision
New words: brilliant, mature, habour, tutor, interrupt, degree, with flying colours, tragic, obtain, humanitarian.
III. Teaching Aids: Pictures, extra board, transparent sheet, overhead projector, cassette player,
textbook . . .
IV. Procedures:

Stages/Time
Teacher’s Activities
Students’ Activities




Warm-up
(5 minutes)
-T prepares some pictures of famous people with their jobs in jumble.
-T asks Ss to match the people corresponding to their jobs.
Match the people with their jobs
Column A
Column B

1. Nguyen Du
a. anewspaper reporter

2. Ly Hung
b. a singer

3. Tran Xuan An
c. a writer

4. My Tam
d. an actor

5. Marie Curie
e. a scientist

-T asks Ss to present their finished results in front of class.
-T leads into the new lesson: Today we’re going to learn about Marie Curie, a famous scientist.
-Ss close their books and listen to the teacher’s explanation.

-Ss do the matching task in individual.

-Ss present their result before the class.



-Ss listen and open the textbook to enter the new lesson.



Pre-reading



10 minutes
-T asks Ss to work in pairs to make a list of what they know and of what they don’t know about Marie Curie.
-Tcalls two pairs of Ss to present their preparation.
-T introduces some new words.
+ brilliant (a)
+ harbour (v): keep in the mind (v)
+ tutor (n)
+ humanitarian (n)
-T guides Ss to pronounce these new words
-T corrects their mistakes in pronunciation.
-Ss open their books and work in pairs.

-Ss make a list about Marie Curie.
-Ss listen and take notes new words.




-Ss practise pronouncing new words.



While-reading


15 minutes
Task 1
-T asks Ss to listen to the tape.
-T asks Ss to read the text in silence for the first time.
-T helps Ss understand meanings of new words.
-Tgoes around the class and helps Ss to Task 1.
-T requires Ss to show their results on the board.
-T get feedbacks from Ss and gives out remarks.
+ be struck (v)
Task 2
-T introduces Task No. 2 clearly.
-T asks students to read the text in silence.
-T asks S to do Task 2 individually.
* Expected answer:
1. T
2. F – Her dream was to became a scientist.
3. T
4. F – She married Pierre Curie in 1895.
5. T
Task 3
-T asks Ss to scan the text one more time.
-T asks Ss to work in pairs, asking and answering the questions.
-T goes around the class to helps Ss correct mistakes.
-T checks the answers of Ss
* Expected answers:
1. She was born in Warsaw on November7, 1867.
2. She was a brilliant and mature student.
3. She worked as a private 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”

-Ss listen to the tape.
-Ss read the text in silence.
-Ss take notes new words.
-Ss work individually and do the task 1.
-Some Ss present the results on the board, others listen and remark.

-Ss listen to T’s guidance.
-Ss read the text in slience and then do Task 2.

-Ss present their results.

-Ss take notes the keys.



-Ss work in pairs to ask and answer the questions in Task 3.

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-Ss present their results on the board.


-Ss listen and take notes.


Post- reading

13 minutes
-T asks Ss to work in groups to find out evidences from the passage. Each group finds an evidence for each descriptive adjective about Marie Cuire.
-T goes around the class to help Ss.
-T invites representative of each group