LESSON PLAN
UNIT 2: HUMANS AND THE ENVIRONMENT
LESSON 1: GETTING STARTED - GO GREEN CLUB
I. OBJECTIVES
By the end of this lesson; students will be able to
- gain an overview about the topic Humans and the Environment
- gain vocabulary to talk about activities to adopt a greener lifestyle
- develop communication skills and environmental awareness
- be collaborative and supportive in pair work and teamwork
- actively join in class activities
- develop a greener lifestyle and awareness of environmental issues
- be responsible to the environment
II. LANGUAGE FOCUS
- Key terms/ Vocabulary: adopt (v), awareness (n), carbon footprint (n.p), set up (vp), raise, reduce
- Structure: the future with will and be going to, Passive voice
III. INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES
- Grade 10 textbook, Unit 2, Getting started
- TV, audio file (track 11)
IV. PROCEDURES
Stages
Contents and techniques for organizing
students’ learning activities
Expected products and
assessment of students’ work
A. WARM-UP
ACTIVITY
(7 minutes)
HANGMAN
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
- T sets the rules; the key word has 11 letters.
- Ss play in 2 big groups.
- Ss guess the letters.
- T monitors and decides the winner.
Expected answers:
E N V I R O N M E N T
B. KNOWLEDGE
FORMATION
ACTIVITIES
(7 minutes)
ACTIVITY 1: LISTEN AND READ
Look at the photo (page 18-19), and answer the
question:
What are they doing?
- T asks Ss to look at the picture (p.18) and answer
the questions:
- T plays the recording once, has Ss listen to the
conversation, read along and underline the
voluntary activities in the conversation.
- Ss do the task individually.
- Ss share their answers with a partner.
- T checks their answers with the whole class.
- T has the Ss read the conversation in pairs.
- One pair read aloud.
- T collects common pronunciation mistakes and
gives comments.
Expected answers:
- Some students are collecting
garbage.
- Some students are planting trees.
…..
C. PRACTICE
ACTIVITIES
(21 minutes)
ACTIVITY 2: Read the conversation again and
answer the questions. (p.19)
1. Who set up the Go Green Club?
2. What does the club want to achieve?
3. What does Nam think the club will do in the
future?
- T asks Ss to work individually to read the
questions and underline the key words, then share
their ideas with a partner who sits next to them.
- Ss do Task 2 individually first.
- Ss share and discuss with their partners about the
key words.
- T corrects their answers as a class.
- T asks Ss to scan the conversation, locate the key
words to find the answer for each the question with
the partner who sits behind them.
- Ss do the task in pairs.
- T divides the class into two big teams, has Ss in
each team take turns to choose a number in the
game Lucky number to check the answers.
Expected answers
:
1. It was set up by the Youth Union
in Nam’s school.
Thông tin: Well, it was set up by
the Youth Union in my school.
2. The club wants to improve the
environment and encourage people
to adopt a greener lifestyle.
Thông tin:Its aim is to improve
our environment and encourage
people to adopt a greener lifestyle.
3. The club will organise more
activities to raise local people’s
awareness of environmental issues.
Thông tin:Not yet, but I think
we’ll organise more activities to
raise local people’s awareness of
environmental issues.
1.
ACTIVITY 3: Match the verbs or phrasal verbs
in A with suitable nouns or noun phrases in B.
(p.19)
- T helps students revise some collocations for the
environment so that they can use them in the
lessons.
- T helps students practise scanning.
- T has Ss locate the verbs or phrasal verbs in the
conversation, find the nouns or noun phrases after
each verb/ phrasal verb to do the matching.
- Ss work individually.
- Ss share their answers with a partner.
- T checks and gives the correct answers with the
whole class, and has them say the meaning of each
collocation.
- Students can revise some collocations for talking
about environment.
Expected answers:
1 - c: raise awareness: nâng cao
nhn thc
2 - d: reduce your carbon
footprint: giảm lượng khí thi
cacbon ca bn
3 - e: clean up the school: v sinh
trường hc
4 - b: adopt a greener lifestyle: áp
dng li sống xanh hơn
5 - a. set up a club: thành lp câu
lc b
ACTIVITY 4:
Complete the following sentences
based on the conversation in 1.
- T has Ss read each sentence, try to complete it
with an appropriate verb phrase without referring to
the conversation.
- Ss do the task individually.
Expected answers:
1. was set up
2. are going to
3. will
- Ss share the answers with a peer.
- T asks the whole class the call out the verb forms
first, then call on individual students to read the
complete sentences.
D. APPLICATION
ACTIVITIES
(5 minutes)
ACTIVITY 5: DISCUSSION
Talk about activities you are going to do to make
your community a better one.
* Teacher: gives Ss clear instructions in order to
make sure Ss can do effectively; encourages Ss to
talk about some activities including following
information:
+ What activity are you going to talk about?
+ Where do you do those activities?
+ Who do you do with?
+ How often do you do those activities?
- observes Ss while they are talking, note their
language errors.
* Ss do as instructed.
* Teacher gives Ss feedback.
- chooses some useful or excellent words/ phrases/
expressions/ word choices Ss have used to give
suggestions to other students.
- chooses some typical errors and correct as a whole
class without nominating the Ss’ names.
Sample Talk:
To make my community a
better one, I am going to join a
local environmental group to
clean up the park every Sunday or
volunteer at an orphanage. I play
games with them or tell them
stories that I usually hear from my
father. I enjoy the work very much
because I like doing something
good for my neighbourhood.
E. HOMEWORK
(5 minutes)
PROJECT PREPARATION
* Teacher tells Ss about the Project requirements,
asks Ss open their books at page 27, look at the table
and say what the topic of the Project is.
+ Ss will have to find information about a volunteer
project in the community.
+ Ss give an oral presentation about that volunteer
project in the last lesson of the unit. Their
presentation should include information related to
the guiding questions.
+ Ss can choose different ways to present their
findings (PPT presentation, Poster presentation,
recording a video about the project).
- Encourages Ss to use photos and / or pictures to
illustrate their ideas.
- Explains to Ss how they can get the information,
e.g: search the Internet, read newspapers, go to their
local community centre and talk to people there.
- Puts Ss into groups and have them choose their
group leader. Then ask them to assign tasks (e.g.
who will collect information, who will prepare the
slides / record the video, who will write the report,
and who will present) for each group member,
making sure that all group members contribute to
the group work.
* T helps Ss set deadlines for each task and supports
them throughout the process.
Planning activities for a Go Green
Weekend Event

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LESSON PLAN
UNIT 2: HUMANS AND THE ENVIRONMENT
LESSON 1: GETTING STARTED - GO GREEN CLUB I. OBJECTIVES
By the end of this lesson; students will be able to
- gain an overview about the topic Humans and the Environment
- gain vocabulary to talk about activities to adopt a greener lifestyle
- develop communication skills and environmental awareness
- be collaborative and supportive in pair work and teamwork
- actively join in class activities
- develop a greener lifestyle and awareness of environmental issues
- be responsible to the environment II. LANGUAGE FOCUS
- Key terms/ Vocabulary: adopt (v), awareness (n), carbon footprint (n.p), set up (vp), raise, reduce…
- Structure: the future with will and be going to, Passive voice
III. INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES
- Grade 10 textbook, Unit 2, Getting started - TV, audio file (track 11) IV. PROCEDURES
Contents and techniques for organizing Expected products and Stages
students’ learning activities
assessment of students’ work A. WARM-UP HANGMAN Expected answers: ACTIVITY E N V I R O N M E N T (7 minutes)
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
- T sets the rules; the key word has 11 letters. - Ss play in 2 big groups. - Ss guess the letters.
- T monitors and decides the winner.
B. KNOWLEDGE ACTIVITY 1: LISTEN AND READ FORMATION
Look at the photo (page 18-19), and answer the ACTIVITIES question: (7 minutes) Expected answers: What are they doing?
- Some students are collecting garbage.
- T asks Ss to look at the picture (p.18) and answer
- Some students are planting trees. the questions: …..
- T plays the recording once, has Ss listen to the
conversation, read along and underline the
voluntary activities in the conversation.
- Ss do the task individually.
- Ss share their answers with a partner.
- T checks their answers with the whole class.
- T has the Ss read the conversation in pairs. - One pair read aloud.
- T collects common pronunciation mistakes and gives comments. C. PRACTICE
ACTIVITY 2: Read the conversation again and
Expected answers: ACTIVITIES
answer the questions. (p.19)
1. It was set up by the Youth Union (21 minutes)
1. Who set up the Go Green Club? in Nam’s school.
2. What does the club want to achieve?
Thông tin: Well, it was set up by
3. What does Nam think the club will do in the the Youth Union in my school. future?
2. The club wants to improve the
- T asks Ss to work individually to read the
environment and encourage people
questions and underline the key words, then share
to adopt a greener lifestyle.
their ideas with a partner who sits next to them.
Thông tin:Its aim is to improve
- Ss do Task 2 individually first. our environment and encourage
- Ss share and discuss with their partners about the
people to adopt a greener lifestyle. key words.
3. The club will organise more
- T corrects their answers as a class.
activities to raise local people’s
- T asks Ss to scan the conversation, locate the key
awareness of environmental issues.
words to find the answer for each the question with
Thông tin:Not yet, but I think
the partner who sits behind them.
we’ll organise more activities to - Ss do the task in pairs.
raise local people’s awareness of
- T divides the class into two big teams, has Ss in environmental issues.
each team take turns to choose a number in the 1.
game Lucky number to check the answers.
ACTIVITY 3: Match the verbs or phrasal verbs
Expected answers:
in A with suitable nouns or noun phrases in B.
1 - c: raise awareness: nâng cao (p.19) nhận thức 2 - d: reduce your carbon
footprint: giảm lượng khí thải cacbon của bạn
3 - e: clean up the school: vệ sinh trường học
4 - b: adopt a greener lifestyle: áp

- T helps students revise some collocations for the
dụng lối sống xanh hơn
environment so that they can use them in the
5 - a. set up a club: thành lập câu lessons. lạc bộ
- T helps students practise scanning.
- T has Ss locate the verbs or phrasal verbs in the
conversation, find the nouns or noun phrases after
each verb/ phrasal verb to do the matching. - Ss work individually.
- Ss share their answers with a partner.
- T checks and gives the correct answers with the
whole class, and has them say the meaning of each collocation.
- Students can revise some collocations for talking about environment.
ACTIVITY 4: Complete the following sentences
based on the conversation in 1.
Expected answers: 1. was set up 2. are going to 3. will
- T has Ss read each sentence, try to complete it
with an appropriate verb phrase without referring to the conversation.
- Ss do the task individually.
- Ss share the answers with a peer.
- T asks the whole class the call out the verb forms
first, then call on individual students to read the complete sentences.
D. APPLICATION ACTIVITY 5: DISCUSSION ACTIVITIES
Talk about activities you are going to do to make (5 minutes)
your community a better one. Sample Talk:
* Teacher: gives Ss clear instructions in order to
To make my community a
make sure Ss can do effectively; encourages Ss to
better one, I am going to join a
talk about some activities including following
local environmental group to information:
clean up the park every Sunday or
+ What activity are you going to talk about?
volunteer at an orphanage. I play
+ Where do you do those activities?
games with them or tell them + Who do you do with?
stories that I usually hear from my
+ How often do you do those activities?
father. I enjoy the work very much
- observes Ss while they are talking, note their
because I like doing something language errors.
good for my neighbourhood. * Ss do as instructed. * Teacher gives Ss feedback.
- chooses some useful or excellent words/ phrases/
expressions/ word choices Ss have used to give
suggestions to other students.
- chooses some typical errors and correct as a whole
class without nominating the Ss’ names.
E. HOMEWORK PROJECT PREPARATION (5 minutes)
* Teacher tells Ss about the Project requirements, Planning activities for a Go Green
asks Ss open their books at page 27, look at the table Weekend Event
and say what the topic of the Project is.
+ Ss will have to find information about a volunteer project in the community.
+ Ss give an oral presentation about that volunteer
project in the last lesson of the unit. Their
presentation should include information related to the guiding questions.
+ Ss can choose different ways to present their
findings (PPT presentation, Poster presentation,
recording a video about the project).
- Encourages Ss to use photos and / or pictures to illustrate their ideas.
- Explains to Ss how they can get the information,
e.g: search the Internet, read newspapers, go to their
local community centre and talk to people there.
- Puts Ss into groups and have them choose their
group leader. Then ask them to assign tasks (e.g.
who will collect information, who will prepare the
slides / record the video, who will write the report,
and who will present) for each group member,
making sure that all group members contribute to the group work.
* T helps Ss set deadlines for each task and supports them throughout the process.