LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH 9 Period: Week: 32 Class: 9A3 Preparing date: 31/03/2011 Teaching date: 07/04/2011 Teacher: Nguyễn Thị Thanh Nhàn UINT 9 NATURAL DISASTERS Lesson: LANGUAGE FOCUS I. Objectives: - After the lesson, students will be able to distinguish between defining relative clauses and non-defining relative clauses. II. Teaching aids: Textbook, posters. III. Procedures: Teacher’s and students’ activities Contents 1. Warm up: - Teacher gives a chart on the board and asks students to fill WHO, WHICH, THAT in the chart. - Teacher calls on 5 students to write the answers on the board. - Teacher gives the keys. • Sentences: 1. The woman________lives next door is a journalist. 2. A dictionary is a book ______is useful for students. 3. The inventor _______invents Microsoft software is Bill Gate. 4. Joe works for a company ______ produces instant food. 5. My garden has a lot of flowers ________ are grown by my older sister. • Answer keys: 1. Who 2. Which 2. Presentation: - Teacher explains defining relative clauses to students. - Teacher explains non-defining relative clauses to students. 3. Practice: a) Task 1: - Teachers asks students to use the given words and their answers to rewrite sentences using “who”, “which”, “that”. - Teachers asks students to read their answers loudly. - Teacher gives the keys. 3. Who 4. That 5. Which • Defining relative clauses:  These clauses tell us which person or thing the speaker means.  Ex: The woman who lives next door is a journalist. • Non-defining relative clauses:  These clauses give more information about a person or thing already identified.  When we write these clause, we use “comma (,)” at the beginning and at the end of the clauses.  In non-defining relative clauses we cannot use “that”. We cannot also leave out “which or who”.  Non-defining relative clauses are used in sentences containing proper name/noun; possessive adjectives (my, his, her, our, their, its) and demonstrative pronouns (this, that, these, those).  Ex 1 : John, who speaks French and Italia, works as a tour guide.  Ex 2 : Dick told me about his new job, which he’s enjoying very much. • Answer keys: 1. The country which won the 1998 Tiger Cup is Singapore. 2. The animal which has one or two horns on its snout is rhinoceros. 3. The explorer who discovered America is Christopher Columbus. 4. The planet which is closest to the Earth is Venus. b) Task 2: - Teacher asks students to match each of the sentences in column A with a related sentence in column B. Then use a suitable relative pronoun to join the two sentences. - Teacher asks students to read their answers loudly. - Teacher gives the answers. 5. The animal which was chosen to be the logo of Sea Game 2003 is the buffalo. 6. The ASEAN country is divided into two regions by the sea is Malaysia. 7. The food which you can chew but you cannot swallow is the chewing gum and the thing you can swallow but you cannot chew is water. • Answer keys: 1. E. (example) 2. G. It snowed in Lang Son, which is on the Ky Cung River, in the winter of 2002. 3. F. Pompeii, which is an ancient city of Italy, was completely destroyed in A.D 79 by an eruption of Mount Vesuvius. 4. A. Hurricane Andrew, which swept through southern Florida in August 1992, killed 41 people and made more than 200 000 homeless. 5. C. The cyclone of November 1970 in Bangladesh, which killed about 500 000 people, was one of the worst natural disasters of the 20 th century. 6. D. The most disastrous earthquake in Japanese history, which occurred in 1923, damaged Tokyo and Yokohama and killed about 150 000 people. 7. B. The October 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, which measured 7.1 c) Task 3: - Teacher asks students to underline the relative clause in the sentence. Then add commas to seperate the non-defining relative clause from the rest of the sentence. - Teacher asks students to write their answers on the board. - Teacher gives the keys. d) Task 4: - Teacher asks students to rewrite the sentences in exercise 3 by replacing each underlined clause with a clause they have written. - Teacher suggests the answers for students. - Teacher calls on some students to read their answers loudly. on the Richter scale, caused extensive damage to older buildings in San Francisco Bay area. • Answer keys: 1. Done as an example. 2. Kangaroos, which come from Australia, have long tails. 3. Ba, who lives on Trang Tien Street, likes playing the guitar. 4. Defining RCl. 5. Neil Amstrong, who first walked on the moon, lived in the USA. 6. Defining RCl. 7. Miss Lien, who sings very well, is my English teacher. • Teacher’s suggestions: 1. Done as an example. 2. Ba , who lives on Trang Tien Street, likes playing the guitar.  Ba, who likes playing the guitar, is a good student.  Do similarly for the rest of the sentences. • Sentences: 1. A building, which was destroyed in 4. Production: - Teacher gives students some sentences containing relative clauses. Among them there are wrong ones. - Teacher asks students to find out which ones are wrong and correct them. - Teacher asks students to write the answers on the board. - Teacher gives the keys. the fire, is rebuilt now. 2. A waitress which served us was very impolite and impatient. 3. The girl who was injured in the accident is now in hospital. 4. Michael who is singing is my friend. 5. Her dress which she is wearing is very expensive. • Answer keys: 1. W -> A building which was destroyed in the fire is rebuilt now. 2. W -> A waitress who serves us was very impolite and impatient. 3. R 4. W -> Michael, who is singing, is my friend. 5. W -> Her dress, which she is wearing, is very expensive. IV. Homework: - Teacher asks students to write the 4 exercises into their notebooks and make 5 sentences using relative pronoun. - Teacher asks students to prepare Unit 10 (getting started – listen and read). . ENGLISH 9 Period: Week: 32 Class: 9A3 Preparing date: 31/03/2011 Teaching date: 07/04/2011 Teacher: Nguyễn Thị Thanh Nhàn UINT 9 NATURAL DISASTERS Lesson: LANGUAGE FOCUS I. Objectives: - After. Which 2. Presentation: - Teacher explains defining relative clauses to students. - Teacher explains non-defining relative clauses to students. 3. Practice: a) Task 1: - Teachers asks students. history, which occurred in 192 3, damaged Tokyo and Yokohama and killed about 150 000 people. 7. B. The October 198 9 Loma Prieta earthquake, which measured 7.1 c) Task 3: - Teacher asks students