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…… class
Nguyen trai High School
Thursday, February 16th 2006
Unit 10: Nature in Danger
A: Reading
Before you read
Warming up for reading
Pair work
Key words of the text
1. Warming up for reading
Text title: Nature in Danger
Part 1:
Instruction: Following the title of the text, try to ask at least 3 questions that a text with this title should answer. Also write in the vocabulary list possible words that you could find in that text. After that, read the text and check which of your "predictions" are true.
Pre-questions
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Vocabulary List
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Part 2: Think of another title for the text.
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2. Pair work
scatter: (phân bố) rải rác
remain : còn lại .
endangered species: những loài (động, thực vật) đang bị đe dọa
Read the facts about endangered species in the textbook.
cheetah
? Discuss the 2 following questions :
a) What do you understand from the facts ?
b) Why have the numbers of these animals become small?
3. Key words

exist (v):
live
co-exist (v):
live at the same time
affect (v):
have influence on
pollution
pollute
pollutant
some examples of pollutants: CO2 , CO, SO2 , NO2
smoke from factories
rubbish
extinct (adj):
no longer living
effort (n):
sự nỗ lực, sự cố gắng
prohibit (v):
express the idea of saying that sb mustn`t do sth
interference (n):
sự can thiệp
off-spring:
young of the animal
consequence (n):
result (usually bad)
Read the text and check which of your `predictions` are true
II. While you read
reputation (n): danh tiếng, tiếng tăm
extinct
protect
decrease
pollutants
endangered
interferences.
Task 1: Fill each blank with a suitable word.
1. Dinosaurs became millions of years ago.
2. She tries to her reputation.
3. It is time governments of the developing countries did something to the population growth.
4. The chemical from cars and factories make the air, water and soil dangerously dirty.
5. The whale is an species.
6. The bad weather is causing a lot of television
Task 2: Circle A, B, C or D that best states the main idea of each paragraph.
Paragraph 3: A
Paragraph 2: B
Paragraph 1: C
Paragraph 4: C
Task 3: Answer the questions
Q1: What are the four ways that human beings are changing the world?

-They are destroying the air by adding pollutants like smoke form factories and fumes from cars.
-They are affecting the water supply by using water for industry and agriculture.
-They are changing the environment by building cities and villages.
-They are changing weather conditions by cutting down trees in the forests.



-The environment where these animals are living is badly destroyed.
-The numbers of rare animals are decreasing so rapidly that they are in danger of becoming extinct.
-Many kinds of rare animals are killed.
Q2: What are the serious consequences of people’s interference with the environment ?
Q3: What has been done to protect endangered nature?
-Laws have been passed to prohibit killing endangered animals.
-Many organizations have been set up and money has been raised.
-Thousands of national parks have been established.
III. After you read


3-2-1 chart

Write down:

3 Things You Have Learned from the Text:
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2 Interesting Things:
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1 Question You Still Have:
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Group work
What can you do as an individual
to protect endangered nature?
IV. Homework
Write some sentences explaining why a lot of rare animals have become extinct.