Ao thu lạnh lẽo nước trong veo
Một chiếc thuyền câu bé tẻo teo
Sóng biếc theo làn hơi gợn tí
Lá vàng trước gió khẽ đưa vèo
Nguyễn Khuyến
Do you like poetry?
Which poet do you like best ?
Name some poems that are your favorite ?
Do you think it is easy to understand a poem?
Have you ever read an English poem ? Do you understand it ? Do you like it ?


I. Warm up:
What do those pictures tell us about ?
They tell us about the environmental problems
Guiding questions
Who are the people in the poem ?
Where are they?

II. Pre-reading
Unit 6 - lesson 4 - read
Group work:
Answer these questions
1. How many people are there in the poem? Who are they ?
2. Where are they?
Answers:
1. Two – Mum and Son
2. In the forest / woods
3 Pollution
II. Pre-reading
Unit 6 - lesson 4 - read
*Group work:
* New words:
1. End up (v)
2. Junk – yard (n)
3. Treasures (n)
4. Stream(n)
5. Foam (n)
=Mass of bubbles of air or gas
6. Hedge (n)
= A row of things forming a fence
7. Folk (n)
= People
8. Nonsense (n)
= Meaningless words/ Silly ideas
= Finish
=Garbage dump
= Valuable things
= A flow of water/Small river
II. Pre-reading
Unit 6 - lesson 4 - read
f) Mass of bubbles of air or gas
e) A row of things forming a fence
g) People
h) Meaningless words/ Silly ideas
c) Finish
b)Garbage dump
a) Valuable things
d) A flow of water/Small river
B
A
Match A- B
f) Mass of bubbles of air or gas
e) A row of things forming a fence
g) People
h) Meaningless words/ Silly ideas
c) Finish
b)Garbage dump
a) Valuable things
d) A flow of water/Small river
Unit 6 - lesson 4 - read
III. While - reading
* Pair work
Read the poem and answer the questions.
1. According to the mother, what will happen if the pollution goes on?
2. According to the mother, who pollutes the environment?
3. What will happen to the boy if he keeps on asking his mother such questions?
4. Do you think the boy’s question (lines 9-10) is silly ? Why (not)?
If the pollution goes on, the world will end up like a second hand junk yard.
She thinks other folk pollute the environment but not her and her son.
If he keeps on asking such questions, his mother will take him home right away.
No, I think he is right. Because if he throws the bottles that will be polluting the woods.
Unit 6 - lesson 4 - read
IV. Post - reading
Discuss in groups
What could you do in your school/ house to minimize pollution?
(Giảm tới mức tối thiểu)
* Suggested answers
Reuse things
Use leaves to wrap food instead of plastic bags.
Put garbage bins around the schoolyard.
Clean our neighborhood regularly.
Plant trees
Collect used paper for recycling
Not throw trash on to the water.
Unit 6 - lesson 4 - read
V. Sum Up
* She asked her son to throw the soda bottles over the hedge.
* She thinks other folk pollute the environment but not her and her son.
What does the poet want to tell us?
/keeping the environment from pollution.
Unit 6 - lesson 4 - read
V. Sum Up
1. People =…………
3. The world will end up if the ……………... goes on
(pollute/ polluted/ pollution )
2. Junkyard=……….….…….
4. The mother was…………. When she asked her son to throw the soda bottles over the hedge.
( wrong/ good /right )
5. …………... has to do things to protect the environment
(some people/ a lot of people /everyone)
Folk
Garbage dump
pollution
wrong
Everyone
Unit 6 - lesson 4 - read
Vi. Home work:
1. Translate the poem in to Vietnamese
2. Write things you should do to protect the environment.