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Teacher: Đặng Thị Minh Hoà
Kim Lien high school
Warm –up: Hang man
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Where is Mount Everest?
What is it famous for?
How high is it?
What’s your feeling when seeing these pictures?
PRE READING
Watch the video clip and then answer the questions
What is the clip about?
It’s about some environmental problems of Mt. Everest
Unit 9: Nature in danger
Lesson2: Reading (con`t)
Read the text about Nature in danger, and then do the decide which of the following is the best title of the text?
Task 1
1. Mt. Everest – A tourist attraction.
2. Mt. Everest’s environmental problems.
4. Expeditions to Mt. Everest.
3. Mt. Everest’s environmental problems and solutions.
WHILE READING
WHILE READING
Grammatical structure:
Climbers also bring with them canisters containing fuel to cook their meals.
(= which contain)
containing
Read the text and decide whether the following statements are true (T), false (F) or no information (NI). Then correct the false sentences.
Task 2
T
F
NI
T
F
No, it’s the famous route to
the summit, not the summit
itself
Before climbing the mountain.
(Line 1, 2, 3)
(Line 12, 13)
(Line 27, 28)
(Line 33)
Answer the questions?
Task 3
1. Why is Mt. Everest now called the world’s highest junkyard?
2. When do climbers need oxygen bottles? Why?
3. What do adventures need for survival on the mountain?
4. In what way can the garbage on Mt. Everest be cleaned up?
5. Did Sherpas collect more or less garbage in 1998 than
they had done in 1995?
6. Why must all expeditions leave a deposit?
Because Mt. Everest – the highest place on Earth has a lot of garbage now.
They need oxygen bottles when they reach the height above 7,800 meters,
where there is not enough oxygen to breath in.
They need fuel canisters, oxygen bottles, batteries, foods and drinks.
The Sherpas pick up garbage , put it in their backpacks, and bring it down
to the foot of the mountain.
They collected more garbage.
This is a measure to force tourists not to leave their equipment on the
mountain. If they do so, they cannot get back the deposit.
Find the words and expressions in the text with the following meanings and write them in the blanks in the text
2. increase quickly
explode
hallucinate
summit
attempt
deposit
1. see or hear things do not exist because of illness or drugs
3. the top of the mountain
4. make an effort, try to do something.
5. a sum of money that you give to somebody to ensure that you will return something to them
Task 4
Watch the video clip and then answer the questions
POST READING
1. What problems are mentioned in the clip?
2. Do you think that they are the most common situation of Vietnamese national parks and tourist attractions nowadays?
Work in groups of 4, choose one of the national parks and tourist attractions in Vietnam, discuss about its problems and suggest some solutions.
Questions
Group work
Homework
1. Translate the text into Vietnamese.
2. Prepare for Unit 9: Listening