Date of planning: 20/ 9 /2020 Period 11
Date of teaching: week 4 ( 11-16/10/2021) Class 12a1,a2

Unit 2. URBANISATION
Lesson 3. READING - URBANISATION AND ITS CAUSES

I. OBJECTIVES: By the end of the lesson, students will have:
Ability:
to practise their reading skill through a text about URBANISATION AND ITS CAUSES
to express their own ideas about the causes of urbanisation in Hanoi / Ho Chi Minh city
to learn some new vocabulary items related to the topic such as: expanding, counter – urbanization, increase, double, migrate, centralise
to pronunciation of new words, especially stressed sounds
Skills:
+ skimming for the general idea (prediction task)
+ guessing the meaning of words in context (gap- filling task)
+ scanning for specific details ( question and answer task)
II. PREPARATION: textbooks, chalk, blackboard, laptop, projector, handouts
III. PROCEDURE:
 
Warm-up
GAME – WORD SQUARE
a/ very untidy and dirty houses, esp. in cities
b/ people in rural areas mainly live on ……..
c/ a problem that is thought to be solved thanks to work opportunities in cities
d/ the process of developing industries in a country
e/ Many people move to big cities, hoping to have better ….( 3 things)
f/ people living in cities
 
PRE-READING
Clip watching  Discussing -Personal idea brainstorming
What may be the causes of the issue?
What may pull people to cities?
What may push people out of the countryside?
guiding questions
While-reading:
Task 1: TRUE/ FALSE / NOT GIVEN
T
F
T
F
T
Task 2: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
What is urbanization ?
2. What do MEDCs and LEDs stand for ?
3. Where did rapid urbanization take place prior to 1950 ? Why ?
4. What happened after 1950 ?
5. How many ‘push” factors of urbanization are mentioned ? What are they?
6. Why are small farmers ‘s lives difficult?
7. How many ‘pull ” factors of urbanization are mentioned? What are they?
Unit 2- reading ( page 23)
Push factors: - lack of resources ( in rural areas)
- difficutly in making a living
( bad weather conditions / competition with large agricultural companies)


Pull factors: the centralisation of finance, services, wealth and opportunities ( in urban areas)
What may pull people to cities?
What may push people out of the countryside?
Task 2: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
What is urbanization ?
 It is a process by which urban areas grow bigger as more and more people leave the countryside to live in towns and cities.
2. What do MEDCs and LEDs stand for ?
MEDCs stands for More Economically Developed Countries
LEDCs stands for Less Economically Developed Countries
3. Where did rapid urbanization take place prior to 1950 ? Why ?
Prior to 1950 , rapid urbanization took place in Europe and North America because industrialisation occured in those areas.
4. What happened after 1950 ?
 After 1950 , urbanisation started to grow rapidly in LEDCs.
Task 2: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
5. How many ‘push” factors of urbanization are mentioned ? What are they?
Two push” factors of urbanization are mentioned :
+lack of resources in rural areas
+ dificulty in making a living ( bad weather conditions and competition from large agricultural companies)
6. Why are small farmers ‘s lives difficult?
 Because they have to suffer bad weather conditions and competition from large agricultural companies .
7. How many ‘pull ” factors of urbanization are mentioned? What are they?
 One “pull” factor of urbanizationis mentioned: the centralization of resources such as money , services , wealth and opportunities ( in urban areas) .
1. becoming larger in size or amount
2.the movement of people out of cities to the surrounding areas
3.a rise in size , amount or degree
4. became twice as big or twice as many
5. go to live in another area or country
Task 3: Finding words
expanding
counter-urbanisation
double
increase
migrate
Post-reading:
DISCUSSION
PUSH FACTORS and PULL FACTORS
of COUNTER-URBANISATION
Homework :
MINDMAP

Make a diagram or mind map to illustrate the
CAUSES , IMPACTS and SOLUTIONS
of
URBANISATION
or
COUNTER-URBANISATION