UNIT 3: PEOPLE’S BACKGROUND
Lesson : READING
Date : 14/09/07

I/ Aims: 1. To help Ss practise reading skills for specific information.
2. To improve Ss’ vocab..
II/ Objectives: By the end of the lesson, Ss get background knowledge of Marie Curie, .a famous Polish scientist.
III/ Skills: Reading and Speaking
IV/ Teaching aids: portraits of some famous persons / textbooks.
VI/ Procedures:

Stages/Timing
Focus
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities

Warm- up
5 minutes
Game: Guess ‘Who are they?” _Ss choose one of the 4 numbers with 4 portraits behind and listen to the cues to guess his name.
1. The person who invented generator.
2.The person who discovered “gravity”
3. The person who wrote the Vietnamese anthem.
4. The person who was a chemist and found “radium”.
Expected answer:
1/Faraday
2/Newton
3/Van Cao
4/Marie Curie

5 minutes
T. asks Ss: 1. Is Marie Curie a doctor?
2. What’s she? 3. What subject is she good at?
Expected answer :
1. No, she isn’t. 2. She’s a scientist. 3. She’s good at physics.

.Pre-reading
5 minutes
1.Task 1/p.33: Match the words or phrases in A with their meanings in B
2.Check : Gap-fill :
a/ An inquiring was set up to ……….the cause of the accident.
b/ He passed the exam ……………
c/ His particular breed of cattle ………….early.
d/ She always………the dream of being a scientist .

-Expt. :1-c ,2-e ,3-a ,
4-d ,5-b

-Feedback :
a/ determine
b/ with flying colors
c/mature
d/harbors

 While –Reading
10 minutes


-Task 2/p.33: Decide whether the statements are true or false, correct the false information .






- Task 3 /p. 34 : Ask and answer the questions
-Read the text silently.
-Work in pair.
Key :1 – T , 3 –T ,5-T
2 – F .Her dream was to be a scientist.
4-F .She married Pierre Curie in 1895. ,
- Work in groups of 4Ss
. -Answers :
1/. She was born in Warsaw on November 7, 1867 2/. She was a brilliant and mature student. 3/. To save money for a study tour abroad. 4/. She was awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for determining the atomic weight of radium .5/. No, it wasn’t. Her real joy was easing human suffering

 Post- Reading
10 minutes
-Choose 5 of the provided adjectives to describe Marie Currie :
Strong-willed lazy bored rude
Intelligent ambitious ugly
Human talkative hardworking
-Find the evidence from the passage to prove the above adjective.
.
- Answer:
1.strong-willed : harbored the dream of a scientific career –impossible for a women at that time
2 .intelligent : won the Nobel Prize
3. humane : easing human suffering
4 . ambitious : kept moving up in her career
5 .hard-working: difficult living conditions, worked hard.

5 minutes
-Make sentences about Marie Curie, using the above adjectives.
-The speakers of the groups say again the prepared sentences.

Homework
5 minutes
-Write a paragraph about 60-80 words about Marie Curie.








UNIT 3: PEOPLE’S BACKGROUND
Lesson : SPEAKING
Date : 15/09/07

I/. Aims: To make an interview about someone’s background.
II/. Objectives: By the end of the lesson, Ss know to ask and answer about people’s background
III/. Skills: - Main – skill: speaking, Sub – skill: writing.
IV/.Teaching aids: textbook,
VI/ Procedures:

Stages/Timing / Focus
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities

Review
(5 minutes)

-Summarize the life of Pierre Curie, about 60-80 words.
Marie Curie, a strong-willed Pollish scientist, was born in Warsaw on November 7th ,1867.She was a brilliant and mature student when she learnt in local school. She harboured the dream of a scientific career .Therefore, she worked hard and realized her dream at the Sorbornne and became the first woman to receive a PhD from the Sorbornne .In 1894 ,she met Pierre Curie and got married a year later. After her husband’s death in