Unit 10: LIFE ON OTHER PLANETS
Lesson 1 : GETTING STARTED & LISTEN AND READ

I/- OBJECTIVE:
By the end of the lesson, students can:
Talk about possibility
II/- LANGUAGE CONTENTS:
Grammar: Simple past tense (review)
Vocabulary: evidence – meteor – alien – collecting – captured – disappeared
III/- TECHNIQUES:
Question – answer
Pair work/group work
IV/- TEACHING AIDS
Pictures
Cassette
Film
V/- TIMES: 45’
VI/- PROCEDURE:
STEPS
ACTIVITIES

Warm-up
(5’)













Pre-listening and reading (10’)


While-listening and reading (20’)














Post –listening and reading (10’)

















I/- GETTING STARTED: Introduce the topic
Showing pictures – making some questions:
What can you see in the pictures?
What are they?
What do we call them in Vietnamese?
Pair work or group work: Question-Answer
Have you ever heard about UFOs? Do you think they really exist?
Have you ever seen any films on UFOs? What were they about?
What do you to know about UFOs?
If you saw a UFO, what would you do?
II/- LISTEN AND READ: Introduce the content and the topic
Showing film: Star Wars, Star Trek, ET… - making question: Are there any UFOs in the film?
Asking students to read the introduction about the UFOs and to give their opinions
Getting their opinions
Ss listen to the text (twice) and answer the task: How many events are there in the text?
Silent reading to match the years with the events in group work

Finding the words in the text having the following meanings (group work)
Correcting the mistakes
Answer key:
evidence – proof, support
meteor – falling star, shooting star
aliens – unknown / strange people or thing
collecting – bringing together or gathering
captured – caught as a prisoner
disappeared – became impossible to see
Read new words chorally
Complete the notes /p.84
Giving instructions about the notes
Showing the notes
Ss complete the missing words
Correcting the mistakes
Answer key:
UFO Sightings
An aircraft, a weather balloon, or a meteor can be mistaken for an alien spacecraft.
In 1947, a pilot saw nine large around objects traveling at about 2,800 meters an hour.
There were over 1,500 UFO sightings worldwide in 1952.
In 1954, a woman and her children saw a UFO above their house.
A farmer saw an egg-shaped object in one of his field and also aliens collecting soil samples in 1964.
In 1971, two men claimed they were captured by aliens and taken aboard a spacecraft.
A pilot and his plane disappeared after sighting a UFO in 1978.
In 1981, a Frenchman reported that he saw a plate-like device at a treetop 30 meters away from his garden.



HOMEWORK:
Learn new words by heart
Rewrite exercise b) (page 84) Students’ book
Prepare lesson 2 (SPEAK)