Unit 10:

LISTENING

contents

• 1. pre-listening• Introduce the text• Present vocabularies• Guiding question

• 2. while-listening• Task 1• Task 2

• 3. post-listening• Group discussion

PRE-LISTENING

•Guess the name of the following animal

The gorilla

You will watch a film

vocabularies

- Gorilla [gə'rilə] (n) : a large ape that comes from western Africa

- bare [beə] adj) : without any clothes or not covered by anythingex: Don't walk around outside in your bare feet.

-sociable ['sou∫əbl] dễ gần ex: Rob's very sociable - he likes

his parties

- Ranger /reindʒə/ a person whose job is to protect a forest or natural park:ex: a forest ranger

- silverback (n): khỉ đầu đàn ['silvər bæk]

ex: the strongest one is the silverback

sub-adult (a): gần trưởng thành[sʌbædʌlt]ex: the sub-adult one is very

ferocious

• Civil war (n) : nội chiến– ['sivl wɔ:)

ex: The Spanish Civil War lasted from 1936 to 1939

• nest (n): tổ – [nest] ex: the bird’s nest

Pronunciation practice

- Gorilla [gə'rilə] (n)- bare (adj)

[beə]- sociable ['sou∫əbl] - Silverback

- ['silvər bæk

-sub-adult [sʌbædʌlt]

- Civil war ['sivl wɔ:]

- nest [nest]- forest ranger ['fɔrist][reindʒə]

Listen to the tape and answer the following question:

• What is the main ideas of the listening tape?– A. the food gorillas eat– B. the threats to gorillas’ life– C. the information about gorillas’ life

Answer Explanation

Gorillas live in family group. A typical group is led by the biggest and strongest grown-up male gorilla Babies sleep with their mother at night

Hunters kill them for food

1. A

2. B

3. D

4. C

5. D

Task 1: Listen and choose the best answer

WHILE-LISTENING

General features(1)___________ , gentle, sociable and (2)_____________

Group membersThe silverback, one or two sub-adult males (3) ________________

Food (4)___________________ and worms

Place for sleepingnest (5) ___________ or (6) _____________

Causes of being endangered

(7) __________ hunters killing them for food (8) __________________

TASK 2: Listen and complete the chart below:

peacefulplant-eating

a few female and their young

plants and a few insects

in treesin grasses

Civil warforests being cut down

work in groups and discuss the possible ways to protect the gorilla using some following expressions:

POST-LISTENING

- I think we should-in my opinion, humans should..- personally, humans must..

Giving opinion

HomeworkWrite a paragraph of about 60

words on the gorilla based on these

instruction:1. Introduce the gorilla2. Some main features of

gorilla3. What to do to protect

their existence