Lesson plan12 + unit 14

Unit 14 INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Lesson 1: READING

Aims

• To help students gain knowledge of some international organizations and

their roles in the world.

• To enable students to read for gist and to scan for specific details.

Method and teaching aids: Integrated, mainly communicative

Pictures of the logos of relevant international organizations

Procedure:

Teacher’s Activities Students’ Activities

Warm-up (5 mn)

Teacher (T) guides students (Ss) to look at

the logo of the United Nations and those of

some other organizations and answer the

guiding questions.

1. What organizations do these logos

represent?

2. What roles do they play in the world?

Students look at the pictures and answer the

questions based on their background

knowledge.

1. The United Nations, the United Nations

Children’s Fund, World Trade Organization,

World Health Organization, etc.

2. Their roles are to improve different aspects

of life, i.e., health, education, children’s

condition of living, trade, etc., in the world.

Pre-reading (20 mn)

a) T has Ss work in pairs, match the logos

with corresponding names and then read

the names of the organizations aloud.

b) T has Ss discuss in pairs and find out the

difference in meaning between ‘abbreviation’

and ‘acronym.’

Ss sit in pairs and do the task assigned by T.

Answer

1. D 2. E 3. F 4. A 5. C 6. B

Students work in pairs and do task b).

Answer

• acronym: a word formed from the first

letters of the words that make up the name

of something.

Example: World Health Organization = WHO,

pronounced / hu: /

• abbreviation: short form of a word

Example: UN, pronounced /ju: ‘en /

1. United Nations: UN (abbr.) /ju: ‘en / (Lieân Hieäp

Quoác)

2. United Nations Children’s Fund: UNICEF

(acr.) /’ju:nisef/ (Quyõ Nhi ñoàng Lieân Hieäp Quoác)

3. Food and Agriculture Organization: FAO

(abbr.) /,ef ei ‘ou / ( Toå chöùc Löông thöïc vaø Noâng

nghieäp Theá giôùi)

4. World Health Organization:WHO (acr.) /hu:/

5. World Trade Organization: WTO(abbr.) / ,d

blju: ti: ou/ (Toå chöùc Thöông maïi Theá giôùi)

6. International Civil Aviation Organization: ICAO

(abbr.) /ai si: ei ou/ ( Toå chöùc Haøng khoâng Daân

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