Giáo án Writing

Ss activate prior knowledge about tiger conservation and the key vocabulary, and understand the task of the lesson.

Ss look at a picture of a tiger and answer the questions: 'What do you know about tigers today?' and 'What threats do tigers face?' Ss match the key words endangered, poaching, habitat loss, conservation, population trend and threat with their Vietnamese meanings.

Ss give at least two threats to tigers (habitat loss and poaching). Ss match all six key words with their meanings: endangered (có nguy cơ tuyệt chủng), poaching (săn trộm), habitat loss (mất sinh cảnh), conservation (bảo tồn), population trend (xu hướng quần thể), threat (mối đe doạ). Ss write the lesson objective in their notebooks.

Ss identify the purpose, audience and structure of a problem-solving report, and see how each part contributes to a coherent message.

Ss read the model report 'Strengthening Tiger Conservation Awareness' silently. Ss work in groups of four using Worksheet 1 to answer the questions: (1) What is the problem? (2) What are the proposed actions? (3) How is the report evaluated? (4) What are the limitations and the recommendation? (5) Which sentence is the substantive opening, and which sentence closes the report?

Ss complete Worksheet 1 with these answers:

• Problem: Tigers face several interacting threats, including habitat loss and illegal hunting. A school event cannot remove these pressures alone, but it can avoid spreading harmful messages.
• Proposed actions: present a source-checked explanation of threats; discourage wildlife-product purchases; show why connected habitat matters; use original drawings and a general-range map instead of revealing sensitive locations; invite a qualified conservation speaker if available and provide written alternatives to the talk.
• Evaluation: participants identify one harmful action to avoid and one reliable source.
• Limitations: a successful exhibition does not demonstrate population recovery.
• Recommendation: connect awareness with responsible behaviour and accurate information, while leaving rescue, handling and enforcement to authorised professionals.
• Substantive opening sentence: 'Tigers face several interacting threats, including habitat loss and illegal hunting.' The title is not counted as the opening sentence.
• Closing sentence: 'Recommendation: connect awareness with responsible behaviour and accurate information, while leaving rescue, handling and enforcement to authorised professionals.'

Ss recognise and use condition clauses (if, unless, provided that, as long as) and comparison structures (as...as, than + comparative) to make their reports precise.

T presents the language resource: condition clauses include if, unless (= if not), provided/providing that and as long as. Unless already contains negation: 'Unless we act' means 'If we do not act'. Comparisons use as...as or than with a comparative. A condition is not a guaranteed outcome. Ss complete Worksheet 2 by rewriting sentences about tiger conservation.

Ss complete Worksheet 2 with these answers (illustrative sentences, not observed facts):

1. Unless schools discourage wildlife-product purchases, the awareness message may stay weak. (Unless = if ... not)
2. The event can continue provided that organisers check all sources before the talk.
3. Ss may also use: 'The talk will run as long as an authorised speaker is available.'
4. Ss rewrite: 'Habitat protection is more effective than awareness alone.' (Comparison baseline: habitat protection and awareness alone, both within the same topic.)
   Key point: Ss must not write 'The event will save tigers' because a condition does not guarantee the outcome.

Ss practise summarising, evaluating the function of sentences and writing a conclusion that keeps the model's message and conditions.

Ss complete three exercises from the Writing section:

• Exercise 5: Write a three-sentence summary of the model using only information in the model. Keep the essential condition or limit.
• Exercise 6: Choose one sentence from the middle of the model and explain what it contributes to the message.
• Exercise 8: Write a short final paragraph or spoken conclusion that preserves the model's message, using only details already supplied.

Exercise 5 model answer:
Tigers face several interacting threats, including habitat loss and illegal hunting. A school event cannot remove these pressures alone, but it can avoid spreading harmful messages. A successful exhibition does not demonstrate population recovery.

Exercise 6 model answer: 'Invite a qualified conservation speaker if available, and provide written alternatives to the talk.' This sentence adds concrete, practical actions to the problem, and it gives participants a choice if no qualified speaker is available. It does not just repeat the title.

Exercise 8 model answer: In short, a school event cannot solve the tiger crisis on its own, but it can raise awareness, discourage buying wildlife products and share accurate information. Rescue, handling and enforcement remain the responsibility of authorised professionals.

Ss apply the structure, language and register of a problem-solving report to a new school awareness event about protecting tigers.

Ss work individually to plan and draft a problem-solving report for school participants about protecting tigers. Ss use the outline in Worksheet 2 and include: a title, a substantive opening, at least two proposed actions with a condition, an evaluation (one harmful action to avoid and one reliable source), a limitation and a closing recommendation. Any example data or proposals must be labelled as proposals or illustrations. Ss finish the full report as homework.

Ss produce a completed outline with the following parts in English:

• Title: a clear title with the words Tiger Conservation.
• Opening: one sentence that states a specific problem.
• Proposed actions: at least two actions, each with a condition using if, unless, provided that or as long as.
• Evaluation: one harmful action to avoid and one reliable source.
• Limitation: one sentence stating what the event cannot show.
• Closing recommendation: one sentence that connects awareness with responsible behaviour, without unsupported promises.