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.
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 / (Liên Hiệp Quốc)
2. United Nations Children’s Fund: UNICEF (acr.) /’ju:nisef/ (Quỹ Nhi đồng Liên Hiệp Quốc)
3. Food and Agriculture Organization: FAO (abbr.) /,ef ei ‘ou / ( Tổ chức Lương thực và Nông nghiệp Thế giới)
4. World Health Organization:WHO (acr.) /hu:/
5. World Trade Organization: WTO(abbr.) / ,d blju: ti: ou/ (Tổ chức Thương mại Thế giới)
6. International Civil Aviation Organization: ICAO (abbr.) /ai si: ei ou/ ( Tổ chức Hàng không Dân dụng Quốc tế)

While-reading (45 mn)
a) Find the words in the reading which mean:
T has Ss work individually, do the task by looking through the text and find the meanings of the words in context,
then do the matching task.


Ss work individually, then compare their answers in pairs.
Answer
1. permanent (par. A)
2. eligible (par. A)
3. promote (par. B)
4. regulations (par. B)
5. mandate (par. D)
6. originate (par. D)
7. regulate (par. F)


b)
T. has Ss work in pairs, read each paragraph to scan for specific information, then write the names of the corresponding international organization.


Students do task b).
Answer
Paragraph A: UN Security Council
Paragraph B: International Civil Aviation Organization
Paragraph C: United Nations Development Program
Paragraph D: Food and Agriculture Organization
Paragraph E: World Health Organization
Paragraph F: World Trade Organization
Ghi chú: UN Security Council = Hội đồng Bảo an Liên Hiệp Quốc

c)
T. has Ss work in pairs, read the functions
or activities listed in the left column, then write the corresponding international organizations in the right column.


Students do task c).
Answer
1. UN Security Council
2. ICAO
3. UNDP 4. WTO
5. FAO 6. WHO

Post-reading (18 mn)
T has Ss sit in groups of four and
discuss what the above mentioned international organizations have done in Viet Nam.

Homework: (2 mn)




Ss discuss the roles of the above mentioned international organizations in Viet Nam.





Unit 14 INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Lesson 2: Speaking

Aims
- To help students gain knowledge of some international organizations and their roles in the world.
- To enable students to talk about international organizations
- Report on discussion results
Method and teaching aids: Integrated, mainly communicative
Pictures of the logos of relevant international organizations
Procedure:
Teacher’s Activities
Students’ Activities