Giáo án Tiếng Anh lớp 8: Unit 2 Making arrangements Lesson 4 : Read pdf

Thomas Watson was Bell,s assistant.. - Call on some pairs to read their predictions and write them on the board.. III / While - reading : * True or false : -Turn on the tape 2 times and

Unit 2 Making arrangements Lesson 4 : Read

A / Aims and Objectives : By the end of the lesson , Ss will be able to know more about Alexander Graham Bell

B / Teaching aids : Textbooks , posters , pictures of Bill

C / Procedure :

I / Warm up : Brainstorming

- Let Ss answer the questions by coming to

the board and write :

To chat with friend

 Possible answers :

- to have a message

- to call someone

- to make arrangements

Play games

What is the telephone used for ?

- to talk to a person who lives far from

- to get information at the airport or

railway station quickly

II / Pre - reading : Introduce the aims and

some new words to Ss

1.Pre teach vocabulary :

- to emigrate = to go another country to live

- to transmit ( translation )

- to conduct = to carry out

- to demonstrate ( translation )

- a device ( translation )

- a deaf – mute = a person who is unable to

hear and speak

* Checking vocabulary : What and

where

2 T / F statements prediction :

- Hang the poster of T / F statements on the

board and ask Ss to work in pairs and guess

Read their answers aloud and copy

Listen carefully

Listen and repeat in chorus , then

individually Guess its meanings Copy down

which statements are true or false

a Alexander G Bell was born in the USA

b He worked with deaf – mute patients in a

hospital in Boston

c Thomas Watson was Bell,s assistant

d Bell and Watson introduced the telephone

in 1877

e Bell experimented his invention at a lot of

exhibitions

- Call on some pairs to read their

predictions and write them on the board

III / While - reading :

* True or false :

-Turn on the tape 2 times and ask them to

look at their books to read the text , then

check their prediction

Guess Answer Correction

Play game

Look at the poster and work in pairs to predict

Read their predictions

a F He was born in

Edinburgh in Scotland

b F He worked with deaf –

mute patients at Boston University

c T

d F He introduced telephone

in 1876

e F He experimented with

ways of transmitting speech over a long distance

f T

- Ask some Ss to read the correct answers

aloud

* Ordering :

- Ask Ss to look at the exercise and read the

Listen , read the text , then check their predictions

- Correct the false ones

Read them aloud

events of Bell,s life , then put them in the

correct order

- Have them compare with their partners

- Call on some Ss to read their answers

aloud

- Correct and give feedback

= > Alexander Graham Bell

1 Was born in Scotland

2 went to live in Canada

3 went to live in the USA

4 worked with people who could neither

speak nor hear

5 worked with Thomas Watson

6 successfully demonstrate his invention

7 invented the telephone

- Call on some Ss to read all the correct

order sentences aloud

IV / Post - reading : Writing it up

Do the exercise

Read their answers

Read their correct sentences aloud

Write individually Compare with their

- Get Ss to write a paragraph about Bell,s

life , using the information from the text

- Call on some Ss to demonstrate their

writings in front of class

- Correct mistakes if any and give

Suggestions :

V / Homework :

1 Copy down their writings

2 Do the exercises in workbook

3 Prepare the next lesson

partners Read their writings aloud