English 8 Unit 3 Write

We took a bus to the countryside and walked about 20 minutes to the picnic site near a river... Late /afternoon / go fishing.. Late in the afternoon, we went fishing.. We hurriedly

Teacher: Ngo Sach Thieu

Unit 3:A trip to the countryside

Period 18: Write

Friday, October 23th, 2009

1 Warm – up: Jumbled words

- apriotr:

- asg tstoain:

- obbaom:

- nbayna rtee:

- ghihwya:

airport gas station bamboo

banyan tree highway

2 Vocabulary:

- picnic site (n): - điểm dã ngoại

- cái mền, chăn

- blanket (n):

- bịt mắt bắt dê

- blind man’s buff :

- (to) gather: - tập trung, thu gom

- một cách vội vã

- hurriedly (adv):

3 Ordering

pictures:

1 3

4 5

3 Write:

Look at the pictures and the information given Then write a passage entitled

“ A country picnic” Start like this:

It was a beautiful day

beautiful day /

my friends

and I / go /

picnic /

take / bus /

countryside/

walk / 20 minutes /

picnic site /

river

It was a beautiful day, my friends and I decided to go

on a picnic We took a bus to the countryside and walked about

20 minutes to

the picnic site

near a river.

put down / blankets /

lay out / food

We put down the blankets and laid out the food.

After meal /

play / games /

“What song is

it?” / Blind

man’s buff”

Late

/afternoon / go fishing We

enjoy / picnic.

After meal ,

we played some games such as:

“ What song

is it?” and

“ Blind man’s

Buff” Late in the afternoon,

we went fishing

We enjoyed

our picnic.

when /look at /

time / it/

nearly 6:30 pm /

hurriedly gather /

things / run /

bus stop

When we looked

at the time, it

was nearly

6:30 pm We

hurriedly gathered all the things

and ran to the

bus stop.

We / lucky /

catch / last

bus / and /

we / arrive /

home / very late / evening

we were lucky

to catch the

last bus and

we arrived

home very

late in the

evening.

 It was a beautiful day My friends and I decided

to go on a picnic We took a bus to the countryside and walked about 20 minutes to the picnic site near

a river We put down the blankets and laid out the food After meal, we played games such as: “What song is it?” and “ Blind man’s Buff” Late in the afternoon, we went fishing We enjoyed our picnic When we looked at the time, it was nearly 6:30 pm ,

we hurriedly gathered all things and ran to the bus stop We were lucky to catch the last bus and we

arrived home late in the evening.

4 Questions and answers:

1 Why did you go for a picnic?

2 How long did it take to walk to the picnic site?

3 When did you play games?

4 What time did you run to the bus stop?

5 Did you go home early in the afternoon?

Because it was a beautiful day.

It took 20 minutes.

After meal.

At 6:30 pm.

No, we didn’t.

5 Homework:

-Learn the vocabulary.

- Practice questions and answers in pairs.

- Prepare for Language focus.