Unit 8 Country life and city life -Tiếng anh 8 .

UNIT 8: COUNTRY LIFE AND CITY LIFE Lesson 1: GETTING STARTED + LISTEN AND READ.. * Brain storming: - Teacher uses pictures to introduce about the city and the country and then asks stud

Planning date: 4 - 12- 2014

Period 46 UNIT 8: COUNTRY LIFE AND CITY LIFE

Lesson 1: GETTING STARTED + LISTEN AND READ P.72

III Ways of working: T-WC, group work, pair work, individual work.

IV.Materials: Textbook, pictures in the textbook, cassette.

V Anticipated problems: The lesson may take time.

VI Teaching steps:

1 Warm up: (5 minutes) * Teacher greets and checks the students’ attendance.

* Brain storming:

- Teacher uses pictures to introduce about the city and the country and then asks

students to write words refer to the city and the country.(group work)

- Teacher uses techniques to teach

students new words

- Checking understanding:

rub out and remember

* Set the scene:

Hoa and Na are talking together

about the life in the city and in the

- medical facility: phương tiện y học

- accessible (adj): có thể tiếp cận được

- definitely (adv): nhất định

II Pre-questions:

1 Where did Na go for the weekend?

2 Does she like to live there permanently? Why? Why not?

PRAC-TICE

(20

minutes)

- Students listen to the dialogue

- Students practise the dialogue in

pair and check their predictions

III Listen and read:

CITY

COUNTRY

pollution noisy

friendly fresh air

modern

- Students read the dialogue again

and answer the comprehension

+ When do we use this sentence?

+ What tense is it? (present

continuous)

+ What is the main verb? (get)

+ Is the intonation raising or

falling? (falling)

=> use the present continuous

tense with verb get and become to

talk about gradual changes

* Practice:

- Teacher uses words cards to help

students practise

E.g: It is getting darker.

2 Answer the comprehension questions:

Answer key:

a Na has been to the countryside.(Na has been to Kim Lien village)

b She was there for one day

c The countryside is peaceful and quietand there is nothing to do

d There are no libraries, no movies, no supermarkets, no zoos, etc, to go

e Many remote areas are getting electricity People can now have things like refrigerators and TV, and medical facilities are more accessible

with verb get and become to talk about gradual changes

- Teacher divides the class into 4

groups Two groups include

students who prefer the city life

and the others include students

who prefer the country life

Teacher asks students to discuss

the questions: “Do you prefer the

city or the country life? Why?”

- Learn by heart all the new words and read the dialogue again

- Prepare: Speak + Listen

it/ get/ darker city / become / more polluted country / get / more modern things / get / more expensive

Planning date: 4 -12- 2014

Period 47: UNIT 8: COUNTRY LIFE AND CITY LIFE

Lesson 2: SPEAK AND LISTEN P.73

I Aims:

- To help students practise the present progressive tense to describe changes with get and become.

- To help students listen for details to complete the dialogue

- To develop students’ skills

II Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to talk about changes of

a place and complete the dialogue by listening

III Ways of working: T - WC, pair work, team work, individual work.

IV Materials:

Textbook, pictures in the textbook, word cards, cassette, additional board

V Anticipated problems:

- “Warm up” activity may be difficult for Ss of class 8C

- The lesson may take time

VI Teaching steps:

1 Warm up: (5 minutes) * Teacher greets and checks the students’ attendance.

* Set the scene:

- You were 1.50 meter last year Now you are 1.54 meter

->You are getting taller

- It is getting / becoming darker now

=> We use the present

progressive tense with verb get

/ become to describe changes.

- Teacher uses word cards to I Speak:

THE BOY / GET / TALLER

(10 minutes) help students practice.

- Students look at the two pictures and talk to their partners about the changes of the town (pair work)

- Teacher writes the word prompts on board so that students can speak easily

PRE

LISTENING

(4 minutes)

* Set the scene:

- Aunt Hang is talking to Lan

on the phone She is coming to visit Lan in Ha Noi.

Aunt Hang: Hello Is that Lan?

Lan: Yes Who is this?

Aunt :It’s Aunt Hang How are you?Lan: I’m fine Where are you phoning from?

Aunt : Hue I’m calling to tell you Uncle Chi and I are coming to visit you next week

IT / GET / DARKER

MY GRAND MOTHER / GET / WEAKER HER ENGLISH / GET / BETTER LIFE / GET / BETTER

Lan:Great! When are you arriving?

Aunt :On Thursday We are arriving in

Ha Noi in the late afternoon

Lan: OK Do you want to speak to my Mum?

Aunt :Yes, please

Lan:Hold on a moment and I’ll get her.POST

3 Summary: (1 minute) - Repeat the lesson.

4 Homework: (1 minute) -Prepare Read

Planning date: 5 - 12 - 2014

Period 48: UNIT 8: COUNTRY LIFE AND CITY LIFE

Lesson 3: READ P.75

I Aims:

- To help students read and understand about the problems of people from the

countryside moving to the city

- To develop students’ skills

II Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to understand the text

about the one of the social problems

III Ways of working: T-WC, group work, pair work, individual work.

IV Materials: Textbook, additional board.

V Anticipated problems: The lesson may take time.

VI Teaching steps:

1 Warm up: (5 minutes) *Teacher greets and checks the students’ attendance.

* Teacher asks students some questions to warm up:

E.g:

+ Do farmers have an easy life? (No - a hard life)

+ Can you tell me the difficulties the farmers usually have?

(hard work, get little money, no vacations, drought, floods, typhoons, lack of clean water / electricity, insects destroy harvests …)

+ What do they often do to earn living apart from doing on the farm? ( moving to the city to find jobs)

- T introduces new lesson

- Teacher uses techniques to

teach students new words

- (to) struggle: đấu tranh

- a migrant: dân di cư

You are going to read a text to

understand more about the

- Students read the text for the

first time and answer the

pre-questions

- Students read the text gain and

do the matching:

- Students read the text again

and do the exercise 2 P.75

- Teacher give the correct

1 They move to the city

2 Because they think they can get well - paid jobs in the city

2 Matching:

L3 plentiful không vui

L8 overcrowding nhiềuL9 put a strain kết quảL10 unpleasant bi kịch

L11 tragedy dẫn đến sự quá tảiL14 government quá đông (người)

3 Find the words in the passage that means:

* Answer key:

a) of the countryside ruralb) as many as needed plentifulc) become greater or larger increased) a greater pressure straine) a terrible event tragedyf) of the city or city life urban

4 Complete the summary:

* Answer key:

(1) leaving(2) home(3)city(4) rural(5) city

(6) problems(7) schools(8) hospitals(9) problems(10) worldPOST

- Students discuss in group the

questions given by the teacher

(T may help students to discuss:

+ Build streets, stadiums,

theaters in the country

+Build schools, hospitals,

- Write 5 things the government should do for the rural areas Begin with:

The government should………

- To develop students’ skills.

II Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to write letters to their

friends about their neighborhood

III Ways of working: T-WC, pair work, individual work.

IV Materials: Textbook, word cards.

V Anticipated problems: Writing may be difficult for some students.

VI Teaching steps:

1 Warm up: (5 minutes) * Teacher greets and checks the students’ attendance.

* Revision: Ordering

- Students put the outline for an informal letter in the correct order

* Answer key:

1 Heading 2 Opening 3 Body of the letter

- Writer’s address - Dear …, 4 Closing

- Students work in pair to ask and answer

the questions part 2 on page 76

E.g:

S1: Where do you live?

S2: I live in Thanh Mai, Thanh Oai

S1: What does your house look like?

S2: It’s a large house and beautiful

- Students write a letter to a friend about

their neighborhood, basing on the outline

and the questions and answers they have

practised

- Students exchange their writing and

correct if they can

II Write:

E.g:

Thanh Mai, Thanh Oai HaNoi, Viet Nam December 10, 2008 Dear Lan,

I live in Thanh Mai, a small villlage in Thanh Oai My family lives in a large house with four rooms and a small garden

…………

Love, Hoa

Thanh Mai, Thanh Oai

HaNoi, Viet Nam

December 15, 2014

Dear Lan,

I live in Thanh Mai, a small village in

Thanh Oai My family lives in a large

house with four rooms and a small

garden My sister and I share one bed

room From the bedroom window, I can

BODY OF THE LETTERWRITER’ ADDRESS

see a beautiful rice paddy, green trees,

and a pond We don t live far from my ’

school so I usually walk there.

In my neighborhood, there is a

swimming pool and a beautiful park On

the weekend I often go swimming with

my friends Early in the morning I

usually jog with my sister around the

pond But the thing I like best in my

neighborhood is the public library near

my school There I not only can study

and read books but also watch video and

learn how to use the computer.

Do you have a library like that in your

neighborhood? Is there anything

interesting in the place where you live?

Write to me.

I d like to say goodbye now I m looking ’ ’

forward to hearing from you soon.

- Complete the letter into your notebooks

- Prepare Language focus

Planning date: 12 - 12- 2014

Period 50: UNIT 8: COUNTRY LIFE AND CITY LIFE

Lesson5: LANGUAGE FOCUS P.77

I Aims:

- To help students further practice in present progressive tense and comparative and superlative adjectives

- To develop students’ skills

II Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to use the present

progressive tense to talk about intention and changes, and able to use the comparativesand superlative adjectives

III Ways of working: T-WC, pair work, team work, individual work.

IV Materials: Textbook.

V Anticipated problems: The lesson may take time.

VI Teaching steps:

1 Warm up: (1 minute)* Teacher greets and checks the students’ attendance.

- Teacher asks students

to practice the dialogue

S4: Yes It is arriving on time

(present progressive)+ So what is the present progressive used to express? (The future action)

- Teacher asks students

to practise in pair, making similar dialogue using the shipping

information

* Langauge focus 2:

- Students practice in pair to complete the dialogue

* Language focus 3:

- The present progressive tense is usedwith the verb GET /

BECOME and the

comparative adjective toexpress the changes

Make examples?

- Ask Ss to complete the sentences, using the verbs and adjectives in the boxes

* Language focus 4:

Q: - How to form the adjectives in

comparative and superlative form?

- Short adjective? Long adjective?

For example?

- Students practise in group to talk about the country and the city

Make comparisons

- Teacher hold the game

“Chain game” to let students practice

- What are advertised?

(an apartment, a villa

II Language focus 2:

* Answer key:

(1) are doing(2) am watching(3) am going(4) are cleaning(5) am having

III Language focus 3:

E.g: The boys are getting taller

in the country

- The air in the country is fresher than in the city

V Language focus 5:

Noughts and crosses:

and a house)

- How old are they?

- How much do we pay?

Teacher divides the classinto two teams and let students play the game noughts and crosses

Students make sentenceswith the adjectives given, using the comparative and superlative formE.g: The house is newer than the apartment

1 The villa is the oldest home

2 The villa is the most expensive

3 The house is the biggest

4 The apartment is the smallest

5 The apartment is the cheapest

6 The apartment is hotter than the house

7 The house is more beautiful than the villa

8 The house is newer than the apartment

9 The house is more modern than the apartment

II Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to gain the knowledge

and be ready for the test

III Ways of working: T-WC, individual work

IV Materials: Text book, reference book.

V Anticipated problems:

VI Teaching steps:

1 Warm up: (1 minute) * Teacher greets and checks the students’ attendance.

Teacher asks students

questions to revise their

knowledge:

- What are the topics of

the units you have

learnt?

- What is the main

grammar you have learnt

+ When do we use this

tense? / This structure?

- What skills do we have

in the test? (listening,

reading, writing)

- Modal verbs: must, have to, ought to

- Reflexive pronouns: myself, yourself, themselves…

- Adverbs of place: here, there, upstairs…

- Prepositions of time: after, before, until, as soonas…

- Adj + enough + to infinitive

- Enough + noun + to infinitive

- Let’s …

- Why, Because

- Present simple with future meaning

- Reported speech: command, request and advice

- Gerund

- Modal verbs: may, can, could, should

- Adverbs of manner: well, fast, hard, late, badly…

- Prepositions of time: in, at, on, between, after, before

- Used to + infinitive

- Present perfect tense (with for / since)

- Adverbs: already, yet

- Present progressive to talk about the future and about the changes with get & become

- Comparisons: as …… as; the same as; different from

(Chọn từ có trọng âm chính rơi vào âm tiết khác với những từ còn lại)

2 The language skills:

a) Listening:

- Listen to a monologue or a dialogue within 80 -

100 words for general or specific information

- Write a description of 60 - 80 words of a room

in the house using words cues or pictures

- Write an informal letter of 60 - 80 words to a

friend using word cues.

- Write a paragraph of 60 - 80 words telling aboutfuture plan using suggested guidelines or

questions

- Write a letter to a friend of 60 - 80 words about the neighborhood using suggested guidelines or words

- Write a community notice of 60 - 80 words using suggested questions

3 Homework:( 1minute)

- Review the vocabulary and grammar from unit 1 to unit 8

- Review the listening, reading, writing lessons from unit 1 to unit 8

- To help students do some exercises to consolidate their knowledge

II Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to gain the knowledge

and be ready for the test

III Ways of working: T-WC, individual work

IV Materials: Text book, reference book.

V Anticipated problems:

VI Teaching steps:

1 Warm up: (1 minute) * Teacher greets and checks the students’ attendance.

I Phonetics:

Ex1:Choose the words that has the underlined part pronounced differently from the others

minutes) Exercise 1:

- Teacher guides students to do the exercise and then calls some students to

do it on board

Exercise 2:

- Teacher explains how to do the exerciseand help students do it

- Teacher reads the tape script in normal speech so that

students can completetheir task

* Tape-script:

Peter is my pen pal

He is fifteen years old He lives in a house in London He

is an excellent student He always works hard at school and gets good marks

He loves learning Vietnamese in his freetime He often

practices writing letter

in Vietnamese

Sometimes he helps

me to correct my writing, and I help him to correct his spelling mistakes

Next summer, he is going to visit Ho Chi Minh City with his family I’m expecting

1 A tasty B mall C stadium D change

2 A grocery B month C comfort D money

3 A just B summer C much D ruler

4 A around B delicious C house D ground

5 A exhibition B neighborhood C hot

D humid1.B, 2.A, 3.D 4.B, 5.A

Ex2: Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others:

1 A delay B believe C create D nature

2 A offer B urban C away D rural

3 A migrant B typhoon C supply D remote

4 A tragedy B plentiful C.relative D.unpleasant

5 A informationB entertainment C overcrowding D permanently

II Listening:

Ex1: Listen to the passage and give short answer

to the following questions

1 Who is Peter?

2 How old is he?

3 Where does he live?

4 What does he like doing in his free time?

5 What is he going to do next summer?

Ex 2: Listen to the passage about Ba and his sister, and then put a tick in the appropriate box for T (True) or F (False) (with answer key)

T F

1 Ba is younger than Lan

2 Lan is shorter than her brother

3 Both Ba and Lan go to school in the morning

4 They love listening to pop music and reading novels

5 They don’t like playing chess and goingswimming in summer

6 Lan doesn’t like cooking, doing the shopping on Sundays

7 Ba likes watching war films on TV

8 Lan also loves playing soccer in her freetime

III WRITING: