Giáo án Tiếng Anh 8 Unit 8: Country life and city life

Aim: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to talk about the city life and the country life.. Teaching aids: Teacher: textbook, poster, pictures Students: textbook, notebook,

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GIÁO ÁN ENGLISH 8

UNIT 8: COUNTRY LIFE AND CITY

LIFELESSON 1: GETTING STARTED - LISTEN AND READ (P 72, 73)

A Aim: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to talk about the city life and the

country life

B Methods: Communicative approach

C Teaching aids: Teacher: textbook, poster, pictures

Students: textbook, notebook, pens, rulers

D Procedure:

I Class organization: 1 minute

II Revision: (5 minutes) WARM-UP

III New lesson:

1 Setting the scene: Included in the WARM-UP

2 Main activities:

Teacher’s and students’ activities On the board

- Talk to Ss about life in the city and

life in the country by asking some

questions

WARM-UP

Chatting:

1 Where do you live?

2 Do you want to live in the city? Why?

3 Do you want to live in the country? Why?

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- model 3 times and get students to

a Present simple tense

b Past simple tense

c Present perfect tense

WHILE READING

III Brainstorming (Getting started)

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- Ask Ss to read the dialogue between

Na and Hoa and compare their ideas

IV Comprehension questions

a Where has Na been?

b How long was she there?

c What is her opinion of the countryside?

d Na says "there is nothing to do", what does she mean by this?

e What are some of the changes that Hoa mentions?

- Expected answers:

a Na has been to Kim Lien Village

b She was there for the weekend

c To her, the country side is peaceful and quiet

City

life

Country life

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- Divide the class into 4 groups Two

groups include Ss who prefer the city

life and the others include Ss who

prefer the country life

- Ask Ss to work in groups to answer

the questions

- Ask Ss from 4 groups to show their

ideas before class

and there is nothing to do

d There is no libraries, no movies, no supermarket, no zoos

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

POST READING

V Discussion

Do you prefer the city or the country life? Why?

IV Consolidation: (2 minutes)

- T asks students to summarize the dialogue between Hoa and Na

V Homework

- Prepare Speak and Language Focus 3

- Write a paragraph about the city / the country

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LIFELESSON 2: SPEAK AND LANGUAGE FOCUS 3 (P 69, 70)

A Aim: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to practice speaking about the

changes of a place

D Procedure:

III New lesson:

2 Main activities:

- Divide the class into 2 teams

- Ask Ss to go to the board and circle

the word they find The team which

circles more will win the game

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- Set the scene: "Hoa's grandmother is

78 Five years ago, she was 73 and she

was stronger than she is now"

- Ask Ss to make a sentence about her

health

- Explain the form - use of the Present

Progressive Tense

- Prepare six cards of cues

- Model first 2 cues, the whole class

repeats chorally, then some Ss read out

individually

- Give a new cue, ask another student

to repeat

- Go on until most of the Ss in class

can remember the structure

2 Present progressive tense:

Form: am / is / are + V-ing Use: used to describe changes with "get" and

"become".

- Expected answers:

"Hoa's grandmother is getting weaker"

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- Ask Ss to look at the 2 pictures on p

73 and talk to their partners about the

changes of the town The words in the

box under the pictures may help Ss

- Write the word prompts on the BB so

that Ss can speak easily

- Get Ss to work in pairs

- Monitor and help Ss speak

- Ask Ss to work in groups to talk

about changes in their hometown /

neighborhood

PRACTICE

Drill

a The boys / get / tall

b The old men / become / weak

c It / become / dark

d The weather / get / cold

e The students / get / better

f The school yard / become / cleaner

- Expected answers:

a The boys are getting tall

b The old men are becoming weak

c It is getting dark

d The weather is getting cold

e The students are getting better

f The school yard is becoming cleaner

PRODUCTION

1 Speaking 1

Ex:

Traffic busySky cloudyHouses high

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- Call on volunteer from each group to

show their ideas before the class

Other groups can add in their ideas

- Ask Ss to work in pairs

City beautifulTrees green (trees)

- Expected answers:

+ The traffic is getting busier

+ There are more tall buildings and houses.+ The houses are getting more modern

+ The town is becoming more beautiful

+ There are more green trees+ The streets are becoming cleaner / larger / noisier

+ Goods are getting more expensive

2 Speaking 2

Make five sentences to show changes in your

neighborhood

- T asks students to state the main form of present progressive tense

V Homework

- Prepare Listen and Language focus 1 -2

- Write 5 sentences to describe the changes in your city

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LIFELESSON 3: LISTEN - LANGUAGE FOCUS 1 -2 (P 74, 77, 78)

A Aim: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to complete the dialogue by

listening and Further Practice in Present Continuous to talk about the future

D Procedure:

III New lesson:

2 Main activities:

- Prepare 8 cards with phrases on them

- Write 8 verbs on the BB (play, do,

watch, go, clean, have, phone, speak)

- Divide the class into 2 teams

- Hand out each team 8 cards

- Ask Ss to stick the cards with phrases

besides the suitable verbs E.g.: play -

Go to violin lessonClean the house

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- The team which is faster is the winner.

- Model 3 times and get students to

repeat

- Ask Ss to use the suitable verbs in the

Present Progressive Tense to complete

the dialogue in the exercise 2 on p 78

- Get Ss to work in pairs

- Call some pairs to practice the

dialogue before class and teacher

corrects

Have a meetingPhone my aunt, Mrs HangSpeak to Mom

PRE - LISTENING

1 Vocabulary:

- (to) delay [antonym]

= (to) put off / postpone

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- Concept checking:

+What tense do we use in 6 dialogues?

+ What is the form?

+ Look at the adverbs of time in the

dialogue Are they at present or in the

future?

+ Present Progressive Tense is used to

talk about the future

- Set the scene: "Aunt Hang is talking

to Lan on the phone She is coming to

visit Lan in Hanoi"

- Ask Ss to listen to the tape and

complete the dialogue on p 74

- Let Ss listen twice and find out the

missing words individually

- Ask Ss to share their answers with

WHILE - LISTENING

- Tape transcript:

Lan: Hello.

Aunt Hang: Hello Is that Lan?

Lan: yes Who is this?

Aunt Hang: It's Aunt Hang How are you? Lan: I'm fine Where are you phoning from? Aunt Hang: Hue I'm calling to tell you Uncle Chi and I are coming to visit you next week Lan: Great When are you arriving?

Aunt Hang: On Thursday We're arriving in

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- Ask Ss to do exercise on page 77.

- Call on some Ss to practice the

dialogues on page 77

- Give them the shipping information

and ask them to make similar dialogues

Hanoi in the late afternoon.

Lan: OK Do you want to speak to my Mom? Aunt Hang: Yes, please.

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

S2: Now, it's leaving at 13.55

- T asks students to state the main form of present progressive tense and its uses

V Homework

- Prepare Read (p.75)

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LIFELESSON 4: READ (P 75)

A Aim: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to understand the text about one of

the social problems

D Procedure:

III New lesson:

2 Main activities:

- Write the words with disordered

letters on the BB (or use the poster)

- Divide the class into 2 teams Ask Ss

from each team to go to the board and

write the correct words The team

which is faster with more correct words

wins the game

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I Pre - teach vocabulary

- rural (adj) [explanation]

= something related to the countryside]

- urban (adj) [antonym]

# rural

- (a) strain [explanation]

= stress / pressure

- (a) typhoon [picture]

- (a) drought [explanation]

= hot and dry weather for a long time

- (to) struggle [translation]

- (a) migrant [explanation]

= a person who moves from one place to another especially in order to find work

- (to) increase [explanation]

= (to) go up / raiseChecking vocabulary: What and where

II Brainstorming

money

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- Ask Ss to guess how farmers deal

with difficulties

- Let Ss read the text silently and

answer the questions: "What do many

farmers do to solve their problem?"

- Expected answers:

"They move to the city so that they can

get well - paid jobs"

- Ask Ss to work in pairs to complete

summary 1 on p 75, using the

information from the passage

- Ask Ss to do exercise 2 on p 75

- Expected answers:

+ droughts + the weather+ hard work + no vacations+ lack of clean water / electricity+ insects destroy harvests

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- Give a situation and Ask Ss to work in

groups and discuss

- Ask Ss from 4 groups to show their

ideas before class

- T asks students to state the main difficulties of rural life

V Homework

- Prepare Write (page 76)

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LIFELESSON 5: WRITE (P 76)

A Aim: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to write letters to their friends

about their neighborhood

D Procedure:

III New lesson:

2 Main activities:

- Ask Ss to put the outline for an

informal letter in the correct order

- Prepare 6 cards with 6 outlines on

them

- Call six Ss to hold them and stand in a

random order Ask some other Ss to

rearrange them in the correct order

- Write the answers on the BB so that

WARM-UP

Revision

1 Heading:

+ Writer's address + Date

+ Dear ,

2 Opening

3 Body of letter

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Ss can remember the outline of a letter.

- Ask Ss to work in pairs to answer the

questions in exercise 2 on page 76

- Call some students to read aloud their

answers

- Give feedback

-Ask Ss to write letters to friends about

their neighborhood

- Ask them to compare with their

partners and correct if they can

4 Closing

PRE - WRITING

Questions

- Expected answers:

a I live in small town / big city / village

b My house looks very nice / small with 4/5 rooms and a nice / small garden

c From my bedroom window, I can see a small park with many green trees and colorful

f I like the park best because I can walk with

my sisters after dinner/ every morning / I like the library best because I can read many interesting books, or study or learn how to use the computer there

WHILE - WRITING Sample:

(Writer's address) (date)

Dear ,

I live in , a small town My family has a

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- Choose some letters to correct before

class

large house with four rooms and a small garden My sister and I share one bedroom From the bedroom window, I can see a beautiful park with green trees, flowers 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 always jog with my sister around the park 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.

Love, (Signature)

POST - WRITING Correction:

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- T asks students to state the main parts of a letter

V Homework

- Prepare Language Focus 4 – 5

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LIFELESSON 6: LANGUAGE FOCUS 4 -5 (P 79)

A Aim: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to use comparative and superlative

forms of adjectives

D Procedure:

III New lesson:

2 Main activities:

- Ask Ss to find out short adjectives

and long adjectives they have learnt

- Divide the class into 2 teams, one

using yellow chalk and red chalk

Short adjectives

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- Remind Ss of the forms of

comparative and superlative

adjectives

+ beautiful + easy+ convenient + cheap+ difficult + good+ intelligent + bad+ comfortable + poor+ delicious + fresh+ interesting + small

PRESENTATION

+ Comparative:

Short adjective - ER + than + object MORE - long adjective + than + objectEx: Vietnam is smaller than China

+ Superlative:

THE + short adjective - EST THE MOST + long adjectiveEx: Vietnam is the most beautiful country in the world

+ Irregular adjectives:

Good/well - better - the best Bad - worse - the worst Many - more - the most Little - less - the least

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- Ask Ss to do exercise 4 on page

79

- Give some examples:

+ The air in the city is fresher than

in the city

+ The medical facilities in the city

are more accessible than in the

country

- Move around the class and help Ss

write comparison sentences

- Let each S read aloud one of the

sentences they have made

- Ask Ss to do exercise 5 on page

79

- Ask them read the advertisement

then ask them some questions to

check their understanding

+ What are advertised?

+ How old are they?

+ How much do we pay per month?

- Expected answers:

PRACTICE

Make comparison between the city and the country about: food, traffic, transport, air, entertainment, medical facilities, schools, electricity with the adjectives: easy, expensive, cheap, good, bad, poor, big, accessible, fresh

PRODUCTION Noughts and Crosses

1 old

2 expensive

3 big 4

expensive

5 small

6 hot 7

big

8 beautiful

9 old

- Expected answers:

a The villa is older than the apartment

b The house is more expensive than the apartment

c The villa is bigger than the apartment

d The apartment is smaller than the villa

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