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

Giáo án Tiếng Anh 8Unit 8 – Country life and city life Lesson 1: Getting started and Listen and read I.. Objectives: By the end of the lesson Ps will be able to talk about the difference

Giáo án Tiếng Anh 8

Unit 8 – Country life and city life Lesson 1: Getting started and Listen and read

I Objectives:

By the end of the lesson Ps will be able to talk about the difference between the city life and the country life

II Contents + Vocabulary: effect, hardware, contact, hall.

III/ Teaching aids: books and notebooks

IV/ Procedure:

Stages Teacher’s & Students’ activities Contents

1

Warm up

2

Presentation

+ Have Ps work in groups to find out the differences between the country and the city

- Call some PS to talk about them and makes the list about those differences in front of the class

* Pre-teach vocabulary.

- Read given words

- Make snetences with them

- Explain new words

I Getting Started

The city is noisier than the country The city has more tall buildings than the country…

- short adj + er

- Long adj: more + long adj

II Listen and read

1 New words

- permanently ( adv)

- remote (a)

- facility ( n)

Practice

- Read – correct

+ Checking buy rub out and

remember

- Examples?

- Listen again

+ Have practice in pairs the dialogue

- Call some pairs to practice in front

of the class

- Read questions

- Check Ps’ understanding about the

questions

- Ask them to practce asking and

answering in pairs

- accessible (a)

- definitely (adv )

- peacefull ( adj)

- medical (adj)

- relative ( n)

+ Practice reading vocabulary.

2 Grammar:

+ Present progressive

S + am/ is/ are + V_ing + ( o)

- Show the changes with get and become

- Be getting/becoming + Adj-ER/more Adj

E.g1: The buidings are getting more

E.g 2: The town is getting noiser

3 Pratice the dialogue:

4 Answer the questions

a Na has been to the countryside / Kim Lien villge

b She was there for the weekend / for one day

c Her opinion of the countryside

is it is very quiet & peaceful and

Production

- Call some pairs to practice in front of tha class

- Check any mistakes if necessary

? Talk about the changes of your town ? Using present progressive – with “ get and become”

there is nothing to do

d There are no movies, zoos, libraries …to go

e Many remote areas are getting alectricity, people can now have thing like refrigerators & TV and medical facilities are move accessible

* Ps talk about the changes in their hame land or neigh borhood

5 Homework: - Ask Ps to write a short passage to tell why theyprefer the city or country life

Unit 8 – country life and city life Lesson 2: Speak and Listen

I Objectives:

By the end of the lesson Ps are able to use comparative adjectives No how

to make a notice about something else

II Contents + Vocabulary: effect, hardware, contact, hall.

III/ Teaching aids: books and notebooks

IV/ Procedure:

Stages Teacher’s & Students’ activities Contents

1

Warm up

2

Presentation

* Brain storming:

- Have Ps write as many adjectives

as they can on the board

- Check and correct

* Present new language:

- Explain how to use present progressive to talk about the changes

- Give examples to illustrate

E.g:

- The town is becoming busier

- The streets are getting cleaner

- Have Ps look at the two pictures and ask them to show the differences between them

- Ask Ps these questions:

? Find out five thing in the pictures that are different from each other

? What are they?

+ Have Ps work in pair to talk about

- hot - noisy - dirty

- large - busy - tall

- beautiful - modern - clean

III Speak.

1 Grammar

- Present progressive to show the changes

+ S + is/ am/ are + getting/ becoming + adj (er)

- Comparative: - short adj + er

- move + long adj

2 Work with a partner to talk about the changes of the town

- Th traffic is getting busier

- There are move tall buildings & houses

- The houses are getting more modern

- The town is becoming more

Practice

4

Production

th changes in the pictures

- Call some Ps to practice in front of the class

+ Ask them to practice talking about the changes in their home town

Have Ps look at the dialogue and read it

- Ask them to guess the word in each bracket

- Have Ps listen to the tape three times

- Ask them to give the answers

- Call Ps to practice the dialogue in front of the class

+ Have Ps make a similar dialogue use the promt of the dialogue above

becutiful

3 The changes in your home town

- The streets are getting larger

- The goods are becoming more expensive

IV Listen.

1 Listen to fill in the missing words

1 that 8 arrwing

2 this 9 Thursday

3 It’s 10 late

4 where 11 afternoon

5 form 12 speak

6 coming 13 my

7 week 14 get

5 Homework: - Remind Ps to study at home and prepare for the next lesson

Learn by heart the dialogue and read the section Read.

Unit 8 – country life and city life

Lesson 3: Read

I Objectives:

By the end of the lesson Ps are able to talk about one of the social problems, about the migrants from the rural areas to the big cities

II Contents + Vocabulary: rural, belive, struggle, typhoon, flood …

III/ Teaching aids: books and notebooks

IV/ Procedure:

Stages Teacher’s & Students’ activities Contents

1

Warm up

2

Pre-reading

+ Ask Ps some questions:

? Do you think many people move to live in the city?

? Why do they want to go to the city?

? What problems may arise when so many people move to the city?

* Present new language:

- Read the text ance

- Present new vocabulary

- Guide Ps to read in chorus

- Call some Ps to practice in front of the class

- Checking by rub out and

* Ps answer questions:

+ Discuss in groups

- Give answers

V read

1 New words:

- rural (a)

- well – paying (a)

- plentiful (a)

- struggle (n)

- typhoon (n)

- flood (n)

- drought (n)

- Increase (n)

While-reading

4

Post- reading

remember

- Have Ps look at the text and read it

- Have Ps read the text in front of the class

+ Have Ps works in groups to find out the missing words in the paragraph using the wordsm in the text

- Ask them to give the answers

- Call Ps to practice the text in front

of the class

+ Have Ps readm the text again and find out the words that mean:

a Of the countryside

b as many as needed

c become greater or larger

d a geat pressure

e a terrible event

f of the city or city life

- over crowding (n)

- strain (n)

- urban (n)

- migrant (n)

2 Complete the summing

1 leaving 6 problems

2 home 7 school

3 city 8 problems

4 rural 9 problem

5 city 10 world

3 Find the word in the passage that mean

a rural d strain

b plentiful e tragedy

c increase f urban

5 Homework: - Remind Ps to study at home and prepare for the next lesson

Learn by heart the dialogue and read the section Write.

Unit 8 – country life and city life

Lesson 4: Write

I Objectives:

By the end of the lesson Ps are able to write a letter to their friends to tell

about their neighborhood and about their habits

II Contents + Writing skill

III/ Teaching aids: books and notebooks

IV/ Procedure:

Stages Teacher’s & Students’ activities Contents

1

Warm up

2

Pre-writing

+ Ask Ps some questions:

? Do you usually write letters?

? How often do you write a letter ?

- Have Ps look at the text book and read the out line then compare with the one in Unit 5 again then have them put the out line in order

- Have Ps read the out line then correct if necessary

- Have Ps work in groups of four students to write a leeter by answering the questions below:

? Where do you live?

? What does your house look like?

+ Answer questions:

- Yes, I do/ No, I don’t

- I often write letter once a week

VI Write

1 Put the outline for an infomal letter in the correct order

- Heading: + Writers address

+ Date + Dear

- Opneing

- Body of letter

- Closing

2 Write a letter :

………

………

Dear…

While-writing

4

Post-writing

? What can you see from tyour bedroom window?

? How far is it from your house to school?

? How do you get to school?

? What kinds of facilities are there

in your neighborhood?

? What thing in your neighborhood

do you like best? Why?

+ Call some Ps to read their letter in front of the class

- Check Ps’ mistakes if necessary

+ Ask Ps some questions:

- Do you have any best friends?

- Where does he/she live?

- Do you often writye to her/him?

- How often do you write to her/him?

+ Have Ps write a letter to their

I live in a small village in YB province It is near the Flow River My family has a small home with 4 rooms My sister and

I share one room Outside my window There is a beautiful garden with trees, flowers, vegetables and a pond We don’t live far from my school so I can walk there In my neighborhood there is a stadium and a nice park

On the weekend I play badminton with my friends, but the thing I like best in my neighborhood is the library near my school – there

I can not only study, read books, but also watch videos and learn how to use the computer

Do you have a library like that in your neighborhood?

Is there any thing interesting where you live?

Write to

I’d like to say goodbye now I’m looking forwards to hearing from you soon

Sincerely

friends to tell her/him about the changes in the neighborhood they live

5 Homework: - Remind Ps to study at home and prepare for the next lesson

Learn by heart the dialogue and read the section Language focus

Unit 8 – country life and city life Lesson 5: Language focus

I Objectives:

By the end of the lesson Ps are able to use comparative adjectives and superlative adjectives to talk about the changes in the mobern life compare with the life in the past

II Contents + Comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs

III/ Teaching aids: books and notebooks

IV/ Procedure:

Stages Teacher’s & Students’ activities Contents

1

Warm up

+ Have Ps read the dialogues a and b

in front of the class

- Have Ps work in pairs to make similar dialogues

1 Read the dialogues

P1: Is the boat to Quy Nhon leaving at 11.30?

E.g 1:

P2: Is that good fortune?

P1: That’s right

P2: I’m very sorry It’s been

Presentation

3

Practice

- Have Ps practice talking about the shipping information

- Call some apairs Ps to practice in front of the class

- Check any mistakes if necessary

- Have Ps work in pairs complete the dialogues and practice in front of the class

- Have Ps read the words in the box then complete the sentences

- Have Ps work in groups

- Call Ps to practice in front of the class

delayed

P1: Oh no!

P2: Now, it’s leaving at 13.55

E.g 2:

P1: Is the boat from Camau arriving at 11.00?

P2: Are you talking about Diamond Eyes?

P1: Yes P2: It’s arriving on time

2 Complete the dialogues Use the verbs in the present progressive tense.

1 are doing 2 am watching

3 am practicing 4 are cleaning

5 am having

3 Complete the sentences

b The old men are getting weak

c We should go home It is getting dark

d the weather is becoming cold

e The S’s are getting better

f The shool yard is becoming clesner

Production

- Have Ps work in pairs to make up sentences using the comparative adjectives

- Ask Ps read the advertisements and compare the three house

- Call Ps to practice in front of the class

E.g1: The house is more expensive than the apartment

- The apartment is smaller than the villa

4 Make comparisons

- Short adj: Adj – er than

- Long adj: more+ adj + than eg1: The food in the city is more expensive than in the country

- Traffic in the city is busier than

in the country

5 Look at the advertisements

- Comparative: S+ is/am/are + sh – adj – er + than + O

- Superlative: s + am/is/are + the +

sh – adj – er + (n0 the most + l – adj + ( n) + o

- The villa is the most expensive The house is smaller than the villa

5 Homework: - Remind Ps to study at home and prepare for the next lesson