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

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GIÁO ÁN TIẾNG ANH 8

Unit 8 Country life and city life Period 46 lesson 1 : Getting started

Listen and read

A / Aims and Objectives : By the end of the lesson , Ss will be able to talk about the city

life and the country life

B / Teaching aids : Textbooks , cassette , chalks , boards …

C / Procedure :

I / Warm up : Chatting

- Talk to Ss about life in the city and life in the country

by asking some questions

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 ?

=> Lead in the new lesson

II / Pre -reading : Introduce the topic of the passage

reading and some new words

1 Pre – teach vocabulary :

- a relative = uncles , aunts cousins

- peaceful = quiet and calm (a)

- permanently (adv) : its means existing all the time

- accessible = co the den gan duoc

- medical facilities = cac phuong tien y te

* Checking vocabulary : Rub out and remember

2 Brainstorming ( Getting started )

- Get Ss to talk about city life and country life The

Chatting ( whole class )

Listen and copy

Listen and repeat chorally

Copy down

Play game

words in the box of getting started may help you

• Possible answers :

- tall buildings - beautiful views

- plenty kinds of goods - fresh food

- polluted air - fresh air

- traffic jams - friendly

- entertainment - peaceful

- busy

III / While – reading :

1 True / false statements

1 Na lives in the city

2 Na went to a village which has

some relatives lives there

3 The village is very peaceful and

quiet

4 Hoa prefers the city life

x x

x

x

- Turn on the tape and ask Ss to work in groups to

predict the true / false statements

- Call on some Ss to report their predictions and write

them on the board

- Ask Ss to read the dialogue between Na and Hoa and

compare their ideas

Work in groups

Work in groups to predict

life

- Give feedback and get more information

- Call on some pairs to practice the dialogue

2 Comprehension questions :

- Get Ss to work in pairs to answer the questions in ex

2 / 73

- Call on some pairs to practice asking answering the

questions in front of class

- Give feedback

a Na has been to Kin Lien village

b She was there for the weekend

c to her , the countryside is peaceful and quiet 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 area

are getting electricity People can now have things like

refrigerators and TV , medical facilities are more

accessible

- Ask Ss to work in closed pairs

IV / Post - reading :

Discussion

- 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

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

- Call on 4 pioneers from 4 groups to show their ideas

before class

V / Homework :

Read the dialogue , compare their ideas

Practice the dialogue in pairs

Work in pairs

Practice asking and answering the questions

Work in groups

1 Learn by heart new words and copy two lines for each word

2 Copy the answers in their notebooks

3 Prepare the next lesson

Demonstrate their ideas

in front of class

Listen and copy

Unit 8 Country life and city life

Period 47 lesson 2 : Speak

A / Aims and Objectives : By the end of the lesson , Ss will be able to practice speaking

about the changes of a place

B / Teaching aids : textbooks , pictures , poster

C / Procedure :

I / Warm up and pre - speaking

Word square

- Ask Ss to find out 7 adjectives

- Ask Ss to work in 2 teams

- Ask Ss to go to the board and circle the word they find

Work in group

- The team which circles more words will win the

game

Modern – dirty – busy – noisy – tall – expensive – beautiful

• Setting the scene “ Hoa,s grand father 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

=> Hoa,s grand father is getting weaker

+ Form : am / is / are + V-ing

+ Use : used to describe changes with get and

become

II / While – speaking :

- Ask Ss to look at the two pictures on page 73 and talk

to their partners about the changes of the town The

words in the box under the pictures may help you

- Write the word prompts on the board so that Ss can

speak easily

- traffic - > busy

- sky -> cloudy

- houses -> high

- city -> beautiful

- trees - > green

- Get Ss to work in pairs

- Monitor and help Ss speak

* Possible 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

Work in the whole class

Listen and copy

Work in pairs

- The streets are becoming cleaner / larger / noisier

III / Post - speaking :

- Ask Ss to work in groups and talk about changes in their hometown / neighborhood

- Call on volunteer from each group to show their ideas before the class Other groups can add in their ideas

IV / Homework :

Write some sentences , using Present Progressive Tense to describe changes in their school

Work in group

Work individually

Listen and copy

Unit 8 Country life and city life

Period 48 lesson 3: Listen

A / Aims and Objectives : By the end of the lesson , Ss will be able to complete the

dialogue by listening

B / Teaching aids : Text book , cards , cassette

C / Procedure :

I / Warm up : Matching

- Prepare eight cards with phrases on them

- Write eight verbs on the board ( play , do , watch ,

go , clean , have , phone , speak )

- Divide the class into 2 teams

Work in group

- Hand out each team 8 cards

- Ask Ss to stick the cards with phrases besides the

suitable verbs

- The team which is faster is the winner

* Answers :

- play table tennis

- do my homework

- watch a program

- go to a violin lesson

- clean the house

- have a meeting

- phone my aunt , Mrs Hang

- speak to Mom

=> Lead in the new lesson

II / Pre - listening

- Set the scene “ Aunt Hang is talking to Lan on the

phone She is coming to visit Lan in Hanoi “

- Ask Ss to predict information in the dialogue

- Call on some Ss to report their predictions

III / While - listening :

- Turn on the tape and check their predictions

- Let them listen twice and find out the missing words

individually

- Ask Ss to share their answers with their partners

- Call some Ss to read their results

Give feedback

1 that 2 this 3 It is

4 where 5 from 6 coming

7 next week 8 arriving 9 Thursday

Listen and repeat chorally and individually

Copy down

Listen and copy

Work in groups to predict

Listen to the tape to check their predictions

Listen again and share their answers with their friends

Read their answers aloud

10 late 11 afternoon 12 speak

13 my 14 get her

IV / Post - listening

- Ask Ss to play the roles of Lan and Aunt Hang to

practice the dialogue

V / Homework :

1 Copy down the completed dialogue in their

notebooks

2 Do exercises in work book

3 Prepare the next lesson

Work in pairs to practice the dialogue

Listen and copy

Unit 8 Country life and city life Period 49 lesson 4 : Read

A / Aims and Objectives : By the end of the lesson , Ss will be able to understand the

text about one of the social problems

B / Teaching aids : Textbooks , poster , cassette

C / Procedure :

I / Warm up :

Jumbled words

- Write the words with disordered letters on the board

+ Fulentipl -> plentiful

+ taneru -> nature

+ loofd -> flood

+ roestdy -> destroy

+ viroped -> provide

Work in group

+ suertl -> result

+ ciliestial -> facilities

- Ask them to write the correct words on the board and

repeat chorally , individually

=> Lead in the new lesson

II / Pre- reading :

- Introduce the topic of the passage reading and some

new words to Ss

1 Pre - teach vocabulary :

- rural (adj ) : something deals with the countryside

- urban ( adj ) >< rural

- strain (n) = su qua tai ( dan so )

- typhoon (n) = storm (n)

- drought (n) : hot and dry weather for a long time

- to struggle = dau tranh

- migrant (n) : a person who moves from one place to

another especially in order to find work

- to increase = tang len , tang them

* Checking vocabulary : What and where

2 Brainstorming :

- Ask Ss to think of the difficulties of farmers,life

Possible answers :

droughts / the weather / hard work / no vacations / lack

of clean water / electricity / insects destroy harvests

Listen and copy down

Listen and repeat chorally , individually , then copy down

Play game

Work in groups

- Ask Ss to work in groups to guess how farmers deal

with difficulties

- Call on some Ss to report their predictions and write

them on the board

III / While - reading :

- Let Ss listen to the tape and read the text silently to

check their predictions

- Answer “ What do many farmers do to solve their

problem ? “

=> They have to move to the city so that they can get

well – paid jobs

- Call on some Ss to read the text in front of class

1 Gap- filling :

- Ask Ss to work in pairs o complete summary , using

the information from the passage

- Call on some volunteers to report their results

- Give feedback

1 leaving 2 home 3 city 4 rural

5 city 6 problems 7 schools 8 hospitals

9 problem 10 world

- Call on some Ss to read the complete passage aloud

2 Finding the words

- Ask Ss to read the text again and work with their

partners

Demonstrate in front of class

Work in groups to guess the difficulties of farmers

Listen to the tape and read the text to check their predictions

Answer the question

Read the text aloud

Work in pairs Read their results

difficulties of farmers,life

- Call them to report their results

- Give feedback

a rural b plentiful c increase

d strain e tragedy f urban

IV / Post - reading : Discussion

- Give a situation : If you were a Minister , what would

you do for farmers ?

- Ask Ss to work in groups to discuss

* Suggested answers :

- build streets , theaters , stadiums in the countryside

- build schools , hospitals

- provide clean water , electricity , facilities

- build factory

- Call on 4 volunteers from 4 groups to show their ideas

before the class

V / Homework :

1 Write 5 things that government should do for the

rural areas

2 Do exercises in workbook

3 Prepare the next lesson

Read the complete summary

Read the text again and

do the exercise 2 / 75 Read the complete results

Work in groups to discuss

Show their ideas before class

Listen and copy

Unit 8 Country life and city life

Period 50 Lesson 5 : write

A/ Aims and Objectives : By the end of the lesson , Ss will be able to write letters to

their friends about their neighborhood

B / Teaching aids : Textbook , cards , chalks……….

C / Procedure :

I / Warm up : Revision

- Ask Ss to put the outline for an informal letter in the correct order

- Prepare 6 cards with 6 outlines on them

- Call 6 Ss to hold them and stand in a random order

- Ask some other Ss to rearrange them in the correct order

- Write the answer on the board and ask Ss to copy

1 Heading

- Writer,s address

- Date

- Dear ……… ,

2 opening

3 Body

4 closing

II / Pre- writing :

- Ask Ss to work in pairs to answer the questions

- Call on some pairs to practice asking and answering the questions

- Give feedback

III / While … writing :

- Ask Ss to write letters to friends about their neighborhood

- Let them write individually

Work on the whole class

Listen and copy down

Work in pairs to practice asking and answering the questions

Work individually

Compare with their

- Have them compare with their partners and correct if

they can

* Suggested letter :

( Writer,s address)

( Date )

Dear ,

I live in … , a small town My family has a 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 tress , flowers and

a pond we do not live far form 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 would like to say goodbye now I am looking

forwards to hearing from you soon

Love ,

( Signature )

IV / Post - writing : Correction

- Choose some letters to correct before class and ask

them to read them aloud

partners

Exchange their writings

V / Homework :

1 Write their letters on their notebooks

2 Prepare the next lesson

to correct

Listen and copy

Unit 8 Country life and city life Period 51 lesson 6 : Language focus

A / Aims and Objectives : By the end of the lesson , Ss will be able to use Present

progressive and comparative and superlative adjectives

B / Teaching aids : Textbooks , chalks , boards …

C / Procedure :

I / Warm up : Matching

1 play

2 do

3 watch

4 go

5 clean

6 have

7 phone

8 speak

a to Mom

b table tennis

c a program

d a meeting

e my aunt , Mrs Hang

f the house

g my homework

h to violin lesson

1.b 2.g 3.c 4.h 5.f 6.d 7.e 8.a

- Call 2 volunteers from 2 teams to do the matching

II / Practice :

1 Ex 2 : Ask Ss to use the suitable verbs in the Present Progressive Tense to complete the exercise

- Get Ss to work in pairs

Work in group ( 2 teams )

- Call on some pairs to practice the dialogues before

class and correct

=> 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

2 Ex 1 : Ask Ss to practice the dialogue as example

S1 : Is the boat to Qui Nhon leaving at 11 30 ?

S2 : Is that good fortune ?

S1 : That is right

S2 : I am very sorry It has been delayed

S1 : Oh , no !

S2 : Now , it is leaving at 13 45

- Give them the shipping information and ask them to

make similar dialogues

3 Ex 3 : Present Progressive Tense is used to describe

changes with “ get “ and “ become “

* Drill : Prepare six cards of cues

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

- Model first two cues , then whole class repeat

chorally , then some Ss read out individually

- Give a new cue and go on until most of the Ss in class

Work in pairs

Answer the questions

Work in pairs

Work individually

Repeat chorally ,