English 8 unit 2 reading

Soon, Bell started experimenting with ways of transmitting speech over a long distance.. This led to the invention of the telephone.[r]

Welcome to our lesson

Unit 2: Making arrangements

Lesson 4: Reading Teacher: Do Thi Tuyen

1.Warm up: Slap the board

2 Vocabulary and checking vocabulary

3 True/False statements

4 Ordering events

5 Discussion

6 Homework

Slap the board

6.

2.

5.

1 Address

book

phone

Public

telephone

Fax- machine Telephone

directory

I Vocabulary

1, Deaf- mute (n):

2, (to) demonstrate:

3, Device (n):

4, (to) emigrate:

5, An exhibition:

6, (to) transmit:

Tật vừa câm vừa, điếc Biểu diễn

Thiết bị, dụng cụ, máy móc Xuất cảnh, di cư

Cuộc triển lãm, trưng bày Truyền, phát (tín hiệu)

People are unable to hear and speak What are they called?

Perform? What does this mean?

What is another word of the

“perform”?

What is another word of the

“equipment”?

When we go to another nation to live

What is this called?

Send an e-mail in this computer

to that computer What is this called?

Match the English words in the column A with the

correct meanings in the column B.

1, Deaf-mute

2,Demonstrate

3, Device

4, Emigrate

5, Exhibition

6, Transmit

Biểu diễn Tật vưa câm, vừa điếc Cuộc triển lãm

Thiết bị, dụng cụ, máy móc Truyền, phát (tín hiệu)

Xuất cảnh, di cư

II, Reading

On March 3, 1847, Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh He was a Scotsman although he later

emigrated, first to Canada and then to the USA in the 1870s.

In American, he worked with deaf-mutes at Boston

University Soon, Bell started experimenting with ways

of transmitting speech over a long distance This led to the invention of the telephone

Bell and his assistant, Thomas Watson, conducted many experiments and finally came up with a device which they first introduced in 1876 Bell said on the telephone:

‘Mr Watson, come here I want you’ This was the first telephone message.

Travelling all over America, Bell demonstrated his

invention to the public at countless, and by 1877 the

first telephone was in commercial use.

1, True or false? Check (√) the boxes Correct the false

sentences.

a, Alexander G Bell was born in the USA.

b, He worked with deaf-mute patients in a hospital in

Boston.

c, Thomas Watson was Bell’s assistant.

d, Bell and Watson introduced the telephone in 1877.

e, Bell experimented with ways of transmitting

speech between deaf-mutes over a long distance.

f, Bell demonstrated his invention at a lot of

exhibition.

Guess Answers

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a, Alexander G Bell was born in the USA.

Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh.

b, He worked with deaf-mute

patients in a hospital in Boston.

He worked with deaf-mute at Boston University.

d, Bell and Watson introduced the telephone in 1877.

Bell and Watson introduced the telephone in 1876.

e, Bell experimented with ways of

transmitting speech between deaf-mutes over a long distance.

Bell experimented with ways

of transmitting speech over a long distance.

2, Put the events in the correct order

Alexander Graham Bell…

a, went to live in the United States.

b, successfully demonstrated his invention.

c, work in Thomas Watson.

d, was born in Scotland.

e, went to live in Canada.

f, invented the telephone.

g, worked with people who could neither speak nor hear.

The usage of telephone

The usage of telephone

Making arrangements

Discussion

Online

Listening to music

Calling

Caculator

Playing game

Looking up dictionary

Sending and receiving message

Getting

information

quickly

1, Do exercises 5 & 6 in workbook

2, Learn by heart the new words

3, Do exercise in English 8

workbook, and prepare the next lesson.

Thank you so much!