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

Lesson Plan _ English 8 _ Unit 8 School year: 2014-2015 Planning date: 4 - 12- 2014 Period 46 . UNIT 8: COUNTRY LIFE AND CITY LIFE Lesson 1: GETTING STARTED + LISTEN AND READ. P.72 I. Aims: - To help students read for details about the differences between city life and country life. - To develop students’ skills. II. Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to talk about the city life and the country life. 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) 2. New lesson: STAGES T &SS’ ACTIVITIES THE CONTENTS ON BOARD PRESEN- TATION (10 minutes) * Pre-teach vocabulary: - 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 country. * Pre-questions: - Students predict the answers to the pre-questions. I. New words: - permanently (adv): lâu dài, vĩnh viễn, cố định - 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: 1. Checking predictions: 1. Na went to the countryside for their weekend. 2. No, she doesn’t. Because she thinks the countryside is too quiet and there’s nothing to do there. Teacher: Do Thi Cuc Thanh Mai Secondary School 111 CITY COUNTRY pollutionnoisy quiet peaceful friendly fresh air modern Lesson Plan _ English 8 _ Unit 8 School year: 2014 -2015 - Students read the dialogue again and answer the comprehension questions. (pair work) - Teacher elicits the model sentences: - Concept checking: + What does this sentence mean in Vietnamese? + 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 quiet and 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. f. (Students’ answers) 3. Model sentences: Many remote areas are getting electricity. *Form: S + is/am/are + getting/becoming… Use: use the present continuous tense with verb get and become to talk about gradual changes 4. Practice: PRODUC TION (8 minutes) * Discussion: - 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?” * Discussion: - Do you prefer the country or the city life? Why? 3. Summary: (1 minute) - Repeat the lesson. 4. Homework: (1 minute) - Learn by heart all the new words and read the dialogue again. - Prepare: Speak + Listen. Teacher: Do Thi Cuc Thanh Mai Secondary School 112 it/ get/ darker city / become / more polluted country / get / more modern things / get / more expensive Lesson Plan _ English 8 _ Unit 8 School year: 2014-2015 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. * Word square: E X P E N S I V E H M D P E G I B N I O I A G E H D R E R A Y G E T H A U S R Y C L L A T U N O I S Y I B Q U I E T L U F * Key:  expensive  beautiful  tall  noisy, quiet  large, busy, cheap  modern, dirty 2. New lesson: STAGES T & SS’ ACTIVITIES THE CONTENTS ON BOARD PRE LISTENING (4 minutes) * 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. REVISION: Grammar S + am / is / are / + getting / becoming + adj. WHILE SPEAKING * Speak: - Teacher uses word cards to I. Speak: Teacher: Do Thi Cuc Thanh Mai Secondary School 113 THE BOY / GET / TALLER Lesson Plan _ English 8 _ Unit 8 School year: 2014 -2015 (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. 5 years ago Now traffic busy houses / buildings high city beautiful / green city clean streets dirty / large life good things expensive town modern / busy POST SPEAKING (6 minutes) - Students work in pair to talk about the changes in their own town / village. 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. * Open prediction: - Students read the dialogue and predict the missing words. II. Listen: 1. Open prediction: WHILE LISTENING (9 minutes) * Listen: - Students listen to the tape and check their predictions. - Students listen again and correct their mistakes. - Teacher gives the correct answer. 2. Listen and check the predictions: * Answer key: Lan: Hello. 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. Teacher: Do Thi Cuc Thanh Mai Secondary School 114 IT / GET / DARKER MY GRAND MOTHER / GET / WEAKER HER ENGLISH / GET / BETTER LIFE / GET / BETTER Lesson Plan _ English 8 _ Unit 8 School year: 2014-2015 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 LISTENING (5 minutes) * Role playing: - Students imagine they are Lan and the other is Aunt Chi. Aunt Chi is visiting Lan’s neighborhood. Lan is talking to her about the changes in the city. 3. Role playing: E.g: Aunt Chi: Oh, every thing has changed. And there are a lot of new things. Lan: Yes. The city is getting bigger, busier and more modern. … 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 2. New lesson: STAGES T & SS’ ACTIVITIES THE CONTENTS ON BOARD PRE READING (12 minutes) * Pre-teach vocabulary: - Teacher uses techniques to teach students new words - Checking understanding: Matching * Set the scene: I. New words: - rural (adj): vùng nông thôn - urban (adj): vùng thành thị - a typhoon: trận bão lớn - a flood: trận lụt - a drought: hạn hán - (to) struggle: đấu tranh - a migrant: dân di cư Teacher: Do Thi Cuc Thanh Mai Secondary School 115 Lesson Plan _ English 8 _ Unit 8 School year: 2014 -2015 You are going to read a text to understand more about the farmer’s life. * Pre-questions: II. Pre-questions: 1. What do many farmers do to solve their problems? 2. Why do they do so? WHILE READING (18 minutes) * Read: - 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 answers - Students do the exercise 1. P.75. III. Read. P.75 1. Checking the predictions: * Answer key: 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. increase chính phủ L8. overcrowding nhiều L9. put a strain kết quả L10. unpleasant bi kịch L10. result sự gia tăng L11. tragedy dẫn đến sự quá tải L14. government quá đông (người) 3. Find the words in the passage that means: * Answer key: a) of the countryside rural b) as many as needed plentiful c) become greater or larger increase d) a greater pressure strain e) a terrible event tragedy f) 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) world POST READING (8 minutes) * Discussion: - Teacher divides the class into 4 groups. - Students discuss in group the questions given by the teacher. (T. may help students to discuss: 1. IV. Discussion: 1. What happens when so many people move to the city? 2. What should the government do to solve the problems? Teacher: Do Thi Cuc Thanh Mai Secondary School 116 Lesson Plan _ English 8 _ Unit 8 School year: 2014-2015 + increase population + not enough schools / hospitals / water / electricity… + security is not safe / poor security 2. + Build streets, stadiums, theaters in the country +Build schools, hospitals, factories + Provide clean water, electricity, facilities ……. 3. Summary: (1 minute) - Repeat the lesson. 4. Homework: (1 minute) - Write 5 things the government should do for the rural areas. Begin with: The government should……………………… - Prepare Write Planning date: 11 - 12 -2014 Period 49 : UNIT 8: COUNTRY LIFE AND CITY LIFE Lesson 4: WRITE. P.76 I. Aims: - To help students write a letter to their friends telling about the neighborhood. Teacher: Do Thi Cuc Thanh Mai Secondary School 117 Lesson Plan _ English 8 _ Unit 8 School year: 2014 -2015 - 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 - Date 2. New lesson: STAGES T & SS’ ACTIVITIES THE CONTENTS ON BOARD PRE WRITING (10 minutes) - 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. ……………………………………. I. Practice: WHILE WRITING (18 minutes) Write: - 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 POST WRITING (10 minutes) Teacher corrects some students’writings. Suggested letter: 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 Teacher: Do Thi Cuc Thanh Mai Secondary School 118 OPENING DATE CLOSING HEADING BODY OF THE LETTER WRITER’ ADDRESS Lesson Plan _ English 8 _ Unit 8 School year: 2014-2015 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. Love, Hoa 3. Summary: (1 minute) - Repeat the lesson. 4. Homework: (1 minute) - 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 comparatives and 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. 2. New lesson: STAGES T & SS’ ACTIVITIES THE CONTENTS ON BOARD FURTHER PRACTICE (42 minutes) * Language focus 1: - Teacher asks students to practice the dialogue in pair. - Teacher elicits the model sentences. + What does it mean in Vietnamese? + What tense is it? I.Language focus 1: Ex1:The boat to Dong Hoi is leaving at 10.40. Ex2: S1: Is the ship to Quy Nhon leaving at 11.30? S2: No, it has been delayed. It is leaving at 13.55 S3: Is the boat from Ca Mau arriving at 11? S4: Yes. It is arriving on time. Teacher: Do Thi Cuc Thanh Mai Secondary School 119 Lesson Plan _ English 8 _ Unit 8 School year: 2014 -2015 (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 used with the verb GET / BECOME and the comparative adjective to express 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. * Language focus 5: Teacher asks students some questions: - What are they? (advertisements) - 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. IV Language focus 4: 1. Comparative: ADJ_ER busy - busier MORE ADJ beautiful - more beautiful 2. Superlative: THE ADJ_EST busy - the busiest THE MOST ADJ beautiful - the most beautiful Talk about the city and the country: ABOUT: - food - traffic - transport - air - entertainments - medical facilities - schools - electricity E.g: - In the city, the food is more expensive than in the country. - The air in the country is fresher than in the city. V. Language focus 5: Noughts and crosses: 1.OLD 2.EXPENSIVE 3.BIG Teacher: Do Thi Cuc Thanh Mai Secondary School 120 [...] .. . swimming in summer * Answer key: 1.C, 2.B, 3.A, 4.B, A go B goes C went D going 5.A, 6.D, 7.C, 8. A, 6 Kate hates to classical music 9.D, 10.B A listens B listened C listen D listening 11.C, 12.B, 13.C, 7 Hung is student in my class 14.D, 15.D, 16.A, A good B better C the best D a best 17.B, 1 8. C, 19.D, 8 Ho Chi Minh City is larger and beautiful 20.D than Hanoi A more B as C most D the most .. . the topics of - House and home the units you have 2 Education: learnt? - School life and study habits 3 Community: - Shopping - Neighborhood - Country life and city life - What is the main II Grammar: grammar you have learnt Tenses: present simple tense, past simple tense in each topics? - Infinitive Teacher: Do Thi Cuc Thanh Mai Secondary School 121 Lesson Plan _ English 8 _ Unit 8 School year: 201 4.. . English 8 _ Unit 8 School year: 2014-2015 and a house) - How old are they? 4.SMALL 5.CHEAP 6.HOT - How much do we pay? Teacher divides the class into two teams and let 7.BEAUTIFUL 8. NEW 9.MODERN students play the game noughts and crosses Students make sentences 1 The villa is the oldest home with the adjectives 2 The villa is the most expensive given, using the 3 The house is the biggest comparative and. .. Secondary School 129 Lesson Plan _ English 8 _ Unit 8 5.5 School year: 2014 -2015 2.5 2 10 VII Test: PHÒNG GD & ĐT THANH OAI Trường: THCS Thanh Mai Họ và tên: Số phách: Lớp: 8 … ĐỀ KIỂM TRA HỌC KỲ I Môn : TIẾNG ANH 8 Năm học: 2014- 2015 Số phách: Thời gian làm bài: 45 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề) (Đề kiểm tra này gồm 02 trang, học sinh làm bài trực tiếp vào đề) I.Choose the word that has the underlined .. . you leave for the USA A B C D * Key: 1.A => went 2.A => is bigger 3.C => more 4.D => enough time 5 A => going 6.A => ought to 3 Homework: ( 2 minutes) - Review for the first term test Planning date: 19 - 12- 2014 THE FIRST TERM TEST Period 55 I Aims: - To check students’ knowledge from unit 1 to unit 8 - To appreciate students and draw out the students’ weak points and have suitable solutions to help .. . in the first term and find the suitable ways to learn English better III Ways of working: Individual work IV Materials: papers V Anticipated problems: Ss may have difficulty in doing exercises III and V VI Matrix Chủ đề Nhận biết KQ TL I Language 18 focus II Writing Thông hiểu KQ TL Vận dụng KQ TL Tổng 18 5.5 5.5 4 4 2 III Reading 5 2 5 2.5 Tổng 18 Teacher: Do Thi Cuc 5 2.5 4 27 Thanh Mai Secondary .. . 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 Planning date: 17 - 12 - 2014 Period 52: REVISION FOR THE FIRST TERM I Aims: - To help students review their knowledge from unit 1 to unit 8 to be ready for the first term test - To help students do some exercises to consolidate .. . correct in English 1 He goes to HCM City five months ago A B C D 2 Mr Ba’s house is big and more comfortable than Mr Nam’s A B C D 3 Many of the world’s seas, rivers and lakes are becoming much and more polluted A B C D 4 Viet couldn’t answer all the questions because he didn’t have time enough 1 28 Teacher: Do Thi Cuc Thanh Mai Secondary School Lesson Plan _ English 8 _ Unit 8 A School year: 2014-2015 B C .. . differently from the others.( 1.5 pt) 1.A fire B wisdom C wife D tiger 2.A played B listened C wanted D opened 3.A face B class C grade D late 4.A transmit B upset C straight D upstairs 5.A cheap B please C speak D area 6.A match B machine C chore D cheap II Circle the best option(A,B,C or D):(2pts) 1 Is your English…………… better? A get B got C getting D geting 2 They like…………soccer and reading books A play .. . The red bag is the same…………….the blue one A to B.from C as D with 5.We always celebrate Vietnamese Teachers’Day…… November 20th every year A on B in C at D of 130 Teacher: Do Thi Cuc Thanh Mai Secondary School Lesson Plan _ English 8 _ Unit 8 School year: 2014-2015 6 The doctor……………he should take a few days off A say B tell C ask D said 7 I like………….activities such as walking and camping A outdoor B indoor . 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. Lesson Plan _ English 8 _ Unit 8 School year: 2014-2015 Planning date: 4 - 12- 2014 Period 46 . UNIT 8: COUNTRY LIFE AND CITY LIFE Lesson 1: GETTING STARTED + LISTEN AND READ. P.72 I. Aims:. differences between city life and country life. - To develop students’ skills. II. Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to talk about the city life and the country life. III.