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

GIÁO ÁN ENGLISH UNIT 8: COUNTRY LIFE AND CITY LIFE LESSON 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: minute II Revision: (5 minutes) WARM-UP III New lesson: Setting the scene: Included in the WARM-UP Main activities: Teacher’s and students’ activities On the board WARM-UP Chatting: - Talk to Ss about life in the city and Where you live? life in the country by asking some Do you want to live in the city? Why? questions Do you want to live in the country? Why? PRE-READING I Pre - teach vocabulary - a relative [example] = uncles, aunts, cousins - peaceful [synonym] - model times and get students to = calm/quiet repeat permanently [explanation] (adv) = it means existing all the time / never ended [explanation] accessible = easy to get to [explanation] medical facilities = hospital / clinic / medicine / doctor’s office Checking vocabulary: Rub out and remember II Revision of present simple tense, past - Get Ss to talk about city life and simple tense and present perfect country life a Present simple tense b Past simple tense c Present perfect tense WHILE READING III Brainstorming (Getting started) Noisy City life quiet Country life - Ask Ss to read the dialogue between - Expected answers: Na and Hoa and compare their ideas + tall buildings + beautiful views - Give feedback + plenty kinds of goods + fresh food - Get Ss to work in pairs to answer the + polluted air + fresh air questions in exercise on p 73 + traffic jams + entertainment + friendly + peaceful + busy 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? - Ask Ss to work in pairs to answer the - Expected answers: questions a Na has been to Kim Lien Village - Open pairs / Closed pairs b She was there for the weekend c To her, the country side is peaceful and quiet - Divide the class into groups Two and there is nothing to groups include Ss who prefer the city d There is no libraries, no movies, no life and the others include Ss who supermarket, no zoos prefer the country life e Country life is becoming better Many - Ask Ss to work in groups to answer remote areas are getting electricity People can the questions now have things like refrigerators and TV, - Ask Ss from groups to show their medical facilities are more accessible ideas before class 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 - Write a paragraph about the city / the country UNIT 8: COUNTRY LIFE AND CITY LIFE LESSON 2: SPEAK AND LANGUAGE FOCUS (P 69, 70) A Aim: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to practice speaking about the changes of a place B Methods: Communicative approach C Teaching aids: Teacher: textbook, poster, pictures Students: textbook, notebook, pens, rulers D Procedure: I Class organization: minute II Revision: (5 minutes) WARM-UP III New lesson: Setting the scene: Included in the WARM-UP Main activities: Teacher’s and students’ activities On the board WARM-UP Word square - Divide the class into teams E X P E N S I B - Ask Ss to go to the board and circle the word they find The team which circles more will win the game O O M D N U V E U L O I S V E A I D D R T R F U Y N E T L L A T S E R Y G G R I U W N O I S Y F B C L E A N L U - Find adjectives - Expected answers: Modern - busy - noisy - tall - expensive – beautiful – dirty – old – new – clean - far PRESENTATION - Set the scene: "Hoa's grandmother is 78 Five years ago, she was 73 and she Vocabulary: was stronger than she is now" - dirty (a) [antonym] - Ask Ss to make a sentence about her # clean health - modern (a) - Explain the form - use of the Present Progressive Tense # old / ancient - better (a) [antonym] [antonym] # worse - Prepare six cards of cues - cleaner [antonym] - Model first cues, the whole class # dirtier repeats chorally, then some Ss read out *Checking: ROR individually Present progressive tense: - Give a new cue, ask another student to repeat Form: am / is / are + V-ing - Go on until most of the Ss in class Use: used to describe changes with "get" and can remember the structure "become" - Expected answers: "Hoa's grandmother is getting weaker" PRACTICE Drill a The boys / get / tall b The old men / become / weak c It / become / dark d The weather / get / cold - Ask Ss to look at the pictures on p e The students / get / better 73 and talk to their partners about the f The school yard / become / cleaner changes of the town The words in the box under the pictures may help Ss - Expected answers: - Write the word prompts on the BB so a The boys are getting tall that Ss can speak easily b The old men are becoming weak - Get Ss to work in pairs c It is getting dark - Monitor and help Ss speak d The weather is getting cold e The students are getting better f The school yard is becoming cleaner PRODUCTION Speaking Ex: Traffic busy Sky cloudy - Ask Ss to work in groups to talk about changes in their hometown / Houses neighborhood high - Call on volunteer from each group to City show their ideas before the class Trees Other groups can add in their ideas beautiful 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 - Ask Ss to work in pairs + The streets are becoming cleaner / larger / noisier + Goods are getting more expensive Speaking Make five sentences to show changes in your neighborhood IV Consolidation: (2 minutes) - T asks students to state the main form of present progressive tense V Homework - Prepare Listen and Language focus -2 - Write sentences to describe the changes in your city UNIT 8: COUNTRY LIFE AND CITY LIFE LESSON 3: LISTEN - LANGUAGE FOCUS -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 B Methods: Communicative approach C Teaching aids: Teacher: textbook, poster, pictures Students: textbook, notebook, pens, rulers D Procedure: I Class organization: minute II Revision: (5 minutes) WARM-UP III New lesson: Setting the scene: Included in the WARM-UP Main activities: Teacher’s and students’ activities On the board WARM-UP Matching - Prepare cards with phrases on them - Expected answers: - Write verbs on the BB (play, do, Play watch, go, clean, have, phone, speak) Do - Divide the class into teams Watch - Hand out each team cards Go - Ask Ss to stick the cards with phrases Clean besides the suitable verbs E.g.: play table tennis table tennis homework a program to violin lesson the house - The team which is faster is the winner Have a meeting Phone my aunt, Mrs Hang Speak to Mom PRE - LISTENING - Model times and get students to Vocabulary: repeat - (to) delay [antonym] = (to) put off / postpone - a destination [translation] - departure (n) [translation] - a status [translation] [explanation] revised time = the time that has been changed [explanation] arrival (n) origin - Ask Ss to use the suitable verbs in the [translation] Present Progressive Tense to complete the dialogue in the exercise on p 78 *Checking: Slap the board (n) = coming - Get Ss to work in pairs Language Focus - Call some pairs to practice the - Expected answers: dialogue before class and teacher a am playing corrects b are doing c am watching d am going e are cleaning - Concept checking: f am having +What tense we use in dialogues? + What is the form? Concept checking: + Look at the adverbs of time in the + Present Progressive Tense dialogue Are they at present or in the + am / is / are + V-ing future? + Present Progressive Tense is used to talk about the future + in 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 WHILE - LISTENING - Let Ss listen twice and find out the - Tape transcript: missing words individually Lan: Hello - Ask Ss to share their answers with Aunt Hang: Hello Is that Lan? their partners 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 Hanoi in the late afternoon - Ask Ss to exercise on page 77 Lan: OK Do you want to speak to my Mom? - Call on some Ss to practice the Aunt Hang: Yes, please dialogues on page 77 Lan: Hold on a moment and I'll get her - Give them the shipping information and ask them to make similar dialogues POST - LISTENING - EX: S1: Is the boat to Qui Nhon leaving at 11.30? S2: Is that Good Fortune? S1: That's right S2: I'm very sorry It’s been delayed S1: Oh no! S2: Now, it's leaving at 13.55 IV Consolidation: (2 minutes) - T asks students to state the main form of present progressive tense and its uses V Homework - Prepare Read (p.75) UNIT 8: COUNTRY LIFE AND CITY LIFE LESSON 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 B Methods: Communicative approach C Teaching aids: Teacher: textbook, poster, pictures Students: textbook, notebook, pens, rulers D Procedure: I Class organization: minute II Revision: (5 minutes) WARM-UP III New lesson: Setting the scene: Included in the WARM-UP Main activities: Teacher’s and students’ activities On the board WARM-UP Jumbled words: - Write the words with disordered - fulentipl  letters on the BB (or use the poster) - taneru  - Divide the class into teams Ask Ss - loofd  from each team to go to the board and write the correct words The team - roestdy  which is faster with more correct words - laputipoon  wins the game - viroped  plentiful nature flood destroy population provide - suertl  result - ciliestiaf  facilities PRE-READING I Pre - teach vocabulary - rural (adj) - Model times [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 / raise Checking vocabulary: What and where - Get Ss to talk about city life and country life II Brainstorming - Ask Ss to think Typhoons of the difficulties of Get little Floodslife farmers' money Difficulties of farmers' life - Ask Ss to guess how farmers deal with difficulties - Expected answers: + droughts + the weather + hard work - Let Ss read the text silently and + no vacations answer the questions: "What many farmers to solve their problem?" + lack of clean water / electricity - Expected answers: + insects destroy harvests "They move to the city so that they can get well - paid jobs" - Ask Ss to work in pairs to complete summary on p 75, using the information from the passage WHILE READING III Gap - filling - Ask Ss to exercise on p 75 - Expected answers: Leaving - home - city - rural - city - problems schools - hospitals - problem - world IV Finding the words - Expected answers: a rural - Give a situation and Ask Ss to work in c increase groups and discuss e tragedy - Ask Ss from groups to show their ideas before class b plentiful d strain f urban POST READING Discussion If you were the Prime Minister, what would you for farmers? - Expected answers: + build streets, theaters, stadium in the country + build schools, hospitals + provide clean water, electricity, facilities + build factory + provide more jobs + IV Consolidation: (2 minutes) - T asks students to state the main difficulties of rural life V Homework - Prepare Write (page 76) UNIT 8: COUNTRY LIFE AND CITY LIFE LESSON 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 B Methods: Communicative approach C Teaching aids: Teacher: textbook, poster, pictures Students: textbook, notebook, pens, rulers D Procedure: I Class organization: minute II Revision: (5 minutes) WARM-UP III New lesson: Setting the scene: Included in the WARM-UP Main activities: Teacher’s and students’ activities On the board WARM-UP Revision - Ask Ss to put the outline for an Heading: informal letter in the correct order + Writer's address - Prepare cards with outlines on + Date them + Dear , - Call six Ss to hold them and stand in a random order Ask some other Ss to Opening rearrange them in the correct order Body of letter - Write the answers on the BB so that Ss can remember the outline of a letter Closing PRE - WRITING - Ask Ss to work in pairs to answer the Questions questions in exercise on page 76 - Expected answers: - Call some students to read aloud their a I live in small town / big city / village answers - Give feedback 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 flowers d It's far from my home so I have to ride my bike / It's very near so I can walk e There is a park / a swimming pool / some restaurants, a post office / a library 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 -Ask Ss to write letters to friends about Sample: their neighborhood - Ask them to compare with their (Writer's address) partners and correct if they can (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 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: - Choose some letters to correct before class IV Consolidation: (2 minutes) - T asks students to state the main parts of a letter V Homework - Prepare Language Focus – UNIT 8: COUNTRY LIFE AND CITY LIFE LESSON 6: LANGUAGE FOCUS -5 (P 79) A Aim: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to use comparative and superlative forms of adjectives B Methods: Communicative approach C Teaching aids: Teacher: textbook, poster, pictures Students: textbook, notebook, pens, rulers D Procedure: I Class organization: minute II Revision: (5 minutes) WARM-UP III New lesson: Setting the scene: Included in the WARM-UP Main activities: Teacher’s and students’ activities On the board WARM-UP Brainstorming - Ask Ss to find out short adjectives and long adjectives they have learnt - Divide the class into teams, one using yellow chalk and red chalk Big Expensive Long adjectives Short adjectives - Expected answers: + accessible + busy + beautiful + easy + convenient + cheap + difficult + good + intelligent + bad + comfortable + delicious + poor + fresh + interesting + small PRESENTATION + Comparative: Short adjective - ER + than + object MORE - long adjective + than + object - Remind Ss of the forms of Ex: Vietnam is smaller than China comparative and superlative + Superlative: adjectives THE + short adjective - EST THE MOST + long adjective Ex: 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 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 - Ask Ss to exercise on page 79 - Give some examples: + The air in the city is fresher than in the city PRODUCTION + 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 exercise on page 79 Noughts and Crosses old expensive big expensive small hot big beautiful old - Ask them read the advertisement then ask them some questions to - Expected answers: check their understanding a The villa is older than the apartment + What are advertised? b The house is more expensive than the apartment + How old are they? c The villa is bigger than the apartment + How much we pay per month? d The apartment is smaller than the villa - Expected answers: + an apartment, a villa and a house e The apartment is hotter than the house + The apartment is years old, the villa is years old and the house is new f The house is the biggest + 900.000 dongs for the apartment; 6.6 million dongs for the house and 7.8 million dongs for the villa g The villa is the most beautiful h The apartment is older than the house (Ss can make more sentences) - Divide the class into teams and ask them to play the game Noughts and Crosses One team is Noughts (O) and the other is Crosses (X) - Draw this chart on the board and the game begins IV Consolidation: (2 minutes) - T asks students to state the form of comparisons V Homework - Write sentences comparing your house with your neighbors'