Giáo án Tiếng Anh 8 unit 15: Computers

Teaching aids: Teacher: textbook, poster, pictures Students: textbook, notebook, pens, rulers.. - Write on the board - Present new words and then guide Ss to read them in chorus WARM-UP

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UNIT 15: COMPUTERS LESSON 1 – GETTING STARTED, LISTEN AND READ.

A Aim: By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to express their opinions about a problem.

B Methods: Communicative approach

C Teaching aids: Teacher: textbook, poster, pictures

Students: textbook, notebook, pens, rulers

D Procedure:

I Class management: 1 minute

II Revision: (5 minutes) WARM-UP

III New lesson:

1 Setting the scene: Included in the WARM-UP

2 Main activities:

- Ask Ss to say out the functions of the

computers

- Write on the board

- Present new words and then guide Ss to

read them in chorus

WARM-UP

Brainstorming Computers can help us:

- save time

- listen to music

- learn interestingly

- play games

- keeping information

- getting information

PRE-READING

I Vocabulary:

- a printer (picture): máy in

- a manual (realia): sách hướng dẫn

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- Check vocabulary by technique “Bingo”

- Get Ss to copy

- Set the scene: “Nam and his father, Mr

Nhat are talking about the problem of the

computer they’ve just bought What

happens to the computer?”

- Have Ss guess which statements are true

and which are false

- Give feedback

- Ask Ss to read the dialogue on page 138

and check their guessing

- Explain the words: “ Fact and Opinion”

- (to) connect (hand gesture): kết nối

- under guarantee (situation): bảo hành

- (to) unplug (mime) Checking technique: Bingo

II True / false prediction:

1 The printer isn’t working

2 Nam has already turned the printer on

3 Nam knows how to connect a printer but he hasn’t connected it correctly

4 The manual helps them to find out the problem of the printer

5 Mr Nhat bought the printer in HCM city and it’s still under guarantee

6 Mr Nhat thinks the company wouldn’t do anything with his printer because it’s too far from his place

WHILE-READING

III True-False checking

Answer key:

1 True

2 True

3 False- Nam knows how to connect a printer and he has connected it properly

4 False- Mr Nhat thinks it isn’t very helpful

5 True

6 Mr Nhat thinks the company should do something with it

IV Reading comprehension:

Answer key:

a) Fact b) Opinion c) Opinion d) Fact e) Fact

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+ Fact: a thing that is known to be true,

especially when it can be proved

+ Opinion: Your feelings or thoughts

about someone of something, rather

than a fact

- Get Ss to read the statements and check

the suitable boxes

- Call on some Ss to give their answers

- Give feedback and correct

- Ask Ss to use reported speech to rewrite

the dialogue

- Divide the class into 3 groups and assign

each group to report about 3- 4 sentences

- Have them write their report on a poster

and put it on the board for public check

f) Opinion

POST-READING

VI Write it up

IV Consolidation: (2 minutes)

- T asks students to state the main points of the dialogue

V Homework

- Write the reported speech into your notebooks

- Prepare Speak + Listen

PERIOD 96

UNIT 15: COMPUTERS LESSON 2 – SPEAK

A Aim: By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to use some common useful expressions to

express agreement and disagreement

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Students: textbook, notebook, pens, rulers.

D Procedure:

III New lesson:

2 Main activities:

- Ask Ss each to think of one of the ways

computers are helpful and write it on a

piece of paper

- Call on a student to the front of the class

- Get the rest of the class ask him/ her “Do

you think that computers are ?”

read them in chorus

- Check vocabulary by technique “Slap the

board”

- Get Ss to copy

- Write the topic on the board: Useful

expressions to express agreement and

disagreement

- Put the table on the board and elicit Ss’

answers then write them in the table

WARM-UP

Guessing game: “Do you think that ?”

PRE-SPEAKING

I Vocabulary:

- time-consuming (a) (explanation)

= (waste time)

- challenging (a) (translation)

- degree (n) (translation)

- amusing (a) (synonym)

= funny

- (to) adjust (translation) Checking technique: Slap the board

II Brainstorming:

Useful expressions to express agreement and

disagreement

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- Ask Ss to read the dialogue on page 138

and check their guessing

- Put the photocopied pictures/p139 on the

right of the board and the words cues on

the left (not in order)

- Ask Ss to match the words with the

pictures

- Call on some Ss to go to the board to

draw the matching lines

- Get a student to demonstrate the model

(a)

- Ask Ss to use the adjectives in the box

/p140 to express their opinions after going

through the meaning of some new words

- Ask Ss to use the pictures on the board to

practice speaking with their partners

- Call on some pairs to demonstrate for the

class

I like

I don’t like

I think

I feel

I don’t believe

So do I

I agree You’re right Neither do I

Degree of agreement Disagreement

I agree, but

Yes, but on the other hand

I disagree

I can’t agree with you

No I think

WHILE-SPEAKING

III Matching

A Reading comic books d £

B Playing in the rain a £

C Driving a car b £

D Foreign food c £ Answer key: A - b B - c C - a D

- d

IV Picture drill (Oral drill)

T: I think driving a car is easy P: I disagree I think it’s difficult to drive a car or so

do I 1/ entertaining 2/ time - consuming 3/ challenging

Suggestions:

a Driving a car Learning to drive a car

- Easy once we get used

to it

- Challenging/ difficult to get used to driving in traffic

- Dangerous

b Comic books - Boring

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- Ask Students to write full dialogues in

their notebooks

Reading comic books

- Interesting/ fun

- Time-consuming

c Playing in the rain - Fun

- interesting

- Entertaining

d Foreign food Hamburgers, pizza, French fries

- Delicious

- Fun to cat

- Unhealthy

POST-SPEAKING

VI Write it up

- T asks students to state the main structures of agreement and disagreement

V Homework

- Do exercise 1,2 in workbook

- Prepare Read

PERIOD 97

UNIT 15: COMPUTERS LESSON 3 – READ

A Aim: By the end of the lesson, students will know more about how computers work in a

university

D Procedure:

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III New lesson:

2 Main activities:

- Ask Ss to work in 2 teams, each team

takes turns to write the benefits of

computers on TV

- Monitor and correct

read them in chorus

- Check vocabulary by technique “What

and where”

- Elicit words from ss and write them inside

circles

- Get Ss to repeat and rub out the word, not

the circle

- Continue until the circles are empty

- Get Ss to repeat the rubbed - out circles

by pointing at the empty circles

- Have Ss fill in the circles on the board

with the right words again (5 Ss at a time)-

Get Ss to copy

WARM-UP Brainstorming: Advantages of computers

Suggested answers:

- watching TV

- reading newspapers

- playing games

- listening to music

-

PRE-READING

I Vocabulary:

- Freshman (n) (explanation)

= the first - year student at a college/university

- Jack (n) (realia)

- bulletin board = notice board (picture)

- skeptical (adj) (explanation)

= not believe in something

- impact (n): (translation)

- a campus (explanation)

= the yard and garden of the university

- (to) access (translation)

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- Introduce the topic of the text

- Ask Ss to guess what they're going to

read

- Write the Ss' guesses on the board

- Ask Ss to read the text to check if their

guesses are correct or not

- Get Ss to read the text again then read the

true/false statements and decide if the

statements are true or false

- Call on some ss to give their answers and

correct the false statements

- Have Ss copy all the right statements in

their notebooks

- Have Ss read the questions/p 142 and

find the information in the text to answer

- Ask Ss to compare their answer with their

partners

- Call on some Ss to give their answers for

the class

- Give feed back and correct

- Students read the passage again and

summarize it

- Call some students to summarize in front

- (to) store (translation) Checking technique: What and where

II Open prediction

* Suggested questions:

1 Where in the library do we get / find information?

2 How can we store the information?

3 If we want to discuss something, how can we do?

WHILE-READING

III True/False Statements

Answer key:

a - T b - T c - T d - F e - T f - T

d (Student don't have to go to computer rooms because college campuses now have computer jacks

in every part of the university)

IV Comprehension questions

Answer Key:

a) It has no library All the information normally found in a library is now stored in the university's computers

b) All the information normally found in a library

or messages normally found on a bulletin board c) A computer and a telephone (line)

d) With a bulletin board on the Internet, a great number of people (over 20 million) can get access

to the bulletin and exchange information quickly e) Student's answers

POST-READING

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of the class.

- Monitor and correct

VI Retell the story

- T asks students to state the points of the passage

V Homework

- Write the answers of part IV in your notebooks and do the exercises 3 & 4 in the workbook

- Prepare Write and Listen

PERIOD 98

UNIT 15: COMPUTERS LESSON 4 – WRITE + LISTEN

A Aim: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to write a set of instructions on how to use

the printer to complete a flow chart and listen to the text about procedure of an automatic Soda machine to complete a chart

D Procedure:

III New lesson:

2 Main activities:

- Ask Ss to work in 2 teams and play the

game

WARM-UP

Play game: Shark's attack.

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- Ask Ss the meaning of the word

PRINTER

- Expected answers: Máy in

read them in chorus

- Check vocabulary by technique “Slap the

board”

- Get Ss to copy

- Ask Ss to look at exercise 1/p 142 and do

the matching

- Get some Ss to give their answers and

correct

- Get Ss to make sure of some phrasal

verbs

- Put the words on the board and ask Ss to

fill in the gaps with the right words if

possible

- Ask some Ss to give their answers and

correct

_ _ _ _ _ _ _

Key word: Printer

PRE-WRITING

I Vocabulary:

- paper input tray (n) (picture)

- power button (n) (picture)

- icon (n) (picture)

- output path (n) (picture)

- remove (v) = to put (s.th) away

- (to) insert (translation)

- a starting point (n) (translation)

- a coin (picture)

- (to) press (mime) Checking technique: Slap the board

II Matching Answer Key

a - 3 b - 1 c - 6 d - 2 e - 4 f - 5

WHILE-WRITING

III Gap fill

1 (to) wait (so / s.th)

2 (to) remove (s.th)

3 (to) turn (a machine)

4 (to) plug (s.th)

5 (to) load (s.th)

Answer Key:

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- Ask Ss to look at the pictures/p 143 and

read the cues

- Have Ss work in pairs to outline the

instructions

- Call on some Ss to say out the

instructions first

- Ask Ss to write the instructions in their

notebooks

- Have some Ss read their writing before

the class

- Ask Ss to look at the flow chart and guess

the words in the gaps

- Play the tape (2 or 3 times) and ask Ss to

listen

- Tell Ss to fill the gaps with the

information they have heard from the tape

- Have Ss compare the answers with their

partners

- Have Ss write a set of instructions on how

to get a drink from a machine, using the

flow chart

1 (to) wait for(so / sth)

2 (to) remove (sth)

3 (to) turn on/off (a machine)

4 (to) plug in(sth)

5 (to) load (sth)

IV Write the instructions:

Answer Key:

+ Plug in the printer and turn on the power

+ Remove the old paper and load the new paper in the paper input tray

+ Wait for the power button to flash

+ Have the pages appear on the computer screen + Click the printer icon on the screen and wait for a few seconds

+ The printed paper will come out of the output path in a minute

POST-WRITING

VI Listen and fill in the flow chart

Answer Key:

a Do you have the correct change?

b yes

c What do you want to drink?

d take it

- T asks students to summarize the flow chart

V Homework

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- Have Ss write a set of instructions on how to get a drink from a machine, using the flow chart.

- Prepare Language Focus 1, 2

PERIOD 99

UNIT 15: COMPUTERS LESSON 5 – LANGUAGE FOCUS 1, 2

A Aim: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to use "yet" and "already" to express the

present perfect

D Procedure:

III New lesson:

2 Main activities:

read them in chorus

- Check vocabulary by technique “ROR”

- Get Ss to copy

Set the scene: "Ba's mother has just been

back from market She wanted him to do

some housework while she was at the

market Ba made notes in his diary and

check the work he has done Look at Ba's

PRESENTATION

I Vocabulary:

- (to) depart (translation) Checking technique: Rub out and remember

II.

Presenting the grammatical points:

Model sentences:

T: Has Ba done his homework yet?

S: Yes, he has already done his homework

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- Show the chart (Ba's diary) on the board

- Ask questions and elicit the answers from

Ss

- Have Ss repeat and write the sentences on

the board

- Ask Ss to look at Ba's diary and complete

the dialogue using Yet and Already

- Call on some pairs to demonstrate the

dialogue for the class

- Ask Ss to look at the flight information

tables and ask questions to show the

models

- Ask Ss to talk turn to ask and answer the

questions

- Call on some Ss to demonstrate the

exchanges in front of the class

- Open pairs

- Closed pairs

- Call some students to read aloud their

works for the whole class to comment

T: Has Ba tidied the room yet?

S: No, he hasn't tidied the room yet

*Concept Check:

Present perfect with yet and already

* Use: Yet: used in question and negative

statements

Already: used in positive statements

* Positions: Yet: at the end of the sentence.

Already: between auxiliary have and past participle,

at the end of the sentences

PRACTICE

III Gap-Fill Dialogue.

Answer key:

I have finished it already;

I haven’t cleaned and tidied it yet;

I have already turned it off;

I’ve already called and told her to have lunch with us

IV Language focus 2: (p 144-145) Question and answer:

T: Has the flight to Vientiane departed yet?

S: Yes, it has already departed

T: Has the flight from los Angeles arrived yet? S: No, it hasn't arrived yet

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