Giáo án English 8 - Tiết 84, Unit 13: Festivals - Ngô Thị Hương

Week: 28 Date of preparing: 12/ 03/ 2014 Period: 84 Date of teaching: 14/ 03/ 2014 UNIT 13: FESTIVALS Lesson 1: GETTING STARTED +LISTEN & READ I. OBJECTIVES: 1. Educational aim: Ss can know some Vietnamese festivals. 2. Teaching aims: By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to talk about some festivals in Viet nam. II. PREPARATIONS: Book, cassette tape, pictures III. PROCEDURES: Teacher’s activities Students’ activities 1. Warm – Up: (5’) - Ask Ss to read carefully the situations in the book and name the places where these people should go: Tom, David, Huckleberry, Oliver, Robinson. Where should he / she go to? Why? 2. Presentation: (10’) - Ask Ss to tell some festivals they know in Viet Nam. - Ask Ss to look at the picture and ask questions 1. What festival is it? 2. What are the people in the picture doing? 3. Have you ever taken part in this kind of festival? - Explain new words: + (to) fetch (v) = to go to get sth and bring it back. + (to) yell (v) = to shout loudly. + (to) urge (v) = to make a person to move quickly. + (to) rub (v) (mime) + (to) separate sth from sth (v) + Judge (n) + Council leader (n) - Explain the grammar note: A rice-cooking festival. ð Form: (a/an) + noun + v-ing + Noun Compound adjective - Ask questions: 1. Do you know how many competitions there are in the rice-cooking festival and what they are? 2. What do people do in each competition? 3. How many people are there for each competition? - Play the tape for students. 3. Practice: (15’) - Ask Ss to read the dialogue silently to check the answers. 1. There are three competitions in a rice-cooking festival: Water-fetching, fire-making, rice-cooking. 2. In the water-fetching competition, they have to run to the river to get water. In the fire-making competition, they make fire by rubbing pieces of bamboo together, and in the rice-cooking competition they cook rice. 3. One person takes part in the water-fetching competition, two persons take part in the fire-making competition, and six persons take part in the rice-cooking competition. - Ask Ss to practice the dialogue in pairs. - Ask Ss to do True/ False sentences. - Have Ss give feedback. a. F ª Only one team member takes part in the water-fetching contest. b. F ª One person has to collect one water bottle. c. T. d. F ª Pieces of bamboo are used to make the fire. e. F ª In the final contest, the judges taste the rice. f. T 4. Production: (13’) -Ask Ss to read the dialogue again then write a summary about the rice-cooking festival. 5. Homework: (2’) - Reread the dialogue and do the True/ False exercise - Prepare next lesson: Unit 13 –Speak & Listen/p.123 - Whole class. ¯ Suggested answers 1. Tom should go to beaches. 2. David should go to Hoi An. 3. Huckleberry should go to Sapa. 4. Oliver should go to Bat Trang. 5. Robinson should go to Ho Chi Minh City. - Group works. - Answer questions. - Listen and write. - Listen and write. - Answer the questions. - Listen to the tape. - Individual work. - Pair works. - Group works. - Give feedback. - Group works. Take note. IV. COMMENTS: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ______________________________________b"&"a_______________________________