Giáo án Tiếng Anh 8 - Units 12: A vacation abroad

Period: 74
Date: February 6th, 2010
 Unit 12: A vacation abroad
 Lesson 2: Speak
Class
Teaching date
Ss’ absence
Note
8A
8B
Aim
get Ss to practice in making plans using tourist brochures and flight information.
The past progressive tense
II. Objectives
At the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to make their plan on itinerary and know how to record a travel.
III. Materials
Handouts, pictures, textbook
IV. Procedure
T
Activities of T and Ss
Main knowledge
5’
10’
10’
10’
5’
5’
* Warm-up: Chatting
- Do you like traveling?
- What do you want to know before you visit a place?
- introduces the lesson.
1.pre-speaking:
a)Act.1: Complete the Grids (P.113). 
*)Answer: 
- hangs on the Grid and checks the understanding of each item.
- asks Ss to share their ideas in groups, reading the itinerary and completing the information.
- get the meaning of each item and discover the task.
- share their ideas in groups to complete the information.
2.while-speaking
a)Act.1: Make the similar dialogue..
- elicits the language from Ss and then writes the model on the board.
- elicits the used language and notices Ss the way to ask about time, place for living.
- makes the model first and asks Ss to work in pairs, reading the itinerary in order to make the similar dialogue.
- invites Ss practice to the front.
 - give the used language.
- share their ideas about the structure and use.
- make the model with teacher and then make the same dialogue in pairs.
- make the itinerary
- T gives some situations and asks Ss to give the usages and form of the past progressive tense
* Warm-up
- T asks Ss to revise the past progressive tense and do the exercise
Exercise: Put the verbs into the past progressive tense
1. Ann.(write) a letter in her room
2. The phone rang while I..(have) a shower.
3. I..(read) a book in bed while my sister .(do) his homework
4. At 9.30 she(clean) her flat
5. At 3o’clock they..(wash) some clothes
* Complete the Grids
Depart Los Angeles: Flight 835 at 10.00 on Monday.
Arrive Boston: at 4.00
Accommodation: Revere Hotel
Sightseeing: Boston University, Museum, Art galleries.
Depart Boston: Flight 710 at 10.00 on Thursday, 22.
*) Make the similar dialogue..
 Model dialogue:
A: What time does the flight to Los Angeles sta B: At 10.
A: Where shall we stay?
B: At Revere Hotel.
A: Where should we go for sightseeing?
B: Paul Revere/s House.
* the past progressive.
* Study this example situation
Yesterday Tom and Jim played tennis. They began at 10 o’clock and finish at 11 o’clock?
What were they doing at 10.30?
-They were playing tennis
* Usages: 
- It expresses am action happing at a certain time
- It is used to indicate that a longer action in the past was interrupted. The interruption is usually a shorter action in the Simple Past. 
Ex: I was watching TV when she called.. 
- it expresses the idea that both actions were happening at the same time. 
e.x: I was studying while he was making dinner. 
- The Past Continuous with words such as "always" or "constantly" expresses the idea that something irritating or shocking often happened in the past. 
She was always coming to class late
*)Structure:
S+ was/were+ V-ing +.
V. Drawing on the teacher’s experience
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