Giáo án Tiếng Anh 8 - Units 12: A vacation abroad - Tran Thi Ngoc Ha - Dalat Junior Secondary Teacher Training College

Dalat Junior Secondary Teacher Training College
Social department
Student :Tran Thi Ngoc Ha
Class:English 32
Trainer : Teacher-Phan Thi Sau
Week :26
Period : class: 8/1
Unit :12
Date of preparation: 27/02/2010
Date of teaching: 05/03/2010
Unit 12:	A VACATION ABROAD
Period: 78	WRITE 
 I. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:
- To teach the students some words and phrases relating to a vacation to the USA.
- To revise tenses.
- To be able to write a postcard talking about a vacation to somewhere. 
- To make the students aware of the beauty of places of interest in the USA.
- To have a knowledge about the USA and its people.
II.TECHNIQUES: Explanation, Groupwork, Writing, Sharing and Comparing, Asking and Answering, Gap-Filling.
III. TEACHING AIDS: Textbook, chalks, handouts..
IV. PROCEDURES IN CLASS:
TIME
TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES
STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES
7’
I. WARM-UP:
- have ss play a game:”crossword”
 +give rule the game.
 +give some pictures and suggesion
1.Pre-writing
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 +Says:as we know,mrs.quyen and her husband wen on holiday to USA.they visited lost of famous place of interes.
-in last lesson, wha did she send to her children?
-Have you ever written a postcard before? Now we will learn Unit 12: A VACATION ABROAD, part: Writing. In this lesson, we will learn how to write on a postcard. First, we are going to look at the postcards that Mrs. Quyen sent to Vietnam from the USA. 
* Vocabulary:
-Hospitable (adj):
-Windy (adj)
-Sunny (adj)
-To complain:
* Splits class into groups of 8. 
- Has the students look at the postcard and complete the gaps with the appropriate words
- Checks and gives feedback.
 1. in	 2. people	 3. weather	
 4. visited 5. her 	 6. nice	
 7. bought	8. for 	 9. heaviness	
10. soon
*Have ss filling
- Put the words into the suitable columns:
 1.dalat 2.teacher 3.hospitable 4.hot
 5.nhatrang 6.museums 7.relatives 8.parks 
 9.friendly 10.cold 11.vung tau 12.sunny 13.helpful 14.zoos 15.photos 16.windy 17.souvernirs 18.libaries 19.postcards
20.neighbors 21.Sapa 22.Halong bay 23.old friends
Places
People
Weather
Visit
Meet
Buy
III. WHILE-WRITING:
*How to write on postcard
- Modal suggestion:
 Dear..,
We are having ..in . The people are  ..and the weather has been
In Halong bay, I visited it was .to see them.
I bought lots of ..
See you soon
Love,
* Introduces the task to the students:
“ Imagine you are a tourist on vacation in a certain place/city in Viet Nam. Write a postcard to a friend about your trip.”
Asks them to write a postcard individually.
Make correction
* Modal suggestion:
Dear John,
We are having a wonderful time in Ha Long Bay. The people are hospitable and the weather has been sunny.
In , I visited my friend,Lanna. It was nice to see them.
I bought lots of souvernirs and a book about Ha Long Bay.
See you soon
Your friend,
Peter 
IV. POST-WRITING:
- Asks the students to share their task with their partner.
- Chooses some students’ work to correct before class.
- Play the game.
Copy down
Individual
- groups work
- Answer.
- Write a postcard individually.
- Share their task with their partner.
V. HOMEWORK: 2’
	- Learn the lesson well.
	- Do exercise 7 in the workbook (p. 75)
	- Prepare Language Focus
Date of preparation: 
Date of teaching: 	
Unit 12:	A VACATION ABROAD
Period: 79	LANGUAGE FOCUS 
 I. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:
² LANGUAGE CONTENT: 
- To help the students revise some grammar points learnt in Unit 12. 
² LANGUAGE FUNCTION:
- To enable the students to use the past progressive, the past progressive with when and while, and progressive tenses with always.
1. Language:
a. Vocabulary:	
b. Structure:	S + was / were + V-ing.
2. Skill: 	Integrated skills
II. TEACHER AND STUDENTS’ PREPARATION:
1. Method: 	Communicative Approach.
2.Techniques: Repetition, Explanation, Demonstration, Pairwork, Groupwork, Using Pictures, Matching
3. Materials needed: Textbook, chalks.
4. Students’ preparation:
5. Previous exercises: exercise 7 in the workbook (p. 75)
III. PROCEDURES IN CLASS:
1. Stabilization:	2’
a. Warm up: 	 	Greetings 
b. Checking absence: Asks the monitor: Is there anybody absent today?
2. Checking up the previous knowledge:
Time needed: 	5’
Questions: Write a postcard to a friend about your trip.
Keys: Student’s writing.
3. Presentation of the new materials:
TIME
TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES
STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES
THE CONTENT OF THE LESSON
22ms
A- I Lead-in
Unit 12
- Sing the song
- Sing the song
A vacation abroad
“Brown girl in the ring”
- Today e are going to practse the past progressive tense with while and when.
-Listen
Period 79
Language focus
II- Pre-practice
8ms
- Sets the scene.
Look at the picture A and answer.
What was Ba doing at 8 o’clock last night?
® He was taking a shower at 8 o’clock last night.
® This is the past progressive tense.
- Has students give its form, use and meaning.
- Look at the picture and answer
A Past progressive
1. Ex:
He was taking a shower at 8 o’clock last night.
2. Form: Was/were + V-ing
3. Use:
To indicate an action that was in progress at a point of time in the past
4. Meaning
Asks student to look at the picture and answer what happened when Nga was eating?
® Has students give its form, use and meaning
- Look at the picture and answer
- Give its form, use and meaning
(đã) đang
B. Past progressive with while and when
The phone rang while Nga was eating
2. Form
Main clause
Past continuous
Past simple
- Conjunction
When, while
- Adv. clause
Past simple
Past progressive
3. Use:
An action was taking place when another 
action took place
III Controlled - practice
10ms
- Has students look at the pictures in text book
- Look at the picture (1) and say
(excersise 1) and say what each person was doing at 8 o’clock last night, work in pairs
what each person was doing at 8 o’clock last night
(1) Say each person was doing at 8 o’clock last night
- Calls on students to give their answers
- Give the answer
Hoa was having dinner at 8 o’clock last night
- Corrects
- Listen
- Asks student to look at the pictures in exercise 2 and match A with B
- Look at the picture and match A with B
- Calls on students to give their answers
- Give the answers
- Corrects
- Listen and write down
(2) Match A with B
aC, bF, cE, dB, eD
fA
IV- Free-Practice
- Do the excersise
2ms
Put the verbs in the correct tense
a) I (fall) asleep when I (watch) TV.
b) It (begin) to rain when I (walk) home
(10ms)
B- I. Lead-in
- We will practise progressive tenses with “always”
- Listen
II- Pre-Practice
- Gives an example.
- Listen and write down
1. Ex: 
Nam is always talking in class
Nam is always talking in class
3ms
- Asks students to give its form, use
- Give its form
2. Form
and meaning
use and meaning
is/am/are+always
and write down
+ V-ing
was/were+always
+V-ing
III- Controlled practice
3. Use
5ms
- Asks students to look at the pictures
- Look at the pictures
To express a complaint
- Models the picture (A)
- Listen
- Gets student to work in pair to say what the people are always doing
- Work in pairs to say what the
4. Meaning
Cứ . . . hoài
people are always
3. Write what the
doing
people are always
doing
- Corrects
- Listen and write down
b. Mrs. Nga is always losing her
umbrella
IV- Pre-Practice
c. Mr. and Mrs. 
1m
Put the words in the correct order
Thanh are always 
She/herself/look/the/in mirror/at/always/is
missing the bus
d. Nam is always
® She is always look at herself in the mirror.
watch TV.
V- Consolidation
2ms
Asks students to say again the use,
form and meaning of the past
progressive with when and whike
and progressive tense with always
4. Homework: 
- Learn the examples, forms, use and meaning by heart.
- Do exercise again
- Do exercises 5, 6, 7 in workbook.
5. Preparation for the next lesson:
- Students had a good preparation. They did the exercises well.
6. Self – evaluation:
Date of preparation:	
Date of teaching:	 
Unit 13:	FESTIVALS
Period: 80	GETTING STARTED + LISTEN AND READ
 I. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:
² LANGUAGE CONTENT: 
- To teach the students some words and phrases relating to a rice-cooking festival.
- To help the students get familiar with compound adjectives.
² LANGUAGE FUNCTION:
- To talk about a rice-cooking festival in Viet Nam. 
² EDUCATIONAL AIM: 
- To make the students be proud of traditional festivals in Viet Nam.
1. Language:
a. Vocabulary:	fetch	yell	urge	rub	award	husk	competition	bamboo	separate	judge	council leader 
b. Structure: 	
2. Skill: 	Integrated skills
3. Educational factor:
- To respect and preserve Vietnamese traditional festivals.
II. TEACHER AND STUDENTS’ PREPARATION:
1. Method: 	Communicative Approach.
2.Techniques: Explanation, Demonstration, Pairwork, Groupwork, Using Pictures, Rub Out and Remember, T/F, Guessing, Retelling.
3. Materials needed: Textbook, chalks, handouts, pictures, tapes.
4. Students’ preparation: Look up new words beforehand.
5. Previous exercises: 
III. PROCEDURES IN CLASS:
1. Stabilization:	2’
a. Warm up: 	 Greetings 
b. Checking absence: Asks the monitor: “Is there anybody absent today?”
2. Checking up the previous knowledge:
Time needed: 	5’
Questions: Put the verbs in the correct tense.
	a) Nam (do) . . . . . . . his homework at 8 o’clock yesterday
	b) When I arrived, he (have) . . . . . . . dinner.
Keys: a) was doing b) was having
3. Presentation of the new materials:
TIME
TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES
STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES
THE CONTENT OF THE LESSON
5’
10’
12’
5’
3’
I. WARM-UP:
GETTING STARTED:
1. Getting Started:
- Writes the names on the board: Tom, David, Huckleberry, Oliver, Robinson.
- Tells the students these people are going on their visits to Viet Nam and they need advice on where to go. Asks the students to work in pairs.
- Asks: Should Tom go to Son La?Why? Why not? etc.
2. Introduces and tells the aims of the lesson.
- Shows the picture in the textbook and asks: Can you guess what the festival is?
- Says: “Today we are going to learn Unit 13: FESTIVAL, Part: Listen and Read to know more about the rice-cooking festival in Viet Nam.
II. PRE-PRACTICE:
1. Pre-teaches vocabulary following steps and principles of teaching words.
a. fetch (v) (using definition)
b. yell (v) (using synonym)
c. urge (v) (translation)
d. rub (v) (miming)
e. award (v) (using translation)
f. husk (v) (using translation)
g. competition (n) (using explanation)
h. bamboo (n) (using picture)
i. separate (v) (using example)
j. judge (n) (using translation)
k. council leader (n) (using translation)
2. Checks understanding of the new words: Rub out and Remember.
III. CONTROLLED-PRACTICE:
1. Has the students listen to the tape twice.
- Invites two best students to reproduce the dialogue.
- Divides class into pairs. Asks them to practice the dialogue in pairs.
- Checks some pairs.
2. Asks the students to answer True or False in groups of 8.
- Checks their answers and gives feedback:
IV. FREE-PRACTICE:
Retelling:
- Asks the students to retell the rules of a rice-cooking festival.
Plays the games: Networks
Vietnamese festival
V. CONSOLIDATION:
- Asks the students some questions relating to the content of the dialogue.
- Work in pairs.
- Answer.
- Listen to the teacher carefully.
- Listen, repeat, guess the meaning and write down.
- Play the game.
- Listen to the tape twice.
- Two best students reproduce the dialogue.
- Practice the dialogue in pairs.
- Answer.
- Answer True or False in groups of 8. 
- Retell the rules of a rice-cooking festival.
- Answer.
Unit 13: FESTIVALS
Period 80: GETTING STARTED + 
LISTEN AND READ
I. Content:
1. Getting started
Where should these people go on their visit to Vietnam? Why?
a) Tom like swimming and sunbathing.
A. In your opinion where should he go.
B. I thimk he should go to Do Son beach. It’s a beautiful beach and it’s not very far from Hanoi
A. That’s good idea.
1. New words and phrases:
a. fetch (v) 
water-fetching contest
b. yell (v)
c. urge (v) 
d. rub (v) 
e. award (v) 
f. husk (v) 
g. competition (n) 
h. bamboo (n) 
i. separate (v) 
j. judge (n) 
k. council leader (n) 
2. Practice the dialogue with a partner.
3. Answer True or False.
a. False Only one team . . .
b. False. One person has to collect one bottle
c. True:
d. False. Pieces of bamboo . . .
e. False. The Judges taste the rice.
f. True
II. Homework:
- Learn the lesson well.
- Do exercise 1 in the workbook (p. 76).
4. Homework: 3’
	- Learn the lesson well.
	- Do exercise 1 in the workbook (p. 76).
5. Preparation for the next lesson:
	Prepare Unit 13, Speak + Listen
6. Self – evaluation:
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Date of preparation: 	 
Date of teaching: