Giáo án Tiếng Anh 8 - Units 13: Festival

Date of preparing: / /09
Date of teaching: 8A
 8B
Period 80
Unit13 festival
Lesson 1 getting started - Listen and Read P121 - 122
A - Aim 
- Reading for details about traditional Festivals.
- Practice reading and listening skills. 
- By the end of the lesson, students will be able to ask for explanations of events..
B - Teaching aids 
- Teacher: Textbook, poster
- Students: pens, books
C – Technique: ROR, Chatting
D - Procedure 
I. Organization (2m) 
Greeting
Names of absents students:
II. Warm up (5m) 
1. Act: Chatting
- T. writes the names on the board 
Tom, David, Huckleberry, Oliver, Robinson
- T. tells students these people are going on their visits to Vietnam and they advise on where to go.
- T. introduces the names, one by one.
Example: Tom likes swimming and sunbathing.
 T: Where should he go? Why?
 2. David is interested in ancient cities.
 3. Huckleberry likes mountain - climbing.
 4. Oliver is keen on pottery.
 5. Robinson if fond of crowed places.
2. Names of checked students: 
III- New lesson (32m)
Steps
Activities
Content
Pre reading
I. Pre teaching
- T. elicits vocabulary from students.
* Checking:ROR
I. Vocabulary
- fetch (v)	đưa về
- yell = to shout loudly- la to / hét to
- urge (v) thúc giục
- award (v) tặng, tặng thưởng
- participate (v) = take part in - tham gia/ tham dự
 While reading 
1. Open - prediction
a. Set the scene: Ba invites his friends Liz to a traditional festival in the North of Vietnam.
- do you know what kind of festival it is? (It's the rice cooking festival.)
- T. asks students to guess: How many competitions do people enter in a rice cooking festival?
- In water festival competition - What do people do?
How about a fire making competition
- A Rice - cooking competition?
- Students read the dialogue and check their predictions
- Ask students to read the dialogue and check their predictions.
- Ask students to read the dialogue and do T/F statements
- Ask students check "F" statements.
- T. elicits the example.
II. Dialogue
Rice - cooking festival
Rice cooking
(to cook rice)
Fire - making
(to make a fire)
Water - fetching
(to fetch water)
1. Exercise 2 T/ F statements P- 122
* Corrections
1. Only one team member takes part bin the water fetching contest.
2. One person has to collect one water bottle.
4. Pieces of Bamboo are used to make the fire.
5. In the final contest, the judges taste the rice.
* Grammar drill - Compound Adjectives
Eg:
A rice - cooking festival.
a water - fetching competition
a fix - matching
Article noun + V-ing 
 compound Adjs
Form:
Compound Adjs = noun + v-ing
Post reading 
2. Transformation writing
- Ask students to do exercise on P130 and write their answer on the posters
- T. gives example - Ask students to do individually
- T. corrects later
III. Language focus 3
Answer key:
1. A fire - making contest
2. A bull - fighting festival 3. a car - making industry
4. A flower - arranging contest.
5. A rice - expecting country.
6. a clothes - washing machine.
IV - Summary (2m)
- Repeat the content of the lesson. 
V - Homework. (5m)
- Learn vocabulary
- Write sentences on page 130 LF 3
- Prepare unit 13 lesson 2 Speak - vocabulary
E - Evaluation 
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Date of preparing: / /09
Date of teaching: 8A
 8B
Period 81
Unit13 festival
Lesson 2 Speak P123
A - Aim 
- Practice in talking about preparation for Tet.
- Practice speaking skill. 
- By the end of the lesson, students will be able to practice talking about preparation for Tet.
B - Teaching aids 
- Teacher: Textbook, poster
- Students: pens, books
C – Technique: ROR, mapped dialogue
D - Procedure 
I. Organization (2m) 
Greeting
Names of absents students:
II. Warm up (5m) 
1. Act: 
- Ask students to go to the board and do LF 3 P130
- T. corrects and gives their marks
2. Names of checked students: 
III- New lesson (32m)
Steps
Activities
Content
Pre speaking
I. Pre teaching
1. Ordering
- T. hangs poster on the board and runs through
- Ask students to read the dialogue on page 123 and put the sentences in the corrects order
- T. collects students' ideas on the board.
2. Speaking
- Ask students to use ordering to practice speaking in pairs
I. Speak
- pomegranate (n) quả lựu
* Answer key:
A - F, B- G, C- H, D - J, E - I
A. Have you tidied the bedrooms?
F: Yes, I have. Where are you going, Mom?
C: To the market. I have to buy some oranges and some pomegranates.
H: could you collect my Ao dai at the tailor round the corner?
While speaking Post speaking
3. Mapped dialogue
- T. elicit from students 
D: Sure. I will
J: Thanks, Mom. Is there anything you want me to do while you are out? 
B: Not really. But I want our house to look nice at the festival.
G: Mom, I know what to do now. I'll clean all the glass windows.
E: That's very good. Bye - bye. 
I. Bye, Mom.
K Mrs. Quyen
J Lan
Have  tidied  classroom
  clean  school yard.
We   some marigolds and some roses. 
Some  and a packet of ... ... ... 
 Yes... What   going ... do?
 ... Good idea. What  flowers?
 Is there anything else?
 Good. Let’s do.
- Ask students to practice in pair
- Then call some students to go the board and complete the dialogue.
IV - Summary (2m)
- Repeat the content of the lesson. 
V - Homework. (5m)
- practice speaking the dialogue again
- Prepare unit 13 lesson 3 Listen - vocabulary
E - Evaluation 
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Date of preparing: / /09
Date of teaching: 8A
 8B
Period 82
Unit13 festival
Lesson 3 listen P124
A - Aim 
- Listening for details.
- Practice listening skill. 
- By the end of the lesson, students will be able to listening for details.
B - Teaching aids 
- Teacher: Textbook, poster
- Students: pens, books
C – Technique: Chatting, ROR, Matching, Gap fill
D - Procedure 
I. Organization (2m) 
Greeting
Names of absents students:
II. Warm up (5m) 
1. Act: Chatting
- T. asks students some questions
2. Names of checked students: 
III- New lesson (32m)
Steps
Activities
Content
 Pre listening
I. Pre teaching
(picture)
(real)
(picture)
(Picture) 
* Checking: Matching
- T. hangs poster on the board asks students go to the board and match the English word with suitable meaning 
1. Open prediction
a. Set the scene:
- T. says: The Robinson family is making preparations for Tet. They want to buy some things to make it a traditional festival as Vietnamese do
I. Vocabulary
- peach blossom	(n) Hoa đào
- dried watermelon seed (n) Hạt dưa
- marigold (n) Hoa cức vạn htọ
- spring roll (n) Chả nem
II. Listen P124
1. Gap fill
 While listening Post listening
- T. hangs poster on the board and runs through - Ask students to predict the words in the gaps.
- T. collects on the board
- T. plays the tapes (2 - 3 times)
- Ask students listen checks their predictions
- T. corrects later
2. Matching
- T. hangs poster on the board and runs through
- Give instruction: Ask students use the information taken from the statements to match
- T. collects and checks.
A- Mrs. Robinson wants (1) Mr Robinson to go to the (2) flower market
B- Mrs. Robinson wants some marigolds because they are (3) traditional at Tet.
C- Mrs. Robinson wants Liz to buy a packet of (4)Dried water melon seeds
D- Mrs. Robinson is asking Mrs. Nga how to (5) making spring rolls.
2. Complete the notes
Key:
Mr. Robinson
goes to the flower market to buy peach 
blossoms and a bunch of marigolds
Mrs. Robinson
goes to Mrs. Nga’s house to learn how to
 make spring rolls
Liz. 
goes to the market to buy candies and a 
packet of dried watermelon seeds 
IV - Summary (2m)
- Repeat the content of the lesson. 
V - Homework. (5m)
- Learn vocabulary
- Prepare unit 13 lesson 4 Read - vocabulary
E - Evaluation 
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Date of preparing: / /09
Date of teaching: 8A
 8B
 Period 83
Unit13 festival
Lesson 4 Read P124 - 125
A - Aim 
- Reading for details about Christmas.
- Practice reading skill. 
- By the end of the lesson, students will be able to get more knowledge about Christmas..
B - Teaching aids 
- Teacher: Textbook, poster, pictures
- Students: pens, books
C – Technique: Chatting, Matching, Grid
D - Procedure 
I. Organization (2m) 
Greeting
Names of absents students:
II. Warm up (5m) 
1. Act: Chatting
- T. asks students some questions
1. How long ago did the Christmas tree come to the USA?
2. What is Santa Clause based on?
2. Names of checked students: 
III- New lesson (32m)
Steps
Activities
Content
 Pre reading
I Pre teaching
- T. elicits vocab. from students 
* Checking: ROR
1. Matching
- T. ticks the pictures on the board and runs through all the statements
I. Vocabulary
- speech (v) lan truyền
- Christmas carol (n) Bài hat thánh ca
- patron saint (n) thánh bảo hộ
- decorate (v) trang trí
- jolly (adj) vui nhộn, vui vẻ
- Santa Claus (n) ông già nôen
II. Text
* Poster
1. It has been said he was a patron Saint of the children a fat Jolly man who wore a red suit and gave the children presents on Christmas Eve. 
2. The custom of decorating it and putting it
 While reading Post reading
- Ask students match one statements with a suitable tile - Let's guess in 3 minutes
- Ask students to read 4 text to check their answer
- T. draws the gird on the board
- Ask students to read the text and complete the grid.
into a common place, spread through out Europe to America.
3. They were stories put to music and enjoyed by most people first, the leader of the church did not like them but later they become popular.
4. An English man had someone design it to send Christmas greetings to his friends. Now, It is part of the Christmas.
A. Christmas carol - 3
B. Christmas card - 4
C. Santa Claus - 1
D. Christmas tree - 2
* Grid Exercise 1 P126
Christmas specials
Place or origin
Date
- Christmas tree 
- The Christmas card
- The Christmas carol 
- The Santa Claus 
Riga
England
No. information
USA
Early 1500s
Mid - 19th century
800 years ago
1823
- Ask students to look at the Exercise 2 p126
- T. runs through all the questions
- Ask students to answer the questions individually, then compare with their partners
- Then call some students to answer.
* Comprehension questions
Answer key:
1. More than a century ago.
2. He wanted to send Christmas greetings to his friends.
3. 800 years ago.
4. An American professor named Clement Clarke Moore.
5. On the description of Saint Nicholas in professor Moore's poem.
IV - Summary (2m)
- Repeat the content of the lesson. 
V - Homework. (5m)
- Learn vocabulary; write these answers in their book
- Prepare unit 13 lesson 5 Write - vocabulary
E - Evaluation 
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Date of preparing: / /09
Date of teaching: 8A
 8B
 Period 84
Unit 13 festival
Lesson 5 Write P126 - 127
A - Aim 
- To get students to practice in writing a report.
- Practice writing skill. 
- By the end of the lesson, students will be able to practice writing a repost on a festival they have joined.
B - Teaching aids 
- Teacher: Textbook, chart, pictures
- Students: pens, books
C – Technique: Lucky numbers gap - fill
D - Procedure 
I. Organization (2m) 
Greeting
Names of absents students:
II. Warm up (5m) 
1. Act: Chatting
- T. asks students to go to the board and write vocabulary they have learnt.
- Ask students to retell something about Santa Claus. 
2. Names of checked students: 
III- New lesson (32m)
Steps
Activities
Content
 Pre writing
I. Lucky numbers
- T. writes 9 numbers on the board
- T. divides the class into 2 groups
- Give instruction
- Check and praises the winners
I. Questions
- 3, 5, 8 lucky numbers
1. What do you call the festival where people have to cook rice?
2. How many competitions are there in the rice cooking festival? What are they?
4. What do people use to fetch water fire?
6. Do they use pieces of wood to make fire?
7. What do people have to do before they cook rice? (separate rice from the hush)
9. How many people have to do altogether in a team taking part in the rice - cooking?
II. Writing
1. Write 1 P126 - 127
Answer key:
 While writing Post writing
- Ask students to look at the report P127 and runs through
- Let's copy down the numbers
- Ask students to use the information in the dialogue P121 to complete the report.
- T. collects and checked
- Ask students to write a similar repost on page P127
- Let students to practice speaking first by answering the questions from a - g
- Have students to connect the sentences.
- Ask students to compare their writing
1. Rice - cooking 2. one / a
3. water - fetching 4. run
5. water 6. traditional
7. bamboo 8. six
9. separate 10. added
II. Write 2 P127 (Questions and answer)
Example 
The Perfume Pagoda Festival. This report shows how the perfume pagoda festival is held. The perfume pagoda (Huong festival) and the Houng Tich cave and the famous scenic spots of Vietnam. The Perfume pagoda festival last fro the 6th day of the first month to the end of the 3rd month of the Lunar calendar. The festival is opened on the 6th day of the 1st month of the Lunar calendar. People conduct dragon dance in the yard of Trinh pagoda and sail the royal barge. The festival is held in 3 places: Houng Tich, Tuyet Son, Long Van. The festival is most crowded from the 15th - 20th day of the 2nd month of the Lunar calendar as this periods marks the main festival. The mountainous path leading from" Ngoai" pagoda to "Trong" pagoda is fall of visitors coming up and down. A pilgrimage to the perfume pagoda of not only for religions reasons but also to see the numerous natural shapes that are typical of the landscape and the buildings that are valuable artifacts of the nation.
IV - Summary (2m)
- Repeat the content of the lesson. 
V - Homework. (5m)
- Learn vocabulary; complete their writing on their notebook
- Prepare unit 13 lesson 6 Language focus - vocabulary
E - Evaluation 
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Date of preparing: / /09
Date of teaching: 8A
 8B
 Period 85
Unit 13 festival
Lesson 6 Language P128 -130
A - Aim 
- To get students to practice in reporting what was said and further practice in using the passive forms..
- Practice writing skill. 
- By the end of the lesson, students will be able to use reposted speech and the passive forming the past, present simple and future tense.
B - Teaching aids 
- Teacher: Textbook, chart
- Students: pens, books
C – Technique: write, matching, gap - fill
D - Procedure 
I. Organization (2m) 
Greeting
Names of absents students:
II. Warm up (5m) 
1. Act: 
- T. asks students to give the past participle of the verbs.
1. put
2. write
3. hold
4. make
5. bread
2. Names of checked students: 
III- New lesson (32m)
Steps
Activities
Content
Activity 1
I. Presentation
1. Matching
- T. hangs poster on the board and give instruction
- Ask students to match the tense in column A with suitable form in column B
2. Gap - fill
- Ask students to look at LF 1 P128
I. Language focus
A
1. Present tense
B
a. was / were + P2
2. Past simple
b. have / has been + P2
3. future simple
c. am/ is /are + P2
4. Present simple
d. Will/shall + be + P2
* Exercise P128
 Activity 2 Activity 3
- Ask students fill in the gaps with the right form of the verbs in the box.
- Ask students to work individually.
II. Presentation 
1. Pre teaching
(translation)
(explanation)
(realia)
2. Gap fill
- Ask students to read the dialogue and use the verbs in the box to fill in the gaps with the right form of the verbs
- T. corrects later.
* Set the scene: Yesterday, Lan's grandmother, Mrs. Thu needed a plumber. A man came to her door and said "I'm plumber ..."
- Ask students to write the reported speech
- Ask students to pay attention to the changes in tenses.
Key: 
a. were performed
b. was decorated put
c. is made
d. will be held
e. was awarded
f. was written
II. Language focus 2
1. Vocabulary
- jumble (v)
- scatter (v)
- jar (n)
Key:
1. Jumbled
2. broken
3. broken
4. scatter
5. pulled
III. Language focus 4 P130
Model sentence
Eg: a. "I am a plumber" He said. 
 (direct speech)
à He said he was a plumber.
 (reported speech)
* Tense
Direct speech
Simple present
Will
Have to
 Must
Reposted speech
Past simple
Would
Had to
Had to
- Pronouns: Depend on the "S" of the main clause
* Adverbs of place and time
this
now
here
today
tomorrow
yesterday
ago
that
then
there 
that day
the next day
the day before
before
* Practice
- Ask students to look at LF 4 P130 and do the exercise
- Let students to do individually.
* Transformation writing
Key:
b. He said he could fix the faucets.
c. He said the pipes were broken.
d. He said new pipes were very expensive.
e. He said I had to pay him then.
IV - Summary (2m)
- Repeat the content of the lesson. 
V - Homework. (5m)
- Learn vocabulary; do exercise again
- Prepare unit 14 lesson 1 - vocabulary, exercise 2 P132
E - Evaluation 
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