Giáo án Tiếng Anh 8 - Units 13: Festival

Tiết theo PPCT: 78.
 Unit 13 festivals.
 Lesson 1: - Getting started.
 - Listen and read.
 - Language focus 3.
I. The aims.
- Reading for details about traditional festivals. 
II. The objectives.
- By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to ask for explainations of events. 
III. The ways of working. 
T-whole class, pair work, group work, individual, less controlled...
IV. The materials.
T-book, text book, pictures,...
V. Anticipated problems.
VI. Procedures.
 Teacher’s activities
 Students’ activities
1. Warm up.
* Getting started: Chatting.
- Write the names on the board: Tom, David, Huckleberry, Oliver, Robinson.
- Tell Ss these people are going to go on their visits to VN and they need advance on where to go.
- Introduce the names, one by one.
1. Tom likes swimming and sunbathing.
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 is fond of crowded places.
2. Pre-reading.
1. Pre-teach vocabulary.
(to) fetch.
(to) yell.
(to) urge.
(to) rub.
(to) participant.
(to) award.
* Checking: Rub out and remember.
- Rub out a word in English and point to the Vietnamese translation and ask “What’s this in English?”. When all the English words are rubbed out, go through the Vietnamese list and get Ss to call out the English words. If there’s time, get Ss to come to the blackboard and write the English words again.
2. Open prediction.
- Set the scene: Ba invites his friend Liz to a traditional festival in the North of VN. Do you know what kind of festival it is? (It is the rice-cooking festival).
- Ask Ss to guess what they are going to read by asking questions then write Ss’ answers on he board.
* Suggestions:
a. How many competitions do people enter in a rice-cooking festival?
b. In water-fetching competition, what do people do? How about a fire-making competition? A rice-cooking competition?
3. While-reading.
- Ask Ss to open their books (P. 122), read the dialogue and listen to the tape.
- Play the tape.
- Check if Ss’ guesses are correct or not.
* True or False.
- Ask Ss to read the statements (P. 122) and check (v) the boxes, using the information in the dialogue.
- Get Ss to give their answers and correct the false statements.
- Have Ss copy.
4. Post-reading.
1. Grammar drill: Compound adjectives.
 rice-cooking festival.
 A water-fetching competiton.
 fire-making
* Concept check:
Use: to form a compound adjective.
Form: Noun + Verb-ing.
- Have Ss copy.
2. Transformation drill.
- Diliver posters to Ss.
- Ask Ss to do the exercises (p. 130) and write their answers on the posters.
- Have Ss put their posters on the board.
- Give feedback and correct.
* Checking: Rub out and remember.
(to) fetch. 
(to) yell.
(to) urge.
(to) rub.
(to) participant.
(to) award.
- Open the books (P. 122), read the dialogue and listen to the tape.
- Read the statements (P. 122) and check (v) the boxes, using the information in the dialogue.
- Give their answers and correct the false statements.
* Answer key:
a. False (Only one team member takes part in the water-fetching contest).
b. False (One person has to collect one water bottle).
c. True.
d. False (Pieces of bamboo are used to make the fire).
e. False (In the final contest, the judges taste the rice.
f. True.
- Do the exercises (p. 130) and write their answers on the posters.
- Put their posters on the board.
* Answer key:
a. A fire-making contest.
b. A bull-fighting festival.
c. A ccar-making industry.
d. A flower-arranging contest.
e. A rice-exporting country.
f. A clothes-washing machine.
VII. Homework.
- LF 3: write the sentences and rewrite them using compound adjectives.