Giáo án Tiếng Anh 8 - Units 13: Festival

Date of preparing: March, 8th, 2012
Date of teaching: March, 12th, 2012
 UNIT 13: FESTIVALS
 Lesson 1: Getting started & Listen and read
I. Aims:
- Students practice listening and reading.
II. Objectives:
After the lesson, students will be able to read for the details to understand and talk about the Vietnamese traditional festivals (Rice- cooking festival).
Skills: Listening and reading
Sub- skill: Speaking
Lexical items:
+ Vocabularies: Rice- cooking festival, competition, water- fetching, fire- making, starting position, upset, yell, teammate, participate, husk, separate, judge, award, council.
+ Structures: - Compound words: Adjective compound= N+ V-ing.
III. Teaching aid needed:
Textbook, chalk, broad.
Projector
IV. Procedure
Stage
Activities
Work Arrangement
1. Warm up
 7’
2.Presentation
 10’
3. Practice 
 22’
4. Production
 5’
5. Homework:
 1’
* Chatting:
-Good morning!
First of all, let’s me introduce myself. 
My name is Nguyen Thi Hong.
Today, I’m very happy to be here and
welcome to Mrs. Mai and many English teachers to our class. Clap your hand, please!
Yes. Thank you.
- T asks Ss: Do you want to play a game?
Game: Matching
Ok. I have a situation: I have 5 friends. They are foreigners and they are going to visit Viet Nam. However, each person has his/ her own hobby and they need my suggestions. 
- T asks Ss to look at on the screen. Now, tell me how many pictures are there?
Yes. Let’s match to have correct answers.
-T calls on Ss. 
- T checks and gives keys:
1- b
2- c 
3- a
4- d
5- e
- Let’s make the dialogue, I have an example: 
A. Tom likes swimming and sunbathing, so where should he go?
B. He should go to Nha Trang
A. Why?
B. Because, it has many beautiful beaches.
- T asks Ss to work in pairs (2 minutes) to practice as the example.
- T calls on some pairs to practice.
- T says: “Last week, we have finished unit 12, today we will move to unit 13”
- T asks Ss to look at the pictures:
 + What is this?
 + What does this mean?
-T says: Now, let’s start our lesson. We will find out the rice- cooking festival.
 + What is the date today?
- T asks Ss answer:
+ Open your book page 121.
+ To help you more understand this lesson, I will give you some new words: 
I. New words:
- T gives new words and asks Ss listen and repeat.
+ Festival (n): Lễ hội (picture)
+ Rice- cooking festival (n): Lễ hội nấu cơm (picture: What is this?) 
+ competition (n)= contest (n): cuộc thi
+ water- fetching (n): lấy nước (picture: What are they doing?)
+ fire- making (n): nhóm lửa (picture: What are they doing?)
+ starting position (n): điểm xuất phát (picture: What is this?)
+ yell (v): La hét
+ teammate (n): Đồng đội (we are classmates, so what does teammate mean?)
+ separate st from (v): Tách
+ husk (n): vỏ trấu 
+ judge (n): Ban giám khảo (picture: Who are they?)
+ award (v): trao, tặng (picture: What is he doing?)
+ council (n): Hội đồng
- T asks some Ss read again.
- T requires all whole class repeat loudly.
II. Structures:
1. Compound word: Compound- adjective (C -Adj)
- T gives an example: “Thanks for inviting me to the rice- cooking festival, Ba.”
+ Form: C- Adj= N+ V-ing
+ Use: to form a compound noun. 
2. -T asks Ss to work in pairs (1 minute) to match noun with V- ing to make the compound nouns.
1. Rice a. cooking
2. Fire b. fetching
3. Water c. making
4. English d. exporting
5. Coffee e. speaking
- T calls on Ss answer: 
* Key:
a
c
b 
e
d
- T plays the tape- students listen to the tape.
- T asks students to read the text after the teacher.
- Students work in pairs to practice the text in 2 minutes.
- T gets 1 pair to read the text again.
* Ex1: True or False: 
- T asks students to give answers.
- T requires students to read silently, then asks Ss to give correct answers.
a.Two team member take part in the water-fetching contests.
b, One person has to collect four water bottles.
c, The fire is made without matches or lighters.
d, Pieces of wood are used to make the fire.
e, In the final contest, the team members taste the rice.
f, The grand prize is given to the team with the most points.
- T calls on students.
- T checks and gives correct answers.
- Key: 
a. F
b. F
c. T
d. F
e. F
f. T
- T asks Ss to do ex2:
Ex2: Answer these questions:
a. Who invited Liz to the rice- cooking festival?
b. How many competitions are there in the rice- cooking festival? 
c. How did they make a fire?
d. How do the judges decide who wins the rice- cooking contest?
- T asks Ss to work in pairs to answer 5 questions about the festivals.
- T calls on Ss answer
- T checks and gives the key.
Ba invited Liz to the rice- cooking festival.
There are 3 competitions: water- fetching, fire- making, and rice- cooking.
They made a fire by rubbing pieces of bamboo together.
The judges try the finished products and the most delicious rice is the winner.
EX3: Complete the passage:
There are three competitions in a rice – cooking festival :(1)  , fire – making and rice –cooking .In the water – fetching contest one person from each team had to (2)  to the river to get the water. In the (3)  contest two team members had to make a fire in the (4)  way. They tried to rub pieces of (5) together to make the fire. (6)  people from each team took part in the rice – cooking contest. They had to (7) the rice from the husk and then (8) .. .the rice.
-T asks Ss to fill the best word in the blank.
- T calls on Ss: Who can tell me?
- T checks the key
Key:
1. water- fetching 5. bamboo
2. run 6. six
3. fire- making 7.separate
4. traditional 8.cook
 Learn by heart the new words.
Read and translate the text into Vietnamese.
Do Ex3 (page 111)
Be ready for lesson 2 “speaking”
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V. Evaluation:
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