Giáo án Tiếng Anh 8 - Units 13: Festival - Đặng Hồng Liên - Tan Lam High School

Date: 	 Unit 13: Festivals 	 	 Period 78: Listen and Read
LESSON PLAN
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	A. OBJECTIVES:
	I. Knowledge: Ss will be able to ask for explanations of events
	II. Skills: Speaking, writing, reading
	B. PROCEDURE:
	I. Settlement: Checking attendance
	II. Checking: 
 	III. New lesson: Listen and Read
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
1. Warm up / Marks (8 minutes)
Ø Chatting: 
Tom, David, Huckleberry, Oliver, Robinson
- T. writes the names on the board
- Tell Ss these people are going to go on their visits to Vietnam and they need advice on where to go
- Introduce the names, one by one
1/ Tom likes swimming and sunbathing
 à Where should he go?  Why? 
2/ David is interested in ancient citiesà?
3/ Huckleberry likes mountain – climbing 
à ?
4/ Oliver is keen on potteryà ?
5/ Robinson is fond of crowed placesà ?
Listen to the teacher
Answer the questions
1. He should go to Nha Trang.
2. He should go to Hue.
3. He should go to Cuc Phuong National Park 
4. He should go to Bat Trang.
5. He should go to HCM city.
2. Presentation (15 minutes)
Ø Pre-teach vocabulary:
- T. presents some new words
+ fetch (v) : to go to get (sth) and bring it
+ yell (v) : to shout loudly
+ urge (v) : make a person / an animal move more quickly
+ rub (v)
+ participate = to take part (in sth)
à participation (n)
+ award (v)
 He is the winner of the competition. They (award) him the first prize)
- T. checks vocabulary
ØWhat and where
- T. set the scene: “Ba invites his friend Liz to a traditional festival in the North of Vietnam.”
 -T. asks Ss to guess what they are going to read by asking questions
ØSuggestions:
+ Do you know what kind of festival it is?
+ How many competitions do people enter in a rice-cooking festival?
+ In water-fetching festival competition, what do people do?
-Ss repeat and say the meaning
-Ss copy
+ It is the rice-cooking festival
+ There are three competitions: water-fetching, fire-making and rice-cooking
- Ss open their books, read the dialogue and listen to the tape
3. Practice (10 minutes)
ØTrue or false
- Ask Ss to read the statements and check (ü) the boxes, using the information in the dialogue
- Ss work in pairs and correct the false sentences
 * Answer key:
F à Only one team member takes part in the water-fetching contest
F à One person has to collect one water bottle
T
F à Pieces of bamboo are used to make the fire
F à In the final contest, the judges taste the rice
T
4. Consolidation (10 minutes)
ØLanguage focus 3:
- Deliver posters to Ss
- Ask Ss to do exercise on page 130 and write their answers on the posters
- Correcting
- Ss work in pairs / groups
 * Answer key:
It is a fire-making contest
It is a bull-fighting fighting festival
The US has a big car-making industry
Last week Tran Hung Dao school held a flower-arranging contest
Vietnam is a rice-exporting country
This is a clothes-washing machine
	IV. Consolidation: 
 	V. Homework: 	- Learn new words, do exercises again
- Do exercise 3 in workbook
- Prepare: Lesson 2: Speak + Listen
Date: 	 Unit 13: Festivals 	 	Period 79: Speak + Listen
LESSON PLAN
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	A. OBJECTIVES:
	I. Knowledge: Ss will be able to talk about their preparation for a special event
	II. Skills: Speaking, Listening, Writing
	B. PROCEDURE:
	I. Settlement: Checking attendance
	II. Checking: New words
 	III. New lesson: Speak + Listen
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
1. Warm up /Mark (5 minutes)
ØFind things in common
decorate the room/ yard buy cakes
Tet Holiday
Paint the house 
 buy new dress
 Send New Year cards to friends
- T. asks Ss to think of 5 things they often prepare for Tet Holiday
- T. remarks and gives marks to Ss
- Ss write them on the board
2. Pre-listening (10 minutes)
ØSpeak 1
íPre-teach vocabulary
- T. presents vocabulary
+ pomegranate (n): quaû löïu
+ peach blossoms (n) quaû ñaøo
+ marigolds (n) cuùc vaïn thoï
+ dried watermelon seed: haït döa
+ spring rolls (n) chaû gioø
íChecks vocabulary
- What and where
íOrdering
- Ask Ss to read the dialogue on page 123 and put the sentences in correct order
-Ss work in pairs
-Calls some pairs to give their answer
- Ss repeat
- Ss join the game
*Answer key:
 A à F D à J
 B à G E à I
 C à H
3. While-speaking (20 minutes)
ØMapped dialogue
Mrs Quyen
Lan
A: You/ tidied/ bedroom?
B: Market/ have to/ oranges/ pomegranates
C: Sure/ will
D: not really/ that/ want house/ look nice/ festival
E: That/ very good. Bye
1. Yes/ where/ going/
2. Could/ collect/ new Ao Dai tailor/ corner?
3. Thanks/ anything/ want/ me/ do/ while/ out/?
4. Mom/ I/ what/ do now/ will/ clean/ glass windows
5. Bye
- T. puts the chart with the cues on the board
- Elicit the exchanges from Ss
-T. calls some pairs to practice each exchange before going on to another exchange
í Speak 2
 a village festival
 a school festival
 a spring festival
 a harvest festival
 a flower festival
- Ask Ss choose one of the festival (page 123) and make up their own dialogues
- Then T. calls on some pairs to demonstrate their dialogues before the class
í Listen
 Gap-fill prediction
-T. set the scene
“The Robinson family is making preparations for Tet. They want to buy things to make it a traditional festival as Vietnamese people do”
-Ask Ss to open their books and read the statements on page 124
-Ss predict the words in the gaps play the tape (2 or 3 times)
-Then correct
4. Post-listening (8 minutes)
 Ø Things to do
- Ask Ss to copy the grid (page 124) and fill in the gaps with the information taken from the statements above
- Call on some Ss to give their answers
- Ss work in pairs
- Ss work in pairs
* Answer keys:
Mr Robinson/ Flower market
Traditional
Dried watermelon seeds
Make spring rolls
* Answer keys:
Mr Robinson
 Go to the flower market to buy peach blossom and a bunch of marigolds
Mrs Robinson
 Go to Mrs Nga’s to learn how to make spring rolls
Liz
 Go to the market to buy candies and a packet of dried watermelon seeds
	IV. Consolidation: 
 	V. Homework: 	- Learn new words
- Do exercises in workbook
- Prepare: Read
Date: 	 	Unit 13: Festivals	 	Period 80: Read
LESSON PLAN
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	A. OBJECTIVES:
	I. Knowledge: Ss will be get some knowledge about Christmas
	II. Skills: Speaking, Writing, Reading
	B. PROCEDURE:
	I. Settlement: Checking attendance
	II. Checking: New words
 	III. New lesson: Read
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
1. Warm up (5 minutes)
-T. teaches Ss an English Christmas song
Ex: Silent night, I wish you a merry Christmas 
-Ask Ss to listen to the tape and sing along
2. Pre-reading (10 minutes)
Ø Pre-teach vocabulary
-T. presents new words
+ spread (v) (to cover a larger and larger area).
" to spread " spread " spread
+ Christmas carol (n) 
(Silent night is a Christmas carol)
+ patron saint (n)
+ jolly (adj) happy and cheerful
-T. check vocabulary holding class to play “Jumbled words”
ØJumbled words
pdsear
Tansa aucls
a. d. 
codraete
yljol
b. e. 
ontrpatsian
locra
c. f. 
3. While-reading (15 minutes)
-Ask Ss to open their books and read the paragraphs on page 124/ 125
-Draw the grid on the board and have Ss copy it
-Ask Ss to read the paragraph again and complete the grid
-Give feedback and correct
4. Post-reading (10 minutes)
-Ask Ss to answer the questions
-T. corrects and gives answers
*Answer key:
 a. Santa Claus	d. spread
 b. jolly 	e. decorate
 c. carol	f. patron said
*Answer key
Christmas specials
Place of origin
Date
The Christmas tree
Riga
Early 1500s
The Christmas Cards
England
Mid -19th century
The Christmas Carol
No information
800 years ago
Santa Claus
USA
1823
-Ss work in pairs
*Answer key:
a. More then two centuries ago
b. Because wanted to send Christmas greetings to his friends
c. 800 years ago
d. An American professor named Clement Clarke Moore
e. On the description of Saint Nicholas in professor Moore’s poem
	IV. Consolidation: 
 	V. Homework: 	- Rewrite the answers in their notebooks
- Learn the worlds
- Write it up: Use the information in the grid to write the brief paragraphs
- Prepare: Lesson 4: Write
Date: 	Unit 13: Festivals	 Period 81: Write
LESSON PLAN
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	A. OBJECTIVES:
	I. Knowledge: Ss practice in writing a report on a festival they have joined
	II. Skills: Writing
	B. PROCEDURE:
	I. Settlement: Checking attendance
	II. Checking: Answer the questions
 	III. New lesson: Write
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
1. Warm up/ Marks 
ØMemory game
- T. shows the photocopied picture to Ss and ask them to observe it carefully
- Let Ss look at the picture for about 20’’ then put it away
- T. asks Ss to listen to the questions
1/ How many people are there in the picture?
 What are they doing?
2/ Name all the things in the picture
- T. puts the picture on the board again
- Give feedback and correct
2. Pre-writing (15 minutes)
Ø Lucky numbers
- Write 9 numbers on the board from 1 to 9
- Tells Ss each number is for a question but 3 of them are lucky numbers
- If Ss choose a lucky number, they don’t have to answer any questions 
- Divide the class into 2 teams
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?
3/ Lucky number
4/ What do people use to fetch water? 
5/ Lucky number
6/ Do they use pieces of wood to make fire?
7/ What do people have to do before they cook the rice? 
8/ Lucky number
9/ How many people are there altogether in a team taking part in the rice-cooking festival?
3. While-writing 
ØGap-fill
-T. asks Ss to use the information in the dialogue on page 121 to fill in the gaps in the report on page 127
-T. corrects and remarks
4. Post-writing
ØQuestions and answers
- Ask Ss to write a similar report on a festival they’ve joined recently
- T. has Ss connect the sentences to make it a report
- Monitor and help Ss with their work
- Call on some Ss to read their reports aloud
- Ss answer
*Answer key:
1/ They are participating in the rice-cooking competition
2/ Rice, basket, pans, bamboo sticks, paper fans, chopsticks, a flag
Team work
*Answer key:
1. The rice cooking festival
2. Three: water-fetching, fire-making and rice-cooking
4. bottles
6. No, pieces of bamboo
7. separate the rice from the husk 
9. Nine: one for water-fetching, two for fire-making and six for rice-cooking
- Ss work in pairs
*Answer key:
1/ rice-cooking 6/ traditional
2/ one/ a 7/ bamboo
3. water-fetching 8/ six
4/ run 9/ separate
5/ water 10/ added
- Ss look at the questions and practice speaking first by answering the questions from a " g
	IV. Consolidation: 
 	V. Homework: 	- Write your report in your notebooks
- Do exercises in workbook and prepare: Language Focus 1, 2, 4
Date: 	Unit 13: Festivals	 	Period 82: Language Focus
LESSON PLAN
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	A. OBJECTIVES:
	I. Knowledge: Ss will be able to use reported speech and the passive in the past, present and future tense
	II. Skills: Speaking, Writing
	B. PROCEDURE:
	I. Settlement: Checking attendance
	II. Checking: Read your report on a festival
 	III. New lesson: Language Focus
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
* Warm up/ Marks (3 minutes)
ØPelmanism:
Infinitive
Past participle
 Put
 Write
 Hold
 Make
 Break
 Put
 Written
 Held
 Made
 Broken
- T. prepares 11 cardboards, numbered from 1 to 11 on one side and the words on the other side
- Divide the class into 2 teams and ask each team to choose 2 numbers, one in the first row, if the words in both cards match in sequence of an infinitive with its past participle, this team will get a point
à Language Focus 1
1. Pre-teach (5 minutes)
ØMatching
 The passive form
A
B
Tenses
Form
1. Present Simple
2. Past simple
3. Future simple
4. Present perfect
a. was/ were + PP
b. have/ has been +PP
c. Is/ am/ are + PP
d. will/ shall + be + PP
- Ask Ss to match the words in column A with the forms in column B
- Call Ss to give their answers
- T. corrects
- Have Ss copy
2. Practice (10 minutes)
ØGap-fill
- Ask Ss to look at language focus 1 on page 128
- Have Ss fill in the gaps with the right form of the verbs in the box
- Call on some Ss to write their answers (only the verb forms)
- T. corrects
à Language focus 2
1/ Pre-teach vocabulary (5 minutes)
- T. presents new words
+ jumble (v)
+ scatter (v) (to throw things everywhere on the ground)
+ jar (n) (drawing/ realia)
+ pull (v)
- Ss repeat and say the meaning
2/ Practice (5 minutes)
— Gap-fill
- Ask Ss to look at language focus 2 on page 128 and 129 and fill in the gaps with the right form of the verbs in the box
- Correcting
à Language focus 4 (10 minutes)
1/ Pre-teach
- T. sets the scene
- Then write the quoted speech on the board
He said, “I’m a plumber”
 (quoted/ direct speech)
— Model sentence: reported speech
 He said he was a plumber
- T. explains and asks Ss to pay attention to the changes in: 
j Tenses
Direct speech
Reported speech
 Present simple
 Will
 Must
" Past simple
" Would
" Had to
k Pronouns (depending on the subject of the main clause)
l Adverbs of place and time
 This " that
 Now " then
 Here " there
 Today " that day
 Tomorrow " the next day
 Yesterday " the day before
 Ago " before
2/ Practice
— Transformation drill
- Ask Ss to look language focus 4 on page 130 and do the exercise
- Correcting
* Communicative activity: (5 minutes)
a. The children said, “We are waiting for the school bus” 
" The children said 
b. Nobody has used this machine for years 
" This machine 
c. The last time I played tennis was in 1990 
" I haven’t 
Play the game
Team work
- Ss work in pairs
*Answer key:
 1. c 2. a 3. d 4.b
- Ss work in pairs
*Answer key:
 a. were performed 
 b. was decorated/ put
 c. is made
 d. will be held
 e. was awarded
 f. was written
Copy down
*Answer key:
 1. jumbled	 4. scattered
 2. broken	5. pull
 3. broken
Listen to the teacher
*Answer 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 Mrs. Thu had to pay him then
- Ss rewrite the sentences, remember to keep the meaning unchanged
a. The children said they were waiting for the school bus.
b. This machine hasn’t been used for years.
c. I haven’t played tennis since 1990.
	IV. Consolidation: 
 	V. Homework: Learnt by heart the words, grammar. Do exercise and prepare: Unit 14: Lesson 1: Getting started + Listen and read