Giáo án Tiếng Anh 8 - Units 14: Wonders of the world

Date of preparing: / /09
Date of teaching: 8A
 8B
 Period 86
Unit 14 wonder of the world
Lesson 1 Getting started- Listen and Read P131 -132
A - Aim 
- To get students to practice in reading to seek information.
- Practice reading and speaking skills. 
- By the end of the lesson, students will be able to seek information about a language a game to complete a summary.
B - Teaching aids 
- Teacher: Textbook, picture, poster
- Students: pens, books
C – Technique: Gap fill, Ordering
D - Procedure 
I. Organization (2m) 
Greeting
Names of absents students:
II. Warm up (5m) 
1. Act: 
- Ask students to change these sentences into indirect speech
1. He said "I can fix the faucets".
2. Nam said "I am a student".
2. Names of checked students: 
III- New lesson (32m)
Steps
Activities
Content
Pre reading
I. Pre teaching
- Ask students to look at the pictures on P131 and do the matching.
- Check students if they know where in which country these wonder
1. Ordering
a. Set the scene: Nga, Nhi, and Hoax are playing a Language game called guessing games.
How does this game?
- rearrange the statements in the rights order of the game.
I. Getting started
* Wonders of the world.
Key:
a. The pyramid
b. Sydney opera House
c. Stone change
* How to play the guessing game
a. A Ask a question to find out who or what is.
b. B Thinks of a famous person or place.
c. A Wins if he/ she can guess the corrected answers.
 While reading Post reading
- Ask students to answer the order and call some students to give their guess.
- Ask students to read the dialogue P131- 132 and check if students guess are right or not.
2. Gap fill
- Ask students to read the dialogue again and complete the summary 2 P132
- T. elicits the target language by asking students a question in Vietnamese.
- T. asks some questions to elicit the from
* Matching:
- Ask students to read the summary again
- Ask students to match the words with the explanation
d. B Gives A a clue.
e. A Loves if he / she can not guess the correct answer.
f. B Can only answer "Yes" or "No".
II. Dialogue - P131 - 132
Key: 1b, 2d, 3a, 4f, 5c, 6e
* Complete the summary
Answer key:
1. game, 2. place, 3. clue, 4. Vietnam,, 
5. America, 6. golden, 7. right, 8. was
* Grammar Awareness
Model sentence
I don't know how to pay it.
* Concept check
S + V - question word + to-infinitive 
- Use: Reduce from of an direct question
Eg: I don't know how I can play it
 to play it.
Tell me where I can go during the visit.
 to go during the visit.
A
1. suggest (v)
2. golden (adj)
3. clue (adj)
4. bored (adj)
B
a. a piece of information that help you discover the answer to guest
b. what you often feel when you have nothing to do
c. made of gold
d. made of suggestion
* Key: 1.d 2. c 3. a 4. b
IV - Summary (2m)
- Repeat the content of the lesson. 
V - Homework. (5m)
- Learn vocabulary; do exercise again
- Prepare unit 14 lesson 2 Speak and Listen - vocabulary
E - Evaluation 
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Date of preparing: / /09
Date of teaching: 8A
 8B
 Period 87
Unit 14 wonder of the world
Lesson 2 Speak and Listen P132 -133
A - Aim 
- To get students to practice in recognizing and correcting mistakes
- Practice in asking and answering questions about places and how to report them
- Practice listening and speaking skills. 
- By the end of the lesson, students will be able to make a report on famous places using reported speech
B - Teaching aids 
- Teacher: Textbook, Tape, poster
- Students: pens, books
C – Technique: ROR, matching
D - Procedure 
I. Organization (2m) 
Greeting
Names of absents students:
II. Warm up (5m) 
1. Act: 
- Ask students to go to the board and write the vocabulary they have learnt
2. Names of checked students: 
III- New lesson (32m)
Steps
Activities
Content
Pre listening
I Pre teaching
(translation)
(realia)
* Checking: ROR
- Let's copy down
1. Set the scene:
- T. says: you are going to listen to an advertisement on the tape. There are 4 mistakes in the advertisements in your books
- T. asks - What are they?
- Ask students to read the advertisements in their books in 3 minutes
I. Vocabulary
- relaxing (adj) thư giãn
- crystal clear (adj) trong suốt (như pha lê)
- snorkel (v) bơi lặn có sử dụng bình dưỡng khí
- coral (v) san hô
II. Listen - P133
While listening Pre speaking While speaking
- T. collects students' ideas
- Ask students to listen and check the guess
1. Matching
- T. hangs poster on the board and ask students to look at the names of the famous places in the box P133
- T. collects students' ideas and check
2. Questions and answer
- Ask students to write "Yes/ No" questions about 6 - 10 places in the box, using the information in matching
* Key: 1. Far north
 2. Hotel
 3. rain forest
 4. 6924
III. Speaking
* Poster
1. It was designed and built by the French Civil engineer with 300 ms in height.
2. It is in South Central Asia, 8848 meters high above sea level.
3. It was built from 264 - 209 BC and some people say it can be seen from the moon.
4. It is a bell sticking the hours in the clock
Tower of the house of Parliament in London.
5. It is a skyscraper in Manhattan, New York City.
6. It is a famous place in Quang Binh province, recognized as a world Heritage Site by Unessco. 
* Key: 1. Eiffel Tower
 2. Mount Everest
 3. Great wall of China
 4. Big Ben
 5. Empire State building in USA
 6. Phong Nha Cave
* Speaking
- Suggested question
1. Have they just built the Eiffel Tower in Paris?
2. Is the Empire State building located in New York City?
3. Is the Great wall of China seen from the moon?
4. Are the Petronas Twin Towers located in Malaysia?
5. Have you ever seen Mount Rushmore?
6. Is Mount Everest in Nepal?
 Production
1. Set the scene:
- T. Is the Citadel in The Central Vietnam?
Students: Yes, it is.
- Ask students to listen
I asked Lan If Hue Citadel was the Central Vietnam.
She said (that) It was 
- T. asks students some questions to elicit the form
- Ask students to write note
- Ask students to write 10 indirect questions
* Grammar drill
* Model sentence
I said to Lan "Is Hue Citadel in the Central Vietnam. (Yes /No- question: direct speech)
àI asked Lan
Main clause 
If the Citadel was in the Central Vietnam.
(indirect (Y/N) question)
* Concept check
- Indirect: Yes/ No - question
- Form: S + V + O If/ whether + S + V
- Use: To say - To talk/ want to know
- If the verb in the main clause is past tense, the tense in the indirect question must be exchange
* Note
Direct question
Present simple
Past simple
Present perfect
Indirect question
 Past simple
 Past perfect
 Past perfect
IV - Summary (2m)
- Repeat the content of the lesson. 
V - Homework. (5m)
- Learn vocabulary; complete exercise and find out pictures of wonders of the world
- Prepare unit 14 lesson 3 Read - vocabulary
E - Evaluation 
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Date of preparing: / /09
Date of teaching: 8A
 8B
 Period 88
Unit 14 wonder of the world
Lesson 3 Read P134
A - Aim 
- Reading for details about the wonders of the world
- Practice reading skill. 
- By the end of the lesson, students will be able to get more knowledge about the wonders of the world
B - Teaching aids 
- Teacher: Textbook, pictures, poster
- Students: pens, books
C – Technique: ROR, hangman
D - Procedure 
I. Organization (2m) 
Greeting
Names of absents students:
II. Warm up (5m) 
1. Act: Hangman
- Draw strokes on the board. Each stroke stands
for a letter of the word
- Students take turn to guess the letters of the word
- If a student's guess is not right, the teacher draws
a stroke ( according to the order in the picture )
- If students guess wrong eight times, they lose. 
Teacher gives the answer.
"coral, crystal clear, snorkel"
2. Names of checked students: 
III- New lesson (32m)
Steps
Activities
Content
Pre reading
I Pre teaching
(Translation)
* Checking: ROR
- Let's copy down
I. Vocabulary
- compile (v) biên soạn, tập hợp
- claim (v) khẳng định
- honor = to show respect danh dự, địa vị
- God (male) Vị thần
- Goddess (Female)
- religion (n) tôn giáo
- royal (adj) hoàng tộc, hoàng gia
- religious (adj) thuộc tôn giáo 
II. Text - P134
 While reading Post reading
1. T / F statement prediction
- T. hangs poster on the board and runs through
- Give instruction: Ask students to read all the statements and decide if the statements are T / F
- T. collects students' ideas on the board
- Ask students to read the text and check their prediction
- Ask students to read the text again and correct the false statements
2. Multiple choice
- Ask students to look at exercise P134 and runs through
- Gives instruction: ask students choose the best answers to complete the sentences 
- Students work in groups of 4 
students 
- T. collects and checks
- T. draws the table on the board and asks students to copy down.
- Ask students to read the text and fill in the grid
- Ask students work individually
- Then call some students to go to the board and write
- T. corrects later
* Poster
1. An Egyptian man compiled a list of what He thought were the seven wonders of the world.
2. The only surviving wonder is the Pyramid of cheeps in Egypt.
3. Today, we can still see the Hanging Gardens of Babylon in present day Iraq.
4. Angkor Wat was originally built to honor a Hindu God.
5. The Great Wall of China first wasn't in the list of the 7 wonders of the world.
6. In the early 15th century, the Khmer King chose Angkor War as the new capital.
Key: 1F 2T 3F 4T 5T 6F
* Correction
1. A Greek man named Antipater did it.
3. The only surviving wonder is the Pyramid of Cheops in Egypt.
6. In the early 15th century, the Khmer King chose Phnom Penh as the new capital.
* Complete the sentences P134
* Key: a. C b.A c. D d. B
* Grid
Wonders of the world
Country
1. Hanging gardens of Babylon
2. Statue of Zeus
3. Pyramid of Cheops
4. Great wall
5. Taj Mahal
6. Angkor wat 
I rap
Greece
Egypt
China
India
Camnodia
IV - Summary (2m)
- Repeat the content of the lesson. 
V - Homework. (5m)
- Learn vocabulary; do exercise in the workbook
- Prepare unit 14 lesson 4 Write - vocabulary
E - Evaluation 
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Date of preparing: / /09
Date of teaching: 8A
 8B
 Period 89
Unit 14 wonder of the world
Lesson 4 Write P135
A - Aim 
- Practice in writing a letter to a friend
- Practice writing skill. 
- By the end of the lesson, students will be able to write a letter to a friend about a place they have visited
B - Teaching aids 
- Teacher: Textbook, poster
- Students: pens, books
C – Technique: ROR
D - Procedure 
I. Organization (2m) 
Greeting
Names of absents students:
II. Warm up (5m) 
1. Act: 
- Ask students to retell the names of wonders of the world you have learnt from the text
2. Names of checked students: 
III- New lesson (32m)
Steps
Activities
Content
Pre writing
I. Pre teaching
(a person who takes care of a park)
(synonym: very exiting)
* Checking: ROR
1. Insertion
- Ask students to read the letter Tim sent to Hoa about his trip to the Grand canyon P135
- Ask students to complete letter by inserting the letter of the missing sentences (A, B, C or D)
- Ask students to work in pair
- Let's do it in 3 minutes
- T. calls students to read their letters
* Set the scene: Imagine you have visited a place recently 
- Write a letter to a friend of yours and tell him / her about this place
- Ask students to look at outline 
I. Vocabulary
- ranger (n) kiểm lâm
- edge (n) rìa, mép
- canyon (n) hẻm núi
- breathing (adj) hấp dẫn
- temperate (adj) điều hoà, ôn hoà
- Stone age (n) thời kì quá độ 
II. Write
1. Exercise 1 P135
* Key: 1.C 2.B 3.D 4.A
2. Write 2 P135
* Suggested letter
May 6. 2008
Dear Lan,
How are you? I hope you are studying hard for your exams next month.
I am writing this letter to tell you that I 
While writing Post writing
and read 
- Then ask some questions about something they have done first
- Then ask students to write letter in their notebooks.
* Interview
- T. asks students use the outline on the board and the information in their letters to make an interview
have just returned from a trip to Ha Long Bay with my family. The sight was very beautiful.
It took us three or four hours by car to get there from Ha Noi. We spent 2 weeks. The weather was perfect. It was sunny, cool and windy. We enjoyed walking along the seaside at night very much. It was really interesting when we knew about the legends of Ha Long Bay. We really want to come back there when we have time next year.
How are you getting with your study at home? Where are you going for your holiday? Let me know.
Love
Nga,
* Question
1. Where have you just visited?
2. How far is it?
3. How did you get there?
4. What is it like? Is it beautiful?
5. How about the weather?
6. How did you feel?
IV - Summary (2m)
- Repeat the content of the lesson. 
V - Homework. (5m)
- Learn vocabulary; complete their writing in your note book
- Prepare unit 14 lesson 5 language focuses - vocabulary
E - Evaluation 
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Date of preparing: / /09
Date of teaching: 8A
 8B
 Period 90
Unit 14 wonder of the world
Lesson 5 Language focus P136
A - Aim 
- Further practice in reported speech and the passive
- Practice writing and speaking skills. 
- By the end of the lesson, students can report what people ask and answer about one of the world cultural Heritage of Vietnam
B - Teaching aids 
- Teacher: Textbook, poster
- Students: pens, books
C – Technique: Bingo, matching
D - Procedure 
I. Organization (2m) 
Greeting
Names of absents students:
II. Warm up (5m) 
1. Act: Bingo
- T. gives instruction: Ask students to write 6 words they have learnt in unit 14
- T. reads: temperate, breathing, royal, religious, canyon, pyramid, edge, god, jungle, compile
2. Names of checked students: 
III- New lesson (32m)
Steps
Activities
Content
 Activity 1 
I. Revision
- Ask students to retell the form of the passive in the past simple tense
1. Practice
- Ask students to look at exercise 1 P136 and runs through
- Ask students choose the right verbs then use the passive form of the verbs in the simple
2. Production
- T. hangs poster on the board
- Give instruction: Ask students 
I. Language focus 1 
- Form: S + was / were + P2
* Exercise 1 P136
Key:
a. was completed
b. was constructed
c. was designed 
d. was presented
e. was reached
 Activity 2 Activity 3
to match the right words in column A with suitable meaning in column B
II. Presentation
1. Set the scene: Nga answered Nhi's questions
- T. gives models on the board
* Practice
- Ask students to write individually
- Then call some students to go to the board and write 
- T. corrects later
- T. gives model sentence on the board
- T. asks students some questions
* Practice
- Ask students to compare the passage on P137 with the right of verbs
- Ask students to do with partner
A
1. construct (v)
2. design (v)
3. summit (n)
4. guide (n)
5. explanation (n)
B
a. thiết kế
b. đoàn thám hiểm
c. xây dung
d. hướng dẫn viên
e. đỉnh núi
* Key: 1c, 2a, 3e, 4d, 5b
II. Language focus 3 P137
Model sentences
a. Tell / how / go there
àNga told Nhi how to go there
 S V (Sb) - question word + to-inf
* Writing drill
b. Nga showed Nhi where to get tickets.
c. Nha pointed out Nhi where to buy souvenirs.
d. Nga advised Nhi how to go from My Son to Hoi An.
e. Nga told Nhi what to do there during the visit.
III. Language focus 4 P137
1. I want to go out at weekends.
 V + to-inf
2. He enjoys swimming very much.
 V + V-ing
3. He can speak many languages.
(modal verbs + V- (bare verb)
* Concept check
1. Form: S + V+ to infinitive
- Use: Most of the verb in English are followed by a infinitive 
2. Form: S + V + V-ing
- Some use as: enjoy, start, keep, begin, advise 
3. Form: S + model verb + Infinitive
- Model verb: can, could, will, may, might...
Key: 1. to jog, 2 go, 3. to gather 4. to rain 5. to gather 6. to continue 7. get
IV - Summary (2m)
- Repeat the content of the lesson. 
V - Homework. (5m)
- Learn vocabulary; do all exercises again
- Revision form unit 12 to unit 14
E - Evaluation 
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Date of preparing: / /09
Date of teaching: 8A
 8B
 Period 91
Revision
A - Aim 
- Get students to review some structures they have learnt from unit 12 to unit 14
- Practice writing and speaking skills. 
- By the end of the lesson, students can remember the past progressive, passive form, reported speech, indirect questions 
B - Teaching aids 
- Teacher: Textbook, poster, reference book
- Students: pens, books
C – Technique: 
D - Procedure 
I. Organization (2m) 
Greeting
Names of absents students:
II. Warm up (5m) 
1. Act: 
- Ask students to do some exercise 
2. Names of checked students: 
III- New lesson (32m)
Steps
Activities
Content
- Ask students to retell some structures they learnt
I. Revision
1. Past progressive
- Form; Were / was + V-ing
2. Inderect: Yes/ No- question
- Form: S + V + If + S + V 
 whether
* Practice
- T. hangs poster on the board and runs through
- Give instruction
- Ask students to do with their partners
3. Passive form
 Be + P2
* Exercise 1. Complete the unfinished sentences in such a way that they mean the same as those printed
1. "Do you see Peter around here?"
à She asked Jack If he saw Peter around there.
2. They built this church in 1902
à This church was built in 1902.
3. You should learn the new words by heart.
àThe new words should be learnt by heart.
4. "Do you want to go shopping after work?" Lan said to me.
à Lan asked me If I wanted to go shopping after work.
5. Mai said" I must go to the bank."
à Mai said she had to go to the bank.
6. Na said "I love to go skiing in the winter."
à Na said she loved to go skiing in the winter.
Exercise 2. Choose the best answer
1. My friend Nam cam while I (eat/ ate/ eating/ was eating) dinner last night.
2. Our next door neighbors looked (at / after/ for/ up) our dog while we were away.
3. That bridge (has built/ builds/ was building / was built) in 1996.
4. Where are you going on (trip/ tour / vacation / journey) summer?
IV - Summary (2m)
- Repeat the content of the lesson. 
V - Homework. (5m)
- Learn vocabulary; do all exercises again
- Prepare for testing No 4
E - Evaluation 
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