Giáo án Tiếng Anh 8 - Units 8: Country life and city life - Do Thi Cuc - Thanh Mai Secondary School

NTS ON BOARD
PRE READING
(12 minutes)
* Pre-teach vocabulary:
- Teacher uses techniques to teach students new words
- Checking understanding: Matching
* Set the scene:
You are going to read a text to understand more about the farmer’s life.
* Pre-questions:
I. New words:
- rural (adj): vùng nông thôn
- urban (adj): vùng thành thị
- a typhoon: trận bão lớn
- a flood: trận lụt
- a drought: hạn hán
- (to) struggle: đấu tranh
- a migrant: dân di cư
II. Pre-questions:
1. What do many farmers do to solve their problems?
2. Why do they do so?
WHILE READING
(18 minutes)
* Read:
- Students read the text for the first time and answer the pre-questions
- Students read the text gain and do the matching:
- Students read the text again and do the exercise 2. P.75
- Teacher give the correct answers
- Students do the exercise 1. P.75.
III. Read. P.75
1. Checking the predictions:
* Answer key:
1. They move to the city.
2. Because they think they can get well - paid jobs in the city.
2. Matching:
L3. plentiful
không vui
L8. increase
chính phủ
L8. overcrowding
nhiều
L9. put a strain
kết quả
L10. unpleasant
bi kịch
L10. result
sự gia tăng
L11. tragedy
dẫn đến sự quá tải
L14. government
quá đông (người)
3. Find the words in the passage that means:
* Answer key:
a) of the countryside
rural
b) as many as needed
plentiful
c) become greater or larger
increase
d) a greater pressure
strain
e) a terrible event
tragedy
f) of the city or city life
urban
4. Complete the summary:
* Answer key:
(1) leaving
(2) home
(3)city
(4) rural
(5) city
(6) problems
(7) schools
(8) hospitals
(9) problems
(10) world
POST READING
(8 minutes)
* Discussion:
- Teacher divides the class into 4 groups.
- Students discuss in group the questions given by the teacher.
(T. may help students to discuss:
1. 
+ increase population
+ not enough schools / hospitals / water / electricity
+ security is not safe / poor security
2. 
+ Build streets, stadiums, theaters in the country
+Build schools, hospitals, factories
+ Provide clean water, electricity, facilities . 
IV. Discussion:
1. What happens when so many people move to the city?
2. What should the government do to solve the problems?
3. Summary: (1 minute)
 - Repeat the lesson.
4. Homework: (1 minute)
- Write 5 things the government should do for the rural areas. Begin with:
The government should..
- Prepare Write
Planning date: 11 - 12 -2014
Period 49: UNIT 8: COUNTRY LIFE AND CITY LIFE
Lesson 4: WRITE. P.76
I. Aims: 
- To help students write a letter to their friends telling about the neighborhood.
- To develop students’ skills.
II. Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to write letters to their friends about their neighborhood.
III. Ways of working: T-WC, pair work, individual work.
IV. Materials: Textbook, word cards.
V. Anticipated problems: Writing may be difficult for some students.
VI. Teaching steps:
1. Warm up: (5 minutes) * Teacher greets and checks the students’ attendance.
 * Revision: Ordering 
- Students put the outline for an informal letter in the correct order 
BODY OF THE LETTER
DATE
OPENING
WRITER’ ADDRESS
HEADING
CLOSING
* Answer key:
1. Heading 2. Opening 3. Body of the letter
 - Writer’s address - Dear , 4. Closing
 - Date 
2. New lesson: 
STAGES
T & SS’ ACTIVITIES
THE CONTENTS ON BOARD
PRE WRITING
(10 minutes)
- Students work in pair to ask and answer the questions part 2 on page 76.
E.g:
S1: Where do you live?
S2: I live in Thanh Mai, Thanh Oai.
S1: What does your house look like?
S2: It’s a large house and beautiful.
.
I. Practice:
WHILE WRITING
(18 minutes)
Write:
- Students write a letter to a friend about their neighborhood, basing on the outline and the questions and answers they have practised.
- Students exchange their writing and correct if they can.
II. Write:
E.g:
Thanh Mai, Thanh Oai
HaNoi, Viet Nam
December 10, 2008
Dear Lan,
I live in Thanh Mai, a small villlage in Thanh Oai. My family lives in a large house with four rooms and a small garden ..
Love, 
Hoa
POST WRITING
(10 minutes)
Teacher corrects some students’writings.
Suggested letter:
Thanh Mai, Thanh Oai
HaNoi, Viet Nam
December 15, 2014
Dear Lan,
I live in Thanh Mai, a small village in Thanh Oai. My family lives in a large house with four rooms and a small garden. My sister and I share one bed room. From the bedroom window, I can see a beautiful rice paddy, green trees, and a pond. We don’t live far from my school so I usually walk there.
In my neighborhood, there is a swimming pool and a beautiful park. On the weekend I often go swimming with my friends. Early in the morning I usually jog with my sister around the pond. But the thing I like best in my neighborhood is the public library near my school. There I not only can study and read books but also watch video and learn how to use the computer.
Do you have a library like that in your neighborhood? Is there anything interesting in the place where you live? Write to me.
I’d like to say goodbye now. I’m looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Love, 
Hoa
3. Summary: (1 minute)
- Repeat the lesson.
4. Homework: (1 minute)
- Complete the letter into your notebooks
- Prepare Language focus
Planning date: 12 - 12- 2014
Period 50: UNIT 8: COUNTRY LIFE AND CITY LIFE
Lesson5: LANGUAGE FOCUS. P.77
I. Aims: 
- To help students further practice in present progressive tense and comparative and superlative adjectives.
- To develop students’ skills.
II. Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to use the present progressive tense to talk about intention and changes, and able to use the comparatives and superlative adjectives.
III. Ways of working: T-WC, pair work, team work, individual work.
IV. Materials: Textbook.
V. Anticipated problems: The lesson may take time.
VI. Teaching steps:
1. Warm up: (1 minute)* Teacher greets and checks the students’ attendance.
2. New lesson:
STAGES
T & SS’ ACTIVITIES
THE CONTENTS ON BOARD
FURTHER PRACTICE
(42 minutes)
* Language focus 1:
- Teacher asks students to practice the dialogue in pair.
- Teacher elicits the model sentences. 
+ What does it mean in Vietnamese?
+ What tense is it? (present progressive)
+ So what is the present progressive used to express? (The future action)
- Teacher asks students to practise in pair, making similar dialogue using the shipping information. 
* Langauge focus 2:
- Students practice in pair to complete the dialogue.
* Language focus 3:
- The present progressive tense is used with the verb GET / BECOME and the comparative adjective to express the changes. Make examples?
- Ask Ss to complete the sentences, using the verbs and adjectives in the boxes.
* Language focus 4:
Q: - How to form the adjectives in comparative and superlative form?
- Short adjective? Long adjective?
For example?
- Students practise in group to talk about the country and the city. Make comparisons.
- Teacher hold the game “Chain game” to let students practice.
* Language focus 5:
Teacher asks students some questions:
- What are they? (advertisements)
- What are advertised? (an apartment, a villa and a house)
- How old are they?
- How much do we pay?
Teacher divides the class into two teams and let students play the game noughts and crosses. Students make sentences with the adjectives given, using the comparative and superlative form
E.g: The house is newer than the apartment.
I.Language focus 1:
Ex1:The boat to Dong Hoi is leaving at 10.40. 
Ex2:
S1: Is the ship to Quy Nhon leaving at 11.30?
S2: No, it has been delayed. It is leaving at 13.55
S3: Is the boat from Ca Mau arriving at 11?
S4: Yes. It is arriving on time.
II. Language focus 2:
* Answer key:
(1) are doing
(2) am watching
(3) am going
(4) are cleaning
(5) am having
III. Language focus 3:
E.g: The boys are getting taller.
IV Language focus 4:
1. Comparative:
ADJ_ER busy - busier
MORE ADJ beautiful - more beautiful
2. Superlative:
THE ADJ_EST busy - the busiest
THE MOST ADJ beautiful - the most 	 beautiful
Talk about the city and the country:
ABOUT:
- food
- traffic
- transport
- air
- entertainments
- medical facilities
- schools
- electricity
E.g: - In the city, the food is more expensive than in the country.
- The air in the country is fresher than in the city.
V. Language focus 5:
Noughts and crosses:
1.OLD
2.EXPENSIVE
3.BIG
4.SMALL
5.CHEAP
6.HOT
7.BEAUTIFUL
8.NEW
9.MODERN
1. The villa is the oldest home.
2. The villa is the most expensive.
3. The house is the biggest.
4. The apartment is the smallest.
5. The apartment is the cheapest.
6. The apartment is hotter than the house.
7. The house is more beautiful than the villa.
8. The house is newer than the apartment.
9. The house is more modern than the apartment.
3. Summary: (1 minute)
- Repeat the lesson
 4. Homework: (1 minute)
- Do exercises 3, 6. P.50, 51 (WB)
- Review from unit 1 to unit 8.
Planning date: 12- 12 -2014
Period 51: REVISION FOR THE FIRST TERM
I. Aims: 
- To help students review their knowledge from unit 1 to unit 8 to be ready for the first term test.
II. Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to gain the knowledge and be ready for the test.
III. Ways of working: T-WC, individual work
IV. Materials: Text book, reference book.
V. Anticipated problems:
VI. Teaching steps:
1. Warm up: (1 minute) * Teacher greets and checks the students’ attendance.
2. New lesson:
STAGES
T & SS’ ACTIVITIES
THE CONTENTS ON BOARD
REVISION
(43 minutes)
Teacher asks students questions to revise their knowledge:
- What are the topics of the units you have learnt?
- What is the main grammar you have learnt in each topics?
- Topic 1? 
+ When do we use these tenses?
+ Make examples?
- The main grammar in toppic 2?
+ Make examples?
- The main grammar in topic 3?
+ When do we use this tense? / This structure?
+ Make examples? 
- What is the language knowledge do we have in the test?
- So what do we have to revise?
- What skills do we have in the test? (listening, reading, writing)
I. Themes / Topics:
1. Personal information:
- Friends
- House and home
2. Education:
- School life and study habits
3. Community:
- Shopping
- Neighborhood
- Country life and city life
II. Grammar:
 Tenses: present simple tense, past simple tense.
- Infinitive
- Modal verbs: must, have to, ought to
- Reflexive pronouns: myself, yourself, themselves
- Adverbs of place: here, there, upstairs..
- Prepositions of time: after, before, until, as soon as
- Adj + enough + to infinitive
- Enough + noun + to infinitive
- Let’s 
- Why, Because
- Present simple with future meaning
- Reported speech: command, request and advice
- Gerund
- Modal verbs: may, can, could, should
- Adverbs of manner: well, fast, hard, late, badly
- Prepositions of time: in, at, on, between, after, before
- Used to + infinitive
- Present perfect tense (with for / since)
- Adverbs: already, yet
- Present progressive to talk about the future 
and about the changes with get & become
- Comparisons: as ..as; the same as; different from
- Comparison of adjectives
III. Skills:
1. The language knowledge:
- Vocabulary: (topics)
- Grammar
- Phonetics:
+ Choose the word that has the underlined part pronounced differently from the others.
(Khoanh tròn từ có phần gạch chân có cách phát âm khác với những từ còn lại)
+ Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others.
(Chọn từ có trọng âm chính rơi vào âm tiết khác với những từ còn lại)
2. The language skills:
a) Listening:
- Listen to a monologue or a dialogue within 80 - 100 words for general or specific information.
b) Reading:
- Read a dialogue or a passage of 100 - 140 words for general or specific information.
c) Writing:
- Write about oneself or others of 60 - 80 words using word cues or pictures.
- Write a description of 60 - 80 words of a room in the house using words cues or pictures.
- Write an informal letter of 60 - 80 words to a friend using word cues.
- Write a paragraph of 60 - 80 words telling about future plan using suggested guidelines or questions.
- Write a letter to a friend of 60 - 80 words about the neighborhood using suggested guidelines or words.
- Write a community notice of 60 - 80 words using suggested questions.
3. Homework:( 1minute)
- Review the vocabulary and grammar from unit 1 to unit 8.
- Review the listening, reading, writing lessons from unit 1 to unit 8.
Planning date: 17 - 12 - 2014
Period 52: REVISION FOR THE FIRST TERM
I. Aims: 
- To help students review their knowledge from unit 1 to unit 8 to be ready for the first term test.
- To help students do some exercises to consolidate their knowledge.
II. Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to gain the knowledge and be ready for the test.
III. Ways of working: T-WC, individual work
IV. Materials: Text book, reference book.
V. Anticipated problems:
VI. Teaching steps:
1. Warm up: (1 minute) * Teacher greets and checks the students’ attendance.
2. New lesson:
STAGES
T & SS’ ACTIVITES
THE CONTENTS ON BOARD
FURTHER PRACTICE
(43 minutes)
- Teacher asks students to do some exercises.
Exercise 1:
- Teacher guides students to do the exercise and then calls some students to do it on board.
Exercise 2:
- Teacher explains how to do the exercise and help students do it.
- Teacher reads the tape script in normal speech so that students can complete their task.
* Tape-script:
Peter is my pen pal. He is fifteen years old. He lives in a house in London. He is an excellent student. He always works hard at school and gets good marks. He loves learning Vietnamese in his free time. He often practices writing letter in Vietnamese. Sometimes he helps me to correct my writing, and I help him to correct his spelling mistakes. Next summer, he is going to visit Ho Chi Minh City with his family. I’m expecting to see him. 
* Tapescript:
Hello! My name is Ba. I’m 13 years old. I have a sister, Lan. She is 15, but she isn’t as tall as I am. Every day I go to school in the morning, my sister has classes in the afternoon. Like my sister, I love listening to pop music and reading novels in my free time. We both like playing chess and going swimming in summer. Unlike her, I don’t like cooking, doing the shopping on Sundays. Instead, I like watching films, especially war films on TV. I also love playing soccer in my spare time.
- Teacher guides students to write the passage:
Like + V-ing
begin+ V-ing 
 to infinitive
Last week => past tense
I. Phonetics:
Ex1:Choose the words that has the underlined part pronounced differently from the others
1. A. tasty B. mall C. stadium D. change	
2. A. grocery B. month C. comfort D. money
3. A. just	B. summer C. much D. ruler
4. A. around	B. delicious C. house D. ground 
5. A. exhibition	B. neighborhood	C. hot	D. humid
1.B, 2.A, 3.D. 4.B, 5.A
Ex2: Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others:
1. A. delay	B. believe C. create D. nature
2. A. offer	B. urban C. away D. rural
3. A. migrant	B. typhoon C. supply D. remote
4. A. tragedy	B. plentiful C.relative D.unpleasant
5. A. information	B. entertainment C. overcrowding D. permanently
II. Listening:	
Ex1: Listen to the passage and give short answer to the following questions
1. Who is Peter?
2. How old is he?
3. Where does he live?
4. What does he like doing in his free time?
5. What is he going to do next summer?
Ex 2: Listen to the passage about Ba and his sister, and then put a tick in the appropriate box for T (True) or F (False) (with answer key)
T
F
1. Ba is younger than Lan.
2. Lan is shorter than her brother.
3. Both Ba and Lan go to school in the morning.
4. They love listening to pop music and reading novels.
5. They don’t like playing chess and going swimming in summer.
6. Lan doesn’t like cooking, doing the shopping on Sundays.
7. Ba likes watching war films on TV.
8. Lan also loves playing soccer in her free time.
III. WRITING:
Ex1: Write a passage using the following sets of words and phrases. You can make all the necessary changes and additions. 
1. Lan / like / learn English
2. She / begin / learn / this language / 2003
3. She / always / want / improve her English
4. Last week / she / buy / English-Vietnamese dictionary
5. She / often / use/ it/ for reading
Suggested writing:
1. Lan likes learning English.
2. She began learning (to learn) this language in 2003.
3. She always wants to improve her English.
4. Last week she bought an English - Vietnamese dictionary.
5. She often uses it for reading.
3. Homework: (1 minute)
- Teacher asks students review at home and complete the writing if they haven’t finished.
Planning date: 18 - 12- 2014
Period 53: REVISION FOR THE FIRST TERM
I. Aims:
 - To help students review their knowledge from unit 1 to unit 8 to be ready for the first term test.
- To help students do some exercises to consolidate their knowledge.
II. Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to gain the knowledge and be ready for the test.
III. Ways of working: T-WC, individual work
IV. Materials: Text book, reference book.
V. Anticipated problems:
VI. Teaching steps:
1. Warm up: (1 minute) *Teacher greets and checks the students’ attendance.
2. New lesson:
STAGES
ACTIVITIES
THE CONTENT ON BOARD
FURTHER PRACTICE
(42 minutes)
Teacher asks students to do some exercises.
- Teacher guides students to do exercise 1: In this exercise, students have to base on grammar and vocabulary to do it.
* Answer key:
1.C, 2.B, 3.A, 4.B, 5.A, 6.D, 7.C, 8.A, 9.D, 10.B
11.C, 12.B, 13.C, 14.D, 15.D, 16.A, 17.B, 18.C, 19.D, 20.D 
- Students read the passage and answer the questions.
- Teacher give students the meaning of some words:
+ construction (n) xây dựng
+ a dam: đê, đập
 Ex1: Circle the best option A, B, C or D to complete each of the following sentences
1. I often play soccer _______ Sunday afternoon.
A. in 	B. at 	C. on 	D. for
2. We should wait here _______ our teacher comes back.
A. before 	B. until 	C. after 	D. during
3. Mr. Brown is the same age ________ Mrs. Brown.
A. as	B. like 	C. from 	D. with
4. The little boy is not _________ to lift the suitcase.
A. enough strong	B. strong enough 	
C. too strong 	D. so strong
5. My father was good at swimming. He used to ______ swimming in summer.
A. go 	B. goes 	C. went 	D. going
6. Kate hates ______ to classical music.
A. listens 	B. listened 	C. listen 	D. listening
7. Hung is ______ student in my class.
A. good 	B. better 	C. the best 	D. a best
8. Ho Chi Minh City is larger and ______ beautiful than Hanoi.
A. more 	B. as 	C. most 	D. the most
9. Mr. Smith likes _______ to music in his free time.
A. listens 	B. listened 	C. listen 	D. listening
10. They built this house _______1990.
A. from 	B. in 	C. at 	D. for
11. We must be there _____ 7.30 and 8.15.
A. at 	B. before 	C. between 	D. after
12. Dad stayed at the office _____ he finished the report.
A. between 	B. until 	C. for 	D. at
13. Vietnamese language is different _____ English language.
A. as 	B. like 	C. from 	D. with
14. Tom is 16. He isn’t _____ to drive a car.
A. enough young 	B. young enough 	
C. enough old 	D. old enough
15. When my uncle was young, he used _____ fishing on Sundays.
A. go 	B. went 	C. going 	D. to go
16. Mary likes _____ the piano.
A. playing 	B. plays 	C. played 	D. play
17. She told me _____ you that present.
A. giving 	B. to give 	C. gave 	D. given
18. Last night I watched the movie “Romeo and Juliet”. At last they killed ________.
A. himself 	B. herself 	C. themselves 	D. ourselves
19. Jane is _____ beautiful than her sister.
A. as 	B. like 	C. the most 	D. more
20. London is _____ capital city in Europe.
A. large 	B. larger 	C. most large 	D. the largest
Ex2: Read the passage and answer the questions that follow. 
Hello! My name is David. I work for a construction company. I started working for this company in 2004. We build roads, dams, bridges and things like that. At the moment my company is producing a plan for a new motorway. I usually work in the road department, but this month I am working in the department that builds bridges. So my whole working day is different just now. I normally spend a lot of time outdoors because I have to go to the construction sites. But with this new project I spend a lot of time in the workshop. Now I am testing a model of one of the new bridges. I enjoy it a lot because I have learned a lot of new things.
1. When did David begin working for his construction company?
2. What is his company doing at the moment?
3. Where does he usually work?
4. Is he working in the road department this month?
5. Why does he normally spend a lot of time outdoors?
6. What is he testing now?
* Answer key:
1. He began working for his construction company in 2004.
2. It / His company is producing a plan for a new motorway.
3. He usually works in the road department.
4. No, he isn’t. (He is working in the department that builds bridges.)
5. Because he has to go to the construction sites.
6. He is testing a model of one of the new bridges.
Ex 3. Rewrite the following sentences. Keep the same meaning.
1. We started living here in 1995.
We have .
2. It’s unnecessary for us to drive so fast.
We don’t 
3. Trung is the most intelligent student in my class.
No one ..
4. The coffee was too weak to keep us awake.
The coffee wasn’t ..
5. Huong last wrote to her parents two months ago.
Huong hasn’t 
* Key:
1. We have lived here since 1995.
2. We don’t have / need to drive so fast.
3. No one in my class is as intelligent as Trung (is).
 (more intelligent than)
4. The coffee wasn’t strong enough to keep us awake.
5. Huong hasn’t written to her parents for two months.