Giáo án Tiếng Anh 8 - Week: 17 - Period: 49 - Unit 8: Country life and city life

Week: 17 Date of preparing: 07/12/ 2013 Period: 49 Date of teaching: 09/ 12/ 2013 UNIT 8: COUNTRY LIFE AND CITY LIFE Lesson 3: READ I. OBJECTIVES: Teaching aim: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to understand the text about the problem of people from the countryside moving to the city. II. PREPARATIONS: Book, cassette tape, extra - board III. PROCEDURES: Teacher’s activities Students’ activities 1. Warm – Up: (5’) ¯ Organize game: “Brainstorming” Difficulties of farmers’ life. 2. Pre – Reading: (10’) - Ask Ss some questions to introduce the lesson: 1. Do you think many people move to live in the city? ª Yes. 2. Why do they want to go to the city? ª get (well-paying) job, get more money, better facilities, 3. What problems may happen when so many people move to the city? ª overcrowded, population increase, strains on social services, … - Explain vocabulary: + rural (adj) + urban ≠ rural (adj) + plentiful (adj) + struggle (n) ª struggle with nature. + (to) destroy (v) + (to) increase (v) + overcrowding (n) + strain (n) + tragedy (n) + migrant (n) + (to) provide (v) + (to) create (v) 3. While – Reading: (15’) - Ask Ss to read the text to complete the summary. 1. leaving 2. home 3. city 4. rural 5. city 6. problems 7. schools 8. hospitals 9. problem 10. world - Ask Ss to read the text again to do the exercise 2. a. of the country . ª rural b. as many as needed. ª plentiful c. become greater or lager. ª increase d. a great pressure. ª strain e. a terrible event. ª tragedy f. of the city or the city life. ª urban - Ask Ss to read the text to answer the questions. a. Are many going to the cities? ª Yes, there are many people going to the cities. b. What do many farmers when they need more money? ª They look for other work. c. What do they do to do to solve their difficulties? ª They move to the city to get well-paying jobs. d. What happens to the families whose parents go and live in the city? ª Families members have to live apart. 4. Post – Reading: (13’) - Ask Ss to list the pressing issues in big cities. + overcrowding + strain on schools, hospitals, water and electricity supplies. 5. Homework: (2’) - Write some advantages and disadvantages of the country life and city life. - Prepare next lesson: Unit 8 – Write/ page 76. - Whole class + floods/ droughts/ typhoons + lack of money / clean water / electricity / … + insects destroy harvest/ - Whole class - Listen and write. - Whole class - Read and complete. - Pair works. - Group works. Take note. IV. COMMENTS: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _________________________________________b"&"a_____________________________