Giáo án Tiếng anh 8 - Week: 17 - Period: 51 - Unit 8: Country life and city life

Week: 17 Date of preparing: 21/12/ 2013 Period: 51 Date of teaching: 23/ 12/ 2013 UNIT 8: COUNTRY LIFE AND CITY LIFE Lesson 5: LANGUAGE FOCUS I. OBJECTIVES: Teaching aims: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to use present progressive tense to talk about the future and to show changes with get and become, use comparatives and superlatives of adjectives. II. PREPARATIONS: Book, extra – board III. PROCEDURES: Teacher’s activities Students’ activities 1. Warm – Up: (5’) - Have students match the verbs in column A and the phrases in the column B A B 1. play 2. visit 3. leave 4. arrive 5. become a. cold b. at 6.30 am c. soccer this afternoon d. grandparents next week. e. on time tomorrow. 2. Exercises: (35’) a. Exercise 1: Present progressive tense with future meaning - Ask Ss to do the exercise 1 on the page 77. - Call on some pairs to practice the dialogues. Exercise 2:/ p. 78 - Ask Ss to match the verbs on the left and the phrases on the right. 1. play 2. do 3. watch 4. go 5. clean 6. have a. a meeting b. to a violin lesson c. the house d. table tennis e. a program f. homework - Ask Ss to complete the dialogue/p.78 with the suitable verb phrases above, using the Present Progressive tense. - Have Ss give feedback. a. am playing b. are doing c. am watching d. am going e. are cleaning f. am having c. Exercise 2: Present progressive tense with get and become - Set the situation: “Hoa’s grandmother is 78. five years ago, she was stronger than she is now. So she is getting weaker now” - Ask Ss to do the exercise 3/p.78, using the structure above. - Have Ss give feedback. a. The boys are getting taller. b. The old men are becoming weak. c. We should go home. It’s getting dark. d. The weather is getting cold. e. The students are getting better. f. The school-yard is becoming cleaner. d. Exercise 3: Comparison - Ask Ss to find out which short adjectives are and which long adjectives are. Short adjectives Long adjectives Hot Old Small Busy Easy Cheap Expensive Accessible Beautiful Convenient Difficult Intelligent - Ask Ss to do the exercise 4/p.79 in pairs to make comparisons between the city and the country with the given words and adjectives. a. The food in the city is more expensive than in the country. b. The school in the city is bigger than in the city. c. Electricity in the city is better than in the country. d. The entertainment in the country is poorer in the country. e. The traffic in the city is busier than in the country. f. The transport in the country is worse than in the city. -Ask Ss to do the exercise 5/p.79 in pairs. a. The villa is older than the apartment. b. The house is more expensive than the apartment. c. The villa is bigger than the apartment. d. The apartment is smaller than the villa. e. The apartment is hotter than the house. f. The house is the biggest. e. The villa is the most beautiful. f. The villa is the oldest one. 4. Consolidation: (3’) Remind structure present progressive tense and comparison. 5. Homework: (2’) - Redo the exercises in the exercise notebooks. - Prepare next lesson: Review - Pair works. 1+c, 2+d, 3+b, 4+e, 5+a - Individual work. - Practice the dialogues in pairs. - Individual work. - Pair works. - Give feedback. - Listen. - Individual work. - Give feedback. - Group works. - Group works. - Pair works. Listen. Take note. IV. COMMENTS: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _________________________________________b"&"a____________________________