Kế hoạch bài dạy Tiếng Anh 8 - Tuần 4, Tiết 9-11, Bài 2: Life in the countryside - Năm học 2022-2023 - Lê Thị Dùng

Teaching date: 03 / 10 / 2022 Period 9 : UNIT 2: LIFE IN THE COUNTRYSIDE Lesson 1: GETTING STARTED: It's harvest time A. OBJECTIVES : By the end of this lesson, Ss will be able to: 1. Knowledge - Use the lexical items related to the topic “Life in the countryside”. - Read and understand the dialogue about the harvest time 2. Competence: - Self-learning, problem solving, cooperation capability. - Using language to discuss the activities during the harvest time. 3. Quality: responsibility, hard-working, honesty, love life. 4. Skills: - Listening, reading and speaking B. TEACHING AIDS: Computer, speaker, projector, posters. C. PROCEDURES: I. Warm up: - T reviews the previous lesson by calling on some Ss to act out some leisure activities (flying a kite, playing soccer, playing hide and seek, watch TV...). The class make a guess. Then T asks Ss to decide which leisure activities are more common in the countryside and why. T writes the word "countryside" on the board. Brainstorm words and phrases describing activities which take place in the countryside. II. Pre-reading 1. Vocabulary: - buffalo - drawn cart (n): xe trâu kéo - (to) go herding : đi chăn (trâu) - (to) explore : khám phá, thám hiểm - (to) load: chất, chở - paddy field: cánh đồng lúa Ask Ss if they know the meaning. If they don't, quickly explain them. 2. Pre-questions * Set the scenes: - Look at the title of the conversation and the picture. - Ask them some questions: + What is the conversation about? + Which season is the harvest time in? + What do you think the countryside is like at the harvest time + What does the farmer do? + What do the children do? - T encourages Ss to answer the questions. T plays the recording. Ss listen and read. Ask if their predictions are correct. III. While – reading. Activity 1. T / F statements: - T plays the recording and asks ss to listen. - Ss read the conversation individually and tick T/ F. - Have Ss compare their answers in groups - Ss write the answers on the board. - Feedback and correction Answer key: 1.T 2.F 3.F 4.T 5.T Activity 2 . Comprehension questions Ask Ss to try to answer the questions without referring to the conversation first. Then Ss refer to the conversation again for the correct answers. Correct the answers as a class. Answer key:: 1. He's in the countryside 2. Right on his first day there 3. It's big and colourful 4. His grandfather 5. He means that he wishes he were in the countryside too. Activity 3. Complete the sentences - Asks SS to use the words in the box to complete the sentences. -Ask them to check their answers with their partner. Answer key:: 1. colourful 2. move slowly 3. harvest time 4. paddy field 5. herding 6. buffalo- drawn card IV. Post-reading Activity 1: Discussion Have Ss work in small groups to discuss and tick the correct box and look for expression (s) to support their answer. Suggested answers: He likes it.... ".... it's more exciting than I expected" " It (the kite) looks great up there in the sky". " I live more happily here, and there's still a lot more to explore" Activity 2 : Game: Countryside charades. T divides the class into two teams for this game. They can give themselves a relevant team name such as the "horses" and the "buffaloes". Play charades with the countryside activity vocabulary from activity 2 and the Ss's list on the board. To increase the fun element, give the teams a time limit of 10 seconds to guess the activity before it moves to the other team. T keeps score on the board and announces the winning team at the end. V. Homework: - Learn Vocabulary by heart - Do exercises 1, 2 part B - Prepare for A Closer look 1 Teaching date: 3 / 10 / 2022 Period 10 UNIT 2 : LIFE IN THE COUNTRYSIDE Lesson 2 : A closer look 1 A. OBJECTIVES I. Knowledge By the end of this lesson, students will be able to : - use the lexical items related to the topic of life in the countryside and pronounce correctly words containing the clusters /bl/ and /cl/. II. Ability : - Improve the lexical items related to the topic of life in the countryside - Students can develop their communication skill, creativity, cooperation, self- studying and problem solving. III. Quality : - Students have positive attitude in English language learning so that they actively participate in all classroom activities. - Students can show their kindness to their hometown, family, love for their country. B. TEACHING AIDS - Teacher’s aids: student book and teacher’s book, flashcards, projector - Students’ aids: Student books, notebooks, workbooks. I. Warm up: revision Remind Ss of the vocabulary they learnt in Getting started before moving on to this lesson which focuses on words describing the countryside. II. Presentation 1.Vocabulary revision: Ss listen to the recording and repeat the words. Make sure that they pronounce the words with the correct stress patterns. Now check understanding of these words. Elicit ideas from the Ss. Say, for example, “Give me an example of something vast”. Go through all the words in this way to make sure everyone understands them. Key: 1. slow 2. colorful 3. friendly 4.hard 5.brave 6. boring 7. inconvenient 8. vast 9.peaceful 10.nomadic 2. Ss work individually. Ss compare their answers with partner and then discuss as a class. There may be some variations in the answers. For a more able class, encourage Ss to explain why they choose the word for category. III. PRACTICE. 1. Matching Make sure Ss understand the meaning of the verbs first. There may be some confusion about the difference between “pick” and “pick up”. Explain that “pick” is the specific verb used for collecting fruit, vegetables of flowers though the action is the same as the more general term “pick up”. Ss then work independently or in pairs. When they have finished, let them exchanged their answers with a partner/ another. Then T elicits the correct answers. Key: ride: a horse, a camel put up: a tent, a pole collect: hay, water herd: the buffaloes, the cattle pick: wild flowers, apples 1. Gap fill. Ss use the vocabulary they have learnt in activities 1 and 3 to do this exercise. Ask Ss to look the sentences and decide if an adjective or verb is missing. This narrow down the area of words they need to refer. Ss then complete the sentences by themselves. Check the answers. Key: 1. picking 2. inconvenient, collect 3. Herd 4. ridden, brave 5. peaceful 6. nomadic 7. vast 8. put up, hard IV. PRODUCTION 1. Make sentences with the word given V. PRONUNCIATION: 1.listen and repeat Clusters /bl/ and /cl/ Ss listen and repeat. Pause the recording to drill difficult items. Have Ss say the words individually or in small groups. 2. listen and circle. Have Ss listen and circle the words. Have Ss do the activity in pairs and challenge each other to choose the correct words. Key: 1. blame 2. blast 3. blue 4. clock 5. close Have Ss look at the sentences and underline the words with the clusters /bl/ and /cl/ first. Ss then listen and repeat. IV. Homework + Learn vocabulary by heart + Do exercise part A + Get ready for A closer look 2 Teaching date: 6 / 10 / 2022 Period 11 UNIT 2: LIFE IN THE COUNTRYSIDE Lesson 3 :A closer look 2 A. OBJECTIVES 1. Knowledge: By the end of the lesson Ss will be able to: - Use the lexical items related to the topic "Life in the countryside". - Revise comparative forms of adjectives - Use comparative forms of adverbs of manner then practise doing exercises. Vocabulary: vocabulary related to Life in the countryside. Grammar: comparative forms of adjectives and adverbs 2.Competence: - Self-learning, problem solving, cooperation capability. -Discover about life in the countryside 3. Quality: -Responsibility, hard-working, honesty, love life. 4. Skills: Listening, reading and speaking, writing B.TEACHING AIDS:Textbooks, computer accessed to the Internet, projector C. PROCEDURES: Adjs Adjective Adverbs of manner (comparative) good better well clear I. Warm up fast late friendly happy easy high tall Ask ss to write comparative of these adjectives Ask ss to chage these adjs to adverbs of manner II. Presentation 1 . Comparative forms of adjectives: -T ask Ss to do exercises 1 - Have Ss exchange their answers. -T checks as a class and write the answers on the board with the full forms of comparisons. T keeps them for later reference when the comparative of adverbs is taught. Answer key: 1. higher 2. easier 3. better 4. more exciting 5. more convenient 6. happier 7. more friendly 8. fast 9. safer 10. best 2. Comparative forms of adverbs: - T first revises the different use of an adjective and an adverb. + Life in the city is slow/ slowly + He is moving slow/slowly - Ss choose the right words for each sentence. T then introduces the comparative form of adverbs by changing the second sentence to: + He is moving more slowly than before" - Elicit the form of comparative from Ss before letting them read number one in the table. T then introduces comparatives of irregular adverbs like : fast, hard. late, early, well, badly. Let Ss read number 2 and 3 in the table. Note: 1. more/ less + Adv + than (for almost all adverbs of manner endingin ly) 2. adverb + er + than ( the same form as adj) 3. some irregular forms of adverb of manner Well -> better Badly ->worse III: Practice: 1.Activity 1. Complete the sentences with suitable comparative forms of adverbs in the box. -Have Ss do the exercises individually. - T checks as a class. Answer key : 1. more slowly 2. more soundly 3. less traditionally 4. more generously 5. more healthily 2.Activity 2: Complete the sentences with a suitable comparative form of hard, early,late... -Have Ss do the exercises individually. - T checks as a class. Answer key : 1. better 2. faster 3. later 4. harder 5. worse 6. Earlier IV. Production: 1.Activity 1:Circle the correct comparitive forms to Complete the sentences -Have Ss do the exercises individually. - T checks as a class. Answer key : 1. more optimistically 2. more popularly 3. less densely populated 4. more quickly 5. more easily 6. better 2.Activity 2: Discussion - Have Ss work in pairs to discuss and answer the questions in textbook (exercise 5). - Call some pairs to answer in front of the class.Other pairs give comment - Feedback and correction Answer key: 1. The countryside is more peaceful (than the city). 2. A computer works faster at calculus (than a human being). 3. Life in a remote area is harder (than that in a modern town). 4. Ho Chi Minh city is more expensive (than Hue). 5. A buffalo can plough better (than a horse). V. Homework: - Do exercises 3-7 part B - Prepare for Communication.