Giáo án môn Tiếng Anh Lớp 8 - Unit 12: A vacation abroad - Period 78, Lesson 5: Write

Date: 21/03/2007
	UNIT 12 
Period 78th: 	LESSON 5: WRITE 
I. Aims:
	Ss will be able to write postcards to their friends about their trip
II. Language contents:
-Vocabulary: (adj) hospitable 
	(n) relative
-Grammar: 
III. Techniques: gap fill, grid
IV. Teaching aids: chart, sub board
V. Procedures:
Teacher’s and Ss’ activities
Content
-T. asks Ss some questions
-Ss answer
-T. remark and give Ss marks
1. Warm up / Marks (5 minutes)
à Questions:
1/ Where did Mrs Quyen and her husband spend their holiday? ( " in the USA)
2/ What did they see on Mount Rushmore?
(" The heads of four America Presidents carved into the rock)
-T. explains new words
-Ss listen and copy
-Ss look at the postcard on page 118 and complete the gaps with the appropriate words
-Call on some Ss to go to the board and write the world they guess
-Give feedback and correct
-Write the topic on the board. Ask Ss to read the postcard (write 1) again and fill in the gaps with the sentences showing the information on the left
-Ss work in groups
2. Pre-writing (10 minutes)
* New word
 hospitable (adj)
 relative(n)
a/ Gap fill
 * Answer key:
1/ in 6/ nice / lovely
2/ people 7/ bought
3/ weather 8/ for
4/ visited 9/ heaviness
5/ her 10/ soon
b/ Information needed to write a postcard
 * Answer key:
 Necessary information
Place
We’re having a wonderful time in the USA
+How do you feel about the people?
+Weather
+Who you meet / visit
+What you see
+What you buy
+The people are friendly
+The weather has been warm and sunny
+In San Francisco, I visited my friend, Sandra Smith 
+No information
+I bought lots of souvenir
-Ss write the postcard on a pieces of paper (to be collected if necessary)
-Individually
3. While-writing (20 minutes)
Ø Set the scene:
 “Imagine you are a tourist on vacation in a certain place/ city in Vietnam. Write a postcard to a friend about your trip, using the information in the grid”
Ø Writing
-Call on some Ss to the front of the class and ask them to read their postcards to the whole class.
-Give feedback and correct
4. Post-writing (7 minutes)
à Exhibition
5. Homework (3 minutes)
-Learn by heart new words
-Do exercises in workbook
-Prepare: Correction 3
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