Giáo án môn Tiếng Anh Lớp 8 - Unit 13: Festivals - Lesson 1: Getting started +listen

Week: 28	 Date of preparation: 14/ 03/ 2012
Period: 84	 Date of teaching: 16/ 03/ 2012
UNIT 13: FESTIVALS
	LESSON 1: Getting started +Listen & Read
I. OBJECTIVES:
1. Educational aim:Students can know some Vietnamese festivals.
2. Teaching aims: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to talk about some festivals in Viet nam.
II. PREPARATIONS: Book, cassette tape
III. PROCEDURES:
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
1. Warm – Up: (5’)
- Ask students to read carefully the situations in the book and name the places where these people should go: Tom, David, Huckleberry, Oliver, Robinson.
Where should he / she go to? Why?
 ¯ Suggested answers
 1. Tom should go to beaches.
 2. David should go to Hoi An.
 3. Huckleberry should go to Sapa.
 4. Oliver should go to Bat Trang.
 5. Robinson should go to Ho Chi Minh City
2. Presentation: (10’)
- Ask students to tell some festivals they know in Viet Nam.
- Ask students to look at the picture and ask questions 
 1. What festival is it?
 2. What are the people in the picture doing?
 3. Have you ever taken part in this kind of festival?
- Explain new words:
1. Fetch (v) = to go to get sth and bring it back.
2. Yell (v) = to shout loudly.
3. Urge (v) = to make a person to move quickly.
3. Rub (v) (mime)
4. Separate sth from sth (v) 
5. Judge (n) 
6. Council leader (n) 
- Explain the grammar note:
 A rice-cooking festival.
 ð Form: (a/an) + noun + v-ing + Noun
 Compound adjective
- Ask questions: 
 1. Do you know how many competitions there are in the rice-cooking festival and what they are?
 2. What do people do in each competition?
 3. How many people are there for each competition?
- Play the tape for students.
3. Practice: (15’)
- Ask students to read the dialogue silently to check the answers.
1. There are three competitions in a rice-cooking festival: Water-fetching, fire-making, rice-cooking.
2. In the water-fetching competition, they have to run to the river to get water. In the fire-making competition, they make fire by rubbing pieces of bamboo together, and in the rice-cooking competition they cook rice.
3. One person takes part in the water-fetching competition, two persons take part in the fire-making competition, and six persons take part in the rice-cooking competition.
- Ask students to practice the dialogue in pairs.
- Ask students to do True/ False sentences.
- Have students give feedback. 
a. F ª Only one team member takes part in the water-fetching contest.
b. F ª One person has to collect one water bottle.
c. T.
d. F ª Pieces of bamboo are used to make the fire.
e. F ª In the final contest, the judges taste the rice.
f. T
4. Production: (13’)
-Ask students to read the dialogue again then write a summary about the rice-cooking festival.
5. Homework: (2’)
- Reread the dialogue and do the True/ False exercise 
- Prepare next lesson: Unit 13 –Speak and Listen/p.123,124.
- Whole class.
- Group works. 
- Answer questions.
- Listen and write. 
- Listen and write. 
- Answer the questions. 
- Listen to the tape. 
- Individual work. 
- Pair works. 
- Group works. 
- Give feedback. 
- Group works. 
Take note.
IV. COMMENTS:
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