Giáo án môn Tiếng Anh Lớp 8 - Unit 13: Festivals - Lesson 4: Read

Week: 29	 Date of preparation: 21/ 03/ 2012
Period: 87	 Date of teaching: 23/ 03/ 2012
UNIT 13: FESTIVALS
LESSON 4: READ
I. OBJECTIVES:
Teaching aims: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to get some knowledge about festival by Reading for details about the Christmas.
II. PREPARATIONS: Book, cassette tape.
III. PROCEDURES:
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
1. Warm – Up: (5’)
Ask students to list some English songs about Christmas.
2. Pre – Reading: (5’)
- Ask students to listen to the tape.
- Explain new words: 
+ Design (v)
+ Spread (v)
+ Christmas carol (n)
+ Patron saint (n)
+ Jolly= happy and cheerful (adj)
+ Decorate (v)
+ Perform (v)
+ Leader (n)
+ Description (n)
- Explain structure:
 have (had) someone do something
3. While – Reading: (20’)
- Have students to read the paragraphs on p.124 and 125.
- Ask students to read the paragraph again and complete the grid.
- Call some students to fill the gaps in the grid on the board.
Christmas Special
Places of origin
Date
The Christmas tree
Riga
Early 1500s
The Christmas Card
England
Mid-19th century
Christmas Carol
No information
800 years ago
Santo Claus
USA
1823
- Ask students to answer the questions on page 126 .
- Call some students to give their answers.
a. The Christmas tree came to the USA more than 1 century ago.
b. He wanted to send Christmas greeting to his friends.
c. Christmas songs were first performed 800 years ago.
d. An American professor Clement Clarke Moore wrote the poem A visit from Saint Nicholas.
e. Santa Claus is based on the description of Saint Nicholas in professor Moore’s poem.
4. Post – Reading: (13’)
Ask students to sing an English song about Christmas : “We wish you a merry Christmas” or “Jingle Bell”
5. Homework: (2’)
- Learn by heart vocabulary.
- Write the questions and answers into the notebook.
- Prepare next lesson: Unit 13 – Write/ p. 126-127.
-Whole class.
- Listen to the tape.
- Listen and write. 
- Listen and write.
- Read. 
- Pair works. 
- Give feedback. 
- Answer the questions. 
- Give feedback.
Whole class.
Take note.
 IV. COMMENTS:
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