Giáo án môn Tiếng Anh Lớp 8 - Unit 4: Our past - Period 24, Lesson 4: Write

Date: 27/10/2006	
Period: 24	Lesson 4 WRITE	
I. Objectives:
- By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to use simple past tense to write a folktale
II. Language contents:
1. Grammar: 
 S.past tense : S + V(ed, 2) + O
2. Vocabulary: 
- Verbs: burn, escape, appear, leave, light, tie, graze, say
- Nouns: wisdom, stripe, straw, servant, master, buffalo
III. Techniques:
Matching, Comprehension questions
IV. Teaching aids:
Textbook E8, colored chalks, board, pictures
V. Procedures :
Teacher’s and Students’ activities
Content
- T asks Ss some questions about imaginary stories
- Ss listen and answer
- T gives new-words, writes on the board, guides Ss to read, asks the meaning
- Ss read after the teacher (chorus, individually), give the meaning
- T corrects if necessary
ª Checking:
- T writes the new words in the list on the left hand side of the board
- T writes the translation on the right hand side of the board
- T asks Ss to come to the board to match items on the left with those on the right by drawing a line connecting them
- T asks Ss to work in pairs using suitable verbs to fill in the blanks
- Ss work in pairs
- T gives feedback
- T asks Ss to work in groups (each group: 4 Ss), answer the following questions
- Ss work in groups (ask and answer the questions)
- Ss ask and answer in pairs (closed pairs, opened pairs)
- T corrects the mistakes
- T asks Ss to do exercise 2. They have to imagine to be a man in order to write the story
- T asks Ss to change
The man à I
His à my
Ss write individually then share with their partners and correct the mistakes
- T takes some writings to correct in front of the class
- T divides the class into 2 teams. Team A plays the role of the tiger. Team B plays the role of the buffalo
- Ss work in team, telling the story
- T asks a volunteer from each team to tell the story in front of the class
1. Warm up: (3’)
ª Chatting
- Do you want to read imaginary stories?
- Name some of them
- Which story do you like best?
- Have you ever read the story “How the tiger got his stripes”?
2. Pre - writing: (15’)
ª Pre - teach
ª New words:
- (to) burn (V-ed)
- (to) escape (V-d)
- (to) appear (V-d)
- (to) leave (V2) - left
- (to) light (V2) - lit
- (to) tie (V-d)
- (to) graze (V-d)
- (to) say (V2) - said
- wisdom: (n) (translation)
- a straw: (regalia)
- a servant: (translation)
- a master: (translation)
- a buffalo: (regalia)
ª Matching:
Complete the story. Use the verbs in the box:
(1) appeared	(6) tied
(2) was 	(7) lit
(3) said	(8) burned
(4) left	(9) escaped
(5) went
Comprehension questions:
a. Where was the man?
b. What did the buffalo do when the tiger appeared?
c. What did the tiger want to know?
d. What did he do before going home? Why? 
e. What did he do when he returned?
Answers:
a. He was in his field
b. It grazed nearby
c. The tiger wanted to know why the strong buffalo was the servant and the small man was the master
d. He tied the tiger to a tree with a rope because he didn’t want it to eat his buffalo
e. When he returned, he lit the straw to burn the tiger
3. While - writing: (15’)
Now imagine you are the man. Use the words to write the story. Start like this:
One day as I was in my field and my buffalo was grazing nearby, a tiger came. It asked why the strong buffalo was my servant and I was its master. I told the tiger that I had something called wisdom. The tiger wanted to see it but I said that I left the wisdom at home that day. The tiger wanted to see my wisdom. Then I tied the tiger to a tree with a rope because I didn’t want it to eat my buffalo. I went to get some straw and I burned the tiger. The tiger escaped, but today it still has black stripes from the burns
4. Post - writing: (10’)
5. Homework: (2’)
- Write the story again, imagine you are the tiger, the buffalo
Learn by heart new words
- Read again the story
-Prepare : U4 - L5 : Language focus page 44, 45
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