Giáo án Tiếng Anh 8 - Unit 15 (cont) - Lesson 2: Speak and listen

Date: 24/04/2007
UNIT 15 (Cont)
Period 93rd : 	LESSON 2: SPEAK AND LISTEN
I. Aims:
	Ss will be able to use some common useful expressions to express agreement and disagreement
II. Language contents:
-Grammar:
-Vocabulary:
III. Techniques: guessing game, brainstorm, matching, gap fill
IV. Teaching aids: photocopied pictures (page 139), charts
V. Procedures:
Teacher’s and Ss’ activities
Content
-Ask Ss each to think of one of the ways computers are helpful and write it on a piece of paper
-Call on a student to the front of the class
-Get the rest of the class ask him/ her
-The student can only answer with yes or no.
-Tell Ss the one to have the right guess will get one good mark and go on answering the classmates/ questions
1. Warm up
àGuessing game “Do you think that ?”
 “Do you think that computers are ?”
-Write the topic on the board: useful expressions to express agreement and disagreement
-Put the table on the board and elicit Ss’ answers then write them in the table
-Explain the phrase “on the other hand” to Ss
-Get Ss to copy the table
2. Presentation
àSpeak
ØBrainstorm
Opinion
Agreement
Degree of Agreement
disagreement
 I like 
 I don’t like 
 I think 
 I feel 
 I don’t believe
 So do I
 I agree
 You’re right
 Neither do I
 I agree, but 
 Yes, but on the other hand
 I disagree
 I can’t agree with you
 No, I think
-Put the photocopied pictures (page 139) on the right of the board and the words cues on the left (not in order)
-Ask Ss to match the words with the pictures
-Call on some Ss to go to the board to draw the matching lines
-Erase the words but leave the pictures
-Get a student to demonstrate the model (a)
-Ask Ss to use the adjectives in the box on page 140 to express their opinions after going through the meaning of some new words
-Ask Ss to use the pictures on the board to practice speaking with their partners
-Call on some pairs to demonstrate for the class
-Give feedback and correct
3. Practice
ØMatching
1/ Reading comic books d. £
2/ Playing in the rain a. £
3/ Driving a car b. £
4/ Foreign food c. £
 *Answer key:
1/ b 2/ c 3/ a 4/ d
ØPicture drill
— Oral drill
T: I think driving a car is easy
P: I disagree. I think it’s difficult to drive a car or so do I
1/ entertaining
2/ time-consuming
3/ challenging
+ Suggestion
a. Driving a car
 Learning to drive a car
- Easy once we get used to it
- Challenging/ difficult to get used to driving in traffic
- Dangerous
b. Comic books
 Reading comic books
- Boring
- Interesting/ fun
- Time-consuming
c. Playing in the rain
- Fun
- interesting
- Entertaining
d. Foreign food Hamburgers, pizza, French fries
- Delicious
- Fun to cat
- Unhealthy
-Put the flow chart on the board and have Ss copy it into their exercise books
-Get Ss to understand how events are sequenced in a flow chart and the meanings of all the shapes used in the chart
àListen
— Pre-listening
ØPre-teach
-Ask Ss to look at the flow chart and guess the words in the gaps
-Play the tape (2 or 3 times) and ask Ss to listen
-Tell Ss to fill the gaps with the information they have heard from the tape
-Have Ss compare the answers with their partners
-Give feedback and correct
-Have Ss copy
 — While-listening
ØGap fill
-Have Ss write a set of instructions on how to get a drink from a machine, using the flow chart
-Present the dialogue and have Ss repeat, sentence by sentence
-Call on one student to demonstrate the dialogue
-Open pair
-Closed pairs: Ss make similar dialogues referring the cues on page 140 (below the dialogue) to replace the information
-Put the mapped dialogue chart on the board
4. Post
a/ Post-listening
ØWrite it up
b/ Post-speaking
 ƒ €
 I am having problems with 
 What’s wrong?
 It doesn’t work. I think 
 No, You didn’t 
 Oh! Sorry
5. Homework
-Do exercises in workbook
-Prepare: Lesson 3: Read
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