Giáo án Tiếng Anh 8 - Unit 13: Festivals

	UNIT 13: FESTIVALS
	Division of lesson:
Getting started + Listen and read 
Speak + Listen
Read
Write
Language focus 1,2,3. 4
Date:22/03/2007
Period 80th : LESSON 1: GETTING STARTED + LISTEN AND READ 
I. Aims:
	Ss will be able to ask for explanations of events
II. Language contents
- Vocabulary: (v) fetch, yell, urge, rub, participate, award
- Grammar: compound words
III. Techniques: chatting, what and where
IV. Teaching aids: cassette, pictures
V. Procedures:
Teacher’s and Ss’ activities
Content
-T. writes the names on the board
-Tell Ss these people are going to go on their visits to Vietnam and they need advice on where to go
-Introduce the names, one by one
1. Warm up / Marks (8 minutes)
 Ø Chatting
 Tom, David, Huckleberry, Oliver, Robinson
1/ Tom likes swimming and sunbathing
 Where should he go?  Why? 
2/ David is interested in ancient citiesà?
3/ Huckleberry likes mountain – climbing 
à ?
4/ Oliver is keen on potteryà ?
5/ Robinson is fond of crowed placesà ?
-T. presents some new words
-Ss repeat and say the meaning
-Ss copy
-T. presents model sentence
-T. checks vocabulary
-T. set the scene: “Ba invites his friend liz to a traditional festival in the North of VietNam. Do you know what kind of festival it is?
(It is the rice-cooking festival)
-T. asks Ss to guess what they are going to read by asking questions
-Ss open their books, read the dialogue and listen to the tape
2. Presentation (15 minutes)
Ø Pre-teach vocabulary:
+fetch (v) : to go to get (sth) and bring it
+yell (v) : to shout loudly
+urge (v) : make a person / an animal move more quickly
+rub (v)
+participate = to take part (in sth)
à participation (n)
+award (v)
 He is the winner of the competition. They (award) him the first prize)
Ø Model sentences:
 There are three competitions: water-fetching, fire-making and rice-cooking
ØWhat and where
ØSuggestions:
+How many competitions do people enter in a rice-cooking festival?
+In water-fetching festival competition, what do people do?
-Ask Ss to read the statements and check (ü) the boxes, using the information in the dialogue
-Ss work in pairs and correct the false sentences
3. Practice (10 minutes)
ØTrue or false
 * Answer key:
F à Only one team member takes part in the water-fetching contest
F à One person has to collect one water bottle
T
F à Pieces of bamboo are used to make the fire
F à In the final contest, the judges taste the rice
T
-Deliver posters to Ss
-Ask Ss to do exercise on page 130 and write their answers on the posters
-Ss work in pairs / groups
-Correcting
4. Consolidation (10 minutes)
ØLanguage focus 3:
 * Answer key:
A fire-making contest
A bull-fighting fighting festival
A car-making industry
A flower-arranging contest
A rice-exporting country
A clothes-washing machine
5. Homework (2 minutes)
- Learn new words, do exercises again
- Do exercise 3 in workbook
- Prepare: Lesson 2: Speak + Listen
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