Giáo án Tiếng Anh 8 - Unit 13 - Lesson 4: Write

Date: 29/03/2007
	UNIT 13 
Period 83rd: 	LESSON 4: WRITE
I. Aims:
	Ss practice in writing a report on a festival they have joined
II. Language contents:
-Grammar:
-Vocabulary:
III. Techniques: Memory game, ask and answer, gap fill
IV. Teaching aids: Photocopied, picture (page 126), chart
V. Procedures:
Teacher’s and Ss’ activities
Content
-T. shows the photocopied picture to Ss and ask them to observe it carefully
-Let Ss look at the picture for about 20’’ then put it away
-T. asks Ss to listen to the questions
-Ss answer
-T. puts the picture on the board again
-Give feedback and correct
1. Warm up/ Marks 
ØMemory game
1/ How many people are there in the picture?
 What are they doing?
2/ Name all the things in the picture
*Answer key:
1/ They are participating in the rice-cooking competition
2/ Rice, basket, pans, bamboo sticks, paper fans, chopsticks, a flag
-Write 9 numbers on the board from 1 to 9
-Tells Ss each number is for a question but 3 of them are lucky numbers
-If Ss choose a lucky number, they don’t have to answer any questions 
-Divide the class into 2 teams
2. Pre-writing (15 minutes)
Ø Lucky numbers
1/ What do you call the festival where people have to cook rice?
 (The rice cooking festival)
2/ How many competitions are there in the rice-cooking festival? What are they?
( 3/ water-fetching, fire-making and rice-cooking)
3/ Lucky number
4/ What do people use to fetch water? (bottles)
5/ Lucky number
6/ Do they use pieces of wood to make fire?
(No, pieces of bamboo)
7/ What do people have to do before they cook the rice? (separate the rice from the husk)
8/ Lucky number
9/ How many people are there altogether in a team taking part in the rice-cooking festival?
(9, one for water-fetching, two for fire-making and six for rice-cooking)
-T. asks Ss to use the information in the dialogue on page 121 to fill in the gaps in the report on page 127
-Ss work in pairs
-T. corrects and remarks
3. While-writing 
ØGap-fill
*Answer key:
1/ rice-cooking 6/ traditional
2/ one/ a 7/ bamboo
3. water-fetching 8/ six
4/ run 9/ separate
5/ water 10/ added
-Ask Ss to write a similar report on a festival they’ve joined recently
-Ss look at the questions and practice speaking first by answering the questions from a " g
-T. has Ss connect the sentences to make it a report
-Monitor and help Ss with their work
-Call on some Ss to read their reports aloud
4. Post-writing
ØQuestions and answers
5. Homework
-Write your report in your notebooks
-Do exercises in workbook and prepare: Language Focus 1,2,3
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