Giáo án Tiếng Anh 8 - Unit 14: Wonders of the world

UNIT 14: WONDERS OF THE WORLD
	Division of lessons:
	1. Getting started + Listen and read
	2. Speak
	3. Listen
	4. Read
	5. Write
	6. Language focus
Date: 04/04/2007 UNIT 14: WONDERS OF THE WORLD
Period: 85 LESSON 1: GETTING STARTED + LISTEN AND READ
I. Aims:
	Ss will seek information about a language game to complete a summary
II. Language contents:
-Grammar: I don’t know how to play it
-Vocabulary: none
III. Techniques: ordering, gap fill
IV. Teaching aids: Projector
V. Procedures:
Teacher’s and Ss’ activities
Content
-Prepare some postcards or pictures of the famous world landmarks or scene spots in Vietnam
-Show the pictures, one by one, to Ss and ask them what place it is
-Divide the class into 2 teams, the team able to answer the question will get 1 point.
-Give Ss some suggestions to help them easily recognize the place
-Inform the topic: wonders of the world
-Have Ss look at the pictures on page 131 and do the matching
-Check if they know where/ in which country these wonders are
1. Warm up
àQuiz
Eg: Mount Bach Ma
à Suggestions:
 It is a place in the Central Vietnam with cold weather everyday of the year 
 —Getting started
 *Answer key:
a/ The Pyramid
b/ Sydney Opera House
c/ Stone and Read
-Set the scene:
 “Nga, Nhi and Hoa are playing a language game called guessing game. How does this game work? Rearrange the statements in the right order of the game”.
-Put the statements chart on the board
-Ask Ss to read the statements and put them in the right order.
2. Pre-reading
ØOrdering
à How to play the guessing game
-B asks questions to find out who or what is
-A thinks of a famous person or place
-B wins if he/ she can guess the correct answer
-A give B a clue
-B loses if he/ she can’t guess the correct answer
-A can only answer “yes” or “no”
-Call on some pairs to go to the board and write their answers
-Ask Ss to open their books and read the dialogue on page 131, 132 while listening to the tape/ play the tape
-Check if Ss’ guesses are right or not
-Have Ss copy the statements in the right order
-Have Ss read the dialogue again and complete the summary (2) on page 132
-Ask Ss to compare their answers with their partners
-Elicit the target language by asking Ss a question (in Vietnam)
3. While-reading
*Answer key:
2. a think of .
4. .
1. .
6. .
3. .
5. .
ØGap fill
*Answer key:
1. Game, 2. Place, 3. Clue, 4. Vietnam 5. America, 6. Golden
7. Right, 8. Was 
ØGrammar Awareness
* Model sentences:
I don’t know how to play it
 Form: S + V + question word + to –inf
 Use: Reduced form of an indirect question.
Eg: I don’t know how I can play it
 how to play it
-Asking Ss to read the summary again
-Write the worlds on the board
-Ask Ss to match the words in Column A with their explanations in Column B
-Ask some Ss to give their answers
4. Post
ØMatching
A
B
1. Suggest (v)
2. Golden (adj)
3. Clue (n)
4. bored
a. a piece of information that helps you discover the answer to question
b. What you often feel when you have nothing to do 
c. made of gold
d. make a suggestion
*Answer key:
1. d 2. c 3. a 4. b
5. Homework
-Learn model sentences by heart
-Reread the dial
-Do exercises in the workbook
-Prepare: Unit 14: Speak
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