Giáo án Tiếng Anh lớp 8: Unit 2 Making arrangements Lesson 4 : Read pdf

Unit 2 Making arrangements
Lesson 4 : Read
A / Aims and Objectives : By the end of the lesson , Ss will be able to
know more about Alexander Graham Bell .
B / Teaching aids : Textbooks , posters , pictures of Bill .
C / Procedure :
I / Warm up : Brainstorming
- Let Ss answer the questions by coming to
the board and write :
To chat with friend

 Possible answers :
- to have a message
- to call someone
- to make arrangements





Play games






What is the
telephone used
for
?

- to talk to a person who lives far from
- to get information at the airport or
railway station quickly
II / Pre - reading : Introduce the aims and
some new words to Ss .
1.Pre teach vocabulary :
- to emigrate = to go another country to live

- to transmit ( translation )
- to conduct = to carry out
- to demonstrate ( translation )
- a device ( translation )
- a deaf – mute = a person who is unable to
hear and speak .
* Checking vocabulary : What and
where
2 . T / F statements prediction :
- Hang the poster of T / F statements on the
board and ask Ss to work in pairs and guess


Read their answers
aloud and copy .





Listen carefully

Listen and repeat in
chorus , then
individually .
Guess its meanings

Copy down

which statements are true or false .
a. Alexander G. Bell was born in the USA
b. He worked with deaf – mute patients in a
hospital in Boston .
c. Thomas Watson was Bell,s assistant.
d. Bell and Watson introduced the telephone
in 1877 .
e. Bell experimented his invention at a lot of
exhibitions .
- Call on some pairs to read their
predictions and write them on the board .
III / While - reading :
* True or false :
-Turn on the tape 2 times and ask them to
look at their books to read the text , then
check their prediction
Guess

Answer

Correction

Play game




Look at the poster
and work in pairs to
predict .






Read their
predictions


a F He was born in
Edinburgh in Scotland
b F He worked with deaf –
mute patients at Boston
University
c T
d F He introduced telephone
in 1876
e F He experimented with
ways of transmitting
speech over a long
distance

f T
- Ask some Ss to read the correct answers
aloud .
* Ordering :
- Ask Ss to look at the exercise and read the

Listen , read the text
, then check their
predictions .





- Correct the false
ones




Read them aloud


events of Bell,s life , then put them in the
correct order .
- Have them compare with their partners
- Call on some Ss to read their answers
aloud .
- Correct and give feedback
= > Alexander Graham Bell

1. Was born in Scotland
2. went to live in Canada
3. went to live in the USA
4. worked with people who could neither
speak nor hear
5. worked with Thomas Watson
6. successfully demonstrate his invention

7. invented the telephone .
- Call on some Ss to read all the correct
order sentences aloud .
IV / Post - reading : Writing it up
Do the exercise

Read their answers









Read their correct
sentences aloud


Write individually .
Compare with their

- Get Ss to write a paragraph about Bell,s
life , using the information from the text .
- Call on some Ss to demonstrate their
writings in front of class .
- Correct mistakes if any and give
Suggestions :
V / Homework :
1. Copy down their writings .
2. Do the exercises in workbook .
3. Prepare the next lesson .

partners .
Read their writings
aloud .