English 8 Unit 3 Write

Teacher: Ngo Sach Thieu

Unit 3:A trip to the countryside
Period 18: Write
Friday, October 23
th
, 2009

1. Warm – up: Jumbled words
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apriotr:
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asg tstoain:
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obbaom:
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nbayna rtee:
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ghihwya:
airport
gas station
bamboo
banyan tree
highway

2. Vocabulary:
- picnic site (n): - điểm dã ngoại
- cái mền, chăn- blanket (n):
- bịt mắt bắt dê- blind man’s buff :
- (to) gather:

- tập trung, thu gom
- một cách vội vã- hurriedly (adv):

3. Ordering
pictures:
A B
C D
E2
13
45

3. Write:
Look at the pictures and the information
given. Then write a passage entitled
“ A country picnic”. Start like this:
It was a beautiful day

beautiful day /
my friends
and I / go /
picnic / .
take / bus /
countryside/
walk / 20
minutes /
picnic site /
river
It was a beautiful
day, my friends
and I decided to go

on a picnic. We
took a bus to the
countryside and
walked about
20 minutes to
the picnic site
near a river.

put down /
blankets /
lay out /
food
We put down
the blankets
and laid out
the food.

After meal /
play / games /
“What song is
it?” / Blind
man’s buff”.
Late
/afternoon / go
fishing. We
enjoy / picnic.
After meal ,
we played some
games such as:
“ What song

is it?” and
“ Blind man’s
Buff”. Late in
the afternoon,
we went fishing .
We enjoyed
our picnic.

when /look at /
time / it/
nearly 6:30 pm /
hurriedly gather /
things / run /
bus stop
When we looked
at the time, it
was nearly
6:30 pm. We
hurriedly gathered
all the things
and ran to the
bus stop.

We / lucky /
catch / last
bus / and /
we / arrive /
home / very
late / evening
we were lucky

to catch the
last bus and
we arrived
home very
late in the
evening.


It was a beautiful day. My friends and I decided
to go on a picnic. We took a bus to the countryside
and walked about 20 minutes to the picnic site near
a river. We put down the blankets and laid out the
food. After meal, we played games such as: “What
song is it?” and “ Blind man’s Buff”. Late in the
afternoon, we went fishing. We enjoyed our picnic.
When we looked at the time, it was nearly 6:30 pm ,
we hurriedly gathered all things and ran to the bus
stop. We were lucky to catch the last bus and we
arrived home late in the evening.

4. Questions and answers:
1. Why did you go for a picnic?
2. How long did it take to walk to the picnic site?
3. When did you play games?
4. What time did you run to the bus stop?
5. Did you go home early in the afternoon?
Because it was a beautiful day.
It took 20 minutes.
After meal.
At 6:30 pm.

No, we didn’t.

5. Homework:
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Learn the vocabulary.
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Practice questions and answers in pairs.
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Prepare for Language focus.