Giáo án Tiếng Anh 8 unit 10: Recycling

GIÁO ÁN TIẾNG ANH LỚP 8.

Unit 10:

Recycling

Lesson 1/59: Getting started + Listen and Read
A. Aim:
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to do something to protect the
environment and save natural resources.
*. Lexical item : Protect , representative , mean , fertilizer , reduce , reuse.
*. Skill : Listening and reading.
*. Techniques : Practice in paits .
*. Teaching aids: posters, pictures, tape.
B. Content:
I. Warmer:

Ways to reduce the
amount of garbage

Brainstorm:
reuse garbage

? What do you do with used plastic bag?
? How to reduce garbagwe?
II. Pre-reading:
1. Pre Teach Vocabulary:
- protect

(v):

bảo vệ

(to keep S.O/ St safe from danger)
(to keep S.O/ St from S.O/ St.)

- representative (n) :

đại diện

(translation)

- mean

(n):

có nghĩa là

(trans)

- fertilizer

(n):

phân bón

(example)

- reduce

(v):

cắt giảm

- reuse

(v):

tái sử dụng

* Checking Vocabulary :
2. T/ F predictions:

R .O . R

(explan)
(example)


- Set the scene: A representative from Friends of the Earth, Miss Blake, is talking
to the students of Quang Trung School. Friends of the Earth shows people how to
protect the environment and save natural resources.
- Put the chart with the T/ F statements on the board.
a. Friends of the Earth is an organization to help people make friends with each
other.
b. Miss Blake asks the sts to remember 3 things: reduce, reuse, recycle.
c. Reduce means buying the products which are overpacked.
d. We can not reuse things like envelopes, glass, plastic bottles, old plastic bags.
e. Miss Blake says that we should use cloth bags and shouldn’t use plastic bags at
all.
f. Recycling means not just throwing things away but trying and finding another

use for them.
- Ask ss to read the statements then guess which one is true or which one is false.
III. While-reading:
1. Checking ss' guess:
- Let ss to look at the book on p.89-90 and read the dialogue and check their
predictions.
- Ss work in pairs.
* Answer key:

T/F.

2, 5, 6: T
F: .... protect the environment and save natural resource.
F: Reduce means not buying .....
F: We can reuse things.
2. Lucky number game:
* Question:
a/. Who is talking to ss of Quang Trung?


b/ What does Miss Blake mean by reduce?

1(g)
5(a)

2(h)
6(e)

3(c)
7(f)

4(d)
8(b)

c/ What things can we reuse?
d/ What does recycle mean?
e/ Lucky number.
f/ Where can we look information on recycling things?
g/ Why does Miss Blake tell Lan that we shouldn’t use plastic bags at all?
h/ Lucky number.
* Answer key:
a/ Miss Blake.
b/ Reduce means not buying products which are overpackage.
c/ We can reuse things like envelopes, glass, plastic bottles, and old plastic bags.
d/ Recycle means not just throwing things away. Try and find another use for
them.
f/ We can look for information on recycling things by having a contact with an
organization like Friends of the Earth, going to the local library, or asking our
family and friends.
e/ We shouldn’t use plastic bags because when we theow them away they could
stay very long and could not be self-destroyed.
IV. Post-reading:
* Discussion:
- Work in groups and answer the question:
? How to protect our environment?
- Ask ss to express their opinions/ ideas on a poster.
- Call ss to stick their answer on board.
V. Homework:
- Learn by heart vocabulary.
- Prepare for Speak and listen.

- Do exercises in workbook.


Unit 10:

Recycling

Lesson 2/60: Speak + Listen
A- Aim:
By the end of this lesson sts will be able to practice using new vocabulary
related to recycling and to introduce and practice writing noun clauses.
*. Grammar : Adj + Noun clause.
*. Lexical item : Grain , heap , rat , include , condensation , shell.
*. Skill : Listening and speaking.
*. Techniques : Practice in spairs and group.
*. Teaching aids: Poster, cards.
B- Content:
* Warm up:
- Gradual pictures, Draw gradual pictures for Ss guess. (2-3 of the words below).
Then run through the whole set of word cards that will be used for the sorting
activity.
Book, banana peel, can, shirt, old shoe, bottle, toy car, envelope, hat, bowl

Put them on the board so students can see them.
I. Speaking:
1. Pre speaking:
a. Vocabulary: Plastic, vegetable matter, leather, fabric, metal. Pronunciation
target: stress pattern in “plastic” and “fabric” ( on first syllable. Writte them on the

board in a table (seeblow)
Paper

Plastic

Vegetable

Glass

matter
b. Mapped dialogue:
A: What group does the ............. belong to ?

Metal

Fabric

Leather


B: I think it belongs to .................................
A: Yes, I agree with you./ No, I do’t think so. I think it belongs to ................... .
2. While Speaking : Students work in pairs to decide what category each of the
words on the board.
3. Post Speaking:
Call on some Ss to the board to sort the words into columns.
Paper

Plastic

Vegetable

Glass

Metal

Fabric

Leather

Book

(toy

matter
Banana peel

Bottle

Can

Shirt

Old shoe

Envelope

car)

(bowl)

(toy car)

Hat

(bowl)
4. Grammar Presentation: Noun Clauses. Write on the board.
“ I’m happy that you can divide these things into categories. You did very well”
Form, meaning, & use of Adj + noun clauses.
5. Brainstorm adjectives about feelings:
Ex. Happy, sad, sure....
T: Put a poster with some noun clauses on the board, Ss try to write sentences
using the adjectives they brainstormed and the noun clauses.
1- You invited me to your birthday party.
2- My friend is moving to Hanoi
3- She passed the exam
4- We don’t have time to see the movie
5- The recycling club is going to meet on Saturday.
Tell Ss to try to write a sentence using I am adj + that + clauses . Do one example :
I’m happy my friend is moving to Hanoi. Or I’m sad that my friend is moving to
Hanoi. Tell Ss that they can use any adjective that makes sense.
II. Listening:


1. PreListening:
a. Pre Teach Vocabulary:
grain

(n) :

thóc lúa

(synonym : rice)

heap

(n) :

đống

(translation)

rat

(n) :

chuột

(synonym : mouse)

bao gồm

(translation)

sự ngưng hơi

(translation)

(to) include

:

Condensation

(n) :

Shell

(n) :

* Checking Vocabulary :

vỏ

(translation)

R . O . R.

b. Set the scene : You are going to listen to a spcialist answer Qs how to make
compost.
- Have Ss guess the specialist will explain what we should do.
- Have Ss read the Qs and the answers.
2. While Listening:
- Have ss listen to the tape. (Twice)
- Have ss share their answers.
- Listen again and check their answers.
- Correct

a) A

b) B

c) B

d) B

3. Post Listening:

Retell.

- Have Ss retell again
- Have Ss rewrite full paragraph.
- Correct if necessary.
III. Homework:
- Learn by heart Vocabulary
- Do exercise 1,2,3,4 in workbook.
- Prepare: Read (Unit 10)