Giáo án Tiếng Anh 8 unit 13: Festivals

GIÁO ÁN TIẾNG ANH LỚP 8.
PERIOD 78 - UNIT 13 : FESTIVALS
LESSON 1: GETTING STARTED + LISTEN AND READ
I. Objectives:
- By the end of the lesson, Ss can understand the content of the lesson about the
traditional festivals.
* Contents:
- Vocab: Pottery, fetch, yell, urge, rub, bamboo, separate, husk, judge, council, grand
prize.
- G:rammar Review passive.
II. Teaching aids:
- book, chalk, tape, cassette.
III. Teaching procedure:
A. Class- organization(1’)
* Greeting:
* Checking attendance:
8A

8B

B.New lesson:.
Teacher’s activities
1. Warm up(5’)

Contents

- Write structures and make sentences
with past progressive tense.
- T guides Ss how to do exercise

I, Getting started

- Gives some newwords

- pottery (n)

- T asks some yes/no questions

- ancient (a)

Eg: Should Tom go to Vung Tau? Why?

1, Tom should go to Vung Tau

- Asks Ss to work in pairs

because there are beaches there.


- Some Ss read before class

2, David should go to Hue.

2. Presentation(10’).
- Show the picture on the board and II. Listen and read.
then:

1. New words:

- Asks Ss some questions:

- water-fetching (n)

+ What festivals do you know?

- fire-making (n)

+ What festival is in this picture?

- rub (v)cọ sát

+ Can you tell me something you know - bamboo (n) cây tre
about the rice-cooking festival?

- separate (v)tách
- husk (n) vỏ trấu

-T

introduces

the

content

of

the - judge (n) ban giám khảo

dialogue

- grand prize (n) giải nhất

- Plays the tape.

- council (n)

- Ss listen and find new words.

- urge (v)

- - Explain some newwords

- yell (v) hò hét

- Guides Ss to read new words.

2. Structure:
*Compoun noun= N + N

- Explains the compound nouns

Eg: rice – cooking
Fire – making

3. Practice(15’)

3.Practice:

- ASk Ss to listen and repeat

1.Practice the diologue with a

- Ask Ss to read in pairs (2').

partner

- Call Some pairs read before class
- Asks Ss to read the dialogue again and 2. Answer True or False? Correct
answer True or False

the false setences

- Work in pairs (2’)

a, F (Two – one)


- Some Ss give the results .

b, F (four – a)

- Corrects mistakes.

c, T
d, F (wood – bamboo)
e, F ( team members- judges)
f, T

4. Production(10’)
- T asks some questions about the

content of the dialogue.
+ How do the people take water in rice
cooking competition?
+ Do they make a fire by rubbing pieces
of bamboo together?
+ How many people participate in this
event? (etc)

5, Home work(5’):
- Learn by heart new words.
- Read and translate the dialogue.
- Prepare for speaking and listen

PERIOD 79- UNIT 13 (CONT) FESTIVALS
LESSON 2 : SPEAK + LISTEN


I. Objectives:
- By the end of the lesson: Ss can talk about the preparations for some festivals.
- Listen and get information to fill in the gaps.
II. Teaching aids:
- book, chalk, tape, cassette.
III. Teaching procedure:
A. Class- organization(1’)
* Greeting:
* Checking attendance:
8A

8B

B.New lesson:.
Teacher’s activities
I, Warm up(5’).

Contents

- Write new words which concern the
topic “rice-cooking festival”
- Introduce the lesson

2. Production(10’)
Activity 1: Speaking
+ Pre-speaking.

I. Speak.

- T introduces about the dialogue

1,Put their sentences in the

- Guides Ss how to do.

correct order.

- Ss work in pairs (put the sentences in - Pomegranate(n): quả lựu.
the correct order) (2').

1) A

6) J

- Some Ss give the results.

2) F

7) B

- Corrects mistakes.

3) C

8) G


- Asks some pairs to read the dialogue 4) H

9) E

before class.

10) I

5) D

+ While-speaking
- T guides Ss to choose a favorite
festival (Ex: a school festival)
- T gives some cues and guides Ss to 2, Now make up your own dialogue
make a dialogue

Eg:

+Decorate/ clean/ paint (the house, the
room, the gate).

A:

Have

you

decorated

our

+ Buy cakes/drinks/fruits/candies...

classroom ?

+ Get new dress/clothes..

B: Yes, I have. Where are you

+ Write/send letters of invitation.

going now?

- Work in pairs (3’)(Make similar A: I go to the market to buy some
dialogues)

cakes.

- Some pairs practice before class

B: Could you collect my new

- Corrects mistakes

clothes?

+ Post-speaking.

A: Sure, I will.

- Some good Ss make new dialogues.

B: What can I do now?
A: You can write invitation cards.

Activity 2: Listening
* Pre-listening.
- Asks Ss some questions:
+ What did you buy for Tet?
+ What do people often buy for Tet?
- T introduces about the content of the
dialogue

“

The

Robinsons

are B, Listening.

preparing for Tet. So what do you
think they want to buy?”
- T gives some newwords

1, Listen and fill in the gaps.
- peach blossom (n)


- Guides Ss to read newwords

- bunch (n)

* While - listening.

- marigold (n)

- Plays the tape, Ss listen and fill in the - dried watermelon seed (n)
gaps (2-3 times)

- spring roll (n)

- Compare the results with a partner
- Some Ss give the answer
- Listen again to check the answer
* Post-listening

a, …John ….. market.

- T guides Ss how to complete the notes

b, …. traditional …

- plays the tape again and complete the c, …. dried watermelon seeds.
notes

d, …. make ….

- Some Ss give things which each
person does
- Corrects mistakes

2, Complete the notes.
Mr Robinson: buys some peach
blossoms and a bunch of flowers.
Liz: buys some candies and one
packet of dried watermelon seeds.

5.Homework(5’):

Mrs Robinson: goes to Mrs Nga's

- Learn by heart new words

to learn how to make spring rolls.

- write about your preparations for Tet
- Prepare for reading

PERIOD 80 - UNIT 13 (CONT) FESTIVALS
LESSON 4:
I. Objectives:

READ


- By the end of the lesson, Ss can understand the content of the lesson about Christmas
Day
- Contents:
Vocab: custom, spread, design, carol, unsuitable, patron saint, poem, jolly,
professor.
Grammar: structure: have sb do sth
II. Teaching aids:
- Book, chalk, extra board.
III. Teaching procedure:
A. Class- organization(1’)
* Greeting:
* Checking attendance:
8A

8B

B.New lesson:.
1. Warm up(5’)
- Talk about your preparations for Tet
- In troduce the topic of the lesson

2. Pre-reading(10’)
- asks Ss some questions:
+ What do you often do at Christmas?

1.New words

+ Do you celebrate Christmas?

- custom (n): phong tục

- T introduces about the content of the - spead (v): lan truyền.
lesson.

- design (n): thiết kế.

- T reads the text first, Ss listen and - carol (n): bài thánh ca.
find new words.

- church (n): giáo hội.
- unsuitable (adj): Không phù hợp.

- Guides Ss to read new words

- patron saint (n): thánh bảo trợ.


- poem (n):Bài thơ
- Explains the new structure

- jolly (a): vui nhộn

- Ask Ss to make sentences

- professor (n): giáo sư.

Check and correct
2.Structure:
Eg: He had someone design a card
3. While-reading(15’).

I have my Mom wash my clothes

- Asks Ss to read the text in silence -

Have sbd do sth

(2’) and guides Ss how to complete 3.Practice:
the table.
- Work in pairs (2')
- some Ss write on the extra board

3.1, Complete the table
Christmas

Place of

specials

Origin

Date

- Corrects mistakes.
Christmas
- Asks Ss to read again the text and
find the answers for the questions
given.
- work in pairs (2’)
- some pairs ask and answer

Riga

Early

trees
Christmas

England

1500s
mid-19th

cards
Christmas

No infor

800 years

carols
Santa Claus

USA

1823

- some write the answers on the board
- corrects mistakes

3.2, Answer the questions
a, The Christmas tree came to the USA in
the 1800s.
b, Because he wanted to send Christmas
greetings to his friends
c, Christmas songs were first performed
800 years ago.
d, An American professor Clement Clarke
Moore wrote the poem.


e, Santa Claus is based on the description
of Saint Nicholas in the poem.

4. Post-reading(10’)
- asks some good Ss to retell
something about Christmas tree/
cards/ carols/ ….

5.Home work(5’):

- Learn by heart New words
- Read the text and translate,
and Prepare for writing.

PERIOD 81 - UNIT 13 (CONT) FESTIVALS
LESSON 5:

WRITE

I. Objectives:
By the end of the lesson, Ss can write a short paragraph to report about the festival


* Contents:
- Vocab: communal house
- Grammar: Review passive.
II. Teaching aids:
- books, chalk, extra board,….
III. Teaching procedure:
A. Class- organization(1’)
* Greeting:
* Checking attendance:
8A

8B

B.New lesson:.
1. Warm up(5’)
- write the words which concern the ricecooking festival

2. Pre-writing(10’).
- asks Ss some questions:
+ How many competitions are there in 1. Fill in the gaps in this report.
the rice-cooking festival?
+ Can you tell me how the water- 1, rice-cooking.

6, traditional

fetching/

7, bamboo

fire-making/

rice-cooking 2, one/a

contest was held?

3, Water-fetching.

8, Six

- Explains the demand of the exercise

4, run.

9, separate

- Ss read the report in silence and fill in 5, water.
the gaps (3’)

- Calls one by one to write on the board
- Corrects mistakes.
- Some sts read again the report.

10, added.


3. While-writing(15’).
- Explains the demand of the exercise

2. Write the similar report

- Asks Ss to choose a festival to report Eg:
(T gives the nessessary words)

This shows how Thuong temple was held.

- Guides Ss to answer the questions

The festival was held in the temple on the

given first

fifteenth day of the first month of the year. It

- Ss work in groups of four

lasted about two or three days. There were

- Asks Ss to correct mistakes themselves

many activities during the festival such as:

- calls 1 or 2 Ss to write their report on games, shopping , food, ……In the festival,
the board

people offered God their offerings to thank for

- Corrects mistakes.

his blessings during the previous year and pray
the peace for the next year. Everybody can take

4. Post-writing(10’)

part in this festival. I think the festival is the

- guides Ss to write about the boat-racing occasion for the people to show their gratitude
in Soc trang

to God.

5.Home work(5’):
-Rewrite paragraphs to report about the *Exercise:
festivals
- Prepare for language focus.

a, Boat-racing

b, Soc Trang.
c, In one day
d, one competition
e, Each boat race along the river and which
team came to the starting position first won the
grand prize
f, 18 or 28 or 34 people took part in


PERIOD 81-UNIT 13 (CONT):FESTIVALS
LESSON 5: LANGUAGE FOCUS

I. Objectives:
By the end of the lesson, Ss can practice the reported speech, pasive voice and
compound-words.
*Contents:
- Vocab: bull fighting, flower-arranging, rice-exporting.
- Grammar: reported speech, passive form.
II. Teaching aids:
- book, chalk,..
III. Teaching procedure:
A. Class- organization(1’)
* Greeting:
* Checking attendance:
8A

8B

B.New lesson:.
1. Warm up(5’):

-asks Ss to make some examples about
passive form
- corrects and introduces newlesson.

2. Presentation(10’)

I, Grammar

- Asks Ss to retell the form of the 1. Passive form
passive

- Be + P.P

- Gives some examples

- simple present: is/am/are + PP


- simple past:

was/were + PP

- simple future: will + be + PP
- present perfect: have/has + been + PP

3.Practice(15’)
- T guides how to complete each verb II, Practice
into blank and tense of each sentence.

1, Complete the sentence, using the

passive forms of the verbs in the box.

- Work in pairs (2')

a, were performed

- Some Ss write on the board

b, was decorated and put

- Corrects mistakes.

c, is made.
d, will be held
e, was awarded.
f, was written.
2, Complete the conversation.
(1) has been jumbled.

- guides Ss how to complete

(2) has been broken.

- Work in pairs.

(3) has been broken.

- Some Ss give the result

(4) has been scattered.

- Corrects mistakes.

(5) has been pulled.

- Some pairs read again the dialogue.

3,Rewrite the sentences .
- N + Ving : fire-making
- Ving + N : washing-machine

- T explains how to use and form Eg: It's a contest in which participants
compound-words

have to cook rice.

- Give examples

→ It's a rice-cooking contest.
a, It’s a fire-making contest

- Work in pairs.

b, It’s a bull-fighting festival


c, It’s a car-making industry
- some Ss write on the board

d, It’s a flower-arranging contest

e, It’s a rice-exporting country

- corrects mistakes

f, It’s a clothes-washing machine.
4, Report what the man told Mrs Thu

- Guides Ss hoe to change from the Eg: “I’m a plumber”
direct speech into indirect speech

He said (that) he was a plumber.

- T guides how to change S, V, Adv into * Note: Change the S, tenses, adv from
reported speech

the direct speech into indirect speech

- Asks Ss to do exercise in pairs (3’)

b, He said he could fix the faucets

- Some Ss write on the board.

c, He said the pipes were broken.

- Corrects mistakes

d,He said new pipes were very expensive
e, He said I had to pay him then.

4. Production(10’)
- repeats the passive form and the
reported speech.

5.Home work(5’):
- Learn by heart how to change into
passive, reported speech.
- Do all the exercises again
- Prepare Unit 14 (getting started +
listen and read)