English 8 Tiet 9 Unit 2 Read

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Week 03 Date of preparing: 10/09/12

Period 09 Date of teaching: 12/09/12

<b>UNIT 2: MAKING ARRANGEMENTS</b>

<b>Lesson 3: READ </b>

<b>I. Objectives:</b>

1. Educational aims:

2. Teaching aims: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:

- Get some knowledge about Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone.
- Develop reading skill.

<b>II. Preparations: </b>Text book, cassette tape
<b>III. Procedures:</b>

<b>Teacher’s activities</b> <b>Students’ activities</b>
<b>1. Warm - up (5’)</b>

<i><b>* Brainstorming: </b></i>

- Have students answer the question:
What is the telephone used for?
* Possible answers:

- to chat with friends.
- to communicate.
- to have a message.

- to call someone.
- to make arrangements.

- to talk to a person who lives far
from………

- Whole class.

<b>2. Pre - reading (5’)</b>
- Ask pre-reading questions.

1. Do you know who it is? (Picture)
2. What nationality was he?

a. American b. Canadian c. Scottish
3. What did he invent?

a. a radio b. a television
c. a telephone d. a lamp

- Ask students to read the text silently to find
the correct answers to the questions above.
- Explain the vocabulary:

1. Emigrate (v)
2. Deaf-mute (n)
3. experiment with (v)
4. transmit (v)

5. Assistant (n)

6. conduct (v)
7. device (n)

- Answer the questions.

- Read silently and discuss to find the
correct answers.

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8. demonstrate (v)
9. Countless (a)
10. exhibition (n)
11. commercial (a)

- Have students notice the past tense used in
the text.

<b>3. While - reading (20’)</b>

- Have students read the text silently again to
do the true/false sentences.

- Call students to give the answers.
a. F b. F c. T d. F e. F f. T

- Have students read the text again to order
the events.

- Call some students to read the answers.
1. d 2. e 3. a 4. g 5. c 6. b 7. f

- Listen.

- Read silently and work in groups.
- Give the answers.

- Pair works.

- Read the answers.
<b>4. Post - reading (13’)</b>

- Ask students to read the text again to answer
the questions.

1. When and where was Alexander Graham
Bell born?

2. What countries did he emigrate?
3. Who did he work with in America?
4. What did he do soon?

5. Did this help him to invent a television?
6. Who helped him to invent this device?
7. What was the first telephone message?
8. When was the first telephone in
commercial use

- Group works
1

1. He was born on March 3, 1874 in
Edinburgh.

2. He emigrated to Canada and the USA.
3. In America, he worked with deaf-mute at
Boston University.

4. He did experiments with ways of
transmitting speech over a long distance.
5. No. This helped him to invent a
telephone.

6. Thomas Watson.

7. It was “Mr. Watson, come here. I want
you.”

8. It was in commercial use by 1877.
<b>5. Homework (2’)</b>

- Reread the text and redo the exercises.
- Prepare next lesson: Unit 2: Write
<b>IV. Comments:</b>

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