Giáo án Tiếng Anh lớp 8 - Học kỳ I - Period 52 - Unit 8: Country life and city life - Lesson 6: Language focus

 Preparing: 19/12/2012
Teaching: 21/12/2012(chiÒu)
Period 52
Unit 8: country life and city life 
Lesson 6: Language focus
Objectives
-At the end of the lesson students can:
+Remind all words and grammars in unit 8 to do exercises perfectly.
-Contents
+Vocabulary:
 delay (v) status (n) origin (n) 
+Grammar: 
 Present Progressive tense:
To talk about the future.
To show changes with get and become 
Comparative and superlative adjectives
-Skill:
Teaching aids
Student’s and teacher’s books
Teaching procedure
Activities
Contents
Organization.(2’)
What is the weather like?
Who is absence today?
Checking the old lesson.(3’)
-(optional)
-Introduce the topic of the lesson to the students.( Today we will learn how to use the present progressive tense, comparative and superlative adjectives.)
New lesson.(35’)
Activity1
Guide the student review main grammars in unit 8:
+Read the shipping information and find out new words.
+Read all new words aloud.
Talk about the present progressive tense in brief.
-Read the dialogue a)-b) then explain the request from the task.
-Let the students practice the dialogue in pairs.
-Ask the students to read shipping information in pairs. Use the dialogue.
-Call some pairs to read.
Activity 2.
- Ask the students to work in pairs to complete the dialogues.
- Call some pairs to speak out before class.
- Call some students to go to the board and write.
-Help the students to do the work with present progressive tense.
Activity 3.
-Explain the requests from the task.
-Ask the students to choose verbs and adjectives to complete the sentences b-f.
- Call some students to go to the board and write sentences.
Activity 4.
*Help the students to review the form, usage of comparison.
-Pay their attention to the difference between short adjective and long adjective.
-Students do the works.
-Help the students to read out the advertisements.
-Explain the requests from the task.
-Students reads then write the sentences.
Consolidation
-Call some to check.
-Remark the works.
Feedback.(3’)
- Retell the main grammars.
Homework.(2’)
 Guide students do the works:
Attendence:8…………….
I-New words
- delay(v)
- departure(n)
- Status(n)
- origin(n)
II-Practice:
* Present Progressive tense
+To talk about the future
+To show changes with get and become
Eg: She is getting cold.
1. Exercises1 ( page 77): Read the dialogues. Now make similar dialogue.
 Read the dialogue. Using the shipping information.
eg: 
A: Is the boat to Quy Nhon leaving at 11.30?
B: Is that Good Fortune?
A: That’s right
B: I’m very sorry, madam, but it’s been delayed.
A: oh, no!
B: Now, it’s leaving at 13.55.
2. Exercises 2( page 78): Complete the dialogues…
a. am playing
b. are doing
c. am watching
d. am going
e. are cleaning
f.. am having
3. Exercises 3( page 78): Complete the sentences.
b. The old men are getting weak
c. We should go home. It is getting dark
d. The weather is becoming cold.
e. The students are getting better.
f. The schoolyard is becoming cleaner.
*Comparisons
a. Short adj : adj-er + than
 the adj-est
b. long adj : more adj + than
 the most + adj
4. Exercises 4( page 79):
Make comparisons
Eg: 
+ Food in the city is more expensive than in the country.
+ Food in the city is better than in the country.
5. Exercises 5( page 79):Look at the advertisements…….
- The house is more expensive than the apartment.
- The villa is the most expensive.
- The house is smaller than the villa.
- The apartment is the smallest.
*Home works.
- Study and write new words
- Do all exercises in work book
- Consolidate all knowledge.