Giáo án Tiếng Anh lớp 8 - Period 79 - Unit 12: A vacation abroad - Lesson 4: Read

Preparing: 05/03/2013
Teaching: 14/03/2013
Period 79.
Unit 12 : a vacation abroad 
Lesson 4 : read 
A. Objectives:
-At the end of the lesson students can:
+Read postcards for specific information.
B. Content: 
 - Vocabulary: 
volcano, pour out, be situated, lava, carve, overhead.
 - Grammar: 
Past progressive. 
 - Skills: 
Reading .
Teaching aids:
 - Lesson plan, Students’ book ; workbook.
Procedure:
Activities
Contents
Organization. (1min):
Greetings and checking attendances:
Checking the old leson.(4min)
- Play a game:
*. Possible key:
- visit beautiful places. – clim mountains.
- take photos. – buy sourvenirs
New lesson.(40min)
1.Pre- reading.
a. Preteach:
- Pre – teach new words
*. Checking technique:
 - Rub out and remember.
b. Prequestions:
- Predict the answers.
- Review the past progresive.
 S + was / were + V- ing ....
2.While- reading. 
- Ss read the 5 postcards on page 116 – 117 and answer the skimming questions.
- Ss read the postcard again and do Read 1 ( P. 117)
*. Comprehesion questions:
- Ss read the postcards to find out the answers to thequestions on page 118.
 3.Post- reading.
- Ss discuss what Mrs. Quyen did and saw, then write down .
Feedback:(3min)
Guide the students review the contents.
Homework: (2min)
Help the students prepare the new leson.
Attention:8………….
Brain storms.
What do you do when you travel?
I. New words:
- volcano (n)
- pour out (v)
- be situated (v)
- lava (n)
- carve (v)
- overhead (adv)
II. Read:
*. Skimming questions:
1, How many places did Mrs. Quyen go to in the USA?
2, What did she do?
*. Write what Mrs. Quyen did and saw in each of these places: 
Place
What did Mrs. Quyen do and see?
Hawaii
New York
Chicago
Mount – 
 Rushmore
San -
Francisco
- went swimming, visited Kilauea Volcano.
- went shopping, bought lost of souvernirs.
- saw Lake Michigan.
- saw the heads of four Amercian presidents carved into the rock.
- visited Fisherman’s Wharf, the Napa Valley wine – growing area and the Alcatraz prison.
*. Answer the questions: 
a, She went there by plane.
b, She saw the famous prison on the island of Alcatraz prison.
c, It is a mount where the heads of four American presidents are carved into the rock.
d, It is also called “ The windy city” .
e, She went shopping.
 Discussion.
Do exercise in workbook.
Prepare for the next lesson.