Giáo án Tiếng Anh 8 unit 13

Teacher’s and students’ activities

On the board

- Write the names on the board.
- Give the information and then ask question.
- Students look at the board, listen and answer the question.

Elicit words from students.
- Guide students to read new words.

Set the scene: Ba invites his friend to a traditional festival in the north of Vietnam. Do you know what kind of festival it is?

(It is the rice- cooking festival).
- Ask students to guess what they are going to read by asking question then write students' answers on the board.
- Elicit the example and write them on the board.

- Ask students to open their books (p.121-122), read the dialogue, and listen to the tape.
- Check students' guesses are correct or not.

Ask students to read the statements (page 122) and check (√) the boxes, using the information in the dialogue.
- Get students to give their answers and correct the false sentences.
Have student to copy down.

- Ask students to read the dialogue again and try to summarize the rice-cooking festival.
- Call some students to present on board.

WARM-UP:

Getting started: Chatting
Write the names on the board: Tom, David, Lisa, Oliver, Robinson.
1. Tom likes swimming and sunbathing .Where should he go?..... Why?....
2. David is interested in ancient cities →...?
3. Lisa likes mountain-climbing→...?
4. Oliver is keen on pottery→...?
5. Robinson is fond of crowded places→...?

PRE-READING

I. Vocabulary:

- (to) fetch: đi lấy mang về (definition)
= (to) go to get sth and bring it back)
- (to) yell: la, hét (=to shout loudly)
- (to) urge: thúc giục (to make a person/ an animal to move quickly)
- (to) rub: cọ xát (mime)
- (to) award: thưởng (situation)

(He is the winner of the competition. They (award) him the first prize).

→ (to) award someone something= (to) award something to someone.
- a rice-cooking festival (picture)
- (to) separate (mime + explanation)
* Checking vocabulary: Slap the board

II. Open prediction:

1. How many competitions do people take part in in a rice-cooking festival?
2. In water-fetching competition, what do people do? How about the fire-making competition?