Giáo án Tiếng Anh lớp 8 Unit 8: Country life and city life - Lesson 3

Teacher^/s activities

Ss^/ activities

I. PRE-READING:

1. Vocabulary (8’)

- Elicits the words from the Ss and says them out.

- Writes and checks.

+ Struggle (v,n)

+ Typhoon (n)

+ Flood (n)

+ Drought (n)

+ Destroy (v) -> destruction (n)

+ Migrant (n)

- Uses Matching to check vocab.

2. Presentation text: (5’)

- Introduces the text and plays the tape twice for Ss to listen.

- Asks Ss to practice reading the text.

- Calls on some Ss to stand up and read the text.

- Comments and corrects.

II. WHILE-READING

1. Gap-filling (Part 1-P.75) (10’)

- Asks Ss to look through the summary and define the general information they need to fill in.

- Asks Ss to work in groups to complete the summary, then goes round to help Ss.

- Gets feedback and helps Ss to correct.

* Answer key:

1. leaving 2. home 3. city

4. rural 5. city 6. problems

7. schools 8. hospitals 9. problem 10. world

2. Find the antonyms (Part 2-P.75) (7’)

- Instructs Ss with the phrases and gives their meaning.

- Asks Ss to read the text again to find out the words that have the same meaning.

- Gets feedback.

- Checks the understanding and explain more about that.

* Answer key:

a, rural d, a strain

b, plentifue, a tragedy

c,increase f, urban

III. POST-READING: (10’)

Discussion

- Writes down the two questions and asks Ss to share their ideas in groups.

1. What are the problems of the farmers?

2. What happened when a lot of people are moving to the city?

- Gets feedback and adds more details.

1.- Getting little money from their jobs

- Typhoons, droughts,... can destroy a harvest

2. + Increased population: overcrowding in many cities; a strain on schools, hospitals, water and electricity supplies

+ Families: Living apart; children live with relatives, not their parents.

- Try out & repeat chorally-individually.

- Give the meaning and then read them through

- Go to the board and match them with the Vietnamese meaning.

- Listen with opened book.

- Practice individually.

- Practice reading before class.

- Listen and correct themselves.

- Read through and focus on the word form to complete it.

- Read the text and share their ideas to complete the summary.

- Speak out their answers and explain

where they can find the information

- Follow teacher^/s instructions.

- Read it and then share their ideas in groups.

- Give their answers.

- Give out the information in the text and copy down.

- Share their ideas in groups, may read the text to get more ideas.

- Speak out their ideas and copy down.