Giáo án Tiếng Anh 8 - Unit 13, lesson 4

 UNIT 13 ( cont. ) FESTIVALS
WRITE
Date: 
Period:	
 Lesson 4 : 
I.Aim
 Students will be able to write a report on a festival they have joined. 
II. Language contents:
 1.Grammar: 
 2.Vocabulary:
 ( n. ) chopsticks, councilor.
III. Techniques: 
 Memory game.
 Lucky numbers.
IV. Teaching aids:
 pictures.
 V. Procedures:
Teacher’s & students’ activities
Content
 - Teacher hangs a photocopied picture on the board and asks students to look at it carefully ( for about 20’’ ). Then teacher puts it away.
 - Teacher asks some questions.
 + Students listen carefully and answer.
 - Then teacher puts the picture on the board again and asks students to check their answers.
 - Teacher writes 9 numbers on the board from 1 to 9.
 - Teacher tells students each number is for a question but 3 of them are lucky numbers. If students choose a lucky number, they don’t have to answer any question but they get 2 points and they can get another number.
 - Teacher divides the class into 2 teams.
 - Teacher asks students to fill in the gaps by using the information in the dialogue on page 121 to complete the report page 127.
 - Teacher asks students to work in pairs and write their answers on a piece of paper.
 - Teacher tells students the first 5 or 10 pairs with the right answers will get 1 or 2 good marks.
 - Teacher collects students’ papers and corrects.
 - Teacher asks students to ask and answer the questions.
 + Students practise in pairs.
 - Teacher asks students to write a similar report on a festival they’ve joined recently by connecting the sentences from a to g to make it a report.
 - Teacher calls on some students to read their reports again.
 - Teacher corrects the mistakes if necessary.
 - Teacher guides.
 + Students listen and write.
-T calls on some Ss to read their reposts aloud
+Ss read their postcards
-T corrects 
-T gives the homework
+Ss write down and prepare at home
1. Warm up: ( marks )
 Memory game
 Questions:
 -How many people are there in the picture ?
 -What are they doing ?
 -Name some things in the picture ?
 Answer key:
 -7 people
 -They are cooking rice ( or they are participating in the rice cooking competition )
 -rice, basket, pans, bamboo sticks, paper fans, chopsticks, a flag.
2. Pre - writing: 
 Lucky numbers:
 1. What do you call the festival where people have to cook rice ? 
 -The rice cooking festival 
 2. How many competitions are there in the rice-cooking festival ? What are they ?
 -There are 3. They are water-fetching, fire-making and rice-cooking.
 3. Lucky number.
 4. What do people use to fetch water ?
 -Bottles.
 5. Lucky number.
 6. Do they use pieces of wood to make fire ?
 -No, pieces of bamboo.
 7. What do people have to do before they cook the rice ? Separate the rice from the husk.
 8. Lucky number.
 9. How many people are there altogether in a team taking part in the rice-cooking festival ?
 -There are 9: one for water-fetching, 2 for fire-making and 6 for rice-cooking.
 * Gap-fill:
 Answer key:
 1. Rice-cooking
 2. one / a
 3. water-fetching
 4. run 
 5. water
 6. traditional
 7. bamboo
 8. six
 9. separate
10. added
3. While - writing: 
 Questions and answers
 Students’ answers
Suggestion : 
This report shows how the Mid – autumn festival was held in my neighborhood.
The Mid- Autumn festival was held on the 15th of August ( according to Lunar Calendar ). This festival was specially organized for Children .
It was held in the yard of the Cultural House in my village. The main festival lasted for about three hours when the moon is at its fullest. During the festival, children took part in various activities like : singing and shouting, wearing masks, parading on the roads and banging the drums.
Besides, children ate a very special cake called Moon Cakes . They are filled with lotus seeds, orange peel, ground beans, and sometimes egg and pork fat for flavor. 
Children went on playing traditional games until mid-night. 
I think this festival is a very special occasion for Vietnamese people and especially for children to play and enjoy on a variety of activities. Moreover , children would understand more about Vietnamese traditions
4. Post - writing:
 Read these postcards
5. Homework: 
 - Write your report in your notebooks.
 - Prepare : Language focus.
*Comments
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