Giáo án Tiếng Anh Lớp 8 - Unit 8: Country life and city life - Period 46: Read - Trường THCS Pha Mu

Date of teaching: Period 46- Unit 8. COUNTRY LIFE AND CITY LIFE Read I. OBJECTIVES 1. Knowledge: By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to read comprehension about the problem of people from the countryside moving to the city. * Vocabulary: rural, urban, well-paying job, plentiful, struggle, typhoon, flood, drought, destroy, strain , migrant, increase * Grammar: Review 2. Skills: Reading skill 3. Attitudes: - Positive about their lesson. - Students know how to learn English. - Ss are interested in doing exercises. 4. Competence a. General capacity: self – study, communicative and collaborative, and problem solving ability. b. Specilized capacity: language capability II. PREPARATION 1. Teacher’s: lesson plan, text book, picture 2. Students’: text book, note book III. METHODS, TECHNIQUES 1. Methods: Communicative approach, group Ss and T’s activities, teaching methods with game, teaching methods by practising 2. Techniques: Eleciting, group work, pair work, individual work IV. PROCEDURE 1. Organization - Greetings. - Who’s absent today? 2. Check the old lesson Ask ss to talk about changes in their hometown 3. New lesson Activity 1. Warm up - Chatting with ss What are difficulities of farmers’ life? (flood, get little money, droughts, hard work, no vacations, lack of clean water/ electricity, insects destroy harvests..) Do you think many people move to live in the city? Why do they want to go to the city? (good job, get more money, .) What problems may arise when so many people move to the city? (overcrowded, population increase, ..) - Introduce the new lesson Activity 2. New form of knowledge skills - T ask ss to look at the passage in the book and find new words - T teaches new words rural (adj) : thuộc nông thôn urban (adj) : thuộc đô thị , thành phố well-paying job : công việc lương cao plentiful (adj): nhiều struggle (v) : đấu tranh typhoon (n) : bão tố flood (n) : lũ lụt drought (n) : hạn hán destroy, strain (n): sự quá tải migrant (n) : dân di cư increase (v): tăng lên Activity 3. Practice - Let students read the text silently and answer the questions: What do many farmers do to solve their problem? (They move to the city so that they can get well- paid jobs). Exercise 1. True/ False statements 1. Many people from rural areas are moving to the city. 2. Typhoons, floods can’t destroy a harvest. 3. The increase in population has led to overcrowding in many cities. 4. Children always live with their parents. 5. Government are trying to solve migrants’problem. Exercise 2. Answer the questions 1. Why do many people move to the city? 2. What can destroy a harvest on the farm? 3. Who do children live with while their parents go and live in an urban area? Activity 4. Production Ask ss to talk about the problems of the migrants from country to the city. Key - Overcrowding in many cities - Increased population - Not enough schools or hospitals - Water and electricity supplies may not be adequate. - Families have to live apart Activity 5. Consolidation T repeats the content of the lesson. IV. HOMEWORK - Ss study the lesson - Ss prepare for next lesson: Unit 8. Write