Giáo án Tiếng Anh Lớp 8 - Unit 8: Country life and city life - Period 48: Language forcus - Trường THCS Pha Mu

Date of teaching: Period 48- UNIT 8. COUNTRY LIFE AND CITY LIFE Language forcus I. OBJECTIVES 1. Knowledge: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to further practice in comparative and superlative adjectives; the present progressive tense *Vocabulary: review *Grammar: Present progressive to talk about the future and to show changes with get and become. Comparative and superlative adjectives. 2. Skills: Reading and do grammar exercises 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 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 In the lesson 3. New lesson Activity 1. Warm up - Divide the class into 2 groups - Each person in each group will go to the board and write all long abjectives and short abjectives they remembered - Within 5 minutes which group has more words will be the winner. Accessible busy Beautiful easy Convenient cheap Difficult good Intelligent bad Comfortable poor Delicious fresh Interesting small Activity 2. New form of knowledge skills 2.1. Present progressive tense S + am/is/are + V-ing Present progressive tense is used to talk about the change with Get and Become Form : S + am/is/are + getting/ becoming + adj Exercise 2 - Get students to work in pairs. - Call some pairs to practice the dialogues before class - T corrects (1) are doing (4) are cleaning (2) am watching (5) am having (3) am going Exercise 3 - Ask ss to do exercise 3 - Ss compare the answer with their friend - Call some ss go to the board and write the answer - T corrects b. The old men are getting weaker c. We should go home. It is getting dark. d. The weather is becoming colder. e. The students are becoming better. f. The school yard is becoming cleaner 2.2. Comparative and superlative adjectives *Trong câu so sánh, tính từ được chia làm 2 loại : + Tính từ ngắn là những tính từ khi phát âm chỉ có một âm tiết : big, tall... + Tính từ dài là những tính từ khi phát âm có nhiều hơn một âm tiết : beautiful, difficult... *Một số tính từ khi phát âm có nhiều hơn một âm tiết nhưng trong câu so sánh chúng được cấu tạo như một tính từ ngắn. Những tính từ này thường kết thúc bằng “ le, ow, er, y “ Happy, clever, narrow... 1. So sánh hơn (dùng khi CN là 2 người hoặc 2 vật) a. Với tính từ ngắn S1 + be + adj (short) + er + than + S2 Eg: This room is smaller than that room. b. Với tính từ dài S1 + be + more + adj (long) + than + S2. Eg: That room is more expensive than this room. 2. So sánh hơn nhất a. Với tính từ ngắn S+ be + the + adj (short) + est + N. Eg: The book is the best one. b. Với tính từ dài S + be + the + most + adj (long) + N. Eg: Nam is the most intelligent student in my class. *Note: - Những tính từ kết thúc bằng một phụ âm mà trước nó là một nguyên âm, khi cấu tạo cấp so sánh hơn, hơn nhất ta phải gấp đôi phụ âm cuối. Bigger, hotter... - Một số từ khi cấu tạo cấp so sánh không theo qui tắc Adj / Adv SS hơn SS hơn nhất Good/ well Better Best Bad / badly Worse Worst Much / many More Most Little Less Least Old Older/ elder Oldest / eldest Far Further / farther farthest Exercise 4. Complete the sentences. Use the correct form of the adjectives in brackets. 1. Fruit is..................................candy. (good) 2. Mr Long is ........................Mr Nhat. (old) 3. Houses in the city are.........................houses in the country. (expensive) 4. Winter is......................summer.(cold) 5. Dogs are ........................cats. (friendly) 6. Ho Chi Minh city is.............................Da Nang. (big) 7. Lan is .........................student in my class. (good) 8. Among cars, trains, buses and airplanes, buses are........................means of transport. (slow) Key 1. better 2. older 3. mor expensive 4. colder 5. more friendly 6. bigger 7. the best 8. the slowest Activity 3. Expanding Remind all main points for ss. to remember and practice at home. V. HOMEWORK - Ss study the lesson - Ss prepare for next lesson: Revision