unit8:language focus

Teaching Date: 19/12/2007 Teaching Duration: 48

Grade 8 Teaching period: 4

Unit 13 : CITY LIFE AND COUNTRY LIFE

Lesson 5: LANGUAGE FOCUS

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I. OBJECTIVES

After the lesson, students can learn, review and practice some important

grammatical points such as present progressive talking about the future and

showing changes with get and become, and comparative and superlative

adjectives.

II. LANGUAGE CONTENTS

* Grammar: - present progressive

- comparative and superlative adjectives

* Difficult words and expressions: ship name(n), destination(n), time of

departure, status(n), delayed(adj), revised time, origin(n), time of arrival,

balcony(n)

III. TEACHING METHOD : Communicative Approach

IV. TIME : 45 minutes

V. TEACHING AIDS : Teacher’s and Student’s books, pictures, handouts,

projector,….

VI. PROCEDURES :

T’S & S’s ACTIVITIES CONTENTS

WARM UP

- Ss play the game “Matching”

- T uses these sentences to present

some main gramatical points in this

lesson .

- Ss observe and copy the structures.

* Answers:

1 - c ; 2 - d ; 3 - a ; 4 - b

• Present progressive:

* Talking about the future:

S + am/is/are + V_ing ...

* Showing the changes with get

and become:

S + am/is/are + getting / becoming +

(comparative) Adj

• Comparative :

* with short Adj :

S1 + be + short Adj_er + than S2

* with long Adj :

S1 + be + more long Adj +than S2

• Superlative :

* with short Adj :

S1 + be + the short Adj_est +(Noun)

Teacher: Nguyen Van ai Page 1