Giáo án môn Tiếng Anh 8 - Unit 4: Natural disasters - Lesson 1.2: Grammar

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Period: 39

UNIT 4: NATURAL DISASTERS
Lesson 1.2 – Grammar, pages 35 & 36
1. Objectives
By the end of this lesson, students will be able to
1.1. Language knowledge/ skills 
- practice and use Wh-questions 
1.2. Competences
- improve Ss’ communication, analytical, critical thinking skills.
	1.3. Attributes 
	- know more about natural disasters around the world.
2. Teaching aids and materials
- Teacher’s aids: Student’s book and Teacher’s... pairs: take turns asking and answering the questions.
- Ss’ answers.
- Ss’ answers.
- Ss’ answers.
- Ss’ answers.

- Observation.
- Observation.
- Observation.
- Observation.

4. Procedures 
A. Warm up: 5’ 
a. Objectives: to review lesson 1.1 and introduce the grammar point in the new lesson. 
b. Content: matching activity.
c. Expected outcomes: Ss can match the questions with the correct answers.
d. Organization 
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
Matching activity:
-Writ...e damaged?
twenty-seven
4. How many people became homeless?
eleven thousand
5. How many people died from Typhoon Tip?
 Ninety-nine
B. New lesson (35’)
1. Presentation: 15’
a. Objective: to help Ss know how to make Wh- questions. 
b. Content: tasks a & b.
c. Expected outcomes: Ss can make Wh- questions to ask for more information.
d. Organization 
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
Presentation:
- Ask Ss to look at the questions below and underline the question words. 
What wa....
- Say that Wh- questions are used to ask for details about an action or an event.
Task a: Read about Wh-questions and fill in the blank.
- Ask Ss to work in pairs to fill in the blanks to complete the conversation (using the DCR/PPT slides). 
Task b: Listen and check your answers. Listen again and repeat.
- Play the CD and ask Ss to listen and check.
- Play the CD again and ask Ss to repeat.

- look at the questions below, underline the question words and match with the uses.
Answer Ke...he conversation.
Answer key:
A: Where was the biggest earthquake?
B: It was in Valdivia, Chile. It happened in May, 1960.
2. Practice: 20 minutes
a. Objective: to help Ss practice making Wh- questions.
b. Content: tasks a & b.
c. Expected outcomes: Ss can make Wh- questions to ask for details about a natural disaster.
d. Organization: 
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
Task a: Read the examples above and fill in the blanks using the words in the table.
1.________ was the biggest...on words.
- Get Ss to check the answers with their partner and explain for their choices. 
- Pick some Ss to give the answer and explain.
- Check Ss’ answers.
- Read the questions and answer carefully to fill in the blanks with the correct question words.
- Check the answers with their partner
Answer Keys: 
1. What 2. How much
3. How long 4. How tall
5. Where 6. How many
Task b: Write questions to ask for the underlined information in the answers.
- Ask Ss to look at the underlined phr...f damage. 
4. The worst heat wave was in Europe.
5. The snow was 8 meters deep in the 1972 Iran Blizzard.
6. The largest landslide was the Mount St. Helens landslide.
- Look at the underlined phrases in the sentences and figure out the question words.
-Write questions for the underlined phrases.
- Check with their partner.
- Write the questions on the board.
Answer Keys 
1. When was the worst avalanche?
2. How many people died in the earthquake?
3. How much damage did the typhoon caus...e questions. 
- Give Ss one minute to study the questions and answers in b.
- Ask Ss to work in pairs, take turns asking and answering the questions.
- Monitor the class and help them if necessary.
- Ask some Ss to perform their conversations. 
- Give feedback.

- Study the questions and answers in b.
- Work in pairs, take turns asking and answering the questions.
- Perform their conversations.

C. Consolidation and homework assignments: 5 minutes
- Grammar: Wh- questions
- Do grammar