UNIT 13AV8

PHÒNG GD - ĐT HUYỆN THẠNH HOÁ
TRƯỜNG THCS THỊ TRẤN THẠNH HOÁ
GIÁO VIÊN: NGUYỄN THỊ KIM HOA
Well come to our class !
Chatting
Answer the questions:

1.How many competitions are there in the rice –cooking festival ?
2.What are they ?
3.What do people do to make the fire in the fire- making contest ?
4. How many members take part in the rice – cooking contest ?

Monday , March 31st , 2008
UNIT 13 : FESTIVALS
LESSON 5 : LANGUAGE FOCUS
( Page 128-129 )
I. LANGUAGE FOCUS 1
Matching : Passive Form



Answer keys :

1.C
2.a
3.d
4b
Use the passive forms of the verbs in the box to complete the sentences :



a) Christmas songs …….......................... for people in towns and villages eight hundred years ago .
b) On Christmas Eve in the early 1500s , a tree ………............... and ………. in the market place in the Latvian city of Riga .
c) In the rice - cooking festival , a fire ……….......... in the traditional way.
d) An English – speaking contest………..............at Nguyen Hue school next month .
e) The first prize …………............. to the Mekong team just after the final match yesterday .

were performed
was decorated
put
is made
will be held
was awarded
II. LANGUAGE FOCUS 2
Vocabulary :






- (to) jumble
- (to) scatter
- (a ) dried mushroom
- (a) jar







Complete the conversation by filling in the gaps with the right form of the verbs in the box :

Hanh and her mother have just got home from the market .
Hanh : Mom ! Something has happened to our kitchen.
Mrs Thanh : What’s wrong ?
Hanh : Mom ! Look. The cupboard is open and everything has been (1)…………….
Mrs Thanh : Oh, no. The jar I like has been (2)…………..
Hanh: Many bowls and dishes have been (3) ………….. ,too. And look at this, Mom.The dried mushrooms have been (4)….. …………… all over the floor .
Mrs Thanh : And where is the pan of fish I left on the stove ?
Hanh : Here it is . It has been (5) …………into the sink . The fish has gone.
Mrs Thanh : Who has done all this ?
Hanh : It must have been the cat !

jumbled
broken .
broken
scattered
pulled
III. LANGUAGE FOCUS 3 :
Compound word
Example :
A rice - cooking festival
A water - fetching competition





Compound Adjectives
(article)
( noun )
( Verb- ing )
( noun )
Compound Noun
Use a compound word to rewrite the sentences :
What is it ?
a) It is a contest in which participants have to cook rice.









=> It‘s a rice - cooking contest .

b) It is a festival in which people have their bulls fight against each other .










=> It’s a bull-fighting festival.
c) Last week Tran Hung Dao School held a contest in which students arranged flowers as attractively as they could .











=>It ‘s a flower- arranging contest .
d) This is a machine which is used to wash clothes.
















=> This is a clothes washing machine.

IV. LANGUAGE FOCUS 4 :
Reported speech
Model sentences :
Tram said, “ I’ m a student.”
Quoted / direct speech
Tram said she was a student.
Reported / indirect speech
The changes when reported verb is in the past tense
Notes :

Quoted speech
Reported speech
1.
Tenses
Present simple
Past simple
will
would
can
could
must
had to
2.
Adverbs
of place
and time
this
that
now
then
here
there
today
that day
tomorrow
the next day
yesterday
the day before
ago
before
3. Pronouns :
depending on the subject of the main clause.
Example :
He said , “ I am a plumber.”
=> He said he was a plumber.
Change into reported speech
a. He said, “ I can fix the faucets”.
=> He said he could fix the faucets .
b. He said, “ The pipes are broken”.
=> He said the pipes were broken.
c. He said, “ New pipes are very expensive”.
=> He said new pipes were very expensive.
d. He said, “ You must pay me now”.
=> He said Mrs Thu had to pay him then.
HOMEWORK
* Copying the structures into the notebook.
* Learning new words and structures by heart .
* Doing exercises 1 page76 and 4 page79 in the workbook.
* Preparing the new lesson “ Unit 14 lesson1 : Getting Started - Listen and Read “ page 131-132
. Reading the text
. Finding pictures about the wonders of the world


Thank for ………
All the students of the class 8A 1
All the teaching staff presenting in the classroom today .
Goodbye
See you again