Unit 8-lifelines

Unit 8: entertainment.

I. Aims:
By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to:
-use the past simple tense of to be.
-practise saying dates.
-talk about the weather.
II. Aids:
-Book
-Cassette.
III. Procedure:
Parts
Teacher’ s activities
Students’activities

Grammar in use:











Rules:

























Practice:




















Vocabulary:



























Reading & writing:






Listening & speaking:








Responding:














Weather:

















-Ask Ss to look at the questions and read the text.
-Encourage Ss to use their dictionaries to check words.




-Ask: When was this?


-Suggest Ss to decide if the sentences are true or false.
-Check the answers with the text.

-Ask Ss to look again the text and complete the gapped sentences.
-Invite Ss to write them on the board.







-Write the table on the board for Ss to complete.
-Write the sentences on the board for Ss to complete.
-Ask Ss to supply the negative form.
-Ask: How do we make Qs with was or were?



-Ask Ss to change the conversation into the simple past tense.





-Divide Ss into groups . Each group complete one of the conversations.
-Play the tape for Ss to listen and do the task.






-Ask: Where was Peter yesterday?

-Require Ss to ask and answer.
Divide the class into pairs to ask and answer about where they were at the certain time.
-Move around the class and give help if necessary.


-Ask Ss to look at the months of a year.
-Play the tape for Ss to listen and repeat.






-Play the tape for Ss to listen and write down the dates.








-Write the prepositions: in , on , at on the board.
-Remind Ss of the use of the prepositions.
-Divide Ss into pairs to write down and talk about dates that are important to them.


-Ask Ss to look at the notice board.
-Ask: Whose notice board is it?
-Require ss to look at it again and answer the questions.
-Check the answers.
- Ask ss to work in pairs to describe David & Laura.


-Ask ss to look at the pictures.
-Ask: What’s happening?
-Invite Ss to offer suggestions for the missing words.
-Play the tape for Ss to listen and check.





-Have Ss to look at the expressions and try to match the two halves.





-Play the tape for Ss to note the questions Ben asks.



-Ask: What’s the weather like today? What was the weather like yesterday?




-Divide the class into pairs to talk about the weather.
*Consolidations:
-Ask Ss to repeat all the grammars -Give exercises in workbook.


-Read the text and give answers:
1. It’s from a teenage thriller/ horror book.
2. Stone is a winner/ an author.
3. They’re newspapers.
-Give answer:
On Friday night.



Read and decide.

-Check the answers.


-Complete the gapped sentences.


-Write on:
+Mitch was in bed .
+He wasn’t asleep.
+_They weren’t at home.
+They were away.

-Complete the table.


-Complete the sentences.
+She was on holiday.
+They were at home yesterday.
->She wasn’t
->They weren’t
-Answer: We put them at the beginning of the sentences or after Wh-questions words.
-Change:
A: Was the film good?
B: Yes, it was.
A: Were there a lot of
B: No. there weren’t.


-Complete the conversations.