Bài giảng Tiếng Anh Lớp 8 - Unit 2: Life in the Countryside - Lesson 1: Getting started

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1. Good morning! Everybody
2. What do the WhichWhat season do the is children do? harvestfarmers time do? in?
3. UNIT 2: LIFE IN THE COUNTRYSIDE Lesson 1: Getting started It’s harvest time. New words: Buffalo-drawn cart: Go herding = herd (v): Load (v): Harvest time (n):
4. a. Are these sentences true (T ) or fasle (F) T F 1. Nguyen didn’t think country life could be X so interesting. 2. Nguyen never joins the boys in herding the X buffaloes. 3. Rice is transported home on trucks. X 4. Nick would like to visit the countryside at harvest time. X 5. Nguyen thinks life in the city is faster than that in the countryside. X
5. √ sometimes √ √ buffalo-drawn carts √ √
6. b. Answer the questions. 1. Where is Nguyen now? He’s in the countryside. 2. When was he able to make new friends? Right on his first day there. 3. What is Nguyen’s kite like? It’s big and colourful. 4. Who is Nguyen probably staying with? His grandfather. 5. Does Nick want to be there with Nguyen? Yes, he does.
7. c. Complete the sentences with the words in the box. Buffalo-drawn cart colourful herding Move slowly harvest time paddy field 1. When a thing has lots of bright colours, it is .colourful 2. When people are not in a hurry, they move slowly 3. A busy time when people collect their crops is called harvest time 4. A place where rice grows is called is paddy field 5. My brother is taking his buffaloes out to feed them. He’s herding 6. Rice is loaded onto a tobuffalo-drawn cart transport it home.
8. He likes it. √ ‘ it’s more exciting than I expected.’ ‘It (the kite) looks great up there in the sky.’ ‘I live more happily here, and there’s still a lot more to explore.’
9. 2. Look at the pictures and say out the activities. Loading the rice Drying the rice Herding buffaloes Collecting water Riding a horse Flying a kite
10. 3. Can you think of some more things that children do in the countryside? Make a list & then share it with your partner. Example: They climb trees They go swimming in the river.
11. TheyTheyTheyThey go goplay swimmingherding skip hide rope. and the in seek.buffaloes. the river.
12. GAME: COUNTRYSIDE CHARADES TEAM RED TEAM BLUE Use the activities in exercise 3, I will whisper an acitvity to one of you and you have to mine the activity for your friends to guess. Riding horse
13. UNIT 2: LIFE IN THE COUNTRYSIDE Lesson 1: Getting started It’s harvest time.