Giáo án Tiếng Anh lớp 8: Revision 3

Teacher^/s activities

Ss^/ activities

I. Revision:

1. Reported speech:

- Use sentence a and b above and give other examples to elicits the way to change commands, requests and advice into reported speech.

a) My father said: “Keep silent”.

-> My father told me to keep silent.

b) “Can you help me?”, Nga said.

-> Nga asked me to help her.

c) “You should do morning exercise”, my teacher said.

-> My teacher said I should do morning exercise.

- Consolidates the knowledge.

2. Comparisons:

a. Comparative adjectives

- Give out examples and calls on a student go to the board to write the form of comparative.

Examples:

+ This shirt is cheaper than that dress.

+ Mai is more beautiful than her sister.

- Elicits the way to distinguish short adjectives to long adjectives and the way to add –er after short adjectives.

- Consolidates the knowledge.

b. Superlative adjectives:

- Gives out examples and elicits the form of superlative from Ss.

Examples:

+ This house is the biggest in the village.

+ This is the most expensive book in the store.

- Consolidates the knowlegde.

- Elicits some irregular adjectives from Ss.

II. Practice:

1. Use comparative and superlative adjectives to complete the sentences.

a. Winter is …….(cold) than summer

b. Fruit is ……(good) than candy.

c. Ho Chi Minh city is …..(big) than Hue.

d. Nam is ………(young) person in his family.

e. What is ……..(beautiful) room in your house?

f. I eat ……(little) fruit than my brother.

g. She works …….(few) hours than me.

- Hangs on the excercise and asks Ss to do it.

- Gets feedback and helps Ss to correct.

2. Rewrite the following sentences, using reported speech:

- Focuses Ss on the way to complete it.

- Invites the answers on the board and asks the whole to check.

a) Kim said to me : “Please wait for me a few minutes.”

b) She said: “Don’t play football on the street, boys.”

c) “You should stay in bed and take some medicine.”, his doctor said.

d) “Could you buy me a magazine?”, my father said.

e) Our teacher said: “Stand up.”

- Retell the way to change commands, requests and advice into reported speech.

- Listen and write down.

- Go to the board to write the form:

* Form:

S1 + tobe + short adj-er + than + S2.

S1 + tobe + more + long adj + than + S2.

- Answer T’s questions:

+ Short adjectives are adjectives which have one syllable or two syllables. If they have two syllables, they must end in -y,

-ow, -er, -le.

Ex: cold, happy, simple, narrow, clever…

+ Long adjectives are adjectives which have two or more syllables. If they have two syllables, they mustn’t end in -y,

-ow, -er, -le.

Ex: handsome, beautiful, …

+ The way to add –er after short adjectives:

. If short adj end in “e”, we only add “r”.

Ex: nice -> nicer

large -> larger

. If they end in “y”, we must change into “i” then add “er”.

Ex: easy -> easier

happy -> happier

. If they end in one vowel and one consonant, we must double the consonant then adding “er”.

Ex: hot -> hotter

big -> bigger

- Listen and write down.

- Go to the board to write the form.

* Form:

S + tobe + the + short adj-est.

S + tobe + the most + long adj.

- Listen and write down.

- Answer T’s questions.

* Irregular adjectivies:

- good -> better -> the best

- bad -> worse -> the worst

- far -> farther -> the farthest

- much -> more -> the most

* Answer:

a. colder

b. better

c. bigger

d. the youngest

e. the most beautiful

f. less

g. fewer

- Work individually than compare the answer in pairs.

- Give answer and check the answer with teacher.

- Work individually, using reported speech to rewrite the sentences.

- Write their answer on the board and check the answers with teacher.