Bài giảng Tiếng Anh 8 (Global Success) - Unit 9: Natural disasters. Lesson 4: Communication

 OBJECTIVES
By the end of the lesson, you will be able to:
✓ Use the lexical items related to natural disasters.
✓ Practise giving and responding to bad news. UnitUnitUnit 9 NATURALMUSICETHNIC AND GROUPS DISASTERS ARTS OF VIET NAM
 LESSON 4: COMMUNICATION
 HOBBIES WARM-UP
 1. What do you see in the picture?
 2. How do you feel? VOCABULARY
 Shake (v)
 /ʃeɪk/
 Rung, lắc VOCABULARY
 Richter scale (n)
 /ˈrɪktə skeɪl/
 Độ rích te (đo độ mạnh của 
 động đất) VOCABULARY
 Shake Fahrenheit
 Richter 
 scale PRACTICE
 1 Listen and read the dialogue below. Pay attention to the highlighted sentences.
 Mark: Phong, why are you so sad? 
 Phong: My grandparents called this morning. 
 A flood destroyed their house. 
 Mark: I’m sorry to hear that. 
 Phong: It also damaged all of their crops. 
 Mark: That’s awful. I hope your grandparents 
 are safe. PRACTICE
 2 Work in pairs. Practise giving and responding to bad news in the 
 following situations. 
 - You have a friend in a mountainous area. A 
 landslide destroyed his family’s garden 
 yesterday. You share this news with your 
 classmate. 
 - You hear that a big earthquake hit a city. You 
 share this news with your classmate. LESSON 4: COMMUNICATION
WARM-UP Answering the questions.
 VOCABULARY New words related to natural disasters.
 Task 1: Listen and read the dialogue below. Pay attention to 
 the highlighted sentences.
 Task 2: Work in pairs. Practise giving and responding to bad 
PRACTICE
 news in the following situations.
 Task 3: Read the short passages below. Decide which 
 natural disaster each person below is talking about.
 Task 4: Choose the correct answer to each question to see 
 how much you know about natural disasters. 
 FURTHER 
 Task 5: Work in pairs. Compare your answers. Then check 
 PRACTICE
 your answers with the key on page 101. How many points 
 did each of you get? FURTHER PRACTICE
 Work in pairs. Compare your answers. Then check your answers with the key 
5 below. How many points did each of you get?
 Question 1: Which of these may cause landslides? 
 A. Heavy rain. B. Wind. C. Lightning. 
 Question 2: Which of these activities may cause landslides? 
 A. Littering. B. Cutting down trees. C. Polluting the air. 
 Question 3: What scale is used for measuring earthquakes? 
 A. Fahrenheit scale. B. Celsius scale. C. Richter scale.
 Question 4: What natural disaster can an earthquake cause? 
 A. A flood. B. A landslide. C. A tornado. 
 Question 5: What do tornadoes form from? 
 A. An earthquake. B. A flood. C. A thunderstorm. 
 Question 6: Where do tornadoes mostly happen? 
 A. In the USA. B. In the UK. C. In Viet Nam CONSOLIDATION
 1 WRAP-UP
 In this lesson, you have:
 ✓ learnt new words related to natural disasters.
 ✓ learnt how to give and respond to bad news.