Giáo án Tiếng Anh 8 - Units 5: Study habits

Prepared date:
Teaching date:
Material:
UNIT 5: STUDY HABITS
 PERIOD:	
 LESSON: READ (PAGE 49-50)
Learner’s aspects:
Class
8a1
8a2
8a3
Characteristics
Hard- working
Hard-working
Hard-working
Language level
Grade 8
Grade 8
Grade 8
Background knowledge
Good
Good
Normal
Number of student in the class.
40
38
42
Objectives :
At the end of the lesson, students are able to:
Know about some ways to learn new words of language learners.
Use modal: should to give advice.
Have vocabulary about the ways to learn new words.
Aims :
Language focus :
Grammar : - modal: should
Vocabulary: mother tongue, underline, highlight, revision,.
Pronunciation 
Language skills: listening, speaking, writing and focus on reading.
III. Procedure :
*New lesson :
Time
Content
Teacher’s activities
Students ’s activities
6’
5’
Pre-reading:
Task 1:
Answer the questions:
1/ Do you like learning English ?
2/ How many new words do you try to learn a day? 
3/ What do you do when you read new words ?
4/ How do you learn new words ?
Possible answers:
1/Yes, I do.
2/ I try to learn five new words a day.
3/ When I read new words, I usually underline and write the meaning.
4/ I try to learn by heart.
-Asking some questions.
-Calling some Ss to answer the questions.
-Listening and correcting.
-Answering the questions.
-Giving the answer.
Task 2:
Read the paragraph on page 49 and scan key words:
Key words:
Mother tongue:
Learn by heart:
Underline:
Highlight:
Revision:
-Asking Ss to read the paragraph and find key words.
-Explaining the meaning of the key words.
-Reading the key words and asking Ss to repeat.
-Reading and finding key words.
-Taking note the key words.
-Listening and repeating the key words.
2’
5’
5’
6’
3’
5’
While-reading: 
Task 3 :
Read the paragraph and get general idea.
-Asking Ss to read the paragraph and get general idea.
-Reading the paragraph and get general idea.
Task 4:
Read the paragraph again to get details and choose T or F:
a/ All language learners write the meaning of new words in their mother tongue.
b/ Some learners write examples of words they want to learn.
c/ Every learner tries to learn all new words they come across.
d/ Many learners only learn new words that are important.
Answer key:
a/ F b/ T
c/ F d/ T
 Task 4a:
Make a list of the ways to learn new words.
Suggested answer:
- Write simple sentences with new words.
- Stick new words somewhere in the house.
- Underline or highlight the words.
- Read the stories in English.
- Learn words through songs 
- Make a list of words, their meanings and learn by heart them.
 Task 4b:
Answer these following questions:
1/ Do learners learn words in the same way?
2/ Why do some learners write example sentences with new words?
3/ What do some learners do in order to remember words better?
4/ Why don’t some learners learn all the new words they come across?
5/ What is necessary in learning words?
6/ How should you learn words?
Answer keys:
1/ No, they don’t. They learn words in the different ways.
 2/ Because they help them to remember the use of new words.
 3/ They write examples, put the words and their meanings on stickers, underline or highlight them.
 4/ Because they want to remember important words
 5/ Revision is necessary in learning words.
 6/ Learners should try different ways of learning words to find out what is the best.
Task 5 : Modal: should to give advice.
 S + should + V ..
Ex: You should try to learn ten words a day.
We should keep silent in class.
Task 6 :
Work in pairs. Make a conversation to talk about the ways to learn new words and give advice.
-Asking Ss to read the paragraph again and choose T or F.
-Calling some Ss to choose T or F and explain.
-Asking Ss To make a list of the ways to learn new words.
-Inviting some Ss to go the board and write down the answer.
-Asking some questions.
-Inviting some Ss to answer the question and correcting.
-Teaching grammar and giving example.
-Calling some Ss to repeat the grammar and give example.
-Asking Ss to work in pairs to make a conversation.
-Inviting some pairs to practice the conversation in front of the class.
-Listening and correcting.
-Reading the paragraph and choose T or F.
-Giving the answer and explaining.
-Making a list of the ways to learn new words.
-Going to the board and writing down the answer.
-Answering the questions.
-Giving the answer and writing down the correct answer on notebook.
-Listening and taking note.
-Repeating the grammar and giving an example.
-Working in pairs and making a conversation.
-Practicing the conversation loudly.
6’
Post-reading:
Task 7:
Write a paragraph to talk about your ways to learn new words and use “should” to give advice for learning learners.
-Giving instructions and asking Ss to write a paragraph on a piece of paper.
-Calling some Ss to read a paragraph loudly and correcting the mistakes.
-Preparing a piece of paper and writing a paragraph.
-Reading a paragraph loudly in front of the class.
2’
Homework:
-Learn by heart vocabulary.
-Prepare new lesson.
-Giving comments and homework.
-Taking note.