Giáo án Tiếng Anh 8 - Tuần 8 - Unit 4: Our past

Week: 8th	Date of planning:2/10/2014
Period: 22nd	Date of teaching: /10/2014
Unit 4: OUR PAST
(Speak + Listen)
I. Objectives:
- Students will be to talk about the life in the past compared with the present life, using “used to’’
- Help students develop listening skill. 
- Focus on speaking and listening skills.
II. Teaching aids: 
T: Pictures, casette player, tape.
Ss: pens,book
III. Procedures: 
1. Class orders 
2. Cheking the previous lesson: 
 +What can you remember about your childhood? 
3. Teaching the new lesson: 
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
Content
-Ask some question to lead
sts into the lesson:
+What sports or games did you use to play when you were young?
+What can you remember about your childhood?
 -Students’s answers ( Hide and seek, shuttle cock, blindman’s bluff, playing marbles, swimming in the river)
1 .Warm – up. 
+What sports or games did you use to play when you were young?
 Hide and seek, shuttle cock, blindman’s bluff, playing marbles, swimming in the river)
+What can you remember about your childhood?
-What is the first picture used to describe about?
-What about the second picture?
-Introduce some new words
-Guide sts to read the words.
-Write some main differences on the board anh ask sts to copy them. 
-It is used to describe about the past.
-It is used to describe about the present time.
-Copy the words
-Practice reading the words.
2. Presentation: 
 *. Pre – speaking:
 -Paddy field: cánh đồng
-Stack of traw: đống rơm
-Village road: đường làng
-Traffic lights: đèn giao thông
 * While – speaking:
 -Is there the difference between the life in the past and the life in the present?
-Look at the pictures and tell about these differences.
-Write some main differences on the board anh ask sts to copy them.
-Have sts work in pairs.
-Call some pairs to practice telling about the things they used to do last year.
-Do you usually read short stories?
-Which story do you like most?
-Which moral lesson do you get from this story?
“There are a lot of Vietnamese folktales which have precious moral lessons. We are going to listen to one of those stories. Listen to this story and decide which of the sentences is the most suitable moral lessons. Before listening to the story, you have to write some new words”
-Play the cassette three times.
- Look at the pictures and tell about these differences.
- say the difference between the life in the past and the life in the present
- Ss work in pairs
- Some pairs practicing in font of class 
 - Works in pairs. (each pair asks and answers
-Ss make similar dialogue
- Pratice 
- work in pairs.
- some pairs to practice telling about the things they used to do last year. 
(Students’ answers)
-Listen to the teacher’s introduction and write the words in exercise books.
-Practice reading the words.
 3. Practice
* While – speaking:
 1. Work with a partner
- People used to live in small houses. Now they live in big houses, buildings
- People used to walk. Now they can go by car or motorbikes.
- There wasn’t electricity in the home. There is electricity everywhere now.
-People used to work hard all the time. Now they have time for entertainment.
-Children used to stay at home. Now they go to school.
-Children used to play traditional games. Now they can play computer games.
2. Tell about the things you used to do last year.
- Last year I used to go to school late.
-Last year I didn’t use to do my homework before I went to school. 
Post - speaking:
- T asks Ss to remind of the different charateristics between life in the past and now and the uses of the verb “used to”
- Ss remind
*. Listen
*Pre-Listening
*. New words
-Moral (a) thuộc về đạo đức
-Excitedly (adv): một cách hào hứng
-Foolish (a) ngu ngốc
-Greedy (a) tham lam
*Whlie-Listening
*Choose the most suitable moral lesson
- Don’t be foolish and greedy 
 *Post - listening:
- T asks Ss to retell the story by using the key words and pictures.
- Ss retell.
- T gives helps if necessary
5.Homework: 
-Tell about the differences between the two pictures again.
-Write the things you used to do last year.
- Learn by heart new words.
- Summarize the story and remember the moral lesson.
- Prepare “ Read” for the next period. 
 IV. FEEDBACK:
Week: 8th	Date of preparation:2/10/2014
Period: 23rd	Date of teaching: /10/2014
Unit 4: OUR PAST
(Read)
I. Objectives
By the end of the lesson sts will be able to know about a folktale and learn a moral lesson from it.
- Focus on reading writing skills. 
II. Teaching aids: Posters, whiteboard markers.
III . Procedures: 
1. Class orders 
2. Cheking the previous lesson: 
-Ask some questions to focus on the lesson:
+ Do you like folktales?
+Can you tell me the name of some stories that you remember?
+What are those stories usually about? 
3. Teaching the new lesson: 
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
Contents
-Ask some questions to focus on the lesson:
+ Do you like folktales?
+Can you tell me the name of some stories that you remember?
+What are those stories usually about?
-Do you know the story: The Lost Shoe?
-What can you guess from the title?
-Introduce some new words.
-Guide sts to read the words
-Now you scan the story and tell me who Little Pea was, who Stout Nut was and whose shoe was lost?
-Ask sts to read the story silently.
-Have sts complete the sentences with the information from the story.
-Go around the groups for help.
 -Ask some sts to read their answers.
-Correct the spelling and pronunciation mistakes
- Have sts discuss the answers in pairs.
- Ask some pairs to practice aloud.
- Have the others correct the mistakes.
- Give the correct answers.
-T reads the story aloud.
-SS read chorally.
-Ask sts to tell about the moral lesson from the story. 
-Answer the questions
-Yes, I do.
-They are Tấm Cám, Cây tre trăm đốt, Ăn khế trả vàng
-They are about good persons but they have difficulties in life. At last they are helped and have a happy life.
-Students’ answers
-Students’ answers
-Copy the words
-Practice reading the words in chorus and in individual.
-Answer and guess the content of the story.
-Read the story silently.
-Work in groups, complete the sentences
-Read the whole sentences in front of the class.
-Take note and copy the correct answers.
-Practice asking and answering the questions in pairs.
-Ask and answer the questions, then write the answers on the board.
-Give comments.
-Copy the correct answers
-Think of the moral lesson 
1. *Warm up
-Yes, I do.
-They are Tấm Cám, Cây tre trăm đốt, Ăn khế trả vàng
-They are about good persons but they have difficulties in life. At last they are helped and have a happy life.
2. *Pre-reading
New words:
Stout Nut: (Cám) Hạt Đậu béo
Little Pea (Tấm) Hạt Đậu nhỏ
Cruel(adj): độc ác
Upset(adj): buồn phiền
Broken heart: bệnh đau tim
Harvest festival: Lễ hội được mùa
Prince: Hoàng tử
Fairy: ông/ bà tiên
Appear(v): xuất hiện
Magically(adv): một cách kỳ diệu
Rags: quần áo rách rưới
Own(v): sở hữu
3. *While-reading
1. Complete the sentences with the words from the story.
farmer
died
had .... again
marry 
new clothes
lost
2. Answer the following questions:
She was a poor farmer’s daughter.
b. She made Little Pea do the chores all day.
c. Before the festival started, a fairy appeared and magically changed her rags into beautiful clothes.
d. The prince decided to marry Little Pea
e. This is not a true story because there is a fairy.
4. *Post-reading
“Don’t be cruel. Good persons will be helped and will have a happy life at the end” 
5. Home work:
-Read the story at home.
-Learn by heart new words.
-Summarize the story.
-Memorize the moral lesson.
- Prepare “Write” for the next period.
 IV. FEEDBACK:
Week: 8th	Date of preparation:2/10/2014
Period: 24th	Date of teaching: /10/2014
Unit 4: OUR PAST 
Lesson 4: (Write)
I. Objectives
By the end of the lesson students will be able to know one more traditional story “ How the Tiger got his stripes”, practice writing a story, using the words given.
- Focus on writing writing skills. 
II. Teaching aids: Posters, whiteboard markers
1. Class orders 
2. Cheking the previous lesson: 
Do you know why tigers have black stripes?
-Which story tells you about that? 
3. Teaching the new lesson: 
III. Procedures: 
Teacher’s activities
 Students’ activities
Contents
-Ask some questions to lead sts into the lesson.
-In this lesson, we will learn more about this story. Firstly, you read the story and learn some new words.
-Introduce the words.
-Guide sts to read the words chorally and individually.
Explain and elicit
Have Ss practice
-Have sts work in groups to complete the story.
-Ask some sts to read the story in front of the class.
-Give comments and read the story again. 
-Imagine that you are the farmer. Use the words to write the story. Start like this: 
One day I was in the field and ...
-Go around the class for help.
-Ask sts to exchange the posters and correct them.
-Choose a poster to correct.
-Emphasize the use of the past simple tense used in telling story.
-Answer thequestions.
-Yes, I do.
-The story “Trí khôn tao đây”
-Listen to the teacher’s introduction.
-Copy the words.
-Practice reading the words.
-Read the story and fill the verbs in the blanks.
-Write the anser on the board
-Read the completed story.
-Write the story in groups. 
- Exchange the posters and have comments.
-Take notes and copy the correct story.
-Retell
-Take notes
1.Warm up.
-Do you know why tigers have black stripes?
-Which story tells you about that?
2.Pre-writing
New words:
Buffalo(n): con trâu
Graze(v): gặm cỏ
Servant(n): đầy tớ
Master(n): ông chủ
Wisdom(n): trí khôn, sự thông minh
Straw(n): rơm, rạ
Escape(v): trốn thoát
Stripe(n): vết vằn
Burn(v): cháy 
Lit: châm ( thắp) lửa
How the Tiger got his stripes.
1. Complete the story. Use the verbs in the box.
: appeared
: was
: said
: left
: went
 tied
: lit
: burned
(9) : escaped
3.While-writing.
2. Now imagine you are the man. Use the words to write the story. Start like this:
 One day I was in the field and my buffalo was grazing nearby, a tiger came. It asked why the strong buffalo was my servant and I was its master. I told the tiger that I had something called wisdom. The tiger wanted to see it, but I told it I left my wisdom at home. Then I tied the tiger to a tree with a rope because I didn’t want it to eat my buffalo. I went to get some straw and I burned the tiger. The tiger escaped, but today it still has black stripes from the burns.
4.Post-writing
Retell the story
5. Home work. 
- Write the story in exercise books
- Learn by heart new words.
-Prepare: “Language focus” for the next period.
IV. Feedback