Giáo án Tiếng Anh 8 - Units 1: My friends - Do Thi Cuc - THCS Thanh Mai

Planning date: 13 - 8 - 2014
Teaching date: 15 - 8 - 2014
Period 1. revision
I. Aims: To help students review their knowledge in the grade 7
II. Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to review their knowledge through some exercises.
III. Ways of working: T - WC.
IV. Materials: Text book, color chalk.
V. Anticipated problems: 
- Some Ss in class 8A and 8C may find it difficult to do exercise 1 and 4
VI. Teaching steps:
1. Warm up: ( 1 minute). Teacher greets and checks the students’ attendance.
2. New lesson:
STAGES
ACTIVITIES
ON BOARD
REVISION
(15 minutes)
* Teacher reviews the knowledge in the grade 7.
- Tenses.
+ What is the form?
+ How to use this tense?
+ Which is the adverbs of time we use in this tense?
- Structures.
+ Teacher asks students to make examples with these structures.
I. Tenses:
1. The present simple tense (Th× hiÖn t¹i ®¬n gi¶n.)
2. The present progressive tense. (Th× hiÖn t¹i tiÕp diÔn.)
3. The past simple tense (Th× qu¸ khø ®¬n gi¶n.) 
4. The future simple tense (Th× t­¬ng lai ®¬n gi¶n.)
5. The near future (Th× t­¬ng lai gÇn.)
II. Structures:
1. Would like + to V
2. Like + N 
 - like + V-ing; - like + to V
 - prefer doing st to doing st.
	3. “too, so, either, neither”
	4. Adjectives and adverbs of manner ( good - well; slow - slowly;.....)
	5. Questions “How much.............? / How many..............?/ How heavy........?
	 What’s the height of..............?”
- Ask and answer about reason: Why...........? ~ Because...........
	6. Imperative sentences: (Come and play volleyball, Nam.)
	7. Exclamative sentences with How vµ What.
	8. Modal verbs: must, can, could, may, might, will, shall, should, ought to, had better.
	9. Compound adjectives (sè tõ víi danh tõ) VD: a twenty- minute rest.
	10. “used to”; “to be/ get used to”
	11.Indefinite quantifier.( some, plenty of,.................)
	12. Prepositions of time / place
	13. Comparison with more, less, fewer.
14. (to) be on (®­îc chiÕu, ®­îc diÔn)
PRACTICE
(24 minutes)
* Students do exercises to consolidate their knowledge.
* Teacher guides students to do the exercises.
* Teacher calls students to do the exercise on board and then corrects if necessary.
III. Exercises.
1. Exercise 1.
 Find the antonym with the word given in capita:l
1. SlOW	a. quick	b. safe	c. interesting	d. inexpensive
2. WELL	a. bad	b. badly	c. good	d. better
3. CAREFUL	a. care	b. careless	c. skillful	d. safely
4. GREAT	a. favorite	b. popular	c. terrible	d. strict
5. EASY	a. spare	b. different	c. clear	d. difficult
6. QUIET	a. careful	b. young	c. dizzy	d. noisy
* Key: 1a, 2b, 3b, 4c, 5d, 6d
2. Exercise 2. Circle the best answer a,b,c or d:
 1. I have a toothache so I’m going to the 
	a. nurse	b. doctor	c. dentist	d. teacher
2. Yesterday they . to the movie theater.
	a. go	b. goes	c. are going	d. went
3. My brother drives 
	a. careful	b. carefully	c. carefully	d.care
4. . go to the park? ~ That’ s a good idea.
	a. Let’s	b. Why don’t we c. Do we	d. What about
5. How  is the pen?
	a. many	b. a lot	c. much	d. more
6. I would like to send this letter  the USA.
	a. for	b. of 	c. to	d. in
7. Our classes start . than her classes.
	a. early	b. earlier	c. earlier	d. most early
8. He . reading books in the library.
	a. likes	b. enjoys	c. is interested in	d. All are correct
* Key: 1c, 2d, 3b, 4b, 5c, 6c, 7c, 8d
3. Exercise 3.
Fill in the blank with a preposition in, on, or at : 
1. I live . 23 Nguyen Trai Street.
2. My birthday is . July, 24th.
3. She will be back .. about six o’clock.
4. The table is . the middle of the room.
* Key: 1 at, 2 on, 3 at, 4 in
4. Exercise 4. 
Read the passage then choose the best answer for each question:
	In America, the school year is from early September to the following June. Students go to school every day from Monday to Friday. Many students go to school in school bus that picks them up near their homes and takes them back again in the evening. At the age of 16, students often go to school in their own cars, or borrow their parents’ cars.
	After school, students can choose from many activities. They may join chess, computers, acting or cooking clubs. And they may work on the school newspaper or play in a sport team.
1. How long does school year in America last?
a. Seven months	b. Eight months	c. Nine months	 d. Ten months
2. How many days do American students go to school every week?
a. Four	b. Five	c. Six	d. No information
3. How do American students go to school?
a. By bus	b. By car	c. a & b	d. No information
4. What activities do American students choose after work?
a. Playing chess	b. Acting	c. Playing sports	d. All are correct
5. What is American students’ favorite pastime?
a. Playing chess	b. Cooking	c. Playing sports	d. No information
* Key: 1d, 2b, 3c, 4d, 5d
3. Summary: (4 minutes).
- Repeat the content of the lesson:
+ Which tenses have we lerant in English 7 ?
+ Repeat the use of too, so, either, neither ?
- T. introduces English 8 to Ss
4. Homework: : (1 minute).
Prepare unit 1 (Getting started +Listen and read )
Planning date: 14 - 8 - 2014
Teaching date: 16 - 8 - 2014
Period 2. unit 1: my friends
lesson 1: getting started + listen and read 
I. Aims:
- To help students understand the dialogue between Hoa and Lan and know the structure ADJ + ENOUGH + TO INF.
- To develop students’ skills.
II. Objectives: 
- By the end of the lesson, students will be able to understand the dialogue and make up sentences with ENOUGH.
III. Ways of working: T - WC, team work, pair work, individual work.
IV. Materials: - Textbook, pictures in the textbook, color chalk.
V. Anticipated problems: The lesson may take time.
VI. Teaching steps:
1. Warm up: ( 6 minutes) - Teacher greets and checks the students’ attendance.
 - Getting started: Ss look at the pictures in text book to talk about
 the activities.
Picture a): T: What are they doing?
 S: They are playing soccer.
	 - Brainstorming: Students write about Hoa.
lives with aunt and uncle
(Hoa)
Tran Hung Dao Street
From Hue
Friends in Hue
a student
14
2. New lesson:
STAGES
ACTIVITIES
ON BOARD
PRESEN
TATION
(18 minutes)
* Pre-teach:
- T. uses techniques to teach students new words
* Presentation dialogue:
- T. plays the tape; students listen and then practice the dialogue in pair.
- Ss answer the comprehension questions. P.11
- T. elicits the model sentences:
- Concept checking:
+ What does this sentence mean in Vietnamese?
+ When do we use this structure?
+What is part of speech of the word “old”? / “to be”?
+ What is the intonation? 
I. New words:
- enough (adj): ®ñ
- like (prep): gièng, nh­
- seem (v) cã vÎ, d­êng nh­
II. Listen and read. P.10:
1. Practice the dialogue. P.10
2. Answer the questions. P.11:
* Key:
a) She lives in Hue.
b) No, she doesn’t know Nien.
c) The sentence “She wasn’t old enough to be in my class”.
d) She is going to visit Hoa at Christmas.
3. Model sentences:
- She wasn’t old enough to be in my class.
- She didn’t have enough money to buy that book.
* Note:
ADJ + ENOUGH + TO INFINITIVE
ENOUGH + NOUN + TO INFINITIVE
PRACTICE
(12 minutes)
* Practice:
- Ss practice, using adj + enough + to V
Word cue drill:
+ Nien, 8 years old / be in grade 8
+ Hoa, 13 years old / be in grade 10
+ weather, not warm / sit in the garden
+ Ba, 12 years old / drive a car
+ Tuan, not strong / lift that box
III. Practice:
E.g: 
- Nien is not old enough to be in grade 8.
- The weather isn’t warm enough to sit in the garden.
FURTHER
PRACTICE
(6 minutes)
* Students practice making their own sentences. Using the structures above.
e.g.
I am old enough to be in grade 8.
3. Summary: ( 2 minutes).
- Repeat the content of the lesson
+ Vocabulary.
+ Structure: Adj + enough + to V
 Enough + N + to V.
4. Home work: ( 1 minute).
- Learn by heart the new words.
- Read the dialogue again and do exercises 5, 6. P.9, 10 (Workbook)
- Prepare: Speak + Listen.
Planning date:15 - 8 -2014
Teaching date:18- 8 – 2014
Period 3. unit 1: my friends
lesson 2: speak + listen
I. Aims: 
- To help students describe, introduce people and know how to respond the introduction.
- To help students understand the listening and develop students’ skills.
II. Objectives: 
- By the end of the lesson, students will be able to know how to introduce respond to the introduction and understand the listening.
III. Materials: Textbook, pictures in the textbook, tape.
IV. Ways of working: T-WC, group work, pair work, individual work.
V. Anticipated problems: Speaking skill may be difficult for some students.
VI. Teaching steps:
1. Warm up: ( 5 minutes)
- Teacher greets and checks the students’ attendance.
- Revision: Students find the opposite of the words:
 tall - (short); fat - (thin); big - (small); white - (black); long - (short)
2. New lesson:
STAGES
T. AND SS’ ACTIVITIES
ON BOARD
PRE
SPEAKING
(8 minutes)
* Pre-teach:
- Teacher uses techniques to teach students new words
- Checking understanding:
Rubout and remember
* Presentation dialogue 1 P.11
- Students practice the dialogue in pair.
I. New words:
- curly hair: tãc qu¨n, tãc xo¨n
- blond hair: tãc mµu vµng s¸ng
- bald (adj): hãi
- fair hair: tãc mµu vµng nh¹t
- straight hair: tãc th¼ng
- slim (adj): m¶nh dÎ, thanh m¶nh
WHILE
SPEAKING
(10
minutes)
* Speak:
- Students look at the pictures on page 11 and 12 (a-f) and use the adjectives in the table to make similar dialogues.
- One student describes one of their classmates without saying his / her name. The others listen and guess who s/he is. 
II. Speaking:
E.g:
S1: This person is tall and slim. She has long straight black hair.
S2: Is this Miss Lien?
S1: Yes, she is.
PRE
LISTENING
(7 minutes)
* Revision:
- Revision of the expressions people use to introduce each other and respond to instruction.
E.g: 
- How are you?
- I’m fine. Thank you. And you?
- Fine, thanks.
* Open prediction:
- Ss predict the expression to complete the conversations.
III. Listening. P.12:
1. Prediction:
WHILE
LISTENING
(7 minutes)
* Listen:
- Students listen and check their predictions.
- Ss listen and put the expressions on page 12 into the correct order and fill in the gaps in the conversations P12, 13.
2. Ordering:
* Answer key:
1. I’d like you to meet.
2. Nice to meet you.
3. I’d like you to meet.
4. It’s a pleasure to meet you.
5. Come and meet.
6. How do you do.
POST 
LISTENING
(6 minutes)
* Role play:
- Students practice in group of three, making introductions and respond to them.
3. Role play:
3. Summary: ( 2 minutses) 
- Repeat the content of the lesson.
+Adjectives to describe someone’s appearance
+ The structures to describe bodybuild and hair 
?1. Describe your mother and father
4 . Homework: : ( 1 minute) 
- Learn by heart the new words.
- Do exercises 3, 4. P.6 - 8 (workbook)
- Prepare: Read- P13,14.
Planning date:16 - 8 - 2014
Teaching date:21- 8 - 2014 
Period 4. unit 1: my friends
lesson 3: read. P.13 - 14
I. Aims:
- To help students read the text and understand it for specific information.
- To develop students’ skills.
II. Objectives: 
- By the end of the lesson, students will be able to know more about Ba’s friends.
III. Ways of working: T- WC, 
IV. Materials: Textbook, pictures in the textbook, color chalk.
V. Anticipated problems: The lesson may take time.
1. Warm up: (5 minutes)
* Teacher greets and checks the students’ attendance.
* Revision: Teacher uses the pictures in “Getting started” to ask some questions:
- What are these students doing? (play soccer / play chess / read book / play volleyball)
- Do you like soccer? / reading books? .....
- Who do you like playing with?
- Why?
=> (cã hîp tÝnh nÕt, së thÝch hay kh«ng)
2. New lesson:
STAGES
T. AND SS’ ACTIVITIES
ON BOARD
PRE
READING
(12 minutes)
* Pre-teach:
- T. uses techniques to teach students new words
- Checking understanding:
What and where
* Prediction:
- Set the scene: These adjectives describe Ba and his friends’ characters. Read them and guess what they are like.
I. New words:
- a character: tÝnh c¸ch
- an orphanage: tr¹i trÎ må c«i
- reserved (adj): kÝn ®¸o # open
- sociable (adj): hoµ ®ång, dÔ gÇn
- (to) tell jokes: nãi chuyÖn ®ïa
- sence of humor: khiÕu hµi h­íc
- humorous (adj): hµi h­íc
- outgoing: th©n thiÖn, cëi më = open
II. Prediction:
Ba
Bao
Khai
Song
reserved
humorous
kind
sociable
generous
hard-working
WHILE 
READING
(18 minutes)
* Read:
- Students read for the first time and check their predictions.
- Students read the text for the second time and do the multiple choice.
- Students read the text for the third time and answer the comprehension questions on page 14.( Pair work)
II. Read. P.13
1. Checking predictions:
Ba: humorous
Bao:sociable,kind, generous, hard-working
Khai and Song: reserved
2. Multiple choice: (Part 1. P.14)
* Key:
a) A b) C c) B d) D
3. Answer the comprehension questions. P.14
* Key:
a) Ba feels lucky having a lot of friends.
b) Bao is the most sociable.
c) Khai likes reading.
d) A bad thing about Ba’s jokes is (that) sometimes his jokes annoy his friends.
e) Bao spends his free time doing volunteer work at a local orphanage.
f) (Students’ answers)
POST
READING
(7 minutes)
* Speaking:
- Students work in pair, asking and answering about their close friends using the adjectives they have learnt.
- Teacher can give some new adjectives if the students need them to practice:
- friendly: th©n thiÖn
- smart: lÞch sù, b¶nh bao
- honest: thËt thµ
- sensitive: nh¹y c¶m
- flexible: linh ho¹t
- ambitious: tham väng, cã hoµi b·o
- confident: tù tin
- shy: ng­îng ngïng, xÊu hæ
- reliable: ®¸ng tin cËy
- optimistic: l¹c quan
- pessimistic: bi quan
III. Speak:
E.g:
S1: Do you have any close friends?
S2: Yes, I have.
S1: Who is your best friend?
S2: Bao is my best friend. 
S1: What is he like?
S2: He is very nice. And he is very sociable ...
S1: Does he ever come to class late?
S2: No, he doesn’t.
S1: So he is punctual. (®óng giê)
S2: Yes, he is.
3. Summary: ( 2minutes) 
- Repeat the content of the lesson.
+Adjectives to describesomeone’s character.
+Summarize the text.
4 . Homework: ( 1minute)
- Learn by heart all the new words and translate the text into Vietnamese.
- Write a paragraph about your close friends.( for class 8B)
- Prepare “Write”
Planning date: 16 - 8 - 2014
Teaching date: 22- 8 - 2014
Period 5. unit 1: my friends
 lesson 4: write. P.15
I. Aims:
- To help students write about oneself and about other people.
- To develop students’ writing skill.
II. Objectives:
 - By the end of the lesson, students will be able to write a paragraph about their close friends.
III. Ways of working: T - WC, group work, pair work, individual work.
IV. Materials: Textbook, pictures.
V. Anticipated problems: 
- Some students may find the writing difficult.
VI. Teaching steps:
1. Warm up ( 5 minutes)
 * Teacher greets and checks the students’ attendance.
 * Chatting: Students talk about their close friends
 (about his / her name, age, character, interests )
2. New lesson: 
STAGES
T. AND SS’ ACTIVITIES
ON BOARD
PRE
WRITING
(12 minutes)
*Reading:
- Students read the information about Tam then answer the questions.
- Students read the paragraph about Le Van Tam.
* Chatting:
- Students look at the questions in part 2 and answer them. (pair work)
* Gap fill:
- Students fill in a form for their partner. (The partner they have mentioned above).
I. Read. Part 1. P15
* Answer the questions:
1. What is his name? (Le Van Tam)
2. How old is he? (14)
3. What does he look like?
(He is tall and thin. He has short black hair.)
4. What is he like?
(He is sociable, humorous and helpful.)
5. Where does he live?
(He lives at 26 Tran Phu Street, Ha Noi.)
6. Who does he live with?
(He lives with his mother, father and elder brother.)
7. Who is his friend? (Ba and Bao)
II. Fill in the form for your partner:
Name:
Appearance:...
Characters:
Address:.
Family:..
Friends:..
WHILE
WRITING
(12 minutes)
*Write:
- Students close their books, base on the form they have done and write a paragraph about their partner.
- Students exchange their works and correct.
- Teacher calls some students and asks them to read aloud their writing.
- Teacher can choose the one writing that has the most mistakes and asks students to find and corrects the mistakes. (Students can play the game “Error hunters”) 
III. Write:
1. Write a paragraph about your partner.
E.g: I have a very close friend. Her name is Trang. She is 14 years old. 
POST
WRITING
(13 minutes)
- Each student writes a paragraph about one of their family members. (father/mother/sister )
- Teacher moves around the class and help them if necessary. 
- Students exchange their work and correct.
* If there is time, teacher can hole the game “Error hunter”
(Students find and correct the mistake in the paragraph. The quickest is the winner.)
2. Write a paragraph about one of your family members:
E.g:
My sister’s name is Hoa. She is 10 years old. 
* Game: Error hunter
My cousin’s name is Long and he is eighteen year old. He lives on a house in the country with his parents and his young sister. He very generous and sociable. I love him very much.
* Key:
year => years
on => in
young => younger
He very => He is very 
3. Summary: ( 2 minutes).
- Repeat the lesson.
- Note:Ss need to distinguish the two sentences:
+ What does he/she look like? ( ask about appearance)
+ What is he/she like? ( ask about character)
4. Homework: ( 1 minute)
- Do exercise7. P.11 (workbook)
- Prepare Language Focus.p16,17
Planning date:19 - 8 - 2014
Teaching date: 25- 8 - 2014
Period 6: UNIT 1: MY FRIENDS
LESSON 5: LANGUAGE FOCUS. P.16
I. Aims:
- To help students further practice in present simple, the past simple tenses and the structure with ENOUGH.
- To develop students’ skills.
II. Objectives:
- By the end of the lesson, students will be able to use the main grammar in this unit to practice.
III. Ways of working: - T - WC, pair work, individual work.
IV. Materials: Textbook, color chalk.
V. Anticipated problems: The lesson may take time. 
VI. Teaching steps:.
1. Warm up: ( 6minutes)
* Teacher greets and checks the students’ attendance
* Revision: Teacher asks students some questions:
+ Do you remember the present simple and the past simple tense? 
(Form, Uses, Adverbs of time)
+ When do we use them? 
+ When do we use the structure with “enough”? (not) Adj + enough + to-V
- Students go to the board to write the forms and the exampples. 
2. New lesson:
STAGES
ACTIVITIES
ON BOARD
FURTHER
PRACTICE
(36 minutes)
* Language focus 1.
- Students do the language focus 1 in pair.
- Teacher highlights the adverbs of time of the two tenses.
- Students compare their task with other pair.
- Teacher corrects the exercise.
* Language focus 2: 
- Students do the exercise in pair to complete the dialogue.
- Teacher uses techniques to teach students new words.
- Teacher corrects the exercise.
* Language focus 3:
*Kim’s game
- Students work in 2 groups. They look at the picture in about 30 seconds and then close their books and go to the board to write the answers to these questions:
1. How many people are there in the picture? (four)
2. What is each person wearing?
(- The woman is wearing a red shirt and a green skirt.
- The man who is standing beside the car is wearing brown trousers and a yellow shirt.
- The man who is standing on the pavement is wearing a pink shirt and blue trousers.
- The boy is wearing blue shorts and a white shirt.)
* Language focus 4. P.17:
- Students practice the dialogue in pair.
- Students complete the dialogue. Use (not) adj + enough.
- Teacher calls students to do on board and corrects if necessary.
 1. Language focus 1. P.16:
* Answer key:
a) Hoa lived in Hue last year, but now she lives in Ha Noi. Yesterday, Hoa’s friend Nien sent Hoa a letter. Nien was Hoa’s neighbor when Hoa lived in Hue. She is younger than Hoa.
b) Lan is Hoa’s best friend. The two girls are in the same class at Quang Trung School. Last year, Hoa came to school for the first time. Lan showed her around and introduced her to many new friends.
2. Language focus 2. P.16
*New words:
- a planet: hành tinh
- sun: mặt trời
- Earth: trái đất
- Mars: sao Hoả
- Mercury: sao Thuỷ
- silly (adj): ngu ngốc
- East: hướng đông, phía đông
- West: phía tây
- North: phía bắc
- South: phía nam
* Answer key:
(0): rises, (1): sets, 2): goes
(3): moves, (4) + (5) +(6) : is
3. Language focus 3: 
*Kim’s game
1. How many people are there in the picture?
.
2. What is each person wearing?
4. Language focus 4
* Key:
b) not old enough
c) strong enough
d) good enough
3. Summary: ( 2 minutes ) - Repeat the content of unit1.
4 . Homework: ( 1 minute) - Learn by heart all the new words.
 - Do exercise: 1, 2. P.5, 6 (workbook)
 - Prepare Unit 2 (Listen and read)