Giáo án Tiếng Anh 8 - Units 12. A vacation abroad

UNIT 12	VACATION ABROAD 
 ( Total : 6 periods )
I. Aims :
 	Helping students :
	-To make plans
	- To make, accept and decline invitations
	-To ask and answer questions about the weather.
	-To write a postcard.
II. Language contents:	
1. Grammar:
	1. Making request with – Past progressive tense.
	2. Past progressive with When and While
	3. Present progressive with Always.
2. Vocabulary :
 Nouns	 Verbs	Adverbs
 Brochure	gallery	itinerary	bother	overhead
	Lava	prison	sightseeing	carve	
	Valley	wharf	volcano	include
	Pick up
	Pour
	Come over 
III. Skills : 
Listening, Speaking , Reading and Writing
IV .Unit allocation
Lesson 1
Getting started Listen and read 
Reading for details about making , accepting and declining invitation.
Lesson 2
Speak 
Practicing in making plans. 
Lesson 3
Listen
Listening for information about the weather.
Lesson 4
Read
Reading for information about places of interest in the world.
Lesson 5
Writing
Practice writing a postcard.
Lesson 6
Language focus 
Further practice in past progressive with when and while. Present progressive with Always. 
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Week: 26th	 Preparing Day: 3/03/2013
Period: 77th 	 Teaching Day: 6/03/2013
UNIT 12	A VACATION ABROAD 
Lesson 1	GETTING STARTED + LISTEN AND READ 
I. Objectives:
Should know about some beautiful sight – seeing around the world.
II./ Language Contents:
1 – Vocabulary:
To be included in; come over; pick someone up; abroad
2 – Grammar: 
The past progressive tense.
III./ Techniques: 
Eliciting, asking and answering, T/F.
IV./ Teaching aids: 
pictures, cassette, sub board
V. Procedures :
Teacher’s activities
1. Warm up:
-Hang the pictures / flags:
- Give the name in the box.
- Correct and explain some answers.
- Ask students some questions about the places
- Have students work in pairs match the name with the pictures
2. Presentation:
-Have students listen to the dialogue.
- Have students read the dialogue again and give out some new words
-Explain new words.
New words:
* to be included in 
* ticket price (n)
*come over; 
*pick someone up;
* abroad
-Guides students how to read new words.
-Have Ss read the dialogue and ask some questions. Who are talking in the conversation ? / Where are they now ?
- Let students listen to the tape.
3 .Practice:
- Have Ss work in n groups complete Mrs. Quyen’s schedule. (1/p113)
date
Mon 25
Tue 26
Wed 27
Thu 28
schedule
Coming to San Francisco
- Get feedback.
- Role play the dialogue again then answer some question in the 
book.(2/ p113)
a./ No, they won’t. because they are coming on a tour, and their accommodation is included on the ticket price. So they will stay at the hotel.
b./ No, he won’t. Because he will have a business meeting in the evening.
c./ Mrs. Smith, her friend, will pick her up at the hotel.
4. Production:
- Tell Students to read the dialogue again and pick out the statements indicating the following situations:
1. Making an invitation.
2. Accepting an invitation.
3. Declining an invitation.
4. Making a complaint.
- Call on them to give their answers and have them copy.
Answers.
1. Making an invitation.
“Would you like to come and stay with us?”
2. Accepting an invitation.
“Yes, we’d love to but we’ll only be in town for three nights”
3. Declining an invitation.
“That’s very kind of you but we’re coming on a tour..”
4. Making a complaint.
“Oh, dear. He’s always working”
5. Homework :
-Do exercises in Workbook.
-Prepare the part : Speak &Listen 
Students’ activities
-Answer
- Matching
- Listen
- Read
-Guess
-Copy the new words
-Role-play
-Read and check
-Work in pairs 
- Groups work.
Pairs work and individuals
- Give the invitations 
VI. Comments 
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Week: 26th	 Preparing Day: 3/03/2013
Period: 78th 	 Teaching Day: 8/03/2013
UNIT 12	A VACATION ABROAD 
Lesson 2	SPEAK 
I. Objectives:
	1. Education aim: 
	2. Teaching aim: By the end of the lesson, students can:
	˜ practice making plans using tourist brochures and flight information.
	˜ talk about the weather.
II. Language contents:
	1. Vocabulary:	itinerary, via, facilities, brochure, rate.
2. Grammar:	 	Modal: should
III. Techniques:	eliciting, describing, questioning & answering, role play.
IV. Teaching aids:	pictures, cassette.
V. Procedures:
Teacher's activities
Students' activities
*Activity 1 - Speak
1. Revision
Gives some words 
? Make sentences with “ Always”
1. he/ talk / class
2. They / play/ chess
3. She/ watch T. V
4. Lan and Nam/ miss the train 
? Work individually
Gives feed back and give marks 
2. Pre speaking 
*Pre teach: New words 
- itinerary (n): 
- gallery (n)
- flight (n) 
- fatalities (n) 
- brochure (n) 
Checks Slap the board 
* Matching 
Shows the copied table P 113, 114 on the right of the board randomly and asks students to match them with the right titles on the left 
Itinerary
Flight information 
]Hotel advertisements 
Travel brochure 
Calls students to go to the board to draw the line to match the tables with the titles 
3. While speaking 
* Mapped dialogue 
Sets the scene: These people are making a plan for their trip from Los Angeles to Boston 
 K J
-Where shall we stay? The Revere Hotel is expensive but it has a gym 
-Where should we visit? I think we should visit Harvard Medical School, the Museums and Arts gallery 
-What time should we There’s a daily flight at 10 am. 
would that be OK? leave Los Angeles ? 
 Asks students to work in pair 
Calls students to practice before the class 
4. Post speaking 
*Transformation 
Asks students to make a plan for their coming summer holiday by filling the information in itinerary 
calls students to demonstrate their plans for the class 
Gives feed back 
 *Home work 
Do exercise in to note book 
-Prepare: Listen
Make sentences with “ Always”
Work individually
Guessing the meaning of the words from teacher's eliciting
Read and repeat 
Copy them
Check Slap the board 
Match them with the right titles on the left 
Go to the board to draw the line to match the tables with the titles
Listen 
Work in pair 
Practice before the class 
Make a plan for their coming summer holiday by filling the information in itinerary 
Demonstrate their plans for the class 
VI. Comments 
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Week: 27th	 Preparing Day: 9/3/2013
Period: 79th 	 Teaching Day: 12/3/2013
UNIT 12	A VACATION ABROAD 
Lesson 3	LISTEN
I. Objectives:
	1. Education aim: 
	2. Teaching aim: By the end of the lesson, students can:
	˜ Listening for information about the weather.	
II. Language contents:
1. Vocabulary:	
2. Grammar:	 	Modal: should
III. Techniques:	eliciting, describing, questioning & answering, role play.
IV. Teaching aids:	pictures, cassette.
V. Procedures:
Teacher's activities
Students' activities
1. Warm up: 
* Brain storming 
Find the words retaliated to the topic the weather
 fore cast 
 Work in 2 groups 
Gives feed back 
1 Pre Listening * Chatting 
Asks students to answer the questions 
- Have you ever listened to the fore cast weather?
-What does it often tell you about?
-What do you know about the high and the low temperature?
*Gap fill 
Gives table 
City
weather
Temperature
Sydney
London 
Bangkok 
New York
Paris 
Low
high
- Work in pair to guess information in the table 
2. While listening 
Asks students to listen to the tape to check the guessing 
* Role play 
- Work in pair 
- Asks and answer the questions about the weather and temperature using the information in the table 
Calls some pairs to practice in the class 
3. Post listening 
*Write it up 
- Use information in the table to write a weather report, beginning with: “ Here is today’s weather fore cast for international travel 
In Sydney 
-Work individually 
*Content of Listening:
And here is today’s weather forecast for international traveler.
1. Let’s start with Sedney. It will be a dry day in sydney today., and windy. For the temperature, the low will be twenty and the high will be twenty six degreees.
2. Tokyo will be dry and windy, with a low of fifteen and a high of twenty two.
3. London will going to have a humid day. It will be very cold with a low of minus three and a high of seven.
4. Bangkok will be warm and dry, with a low of twenty four degrees centigrade and a high of thirty two.
5. New York is going to have a windy day. It will be cloudy with a low of eight and high of fifteen.
6. In Paris it will be coll and dry today. The low will be ten degrees and the high will be sixteen.
*Home work 
Do exercise in to note book 
-Prepare: read
 the weather forecast 
hot cold 
- Work in groups
Answer the questions 
Do exercise in to note book 
Look at the table 
Work in pair to guess information in the table 
Listen to the tape to check the guessing 
-Work in pair 
Asks and answer the questions about the weather and temperature using the information in the table 
Some pairs to practice in the class 
Use information in the table to write a weather report, beginning with: “ Here is today’s weather fore cast for international travel 
In Sydney 
VI. Comments 
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Week: 27th	 Preparing Day: 3/3/2013
Period: 80th 	 Teaching Day: 8/3/2013
UNIT 12	A VACATION ABROAD 
Lesson 4	READ
I. Objectives
1. Education aim: Students should know the weather in the countries around the world
2. Teaching aim: By the end of the lesson, students can:
	˜ obtain some knowledge about some scenic spots in the USA.
	˜ develop their reading skill.
II. Language contents:
1. Vocabulary:	volcano, lava, overhead, pour out, carve, be situated.
2. Grammar:	 	The past progressive tense.
III. Techniques:	eliciting, describing, questioning & answering, role play.
IV. Teaching aids:	pictures for presentation, handouts for practice.
V. Procedures:
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
1. Warm – up.
- Have students work in pairs to write as many famous interesting places in the world as they could.
- Call some students to give feedback.
2. Pre – reading. 
 - Hand out photocopied pictures of some scenic spots in the USA and their corresponding paragraphs and ask students to match them correctly.
- Have students give feedback.
- Elicit some vocabulary 
 1. volcano (n) 
 2. lava (n) 
 3. overhead (adv) 
 4. pour out carve (v) 
 5. be situated (v) 
- Check vocabulary : Rub Out and Remember.
3. While – reading.
- Ask students to open their books to read the texts and correct the matching exercise 
- Ask students to give feedback 
- Ask students to read the texts silently to do the exercise 1.
What did Mrs. Quyen do and see in each of these places?
Places 
What she did and saw
a. Hawaii
b. New York
c. Chicago
d. Mount Rushmore
e. San Francisco.
Went swimming, visited Kilauea Volcano.
Went shopping
g, bought lots of souvenirs.
Saw Lake Michigan
Saw the heads of 4 American Presidents.
Visited Fisherman’s wharf, the Napa Valley wine-growing area and the Alcatraz Prison.
- Tell students to give feedback 
- Ask students to read the texts again to answer the questions 
- Ask students to read aloud the answers.
a. She went there by plane.
b. She saw the famous prison on the island of Alcatraz.
c. It is the mount where the heads of four American are carved into the rock; and it can be seen from more than 100 km away.
d. It is also called “The Windy City”
e. She went shopping
4. Post – reading. 
- Ask students to write the answers into their notebooks.
5. Home work 
 Do exercise in to note books
Prepare: Write
- Work in pairs. 
- Give feedback 
- Listen and write. 
- Matching
- Give meaning
- Listen and repeat
- Play game
- Pair works. 
- Give feedback 
- Read silently and work in groups.
- Give feedback 
- Group works. 
- Read the answers aloud.
- Whole class.
VI. Comments 
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Week: 27th	 Preparing Day: 12/3/2013
Period: 81th	 Teaching Day: 15/3/2013
CORRECT TEST 3
I. OBJECTIVES :
-Correcting some mistakes which students have done, explaining what most students didn’t do well such as rewrite the sentences, finding out words learned . . . 
II.COMMENTS :
1.Comment on the students’ result
Class
Sts
Pron
Vocabulary and Grammar
Speaking
Reading
Writing
Complete the passage
Answer
Transfor
Guided
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
1
2
3
4
5
6
1
2
3
1->4
1,2
8A2
21
13
16
7
8
7
5
7
7
13
10
9
5
11
10
8
7
11
8
9
6
7
12
18
17
12
73
15
8A3
24
11
18
8
6
4
5
4
5
12
6
5
4
12
8
6
8
13
5
9
4
4
8
15
17
12
65
14
Total
45
24
34
15
14
11
10
11
12
25
16
14
9
23
18
14
15
24
13
18
10
11
20
33
34
24
138
29
2. Comment on theme of the test :
The test is suitable for the students’ knowledge. There are three requirements in the test : recognization, understanding and application,they are suitable for three types of the students : poor students, fair students and good students.
3. Comment on teacher’s teaching:
	Teacher helped students revise the knowledge from unit 9 to unit 11 carefully. Teacher guided students how to learn and to remember the grammar structures, vocabulaty effectively. The teacher gave a lot of exercises for students to practice . However, students didn’t pay attention to studying. They didn’t revise the old lesson before doing the test, so their result is not good.
III. PROCEDURES
1. Giving the test for all the students:
	Teacher: give the test for all the students
Students : see their tests carefully and recognize their mistakes 
2. Correcting the test :
A. PRONUNCIATION
*Choos the word that has the underlined part pronunced differently from others (
1. C	2. A	
B. VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR.
*.Choose the most suitable word or phrase to fill in the blanks.
 3. C	4. D	5.B 	6.D 	7.B	 	8.B	
 9.D	 	10.A 	11.C 	12.A 	13.C 	14.D
C. SPEAKING
*Choose the most suitable word or phrase to fill in the blanks.
 15. A	16. C
C.READING
I. Reading the following passage and then complete the passage .
17. break	 	2.wash	3. mix	
4. melt	5. dip	6. blow
II.Reading the passage then answer the questions.
1. Dalat is the capital of Lam Dong province in Viet Nam. 
2. Dalat is famous for its temperate climate, beautiful sights, vegetables and flowers.
3. Yes, it does
E. WRITING
I.Complete each sentences so that the meaning stays the same.
1. A milk bottle is reused thirty times
2. Your bicycle will be repaired (by them) tomorrow
3. It is very interesting to travel around VietNam
 4.Would you mind waiting a moment?
II. Write a description of a room , using the given cues.
1.The old lamp made in China is 5 dollars.
2. Uyen had a day to remember last week.
3. Comment on the students:
Teacher : commmends the good stuents who got good grade, names the good students and commend them before the class, then encourage the poor students in their study.
IV. RESULT
Khối lớp 
Tổng số 
Điểm >= 5
Điểm 8 - 10
Điểm < 5
Điểm 0 - 3
SL 
%
SL 
%
SL 
%
SL 
%
8A2
21
10
47,6
0
0
11
52,4
5
23,8
8A3
24
8
33,3
0
0
16
66,7
6
25
V. PREPARATION:
-Prepare Unit 12: Write
VI. COMMENT:
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FIFTEEN-MUNITE TEST
Skill: Listening
I.Listen to the weather reports.Then fill in the blanks in the passage with the information you hear.
And here is today’s weather forecast for international traveler.
1. Let’s start with Sedney. It will be a dry day in sydney today., and windy. For the (1).., the low will be twenty and the high will be twenty six degreees.
2. Tokyo will be dry and windy, with a low of (2)..and a high of twenty two.
3. London will going to have a(3)..day. It will be very cold with a low of (4)..three and a high of seven.
4. Bangkok will be warm and dry, with a low of twenty four degrees (5)and a high of thirty two.
5. New York is going to have a windy day. It will be(6)....with a low of eight and high of fifteen.
6. In Paris it will be coll and dry today. The low will be ten degrees and the high will be(7) 
II. Listen to the conversation , then answer True(T) or False(F):
a) The hotel is on Phong Lan road.
b) The restaurant is next to the pagoda.
c) Shannon wants to eat some things.
d) The bus station is opposite the tourist information center.
e) They will visit the pagoda.
f) Mrs Joes doesn’t have time to go to the temple. 
ANSWER KEYS AND POINTS: 
I. 6 points( 1sentence-1point)
 (1) temperature , (2)fifteen , (3)humid, 	(4)minus,(5)centigrade, (6)cloudy, (7). sixteen	
II. 3 points( 1 sentence – 0.5 point)
a. T	b. F	c. F	d. T	e. F	f. F
RESULT
Khối lớp 
Tổng số 
Điểm >= 5
Điểm 8 - 10
Điểm < 5
Điểm 0 - 3
SL 
%
SL 
%
SL 
%
SL 
%
8A2
20
8A3
24
VI. COMMENT:
Week: 28th	 Preparing Day: 15/3/2013
Period: 82th	 Teaching Day: 19/3/2013
UNIT 12	A VACATION ABROAD 
Lesson 4	WRITE
I. Objectives:
1. Education aim: Students should write a postcard about their trip to their relatives and friends .
2. Teaching aim: By the end of the lesson, students can:
	˜ write postcards to their friends about their trips.
	˜ develop their writing skill.
II. Language contents:
	1. Vocabulary:	
2. Grammar:	 	
III. Techniques:	eliciting, describing, questioning & answering, role play.
IV. Teaching aids:	charts for presentation.
V. Procedures:
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
1. Warm – up.
- Have students to write words to describe weather
- Ask students to give feedback. 
- Ask question. 
What’s the weather like today?
 It’s (hot)
2. Pre – writing. 
 - Set the scene
“From the USA, Mrs. Quyen sent a post cards to her friend Sally to tell her about the trip”
- Ask students to look at the postcard on p. 118 and complete the gaps with the appropriate words.
- Call on some students to write the answers on the board.
1. in
2. people
3. weather
4. visited
5. her
6. nice / lovely
7. bought
8. for
9. heaviness
10. soon
3. While – writing.
- Ask students to look at the information in the book.
- Ask questions 
1. What do you write about the places?
2. What do you write about the weather?
3. What do you see?
4. Who do you meet?
5. What are the people like?
- Ask students to write the postcards on a piece of paper, using the given information.
4. Post – writing. 
- Call on some students to read their postcards in front of the class.
- Ask some students to write their postcards on the board.
5. Homework
-Write the postcard in the notebooks.
-Do the exercise 7 / p. 75 (workbook) 
-Prepare: Language focus
- Group works. 
- Give feedback 
- Answer the questions. 
- Listen to the teacher. 
- Pair works. 
- Give feedback 
- Look and read.
- Answer the questions. 
- Group works. 
- Read before the class.
- Display the answers on the board.
VI. Comments
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Week: 28th	 Preparing Day: 16/3/2013
Period: 83th	 Teaching Day: 20/3/2013
UNIT 12	A VACATION ABROAD 
Lesson 5	LANGUAGE FOCUS
I. Objectives :
By the end of the lesson, students will able to talk about activities using Present and Past progressive
II. Language contents:
	1. Vocabulary:	win the race, mailman, drum, crowd, cheer, miss the bus.
2. Grammar:	Present and Past Progressive tenses.
III. Techniques:	
eliciting, describing, matching, completing, 
questioning & answering, role 	play.
IV. Teaching aids:	pictures for presentation and practice, cardboards.
VI. Procedures:
Teacher's activities
Students' activities
1. Activity 1: Exercise 1
*Ordering pictures
? Look at the pictures on 119 carefully
? Listen and number the pictures 
? Work in pairs 
Gives feed back 
walk with a dog 
eating dinner 
take a shower 
talk to Grandma
read a comic
write a letter 
Sets the scene: Look at the picture a What was Ba doing at 8 o’clock last night
Elicits from the students and asks students to give model and form
*Pictures drill 
Shows the pictures and asks students to practice 
2. Activity 2 Exercise 2
*Matching 
Asks students to look at the pictures on p 119 and do the matching 
Gives answer key 
a. C b. F c. E d. B e D f A
Elicits the model sentences by asking the questions? What was the family doing when the mailman came?
Asks students to give model sentences and form
* Picture drill 
Shows the pictures to ask students practice
3. Activity 3: Exercise 3 	
Asks students to retell grammar about the using with “always”
* Pictures drill
Shows the pictures to ask students to practice by steps 
Gives feed back 
4. Home work 
? Do exercise in to note books 
5. Homework
- Do the exercise 
-Prepare: Unit 13 Listen and read
 Look at the pictures on 119 carefully
 Listen and number the pictures 
?Work in pairs 
Listen and answer the questions 
Ba was taking a shower at 8 o’clock last night 
Form: S + was/ were + Ving 
Use: to indicate an action that was in progress at point of time in the past 
Look at the pictures on p 119 and do the matching 
The Le family was sleeping when the mailman came 
Form: Past continuous Past simple 
Use: An action was taking place in the past when another action took place 
S + tobe + always + Ving 
Use: DiĨn t¶ sù liªn tơc cđa c«ng viƯc dÉn ®Õn sù phµn nµn
 Do exercise in to note books
VI. Comment 
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