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

LESSON PLAN ENGLISH 8 
Period 76: Unit 12: A VACATION ABROAD
 Lesson 5: Language focus
A. AIMS:
- Present the formation and the usage of past progressive tense and ‘‘ always” in present progressive tense to make complaints.
- Ss will be able to use the past progressive tense and complaints.
B. Content:
+ Vocabulary: drum, cheer, race.
+ Structure: 
 S + was/were + V-ing
 S + is/ am /are+ always + V-ing
C. Teaching skills: Speaking and writing skills
D. Teaching aids: 
 - Book, chalk, video clips, pictures, projector...
E. Procedure:
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
I. Warm up:
 - Greeting 
- Divide the class into 2 teams to play the game called “shark attack”, choose 2 leaders.
-Tell - Tell Ss the rule “ You have to find out one mistake in the table within 5 seconds.If you can’t, you will step down and the other has the right to answer. At the end of the game, the team at higher position is the winner.” 
- Ask Ss to elect the team to play first.
- After the game, tells Ss the aim of the game : to revise the formation of Ving and some Vpast simple.
- Lead to the new lesson .
II. New lesson: 
Period 76:
Unit 12. A VACATION ABROAD
 Language focus
1) Look at the pictures and say.
- Show a picture and ask Ss: 
“What is the boy doing?”
-Show the picture at the time: “at 7 o’clock yesterday” and give the sentence:
“The boy was running at 7 o’clock yesterday”. 
-Ask Ss to tell the difference between the 2 sentences 1a and 1b.
- Show another picture and ask Ss: 
“What are the birds doing?”
-Show the picture at the time: “at 7 o’clock yesterday” and give the sentence:
“The birds were flying at 7 o’clock yesterday.” 
-Ask Ss to tell the difference between the 2 sentences 2a and 2b.
-Tell Ss that sentences 1b and 2b present the past progressive tense.
-Get Ss to give the formation of the past progressive tense through the example.
- Write the formation on the board.
- Give the usage of the past progressive tense: to express an action happening at a point of time in the past.
- Show the pictures of Exercise 1
- Ask Ss to explain how to do the exercise. 
- Ask Ss to look at the pictures then ask them questions about the pictures.
- Ask Ss to read the sentence (a).
- Ask Ss to say what each person was doing at 8 o’clock last night within 2 minutes.
- Ask students to say in turns (in front of the class).
- Show the key.
- Show 2 pictures then ask Ss to make sentences. 
- Ask Ss to say what they were doing at a point of time in the past.
Lead to exercise 2
2) Look at the pictures then match and write 
- Show Ss two short video clips
 Present past progressive tense using “while” and “when” through the situations in the video clips 
- Ask Ss to give the formation through the examples.
- Write on the board:
When + S + Vpast simple , S + was/were +
 V-ing
While +S + Was/Were + Ving, S + Vpast simple
- Give the second usage of past progressive tense : to express an action happening when another took place.
- Show pictures of exercise 2 and ask Ss to explain how to do the exercise.
- Get Ss to look at the example of picture (a) and read.
- Explain new words: Race, cheer and drum 
through pictures.
-Check vocabulary .
- Ask Ss to do exercise 2 into groups of 4 students.Give out paper to groups to do the exercise in 2 minutes.
- Show the paper of 2 groups to correct the mistakes in front of the class.
- Show the key and ask Ss to check.
- Show a picture then ask Ss to complete the sentences.
3) Look at the pictures then write and say.
Using pictures to present the structure:
S + is/am/are + always + V-ing 
- Ask Ss to give the formation through the example.
- Tell Ss the usage: To describe a complaint.
- Show pictures of exercise 3 and ask Ss to explain how to do the exercise.
- Ask Ss to read the sentence of picture (a).
- Ask Ss to say what people are always doing within 2 minutes. 
- Call Ss to say what people are always doing 
- Call Ss to write on the board.
- Correct mistakes
- Show the key and ask Ss to check 
- Ask Ss to make sentences using:
 S + is/am/are + always + V-ing
III/ Consolidation:
- Review the lesson through the exercise 
 * Choose the most suitable word or phrase
 1. Lan ... her homework at 7 o’clock yesterday. 
A. did B. was doing
C. is doing D. does
2. I was writing a letter...he came.
A. when B. while
C. but D. so
3. Children, you ...TV. Turn it off now!
A. watch B. watching
C. are always watching D. were watching
4. ... breakfast at 6.30 yesterday morning? 
A. She was eating B. Was she eating
C. She wasn’t eating D. Did she eat 
+Ask Ss to remark the formation of past progressive tense in positive, negative and interrogative form through question 4.
- Ask Ss to retell the usage of past progressive tense and “always” in complaints.
IV/ Homework.
- Ask Ss to make:
+ 2 sentences with “while” and “when” using past progressive tense.
+ 2 sentences using “S +is/am/are + always + V-ing.” 
- Prepare Unit 13.
- Greeting the teacher .
 - Divide into 2 teams.
-Listen.
-Elect.
- Listen
- Listen
-Write the new lesson.
- Look at the pictures then answer: 
Answer: “The boy is running.”
- Listen
- Tell the difference.
Answer: “The birds are flying.”
-Look at the screen and listen.
- Tell the difference.
-Look at the screen and listen.
- Give the formation:
S + Was/Were + V-ing
- Copy down.
- Listen then write down.
- Look at the screen 
- Explain.
- Answer the questions.
- Read sentence (a).
- Say what each person was doing (individually) 
-Say in turns .
- Look at the key and copy down.
- Look at the pictures and say. 
Picture 1: “ It was raining at 10 o’clock last Sunday.”
Picture 2: “The mouse is walking”
 “They were watching TV”
-Free talk
-Listen
-Write the exercise.
-Watch the video clips.
- Give the formation.
- Write on the notebooks.
-Listen then write down.
- Explain
- Look at the example and read.
- Listen and copy down.
- Match the pictures to the words.
- Do the exercise in groups.
- Correct mistakes with the teacher.
- Check.
-Look at the picture and say.
“The tiger was walking when it saw a rabbit.”
“While the tiger was walking, it saw a rabbit.” 
-Write down the exercise.
-Look at the screen and listen .
-Give the formation : 
S + is/am/are + always + V-ing
-Write down.
- Look at the exercise and explain.
-Read sentence (a).
- Say (individually)
- Say in front of the class.
-Write sentences.
-Correct mistakes with the teacher.
-Check.
- Free talk.
- Do the exercise .
+ Remark the formation.
- Retell the usage.
-Write the homework.