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

WEEK: 25 Date of preparation: February 10th, 2015
Period: 73 Date of teaching: February 13th, 2015
UNIT 12 : VACATION ABROAD.
LESSON 1 : Getting started + Listen and Read
I. Aims and Objectives:
 - Language content: 
 + To introduce some words and phrases relating to vacation.
 + To help students read for details about making plans for a vacation abroad
 + To enable the students to use the progressive tense with “always” and the structure “would like” 
Language function: 
+ By the end of the lesson, the students will be able to be aware of how to make accept and decline invitations
 + To help the students practise completing the schedule and answering the questions according to the dialogue. 
Educational aim: 
+ To make students aware of the countries all over the world.
+ To make them know how to make accept and decline invitations.
1. Language: 
a. Vocabulary: include (v), come over (v), pick someone up (v), tour (n) business meeting (n)
b. Structures: Would you like + to infinitive? 
 S + be + always + Ving Ú use the present progress tense to express a complaint and an unpleasant action 
2. Skills: Integrated skills
3. Education factor: 
To educate the students to make friends with people all over the world
 II. Teacher’s and Students’ preparation:
1. Method: Communicative approach
2. Techniques: explanation, repetition, substitution, translation, chatting, mime, games, real action or things, pairworks, group works, questions and answers, matching, T/F statements.
3. Materials needed: Textbook, cassettle player, sub board, pictures.
4. Students’ preparation: textbook and new lesson: getting started + listen and read.
5. Previous Exercises: no exercise
III. Procedure in class:
Stabilization: (1’) a. Warm up : Greeting the students and asks about their health
 b. Checking absence: Who is absent today?
Checking up the previous knowledge:(4’) 
a. Questions: calls on some sts to go to the b/b to 
* Rewrite the following sentences
+ Lan cleans the room everyday.
Ú The room	
+ Mr Thanh teaches English in this school.
Ú English	
+ I was delighted to pass the final exam.
Ú I was	
+The old lamp was made in China. It was five dollars
à The old lamp	
+ I will invite her to the party.
Ú She	
Listens, corrects, gives remarks and marks.
b. Keys to the questions :
+ The room is cleaned by Lan everyday
+ English is taught in this school by Mr Thanh
+ I was delighted that I passed the final exam.
+ The old lamp made in China was five dollars
+ She will be invited to the party
 New lesson : (39’ )
Teaching Steps & Time
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
The content of the lesson
I/ Presentation 
of the new materials 
(6’)
(9’)
(10’)
(5’)
II/
Consolidation:
 (5’)
III/ Homework:
 (4’)
Unit 12 : A VACATION ABROAD
Period: 73 Getting started & Listen and read .
1. Lead-in:
a/ Sets the situation:
Has the sts play the game “matching”
-	Divides the class into two groups: group A and group B.
Shows some pictures in the textbook on page 111 and some name of the countries. Then asks the sts to match which country it is in pairs.
Then has the sts tell their partners which country they would like to visit and why 
A: Which country do you want to visit?
B: I’d like to visit Thailand.
A: Why?
B: Because Thailand has a lot of beautiful old pagodas.
Calls on some pairs to ask and answer.
 Asks the sts to answer “Have you ever been to the United states of America?”.
b/ Presents the new lesson :
 - Introduces the new lesson: Today, to know more about a plan go abroad of Mrs.Quyen. Welcome to unit 12: A Vacation Abroad, period 73: Getting started + listen and read.
2. Pre – practice
 a. Teaches new words: 
Teaches some new words:
+ include (v) [ synonym] = consist of : bao gồm, kể cả 
+ come over (v) [explanation]:come to someone’s house to visit for short time : ghé thăm 
+ pick someone up (v) [ explanation ] : to come and get someone in your car to drive him or her to plane :đón ai 
+ tour (n) [synonym] = trip: chuyến du lịch .
+business meeting (n) [translation] : buổi họp kinh doanh
 Asks the sts to repeat the new words after the teacher chorally and individually.
Checks the students’ understanding of new words by playing a game “rub out and remember”.
b. Teaches structure:
Present progress tense with always:
Sets the scene: 
He lost his keys yesterday. He is always losing his keys. 
* Form : 
S + am / is / are + always + Ving 
Usage: to express a complaint and an unpleasant action
- Asks the sts to give some more examples to illustrate the structure above.
Making an invitation: Would you like.?
Declining an invitation:
+ That’s very kind of you, but...
+ Yes, we’d love to but
Accepting an invitation
+ I’d love to.
+ That great.
Guiding questions :
- Asks the sts to skim the dialogue and then predict T/ F statements :
a. Mrs Quyen is calling Mrs Smith from the airport in San Francisco (T/F)
b. Mrs Smith invites Mrs Quyen and her husband to stay with her while they are in town (T/F)
c. Mrs Quyen doesn’t accept Mrs Smith’s invitation because she wants to stay with a Vietnamese friend of hers (T/F) 
d. Mrs Quyen and her husband will be in the USA for 3 days (T/F)
e. Mrs Quyen and her husband will come over to Mr Smith’s place for dinner one night (T/F)
f. Mr Thanh , Mrs Quyen’s husband gets abroad for a business meeting (T/F)
- Asks them to predict in pairs.
3. Controlled-Practice:
*Listen and read 
- Has the sts listen to cassette player twice.
- Gets the sts to check their prediction.
- Corrects their mistakes if necessary 
- Asks the sts to practice the dialogue in pairs.
- Calls on some pairs to practise in front of the class.
- Corrects their pronunciation if possible.
- Has them listen to the tape the last one 
- Asks the sts to read the dialogue again and complete Mr Quyen’s schedule by working pairs
- Calls on some sts from each group to complete.
- Gives feedback and corrects if possible 
Date
Mon 25
Tues 26
Wed 27
Thu 28
Schedule
coming to San Francisco 
Going out 
having dinner with 
The smiths 
leaving San Francisco 
Gets the sts to read the dialogue again and then answer the questions in pairs.
Calls on some pairs to check 
 - Gives feedback and corrects 
*Answer keys:
a. No, they won’t. Because they are coming on a tour and their accommodation is included in the ticket price, so they will stay at a hotel.
b. No, he won’t. Because he’ll have a business meeting in the evening.
c. Mrs.Smith will pick her up at her hotel
4.Free-Practice: Discussion 
- Gets the students to read the dialogue again and pick out the statements indicating the following situations in group of 4 
1. Making an invitation
2. Accepting an invitation
3. Declining an invitation
4. Making a complaint
- Calls on students to give their answers and has them copy down 
* Answer keys :
1. Making an invitation :
‘’ Would you like to come and stay with us.? ‘’
‘’.You must come over for dinner one night ‘’
2. Accepting an invitation :
‘’ Yes, we’d love to but we’ll only be in town for 3 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 ‘’
Asks the sts to answer the question: + “What do we learn today?”
 + How do you make and reply an invitation?
 Asks the students to:
+Learn the new words & the lesson by heart.
+Prepare the new lesson Unit 12: SPEAK + LISTEN. 
Play a game 
Ask and answer 
Listen & write down the title of the lesson 
Listen and guess the meanings of the new words and copy down 
Repeat chorally and individually.
Play a game “rub out and remember”.
Listen and take notes 
Give some more examples to illustrate the structure above.
Skim the dialogue and then predict T/ F statements :
a. F ( from Ha Noi )
b. T
c. F ( because his accommodation is included in her ticket price )
d. T
e.F(only Mrs Quyen )
f. T 
Listen and take notes 
Listen 
Check their prediction.
Listen 
Practice in pairs 
Some pairs practise in front of the class.
Listen and take notes 
Listen to the tape the last one 
Reread the dialogue and complete Mr Quyen’s schedule 
Listen and copy down 
Read the dialogue again and then answer the questions in pairs.
Listen and take notes 
Read the dialogue again and pick out the statements indicating the following situations in group of 4 
Give their answers and has them copy down
Listen and answer
Listen & take notes 
Prepare at home
 Unit 12: A VACATION ABROAD
Period: 73 Getting started & Listen and read.
I. Content :
* Answers :
a. The USA
b. Australia
c. Thai Lan
d. Britain
e. Canada
f. Japan
1. New words : 
- include (v) [ synonym] = consist of : bao gồm, kể cả 
- come over (v):come to someone’s house to visit for short time : ghé thăm 
- pick someone up (v): to come and get someone in your car to drive him or her to plane :đón ai 
- tour (n) [synonym] = trip: chuyến du lịch.
- business meeting (n) : buổi họp kinh doanh
2. Structure:
Present progress tense with always:
Sets the scene: 
He lost his keys yesterday. He is always losing his keys. 
* Form : 
S + am / is / are + always + Ving 
Usage: to express a complaint and an unpleasant action
3. Practice 
* Skim the dialogue and then predict T/F statements 
a. Mrs Quyen is calling Mrs Smith from the airport in San Francisco (T/F)
b. Mrs Smith invites Mrs Quyen and her husband to stay with her while they are in town (T/F)
c. Mrs Quyen doesn’t accept Mrs Smith’s invitation because she wants to stay with a vietnamese friend of hers (T/F) 
d. Mrs Quyen and her husband will be in the USA for 3 days (T/F)
e. Mrs Quyen and her husband will come over to Mr Smith’s place for dinner one night (T/F)
f. Mr Thanh , Mrs Quyen’s husband ges abroad for a business meeting (T/F)
* Practice the dialogue in pairs 
* Complete Mrs. Quyen’s schedule
Date Schedule
Mon 25 : coming to San Francisco 
Tues 26 : going out
Wed 27 : having dinner with The smiths 
Thurs 28 : leaving San Francisco 
Answer the questions 
*Answer keys:
a. No, they won’t. Because they are coming on a tour and their accommodation is included in the ticket price, so they will stay at a hotel.
b. No, he won’t. Because he’ll have a business meeting in the evening.
c. Mrs.Smith will pick her up at her hotel
* Further practice :
Discussion 
- Read the dialogue again and pick out the statements indicating the following situations in group of 4 
II/ Homework :
Learn the new words & the lesson by heart.
Prepare the new lesson Unit 12: SPEAK + LISTEN
* Self-Evaluation:
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