Giáo án Tiếng Anh 8 - Units 12: A vacation abroad - Do Thi Cuc - Thanh Mai Secondary school

Planning date: 6- 2- 2015
Period 74. UNIT 12: A VACATION ABROAD
Lesson 1: getting started + listen and read. P.111 - 113
I.Aims:
 - To help students understand the dialogue for detail about making plans for a vacation abroad.
- To develop students’ skills.
II. Objectives: - By the end of the lesson, students will be able to be know how to use the present continuous with “always” to give complaint.
III. Ways of working: T-WC, pair work, individual work.
IV. Materials: - Textbook, pictures in the textbook on page 111,cassette & tape.
V. Anticipated problems: 
- The activity “word cue drill” may be difficult for students in class 8C.
VI. Teaching steps:
1. Warm up: (1 minute) * Teacher greets and checks the students’ attendance.
2. New lesson:
STAGES
T & SS’ ACTIVITIES
THE CONTENT ONBOARD
PRESEN
TATION
(14 minutes)
PRACTICE
(20 minutes)
* Matching (Getting started. P.111)
- Students match the names of the countries with the appropriate pictures / flags. 
- Ask Ss if they know what 3 first pictures are: 
 a) Statue of Liberty
 b) The Opera House
 c) Royal palace
* Chatting:
- Students talk about the country they would like to visit. (pair work)
* Pre-teach vocabulary:
- Teacher uses techniques to teach students new words. 
* Set the scene:
Mrs. Quyen and her husband are going to the USA for a vacation. Mrs. Quyen is phoning her friend, Mrs. Smith, to tell her about the trip.
* Pre-question:
- Students predict the answers to the pre-questions.
* Listen and read:
- Students listen to the tape while they are looking at their books and check their predictions.
- Students practise reading the dialogue in pair and then complete Mrs. Quyen’s schedule.
- Teacher elicits the model sentences.
+ How does Mrs. Smith say about Mr. Thanh when she invites him to have dinner? 
I. Matching (Getting started. P.111)
* Answer key:
a) The United State of America
b) Australia
c) Thailand
d) Britain
e) Canada
f) Japan
E.g.
- Which country do you want to visit?
- I’d like to visit Australia.
- Why?
- Because Australian people are friendly.
II. New words:
- (to) go abroad: ®i ra n­íc ngoµi
- (to) include: bao gåm	
III. Pre-questions:
1. Will Mrs. Quyen and her husband stay at Mrs Smith’s house? Why? Why not?
2. Will Mrs. Quyen’s husband have dinner with the Smiths? Why? Why not?
3. How will Mrs. Quyen go to Mrs. Smith’s house? 
IV. Listen and read:
1. Checking predictions:
* Answer key:
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 will have a business meeting in the evening (that day).
c) Mrs. Smith will pick her up at the hotel.
2. Complete Mrs. Quyen’s schedule:
DATE
Mon 25
Tue 26
Wed 27
Thu 28
SCHEDULE
coming to San Francisco
going out
having dinner with the Smiths
leaving San Francisco
3. Model sentences:
He is always working.
* Form: S + is/am/are + always + V-ing
* Use: Thì hiện tại tiếp diễn dùng với always ( mãi, cứ, hoài, suốt) để diễn tả sự bực bội trước những hành động lặp đi lặp lại.
Ex: - She’s always coming to class late.
 - I don’t like them because they’re
 always complaining.
PRODUC
TION
(8 minutes)
* Practice ( cue words)
Ss make sentences using the above structure and the cue words given.
4. Practice:
come late
forget to do homework 
play computer game 
talk during the lesson
3. Summary: (1 minute)
- Repeat the content of the lesson
4. Homework: (1 minute)
- Learn by heart all the new words and the structure.
- Read the dialogue again.
- Prepare Speak
Planning date 7 - 2- 2015
Period 75. UNIT 12: A VACATION ABROAD
 Lesson 2: SPEAK. P.113
I. Aims:
 - To help students to practise making plans using tourist brochures and flight information.
- To develop students’ skills.
II. Objectives:
 - By the end of the lesson, students will be able to talk about their plans for a trip abroad.
III. Ways of working: T – WC, pair work, individual work.
IV. Materials: Texbook
V Anticipated problems: 
- Some students in class 8C may have difficulty in speaking in English.
VI. Teaching steps:
1.Warm up: (5 minutes) 
* Teacher greets and checks the students’ attendance. 
* Revision:- Read the dialogue P 112 and answer some questions part 2/113
2. New lesson:
STAGES
T & SS’ ACTIVITIES
THE CONTENT ON BOARD
PRE SPEAKING
(14 minutes)
* Pre-teach vocabulary:
- Teacher uses techniques to teach students new words.
- Checking understanding: Slap the board
* Reading:
- Students read the information about the flights from Los Angeles to Boston and the advertisements about the hotels.
- Teacher asks students to check their understanding:
+How many flights a week can you take from Los Angeles to Boston?
+ Which flight can you take every day of the week?
+ Which hotel is cheaper?
+ Where can you visit?
- Students make plans for their flight. (pair work) 
I. New words:
- an itinerary: lé tr×nh
- the brochure: tê r¬i, tê h­íng dÉn, giíi thiÖu du lÞch.
- a gallery: phßng tr­ng bµy
- a flight: chuyÕn bay
- via (prep): ®i qua
II. Planning for the flight:
E.g.
Depart Los Angeles: Flight 835 at 10.00 on Monday.
Arrive Boston: At 4.00
Accommodation: Atlantic Hotel
Sightseeing: Boston University, Museum & art galleries.
Depart Boston: Flight 710 at 10.00 on Thursday, 22.
WHILE SPEAKING
(16 minutes)
* Speak:
- Students practice in pair, asking and answering about the plans they have made.
- Students practice speaking in pair, basing on the plans they have made.
III. Speak:
1. Mapped dialogue:
S1
S2
What time should we leave Los Angeles?
We’ll leave at 10 on Monday.
What time will we arrive in Boston?
We’ll arrive in Boston at 4.00.
Where will we stay?
We’ll stay at the Revere Hotel. It’s expensive but it has a gym.
Where should we visit?
I think we should visit museums and art galleries.
That sounds interesting.
POST SPEAKING
(8 minutes)
* Speak:
- Students practice speaking in pair about their plans for the summer vacation. Teacher can give some suggestions. 
2. Summer vacation:
- Where will you go?
- Who will you go with?
- How will you go?
- How long will you stay there?
- Where will you visit?
3. Summary: (1 minute)
- Repeat the lesson
4. Homework: (1 minute)
- Learn by heart all the new words.
- Prepare Listen + Language focus 1, 2
Planning date 22 - 2 - 2015
Period 76. UNIT 12: A VACATION ABROAD
 Lesson 3: Listen + Language focus 1,2
I. Aims: 
- To help students listen for information about the weather.
- Further practice with past progressive tense. 
- To develop student’s skills.
II. Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to understand the weather forecast in big cities in the world 
III. Ways of working: T – WC, team work, pair work, individual work.
IV. Materials: Textbook, cassette and tape.
V.Anticipated problems: The lesson may take time.
VI. Teaching steps:
1.Warm up: (5 minutes) * Teacher greets and checks the students’ attendance.
 * Brainstorming:
- Students write the words related to weather forecast. (team work)
Words related to the weather forecast
 cloudy
- Possible answers: cloudy, cool, cold, warm, hot, windy, fine, humid, rainy, snowy, sunny, wet, stormy, degree, minus, centigrade
2. New lesson:
STAGES
T & SS’ ACTIVITIES
THE CONTENT ON BOARD
PRE LISTENING
(8 minutes)
* Pre-teach vocabulary:
- Teacher uses techniques to teach students new words.
- Checking understanding: Word cue drill
+ Students read the temperature in the word cards.
* Chatting:
- Have you ever listened to the weather forecast on TV or on the radio?
- What does it often tell you about?
- Do you think it’s necessary to listen to the weather forecast? Why? Why not?
- What do you know about the low and the high temperature?
* Prediction:
- Students predict the words to fill in the blanks in the table.
I. New words:
- minus five degree centigrade: -50C
- humid (adj): Èm ­ít
350C
220C
150C
-30C
00C
-50C
- temperature(n): nhiÖt ®é
II. Prediction:
WHILE LISTENING
(10 minutes)
* Listen:
- Students listen to the tape to check their predictions.
 - Students listen again and complete the table.
III. Listen:
1. Checking the predictions:
2. Complete the table:
* Answer key:
City
Weather
Temperature
Low
High
1. Sydney
dry; windy
20
26
2. Tokyo
dry,  windy
15
22
3. London
humid; cold
3
7
4. Bangkok
warm; dry
24
33
5. New York
windy, cloudy
8
15
6. Paris
cool, dry
10
16
POST LISTENING
(6 minutes)
* Role play:
- Students use the information in the table to ask and answer about the weather.
* Or:Write it up:
- Students use the information in the table to write a weather report.
3. Role play:
E.g.
- What is the weather like in Sydney today?
- It will be dry and windy.
- How about the temperature?
- The low will be 20 and the high 26 degrees.
Or: Write it up:
E.g.
Here is today’s weather forecast for the international travelers.
In Sydney it will be.
FURTHER PRACTICE
(14 minutes)
* Grammar:
- T. elicits the model sentenses:
- Ask Ss to do language focus1,2 –P119,120
* Language focus 1. P.119:
Picture cue + word cue drill
- Students look at the pictures and say what each person was doing at 8 last night.
* Language focus 2. P.119
Matching
- Students look at the pictures LF 2 and do the matching on page 120.
When and while are used in the past progressive form to identify the time the action happened. 
IV. Language focus:
- Ba was taking a shower at 8 o’clock last night.
- The family was sleeping when the mailman came.
The past progressive tense.
* Form: S + was/ were + V-ing
* Use: Quá khứ tiếp diễn được dùng để
- những hành động đang diễn ra trong quá khứ vào thời điểm xác định.
- một hành động quá khứ đang diễn ra thì một hành động khác cắt ngang nó. Dùng thì quá khứ tiếp diễn cho hành động đang diễn ra ( hành động dài hơn) và quá đơn cho hành động chen ngang (hành động ngắn hơn)
- những hành động đang diễn ra đồng thời trong quá khứ
 + I was reading while my sister was listening to music.
- Thì này thường dùng với While/As + past progressive; When + past simple.
- Nếu đặt mệnh đề when/as/ while ở đầu câu thì sau chúng phải có dấu phẩy.
1. Language focus 1. P.119
* Key:
a. Ba was taking a shower at eight o’clock last night.
b. Hoa was eating dinner at eight o’clock last night.
c. Bao was reading a comic at eight o’clock last night.
d. Nga was writing a letter at eight o’clock last night.
e. Na was walking with her dog at eight o’clock last night.
f. Lan was talking to her grandmother at eight o’clock last night.
2. Language focus 2. P.119
* Matching:
* Key:
a +C: The Le family was sleeping when the mailman came.
b + F: The phone rang while Hoa was eating.
c + E: When Nam won the race, the crowd was cheering.
d + B: Mrs. Thoa was cooking when Tuan arrived home.
e + D: When Lan arrived at school, the drum was sounding.
f + A: It was raining when the plane got to Ha Noi.
 * Tape script:
And here is today’s weather forecast for the international traveler.
1. Let’s start with Sydney. 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 degrees.
2. Tokyo will be dry and windy, with a low of fifteen and a high of twenty two.
3. London is 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 fry, 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 a high of fifteen.
6. In Paris it will be cool and dry today. The low will be ten degrees and the high will be sixteen.
3. Summary: (1 minute)
- Repeat the lesson
4. Homework: (1 minute)
- Learn by heart all the new words.
- Do exercises 4, 6. (WB) P.72, 74
- Prepare: “Read”
Planning date: 24 -2- 2015
Period 77. Unit 12: a vacation abroad
Lesson 4: read. P.116
I. Aims:
- To help students read for information about the places of interest in the world.
- To develop students’ skills.
II. Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to gain some knowledge about some scenic spots in the USA.
III. Ways of working: T -W C; team work, pair work, individual work.
IV. Materials: Textbook, pictures in the textbook.
V. Anticipated problems: The pre-questions activities may be difficult for some students.
VI. Teaching steps: 
1.Warm up: (5 minutes) * Teacher greets and checks the students’ attendance.
 * Brainstorming:
 - Students think of some places in the USA they know.
Chicago
PLACES IN THE USA
2. New lesson:
STAGES
T & SS’ ACTIVITIES
THE CONTENT ON BOARD
PRE READING
(10 minutes)
* Pre-teach vocabulary:
- Teacher uses techniques to teach students new words.
- Checking understanding: Slap the board
* Open prediction:
- Students predict the places Mrs. Quyen visited in the USA.
I. New words:
- a volcano: nói löa
- (to) pour out: ®æ ra, trµo ra
- the lava: dung nham, nham th¹ch
- (to) carve: ch¹m, kh¾c
- (to) be situated on: ë, n»m ë, ®Þnh vÞ ë
II. Predictions:
Places Mrs. Quyen visited:
.
WHILE READING
(16 minutes)
* Reading:
- Students read the text and check their predictions.
- Students read the text again and complete the table.
- Students read the text again and answer the comprehesion questions on page 118.
III. Read. P.116:
1. Checking predictions:
* Key: Palces Mrs. Quyen visited:
- Hawaii
- San Francisco
- Mount Rushmore
- Chicago
- New York
2. Complete the table:
Place
What she did and saw
Hawaii
went swimming, visited Kilauea Volcano
New York
went shopping, bought lots of souvenirs
Chicago
saw Lake Michigan
Mount Rushmore
saw the heads of four American presidents
San Francisco
visited Fisherman’s Wharf, the Nava Valley wine-growing area and the Alcatraz prison.
POST READING
(12 minutes)
* Lucky number
- Teacher uses the comprehension questions to hold the game).
2; 5; 7: Lucky numbers.
3. Comprehension questions:
Lucky number:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
* Answer key to comprehension questions:
a. She went there by plane.
b. She saw the famous prison on the island of Alcatraz.
c. It is a mount where the heads of four American presidents are carved into the rock; (and it can be seen from more than 100 kilometers away.)
d. It is also called “The Windy City”
e. She went shopping.
3. Summary: (1 minute)
- Repeat the content of the lesson.
4. Homework: (1 minute)
- Learn by heart all the new words.
- Do exercises: 1, 2. P.70 (WB)
- Prepare Write 
Planning date:25 - 2 - 2015
Period 78. Unit 12: a vacation abroad
Lesson 5: write + language focus 3. P.118, 120
I. Aims: 
- To help students practise writing postcards and use the adverbs of frequency in the present continuous to complain about something always happening.
- To develop students’ skills.
II. Objectives: - By the end of the lesson, students will be able to write a postcard and adverbs of frequency to complain.
III. Ways of working: T – WC, pair work, individual work.
IV. Materials: Text book, pictures in the text book on page 120.
V. Anticipated problems:
VI. Teaching steps:
1.Warm up: (5 minutes) * Teacher greets and checks the students’ attendance.
 * Revision:T. asks Ss to read the postcards from Mrs Quyen
 to her children then some questions : 
 1. Which places in the USA did Mrs Quyen visit?
 2. What did she do and see there?
 3. Have you ever written postcards? To whom?About what?
2. New lesson:
STAGES
T & SS’ ACTIVITIES
THE CONTENT ON BOARD
PRE WRITING
(10 minutes)
* Set the scene:
- Mrs. Quyen is on holiday in USA and she sent a postcard to her friend, Sally to tell her about her holiday.
* Gap fill:
- Students complete the postcard. Part 1. P.118.
* Chatting:
- Students use the cues in part 2. P.118 to talk about their vacation in Viet Nam.
E.g. 
- Where are you visiting?
- I am visiting Da Lat.
- How do you feel about the people there?
- I think they are very friendly.
I. Complete the postcard. Part 1. P.118
* Key:
1. in
2. people
3. weather
4. visited
5. her
6. lovely / nice
7. bought
8. for
9. heaviness
10. soon
WHILE WRITING
(15 minutes)
* Write:
- Students base on the information they have talked to write a postcard to their friend.
II. Write:
Suggested writing:
Dear Nga, 
I am having a wonderful time in Da Lat. The people are very friendly and the weather here is cool.
In Da Lat, I visited Xuan Huong Lake. We paddled around the lake in a canoe. It was really exciting. We also saw a lot of beautiful flowers such as roses, orchids in Da Lat. Da Lat is known as a dream city, you know. The sight here is wonderful.
I have bought a lot of souvenirs for my children. I also bought a nice hat for you. I hope you will like it.
See you soon.
Love,
Hoa 
POST WRITING
(13 minutes)
* Correction:
- Students exchange their writing and correct.
- Teacher corrects some students’ writing.
* Language focus 3. P.120
(Word cue and picture cue drill)
- Students look at the pictures and the word cue to say what people are always doing.
- Students write the sentences in their notebooks.
III. Language focus 3. P. 120
* Key:
a) Bao is always forgetting his homework.
b) Mrs. Nga is always losing her umbrella.
c) They (Mr. and Mrs. Thanh) are always missing the bus.
d) Nam is always watching TV.
e) Na is always talking on the phone.
f) Lien is always going out. 
3. Summary: (1 minute)
- Repeat the lesson.
+ Vocabulary
+ Grammar: The present progressive tense with “always”
+ Language: How to write a postcard.
4. Homework: (1 minute)
- Do exercise 7. P.75 (WB)
- Prepare Getting started + Listen and read (Unit 13).