Giáo án Tiếng Anh 8 - Units 4: Our past - Hoa Nguyen Thi - Thuy Phu Secondary school

en to find more gold eggs. 
e. There weren’t any gold eggs while the chickens were dead.
3. Choose the most suitable moral lesson
- Don’t be foolish & greedy
5. Homework. Learn by heart all the vocabulary above, Do exercise 3, 4, 5 page 28,29 in workbook.
Prepare new lesson :Read
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 Preparing date: 6th, October,2011
 Teaching date: 10th, October,2011
Period 23 :	 Unit 4 :	Our past
Lesson 4: Read
I. Objectives:
	By the end of the lesson,Ss will be able to read, understand and retell the folktale they like in front of the class and learn a moral lesson.
II. Target language: 
Past simple tense 
III. Vocabulary: cruel, upset, broken heart, harvest festival, change ...into, fall in love with...
IV. Obtained skills: - read and understand a folktale.
V. Procedure
Stages
Teacher’s & Students’ activities
Contents
1.
Warm up
2.
Pre-reading
3. 
While-reading
4. Post-reading
T’s and Ss’ activities
+ Checking old lesson:
-T elicits Ss to retell the story “ Tam Cam”.
- Ss work in groups.
- T gives some new words.
- Ss copy.
- T asks: Do you like Folktales?
What are those stories usually about?
- Can you tell me the name of some stories that you remember?
- Do you know this story?
What can you guess from the title?
- SS answer and guess the content of the story.
- T requests: You scan the story and tell me who Little Pea was, who Stout Nut was and whose shoe was lost?
- Ss scan and guess.
- T guides Ss to reread the story twice and use the words in the story to complete the sentences.
- Ss reread the story and do exercise.
- Ss compare the answers with a partner.
 Some Ss read out their answers.
- T gives the correct answers.
- Ss copy.
- T guides Ss to do exercise 2.
- SS work in pairs.
- Some pairs of Ss practice aloud.
- The others correct the mistakes.
- T gives the correct answers.
-T reads the story aloud.
-Ss read chorally.
Ss work in groups to tell the story.
V. Read
The lost shoe
New words:
Stout Nut: (C¸m) 
Little Pea: (TÊm) 
harvest festival (n) 
broken heart:(n) đau tim
prince:(n) Hoàng tử
fairy:(n) 
rags: (n) 
1. Complete the sentences with the words from the story.
(poor) farmer
died
had .... again
marry/ choose 
new clothes
lost
2. Answer the following questions:
P1: Who was Little Pea?
P2: She was a poor farmer’s daughter.
P1:What did Stout Nut’s mother make Little Pea do all day?
 P2: She made Little Pea do the chores all day.
P1: How did Little Pea get her new clothes?
P2: Before the festival started, a fairy appeared and magically changed her rags into beautiful clothes.
P1: Who did the prince decide to marry?
 P2: He decided to marry the
 girl who fitted the lost shoe.
P1: Is this a true story? How do you know?
P2: This is not a true story because there is a fairy.
5. Homework. - Remind Ps to study at home and prepare new lesson
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 Preparing date: 10th, October,2011
 Teaching date: 14th, October,2011
Period 24 :	 Unit 4 :	Our past
Lesson 5: Write
I. Objectives:
	By the end of the lesson, students will be able to know one more traditional story “ How the Tiger got his stripes”, practice writing a story, using the words givenII. Target language: 
Past simple tense 
III. Vocabulary: buffalo, graze, servant, master, wisdom, straw, escape, stripe, burn
IV. Obtained skills: - read and understand a folktale.
V. Procedure
Stages
Teacher’s & Students’ activities
Contents
1.
Warm up
2.
Pre-Writing
3.
While-Writing:
4. Post-writing
T’s and Ss’ activities
+ Checking old lesson:
Retell the story “ The lost shoe”
- T asks a student to retell the story “Trí khôn của ta” in Vietnamese.
- T asks: Do you know why tigers have black stripes?
Which story tells you about that?
In this lesson, we will learn more about this story .Firstly, you read the story and complete it by filling the verbs in the correct blank.
- Ss read the story and fill the verbs in the blank.
- Ss compare the answers with a partner.
- Some Ss read out the completed story.
- T gives the correct answers.
- T explains some new words.
- SS copy and read them.
- T guides: Imagine that you are the farmer. Use the words to write the story. Start like this: One day I was in the field and ...
- Ss listen carefully and write individually in 5 minutes.
- Ss correct the mistakes in pairs
- Some Ss read out the story.
- T gives the elicited answer.
- Ss copy.
- T guides SS to retell the story without the book.
- Ss work in groups.
- Some Ss retell the story.
- The others give their remarks.
- T corrects.
- Retell the story.
- Write a story about you which happen last week.
A Pupil tell the tale “The Lost Shoe” in front of the class.
VI. Read
How the Tiger got his stripes.
1. Complete the story. Use the verbs in the box.
: appeared/ came
: was
: said
: left
: went
 tied
: lit
: burned
: escaped
New words:
buffalo:(n) con trâu 
graze:(n) gặm cỏ
servant (n) 
master (n) 
wisdom:(n) trí khôn
straw (n) 
escape (v)
stripe (n) 
burn:(v) cháy
light (v) - lit 
2. Now imagine you are the man. Use the words to write the story. Start like this:
 One day, as I was in the field and my buffalo grazed nearby, a tiger came. It asked why the strong buffalo was my servant and I was its master. I told the tiger that I had something called wisdom. The tiger wanted to see it, but I told it I left the wisdom at home that day. Then I tied the tiger to a tree with a rope because I didn’t want it to eat my buffalo. I went to get some straw that I said was my wisdom and I burned the tiger. The tiger escaped, but today it still has black stripes from the burns.
5. Homework. - Prepare new lesson: Language focus.
Preparing date: 16th, October,2011 Teaching date:17th, October,2011
Period 25 :	 Unit 4 :	 Our past
Lesson 6: Language focus
I. Objectives:
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to review the knowledge of unit 4 and know how to talk about past actions
II. Target language: 
Used to + V (bare-inf.)
Past simple tense 
III. Vocabulary: Prepositions of time: in, on, at, after, before, between.
IV. Obtained skills: - Listen to the story.
V. Procedure:
Stages
Teacher’s & Students’ activities
Contents
1.
Warm up
2.
Presentation
3.
Practice
4. Production
T’s and SS’ activities
+ Checking old lesson:
A st retell the story .
A st rewrite the story.
T presents the lesson.
 Activity 1:
-T writes some verbs on the board.
-Ss find out the irregular verbs in the simple past.(Ss work in pairs).
-Some SS write the verbs on the board.
-T corrects the mistakes.
-T gives some verbs to Ss.
-T asks Ss to look at past 2 and guide Ss to do exercise.(Now in order to review the usage and structure of the past simple tense, you work in pairs, complete the small dialogues ).
-Ss work in pairs.
-Some pairs of SS practice before class.
-T corrects and gives the answer key.
Activity 2:
-T asks SS to use the prepositions in the table to complete the sentences.
-Ss do exercise.
- Some Ss speak before the class.
-T gives the correct answer.
-T emphasis.
-Ss copy and notice.
Activity 3:
-T guides SS to repeat the structure and usage of USED TO.
-SS repeat and write on the board.
-T corrects the mistakes.
(+) S +used to +V infinitive.
(-) S + didn’t use to + V Inf 
USED TO dùng để diễn tả một hành động đã xãy ra trong quá khứ..
-T asks Ss to complete the dialogue.
-Ss work in pairs.
-Some pairs of Ss practice aloud before class.
-T gives the answer key.
the prepositions of time.
VII. Language focus:
Write the past simple form of each verbs:
Run - ran
fly - flew
take - took
go - went
have - has
do - did
be-was/were
ride - rode
eat - ate
sit - sat
come- came
Complete the dialogue below. Use the past simple:
a-Lan: Did you eat rice for breakfast?
 -Nga: No. I ate noodles.
b- Ba: How did you get to school?
 - Nam: I took a bus to school.
c- Minh: Where was you last
 night?
 - Hoa: I was at home.
d- Chi: Which subject did you have
 yesterday?
 -Ba: I have Literature.
3. Complete the sentences. Use the prepositions in the table.
On b. in c. between
d. at ......... after e. before
*Note:
in + month, year, seasons On + date ( on 17th)
On + day, date of a month.
At + time (at 7 pm).
4. Look at the pictures. Complete the dialogue. Use used to and the verbs in the box.
(+) S +used to +V infinitive.
 (-) S + didn’t use to + V infinitive
* Usage:
.
I used to have long hair.
She used to be my next-door neighbor.
They used to live in Hue , too.
5. Homework: - Do exercises in workbook .
 - prepare new lesson: Unit 5-Getting started + listen and read.
 Preparing date: 16th, October,2011
 Teaching date: 21st, October,2011
Period 26 :	 Unit 5 : study habits
Lesson 1 : Getting started + Listen and read.
I. Objectives : By the end of the lesson students will be able to get acquainted with the topic about study habits, get acquainted with reported speech. Practice asking and answering questions, developing and opening the dialogues.
II. Target language: 
Command, request, advice.
Present simple tense 
- How often, reported speech. Be proud of Sb, try one’s best.
III. Vocabulary: semester, pronunciation, dictionary, school report.
IV. Obtained skills: - Listen and understand the dialogue to answer the questions.
V. Procedure:
Stages
Teacher’s & Students’ activities
Contents
1.
Warm up
2.
Presentation
3.
Practice
4. 
Production
T’s and Ss’ activities
+ Checking old lesson:
A student writes on the board.
The other repeat “used to”.
-T presents the topic of the lesson.
Activity 1:
- Ss work in groups to answer some questions.
- Ss work in pairs.
- Some pairs of SS practice aloud.
- T corrects the mistakes.
Activity 2:
Presentation:
- T presents the situation of the dialogue.
- T plays the tape twice or three times.
- Ss listen to the tape.
- T asks: What are they doing in the picture?
- Ss answer.
- Ss find out new words.
- T writes and explains them.
- Ss copy and read.
Practice:
-T plays the tape.
-Ss listen and repeat.
-Ss work in pairs.
-Some pairs of Ss practice aloud.
-T corrects the mistakes.
-T guides and asks Ss to do exercise.
-Ss tick true or false.
-SS compare the answers with a partner.
-T gives the correct answers.
-T asks Ss to reread the dialogue.
-Ss read and answer the questions.
-Ss compare the answers with the partner.
-Some pairs of Ss practice asking and answering the questions before class.
-T gives the correct answers.
-Ss copy and notice.
-T presents about reported speech.
- Change the sentences into English:
1. Năm ngoái tôi thường đi học muộn.
2. Bố tôi thường đi câu cá khi ông còn trẻ.
I. Getting started:
- How often do we have Math?
- We have Math five times a week.
Questions:
1. How many subjects do you have a week?
2. What are they?
3. What subject do you like best? Why?
4. How often do you have that subject?
II. Listen and read:
1. Practice the dialogue with a partner.
School report 
Improve (v) : nâng cao, cải thiện.
Spanish pronunciation 
Be proud of sb: tự hào về ai.
Try one’s best: cố gắng hết sức.
Semester (n) : học kì.
2. T or F? Check (v) the box.
a. False.(Tim was at home).
b. True.
c. False.(It’s excellent).
d. True.
e. False.(He needs to improve Spanish pronunciation).
3. Answer the questions:
a. Miss Jackson is Tim’s mother.
b. Miss Jackson gave Tim’s mother his report card.
c. Tim studied very well this semester./Tim worked very hard this semester.
d. Miss Jackson said Tim should work harder on his Spanish pronunciation.
e. She gave him a dictionary.
Từ câu trực tiếp sang câu gián tiếp có những thay đổi sau:
+Bỏ dấu phẩy hoặc hai chấm sau động từ said, bỏ ngoặc kép.
+Đổi ngôi của đại từ (I-he).
+Đổi thì của động từ (am-was).
Ex: Minh said:” I am fine”.
Minh said that he was fine.
5. Homework: Learn by heart new words, prepare new lesson : Speak and Listen
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 Preparing date: 22nd, October,2011
	 Teaching date: 24th, October,2011
Period 27 :	 Unit 5 : study habits
 Lesson 2 : Speak- LISTEN 
I. Objectives : By the end of the lesson students will be able to speak about study habits and study methods.
II. Target language: When? What ? Who?
III. Vocabulary: civic education, Physical education, Technology, Biology, Physics, Go to English club, foreigners, Fair, Poor, Behavior, satisfactory, Comments, signature.
IV. Obtained skills: - Speaking
	 - Listening
V. Procedure:
Stages
Teacher’s & Students’ activities
Contents
1.
Warm up
2.
Presentation
3. 
Practice
4.Production
T’s and Ss’ activities
+ Checking old lesson:
SS speak the passage about themselves.
-T presents the lesson.
-T asks: What is this?
 How many words do you know?
-T gives Ss some new words and explains the report card.
-Ss listen and copy.
-T guides and asks Ss to complete a report card.
-Ss fill in the report.
-Some SS read out their report.
- T gives the remarks and marks. Learn by heart the subjects.
- Answer the questions and write them into a passage
-T asks: What is this?
 How many words do you know?
-T gives Ss some new words and explains the report card.
-Ss listen and copy.
-T guides Ss to listen.
(This is Nga’s school report. You will hear the conversation between Miss Lien ( Nga’s teacher) and Mr. Lam and Mrs Linh about Nga’s first term results).
-Ss guess Nga’s results.
(Now you listen to the tape and fill in the report. And then compare with your early guess).
- T plays the tape twice or three times.
- Ss listen carefully.
- Ss fill in the report.
- Ss compare the results with their partner.
- Some Ss read out their answers.
- T gives answer key.
- Ss copy.
-T plays the tape, sentence by sentence.
-T explains some new words.
-Ss copy in their books.
-T guides and asks Ss to complete a report card.
-Ss fill in the report.
-Some SS read out their report.
- T gives the remarks and marks. Learn by heart the subjects.
Answer the questions:
What did Miss Jackson give Tim’s mother?
How did Tim study this semester?
A. SPEAK:
Work in groups. 
Civic education: 	
Physical education:
Technology: 
Physics: 
 Biology: 	
Go to English club
Speak to foreigners: 
*Multiple choice:
1. When do you do your homework?
a- after school c- late at night
b- after dinner d- another time...
2. Who helps you with your homework?
 a - your parents c - a friend
 b - your brother/sister.
B. LISTEN:
Listen to the dialogue and complete the report card.
Name: Tên Class: lớp
Marking period ; Day present: 
Day absent ; Behavior
participation: Cooperation: 
Listening: Speaking: 
Reading: Writing:
A= excellent: B= good: giỏi, tốt
C= Fair: khá D= Poor: yếu
F= fail:trượt 
S= satisfactory: hài lòng
U= unsatisfactory: ko hài lòng
Comments: nhận xét, đánh giá
Teacher’s signature: chữ kí của gv
Parent’s signature: chữ kí của PH.
1. 87 days present.
2. 5 days absent.
3. S =Satisfactory.
4. C =Fair.
5. A =Excellent.
6. A =Excellent.
7. B =Good.
*New words:
Writing skills: 
Listening comprehension: 
Encourage Sb to do Smt
Appreciate :đánh giá.
5. Homework- Learn by heart new words, make a report card of own, prepare new lesson: Read
 Preparing date: 26th, October,2011
 Teaching date: 28th, October,2011
Period 28 :	 Unit 5 : study habits
 Lesson 4 : Read
I. Objectives : By the end of the lesson students know how to learn the vocabulary in English. Ss practice listening comprehension.
II. Target language: in order to,so as to
III. Vocabulary: Mother tongue, Make a list, Learn by heart, However, Underline, Instead, Highlight, Come across, Revision
IV. Obtained skills: - Reading comprehension about how to learn Vocabulary.
V. Procedure:
Stages
Teacher’s & Students’ activities
Contents
1.
Warm up
2.
Pre-reading
3. 
While-reading
4. Post-reading
+ Checking old lesson:
SS read their report cards.
- T presents the lesson.
- T presents the content of the text.
- T says: look at the picture and have a guess of our today lesson.
- T writes some new words.
- T asks what they mean. How to learn and remember them.
Answer: How to learn new words in English.
? Do you like to learn English vocabulary?
? What do you always do when you have a new word?
? How do you learn that words?
? How many words do you learn a day?
? Do you have any special ways to learn English vocabulary?
- SS read the text and underline the new words.
- T asks: Now what do you do with these new words?
- SS write them in the books or small papers.
- T explains: These words are not explained now. You read the text again and decide the statements are True or False according to the text. And then you try to guess the meaning of the words from context.
- SS do exercise and compare the answer with their partner.
- Some SS read out their answers.
- T guides SS to ask and answer the questions.
- SS work in pairs.
- Some pairs of SS practice aloud.
- T gives the correct answers.
- T plays the tape.
- SS listen . then read out the text
+ Answers questions in front of the class.
* READ:
True or False? Check (v) the boxes:
False.(NOT all language learners but only SOME).
True.
False.(Many learners DO NOT try to learn ).
True.
New words:
Make a list: liệt kê danh sách
Mother tongue :tiếng mẹ đẻ
Learn by heart: học thuộc lòng
However: tuy nhiên 
Instead: thay vào đó
Come across: gặp phải
2-Answer the questions:
P1: Do learner learn words in the same way? 
P2: No. Learners learn words in different ways.
P1: Why do some learners write example sentences with new words? 
P2: Such sentences help them remember the use of new words.
P1: What do some learners do in order to remember words better? 
P2: To remember words better, learners write the examples, put the words and their meaning on stickers, underline or highlight them.
They may think they can’t do so. Instead, they learn only important words.
Revision is necessary in learning words.
Learners should try different ways of learning words to find out what is the best.
5. Homework. -Learn by heart vocabulary, write a passage to describe the way to learn your vocabulary. Prepare new lesson: Write.
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 Preparing date: 28th, October,2011
 Teaching date: 31st, October,2011
Period 29 :	 Unit 5 :	study habits
 Lesson 4 : Write
I. Objectives : By the end of the lesson students will be able to give the structure, the main parts of the closed letter. SS can write a closed letter to their friends and their folks.
II. Target language: ask sb to do sth, be going to.
III. Vocabulary: Heading, Opening, Body of the letter, Closing, Dear, Regards
IV. Obtained skills: Write the letter to friends basing on the form and words cues.
V. Procedure:
Stages
Teacher’s & Students’ activities
Contents
1.
Warm up
2.
Pre-writing
3. 
While-writing
4. Post-writing
+ Checking old lesson:
Ss speak the ways to learn words in English.
-T presents the lesson.
-T gives a short letter.
-Ss play Jumbled sentences.
-T devises the class in groups of 5.
-T gives each of group a letter which are cut in many pieces.
-Ss work in groups, arrange the part of the letter to complete it.
-T asks: How many parts are there in a personal letter? Do you know how they are call?
-T guides SS to fix the parts of the letter in correct order.
-Ss read the answers.
-T gives the correct answers.
-? What kinds of information you see in Heading/ Opening...?
*Heading(mở đầu): địa chỉ người viết thư, ngày viết.
*Opening/Salutation( lời chào đầu): Dear ...., 
*Body of the letter(phần thân / chính bức thư):Bao gồm những nội dung như:Lí do viết thư, đề xuất, hẹn gặp... thường được chia thành 3,4 phần nhỏ.
*Closing/ Complementary close(lời chào cuối thư) rất đa dạng tuỳ vào mức độ thân mật: Regards, Best wishes, With best wishes, With fond/ warm regards, With much love, your loving son, with all my love...
-T asks:
? Who wrote the letter?
Who received it?
For what subjects did Hoa get good grades?
Was her Math result good?
What did her teacher ask her to do ?
What is she going to do?
-T guides and asks SS to write the letter.
-SS read the information in the box.
-SS write the letter individually.
( in 7 minutes).
-Ss compare the letter and correct the mistakes with their partner.
-Some SS read out their letter.
-T checks some letters of the Ss.
-T gives the elicited answer.
-T gives a letter.
-Ss correct the mistakes.
10 Phan Boi Chau St.
Lao Cai
November 11,2004.
 Dear Nga,
 Thanks for your letter. I’m pleased to hear you had a good report card.
I received my first semester report a few days ago... I must study harder next semester.
 We are going to Sa Pa tonight to celebrate Festival Literature. I think I’ll send you some postcards from here.
 Write soon and tell me all your news.
 Regards,
 Hoa.
Look at Hoa's letter to Tim. She wrote it at the end of term. Identify the sections. Label them with correct letter.
Body of the letter.
Heading-writer’s address and the date.
Closing-Your friend/Regards/ Love.
Opening-Dear....,
SS answer:
Hoa wrote the letter.
Tim received it.
Hoa got good grades for his Science, English and History.
No, it wasn’t.
Her teacher asked her to spend more time on it.
She’s going to Hue tonight to celebrate the Lunar New Year Festival with her mother.
2-Now help Lan write a letter to her pen pal Donna in San Francisco. Use the information in the box.
24 Truong Chinh Street.
Dong Da District, Ha Noi
July 12,2004
Dear Donna,
 Thanks for your letter. I am very pleased to hear that you had a happy Mother’s day.
 I received my second semester report last month. I got good grade for Geography, Phy