Giáo án Tiếng Anh 8 - Units 7: My neighborhood - Do Thi Cuc - Thanh Mai Secondary School

I. Aims:
 - To help students know about the places in their neighborhood
- To help students know the present perfect tense with the prepositions “for” and “since”
- To develop students’ skills.
II. Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to know some vocabulary about their neighborhood and the prepositions “for” and “since” in the present perfect tense.
III. Ways of working: T-WC, pair work, individual work.
IV. Materials: Textbook, pictures in the textbook,cassette, word cards.
V. Anticipated problems: 
- The past participle may be difficult for some students.
- The lesson may take time.
VI. Teaching steps:
1.Warm up: (1 minute) * Teacher greets and checks the students’ attendance.
2. New lesson:
STAGES
T & SS’ACTIVITIES
THE CONTENTS ON BOARD
PRESEN
TATION
(24 minutes)
* Getting started. P.63
- Matching:
Students match the pictures with the correct words.
- Teacher calls students to go to the board to match.
* Pre-teach vocabulary:
- Teacher uses techniques to teach students new words
* Set the scene:
- Nam and Na are talking about the place where they live. 
* Prediction:
- Students predict:
+ Who is new to the neighborhood, Na or Nam?
+ What is there around the corner in the neighborhood?
- Teacher plays the tape; students listen and read the dialogue.
- Students check their predictions.
- Students practice the dialogue in pair.
- Students do the exercise 2 on page 64.
- Teacher asks some students to go to the board to complete these sentences.
* Teacher elicits the model sentences:
* Concept checking:
- What do these sentences mean in Vietnamese?
- What kind of speech are “been” / “lived”?
- What are before them? (have) / (has)
=> The present perfect tense.
- What does the phrase “since last week” / “for 10 years” mean in Vietnamese?
- How to use since/ for? 
Matchings:
grocery store hairdresser’s
drugstore swimming-pool
stadium wet market
* Answer key:
a. grocery store 
b. stadium 
c. wet market 
d. drugstore 
e. hairdresser’s 
f. swimming-pool
I. New words:
- close by (adv) = near by
- a pancake: bánh bột mì cĩ trứng, bơ rán 
- tasty (adj) = delicious (adj)
- (to) serve: phục vụ (mĩn ăn, đồ uống)
II. Prediction
- Who is new to the neighborhood, Na or Nam?
- What is there around the corner in the neighborhood?
III. Listen and read:
1. Checking predictions
- Na is new to the neighborhood.
- A restaurant.
2. Complete the sentences. Use the words from the dialogue:
* Answer key:
a. Na is new to the neighborhood.
b.She and her family arrived last week.
c. Na’s mother is very tired.
d.There is a restaurant in the area.
e. The restaurant serves food from Hue.
f. Nam thinks the pancakes are tasty.
3. Model sentences:
- We have been here since last week.
 Vpp
- How long have you lived here?
 Vpp
- I have lived here for 10 years.
 Vpp
* Note:
The present perfect tense.
S + have / has + Vpp +
“Since” is used for a point of time
“For” is used for a period of time.
PRACTICE
(10 minutes)
- Students practice speaking:
+ Put “since” or “for” before these words or phrases.
* Game: Lucky Wheel
- Students practice the present perfect tense with since and for. (say the whole sentences)
4. Practice:
a) Put “since” or “for” before these words/phrases.
_______ ten years
_______ an hour
_______ three years
_______ two weeks
_______ last week
_______ ten o’clock
_______ last year
_______ 2004
b) Say the whole sentence. Use the present perfect tense.
HE / COLLECTED STAMPS / LAST YEAR
THEY / WORKED AT THE DRUGSTORE / 2 YEARS
WE / LEARNT ENGLISH / 2004
WE / LEARNT ENGLISH / 4 YEARS
I / LIVED HERE / 10 YEARS
WE / BEEN HERE / LAST WEEK
PRODUC
TION
(8 minutes)
* Talking:
- Students talk about their neighborhood.
IV. Talking:
 Talk about your neighborhood. These are some suggestions:
1. How long have you lived in your neighborhood?
2. Is there a shop / a drugstore / a market  near your neighborhood?
3. Do you like your neighborhood? Why?
3. Summary:(1 minute)
- Repeat the lesson
4. Homework: :(1 minute)
- Learn by heart all the new words and the structure
- Read the dialogue again.
- Prepare Speak
Planning date: 21 - 11 - 2014
Period 41. UNIT 7: MY NEIGHBORHOOD
Lesson 2: SPEAK
I. Aims: 
- To help students speak about how to send a parcel or a letter.
- To develop students’ skills.
II. Objectives: - By the end of the lesson, students will be able to talk about how to send parcels or letters.
III. Ways of working: T-WC, pair work, group work
IV. Materials: Textbook, additional board, real things (letters, parcels)
V. Anticipated problems: The activities in the stage further practice may be difficult for some students.
VI. Teaching steps:
1. Warm up: (5 minutes) * Teacher greets and checks the students’ attendance.
 * Chatting:
- Teacher shows a letter and asks students some questions:
+ What is it? (a letter)
+ Where can I post it to my friend? (at the post office)
+ How can I post it? (stick a stamp on it)
+ How much is a stamp? (800 dong) 
+ Is sending a parcel cheaper or more expensive? (more expensive)
+ Have you ever sent a letter or a parcel?
=> T. introduces the new lesson.
2. New lesson:
STAGES
T & SS’ACTIVITIES
THE CONTENTS ON BOARD
PRE SPEAKING
(15 minutes)
* Pre-teach vocabulary:
- Teacher uses techniques to teach students new words.
- Checking understanding: Rub out and remember
* Set the scene:
- Mrs. Kim wants to send a parcel to Quy Nhon, so she has to go to the post office.
- Students read the dialogue between Mrs. Kim and the Clerk.
- Comprehension questions:
+ Does Mrs. Kim send a parcel airmail or surface mail? Why?
(surface mail / cheaper)
+ What is the weight of her parcel?
(5 kilograms)
+ How much does she pay?
(19,200 dong) 
I. New words:
- airmail(n): thư / bưu phẩm gửi bằng đường hàng khơng, máy bay
- surface mail(n): thư / bưu phẩm gửi bằng đường bộ, đường thuỷ
- item (n): danh mục
- charge (n): tiền phải trả, giá tiền
II. Read the dialogue. P.64:
WHILE SPEAKING
(15 minutes)
* Practice:
- Students practice the dialogue in pair.
- Teacher calls some pairs to play the roles in the dialogue in front of the class.
- Teacher gives a situation and elicits the dialogue.
- Teacher gets students to practice the dialogue in pair.
- Students look at the information in the box to practise in pair making the same dialogue.
III. Speak
LETER / KON TUM / SURFACE MAIL
/ 20G / 800 DONG
Clerk
Mrs. Lan
Can I help you?
Yes, I letter to Kon Tum, please.
Do you .airmail or surface mail?
I . surface mail. How much ?
Let me see. Hm 20g. It. 800 dong.
Here you are
Thank you.
POST CARD / HCM CITY / AIRMAIL
15G / 1, 200 DONG
PARCEL / CA MAU / AIRMAIL / 2 KG
13, 000 DONG
PARCEL / BUON MA THUOT /
SURFACE / 5 KG / 19,200 DONG
POST SPEAKING
(8 minutes)
* Role play:
- Students play the roles: one is a customer and the other is the clerk. Make similar dialogues.
IV. Role play:
3. Summary: (1 minute)
- Repeat the lesson
4. Homework: (1 minute)
- Learn by heart all the new words.
- Write a dialogue on the notebook.
- Prepare Listen
Planning date: 21 - 11 -2014
Period 42: UNIT 7: MY NEIGHBORHOOD
Lesson 3: LISTEN. P.65 - 66
I. Aims: 
- To help students listen for specific information.
- To develop students’ listening skills.
II. Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to know what Na is going to do on the weekend by listening.
III. Ways of working: T - WC, team work, pair work, individual work.
IV. Materials: Textbook, tape.
V. Anticipated problems:
- Listening & “Post listening” activity may be difficult for students in class 8C and some students in class 8B
VI. Teaching steps:
1. Warm up: (5 minutes) * Teacher greets and checks the students’ attendance.
 * Chatting:
- Teacher asks students some questions:
+ Do you remember Na?
+ Is she new to her neighborhood?
+ Who is her friend in this area?
* Set the scene:
In her neighborhood, there is some activities on the weekend. They have advertised these activities. Look at the advertisements and predict the words in the blank.
2. New lesson:
STAGES
T & SS’ACTIVITIES
THE CONTENTS ON BOARD
PRE
LISTENING
(10 minutes)
* Pre-teach:
- Teacher uses techniques to teach students new words.
- Checking understanding: 
Rub out and remember
* Open prediction:
- Students look at the advertisements and predict the words in the blanks.
____3_____
Nguyen Khuyen school
Thursday, 22nd Match
7.30 pm - 9.30 pm
PHOTO EXHIBITION
hundreds of photos taken
by young photographers
_____4______
Monday - Friday
open: 9.00 am - 9.00 pm
I. New words:
- the photo exhibition: cuộc triển 
 lãm ảnh
- a real match: trận đấu thật (trên sân)
- the opening show: lễ khai mạc 
FOOTBALL
Le Do school vs
Quang Trung schol
________2_______
kick off 4pm
 Saturday, 24th March
MILLENNIUM CINEMA
1. The Newcomer
Two performances
Monday - Saturday
5 pm - 8 pm
Prediction:
WHILE LISTENING
(18 minutes)
* Listen:
- Students listen to the conversation for 2 times and complete the advertisements.
- Students look at part 2 on page 66 and discuss with their partner to see which one is true, which one is false and which one is no information.
- Students listen to the conversation again and tick the correct box for True, False or No information.
II. Listen:
1. Checking predictions:
* Answer key:
1. Newcomer
2. Town Ground
3. English Speaking Contest
4. Culture House.
2. Tick the correct boxes (part 2. P.66)
* Answer key:
a. Na doesn’t know the neighborhood very well.
T
b. Na doesn’t like movies.
F
c. Na will go to the photo exhibition this weekend.
F
d. Na won’t go to the English Speaking Contest.
T
e. Na will go to the soccer match with Nam
T
f. Nam is a soccer fan.
N
POST LISTENING
(12 minutes)
* Lucky number:
- Teacher uses some comprehension questions to check students’ understanding of the conversation. 
* Comprehension questions:
1. Does Na like movies? (Yes)
2. Lucky number!
3. Why won’t she go to see the film The Newcomer? (Because she has already seen it before)
4. Why won’t Na go to the photo exhibition? (Because it doesn’t open during the weekend)
5. Lucky number!
6. Who will Na go to the soccer match with? (Nam, Ba and Minh)
7. What time does the match start?
(At 4 pm) 
8. Lucky number!
* Lucky number:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
3. Summary: (1 minute)
- Repeat the lesson
4. Homework: (1 minute)
- Do exercise: 3, 4. P. 45, 46 (WB)
- Prepare Read
* Tapescript:
Na:	Hi, Nam.
Nam:	Hello, Na. What are you going to do this weekend?
Na:	I’m not sure. I just don’t know what to do and where to go in this new neighborhood.
Nam:	Why don’t we look at “What’s on this weekend” in the newspaper?
Na:	Good idea. Can you suggest what I should do? 	
Nam:	Do you like movies? There’s a new film at the Millennium Cinema.
Na:	What’s that? The Newcomer, an Australian film. I have seen this film before. I saw it on Star Movies channel. 
Nam:	You did?
Na:	Yes. (pause). Here, the photo exhibition at the Cultural House sounds exciting!
Nam:	But it doesn’t open during the weekend. And you can not go to the English Speaking Contest either. It is at Nguyen Khuyen school, and it is on Thursday. (pause) Ah, yes. Here, the soccer, a match Le Do School and Quang Trung School - the best U15 teams in our province. I’ll go and see it because my brother plays in the match.
Na:	Where do they play?
Nam:	At the Town Ground. Would you like to join us?
Na:	Oh, yes. I’d love to. I have never been to a soccer match before. It must be fun to watch a real match at the stadium. And I’d like to visit the Town Ground, too.
Nam:	Great. I’ll tell Min and Ba to come to your home, and we all go together. Remember, the match starts at 4 pm, but we must be there by 3.30 if we don’t want to miss the opening show.
Planning date: 25 -11- 2014
Period 43: UNIT 7: MY NEIGHBORHOOD
Lesson 4: READ. P.67
I. Aims: 
- To help students read for details about Tran Phu Shopping Mall.
- To develop students’ reading skills.
II. Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to understand the passage about the new shopping mall.
III. Ways of working: T-WC, group work, pair work, individual work.
IV. Materials: Textbook.
V. Anticipated problems: 
The guessing words activity may difficult for the students in class 8C.
VI. Teaching steps:
1. Warm up: (5minutes) * Teacher greets and checks the students’ attendance.
 * Guessing the words:
- Teacher gives the definition of the word, students listen and call out what it is. 
1. A place where you can buy every thing. (supermarket)
2. A place where you can buy vegetables and fruits. (grocery store)
3. A place where you can buy books. (bookstore)
4. A place where you can come to eat. (restaurant)
5. A place where you can come to see the movies. (Movies Theater)
6. A person who come to the store and buy something. (customer)
2. New lesson:
STAGES
T & SS’ ACTIVITIES
THE CONTENTS ON BOARD
PRE
READING
(12 minutes)
* Pre-teach vocabulary:
- Teacher uses techniques to teach students new words.
- Checking understanding: 
Rubout and remember.
* Set the scene:
In Nam’s neighborhood there is a new shopping mall.
* T-F prediction:
- Students predict if the statements are true or false.
I. New words:
- a shopping mall: khu thương mại
- convenient (adj): tiện lợi
- a selection: sự lựa chọn
- comfort(n): sự thoả mái
- concerned (about) (adj): lo lắng (về)
- (to) take one’s business: lấy mất cơ hội
 làm ăn của ai đĩ.
- resident (n): cư dân
II. True - False prediction(Part1/68)
1. The mall is open six days a week.
2. There are more than 50 stores in the mall.
3. Everyone in the neighborhood is pleased about the new mall.
4. It will be more comfortable to shop in the mall than in the present shopping area.
5. Some of the stores on Tran Phu Street may have to close. 
WHILE READING
(18 minutes)
* Read:
- Students read the passage and check their predictions and correct the false sentences.
- Students read the passage again and answer the comprehension questions on page 68. (pair work)
III. Read. P.67:
1. Checking predictions:
* Answer key:
1. F (The mall is open daily = seven days a week)
2. F (There are 50 stores in the mall.)
3. F (Not everyone is pleased about the new mall)
4. T
5. T 
2. Answer the comprehension questions:
* Answer key:
a. It is very different from the present shopping area. All the shops are under one roof. That will be very convenient, especially during the hot and humid summer months. Customers will shop in comfort and won’t notice the weather.
b. In the shopping mall, there are 50 air-conditioned especially stores, 4 movie theaters and 10 restaurants; there is also children’s play area.
c. They think the new shopping mall will take their business.
d. The stores in the mall will offer a wider selection of products; some kinds of goods are at cheaper prices.
POST READING
(8 minutes)
* Talking:
- Students look at the poster on page 67 and talk about Tran Phu Shopping mall 
IV. Talking:
E.g:
Tran Phu Shopping mall is in Nam’s neighborhood. It is open today. It is very different from the present shopping area..
3. Summary: (1 minute)
- Repeat the lesson.
4. Homework: (1 minute)
- Learn by heart all the new words.
- Read the text again.
- Prepare Write.
Planning date: 26 - 11 - 2014
Period 44: UNIT 7: MY NEIGHBORHOOD
Lesson 5: WRITE. P.68
I. Aims: 
- To help students to write a notice.
- To develop students’ skills.
II. Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to write a notice.
III. Ways of working: T-WC, pair work, individual work.
IV. Materials: Textbook
V. Anticipated problems: Writing may be difficult for some students.
VI. Teaching steps:
1. Warm up: (5 minutes) * Teacher greets and checks the students’ attendance.
 * Revision:
 Read the text at page 67 then answer some teacher’s questions .
2. New lesson: 
STAGES
T & SS’ ACTIVITIES
THE CONTENTS ONBOARD
PRE WRITING
(16 minutes)
* Pre-teach:
- Teacher uses techniques to teach students new words.
- Checking understanding:
Rub out and remember
* Set the scene:
The residents and store owners on Tran Phu Street are going to hold a meeting to discuss the effects of the new mall.
* Read:
- Students read the community notice (thơng cáo tới tồn thể nhân dân) and then answer the teacher’s questions. (orally)
- Key to the comprehension questions:
1. To discuss the effects of the new mall.
2. They will hold the meeting on May 20 at 8 pm.
3. They will hold the meeting at 12 Hang Da Street, Binh’s hardware store.
* Teacher asks some questions:
- How do we write a notice? Do we write full sentence?
- What information do we need to write in a notice? 
* Read:
- Students read the passage 2 on page 68 and answer the questions:
+What is the English Speaking Club going to hold? (a Speaking Contest)
+ Where and when will it be held?
(At Hall 204 on November 15)
+ What time?
(From 7.30 pm to 10.00 pm)
+ Who is the person to contact?
(Tran Thi Thu Hang of class 8H)
I. New words:
- (to) make plan: lập kế hoạch
- an effect: sự ảnh hưởng
- (to) contact: liên lạc
II. Read. 
1. Passage 1. P.68:
* Comprehension questions:
1. Why are the residents and store owners on Tran Phu Street going to hold a meeting?
2. When will they hold the meeting? What time?
3. Where will they hold the meeting?
2. Passage 2. P.68:
- Speaking contest
- November 15 
- 7.30 pm to 10.00 pm
- Hall 204, Building G
- Tran Thi Thu Hang of class 8H 
WHILE WRITING
(12 minutes)
* Write:
- Students write the notice about the English Speaking contest.
- Students exchange their writing and find their partner’s mistakes.
- Teacher calls a student to write his / her writing on board.
- Teacher and the whole class correct.
III. Write:
1. A notice about the English Speaking contest:
* Suggested writing:
The school English Speaking club
HOLDING A SPEAKING CONTEST TO CELEBRATE THE TEACHER’S DAY
Date: November 15
Time: 7.30 pm to 10.00 pm
Place: Hall 204, Building G
Please contact Tran Thi Thu Hang of class 8H at the above address for more information.
POST WRITING
(10 minutes)
- Students write a notice about their class meeting.
- Students check their partner’s writing.
- Teacher corrects students’ writing.
2. A notice about your class meeting:
* Suggested writing:
Students of class 8A
HOLDING A CLASS MEETING TO MAKE PLANS FOR THE PICNIC NEXT WEEK
Date:
Time:
Place:
Please contact Nguyen Thi Thuy, the 8A monitor, at the above address for more information.
3. Summary: (1 minute)
- Repeat the lesson.
4. Homework: (1 minute)
- Learn by heart all the new words.
- Prepare Language focus
Planning date: 27 - 11- 2014
Period 45: UNIT 7: MY NEIGHBORHOOD
Lesson 6: LANGUAGE FOCUS. P.69 - 71
I. Aims: 
- To help students practise the present perfect tense and making comparisons by using adjectives: like, the same as, different from.
- To develop students’ skills.
II. Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to know how to use the present perfect tense.
III. Ways of working: T-WC, team work, pair work, individual work.
IV. Materials: Textbook, additional board.
V. Anticipated problems: 
- The language focus 5 may be difficult for the students in class 8C.
- The lesson may take time.
VI. Teaching steps:
1. Warm up: (1 minute) * Teacher greets and checks the students’ attendance.
2. New lesson:
STAGES
T & SS’ ACTIVITIES
THE CONTENTS ON BOARD
FURTHER PRACTICE
(42 minutes)
* Language focus 1(Matching)
(Teacher uses additional board with the verbs and its past participleto hold this activity)
- Teacher divides the class into 2 teams. These teams go to the board and match the infinitive and the past participle. Example: be - been
* Language focus 2 (Substitution drill)
- Teacher read out the phrases, students add since or for.
* Language focus 3 
- Students complete the sentences using the present perfect tense of the verbs in brackets
- Students go to the board to write completed sentences.
Example:
I have lived here since last week.
I. Language focus 1:
 Matching:
BE
GONE
GO
LIVED
EAT
ATTENDED
LIVE
BEEN
ATTEND
EATEN
SEE
COLLECTED
DO
SEEN
WRITE
DONE
WORK
WRITTEN
COLLECT
WORKED
II. Language focus 2:
* Answer key:
for five minutes
since January
since 1990
since the summer
for three hours
for 10 weeks
since Friday
for 20 years.
III. Language focus 3:
* Language focus 4:
- Teachers asks students some questions to review the English tenses. (E.g: When do we use the present simple? When do we use the present perfect tense?)
- Students complete the dialogue then practise it in pair . 
- Teacher corrects
* Language focus 5 
- Teacher shows students 3 rulers; 2 rulers are the same and the rest is longer.
- Teacher asks students to look at 3 rulers and compare.
E.g:
My ruler is as long as Hoa’s ruler.
My ruler is the same as Hoa’s ruler.
My ruler is not as long as Lan’s ruler.
My ruler is different from Lan’s ruler.
- Teacher write the form on the board
- Teacher lets students complete the exercise in group of 4.
Noughts and crosses:
- Students choose the number and teacher read the correspondent sentences. Students have to complete the sentences, using the correct form above.
IV. Language focus 4:
* Answer key:
1. have been
2. hope
3. have  lived
4. Is
5. want
6. looks
7. Have  been
8. have seen
V. Language focus 5. 
* Form:
as + adj + as:  bằng
the same as: giống như
different from: khác
* Noughts and crosses:
1. a)
2. b)
3. c)
4. d)
5. e)
6. f)
7. g)
8. h)
9. i)
* Answer key:
a. not as large as
b. different from
c. different from / not as / so cheap as
d. the same as
e. as cheap / expensive as
f. different from
g. as long as
h. not as modern as
i. not as / so cheap as
3. Summary: (1minute