Giáo án Tiếng Anh lớp 8 - Unit 4: Our past

Week : 07 
Period:20
Date:
LESSON PLAN
UNIT : 4 : OUR PAST
Division of lessons
Lesson 1 - Getting started and Listen & read
Lesson 2 - Speak 
Lesson 3 - Listen
Lesson 4 - Read
Lesson 5 - Write
Lesson 6 – Language focus
Unit 4: Lesson 1 : Getting started + Listen & read
Period :20th
I/ Aim
At the end of the lesson, Sts will be able to tell the activities people used to do in the past .
II/ Language contents
a/ Grammar : 
Past simple tense
b/ Vocabulary: 
 (v) look after , used to 
 (n) equipment , folktale, great grandma 
 (a) traditional 
III/Techniques
 Slap the board , T/ F statement prediction, Gap - fill
IV/Teaching aids 
Sub board
V/ Procedures
Teacher and Sts ‘ activities
Content
_ Greeting
_ Checking attendance
T asks sts to look at the picture on page 38 and write the name of things that do not belong to the past
 Work in groups
T presents new words to sts by different ways:
Using synonym
Giving example
Translating into Vietnamese
Explaining
Sts repeat and say the meaning
Sts copy
T checks the new words from the game
T presents the model sentence to sts
Sts listen carefully and notice the grammar points
T introduces the lesson and plays the tape
Sts listen to the tape, the dialogue between grandma and Nga (page 38) once/twice
T asks sts to practice the dialogue in pairs (closed pairs /open pairs)
After practising the dialogue, Sts work in pairs , asking and answering the questions part 2
Sts write on the board
T corrects
T uses a picture of a red flower to introduce. T can gives two sentences
 This is a red flower -> Fact
 It’s the most beautiful flower I’ve seen
 -> Opinion
Have Sts read the statements part 3 on page 39 and decide which is a fact and which is an opinion
Sts read the exercise carefully , then 
choose the right word to fill in the blanks
T gives exercises and asks sts to practise
Sts read and predict they are true or false
Sts practise
T asks sts to correct False statements
T corrects and marks
T sets and guides
Sts observe and take notes
*8A :................................
1. Warm up / Marks
* Answers
The TV , the radio , the mobile phone , the lighting fixture , modern clothing / school uniforms
2. Presentation 
New words
Look after = Take care of
Used to (v)
Equipment (n) ( machine , cassette, video )
Folktale (n) : Tấm cám, Seven-mile shoes, One- hundred - section bamboo
Traditional (a)
Great grandma (n)
XSlap the boar
* New grammar points
a/ Habit in the past
Ex : 
I used to look after my younger brother and sister
b/ Modal Verb : Have to
Ex: 
I had to stay home and help my mom
3. Practice
 - Dialogue
 - Pairwork
* Answer keys
a/ She used to live on the farm
b/ Because she had to stay home and help her mom (look after her)
c/ She used to cook the meals, clean the house and wash the clothes
d/ Her great- grandmother used to lit the lamp and her great- grandfather used to tell them stories.
e/ She asked her grandmother to tell her the tale : The lost Shoe”
* Fact or Opinion
Sentence
Fact
Opinion
a
b
c
d
e
f
O
O
4. Productions
T T/F statement prediction
a - Nga used to live on the farm (F)
b – Nga’s grandma didn’t go to school (T)
c - She had an easy and happy life when she was young (F)
d - There wasn’t any modern equipment at her time (T)
e -“The lost shoe” is a short story (F)
Đ Correction
a - Grandma used to live on a farm
c - She had a hard life.
e - It is an old folktale
5.Homework
- Learn new words by heart
- Do exercises in workbook
- Prepare : Unit 4 : Our Past
 Lesson 2 : Speak 
COMMENTS	 
Unit 4 :Lesson 2:Speak 
Week:
Period : 21st
Date : 
 I/ Aim
 By the end of the lesson, Sts will be able to use “ used to” to talk about the things they used to do in the past.
II/ Language contents
1/ Grammar : 
used to
Simple past tense
2/Vocabulary: 
No
III/ Techniques 
 Network
IV/ Teaching aids 
 No
V/ Procedures
Teacher and Sts ‘ activities
Content
_ Greeting
_ Checking attendance
Teacher holds the class to play game “network”
Sts do as teacher asks
 T corrrects
Recall the conversation between Nga and her grandma
Teacher asks sts some questions and present the grammar 
Teacher asks sts to use USED TO to make question and answer( Remember in the dialogue)
Let Sts write structures
Sts take notes
Get students to work in open pairs then closed pairs
Compare 2 pictures( on page 40 part 1) using “used to” to talk about the actions in the past
Elicit some ideas so that students can talk about them
Tell their partner about the things they use to do last year
 T asks some Ss speak in front of class.
T corrects.
T asks Ss answer the questions.
Ss answer individually.
T corrects and gives marks.
T guides Ss prepare at home
Ss observe and take notes.
_ 8A:.
1. Warm up
 * Network
 Go shopping go to school by bike
What did you use to do in the past ?
 take care of my sister / brother 
2/ Pre- speaking 
 Pre- teach
Where did Nga’s grandma always live?
=> She always lives on a farm.
Another word for “ always live” -> “used to”
Where did Nga’s grandma use to live?
She used to live on a farm
Form:
S + used to + V ( Inf )
S+ didn’t use to + V ( Inf )
Did + S+ use to + V (Inf)?
 S + used to + V ( Infinitive)
 S+ didn’t use to + V ( Inf)
 Did + S + use to + V (Inf) .?
The usage: USED TO express a past habit or and action usually happened in the past
3. While- speaking
* Answer keys:
- People used to live in small houses.Now people live in big houses and buildings.
- People used to walk to travel.Now They can go by car or motorbike.
- People used to work hard all the time.Now They have a lot of time for entertainment.
- Children used to stay home. Now they go to school.
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(2)
Example: Last year, I used to get up early
 Now I get up late
4. Post- Speaking.
a/ Where did they live in the past? And now?
People used to live in a small house
Now they live in big houses and buildings
b/ How did they travel?
They used to walk.
Now they can go by cars, motobikes
c/ What’s about the electricity? 
There didn’t use to be electricity in the home.
 Now there is electricty everywhere
d/ What’s about their life/ work?
 They used to work hard all the time
 Now there have a lot of time for entertainment
e/ Did childrent use to go to school?
Now, they all to go school
5.Homework 
- Learn new words by heart
- Rewrite about things you ued to do last year
- Tell the story again 8-19 lines.
- Do exercises 1,2 in workbook
- Prepare: Lesson 3 : Listen
COMMENTS	 
Unit 4 :Lesson 3:Listen
Week:
Period : 22nd
Date : 
 I/ Aim
 By the end of the lesson, Sts will be able to understand the main idea of a story by listening.
II/ Language contents
1/ Grammar : 
used to
Simple past tense
2/Vocabulary: 
(a) foolish , greedy, gold
(n) amazement, moral lesson 
(v) discover, lay / laid 
(adv) excitedly 
III/ Techniques 
 Jumbled words, What and where 
IV/ Teaching aids 
 Pictures, tape, stereo
V/ Procedures
Teacher and Sts ‘ activities
Content
_ Greeting
_ Checking attendance
Teacher holds the class to play game “ Jumble words ”
Sts do as teacher asks
T corrrects
T presents new words
Sts repeat, say the meaning and copy
T introduces the lesson by asking some questions : 
“Do you often read books / stories ?
 What kinds of stories do you like ?
 Do you like folktale?”
T says “You are now listening to a folktale.Read the 4 sentences in “Listen “ and try to guess something about the folktale”
Sts guess
Sts listen to the teacher and check their prediction
Sts work in groups
T gives feedback
T present true / False statements and asks sts to practise
Sts practise
T asks students to practice the structures “ used to” with word cue drill
Sts practise
T gives key, corrects and marks
T sets and guides
Sts observe and take notes
_ 8A:.
1. Warm up
 * Jumble words
Elecitytric -> Electricity
Entermenttain -> Entertainment
Maketr -> Market
Maketrpersu -> Supermarket
2..Pre-listening 
µ Pre-teach
(a) Foolish, greedy, gold
(v)To lay / laid -> lay eggs
 In amazement (n):một cách ngạc nhiên
Discover (v)
Excitedly(adv)
Moral lesson :bài học đạo đức
Á What and Where
çPrediction
Titles
Guess
a/ Don’t kill chickens
b/ Don’t be foolish and greedy
c/ Be happy with what you have
d/ It’s difficult to find gold
3.While-listening 
9 - Tape
 - The text
 - Pairwork
Answer 
 “ Don’t be foolish and greedy “
4. Post- listening 
I/ True / False statements
Chickens laid many eggs 
They lay gold eggs every day
Husband collected and sold eggs
His wife found one gold egg one day and killed all the chickens
They are foolish and greedy
 II/ Word cue drill
a) live/ Hue/ Hanoi
 Did you use to live in Hue?
 No, I used to live in Hanoi
b) Have/ long hair/ short hair
c) get up/ late/ early
d) walk to school/ bicycle
* Keys 
I/ 
a) T	b) F	c) T	d) F	e) T
II/ 
b) Did you use to have long hair? 
 No, I used to have short hair
c) Did you use to get up late ? 
 No, I used to get up early
 d) Did you use to walk to school?
 No, I used to go to school by bicycle
5.Homework 
- Learn new words by heart
- Rewrite about things you ued to do last year
- Tell the story again 8-19 lines) ,play the role of the chickens 
- Prepare: Lesson 4 : Read
COMMENTS	 
Unit 4 : Lesson 4 :Read
Week:
Period : 23rd
Date:
I/ Aim
By the end of the lesson, Sts will be able to understand and retell the story “ The lost shoe”
II/ Language contents
1/ Grammar :
Past simple tense
2/ Vocabulary : 
cruel, upset
 fairy, rag 
(adv) magically, immediately
 (v) to fall in love with 
III/ Techniques
 Brainstorming, Prediction
IV/ Teaching aids 
Word cards
V/ Procedures
 Teacher and sts’ activities
 Content
_ Greeting
_ Checking attendance
T asks Sts some questions
Sts answer
T can give marks
Sts tell the names of folktales that they have read using Simple English or Vietnamese
T says “ you are going to read the story “ The lost shoe “. Have you read it ? Can you guess anything from the title?”
T presents new words
Sts repeat and say the meaning
Sts copy
T asks Sts to read the story and find information about 3 people
1/ Little Pea
2/ Stout Nut
3/ Stepmother
After Sts understand the story, they do exercise 1 on page 42
Sts work in groups
T corrects and gives feedback
T asks Sts some questions about the story
Sts give their own answers
T says”The moral lesson is “ One good turn deserves another “ -> Ở hiền gặp lành
T asks sts to choose True or False
T asks sts to answer some questions
Sts practise
T corrects and marks
T sets and guides
Sts observe and take notes
_8A:..
1.Warm up Marks
Do you like folktales ?
What usually happens at the end of a folktale ?
Name the titles of some folktales you know.
@Brainstorming
 One hundred-section bamboo
Folktales
 Tam Cam
The lost shoe
The frog Prince
 Seven-mile shoes
2. Pre-reading
* Pre-teach
 cruel, upset
 fairy, rag 
(adv) magically, immediately
 (v) to fall in love with 
=> Rub out and remember
3.While- reading 
“The Lost Shoe “
Guess
Answer
Correction
a
b
c
d
e
........
........
........
........
........
T
T
F
T
F
1/Complete the sentences with words from the story
a - farmer	 b - died
c - had- again	d - marry/ choose
e - new clothes	 f - lost
2/Answer the comprehention questions
a/ She was a poor farmer ‘s daughter
b/ She made Little Pea do the chores all day
c/ Before the festival started, a fairy appeared and magically changed her rags into beautiful
 clothes
d/ The prince decided to marry the girl who fitted the lost shoe
e/ No, it isn’t a true story .It’s a folktale
4.Post- reading 
I/ T/F statement predictions
a/ Little Pea’s father is a poor farmer
b/ Her father got married again after his wife died
c/ Her new mother was beautiful and nice to her
d/ She worked hard all day
e/ She didn’t have new clothes to take part in the festival
II/ Questions 
a) Do you like the story?
b) Who do you like/ hate ? Why ?
c) What is the moral lesson frm the story ?
* Keys :
I/ a) T	b) T	c) F	d) T	e) T
II/ a) -> c) Students’answers
5.Homework
- Learn new words by heart
- Retell the story , play role of step - mother or Little Pea
- Prepare next period : Lesson 5 : Write
COMMENTS	 
Week:
Unit 4 : Lesson 5 :Write
Period : 24th 
Date : 
I/ Aim
 By the end of the lesson , Sts will be able to use the Simple Past tense to write a folktale
II/ Language contents
1/ Grammar : 
Past simple tense
2/Vocabulary : 
(n) wisdom ,a stripe , a straw, a servant 
(v) escape , graze, light 
III/ Techniques 
Matching; Ask and answer drill.
IV/ Teaching aids 
 sub – boards
V/ Procedures
Teacher and Sts’ activities
Content
_ Greeting
_ Checking attendance
T asks Sts some questions
Sts answer
T gives marks
Teacher presents new words
Students listen – repeat ( chollary individual)
Sts say the meaning
Copy
T checks
Teacher asks students the meaning of verbs in the box
Sts work in pairs, using suitable verbs to fill in the blanks
Exercise 1 ( page 42 – 43 )
Get students to ask and answer questions
Sts practise
Get students to do exercise 2 on page 43
Students have to imagine to be a man in order to write the story
Get Sts to change
Sts write individually then share with their partners and correct mistakes
Take some writings to correct in front of the class
They work in team, telling the story
Teacher asks a volunteer from each team to tell the story in front of the class
T sets and guides
Sts observe and take notes
_8A:.
1/ Warm up 
* Questions
1) Do you like the folktales ?
2) Name some of them
3) Which story do you like best ?
4) Have you ever read the story “ How the tiger got his stripes ?
2/ Pre- writing 
Pre- teach
Matching
Wisdom (n) 	: đốt, thắp	
A stripe (n)	: rơm	
Straw (n)	: gặm	
A servant >< master (n)	: sọc vằn
Escape (v)	 : trốn thốt
Graze (v)	: người hầu, ơng chủ
Light (v)	: trí khơn
Reading : Words in box (page 42 )
 Keys :
1. appeared 6. tied
2. was 7. lit	
3. said 8. burned
4. left 9. escaped
 5. went
@ Comprehension questions
a/ Where was the man ?
b/ What did the buffalo do when the tiger appeared ?
c/ What did the tiger want to know ?
d/ What did he do before going home ? Why ?
e/ What did he do when he returned ?
3. While- writing 
The man -> I
His -> my
Answer keys
One day , as I was in the field and my buffalo was grazing nearby , a tiger came . It asked why the strong buffalo was my servant and why 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 . 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
4. Post- writing 
@ Team Tiger changes : a/ The tiger -> I
@Team Buffalo changes : a/ The buffalo -> I
=> Students’practising
5/ Homework 
- Learn new words by heart
- Write the story again , imagine you are :the tiger, the buffalo
- Prepare next period : Unit 4: OUR PAST
Lesson 6 : Language focus 
COMMENTS	 
Week:
Period : 25th
Unit 4 : Language Focus
Date : 
I/ Aim
 By the end of the lesson , Sts will be able to use the simple past tense and use prepositions of the time.
II/ Language contents
1/ Grammar : 
Past simple tense
2/Vocabulary : All of the vocabularies in unit 4
III/ Techniques 
Pelmanism
IV/ Teaching aids 
 sub – boards
V/ Procedures
Teacher and Sts’ activities
Content
T prepares 6 or 11 cards, then Sts holds class to play games
Sts practise
T corrects
T reviews structure “Used to” and Prepositions of time.
Ss observe and take notes. 
Teacher asks Ss to do exercise1 on page 44.
Ss do
T corrects
Teacher asks Ss to do exercise2 on page 44.
Ss do
T corrects
Teacher asks Ss to do exercise 3 on page 44.
Ss do
T corrects
Teacher asks Ss to do exercise 4 on page 45.
Ss do
T corrects
T gives exercises and asks sts to practise with word cue drill
Sts practise
T corrects and marks
T sets and guides
Sts observe and take notes
1/ Warm – up
 Ị Pelmanism
Run
ran
Fly
Flew
Ride
rode
Eat
Ate
Sit
sat
2/ Presentation
Ex: Where did Nga’s grandma always live?
=> She always lives on a farm.
Another word for “ always live” -> “used to”
Where did Nga’s grandma use to live?
She used to live on a farm
Form:
S + used to + V ( Inf )
S+ didn’t use to + V ( Inf )
Did + S+ use to + V (Inf)?
 S + used to + V ( Infinitive)
 S+ didn’t use to + V ( Inf)
 Did + S + use to + V (Inf) .?
The usage: USED TO express a past habit or and action usually happened in the past
- Prepositions of time: in , on, at, between, after, before.
Ex: in January
On Monday
At 6 pm
Between 7am and 9am
After 3 pm
Before 3pm
3.Practice
ØLanguage focus 1 ( page 44 )
Ex: run -> ran
Fly -> flew
Take -> took
Go -> went
Have -> had
Ride -> rode
Do -> did
Be -> were / was
Eat -> ate
Sit -> sat
Come -> came
ØLanguage focus 2 (page 44)
a/ Did you eat bread for breakfast ?
b/ I rode a bicycle to school
c/ Where were you yesterday ?
d/ I had Math , English and History
ØLanguage focus 3 (page 44)
on
 in
 between
 at , after
 at
ØLanguage focus 4 (page 45)
used to stay
used to have
used to be
used to live
4/ Productions
word cue drill
a) live/ Hue/ Hanoi.
à Did you use to live in Hue ? 
 No, I used to live in Hanoi.
b) Have/ long hair/ short hair.
 à Did you use to have long hair?
 No, I used to have short hair.
c) get up/ late/ early.
d) walk to school/ bicycle.
5/ Homework
Learn by heart : Grammar of unit 4
Prepare : Unit 5 : STUDY HABITS
	 Lesson 1 : Getting started
 Listen & Read
COMMENTS