GA 8 Unit 12

Date of preparing: 19/02/09
Date of teaching: 8A
8B

Period 74
Unit 12 a vacation abroad
Lesson 1 Getting started - Listen and Read P111 - 112
A - Aim
- Reading for details about making plans for a vacation abroad.
- Practice reading and speaking skills.
- By the end of the lesson, students will be able to use the present and past participles to
describe things and people.
B - Teaching aids
- Teacher: Textbook, poster, picture
- Students: pens, books
C Technique– : Guessing games, T /F Statements
D - Procedure
I. Organization (2m)
Greeting
Names of absents students:
II. Warm up (5m)
1. Act: Guessing games
- T. shows the photocopied pictures to students, one by one, ask students to guess what
country it is
* Answers: a. The USA b. Australia c. Thailand d. Britain e. Canada f. Japan
- Ask students if they know what 3 first pictures are
a. Statue of Liberty
b. The Opera House
c.
2. Names of checked students:
III- New lesson (32m)

Steps Activities Content
Pre reading
I. Pre teaching
(Translation)
* Checking: ROR
1. T/ F prediction
a. Set the scene:
- T. says: Mrs. Quyen is going to
The USA for a vacation.
I. Vocabulary
- include (v) bao gåm, gèm cã
- come over (v) vît qua, ghÐ qua
- pick up (v) ®Õn ®ãn, ríc ai ®ã
- abroad (adv) níc ngoµi
- be / go / travel / live aboard
II. Dialogue
1. T/F Statements.
* Poster
While reading
She is ringing her friend, Mrs.
Smith, to tell her about the trip.
- Put the chart on the board and
ask students to read the
statements.
- T. draws the table - Students
copy down and asks students to
guess which are T/ F?
- T. collects students' ideas on
the board.
- Ask students to read the text

and check their predictions.
- Call on some students to
correct the false statements
* Grid - P113
- T. hangs poster on the board
and runs through.
- Ask students to copy it and
asks students to read the
dialogue again to complete the
grid
- Call on some students to go to
the board to write the
information in the grid.
1. Mrs. Quyen is calling Mrs. Smith from
the airport In San Francisco.
2. Mrs. Smith invites Mrs. Quyen and her
husband to stay with her while they are in
town.
3. Mrs. Quyen doesn
'
t accept Mrs. Smith
'
s
invitation because she wants to stay with a
Vietnamese friend of hers.
4. Mrs. Quyen and her husband will be in
the USA for 3 days.
5 Mrs. Quyen and her husband will come
over to Mrs. Smith's place for dinner one
night

6. Mr. Thanh, Mrs. Quyen's husband, goes
aboard for business meeting
* Key: 1F 2.T 3F 4. T 5.F 6.T
* Correction
1. F ( Mrs. Quyen is calling Mrs. Smith
from Hanoi )
3. F ( because her accommodation is
included in her ticket price )
5. F ( Only Mrs. Quyen will come over to
Mrs. Smith
'
s )
2. Exercise 1 P113
Date Monday 25 Tuesday 26 Wednesday
27
Thursday 28
Schedule Coming to
San Francisco
Going out Having dinner
with the
Smith's
Leaving San
Francisco
- Asks students to look at the
book and answer the questions
(individually)
- Ask students compare with
their partners.
3. Comprehension question. P123
Answer key:

a. No, they won't. Because they are coming
on our tour and their accommodation is
included in the ticket price. So they will stay
at the hotel.
Post reading
- Ask students to read the
dialogue again and pick out the
statements indicating the
following situations.
b. No, they won't. Because he will have a
business in the evening that day.
c. Mrs. Smith will pick her up at her hotel.
4. Grammar
1. Making an invitation.
Would you like to came and stay with us.
2. Accepting an invitation.
Yes, I'd love to but we are only in town for 3
days.
3. Declining an invitation
That's very kind of you.
4. Making a complaint.
Oh dear, he's always working.
IV - Summary (2m)
- Repeat the content of the lesson.
V - Homework. (5m)
- Learn vocabulary, write these answer on the notebook
- Prepare unit 12 lesson 2 Speak - Vocabulary and draws table P113.
E - Evaluation

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Date of preparing: 20/02/09
Date of teaching: 8A
8B

Period 75
Unit 12 a vacation abroad
Lesson 2 Speak P113 - 114
A - Aim
- To get students to practice in making plans using brochures and flight information.
- Practice speaking skill.
- By the end of the lesson, students will be able to talk about their plans for a trip abroad.
B - Teaching aids
- Teacher: Textbook, table, realia
- Students: pens, books
C Technique– : ROR, Matching, Mapped dialogue
D - Procedure
I. Organization (2m)
Greeting
Names of absents students:
II. Warm up (5m)
1. Act:
- Ask students to go to the board and write the vocabulary they have leanrt.
2. Names of checked students:
III- New lesson (32m)
Steps Activities Content
Pre speaking While speaking
I. Pre teaching
- T. elicits vocabulary from

students
* Checking: ROR
1. Matching
- T. shows the photo copies table
P113- 114 on the board and asks
students to match them with the
right tittles
- T. collects and check
- Leave the table on the board
and ask students to look at them
- Go through the table, asking
questions about flights,
accommodation and tourist
place.
- Ask students use the
information to make the
dialogue.
I. Vocabulary
- itinerary (n) lộ trình
- gallery (n) phòng trng bày
- flight (n) chuyến bay
- brochure (n)tờ rơi, tờ quảng cáo du lịch
- facilities (n) cơ sở vật chất
II. Speak
1. Matching
Key:
1. Itinerary
2. Flight information
3. Hotel advertisement.
4. Travel brochure

* Question:
1. How many flights a week can you take
from Los Angeles to Boston?
2. Which flight can you take every day of
the week?
3. Which of the hotel is cheaper?
4. How much is a double room in Revere
hotel?
5. Where can you visit?
Post speaking
* Mapped dialogue
1. Set the scene
- These people are making a plan
for their trip from Los Angeles
to Boston. Let's do it with them.
- T. elicits the dialogue and
writes them on the board.
- Ask students to practice in
pairs.
Nam
Lan
Where shall we stay?
Where should we go?
What time should we leave Los
Angeles?
The Revere Hotel is expensive but it has a
gum.
We should visit Hazard Medical School.
There is a daily flight at 10. am
Would that be Ok?

IV - Summary (2m)
- Repeat the content of the lesson.
V - Homework. (5m)
- Learn vocabulary
- Make a plan for their coming summer holiday by filling the information in their
Itinerary.
Eg: Depart (Hue)
Arrive: HCM City
Accommodation
Depart: HCM City
- Prepare unit 12 lesson 3 Listen - Vocabulary
E - Evaluation


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Date of preparing: 26/02/09
Date of teaching: 8A
8B

Period 76
Unit 12 a vacation abroad
Lesson 3 Listen P115
A - Aim
- Listening for information about the weather.
- Practice listening skill.
- By the end of the lesson, students will be able to know more about the weather forecast
for information about the weather in big cities in the world.
B - Teaching aids
- Teacher: Textbook, poster, tape

- Students: pens, books
C Technique– : ROR, Matching, Chain game, brainstorming
D - Procedure
I. Organization (2m)
Greeting
Names of absents students:
II. Warm up (5m)
1. Act: Chain Game
- Get one by one to go to the front of the class, each student say out a word until they
make a meaningful sentence. At the end ask the whole group to repeat the sentence.
Eg:
T. Yesterday
P1: I
P2: went
P3: shopping
P4: and
P5: bought
P6: a lot of
P7: things
2. Names of checked students:
III- New lesson (32m)
Steps Activities Content
Pre listening
I. Pre teaching
- T. writes the topic on the board
and ask students to find out the
words and write them on the
board
1. Chatting
- T. asks some free question to

lead in the lesson.
I. Brainstorming
* Words related to the weather forecast:
- cloudy, wet, cool, hot, cold, raining,
snowy, dry, stormy, minus, fine, humid,
sunny, warm, degree, windy …
* Question:
1. Have you ever listened to the weather

III. Gap fill
- T. shows the gap fill table on
the board
- Let's copy down
forecast on TV or on the radio?
2. What does it often tell you about?
(weather and temperature)
3. Do you think It's necessary to listen to the
weather forecast?
TEMPARATURE
Whi
le
liste
ning
Post
liste
ning
City Weather Low High
1. Sydney
2. Tokyo
3. London

4. Bangkok
5. New York
6. Paris
dry, windy
dry, windy
humid, cold
warm, dry
windy, cloudy
cool, dry
20
15
-3
24
8
10
26
22
7
32
15
16
- Ask students to listen to the
tape and fill in the table
* Role play
- Ask students to work in pairs:
to ask and answer the questions
about weather and temperature
Eg:
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 will be 26
IV - Summary (2m)
- Repeat the content of the lesson.
V - Homework. (5m)
- Learn vocabulary
- Write it up: Use information from the chart to write a weather forecast.
Eg:
Here is today's weather forecast for the international traveler. In Sydney It will be …
- Prepare unit 12 lesson 4 Read - Vocabulary, questions p116-118
E - Evaluation


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Date of preparing: /02/09
Date of teaching: 8A
8B

Period 77
Unit 12 a vacation abroad
Lesson 4 Read P116 - 118
A - Aim
- Reading information about the places of interest in the world.
- Practice reading skill.
- By the end of the lesson, students will be able to obtain some knowledge about some
scenic sports in the USA.
B - Teaching aids
- Teacher: Textbook, poster, pictures, cards
- Students: pens, books

C Technique– : ROR, Grid
D - Procedure
I. Organization (2m)
Greeting
Names of absents students:
II. Warm up (5m)
1. Act: Net work
- Ask students to go to the board and write some words related the weather forecast
2. Names of checked students:
III- New lesson (32m)
Steps Activities Content
Pre reading While reading
I. Pre teaching
(translation)
(explanation)
* Checking: ROR
1. Grid
- T. draws a grid on the board
and runs through
I. Vocabulary
- volcano (n) nói löa
- lava (n) dung nham, nham th¹ch
- pour out (v) ®æ ra, trµo ra
- carve (v) tr¹m kh¾c
- overhead (adv) ë phÝa tríc
II. Text
Place What did she do and see?
a. Hawaii - went swimming, visited Kilauea Volcano
b. New York - went shopping, bought a lot of souvenirs
c. Chicago - saw lake Michigan

d. Mount Rushmore - Saw the heads of 4 American presidents
e. San Francisco
- visited Fisherman's Wharf, the Nape
Valley wine growing area and the Alcatraz
prison
Post reading
- Ask students to copy down the
grid in their book
- Then ask students to read the
text and complete the table.
- T. corrects later.
- T. runs through all questions
and ask students to read and
answer the questions
* Comprehension questions (Ex. 2 P118)
Key:
a. She went there by plane.
b. She saw the famous prison on the Island
of Alcatraz.
c. It's a mount where the heads of 4
American presidents are carved into the
rock and it can be seen from more than
100km away.
d. It's also called "The Windy City".
e. She went shopping
IV - Summary (2m)
- Repeat the content of the lesson.
V - Homework. (5m)
- Learn vocabulary
- Write answer these questions on their books

- Prepare unit 12 lesson 5 Write - Vocabulary, exercise 1 P118 gap - fill
E - Evaluation


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Date of preparing: 01 /03/09
Date of teaching: 8A
8B

Period 78
Unit 12 a vacation abroad
Lesson 5 Write P118
A - Aim
- To get students to practice in writing a postcard.
- Practice writing skill.
- By the end of the lesson, students will be able to write postcards to their friends about
their trip.
B - Teaching aids
- Teacher: Textbook, poster, pictures, cards
- Students: pens, books
C Technique– : Chatting, drawing, gap-fill
D - Procedure
I. Organization (2m)
Greeting
Names of absents students:
II. Warm up (5m)
1. Act: Lucky numbers
- T. writes the numbers on the board (1 - 10)
- Tell students each numbers is for a question but 4 of them are lucky numbers

* Questions:
- 2, 4, 7, 10 lucky numbers
1. Where did Mrs. Quyen and her husband spend their holiday? (In The USA)
3. What did they see on Mount Rushmore? (The head of 4 American presidents carved
into the rock.)
5. Who did they visit when they were in the USA? The Smiths
6. What did Mrs. Quyen do while her husband was visiting the Statue of Liberty? (She
went shopping.)
8. What did Mrs. Quyen buy? (She bought a lot of souvenirs.
9. What did she send her children from the USA? (Postcard))
2. Names of checked students:
III- New lesson (32m)
Steps Activities Content
Pre writing
I. Gap - fill
1. Set the scene: Form the USA,
Mrs. Quyen sent a postcard to
her friend Sally to tell her about
the trip.
- Ask students to look at the
postcard and complete the gaps.
- Ask students to work in pairs to
complete
- Ask students to go to the board
and write
II. Grid
- T. writes the topic on the board
- Ask students to look exercise 2
and runs through the instructions
by using questions.

I. Write1 - P118
* Answer key:
1. in 2. people 3. weather
4. visited 5. her 6. nice
7. bought 8. for
9. heaviness 10. soon
II. Write 2 - P118
* Information needed to write a postcard
1. What did you write about the place?
(Names of places)
2. What do you write about the weather?
(The weather is warm or cold …)
While writing
- T. draws the grid on the board
and runs through
- Ask students to copy down
- Ask students to read the
postcard (write 1) again and fill
in the gaps with the sentences
showing the information on the
left. * Answer key:
Necessary information for a
postcard.
- Place
- How do you fell about the
people
- weather
- Who you meet / visits?
- What you buy
- We are having a wonderful time in the

USA.
- The people are friendly.
- The weather has been warm and sunny.
- In San Francisco, I visited my friend Sandra
Smith.
- I bought lots souvenirs.
- Imagine you are a tourist on
vacation in a certain place / City
in Vietnam. Write a postcard to
Post
writ
ing
a friend about your trip, using
the information in the grid.
- Ask students to write a
postcard on a piece of postcard.
- T. collects students' writing and
corrects.
IV - Summary (2m)
- Repeat the content of the lesson.
V - Homework. (5m)
- Learn vocabulary
- Complete their writing
- Prepare unit 12 lesson 6 Language - vocabulary, review the past continuous tense
E - Evaluation


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Date of preparing: /03/09

Date of teaching: 8A
8B

Period 79
Unit 12 a vacation abroad
Lesson 6 Language focus P119
A - Aim
- Practice in past progressive tense and present progressive tense with "always".
- Practice writing skill.
- By the end of the lesson, students will be able to talk about activities using the present
and past progressive tenses.
B - Teaching aids
- Teacher: Textbook, pictures
- Students: pens, books
C Technique– : Ordering, matching
D - Procedure
I. Organization (2m)
Greeting
Names of absents students:
II. Warm up (5m)
1. Act:
2. Names of checked students:
III- New lesson (32m)
Steps Activities Content
I. Ordering pictures
- Ask students to look at pictures
P119
- T. hangs poster on the board
and runs through.
- Give instructions: Ask students

to put the suitable pictures with
phrase verb
- Ask students to work
individually.
- T. collects and checks
1. Set the scene:
- Ask students to look at picture
a
- T. asks: What was Ba doing at
8 o'clock last night?
- T. gives model sentences.
I. Language focus 1 - P119
Key:
1. walk with a dog
2. eat dinner
3. take a shower
4. talk to Grandma
5. Read a comic
6. Write a letter
e
b
a
f
c
d
- Ba was talking a shower at 8 o'clock last
night.
They were talking to each other at that
time.
- Ask students some questions to

elicits the form
What is the subject?
What comes after "was/were"?
Does it express a past or present
event?
- T. shows the cues and runs
through the verbs
- T. gives model - Students
repeat (2 times)
Example exchange:
Ba was taking a shower at 8
o'clock last night.
- Ask students to practice
speaking.
II. Matching
- Ask students to look at table on
P120
- Then ask students to look at
pictures P119
- Give instructionc: match the
half sentence in column A to
those in column B
- Ask students to match
individually
* Concept checking:
Form: S + was/ were + V-ing
Use: To indicate an action that was in
progress at a point of time in the past.
* Word cues
1. Ba / take a shower

2. Hoa / have dinner
3. Bao / read a comic
4. Nga / write a letter
5. Na / walk with her dog
6. Lan and Her Grandma / talk to each
other
II. Language focus 2 P119
* Answer key:
a.C, b.F, c.E, d.B, e.D, f.A
- Prepare unit 13 lesson 1 - vocabulary, exercise 2 P122
E - Evaluation


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