unit 12 anh van 8

Lesson plan 8 Teacher’s name: TRAN THI NHU PHUONG
Weeks: 7 to 8 UNIT 12:
Periods: 18 to 23
Period 1: Getting Started, Listen & Read
I. OBJECTIVES
By the end of the lesson, Ss will:
• Use a variety of invitations in spoken English such as offering, accepting and declining
invitations.
II. LANGUAGE CONTENTS
• Would you like + to-inf …?
• That very kind of you, but … or Yes, I/ We’d love to.
III. TECHNIQUES
• Guiding questions.
IV. TEACHING AIDS
• Pictures (copied & enlarged from textbook), cassette tape & recorder.
V. PROCEDURES
Steps Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
Warm-up
Presentatio
n
Control
practice
Production
• Shows some pictures – asks some questions:
o Do you like to go abroad?
o Which picture is for (the United of America)?
o Why do you know it is for (the U.S.A)? …
• Gets Ss to describe the pictures before class.
• Explains the instruction of exercise 2 and has Ss read examples
and make a small talk before class.
• Shows pictures of (Mrs. Quyen & Mrs. Smith) and says Mrs.

Quyen is going to America for a vacation. She’s giving Mrs. Smith a
call about her tour.
- Listen and read: Encourages the group of 4 to make some
guesses about Mrs. Quyen’s talk on the phone. T. should give them
some eliciting questions before playing cassette player again:
o Who are coming to San Francisco on Monday?
o What did Mrs. Quyen say when she declined Mrs. Smith’s
invitation?
• Explains new words:
• Shows the table of information (p.113), plays cassette player
again, has Ss listen and complete the table of information.
- Answer the questions: T. asks Ss reread the dialogue to find
the answers to the questions in exercise 2.
- Functional language of invitation:
 Invitation: Would you like …?
 Declining invitation: That’s very kind of you, but …
• Some pairs practice, using some invitations to ask their friends to
go somewhere or do something.
- To go to the zoo this weekend (accepting)
- To watch a football match on T.V tonight (declining)
• Answer.

• Describe.
• Listen.

• Read.

• Listen.
• Answer.
• Repeat.

HOMEWORK
• Do homework 5 in the work book (p.73)
• Prepare lesson 2: Speak.
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Lesson plan 8 Teacher’s name: TRAN THI NHU PHUONG
UNIT 12:
Period 2: Speak
I. OBJECTIVES
By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to make plans.
II. CONTENTS
• Grammar: time, telephone number, price.
• Language functions: expressions used in talking about the weather.
III. TECHNIQUES
• Question – answer; information completion.
IV. TEACHING AIDS
• Pictures (brochures & flight information).
V. PROCEDURES
Steps Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
Warm-up
Presentation
Practice
Production
• T. shows pictures of some countries and asks some
questions:
o Would you like to go abroad?
o How will you go?
o Where are you going to stay?
o Which places would you like to visit?
• Ss listen and answer the questions.

• T. explains the brochures and flight information.
• T. asks Ss make a plan and complete the itinerary.
• T. teaches some new words.
• T. gives an example:
o Depart Los Angeles Flight 8:35 at 10:00 on Monday.
o Arrive Boston at 4:00
o Accommodation: Atlantic Hotel
o Sightseeing: Boston University, Museum & Art
galleries.
• T. asks Ss to practice the dialogue in pairs.
• T. asks some pairs of Ss to practice in front of class about
their plans.
• T. corrects the mistakes.
• T. asks Ss to write down their plans.
• Answer.
• Listen.

• Take note.
• Work in pairs.
• Repeat& take note.
• Listen.

• Perform.
• Work in pairs.

• Correct.
HOMEWORK:
• Do homework 3 in the work book (p.71).
• Prepare lesson 3: Listen (p.115).
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Lesson plan 8 Teacher’s name: TRAN THI NHU PHUONG
UNIT 12:
Period 3 : Listen
I. OBJECTIVES
By the end of the lesson, Ss will:
• Ask and answer about the weather.
• Be able to asks and answer about the weather.
• Developing listening skill.
II. LANGUAGE CONTENTS
• Grammar: Expressions for talking about the weather.
• Vocabulary: centigrade, degree, minus.
III. TECHNIQUES
• Question – Answer.
• Listen and fill in the blanks.
IV. TEACHING AIDS
• Pictures, cassette tape and recorder.
V. PROCEDURES
Steps Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
Warm-up
Pre-listening
While-listening
Post-listening
• T. uses a cassette recorder to talk about the
weather in Vietnam. Then T. gives some questions.
- What are you listening to?
- What is the weather like today?
- What do we know the weather for?
• T. introduces the contents of the lesson by using
pictures.

(Well, today we will listen to the weather of other
countries: Sydney, Tokyo, New York, so on …)
• T. asks Ss to look at the box.
• T. asks Ss to read the words loudly then has them
give meaning. (degree, centigrade, minus)
• T. asks Ss to guess the weather and temperature
of cities in the form by giving questions.
- What is the weather in Tokyo like?
- What is the temperature in Tokyo?
• T. asks Ss to get ready to listen to the tape and
check their guessing.
• Listen & answer.

• Listen.

• Read the text.

• Work in pairs.
• Answer.
• Correct.
HOMEWORK:
o Prepare lesson 4: Read
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UNIT 12:
Period 4 : Read
I. OBJECTIVES
By the end of the lesson, Ss will:

• Know how to write a postcard
• Develop reading skill.
II. LANGUAGE CONTENTS
• Grammar: Past progressive with “ when” and “while”
• Vocabulary: (n): lava, valley, prison
(v): pour, carve
(adj) overhead
III. TECHNIQUES
• Question – Answer / Scanning.
IV. TEACHING AIDS
• Worksheets
V. PROCEDURES
Steps Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
PRE-reading
While-
reading
Post-reading
Consolidation
• T. asks questions about Ss’ vacations:
- Where did you go last summer?
- What did you do on vacation?
- What did you see on vacation?
• T. pre-teaches some key words: Ss find out the meaning.
• T. introduces the new reading test and gives TASK 1. We will
read about postcard from Mrs Quyen to her children.
TASK 1: How many places does Mrs Quyen talk about in the
text?
• Silent reading.
• Ss read the text and do TASK 1 (5 places)
TASK 1: Read the text and complete the information

Fill the chart.
• Asks Ss to pick out new words.
• T. explains new words.
TASK 3: Ss read the text aloud then ask and answer questions
in Exercise 2 before class.
• Ss read then ask and answer.
• Each Ss give a postcard and describe it.
• T. asks Ss to describe their vacation
• Ss talk the past progressive with “ when” and “while”
• Representatives of groups describe before class.
• Answer.
• Repeat.
• Listen.

• Listen and guess.
• Read complete the chart.
• Pair work.
• Read & answer.

• Group work.
• Take note.
HOMEWORK
Write some postcards.
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Lesson plan 8 Teacher’s name: TRAN THI NHU PHUONG
UNIT 12:
Period 5: Write
I. OBJECTIVES
By the end of this lesson, Ss will:

• Be able to write a postcard.
• Developing writing skills.
II. LANGUAGE CONTENTS
• Vocabulary: hospital (n)
• Grammar and structures: Use simple sentences to write a postcard.
III. TECHNIQUES
• Group work – Pair work – Communicative approach.
• Information completion - Transferring information.
IV. TEACHING AIDS
• Some postcards – word cards – overhead projector – transparency sheets.
V. PROCEDURES
Steps Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
Warm-up
Pre-writing
While-writing
Post-writing
• T. shows Ss 10 word cards and asks them to stick these 10 word
cards on the board (into the right columns)
• T. asks Ss to exchange the answer sheets.
• Has a representative go to the board to do the task.
• T. corrects
• has Ss read and tell the translation of these words
Lead-in:
• T. shows a postcard and asks Ss:
- What’s this?
- Have you ever bought a postcard?
- What did you do with it? Did you send it to your friend?
- Did you write anything on it?
• T. explains how to do exercise 1
1. Complete the postcard Mrs Quyen sent from the USA

• Introduces the situation: Mrs Quyen wrote a postcard & sent it to
her friend, Sally to retell about her trip in the USA.
• Has Ss read the postcard carefully &find suitable words to fill in
the blanks.
• has Ss exchange the answer sheets.
• T. asks a student to write his/ her group’s answers on the board.
• T. gives the correct answers.
• exercise 2
• T. asks Ss to read all the information of exercise 2.
• T. explains the new word: hospitable (adj).
• T. models first: invites a student to answer the questions:
• T. has some pairs practice speaking before class.
• T. asks Ss to use the information that they’ve just said about to
write a postcard.
• T. has two Ss go to the board and write their postcards.
• T. gets Ss to find and correct the mistakes.
• Listen to the guidance.
• Work in groups and write
down the answers into their
answer sheets.
• sticks these word cards on
the board into two columns.
• read and tell the words in
Vietnamese.
• Ss answer the questions.
• Do the exercise.
• Work in groups.
• compare the answers
• copy the correct answers
• Ss read silently.

• read and copy the new word
in their notebooks.
• Ss work in pairs
HOMEWORK
• Write a postcard to a friend about your trip.
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Lesson plan 8 Teacher’s name: TRAN THI NHU PHUONG
UNIT 12:
Period 6: Language focus
I. OBJECTIVES
To systematize and review the previous lesson, Ss will:
• Use the past progressive tense to communicate real situations.
• Use progressive tenses and pay attention to irregular verbs.
• Give examples from real life (your own life, Ss lives etc.)
II. LANGUAGE CONTENTS
• Past progressive tense with “when” and “while”
• Prepositions of time: in, on, at
III. TECHNIQUES
• Communicative approach:
- Questions & answers.
- Observe & find out formation
- Substitution drill
IV. TEACHING AIDS
• Posters, pictures, textbook, exercise book, cassette recorder.
V. PROCEDURES
Steps Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
Warm – up
Presentation
Practice

Production
• t. uses a cassette recorder play some songs: unit 3: get set
go; unit 4: let’s sing.
• ss listen and sing together-> review present progressive to
come on new grammar notes.
• t. shows the situation pictures and raises some questions:
- what was ba doing at 8 o’clock last night?
- what was the le family doing when the mailman came?
- what is bao always doing?
• t. has ss look at pictures p.119-120 to find out the answers.
• t. asks ss to make the sentences, use past progressive tense
& progressive tenses with always – pair work.
• note: past progressive: was / were + v-ing
present progressive: am / is / are + v-ing
• t. explains some new words relation to vacation abroad.
• t. asks ss to do part 2 & 3 (p.119, 120) and correcting the
exercises.

• listen.
• ss listen and guess the
situation.

• pair work & group work talking
about your or your friends past
activities.
HOMEWORK
• Learn by heart the structure.
• Write part 1, 2, 3 -> notebooks.
• Prepare Unit 13 – Getting started & Listen and read.
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