UNit 8 : New headway

Preparing day: 16/08/ 2013 Period: 01,02
Teaching day: 20/ 8 / 2013 Class 11A,11B

Unit 8: hOW LONG AGO?
fAMOUS INVENTIONS
I. Aims
1. Knowledge: Students remember the grammar structures of regular verbs
/irregular verbs in the simple past and how to use the simple past tense to tell
things/events happened in the past.
2. Skills: Practise reading and speaking.
3. Attitude : Ss are voluntary and active.
II. Objectives: At the end of the lesson, students will be able to
- Remember new words
- Use Past simple to make sentences.
III. Method: Integrated, mainly communicative
IV. Teaching Aids : Colour chalks, handouts ,pictures.
V. Procedure
Time Teacher’s activities Students' activities
10'
Warm up
Ask Ss to look at these sentences and explain
what tense is it?.
- When did you go home?
- I didn't go out last night.
Starter
- Ask Ss to read the words and give the past
simple of these words.ask them to pay
attention on irregular verbs.
Students \vork in pairs and say the Past
Simple of the verbs in the box. If they have
problems with the form of any of the irregular

verbs, refer them to the irregularverb list on
- answer
- Listen and try to
remember the past simple
- Answers
1.eat- ate
2.drink- drank
3.drive- droe
4.fly - flew
5.listen- listened
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pl-12.
- Call out Ss to write on the board.
- Check the answers with the whole class,
getting students to spell the past forms and
making sure they can pronounce them
correctly.
- Correct the answer
Ask Ss to answer the questions.
1.Did you ride a bike?
2.Did you drive a car?
6.make- made
7.ride- rode
8.take- took
9.watch- watched
10.wear- wore
Answer
1. Yes,I did
2.No,I didn't
15'

Famous inventions
1.Match the verbs from the starter with the
photographs.
Explain new words
- record (n) đĩa hát
- jeans (n) quần bò
Ask Ss to look at the pictures
name each of the items shown. Check
pronunciation carefully, especially of the
'international' words which are
the same or very similar in other languages,
e.g. - Coca-Cola / ' k a u k a 'kaulal/
- jeans /dgi:nz/,
- television
- photograph / fautagra:f/.
Check the answers with the whole class.
- Listen and write down in
the notebooks.
Answers
1 drink- Coca-Cola
2 take- photographs
3 listen to- records
4 fly -planes
5 wear- jeans
6 eat- hamburgers
7 drive- cars
8 make -phone calls
9 watch- television
10 ride-bikes
2. Work in groups .What years was it one

hundred years ago?ask and answer
questions about the things in the
pictures.what did people do? what didn't
they do?
- Divide the class into 2 groups
-Group 1 : picture 1-5
-Group 2 : picture 6-10
Ask Ss to as and answer as the model
A. Did people drive cars one hundred years
ago ?
B. Yes,I think they did.I'm not sure
- Work in groups
Answers
1. Did people drink coca-
Cola one hundred years
ago?
2
C. No,they didn't
Answers (The number of years ago will
depend on the year you are using the course)
1 Coca-Cola was invented in 1886.
2 The camera was invented in 1826.
3 The record player was invented in 1878.
4 The first plane was invented in 1903. The
first flight across the Channel was in 1909.
5 Jeanswere invented in 1873, made by Levi
Strauss.
6 Hamburgers were invented in 1895.
7 Cars were invented in 1893. A Benz went
at 18 miles an

hour.
8 The phone was invented in 1876.
9 The television was invented in 1926.
10 Bikes were invented in about 1840
- Guide Ss to do exercise 1,2 p42
- yes,they did
2. Did people take
photographs one hundred
years ago?
- Yes,they did
3.Did people listen to
records one hundred years
ago?
- Yes,they did
4.Did people fly planes one
hundred years ago?
No,they didn't

3'
Homework
- Ask Ss to make 5 sentences in the past form
- Do ex 1,2 on the notebook.
- Prepare new lesson part 3,4
Listen and write down
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Preparing day: 16/08/ 2013 Period: 03,04
Teaching day: 23/ 8 / 2013 Class:
11A,11B

Unit 8: hOW LONG AGO?

fAMOUS INVENTIONS
I. Aims
1. Knowledge: Students can use the simple past tense to tell things/events
happened in the past.
2. Skills: Practise speaking.
3. Attitude : Ss are voluntary and active.
II. Objectives: At the end of the lesson, students will be able to
- Remember the simple past tense.
- Use Past simple to make sentences with events/things happened .
III. Method: Integrated, mainly communicative
IV. Teaching Aids : Colour chalks, pictures.
V. Procedure
Time Teacher’s activities Students' activities
30'
Warm up
Ask Ss to answer some questions
- Do you think people in the past drove cars?
3. Tell the class the things you think people
did and didn't do.
- Ask Students to give their opinions
about what people did and didn't do
100 years ago.
- Check the answers with the whole class.
- Correct the answer
- Answer freely
- Answer
1. We think people drank
coca-cola, but they didn't
eat hamburgers.
2. We think people wore

jeans, but they didn't fly
planes
3. We think people took
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- Ask Ss to answer the questions.
- Was Coca-Cola invented in 1886?
photograghs, but they didn't
listen to records.
4. We think people made
phone calls, but they didn't
watch television.
Answer
- Yes, it was
35' 4. Your teacher knows the exact dates
when things were invented. Ask your
teacher about them. Write down the dates.
How many years ago was it?
- Ask Ss to ask teacher as a model
S: Whene was coca-cola invented?
T: In 1886
S:That's 127 years ago
* Answers (The number of years ago will
depend on the year you are using the course)
1 Coca-Cola was invented in 1886.
2 The camera was invented in 1826.
3 The record player was invented in 1878.
4 The first plane was invented in 1903. The
first flight across the Channel was in 1909.
5 Jeans were invented in 1873, made by Levi
Strauss.

6 Hamburgers were invented in 1895.
7 Cars were invented in 1893. A Benz went
at 18 miles an hour.
8 The phone was invented in 1876.
9 The television was invented in 1926.
10 Bikes were invented in about 1840
Ask Ss to find out some other things
1. computer - đầu thế kỷ 19
2. printer : Những năm 1930 by Johnn
Gutenburg
3. washing machine
4. steam engine - 1769 by James watt

- Work individually
Answers
1.That's 127 years ago.
2.That's 178 years ago.
3.That's 135 years ago.
4.That's 110 years ago.
5. That's 140 years ago.
6. That's 118 years ago.
7. That's 120 years ago.
8. That's 137 years ago.
9. That's 87 years ago.
10.That's 173 years ago.
do it
20'
Grammar spot
Present Simple
He lives in London.

Past Simple
He lived in London.
5
Do you live in London?
Does she live in London?
I don't live in London.
He doesn't live in London.
- Highlight that he/she/it has a different form
in the Present Simple from the other persons,
but that all forms in the Past Simple are the
same.
- Read Grammar Reference 8.1 and 8.2 on p
129 together in class or ask students to read it
at home (if time isnot enough).
- Encourage them to ask you questions about
it.
Did you live in Lodon?
Did she live in London?
I didn't live in London.
He didn't live in London.
- Listen
5'
Homework
- Ask Ss to make 5 sentences in the past form
- Do ex 3,4 on the notebook.
- Prepare new lesson
Listen and write down
Preparing day: 24/08/ 2013 Period: 05,06
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Teaching day: 20/ 8 / 2013 Class:

11A,11B

Unit 8: hOW LONG AGO?
practice
I. Aims
1. Knowledge: Students know some inventors who invented things happened in
the past.
2. Skills: Practise reading and speaking
3. Attitude : Ss are voluntary and active.
II. Objectives: At the end of the lesson, students will be able to
- Remember some inventors
- Use Past simple to make negative sentences .
III. Method: Integrated, mainly communicative
IV. Teaching Aids : Colour chalks, pictures.
V. Procedure
Time Teacher’s activities Students' activities
5'
40'
Warm up
Ask students to look at the three photos and say
what they can see . Ask Ss to name people in the
pictures
1. Who is in the first picture?
2. Who is in the second picture?
3. Who is in the third picture?
Three inventors
1. The dates in the texts are all incorrect.
Read and listen, and correct the dates.
Students read the three texts, checking new
words in their dictionaries. The following words

will probably be new:
- cloth : vaỉ
- Answer freely
- Levi strauss
- John logie Baird
- Felix hofman
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- fashionable (a) hợp thời trang,mốt
- transmitt (v) truyền ,phát /tren'smit/
- produce ( v) sản suất
- athritis(n) /athraitis/ bệnh viêm khớp
- best-selling (n) bán chạy
- century (n) thế kỷ
- painkiller (n) thuốc giảm đau
- astronaunt (n) nhà du hành vũ trụ
- philosopher (n)nhà triết học,triết gia
+ Ask Ss to read after 3 times.
+ Call some Ss to read again.
- Tell students they are going to read the texts
again, focusing on the dates. Stress that all three
in each text are incorrect. and get students to
discuss in pairs what the correct dates might be.
- Remind them that they already have some the
correct dates from famous inventions.
- Students listen, correct the dates,
- Ask students to make a negative and a positive
sentence about each date.
-
-
- Check the answers with the whole class.

- Correct the answers.
keys
1. They didn't make the first jeans in 1923. They
made them in 1873.
2.Jeans didn't became fashionable for women in
1965. They became fashionable for women in
1935.
3. Calvin Klein didn't earn $12.5 million a week
from jeans in the 1990s. He earned $12.5
million a week from jeans in the 1970s
4. John Logie Baird didn't transmit the first
television picture on 25November, 1905.He
transmitted it on 25 October, 1925.
5 He didn't send pictures from London to
Glasgow in 1929.He transmitted them in 1927.
6.He didn't send pictures to New York in
1940.He sent them in 1928.
7.Felix Hofman didn't invent Aspirin in April
1879.He invented it in March 1879
8. Aspirin wasn't the best-selling painkiller by
Read the text
Listen and write down
- listen cafully and correct
the dates in the tetxs.
- Answer
8
1940.It was the best selling painkiller by 1950.
9. The Apollo astronauts didn't take aspirin to
the moon in 1959. They took it to the moon in
1969.

40' 2. Make these sentences negative.
- Ask Ss to scan these sentences in the part 2.
then read the text again and correct them
- Ask Ss to work in pairs.
- Play the recording and let students check their
answers.
- Ask Ss to give the correct answers
1. Two Germans didn't make the first jeans. Two
Americans made them
2. Davis didn't sell cloth in Levi's shop. He
bought cloth from Levi's shop.
3. Women didn't see pictures of jeans in She
magazine. They saw them in Voguemagazine.
4 . Baird didn't send pictures from London to
Paris. He sent pictures from London to
Glasgow.
5. Felix Hofman didn't give the first aspirin to
his mother. He gave it to his father.
6 . A Spanish philosopher didn't call the 19 th
century 'the Age of Aspirin'. He called the 20th
century 'the Age of Aspirin'
- Play the recording again and get students to
practise the stress and intonation.
Answers
.
do it
5'
Did you know that?
3. Read and listen to the conversations.
- Check the following vocabulary:

- spaghetti
- really
- incredible
- true
- afraid
- believe.
- Students read and listen to the conversations.
Draw their attention to the wide voice range of
the second speaker as help she expresses
Listen and write down

- Listen and repeat
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incredulity.
- Practise the conversations in open pairs
- really encourage students to sound
surprised!
5'
4.Work with a partner. Have a similar
conversation.
- Pre-teach to check the following vocabulary:
- painting
- alive,
- actress
- millionaire
- snow (v)
- marijuana
- voice
- novelist.
Take care also with the pronunciation of the

following words:
- van Gogh (in British English)
- Sahara Desert /satha:ra 'dezatl
- Louis 1'lu:iI
Divide the class into two groups then ask and
answer
- give handouts for 4 Ss
Did you know that?
Student A
1 Vincent van Gogh sold only two
of his paintings while he was alive.
2 the actress Shirley Temple was
a millionaire before she was ten.
3 Shakespeare spelled his name i n
eleven different ways.
4 i n 1979 it snowed in the Sahara
Desert.
5. . . King Louis XIV of France had a bath
only three times in his life.
6 the American President George
Washington grew marijuana in his
garden.
Student B
1 it took 1,700 years t o build the Great
Wall of China.
Listen and write down
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2 King Henry Vlll of England had six wives
3 Walt Disney used his own voice for the
character of Mickey Mouse.

4 Shakespeare and the Spanish novelist
Cervantes both died on the same day,
23 April 1616.
5 King Francis I of France bought the
painting The Mona Lisa to put i n his
bathroom.
6 when Shakespeare was alive, there
were no actresses, only male actors.
5' Homework
- Ask Ss to make sentences in the notebooks
- Do ex 5,6 p43.
- Prepare new lesson
Listen and write down
Preparing day: 8 / 09/ 2013 Period: 13,14
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Teaching day: 10/ 9/ 2013 Class:
11A,11B

Unit 8: hOW LONG AGO?
EVERYDAY ENGLISH
I. Aims
1. Knowledge: Students know how to read and write the ordinals,dates.
2. Skills: Practise reading ,listening and speaking
3. Attitude : Ss are voluntary and active.
II. Objectives: At the end of the lesson, students will be able to
- Remember the ordinals.
III. Method: Integrated, mainly communicative
IV. Teaching Aids : Colour chalks, tape,cassette player .
V. Procedure
Time Teacher’s activities Students' activities

5'
30'
Warm up
-Ask Ss to read out the numbers
- Do you know the ordinals ?
Everyday English
- What's the date?
1.Write the correct word next to the numbers
- Students work in pairs to put the correct
ordinal next to the numbers.
- guide the ss how to recognize the difference
between ordinal and cardinal number.
- guide the ss to do exercises in the book
- Check the answers with the whole
class.
- Correct the answers.
Answers
1st - first
2nd -second
3rd -third
4th -fourth
5th - fifth
- Answer
one, two,three,four
- Yes/ No
Listen and do exercise
- Answer
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6th- sixth
10th- tenth

12th -twelveth
13th- thirteenth
16th- sixteenth
l7th -seventeenth
20th- twentieth
21st -twenty-first
30th -thirtieth
3lst -thirty-first
Students listen and practise saying the
ordinals. Stop the recording after each one and
drill them around the class, correcting carefully.
25' 2. Students ask and answer questions about
the months of the year.
-Ask some Ss to repeat the months of the year
+ February
+ March
+ April
+ June
+ July
+ August,
-Ask Ss to work in pairs .ask and answer
A: Which is the first month?
B. January
(C. Which year is it?
D. 2013 (two thousand and thirteen)
A. What's the date today?
- the tenth of september)
work in pairs
, 3. Practise saying the dates.
- Students practise saying the dates both ways.

Students often have a lot of difficulties saying
dates.
and correct mistakes very carefully.
- Let Students listen and check.
1 The first of April
April the first
2 The second of March
March the second
work in pairs
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3 The seventeenth of September
September the seventeenth
4 The nineteenth of November
November the nineteenth
5 The twenty-third of June
Junethe twenty-third
6 The twenty-ninthof February, nineteen
seventy-six
7 The nineteenth of December, nineteen eighty-
three
8 The third of October, nineteen ninety-nine
9 The thirty-first of May, two thousand
10 The fifteenth of July, two thousand and four
5' Homework
- Ask Ss to practise the dates
- Do in workbook.
- Prepare new lesson
Listen and write down
.
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Preparing day: 8 / 09/ 2013 Period: 15,16
Teaching day: 20/ 9/ 2013 Class:
11A,11B

Unit 8: hOW LONG AGO?
EVERYDAY ENGLISH
I. Aims
1. Knowledge: Students know how to read and write the ordinals,dates.Ss can
answer the questions.
2. Skills: Practise listening and speaking
3. Attitude : Ss are voluntary and active.
II. Objectives: At the end of the lesson, students will be able to
- Remember the ordinals.
III. Method: Integrated, mainly communicative
IV. Teaching Aids : Colour chalks, tape,cassette player .
V. Procedure
Time Teacher’s activities Students' activities
5'
30'
Warm up
-Ask Ss to go to the blackboard to write some
dates
1st
2nd
3rd
20th
21st
4. Listen and write the dates you hear
- Students listen and write down the dates they
hear. Tell them there are seven dates in total. Let

them check in pairs before you give the answers.
- Ask Ss to listen and write down on paper.
- Let them discuss then give the answers
- Ask The whole class for the answer
Answers and tapescript
1 4 January
2 7 May, 1997
- Answer

Write on board
- Answer
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3 1 August, 20015
4 13July
5 3O November
6 23 April, 1564
7. 2 April, 16163
1 The fourth of January.
2 May the seventh, 1997
3 The fifteenth of August, 2001
4 A It was a Friday.
B No, it wasn't. It was a Thursday.
A No, I remember. It was Friday the thirteenth.
The thirteenth of July.
5. A Oh nol I forgot your birthday.
B It doesn't matter, really.
A It was last Sunday, wasn't it? The thirtieth.
November the thirtieth.
6 A Hey! Did you know that Shakespeare was
born and died on the same day?

B That's not possible!
A Yes, it is. He was born on April the twenty-
third , fifteen sixty-four and he died on April the
twenty-third, sixteen sixteen.
30' 5 . Ask and answer the questions with your
partner.
- Students work in pairs to answer the questions
about dates. Monitor and feed back on any
common errors before checking the answers
with the whole class.
-Ask Ss to work in pairs .ask and answer
Answers
1.Today's the tenth of september,2013
2. It started on the 20th of August,2013
3 .25 December
4. 14 February
5. It is always on a Sunday towards the end of
March .
- 6 . 4 July
7. It is 21st century
8. 2nd september
9,10. I was born on the tenth of March,1977
work in pairs
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20' Exercises: 10,11,12
- guide Ss to do exercise
in the workbook
- Monitor and feed back on any common errors
before checking the answers with the whole
class.

-Ask Ss to give the correct answers
- do exercises in the
workbook.
work in pairs
5' Homework
- Ask Ss to practise the dates
- Do in workbook.
- Prepare new lesson
Listen and write down
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