Unit 8 Country life and city life -Tiếng anh 8 .

Lesson Plan _ English 8 _ Unit 8 School year: 2014-2015
Planning date: 4 - 12- 2014
Period 46 . UNIT 8: COUNTRY LIFE AND CITY LIFE
Lesson 1: GETTING STARTED + LISTEN AND READ. P.72
I. Aims:
- To help students read for details about the differences between city life and country
life.
- To develop students’ skills.
II. Objectives:
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to talk about the city life and the
country life.
III. Ways of working: T-WC, group work, pair work, individual work.
IV.Materials: Textbook, pictures in the textbook, cassette.
V. Anticipated problems: The lesson may take time.
VI. Teaching steps:
1. Warm up: (5 minutes) * Teacher greets and checks the students’ attendance.
* Brain storming:
- Teacher uses pictures to introduce about the city and the country and then asks
students to write words refer to the city and the country.(group work)
2. New lesson:
STAGES T &SS’ ACTIVITIES THE CONTENTS ON BOARD
PRESEN-
TATION
(10
minutes)
* Pre-teach vocabulary:
- Teacher uses techniques to teach
students new words.
- Checking understanding:
rub out and remember
* Set the scene:

Hoa and Na are talking together
about the life in the city and in the
country.
* Pre-questions:
- Students predict the answers to
the pre-questions.
I. New words:
- permanently (adv): lâu dài, vĩnh viễn,
cố định
- medical facility: phương tiện y học
- accessible (adj): có thể tiếp cận được
- definitely (adv): nhất định
II. Pre-questions:
1. Where did Na go for the weekend?
2. Does she like to live there
permanently? Why? Why not?
PRAC-
TICE
(20
minutes)
- Students listen to the dialogue.
- Students practise the dialogue in
pair and check their predictions.
III. Listen and read:
1. Checking predictions:
1. Na went to the countryside for their
weekend.
2. No, she doesn’t. Because she thinks
the countryside is too quiet and there’s
nothing to do there.

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CITY
COUNTRY
pollutionnoisy
quiet
peaceful
friendly fresh air
modern
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- Students read the dialogue again
and answer the comprehension
questions.
(pair work)
- Teacher elicits the model
sentences:
- Concept checking:
+ What does this sentence mean in
Vietnamese?
+ When do we use this sentence?
+ What tense is it? (present
continuous)
+ What is the main verb? (get)
+ Is the intonation raising or
falling? (falling)
=> use the present continuous
tense with verb get and become to
talk about gradual changes
* Practice:
- Teacher uses words cards to help

students practise.
E.g: It is getting darker.
2. Answer the comprehension
questions:
Answer key:
a. Na has been to the countryside.
(Na has been to Kim Lien village)
b. She was there for one day.
c. The countryside is peaceful and quiet
and there is nothing to do.
d. There are no libraries, no movies, no
supermarkets, no zoos, etc, to go.
e. Many remote areas are getting
electricity. People can now have things
like refrigerators and TV, and medical
facilities are more accessible.
f. (Students’ answers)
3. Model sentences:
Many remote areas are getting
electricity.
*Form:
S + is/am/are + getting/becoming…
Use: use the present continuous tense
with verb get and become to talk about
gradual changes
4. Practice:
PRODUC
TION
(8
minutes)

* Discussion:
- Teacher divides the class into 4
groups. Two groups include
students who prefer the city life
and the others include students
who prefer the country life.
Teacher asks students to discuss
the questions: “Do you prefer the
city or the country life? Why?”
* Discussion:
- Do you prefer the country or the city
life? Why?
3. Summary: (1 minute)
- Repeat the lesson.
4. Homework: (1 minute)
- Learn by heart all the new words and read the dialogue again.
- Prepare: Speak + Listen.
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it/ get/ darker
city / become / more polluted
country / get / more modern
things / get / more expensive
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Planning date: 4 -12- 2014
Period 47: UNIT 8: COUNTRY LIFE AND CITY LIFE
Lesson 2: SPEAK AND LISTEN. P.73
I. Aims:
- To help students practise the present progressive tense to describe changes with get
and become.

- To help students listen for details to complete the dialogue.
- To develop students’ skills.
II. Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to talk about changes of
a place and complete the dialogue by listening.
III. Ways of working: T - WC, pair work, team work, individual work.
IV. Materials:
Textbook, pictures in the textbook, word cards, cassette, additional board.
V. Anticipated problems:
- “Warm up” activity may be difficult for Ss of class 8C.
- The lesson may take time.
VI. Teaching steps:
1. Warm up: (5 minutes) * Teacher greets and checks the students’ attendance.
* Word square:
E X P E N S I V E
H M D P E G I B
N I O I A G E
H D R E R A
Y G E T H A U
S R Y C L L A T
U N O I S Y I
B Q U I E T L U F
* Key:
 expensive
 beautiful
 tall
 noisy, quiet
 large, busy, cheap
 modern, dirty
2. New lesson:
STAGES T & SS’ ACTIVITIES THE CONTENTS ON BOARD

PRE
LISTENING
(4 minutes)
* Set the scene:
- You were 1.50 meter last
year. Now you are 1.54 meter.
->You are getting taller.
- It is getting / becoming
darker now.
=> We use the present
progressive tense with verb get
/ become to describe changes.
REVISION: Grammar
S + am / is / are / + getting / becoming +
adj.
WHILE
SPEAKING
* Speak:
- Teacher uses word cards to
I. Speak:
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THE BOY / GET / TALLER
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(10 minutes)help students practice.
- Students look at the two
pictures and talk to their
partners about the changes of
the town (pair work)
- Teacher writes the word

prompts on board so that
students can speak easily.

5 years ago Now
traffic busy
houses /
buildings
high
city beautiful / green
city clean
streets dirty / large
life good
things expensive
town modern / busy
POST
SPEAKING
(6 minutes)
- Students work in pair to talk
about the changes in their own
town / village.
PRE
LISTENING
(4 minutes)
* Set the scene:
- Aunt Hang is talking to Lan
on the phone. She is coming to
visit Lan in Ha Noi.
* Open prediction:
- Students read the dialogue
and predict the missing words.

II. Listen:
1. Open prediction:
WHILE
LISTENING
(9 minutes)
* Listen:
- Students listen to the tape and
check their predictions.
- Students listen again and
correct their mistakes.
- Teacher gives the correct
answer.
2. Listen and check the predictions:
* Answer key:
Lan: Hello.
Aunt Hang: Hello. Is that Lan?
Lan: Yes. Who is this?
Aunt :It’s Aunt Hang. How are you?
Lan: I’m fine. Where are you phoning
from?
Aunt : Hue. I’m calling to tell you Uncle
Chi and I are coming to visit you
next week.
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IT / GET / DARKER
MY GRAND MOTHER / GET / WEAKER
HER ENGLISH / GET / BETTER
LIFE / GET / BETTER
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Lan:Great! When are you arriving?
Aunt :On Thursday. We are arriving in
Ha Noi in the late afternoon.
Lan: OK. Do you want to speak to my
Mum?
Aunt :Yes, please.
Lan:Hold on a moment and I’ll get her.
POST
LISTENING
(5 minutes)
* Role playing:
- Students imagine they are
Lan and the other is Aunt Chi.
Aunt Chi is visiting Lan’s
neighborhood. Lan is talking to
her about the changes in the
city.
3. Role playing:
E.g:
Aunt Chi: Oh, every thing has changed.
And there are a lot of new things.
Lan: Yes. The city is getting bigger,
busier and more modern. …
3. Summary: (1 minute) - Repeat the lesson.
4. Homework: (1 minute) -Prepare Read
Planning date: 5 - 12 - 2014
Period 48: UNIT 8: COUNTRY LIFE AND CITY LIFE
Lesson 3: READ. P.75
I. Aims:
- To help students read and understand about the problems of people from the

countryside moving to the city.
- To develop students’ skills.
II. Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to understand the text
about the one of the social problems.
III. Ways of working: T-WC, group work, pair work, individual work.
IV. Materials: Textbook, additional board.
V. Anticipated problems: The lesson may take time.
VI. Teaching steps:
1. Warm up: (5 minutes) *Teacher greets and checks the students’ attendance.
* Teacher asks students some questions to warm up:
E.g:
+ Do farmers have an easy life? (No - a hard life)
+ Can you tell me the difficulties the farmers usually have?
(hard work, get little money, no vacations, drought, floods, typhoons, lack of clean
water / electricity, insects destroy harvests …)
+ What do they often do to earn living apart from doing on the farm? ( moving to the
city to find jobs)
- T. introduces new lesson
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:
Matching
* Set the scene:

I. New words:
- rural (adj): vùng nông thôn
- urban (adj): vùng thành thị
- a typhoon: trận bão lớn
- a flood: trận lụt
- a drought: hạn hán
- (to) struggle: đấu tranh
- a migrant: dân di cư
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You are going to read a text to
understand more about the
farmer’s life.
* Pre-questions:
II. Pre-questions:
1. What do many farmers do to solve their
problems?
2. Why do they do so?
WHILE
READING
(18
minutes)
* Read:
- Students read the text for the
first time and answer the pre-
questions
- Students read the text gain and
do the matching:
- Students read the text again

and do the exercise 2. P.75
- Teacher give the correct
answers
- Students do the exercise 1.
P.75.
III. Read. P.75
1. Checking the predictions:
* Answer key:
1. They move to the city.
2. Because they think they can get well -
paid jobs in the city.
2. Matching:
L3. plentiful không vui
L8. increase chính phủ
L8. overcrowding nhiều
L9. put a strain kết quả
L10. unpleasant bi kịch
L10. result sự gia tăng
L11. tragedy dẫn đến sự quá tải
L14. government quá đông (người)
3. Find the words in the passage that
means:
* Answer key:
a) of the countryside rural
b) as many as needed plentiful
c) become greater or larger increase
d) a greater pressure strain
e) a terrible event tragedy
f) of the city or city life urban
4. Complete the summary:

* Answer key:
(1) leaving
(2) home
(3)city
(4) rural
(5) city
(6) problems
(7) schools
(8) hospitals
(9) problems
(10) world
POST
READING
(8
minutes)
* Discussion:
- Teacher divides the class into 4
groups.
- Students discuss in group the
questions given by the teacher.
(T. may help students to discuss:
1.
IV. Discussion:
1. What happens when so many people
move to the city?
2. What should the government do to
solve the problems?
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+ increase population
+ not enough schools / hospitals
/ water / electricity…
+ security is not safe / poor
security
2.
+ Build streets, stadiums,
theaters in the country
+Build schools, hospitals,
factories
+ Provide clean water,
electricity, facilities …….
3. Summary: (1 minute)
- Repeat the lesson.
4. Homework: (1 minute)
- Write 5 things the government should do for the rural areas. Begin with:
The government should………………………
- Prepare Write
Planning date: 11 - 12 -2014
Period 49 : UNIT 8: COUNTRY LIFE AND CITY LIFE
Lesson 4: WRITE. P.76
I. Aims:
- To help students write a letter to their friends telling about the neighborhood.
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- To develop students’ skills.
II. Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to write letters to their
friends about their neighborhood.
III. Ways of working: T-WC, pair work, individual work.

IV. Materials: Textbook, word cards.
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: Ordering
- Students put the outline for an informal letter in the correct order
* Answer key:
1. Heading 2. Opening 3. Body of the letter
- Writer’s address - Dear …, 4. Closing
- Date
2. New lesson:
STAGES T & SS’ ACTIVITIES THE CONTENTS ON BOARD
PRE
WRITING
(10
minutes)
- Students work in pair to ask and answer
the questions part 2 on page 76.
E.g:
S1: Where do you live?
S2: I live in Thanh Mai, Thanh Oai.
S1: What does your house look like?
S2: It’s a large house and beautiful.
…………………………………….
I. Practice:
WHILE
WRITING
(18
minutes)
Write:

- Students write a letter to a friend about
their neighborhood, basing on the outline
and the questions and answers they have
practised.
- Students exchange their writing and
correct if they can.
II. Write:
E.g:
Thanh Mai, Thanh Oai
HaNoi, Viet Nam
December 10, 2008
Dear Lan,
I live in Thanh Mai, a small
villlage in Thanh Oai. My family
lives in a large house with four
rooms and a small garden
…………
Love,
Hoa
POST
WRITING
(10
minutes)
Teacher corrects some students’writings.
Suggested letter:
Thanh Mai, Thanh Oai
HaNoi, Viet Nam
December 15, 2014
Dear Lan,
I live in Thanh Mai, a small village in

Thanh Oai. My family lives in a large
house with four rooms and a small
garden. My sister and I share one bed
room. From the bedroom window, I can
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OPENING DATE
CLOSING HEADING
BODY OF THE LETTER
WRITER’ ADDRESS
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see a beautiful rice paddy, green trees,
and a pond. We don t live far from my ’
school so I usually walk there.
In my neighborhood, there is a
swimming pool and a beautiful park. On
the weekend I often go swimming with
my friends. Early in the morning I
usually jog with my sister around the
pond. But the thing I like best in my
neighborhood is the public library near
my school. There I not only can study
and read books but also watch video and
learn how to use the computer.
Do you have a library like that in your
neighborhood? Is there anything
interesting in the place where you live?
Write to me.
I d like to say goodbye now. I m looking ’ ’
forward to hearing from you soon.

Love,
Hoa
3. Summary: (1 minute)
- Repeat the lesson.
4. Homework: (1 minute)
- Complete the letter into your notebooks
- Prepare Language focus
Planning date: 12 - 12- 2014
Period 50: UNIT 8: COUNTRY LIFE AND CITY LIFE
Lesson5: LANGUAGE FOCUS. P.77
I. Aims:
- To help students further practice in present progressive tense and comparative and
superlative adjectives.
- To develop students’ skills.
II. Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to use the present
progressive tense to talk about intention and changes, and able to use the comparatives
and superlative adjectives.
III. Ways of working: T-WC, pair work, team work, individual work.
IV. Materials: Textbook.
V. Anticipated problems: 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:
- Teacher asks students

to practice the dialogue
in pair.
- Teacher elicits the
model sentences.
+ What does it mean in
Vietnamese?
+ What tense is it?
I.Language focus 1:
Ex1:The boat to Dong Hoi is leaving at 10.40.
Ex2:
S1: Is the ship to Quy Nhon leaving at 11.30?
S2: No, it has been delayed. It is leaving at 13.55
S3: Is the boat from Ca Mau arriving at 11?
S4: Yes. It is arriving on time.
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(present progressive)
+ So what is the present
progressive used to
express? (The future
action)
- Teacher asks students
to practise in pair,
making similar dialogue
using the shipping
information.
* Langauge focus 2:
- Students practice in
pair to complete the

dialogue.
* Language focus 3:
- The present
progressive tense is used
with the verb GET /
BECOME and the
comparative adjective to
express the changes.
Make examples?
- Ask Ss to complete the
sentences, using the
verbs and adjectives in
the boxes.
* Language focus 4:
Q: - How to form the
adjectives in
comparative and
superlative form?
- Short adjective? Long
adjective?
For example?
- Students practise in
group to talk about the
country and the city.
Make comparisons.
- Teacher hold the game
“Chain game” to let
students practice.
* Language focus 5:
Teacher asks students

some questions:
- What are they?
(advertisements)
- What are advertised?
(an apartment, a villa
II. Language focus 2:
* Answer key:
(1) are doing
(2) am watching
(3) am going
(4) are cleaning
(5) am having
III. Language focus 3:
E.g: The boys are getting taller.
IV Language focus 4:
1. Comparative:
ADJ_ER busy - busier
MORE ADJ beautiful - more beautiful
2. Superlative:
THE ADJ_EST busy - the busiest
THE MOST ADJ beautiful - the most
beautiful
Talk about the city and the country:
ABOUT:
- food
- traffic
- transport
- air
- entertainments
- medical facilities

- schools
- electricity
E.g: - In the city, the food is more expensive than
in the country.
- The air in the country is fresher than in the city.
V. Language focus 5:
Noughts and crosses:
1.OLD 2.EXPENSIVE 3.BIG
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and a house)
- How old are they?
- How much do we pay?
Teacher divides the class
into two teams and let
students play the game
noughts and crosses.
Students make sentences
with the adjectives
given, using the
comparative and
superlative form
E.g: The house is newer
than the apartment.
4.SMALL 5.CHEAP 6.HOT
7.BEAUTIFUL 8.NEW 9.MODERN
1. The villa is the oldest home.
2. The villa is the most expensive.
3. The house is the biggest.

4. The apartment is the smallest.
5. The apartment is the cheapest.
6. The apartment is hotter than the house.
7. The house is more beautiful than the villa.
8. The house is newer than the apartment.
9. The house is more modern than the apartment.
3. Summary: (1 minute)
- Repeat the lesson
4. Homework: (1 minute)
- Do exercises 3, 6. P.50, 51 (WB)
- Review from unit 1 to unit 8.
Planning date: 12- 12 -2014
Period 51: REVISION FOR THE FIRST TERM
I. Aims:
- To help students review their knowledge from unit 1 to unit 8 to be ready for the first
term test.
II. Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to gain the knowledge
and be ready for the test.
III. Ways of working: T-WC, individual work
IV. Materials: Text book, reference book.
V. Anticipated problems:
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
REVISION
(43
minutes)
Teacher asks students
questions to revise their

knowledge:
- What are the topics of
the units you have
learnt?
- What is the main
grammar you have learnt
in each topics?
I. Themes / Topics:
1. Personal information:
- Friends
- House and home
2. Education:
- School life and study habits
3. Community:
- Shopping
- Neighborhood
- Country life and city life
II. Grammar:
Tenses: present simple tense, past simple tense.
- Infinitive
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- Topic 1?
+ When do we use these
tenses?
+ Make examples?
- The main grammar in
toppic 2?
+ Make examples?

- The main grammar in
topic 3?
+ When do we use this
tense? / This structure?
+ Make examples?
- What is the language
knowledge do we have
in the test?
- So what do we have to
revise?
- What skills do we have
in the test? (listening,
reading, writing)
- Modal verbs: must, have to, ought to
- Reflexive pronouns: myself, yourself,
themselves…
- Adverbs of place: here, there, upstairs…
- Prepositions of time: after, before, until, as soon
as…
- Adj + enough + to infinitive
- Enough + noun + to infinitive
- Let’s …
- Why, Because
- Present simple with future meaning
- Reported speech: command, request and advice
- Gerund
- Modal verbs: may, can, could, should
- Adverbs of manner: well, fast, hard, late,
badly…
- Prepositions of time: in, at, on, between, after,

before
- Used to + infinitive
- Present perfect tense (with for / since)
- Adverbs: already, yet
- Present progressive to talk about the future
and about the changes with get & become
- Comparisons: as …… as; the same as; different
from
- Comparison of adjectives
III. Skills:
1. The language knowledge:
- Vocabulary: (topics)
- Grammar
- Phonetics:
+ Choose the word that has the underlined part
pronounced differently from the others.
(Khoanh tròn từ có phần gạch chân có cách phát
âm khác với những từ còn lại)
+ Choose the word whose main stress is placed
differently from the others.
(Chọn từ có trọng âm chính rơi vào âm tiết khác
với những từ còn lại)
2. The language skills:
a) Listening:
- Listen to a monologue or a dialogue within 80 -
100 words for general or specific information.
b) Reading:
- Read a dialogue or a passage of 100 - 140
words for general or specific information.
c) Writing:

- Write about oneself or others of 60 - 80 words
using word cues or pictures.
- Write a description of 60 - 80 words of a room
in the house using words cues or pictures.
- Write an informal letter of 60 - 80 words to a
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friend using word cues.
- Write a paragraph of 60 - 80 words telling about
future plan using suggested guidelines or
questions.
- Write a letter to a friend of 60 - 80 words about
the neighborhood using suggested guidelines or
words.
- Write a community notice of 60 - 80 words
using suggested questions.
3. Homework:( 1minute)
- Review the vocabulary and grammar from unit 1 to unit 8.
- Review the listening, reading, writing lessons from unit 1 to unit 8.
Planning date: 17 - 12 - 2014
Period 52: REVISION FOR THE FIRST TERM
I. Aims:
- To help students review their knowledge from unit 1 to unit 8 to be ready for the first
term test.
- To help students do some exercises to consolidate their knowledge.
II. Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to gain the knowledge
and be ready for the test.
III. Ways of working: T-WC, individual work
IV. Materials: Text book, reference book.

V. Anticipated problems:
VI. Teaching steps:
1. Warm up: (1 minute) * Teacher greets and checks the students’ attendance.
2. New lesson:
STAGES T & SS’ ACTIVITES THE CONTENTS ON BOARD
FURTHER
PRACTICE
(43
- Teacher asks
students to do some
exercises.
I. Phonetics:
Ex1:Choose the words that has the underlined
part pronounced differently from the others
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minutes) Exercise 1:
- Teacher guides
students to do the
exercise and then
calls some students to
do it on board.
Exercise 2:
- Teacher explains
how to do the exercise
and help students do
it.
- Teacher reads the
tape script in normal

speech so that
students can complete
their task.
* Tape-script:
Peter is my pen pal.
He is fifteen years
old. He lives in a
house in London. He
is an excellent
student. He always
works hard at school
and gets good marks.
He loves learning
Vietnamese in his free
time. He often
practices writing letter
in Vietnamese.
Sometimes he helps
me to correct my
writing, and I help
him to correct his
spelling mistakes.
Next summer, he is
going to visit Ho Chi
Minh City with his
family. I’m expecting
to see him.
* Tapescript:
Hello! My name is
Ba. I’m 13 years old. I

have a sister, Lan. She
is 15, but she isn’t as
tall as I am. Every day
I go to school in the
morning, my sister
has classes in the
afternoon. Like my
sister, I love listening
1. A. tasty B. mall C. stadium D. change
2. A. grocery B. month C. comfort D. money
3. A. just B. summer C. much D. ruler
4. A. around B. delicious C. house D. ground
5. A. exhibition B. neighborhood C. hot
D. humid
1.B, 2.A, 3.D. 4.B, 5.A
Ex2: Choose the word whose main stress is
placed differently from the others:
1. A. delay B. believe C. create D. nature
2. A. offer B. urban C. away D. rural
3. A. migrant B. typhoon C. supply D. remote
4. A. tragedy B. plentiful C.relative D.unpleasant
5. A. informationB. entertainment C. overcrowding D.
permanently
II. Listening:
Ex1: Listen to the passage and give short answer
to the following questions
1. Who is Peter?
2. How old is he?
3. Where does he live?
4. What does he like doing in his free time?

5. What is he going to do next summer?
Ex 2: Listen to the passage about Ba and his
sister, and then put a tick in the appropriate box
for T (True) or F (False) (with answer key)
T F
1. Ba is younger than Lan.
2. Lan is shorter than her brother.
3. Both Ba and Lan go to school in the
morning.
4. They love listening to pop music and
reading novels.
5. They don’t like playing chess and going
swimming in summer.
6. Lan doesn’t like cooking, doing the
shopping on Sundays.
7. Ba likes watching war films on TV.
8. Lan also loves playing soccer in her free
time.
III. WRITING:
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to pop music and
reading novels in my
free time. We both
like playing chess and
going swimming in
summer. Unlike her, I
don’t like cooking,
doing the shopping on

Sundays. Instead, I
like watching films,
especially war films
on TV. I also love
playing soccer in my
spare time.
- Teacher guides
students to write the
passage:
Like + V-ing
begin+ V-ing
to infinitive
Last week => past
tense
Ex1: Write a passage using the following sets of
words and phrases. You can make all the
necessary changes and additions.
1. Lan / like / learn English
2. She / begin / learn / this language / 2003
3. She / always / want / improve her English
4. Last week / she / buy / English-Vietnamese
dictionary
5. She / often / use/ it/ for reading
Suggested writing:
1. Lan likes learning English.
2. She began learning (to learn) this language in
2003.
3. She always wants to improve her English.
4. Last week she bought an English - Vietnamese
dictionary.

5. She often uses it for reading.
3. Homework: (1 minute)
- Teacher asks students review at home and complete the writing if they haven’t
finished.
Planning date: 18 - 12- 2014
Period 53: REVISION FOR THE FIRST TERM
I. Aims:
- To help students review their knowledge from unit 1 to unit 8 to be ready for the
first term test.
- To help students do some exercises to consolidate their knowledge.
II. Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to gain the knowledge
and be ready for the test.
III. Ways of working: T-WC, individual work
IV. Materials: Text book, reference book.
V. Anticipated problems:
VI. Teaching steps:
1. Warm up: (1 minute) *Teacher greets and checks the students’ attendance.
2. New lesson:
STAGES ACTIVITIES THE CONTENT ON BOARD
FURTHER
PRACTICE
(42
minutes)
Teacher asks
students to do
some exercises.
- Teacher guides
students to do
exercise 1: In this
exercise, students

Ex1: Circle the best option A, B, C or D to complete
each of the following sentences
1. I often play soccer _______ Sunday afternoon.
A. in B. at C. on D. for
2. We should wait here _______ our teacher comes
back.
A. before B. until C. after D. during
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have to base on
grammar and
vocabulary to do
it.
* Answer key:
1.C, 2.B, 3.A, 4.B,
5.A, 6.D, 7.C, 8.A,
9.D, 10.B
11.C, 12.B, 13.C,
14.D, 15.D, 16.A,
17.B, 18.C, 19.D,
20.D
- Students read the
passage and
answer the
3. Mr. Brown is the same age ________ Mrs. Brown.
A. as B. like C. from D. with
4. The little boy is not _________ to lift the suitcase.
A. enough strong B. strong enough
C. too strong D. so strong

5. My father was good at swimming. He used to
______ swimming in summer.
A. go B. goes C. went D. going
6. Kate hates ______ to classical music.
A. listens B. listened C. listen D. listening
7. Hung is ______ student in my class.
A. good B. better C. the best D. a best
8. Ho Chi Minh City is larger and ______ beautiful
than Hanoi.
A. more B. as C. most D. the most
9. Mr. Smith likes _______ to music in his free time.
A. listens B. listened C. listen D. listening
10. They built this house _______1990.
A. from B. in C. at D. for
11. We must be there _____ 7.30 and 8.15.
A. at B. before C. between D. after
12. Dad stayed at the office _____ he finished the
report.
A. between B. until C. for
D. at
13. Vietnamese language is different _____ English
language.
A. as B. like C. from D. with
14. Tom is 16. He isn’t _____ to drive a car.
A. enough young B. young enough
C. enough old D. old enough
15. When my uncle was young, he used _____ fishing
on Sundays.
A. go B. went C. going D. to go
16. Mary likes _____ the piano.

A. playing B. plays C. played
D. play
17. She told me _____ you that present.
A. giving B. to give C. gave D. given
18. Last night I watched the movie “Romeo and
Juliet”. At last they killed ________.
A. himself B. herself C. themselves
D. ourselves
19. Jane is _____ beautiful than her sister.
A. as B. like C. the most D. more
20. London is _____ capital city in Europe.
A. large B. larger C. most large D. the largest
Ex2: Read the passage and answer the questions that
follow.
Hello! My name is David. I work for a construction
company. I started working for this company in 2004.
We build roads, dams, bridges and things like that. At
the moment my company is producing a plan for a new
motorway. I usually work in the road department, but
this month I am working in the department that builds
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questions.
- Teacher give
students the
meaning of some
words:
+ construction (n)
xây dựng

+ a dam: đê, đập
bridges. So my whole working day is different just
now. I normally spend a lot of time outdoors because I
have to go to the construction sites. But with this new
project I spend a lot of time in the workshop. Now I am
testing a model of one of the new bridges. I enjoy it a
lot because I have learned a lot of new things.
1. When did David begin working for his construction
company?
2. What is his company doing at the moment?
3. Where does he usually work?
4. Is he working in the road department this month?
5. Why does he normally spend a lot of time outdoors?
6. What is he testing now?
* Answer key:
1. He began working for his construction company in
2004.
2. It / His company is producing a plan for a new
motorway.
3. He usually works in the road department.
4. No, he isn’t. (He is working in the department that
builds bridges.)
5. Because he has to go to the construction sites.
6. He is testing a model of one of the new bridges.
Ex 3. Rewrite the following sentences. Keep the same
meaning.
1. We started living here in 1995.
We have ……………………………………………….
2. It’s unnecessary for us to drive so fast.
We don’t ……………………………………………

3. Trung is the most intelligent student in my class.
No one ………………………………………………
4. The coffee was too weak to keep us awake.
The coffee wasn’t ……………………………………
5. Huong last wrote to her parents two months ago.
Huong hasn’t ………………………………………
* Key:
1. We have lived here since 1995.
2. We don’t have / need to drive so fast.
3. No one in my class is as intelligent as Trung (is).
(more intelligent than)
4. The coffee wasn’t strong enough to keep us awake.
5. Huong hasn’t written to her parents for two months.
3. Homework: ( 2 minutes)
- Review for the first term test
Planning date:1 9 - 12- 2014
Period 54: REVISION FOR THE FIRST TERM
I. Aims:
- To help students review their knowledge from unit 1 to unit 8 to be ready for the
first term test.
- To help students do some exercises to consolidate their knowledge.
II. Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to gain the knowledge
and be ready for the test.
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III. Ways of working: T-WC, individual work
IV. Materials: Text book, reference book.
V. Anticipated problems:
VI. Teaching steps:

1. Warm up: (1 minute) *Teacher greets and checks the students’ attendance.
2. New lesson:
Exercise1: Write a postcard using the following sets of words and phrases. You can
make all necessary changes and additions.
Dear Mom and Dad,
1. I / have / wonderful / time / Ha Long Bay
2. weather / be / lovely / and/ beach and islands / look / beautiful
3. Yesterday / I / go shopping / Hon Gai Town
4. I / be / going / visit / Dau Go Cave / tomorrow
5. I / be / going / take / photographs / there
See you soon.
Love,
Linda
Dear Mom and Dad,
1. I am having a wonderful time in Ha Long Bay.
2. The weather is lovely and the beach and islands look beautiful.
3. Yesterday I went shopping in Hon Gai Town.
4. I am going to visit Dau Go Cave tomorrow.
5. I am going to take some photographs there.
See you soon.
Love,
Linda
Exercise 2: Complete the following passage by choosing the correct word in the
box to fill in each blank.
area foreign knows living major native
official
population speakers those
There are about 5,000 _________(1) languages in the world today, but only about six
of them are ________(2) languages of the world. Two thirds of the world’s population
speak ________(3) languages. More than 400 million people speak English as their

first or __________(4) language. Another 400 million speak it as a second language.
Nobody _______(5) exactly how many people speak it as a _______(6) language.
Chinese is the only language with more ________(7) than English. This is because of
the huge ________(8) of China, more than one billion people. English is the native or
__________(9) language on one fifth of the land ________(10) of the world. It is
spoken in North America, Great Britain, Australia, and New Zealand. In South Africa
and India it is one of the official languages.
*Answer key:
1. living
2. major
3. those
4. native
5. knows
6. foreign
7. speakers
8. population
9.
official
10. area
Exercise 3:Choose the words or phrases that are not correct in English.
1. He goes to HCM City five months ago.
A B C D
2. Mr. Ba’s house is big and more comfortable than Mr. Nam’s.
A B C D
3. Many of the world’s seas, rivers and lakes are becoming much and more polluted.
A B C D
4. Viet couldn’t answer all the questions because he didn’t have time enough.
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A B C D

5. Are you gone to have a meeting on Thursday or Friday?
A B C D
6. You ought improve your English before you leave for the USA.
A B C D

* Key:
1.A => went
2.A => is
bigger
3.C => more
4.D => enough
time
5. A => going
6.A => ought to
3. Homework: ( 2 minutes)
- Review for the first term test
Planning date: 19 - 12- 2014
Period 55. THE FIRST TERM TEST
I. Aims:
- To check students’ knowledge from unit 1 to unit 8.
- To appreciate students and draw out the students’ weak points and have suitable
solutions to help students learn English better in the next term.
II. Objectives: By the end of the test, students will be able to appreciate their
knowledge in the first term and find the suitable ways to learn English better.
III. Ways of working: Individual work
IV. Materials: papers
V. Anticipated problems: Ss may have difficulty in doing exercises III and V
VI. Matrix

Chủ đề Nhận biết Thông hiểu Vận dụng Tổng
KQ TL KQ TL KQ TL
I. Language
focus
18
5.5
18
5.5
II. Writing

4
2
4

2
III. Reading 5
2.5
5
2.5
Tổng 18 5 4 27
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5.5

2.5

2 10
VII. Test:

PHÒNG GD & ĐT THANH OAI
Trường: THCS Thanh Mai
Họ và tên: Số phách:
Lớp: 8……
ĐỀ KIỂM TRA HỌC KỲ I
Môn : TIẾNG ANH 8
Năm học: 2014- 2015 Số phách:
Thời gian làm bài: 45 phút (không kể thời gian giao đề)
(Đề kiểm tra này gồm 02 trang, học sinh làm bài trực tiếp vào đề)
I.Choose the word that has the underlined part pronounced differently from the
others.(1.5pt)
1.A. fire B. wisdom C. wife D. tiger
2.A. played B. listened C. wanted D. opened
3.A. face B. class C. grade D. late
4.A. transmit B. upset C. straight D. upstairs
5.A. cheap B. please C. speak D. area
6.A. match B. machine C. chore D. cheap
II. Circle the best option(A,B,C or D):(2pts)
1. Is your English…………… better?
A. get B. got C. getting D. geting
2. They like…………soccer and reading books.
A. play B. playing C. plays D. played
3. He is old enough to look after……………
A. hiself B. himself C. heself D. herself
4. The red bag is the same…………….the blue one.
A. to B.from C. as D. with
5.We always celebrate Vietnamese Teachers’Day…… November 20
th
every year.
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6. The doctor……………he should take a few days off.
A. say B. tell C. ask D. said
7. I like………….activities such as walking and camping.
A. outdoor B. indoor C. outside D. inside
8. Tomorrow we…………… Math and Physics.
A.are having B. had C. have D. to have
III. Write the second sentence so that it has similar meaning to the first:(2pts)
1. Miss jackson said, "You should improve your English pronunciation, Tim”
Miss jackson said
2. “Don’t forget to post the letter”,he said to me.
He told me
3. She isn’t strong. She can’t carry the table. (enough to+ V)
She isn’t
4. This bag is heavy but that one is light. ( different from)
This bag………………………………………………………………………….
Không viết
vào đây.

IV. Supply the correct form or tense of the verbs in brackets:(2pts)
1. He finished ( write)……………………….his letter at 8 o’clock last night.
2. She (have)………………………… lunch at 11.30 every day.
3. My father ( work)…………………………for this company since 1998.
4. He (not watch)………………………… TV last night.
V. Read the following passage and choose the item (a, b, c, or d) that best
answers each of the questions about it. (2.5pts)
In the home, you must keep matches, lighters and candles out of the reach of
children. You must have a smoke detector on each floor, and test them monthly.

In the kitchen, you must keep sharp knives, scissors, hot meals and drinks out of
reach of children. You must keep children out of the kitchen during cooking.
In the bathroom, you must check the bath water temperature before children get in,
and always run the cold water first before adding the hot.
In the bedroom, you must keep furniture away from the windows, to make sure
children do not climb up and fall out of open windows.
1. Which of the following could be the best title of the passage?
A. Safety Precautions for Children B. Safety Precautions in the Home
C. Safety Precautions for Older Persons D. A & B are correct
2. Matches, lighters and candles can _____ .
A. be suitable toys for children B. be dangerous C.cause a fire D. B & C
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3. It is _____ to put furniture near the windows.
A. safe B. suitable C. dangerous D. all are correct
4. Why do we have to keep furniture away from the windows?
A. Because children can climb up and fall out of open windows.
B. Because it is dangerous for children.
C. Because children do not climb up and fall out of open windows.
D. A & B are correct
5. Which of the following is not true?
A. Sharp knives, scissors, hot meals and drinks can be dangerous for children.
B. It’s not important to have a smoke detector on each floor.
C. You must check the bath water temperature before children get in.
D. Children must not play with matches, lighters and candles.

- The end-
ĐÁP + BIỂU ĐIỂM
ĐỀ THI HỌC KỲ I ANH 8

NĂM HỌC: 2014-2015
I.(1.5pts)
1B 2C 3B 4A 5D 6B

II. (2pts)
1C 2B 3B 4C
5A 6D 7A 8C
III. (2pts)
1. Miss Jackson said Tim should improve his English pronunciation.
2. He told me not to forget to post the letter.
3. She isn’t strong enough to carry the table.
4. This bag is different from that one.
IV. (2pts)
1. writing 2.has
3. has worked 4. didn’t watch
V. ( 2.5pts)

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1D 2D 3C 4D 5B
- The end-

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