GIÁO ÁN TIẾNG ANH 8 UNIT 4

Week: 7
Class:

Date of preparation: Sep 28th,2015
8A1,2,3

Unit 4:
Period 21:

OUR PAST
< Getting started + Listen and Read>

I/ AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
* Language content :
- To introduce a dialogue of Nga and her Grandma about things people do in the
past
*Language function :
- To enable the students to practice listening to a dialogue, then express their
feelings and distinguish between the facts and opinions
* Educational aim :
- To help the sts know how to maintain good traditions and respect their
grandparents.
1. Language:
+ Vocabulary :
+ light, folktale, tradition
+ Structures:
+ Used to
+ Simple past
2. Skills: Integrated skills:
3. Education factor: To help the sts know the past events
II.TEACHER AND STUDENTS’PREPARATION:

1. Method: Communicative Approach :
2. Techniques: Explanation , substitution , pairs work
3. Materials needed: text book , chalk , board
4. Students’ preparation:

Read “Listen and Read” at home

5. Previous exercises:
Do exercise 6 page 20
III/ PROCEDURE IN CLASS:
1.Stabilization ( 2ms):
a. Warm up: Greets the students
b. Checking absence: Asks the monitor about the absence
2.Checking up previous knowledge ( 5ms)
- Asks 1 st to go to the board and give the past form of the verbs
Be,buy,build,invent,bring,write
And give one example.
- Corrects, gives remarks & marks.
3/ New lesson

Teaching Plan English 8

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Steps &
Time
I.Presentation
of the new
material

(5ms)

Teacher’s activities

1/ Lead in:
Asks the sts to look at the
picture . Write the names of
the things that do not belong
to the past.

- Gives feedback
- Asks the students to talk
something about their
grandparents:

(8ms)

- Uses the picture to
introduce the new lesson:
“Now, let’s read the story
that Nga’s grandmother tell
her to know more about our
past or about Vietnamese
children 100 years ago”.
2/ Pre-practice:
a - Teaches some new
words :
1. light –lit (v)
2. equipment (n)
3. folk tale = traditional

stories
b- Teaches structure :
S + used to + Vinf
S + didn’t use to +Vinfi
c- T/F Prediction:

Teaching Plan English 8

Students’ activities

- Play the game

The lesson content

UNIT: 4 OUR PAST

Period 21: Getting
started & Listen and
read.
I. Getting Started
Look at the picture .
- Listen and answer
1. Do you live with your Write the names of
the things that do not
grandparents?
2. Do they tell you their belong to the past .
- The TV
life in the past?
- The Stereo
3. Do you love your

- The mobile phone
grandparents?
- The lighting Fixture
- Modern clothing
school uniform
- Computer games
- motorbike
- Movie
- High buildings
II . New words:
1. light –lit (v)
2. equipment (n)
3. folk tale =
traditional stories
-Listen, reapeat and
write.

-Have a guess
1. Nga’s grandma used
to live in a house on the
street
2. She had to look after
her younger brothers
and sisters, so she
didn’t go to school.
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Steps &
Time

(10ms)

Teacher’s activities

3/ Controlled-practice:
- Turns the tape
- Asks them to practice
reading the dialogue to
check their T/F statements

- Has them play a game
“Lucky numbers” to answer
the questions
- Introduces the definitions
of Fact or opinion:
Ex:
+ I learn English.
(F)
+ English is difficult. (O)
- Asks them to discuss in
groups to choose F or O and
give the explanations

(7ms)

IIConsolidation
(4ms)

4.Free-practice:

- Have them discuss in 4
groups to give the
differences of life 100 years
ago and now
- Asks them to tell things
young children had to do in
the past
- Retell the definition of F
and O
Fact :
sự thật
Opinion : ý kiến cá nhân

Teaching Plan English 8

Students’ activities

The lesson content

3. The great-grandma
did hard work on the
farm with the help of
modern equipments.
4. Children in the past
knew many folk tale by
reading books.
III.Practice :
-Listen to the tape
- Asks answer :
a/ She used to live on

-Give the answers
a Farm
1.F
b/ Because she had to
2.T
stay home and help
3.T
her Mom.
4.F
( she used to look
after her
- Play a game “Lucky
younger brothers and
numbers”
sisters)
c/ She used to cook
- Listen
the meals , clean the
house and wash the
clothes.
d/ Their great –
grand mother used to
list the lamp and her
great – grandfather
used to tell them
stories .
- Give the answers
e/ She asked her
a. F
grandmother to tell

b. F
her the tale “the lost
c. F
shoe”
d. F
2.a) Fact b) Fact
e. O
c) Fact d) Fact
f. O
e) Opinion
- Discuss in 4 groups to
f) Opinion
give the differences of
life 100 years ago and
now
- Retell

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Steps &
Time
III.Homework
(4ms)

Teacher’s activities

Students’ activities

- Asks sts to learn the new

words
- Asks the sts to write a
short text for the differences
of children life many years
- Listen and take notes
ago &now
Ex:The children didn’t go to
school many years ago
-Prepare the next part:
Speak ( the differences
between the past and nowmake 5 sentences using
“used to” totalk about things
in the past)

The lesson content

* Homework
- learn the new
words
- write a short text
for the differences of
children life many
years ago &now
Ex:The children
didn’t go to school
many years ago
-Prepare the next
part: Speak ( the
differences between
the past and nowmake 5 sentences

using “used to” totalk
about things in the
past)

 Self- evaluation:
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Teaching Plan English 8

School year: 2015-2016


Week: 8
Class: 8A1,2,3

Date of preparation: Oct 2nd, 2015

Unit 4:
OUR PAST
Period 22:
< Speak - Listen>
I/ AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
* Language content :
- To help the students to use “ Used to “ to talk about habits
- To enable the sts to listen to a folktale and draw out a moral lesson
* Language function :

-To enable the students to talk about the way things used to be and the things
they are now
- To develop the sts’s skill of listening for the general ideas and choosing best tittle.
* Educational aim :
-To educate the sts to pay attention to their friends and to have good behavior in
communication.
1. Language:
a. Vocabulary:
Listening: foolish,greedy, gold,lay-laid
b. Structures: Used to + Vinf
2. Skills: Speaking, Listening, Reading, Writing
3. Education factor:
II. TEACHER AND STUDENTS’PREPARATION:
1. Method: Communicative Approach :
2. Techniques: : Brainstorming, Role- play, Picture- Drill , pairwork and groupwork.
3. Materials needed: text book , picture
4. Students’ preparation: Things in 2 pictures
5. Previous exercises: Practice the dialogue & Answer the questions
III. PROCEDURE IN CLASS:
1. Stabilization: (2ms) Makes a short talk to the sts about the health and the weather
2. Checking up previous knowledges: Time needed : (5ms)
-Calls two students to go to the board to play roles to read the dialogue
- Asks them some questions to related to the dialogue
1. Where did Nga’s granma use to live?
2. What did Nga’s great granma use to do?
- Corrects,gives the remarks &marks
-Read the dialogue
- Answer the questions
1. She used lived on afarm
2. She used to cook the meals, clean the house and wash the clothes

3/ New lesson
Teaching Plan English 8

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Steps &
Time
I.Presentation
of the new
material
(3ms)

(5ms)

Teacher’s activities
A> SPEAK
1. Lead- in
- Divides the class into 2 groups
to play “ Kim’s Game”
- In turns shows pictures. Each
group will go to the board & list
the things in the picture
- Introduces the aim of the
point:Talk about the way the
things used to be and thethings
they are now
2. Pre- Speaking
Modal sentences:
Eg 1 He used to be thin. Now he

is fat
Eg2 I used to have long hair
when I was young
Ex: Children didn’t use to go to
school.
- Has them to draw out the form

*Form:
+ S + used to + infinitive
- S + didn’t use to + inf.
? did + S + use to + inf?
* Usage : used to express
a past habit, or an action
usually happened in the
past

(6ms)

- Has the m to draw out the
usage
- Gives feedback
- Does the modal and write on
the board
People used to live in small
houses. Now people live in the
big houses
2/ While - speaking
-Gathers the students in 4
groups to discuss the differences
of the two pictures, then fill in

the blanks:

Teaching Plan English 8

Students’ activities

In the
past
Cottage/
small
houses

At the
pre-sent
High
buiding

The lesson content
Unit 4: OUR PAST
Period 22: Speak +
Listen

-Listen to the
introduction

- Look at the example
to draw out the form

A . SPEAK
I. Speak

* New words:
+ work in the paddy
field.
+ traffic lights.
+ stack of straw
* Structure:
S + used to + Vinf
S + didn’t use to
+Vinfi
*Talk about the way
things used to be and
the way they are now .
+ Picture 1
Small house / people
work on paddy fields.
Children play at home.
Stack of straw
* Picture 2
Big house and
buildings .
Car
Shop
TV
Traffic lights
* People used to live
in small house . Now
they live in big houses
/ buildings.
- People used to walk
to travel

Now they can go by

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Steps &
Time

Teacher’s activities

Students’ activities

- Fill in the blanks

(2ms)

(3ms)

Things
Past Present
Houses
Means of
transport
Entertainm
ent
Equipment
Work
Market
Children
- Has them discuss in pairs to

talk about the differences of the
past from now using “used to”
- Corrects mistakes
4/ Post speaking
-Asks the sts to write 5
sentences using used to as
quickly as possible
B> LISTEN
1/ Lead –in
-Asks the sts to tell some
folktales they know
- : ” Let’s listen to the story to
choose the most suitable moral
lesson”
2/ Pre-Listening:
*Teaches some new words
1. lay-laid
(v)
2. foolish
(adj)

Teaching Plan English 8

The lesson content
car or motorbike.
- There didn’t use to
be electricity in the
home . Now there is
electricity everywhere
.

- Work in pairs to look
at the table to speak out

- Write 5 sentences
using used to as quickly
as possible

- Repeat and guess the
meanings

- Remember and write
the words down

B. LISTEN
* New words:
+ foolish (adj)
+greedy(adj)
+ gold(n)
+ lay-laid-laid (v)
+ amazement(n)
+ moral
* Answer:
b) Don’t be foolish
and greedy.

- information such as:
chicken,laid eegs,gold,

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Steps &
Time
(5ms)

(4ms)

Teacher’s activities

Students’ activities

3 .greedy
(adj)
4. gold
5. amazement
6. moral
- Checks understanding of the
new words “Rub out &
Remember”
* the 4 moral lessons and guess
ideas related to the folktale
3/ While-listening:
-Asks the students to listen to
the tape to do multiple choices:
1. The farmer lived a………….life
with his family.
A . poor B .rich
C . comfortable
2. His chicken laid…………eggs for

him to sell everyday.
A. some B. little C. many
3. One day he discovered one of
his chicken laid ………….
A. an egg B .a gold egg
C. many gold eggs
4. But the farmer’s wife ………
A. wanted more gold eggs
B. didn’t want any more
C. was so sad
5. The farmer decided…………
A. to cook all the chickens
B. to cut all the chickens
C. to cut open all the chickens
6. The farmer and his wife
are…..
A. foolish and greedy
B. intelligent
C. happy
-Asks them to choose the
suitable moral lesson: “Don’t
be foolish and greedy”
4/ Post-listening:
-Asks the sts to retell the story
by using statements above
- Asks he sts to tell the folktale
again by T/F statements
a. A farmer lived a comfortable
life will his family.

foolish, greedy
- Listen to the tape and
do

Teaching Plan English 8

The lesson content

1.C

2.C
C. HOMEWORK
+ write 5
sentencesusing used to
to talk about past habit
+ Write 5 sentences to
talk about the way
things used to be &
things are now
+ Prepare Read ( The
folktale The lost shoe

3.B

4.A

5.C

6.A

- Choose the suitable
moral lesson

- Work in groups to tell
ideas about the story
-Summarize the
folktale

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Steps &
Time
(2ms)

II.Consolidation
(4ms)

III.Homework
(4ms)

Teacher’s activities

Students’ activities

The lesson content

b. One day, one of his chickens
laid a gold egg
c. His five wanted more

d. She at open the chicken to find
more gold eggs.
e. There weren’t any gold egg
while the chickens were dead
- Highlights the main points of
the lesson
+ Used to to talk about about
past habit
+ the folktale
-Asks them to:
+ write 5 sentences using used
to to talk about past habit
+ Write 5 sentences to talk
about the way things used to be
& things are now
+ Prepare Read ( The folktale
The lost shoe )
New words
Guess the characters

+ write 5 sentences
using used to to talk
about past habit
+ Write 5 sentences to
talk about the way
things used to be &
things are now
+ Prepare Read ( The
folktale The lost shoe

 Self- evaluation

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Teaching Plan English 8

School year: 2015-2016


Week: 8
Class:

Date of preparation: Oct 5th, 2015
8A1,2,3
OUR PAST
<Read>

Unit 4:
Period 23:

I/ AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
* Language content:
- To provide the sts with the words relating to the folktale “ The lost shoe - To help the sts to
read a short folktale “The lost shoes” about an honest, poor life of Little Pea who is the same as
the character “Cam”
*Language function:

-To develop the sts’s reading skill for scanning
* Educational aim :
- To make the sts love reading folktales and learn the moral lesson from the folktale “ the lost
shoe”
-To educate the students to become good citizens.
1. Language
+ Vocabulary: cruel, upset,fairy,magically, rag
+ Structures: Past simple( revision if neccessary)
2. Skills: Integrated skills : Gap – filling, answer questions (speaking)
3. Education factor: They will be sure that who lives friendly and works hard will have a good
life, or happy ending.
II. TEACHER AND STUDENTS’PREPARATION:
1. Method: Communicative Approach :
2. Techniques: Explanation, pairwork, open prediction, gap-filling.
3. Materials needed: text books, pictures, chalk, etc
4. Students’ preparation:Pictures, new lesson.
5. Previous exercises:
III. PROCEDURE IN CLASS:
1. Stabilization: (2ms)

a. Warm – up : Greeting
b. Checking absence: Who’s absent today?

2. Checking up previous knowledges: Time needed : (5ms)
* Questions:
- Asks the Ss to changethe verbs into simple past:
1. go

2. is/are

3. discover

4. shout

5. finish

6. look

*Keys to questions:
3. New lesson
Steps &
Teacher’s activities
Time
I.Presentation
1/ Lead in:
of the new material - Lets the sts play “Guessing
5ms
game”
+ Guess the word: consists of 8

Teaching Plan English 8

Students’ activities

-Listen to the
instructions: divides the
class in to 2 teams to

The lesson content
Unit 4: OUR

PAST
Period 23 - Read

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letters; about a kind of story

guess the letters of the
word. The team reading
out the correct word
will win the game

+ Answer: folktale
- Brainstorming

- Tell some folktakes:

Tấm cám
OneThe Frog
hundred
prince
-section
bamboo
The folktales
Seven-mile
Shoes.
Snow white
and Seven Dwarfs
- Asks the students some

questions to lead them to the
text
What can you guess from the
tittle”the lost shoe”?

10ms

10ms

- Introduces the reading:
“Let’s read the folktale the lost
shoe to understand what
happened in the story”
2 .Pre-Reading:
a. Guess words appear in the
story
- Writes some on the board and
have the sts to check later
b. Key words
+ cruel (adj) (example)
Eg: Cam’s mother was very
cruel. She tried to kill Tam
+ upset (adj) (antonym)#
unhappy
+ fairy (n) (Picture)
+ magically(adj) (synonym) =
wonderfully
+ rag (n) (Picture)
- Checks the sts’ understanding
: What & Where

3.While- Reading
a/ Check the words they
guessed
b/ Hangs the exercise 1
- Asks them to read the text
silently and complete the
sentences

Teaching Plan English 8

- Answer the questions
as much as posible
- Guess the content of
the reading. For
example,a beautiful girl
lost the shoe
-Listen to the
introduction

- Guess some words
relating to the tittle
+ die,marry,…..
- Repeat and guess
meanings
+ độc ác

+ buồn rầu
+ tiên, bụt
+ kỳ diệu
+ quần áo rách

- What and Where

- Check the words

I/. New words
+cruel(adj)
+ upset(adj)
+ fairy (n
+ magical (adj)magically(adv)
+ to fall in love with

II Reading:
1) a. farmer
b. died
c. used
d. marry
e. new clothes
f. lost
2) Answer 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 magically
changed her rags into
beautiful clothes.
d) The shoe fitted little
pea.

e) This is not a true
story because there is
a fairy.

- Answer

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- Gives feedback

c/ Answer the questions
- Asks the sts to work in pairs
to ask and answer
- Gives feedback

4.Post –Reading
- Asks the st to name the
characters in the story
5ms
- Asks the sts to work in groups
of 4 to dicuss the questions:
1. Which characters do you
love? Why?
2. Which characters do you
hate? Why?
-Calls the representatives to
present out
-Helps the sts express their
ideas

- Educates the sts: Be good to
everyone. They will love you.

II.Consolidation
(4ms)

- Asks the sts to remember the
content of the story and say
True/ False
1. Little Pea’s mother died
when she was
Young
2. Her father married again
3.The new wife was very cruel
4. Stout Nut’s mother made new
clothes for Little Pea
5. In the end of the story, the
prince married Stout Nut
- Sumarizes the story:
Little Pea’s father was a poor

Teaching Plan English 8

a. farmer
b.died
c. used/had- again
d. choose/ marry
e. new clothes
f. lost
- Asks and answer

a .She was a poor
farmer’s daughter.
b. She made Little Pea
do the chores.
c. Before the festival
started,
a
fairy
appeared and magically
changed her rags into
beautiful clothes.
d. The shoe fitted Little
pea.
e.This is not a true story
because there is a fairy.
- Charaters:
+ Prince, fairy, Little
Pea’ father, Stout Nut’s
mother, Little Pea,
Stout Nut
- Discuss in groups to
give reasons why they
love the characters

- Present out

Little Pea’s father
was a poor farmer.
Unfortunately, her
mather died when

she was very young
and her father
married again. The
new wife was very
cruel to her and
made her work all
day – One day, the
prince wanted to
choose a wife from
her village. Her
new mother didn’t
make new clothes
for her but the fairy
did. She came to
the festival and lost
a shoe. The prince
found her shoe and
decided to marry
her.
* Remember the
content:

- Talk about moral
lessons the learn from
the lesson
- 4 sts to go to the
board listening to the
T’s reading and decide
which sentences are T/
F

1.T

2.T
3.T
4.F

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III.Homework
(4ms)

farmer Unfortunately, her
mather died when she was very
young and her father married
again…
- Asks the sts to:
+ learn new words by heart
+ tell the story again in
details. You can look at the
statements in the gap filling
exercise and add more details.
E.x: Little Pea’s father was a
poor farmer. Unfortunately, her
mather died when she was very
young …
+ do exercise 6 on page 30 in
the wookbook.
+ prepare Write ( read the
story Tri Khon Cua Ta Dayrevise the irregular verbs)

5. F

III. Homework

+ learn new words by
heart
+ write about the
characters you love
(about 30 words)
+ prepare Write
( read the story Tri
Khon Cua Ta Dayrevise the irregular
verbs

+ learn new words by
heart
+ tell the story again
in details. You can
look at the statements
in the gap filling
exercise and add more
details.
E.x: Little Pea’s father
was a poor farmer…
+ do exercise 6 on
page 30 in the
wookbook.
+ prepare Write
( read the story Tri

Khon Cua Ta Dayrevise the irregular
verbs)

 Self- evaluation
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Teaching Plan English 8

School year: 2015-2016


Date of preparation: Oct 5th, 2015

Week: 8
Class:

8A1,2,3

OUR PAST

Unit 4:
Period 24:

< Write>

I/ AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

*Language content:
- To introduce some new words relating to the story “How the tiger got stripes”
- To introduce a folktale “how the tiger got his stripes”, then using the simple past to
write a story with guided details* Language function: To enable Ss to write a story.
* Educational aim: To help them widen language and teach them a moral
lesson.
1. Language:
a. Vocabulary : Buffalo, graze, servant, master, wisdom, straw, stripe, tie, escape.
b. Structures

: Past simple tense

2. Skills: Integrated skills : Writing
3. Education factor: To know more about Vietnamese story and get a moral
lesson.
II. TEACHER AND STUDENTS’PREPARATION:
1. Method: Communicative Approach :
2. Techniques: Explanation, substitution, using reading, tranformation.
3. Materials needed: Text books, read the passage at home
4. Students’ preparation: Pictures, new lesson.
5. Previous exercises: The teacher’s keys to the last exercises.
III. PROCEDURE IN CLASS:
1. Stabilization: (2ms)

a. Warm – up: Greeting
b. Checking absence: Who’s absent today?

2. Checking up previous knowledges:

Time needed : (5ms)

* Questions:
- Asks the Ss to write some new words :độc ác, kết hôn,hoàng tử, tiên
- Asks them to answer:Who was Little pea? What did Stout Nut’s mother make her
do all day?
* Keys to questions: Write the words in English
She was a poor farmer’s daughter / She had to do chores all day?
Teaching Plan English 8

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3. New lesson
Steps &
Time
I.Presentation
of the new
material
5ms

8ms

Teacher’s activities

1. Lead in
- Asks the Ss some
questions:
+Can you tell me the
story? (may be in
Vietnamese)

+Which story do you
like best?
+ Have you ever read
the story “ how the
tiger got his stripes”.
+Do you know why
tigers have black
stripes?
- Introduces: In this
lesson, we will learn
more about this story.
2.Pre-writing
-Explains some words :
+ buffalo (n) ( picture)
+ graze (v) ( picture)
+ servant (n) (expl)
+ master (n) (expl)
+ wisdom (n) (expl)
+ tie (v) / straw (n)
(mine+piture)
+ black stripes (n)
(picture).
+ escape (v)
(translation)
- Asks the Ss to read
the new words.
- Checks
understanding of the
new words by using
the technique: “ slap

the board”.
-Guides the sts to do
the exercise:“First you
read the story and

Teaching Plan English 8

Students’ activities

The lesson content

Unit 4: OUR PAST
- Listen and answer

Period 24: Write

- Listen to the
introduction

- Repeat the words

- Read the new words.
- Play the game with the
teacher’s guiding.

- Fill the verbs in the
blanks.

I. New words:
+ buffalo (n)trâu

+ graze (v)gặm cỏ
+servant (n)đầy tớ
+ master (n)ông chủ
+ wisdom (n)trí khôn
+ tie (v)trói
+straw (n) rơm
+ black stripes (n)vằn
+ escape (v)trốn thoát

II Write:
1) Complete the story:
a) appeared / came
b) was
c) said
d) left
e) went
f) tied
g) lit
h) burned
i) escaped

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Steps &
Time

10ms

7ms

Teacher’s activities

complete it by filling
the verbs in the correct
blank”
-Asks them to work in
pairs, and gives
answers
- Gives keys
3.While-writing
-“Now imagine you
are the farmer. Use the
words to write the
story. Start like this
“One day as I was in
field and ….”
- Asks them to work in
pairs to write
- After writing, asks
them to compare
results with their
partners.
- Asks some sts read
aloud
- Corrects articulation
and intonation.
- Gives suggestion
4..Post-writing
* Tell the story:

- Divides the class into
2 teams. Team A plays
the role of the tiger.
Team B plays the role
of the farmer
- Has the sts to work in
teams, telling the
story.
- Asks a volunteer
from each team to tell
the story in front of the
class.

- Gives remarks
Teaching Plan English 8

Students’ activities

- Pairs work and
give answers
- Listen and correct.
- Listen

- Pair work
- Compare with others

- Some sts read aloud
- Listen

The lesson content

2) Write a story.
One day as I was in the
field and my buffalo
grazed nearly, a tiger
appeared. The tiger
asked why the story
buffalo was my servant
and 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 it at home.
Then I tied the tiger to a
tree with a rope because
I didn’t want it to eat my
buffalo. I want to get
some straw and I burned
the tiger. The tiger
escaped but today it
swill have black stripes
from the burns.

- Play role

- Perform:
* Team tiger changes:
The tiger -> I
* Team buffalo changes:

the buffalo -> I.
+The farmer
I
The small man / he
+his
my
+him
me
- Give comments.
- Retell the story
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Steps &
Time
II.Consolidation
(4ms)

III.Homework
(4ms)

Teacher’s activities

- Reminds the content
of the story
- Confirms how to
write a story
+ Use the past simple
tense to write
+ Write logically

acording to time order
- Asks the sts to :
+ Learn the new words
and irregular verbs
+ Read the story again
and answer the
questions:
+ write the exercise 2
in the notebook
+ do the exercice 5 in
the workbook
+ prepare language
focus (past simple,
preposition of time,
used to)

Students’ activities

- Take notes.
1. Where was the man?
2. What was the buffalo
doing when the tiger
appeared?
3. What did he do before
going home? Why?
4. What did the tiger
want to know?
5. What did he do when
he returned?
6. Why does the tiger

have black stripes

The lesson content

III. Homework
+ Learn the new words
+ Read the story again
and answer the
questions:
1. Where was the man?
2. What was the buffalo
doing when the tiger
appeared?
3. What did he do before
going home? Why?
4. What did the tiger
want to know?
5. What did he do when
he returned?
6. Why does the tiger
have black stripes
+ write the exercise 2 in
the notebook
+ do the exercice 5 in
the workbook
+ prepare language
focus (past simple,
preposition of time,
used to)

 Self- evaluation

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Teaching Plan English 8

School year: 2015-2016


Week: 9
Class: 8A1,2,3

Unit 4:
Period 25:

Date of preparation: Oct 9th, 2015

OUR PAST
< Language Focus>

I/ AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
*Language function:
- To enable the students to review & practice further the past simple tense, the
prepositions of time and the structure “Used to”s
* Language function :

- At the end of the lesson, the sts are able to talk about things happening in the past, use
preposition of time and talk about past habits
* Educational Aim:
- To help the sts recognize the importance of revising the grammatically
1. Language
+ Vocabulary: Revision
+ Structures: The Past simple , Preposition of time,used to
2. Skills: Integrated skills
3. Education factor: Knowing the tidiness and the safety precautions in the house.
II. TEACHER AND STUDENTS’PREPARATION:
1. Method: Communicative Approach :
2. Techniques: . Question-Answer, Dialogue Creation, Explanation, Group
work
3. Materials needed: Text book chalks , board
4. Students’ preparation: review: the past simple, preposition of time, used to
5. Previous exercises: Do the exercise2 in the textbook again
II. PROCEDURE IN CLASS:
1. Stabilization: (2ms) Asks some questions relating to personal information
2. Checking up previous knowledges: Time needed : (5ms)
- Ask a student to write these sentences :
a. buffalo/ graze/ tiger/ come
b. I/ tell /tiger/ I /have /wisdom
c. Last night/ she/ come home/ 10:30
* Keys to questions:
a. The buffalo was grazing , a tiger came.
b. I told to the tiger I had something called wisdom.
c.Last night she came home at 10:30

Teaching Plan English 8

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work, Pair


3. New lesson
Steps &
Teacher’s activities
Time
I.Presentation
A. THE PAST SIMPLE
of the new material 1/ Lead in:
10ms
-Sets up the context by
asking some questions
+ What did you do last
night?
-Write the answers on the
board and ask the sts what
tense is used
- Introduces the past simple
tensed
2/ Pre-practice:
-Teaches the usage and
structure
* Simple past:

Form:
S+ V(past tense form)
Usage: Used to talk

about past events
Ex: Lan rode her bike
schoolthe
last
- to
Revises
stsyear.
irregular

10ms

verbs
3. Controlled - Practice
-Complete the dialogue in
the dialogue
- Calls ome pairs to
practice before class.
- Corrects and gives the
answer key
B.PREPOSITIONS OF
TIME:
1/ Lead in:
- Brainstorming

Students’ activities

- Answer the questions
I ….
-Raise hands to answer

-Listen to the
introduction
- Look at the examples
and draw out the form
and usuage

- Look at the exercise 1
to write the past form of
the verbs

- Work in pairs to
complete and practise
speaking

- Go to the board to
write down the
prepositions of time

Preposition
of time
In

November
1997
OnPre- practice
Monday,
2.
july 2nd
At
6p.m

Between 7a.m and 8
a.m
Teaching Plan English 8
After/
3p.m
before

-Look at the table on the
board and fill in the
preposions

The lesson content
Unit 4: OUR PAST
Period 25: Language
Focus

1) Past simple:
Form:
S+ V(past tense form)
Usage: Used to talk
about past events
Ex: Lan rode her bike
to school last year.
1. Write the past
simple form of each
verb
b.fly-> flew
c.take->
took
d .go->went

e.have->
had
f. do-> did
g. be->was
h. ride->
rode
i. eat->ate
j. sit-> sat
k.come->
came

2) Prepositions of
time:
in + year
in + month
on + date
on + date, month,
year.
on + day
at + time
between …… and ……
after + time
before + time

November

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Steps &

Time

Teacher’s activities

Students’ activities

The lesson content

1997
Monday, july
2nd
6p.m
7a.m and 8
a.m
3p.m

3/ Controlled - Practice:
-Asks the students to
practice doing the exercise
in pairs
- Gives feedback
4/ Free-practice:
- Asks the sts to give
examples
C.USED TO
1/ Lead in:
- Shows the picture in the
textbook and asks:
10ms

What did she use to have?
- Introduces “You use “used
to “ to talk about past habits.
Let’s review the structure
and usage of “used to“ and
the simple past”
2/ Pre-practice:
- Revises the usage and
structure

Teaching Plan English 8

-Read the sentences and
find out a suitable
preposition to complete

- Answer the questions
with used to

3) Used to :
S + used to + V_inf
S + didn’t use to +
V_inf
* Usage: used to
express a past habit, or
an action usually
happened in the past.
* New words:
+ Subject (n)
+ photo (n)

* Exercises:
* Exercise 1.
a) run – ran
b) fly – flew
c) take – took
d) go – went
e) have – had
……

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Steps &
Time

Teacher’s activities

Students’ activities

The lesson content

* Used to:
-When you talk about past
habits, you use the
structure:

* Exercise 2:
a) Lan: Did you eat
rice for lunch.
b) Nam: I rode a

+S +used to + V (bare
bicycle to school.
infinitive)
c)Minh: Where were
you yesterday
-S + didn’t use to + V
-Lookat
the
examples
everning?
(bare infinitive)
and
tell
the
form
and
d) Ba: I have math.
? Did S use to V?
usuage
* Exercise 3:
Ex: My uncle sold his car last
a) on,
b) in,
c)
week.
-When you talk about
between, d) at /
 My uncle used to drive a
past habits, you use the
after.e) before.

car.
structure:
* Exercise 4.
3. Controlled- Practice
(+) S +USED TO + V
1) used to have.
- Has the sts to do the exercise
(bare infinitive)
2) used to be.
in the book in pairs
(-) S + DIDN’T USE
3) used to live
4. Free- Practice
TO + V (bare infinitive) * Homework
-Asks the students to complete
-do the language focus
these sentences:
- Complete the dialogue 1,2,3,4 again
and practise reading out - translate:
-Revises the grammar points
1.Minh/ use /live/ far/
on sub- board:
+ Toâi thường khóc
when/ he/ small boy.
+ Simple past
nhòe khi tôi còn nhỏ
+ Used to.
+ Chị tôi sinh vào
2.She/ have to/
ngày

7 tháng 3 năm
+ Preposition of time
housework/ all day/
-Asks the sts to do the
after/ father/ get married/ 1980
language focus 1,2,3,4 again in new wife.
- prepare for the new
the notebook
- Revise the main points of lesson: Unit 5 <
- Asks the sts to translate
the lesson
Getting started and
+ Toâi thường khóc nhòe khi tôi -Do the language focus
Listen and Read- New
còn nhỏ
1,2,3,4 again
words and the
+ Chị tôi sinh vào ngày 7 tháng -Translate:
situation of the
3 năm 1980s
+ Toâi thường khóc nhòe khi
dialogue>
- Asks the sts to prepare for
tôi còn nhỏ

II.Consolidation

the new lesson: Unit 5 <
Getting started and Listen and
Read- New words and the

situation of the dialogue>

+ Chị tôi sinh vào ngày 7
tháng 3 năm 1980s
- Prepare as directed

(4ms)

III.Homework
(4ms)
 Self- evaluation:

Teaching Plan English 8

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Teaching Plan English 8

School year: 2015-2016