TIẾNG NAH 8 UNIT 15 GETTING STARTED LISTEN

Bui Thanh Thuy Duong

English 8
Date: April 21st, 2015

PERIOD 95

UNIT 15: COMPUTERS
LESSON 1 – GETTING STARTED, LISTEN AND READ.
A. Aim: By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to express their opinions about a
problem.
B. Methods: Communicative approach
C. Teaching aids: Teacher: textbook, poster, pictures
Students: textbook, notebook, pens, rulers.
D. Procedure:
New lesson:
Teacher’s and students’ activities
Content
I.
WARM-UP
- Ask Ss to say out the functions of Brainstorming
Computers can help us:
the computers.
- save time
- Write on the board
- listen to music
- learn interestingly
- play games
- keeping information
- getting information
II. PRE-READING

1. Vocabulary:

- a printer (picture): máy in
- a manual (realia): sách hướng dẫn
- (to) connect (hand gesture): kết nối
- under guarantee (situation): bảo hành
- (to) unplug (mime): tháo nút ra
Checking technique: Bingo.
2. True / false prediction:
- Set the scene: “Nam and his father,
1. The printer isn’t working
Mr. Nhat are talking about the
2. Nam has already turned the printer on
problem of the computer they’ve
3. Nam knows how to connect a printer
just bought. What happens to the
but he hasn’t connected it correctly
computer?”
4. The manual helps them to find out the
- Have Ss guess which statements
problem of the printer
are true and which are false.
5. Mr. Nhat bought the printer in HCM
- Present new words and then guide
Ss to read them in chorus
- Check vocabulary by technique
“Bingo”
- Get Ss to copy.

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city and it’s still under guarantee.
6. Mr. Nhat thinks the company
wouldn’t do anything with his printer
because it’s too far from his place.

WHILE-READING
1. True-False checking
- Ask Ss to read the dialogue on
Answer key:
1. True
page 138 and check their guessing.
2. True
- Ss write down the correct answers.
3. False - Nam knows how to connect a
printer and he has connected it
properly.
4. False - Mr. Nhat thinks it isn’t very
helpful.
5. True
- Set the scene: “Now you will hear
6. Mr. Nhat thinks the company should
a conversation between Mr.Nhat and
do something with it.
Nam. You listen to it for the first

2.
Practice the
time and tell me who says what.”
dialogue
- Ss listen and then practice in pairs. 3.
Reading
- Explain the words: “ Fact and
comprehension:
Opinion”
+ Fact: a thing that is known to
Answer key:
be true, especially when it can be
a) Fact
proved
+ Opinion: Your feelings or
b) Opinion
thoughts about someone of
c) Opinion
something, rather than a fact.
- Get Ss to read the statements and
d) Fact
check the suitable boxes.
e) Fact
- Call on some Ss to give their
answers
f) Opinion
- Give feedback and correct.
III.

- Ask Ss to use reported speech to

rewrite the dialogue.
- Divide the class into 3 groups and
assign each group to report about 3-

IV.

POST-READING

Write it up
Ex: Nam said that the printer wasn’t
working.

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4 sentences.
- Have them write their report on a
poster and put it on the board for
public check.
- T asks students to state the main
points of the dialogue.

Consolidation
- State the main points of the dialogue.
VI.
Homework

- Write the reported speech into your
notebooks
- Prepare Speak + Listen
V.

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