Giáo án Tiếng Anh 8 Unit 4: Our past

Giáo án Tiếng Anh 8
Unit 4 :

Our past

Lesson 1- Getting started – Listen and read
I/ Objectives
PS can talk about the habits is the past with (used to) students can practice
skills difference between past opinion
II. Content: Vocabulary: great, grandma, light
Grammar: - present simple tense ; used to.
III. Teaching aids: Ts’ & Ss’ book, tape, picture
IV. procedure:

Stages
1.

Teacher’s & Students’ activities
? work in 4 groups

Warm up

2.

Contents
I. getting started
Television

? write the name of things that do

Lighting fixture

not belong to past

Shirt

- correct

Presentatio Read & explain new words

Long dress
Mobile phone

n
II. listen & read
a. New words:
? Read follow

- used to (v) infinitive
- great- grandma (n)

? Read one by one

- modern (a)
- light (v)


- Correct if necessary

- folktale (n)
2. Practice

- Ask Ps to practice the dialogue in
pairs.
3.

3. Ask and answer
a. P1: Where did Nga’s grand-

Practice

mother use to live?
P2: She used to live on a farm
? ask & answer in pairs

b. P1: Why didn’t she go to

correct

school?
P2: Because she had to stay at
home and help

- Guide Ss to do

her

younger

brothers & sisters
c. P1: What did Nga’s grand

- Call some pairs to practice in front

mother use to do?

of the class.

P2: She used to cook the meals,
clean the house wash the clothes.
d.

What

did

grandmother

Nga’s

and

great-

great-grand

father do after dinner?
4.

P2: Her great – grand mother used

Productio

to light the lamp & her grand

n

Check mistakes if necessary.

father used to tell the stories.
e. P1: What did Nga ask her grand
mother to do at the end of the

Have Ps complete the answers in

conversation?

their books.

P2: She asked her grand mother to


tell her the tale “ the lost shoe”
4. Fact or opinion
? Fact or opinion

E.g.: F: this flower is red
O: It is the most beautiful flower
I’ve ever seen

? make sentences with past simple

F: I ate those cakes

tense, used, used to

O: I don’t like pork
a. F

d. F

b. F

e. O

c. F

f. O

? Repeat the use P-S-T
5. Homework: Have Ps study at home and learn by heart vocabulary..
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Unit 4 :

Our past

Lesson 2- Speak - Listen
I. Objectives
Ss will be to to talk about the life in the past compare with present life, using
“used to’’
II. Contents: Gram: used to

III. Teaching aids: Ts’ & Ss’ book, pictures
IV. Procedure:

Stages

Teacher’s & Students’ activities

Contents


1.

? What is the fist picture used to

Warm up describe about?
? What about the second picture?
2.

Talk about the way things used to
be the way they are now
III. Speak

Presentatio ? Is there the difference between
n

the life in the past the life in the 1. Work with a partner
present?

- People used to live in small
houses. Now the live in big

? Look at the picture describe

houses, buildings

(work in pairs)
correct

- People used to walk. New they
can go by car or motorbikes.

3.
Practice

? Work in pairs

-

There

? Check some Ps – correct

everywhere.

wasn’t

electricity

? Tell the habit in the past of our 2. Tell about the things you used
partner

to do last year.
- Last year I used to.....

? Do you know the table “a gold IV. Listen
egg’’

1. New words

? Tell sth about it?

moral (a) thuộc về đạo đức
lay (v)
sell (v)
discover (v)


Give out some new words & explain

excitedly (adv)
rich (a)
amazement (n)

? Read after in chorus

decide (v)
death (n)
foolish (a) ngu ngốc

? Read one by one

4.

greedy (a) tham lam
2 T/F - statements

Productio ? Listen catch information
n

a. A farmer lived a comfortable
life will his family.

? Tick- correct

b. One day, one of his chickens
laid a gold egg
c. His five wanted more
d. She at open the chicken to find

? Read the sentences, choose best more gold eggs.
one

e. There weren’t any gold egg
while the chickens were dead
4. Choose the most suitable
moral lesson
- Don’t be foolish & greedy

5. Home work. Learn by heart all the vocabulary above, Do exercise 3, 4, 5 page
28,29 in workbook.
Prepare new lesson :Read

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Unit 4 :

Our past

Lesson 3- Read
I. Objectives
By the end of the lesson Ps are able to tell the folktale they like in front of
the class and learn a moral lesson.
II. Contents: Vocabulary: poor, die, harvest, broken heart, prince, fairy, rags
III. Teaching aids: Ts’ & Ss’ book, pictures
IV. Procedure:

Stages
1.

Teacher’s & Students’ activities
T’s and SS’ activities

Contents
Ps work in groups to tell the story.

Warm up + Checking old lesson:
-T elicits SS to retell the story “ Tam V. Read
Cam”.
2.

The lost shoe

New words:

Pre-reading - SS work in groups.

Stout Nut: (Cám) Hạt Đậu béo

- T gives some new words.

Little Pea (TÂm) Hạt Đậu nhỏ

- SS copy.

harvest festival: Lễ hội được mùa

- T asks: Do you like Folktales?

broken hart: đau tim

What are those stories usually about? prince: Hoàng tử
- Can you tell me the name of some fairy: ông/ bà tiên
stories that you remember?

rags: quần áo rách rưới

- Do you know this story?

1. Complete the sentences with

What can you guess from the title?

the words from the story.

- SS answer and guess the content of a. (poor) farmer
the story.

b. died


c. had .... again
- T requests: You scan the story and d. marry
tell me who Little Pea was, who e. new clothes
Stout Nut was and whose shoe was f. lost
lost?
3.
While-

2.

Answer

the

following

questions:
- SS scan and guess.

reading

a. P1: Who was Little Pea?

- T guides SS to reread the story b. P2: She was a poor farmer’s
twice and use the words in the story
to complete the sentences.

daughter.
c. P1: What did Stout Nut’s
mother make Little Pea do all

- SS reread the story and do exercise.

day?

- SS compare the answers with a P2: She made Little Pea do the
partner.

chores all day.
d. P1: How did Little Pea get her

Some SS read out their answers.

new clothes?
e. P2: Before the festival started,

- T gives the correct answers.

a fairy appeared and magically

- SS copy.

changed her rags into beautiful

- T guides SS to do exercise 2.

clothes.

- SS work in pairs.

f. P1: Who did the prince decide
to marry?

4. Post-

- Some pairs of SS practice aloud.

P2: The shoe fitted Little Pea.

reading

- The others correct the mistakes.

g. P1: Is this a true story? How do

- T gives the correct answers.

you know?
P2: This is not a true story


-T reads the story aloud.

because there is a fairy.

-SS read chorally.

5. Home work. - Remind Ps to study at home and prepare new lesson
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Unit 4 :

Our past

Lesson 4- Write
I. Objectives
By the end of the lesson students will be able to know one more traditional
story “ How the Tiger got his stripes”, practice writing a story, using the words
given.
II. Contents: Vocabulary:

buffalo, graze, servant, master, wisdom,

straw,

escape, stripes, burn
Grammar: The simple past tense.
III. Teaching aids:
IV. Procedure:

Stages
1.

Teacher’s & Students’ activities

T’s and SS’ activities

Warm up + Checking old lesson:

Contents
A Pupil tell the tale “The Lost
Shoe” in front of the class.

Retell the story “ The lost shoe”
- T asks a student to retell the story
“Trí khôn của ta đây” in Vietnamese. VI. Read


2.
PreWriting

How the Tiger got his stripes.
- T asks: Do you know why tigers 1. Complete the story. Use the
have black stripes?
Which story tells you about that?

verbs in the box.
(1) : appeared/ (5) : went

In this lesson, we will learn more

came

(6) tied

about this story .Firstly, you read

(2) : was

(7) : lit

the story and complete it by filling

(3) : said

(8) : burned

the verbs in the correct blank.

(4) : left

(9) : escaped

- SS read the story and fill the verbs
in the blank.
- SS compare the answers with a
partner.
- Some SS read out the completed
story.
- T gives the correct answers.
- T explains some new words.
- SS copy and read them.

New words:
buffalo: con trâu

graze: gặm cỏ
servant: đầy tớ
master: ông chủ
wisdom: trí khôn, sự thông minh
straw: rơm, rạ
escape: trốn thoát
stripes: vết vằn

- T guides: Imagine that you are the
3.

farmer. Use the words to write the

While-

story. Start like this: One day I was

Writing:

in the fill and ...

burn: cháy
lit: châm ( thắp) lửa
2. Now imagine you the man. Use
the words to write the story. Start

- SS listen carefully and write
individually in 5 minutes.
- SS correct the mistakes in pairs
- Some SS read out the story.

like this:
One day I was in the fill and
my buffalo grazed nearby, a tiger
appeared. The tiger asked why


- T gives the elicited answer.

the

strong

buffalo

was

my

- SS copy.

servant and I was it’s master. I
told the tiger that I had the

- T guides SS to retell the story something called wisdom. the
without the book.

tiger wanted to see it, but I told it

- SS work in groups.

I left it at home that day. Then I
tied the tiger to a tree with a rope

- Some SS retell the story.

because I didn’t want it to eat my

- The others give their remarks.

buffalo. I went to get some straw

- T corrects.

that I said was my wisdom and I
burned the tiger. The tiger

4. Post-

- Retell the story.

escaped, but today it still has

writing

- Write a story about you which black stripes from the burns.
happen last week.

5. Home work. - Prepare new lesson: Language focus.
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Unit 4 :

Our past

Lesson 5 - Language focus
I. Objectives
By the end of the lesson students will be able to review the know ledges of
unit 4 and know how to talk about past actions
II. Contents: Vocabulary: Prepositions of time: in, on, at, after, before, between.
Grammar: -Past simple. -Used to
III. Teaching aids:
IV. Procedure:

Stages
1.

Teacher’s & Students’ activities

Contents

T’s and SS’ activities

Warm up + Checking old lesson:
A st retell the story .
A st rewrite the story.
2.

T presents the lesson.

Presentation Activity 1:
-T writes some verbs on the board.

VII. Language focus:
1. Write the past simple form of
each verbs:

-SS find out the irregular verbs in the

a. Run - ran

simple past.(SS work in pairs).

b. fly - flew

-Some SS write the verbs on the

c. take - took

h. ride - rode

board.

d. go - went

i. eat -

ate

-T corrects the mistakes.

e. have - has

j. sit -

sat

-T gives some verbs to SS.

f. do

k. come- came

-T asks SS to look at past 2 and
guide SS to do exercise.(Now in

- did

g. be

-

was/

were

2. Complete the dialogue below.
Use the past simple:

order to review the usage and a-Lan: Did you eat rice for
structure of the past simple tense, breakfast?
you work in pairs, complete the

-Nga: No. I ate noodles.

small dialogues ).

b- Ba: How did you get to school?

-SS work in pairs.

- Nam: I took a bus to school.

-Some pairs of SS practice before c- Minh: Where was you last
class.
3.
Practice

night?

-T corrects and gives the answer key. - Hoa: I was at home.
Activity 2:

d- Chi: Which subject did you

-T asks SS to use the prepositions in have yesterday?
the table to complete the sentences.
-SS

do

-Ba: I have Literature.

exercise. 3. Complete the sentences. Use

- Some SS speak before the class.

the prepositions in the table.

-T gives the correct answer.

a. On

-T emphasis.

d. at ......... after

-SS copy and notice.

*Note:

Activity 3:

in + month, year, seasons On +

b. in

c. between

e. before

-T guides SS to repeat the structure date ( on 17th)
and usage of USED TO.

On + day, date of a month.

-SS repeat and write on the board.

At + time (at 7 pm).

-T corrects the mistakes.

4.

(+) S +used to +V infinitive.

Complete the dialogue. Use used

(-)S + didn’t use to + V infinitive

to and the verbs in the box.

Look

at

the

pictures.

Used to diễn tả H§ thường xuyên (+) S +used to +V infinitive.
hoặc đã từng xảy ra trong quá khứ và (-)S + didn’t use to + V infinitive
4.

ko còn ở hiện tại.

* Used to diễn tả H§ thường

-T asks SS to complete the dialogue.

xuyên hoặc đã từng xảy ra trong


Productio -SS work in pairs.
n

quá khứ và ko còn ở hiện tại.
(1) I used to have long hair.

-Some pairs of SS practice aloud (2) She used to be my next-door
before class.

neighbor.
(3) They used to live in Hue , too.

-T gives the answer key.
the prepositions of time.
5. Home work: -Do exercises in work book and prepare new lesson: Unit 5-Getting
started + listen and read.

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