Giáo án Tiếng Anh 8 Unit 5: Study habits

Giáo án Tiếng Anh 8
Unit 5:

Study habits

Lesson 1 - Getting started + Listen and read.
I/ Objectives:
By the end of the lesson students will be able to get acquainted with the
topic about study habits, get acquainted with reported speech. Practice asking and
answering questions, developing and opening the dialogues.
II/ Contents:
Vocabulary: semester, pronunciation, dictionary, school report.
Grammar: How often, reported speech. Be proud of Sb, try one’s best.
III/ Teaching aids: Picture, tape cassette, books and notebooks.
IV/ Procedure:

Stages
1.

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

Warm up + Checking old lesson:

2.

Contents
- Change the sentences into English:
1. Năm ngoái tôi thường đi học muộn.

A student writes on the board.

2. Bố tôi thường đi câu cá khi ông còn

The other repeats “used to”.

trẻ.

-T presents the topic of the lesson.

I. Getting started:

Activity 1:

- How often do we have Math?

Presentation - SS work in groups to answer some - We have Math five times a week.
questions.

Questions:

- SS work in pairs.

1. How many subjects do you have a

- Some pairs of SS practice aloud.

week?


- T corrects the mistakes.

2. What are they?

Activity 2:

3. What subject do you like best?

• Presentation:

Why?

- T presents the situation of the 4. How often do you have that
dialogue.

subject?

- T plays the tape twice or three II. Listen and read:
times.

1. Practice the dialogue with a

- SS listen to the tape.

partner.

- T asks: What are they doing in the School report

3.
Practice

picture?

Improve (v) : nâng cao, cải thiện.

- SS answer.

Spanish pronunciation

- SS find out new words.

Be proud of sb: tự hào về ai.

- T writes and explains them.

Try one’s best: cố gắng hết sức.

- SS copy and read.

Semester (n) : học kì.

• Practice:

2. T or F? Check (v) the box.

-T plays the tape.

a. False.(Tim was at home).

-SS listen and repeat.

b. True.

-SS work in pairs.

c. False.(It’s excellent).

-Some pairs of SS practice aloud.

d. True.

-T corrects the mistakes.

e. False.(He needs to improve Spanish

-T guides and asks SS to do exercise. pronunciation).
-SS tick true or false.

3. Answer the questions:
a. Miss Jackson is Tim’s mother.

-SS compare the answers with a b. Miss Jackson gave Tim’s mother
his report card.
partner.
-T gives the correct answers.

c.

Tim

studied

very

well

this

semester./Tim worked very hard this


-T asks SS to reread the dialogue.

semester.

-SS read and answer the questions.

d. Miss Jackson said Tim should work
harder on his Spanish pronunciation.

4.

-SS compare the answers with the e. She gave him a dictionary.

Productio partner.

Từ câu trực tiếp sang câu gián tiếp có

n

những thay đổi sau:

-Some pairs of SS practice asking +Bỏ dấu phẩy hoặc hai chấm sau
and answering the questions before động từ said, bỏ ngoặc kép.
class.

+Đổi ngôi của đại từ (I-he).
+Đổi thì của động từ (am-was).

-T gives the correct answers.

Ex: Minh said:” I am fine”.

-SS copy and notice.

- Minh said that he was fine.

-T presents about reported speech.
5. Home work: Learn by heart new words, prepare new lesson : Speak.
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Unit 5 :

Study habits

Lesson 2 – Speak and Listen
I. Objectives:
By the end of the lesson students will be able to speak about study habits
and study methods.
II. Contents:
Vocabulary: civic education, Physical education, Technology, Biology, Physics,
Go to English club, Speak to foreigners
III. Teaching aids: Picture, Books and notebooks.

IV. Procedure:

Stages
1.

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

Answer the questions:

Warm up + Checking old lesson:
SS

speak

the

passage

1. What did Miss Jackson give
about

themselves.
2.

-T presents the lesson.

Presentatio

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Contents

Tim’s mother?
2. How

did

Tim

study

this

semester?
III. Speak:

-T asks: What is this?
How many words do you know?

Work in groups.
Civic education:

-T gives SS some new words and Physical education:
explains the report card.

Technology:

Physics:

-SS listen and copy.

Biology:

-T guides SS to listen.

Go to English club

(This is Nga’s school report. You Speak to foreigners:
will hear the conversation between *Multiple choice:
Miss Lien ( Nga’s teacher)and Mr. 1. When do you do your
Lam and Mrs Linh about Nga’s first homework?
term results).

a- after school

-SS guess Nga’s results.

b- after dinner

c- late at night
d- another

(Now you listen to the tape and fill time...
3.
Practice

in the report. And then compare with 2. Who helps you with your
your early guess).

homework?

- T plays the tape twice or three

a - your parents

times.

b - your brother/sister.

c - a friend


- SS listen carefully.

IV. Listen.

- SS fill in the report.

Listen

to

the

dialogue

and

- SS compare the results with their complete the report card.
partner.

Name: Tên

Class: lớp

- Some SS read out their answers.

Marking period ; Day present:

- T gives answer key.

Day absent ; Behavior

- SS copy.

participation: Cooperation:
Listening:

Speaking:

-T plays the tape, sentence by Reading:

Writing:

sentence.

A= excellent: B= good: giỏi, tốt

-T explains some new words.

C= Fair: khá

-SS copy in their books.

F= fail:trượt

D= Poor: yếu

S= satisfactory: hài lòng
-T guides and asks SS to complete a U= unsatisfactory: ko hài lòng
report card.

Comments: nhận xét, đánh giá

-SS fill in the report.

Teacher’s signature: chữ kÝ của
gv

4.

-Some SS read out their report.

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Parent’s signature:

chữ kÝ của

PH.
- T gives the remarks and marks.

1.

Learn by heart the subjects.

present.
2.

87
5

days 5.

A

=Excellent.
days 6.

absent.
- Answer the questions and write

3.

them into a passage

=Satisfactory.

4. C =Fair.
*New words:

=Excellent.
S 7. B =Good.

A


Writing skills:
Listening comprehension:
Encourage Sb to do Smt
Appreciate :đánh giá.

5. Home work- Learn by heart new words, make a report card of own, prepare new
lesson: Read
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Unit 5 :

Study habits

Lesson 3 – Read
I. Objectives:
By the end of the lesson students know how to learn the vocabulary in
English. SS practice listening comprehension.
II. Contents. Vocabulary: Mother tongue, Make a list, Learn by heart, However,
Underline, Instead, Highlight, Come across, Revision
III/ Teaching aids: Tape, cassette, Books and notebooks.
IV/ Procedure:

Stages
1.

Teacher’s & Students’ activities
+ Checking old lesson:

Warm up SS read their report cards.

2.

Contents
+ Answers questions in front of
the class.

- T presents the lesson.

V. Read:

- T presents the content of the text.

1. True or False? Check (v) the


Prereading

- T says: look at the picture and have
a guess of our today lesson.
- T writes some new words.

boxes:

a) False.(NOT

all

language

learners but only SOME).

- T asks what they mean. How to b) True.
learn and remember them.
Answer: How to learn new words in
English.

c) False.(Many learners DO NOT
try to learn ).
d) True.

? Do you like to learn English • New words:
vocabulary?

Make a list:

liệt kê danh sách.

? What do you always do when you Mother tongue :tiếng mẹ đẻ.
have a new word?

Learn by heart: học thuộc lòng.

? How do you learn that words?

However:

tuy nhiên .

? How many words do you learn a Instead:

thay vào đó.

day?

gặp phải.

Come across:

? Do you have any special ways to 2-Answer the questions:
3.

learn English vocabulary?

a) P1: Do learner learn words in

While-

- SS read the text and underline the

the same way?

reading

new words.

P2: No. Learners learn words

- T asks: Now what do you do with

in different ways.

these new words?

b) P1: Why do some learners

- SS write them in the books or small

write example sentences with

papers.

new words?
P2: Such sentences help them

- T explains: These words are not

remember the use of new

explained now. You read the text

words.

again and decide the statements are c) P1: What do some learners do

True or False according to the text.

in order to remember words


And then you try to guess the

better?

meaning of the words from context.

P2: To remember words better,

- SS do exercise and compare the

learners write the examples,

4. Post-

answer with their partner.

put

reading

- Some SS read out their answers.

meaning on stickers, underline

the

words

and

their

or highlight them.
- T guides SS to ask and answer the d) They may think they can’t do
questions.

so. Instead, they learn only

- SS work in pairs.

important words.

- Some pairs of SS practice aloud.

e) Revision

is

necessary

in

learning words.
- T gives the correct answers.
- T plays the tape.

Learners should try different ways

- SS listen . then read out the text

of learning words to find out what
is the best.

5. Home work. -Learn by heart vocabulary, write a passage to describe the way to
learn your vocabulary. Prepare new lesson: Write.
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Unit 5 :

Study habits

Lesson 4 – Write
I. Objectives:
By the end of the lesson students will be able to give the structure, the main
parts of the closed letter. SS can write a closed letter to their friends and their folks.
II. Contents. Vocabulary: Heading, Opening, Body of the letter, Closing, Dear,
Regards
III/ Teaching aids: Picture, books and notebooks..
IV/ Procedure:

Stages
1.

Teacher’s & Students’ activities

+ Checking old lesson:

Contents
10 Phan Boi Chau St.

Warm up SS speak the ways to learn words in Lao Cai
English.
-T presents the lesson.
2.

-T gives a short letter.

Pre-writing -SS play Jumbled sentences.
-T devises the class in groups of 5.

November 11,2004.
Dear Nga,
Thank for your letter. I’m
pleased to hear you had a good
report card.

-T gives each of group a letter which I received my first semester report
are cut in many pieces.

a few day ago... I must study

-Ss work in groups, arrange the part harder next semester.
of the letter to complete it.

We are going to Sa Pa tonight

-T asks: How many parts are there in to celebrate Festival Literature. I
a personal letter? Do you know how think I’ll send you some postcards
they are call?
-T guides SS to fix the parts of the

from here.
Write soon and tell me all


letter in correct order.

your news.

-SS read the answers.

Regards,

-T gives the correct answers.

Hoa.

-? What kinds of information you 1. Look at Hoa's letter to Tim.
see in Heading/ Opening...?

She wrote it at the end of
term. Identify the sections.

*Heading(mở đầu): địa chỉ người
viết thư, ngày viết.

Label them with correct letter.
A- Body of the letter.
B- Heading-writer’s address and

*Opening/Salutation(

lời

chào

đầu): Dear ....,

the date.
C- Closing-Your friend/Regards/
Love.

*Body of the letter(phần thân / D- Opening-Dear....,
chính bức thư):Bao gồm những nội SS answer:
dung như:LÝ do viết thư, đề xuất, - Hoa wrote the letter.
hẹn gặp... thường được chia thành - Tim received it.
3,4 phần nhỏ.

- Hoa got good grades for his
Science, English and History.

*Closing/ Complementary close(lời - No, it wasn’t.
chào cuối thư) rất đa dạng tuỳ vào - Her teacher asked her to spend
mức độ thân mật: Regards, Best

more time on it.

wishes, With best wishes, With fond/ - She’s going to Hue tonight to
warm regards, With much love, your

celebrate the Lunar New Year

loving son, with all my love...

Festival with her mother.

-T asks:

2-Now help Lan write a letter to

? Who wrote the letter?

her pen pal Donna in San

Who received it?

Francisco. Use the information


3.

in the box.

While-

For what subjects did Hoa get good 24 Truong Chinh Street.

writing

grades?

Dong Da District, Ha Noi

Was her Math result good?

July 12,2004

What did her teacher ask her to do ?

Dear Donna,

What is she going to do?

Thanks for your letter. I am
very pleased to hear that you had

-T guides and asks SS to write the a happy Mother’s day.
letter.

I received my second semester
report last month. I got good

-SS read the information in the box.

grade for Geography, Physics and

Math, but my English and History

-SS write the letter individually.

results were poor. My teacher told

( in 7 minutes).

me

to

improve

English

and

History. I think I’ll have to study
4. Post-

-SS compare the letter and correct harder next school year.

writing

the mistakes with their partner.

In a few weeks we’re going

-Some SS read out their letter.

to

celebrate

the

Mid-Autumn

-T checks some letters of the SS.

Festival. That’s a moon festival in

-T gives the elicited answer.

Autumn or Fall in Viet Nam. I am
going to Ha Long Bay with my
aunt and uncle by bus this
afternoon and I’m going to stay

-T gives a letter.

there with them until after the

-SS correct the mistakes.

festival. I’ll send you a postcard
from there.
I am looking forward to

hearing from your soon.
With warm regards,
Yours truly,
Lan.

5. Homework: Write a letter to your friend and tell him about your results of the
last semester. Prepare new lesson: Language focus.

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Unit 5 :

Study habits

Lesson 5 - Language focus
I. Objectives
By the end of the lesson students will be able to review the know ledges of
unit 5, use the adverbs of manner, modal SHOULD, get acquainted with reported
speech.
II. Contents: Adverbs of manner, should, reported speech
III. Teaching aids: text book, picture
IV. Procedure:

Stages

Teacher’s & Students’ activities

Contents

1.

+ Checking the previous lesson:

- Read in front of the class

Warm up -SS read a letter to their friends.

2.

1- Activity 1:

VI. Language focus:

Presentation -Some SS repeat the way to use 1-Complete the dialogues. Use
adverbs of manner.

the adverbs of manner in the

Note the special adverbs.

box.

-T asks SS to complete the dialogues
by filling the adverbs of manner in (1) hard
the spaces.

(2) fast

-SS work in pairs.

(3) badly

-Some pairs of SS practice aloud (4) softy
before class.
-T gives answer key.
2-Work with a partner. Look at
2-Activity 2:

the picture of Mr. Hao’s house.

-T requests SS to look at the picture Use the words in the box. Say
of Mr. Hao’s house.

what he should do.

-T asks: What do you think about *.Mr. Hao should repair the roof.

3.
Practice

Mr. Hao’s house? Is it old or new?

* Mr. Hao should paint the house.

-SS answer.

* Mr. Hao should cut the grass.

-T guides SS to do exercise.

* Mr. Hao should replant the trees.

(Now you work in pairs, discuss * Mr Hao should mend the door.
what Mr. Hao should do for his
house by using the verbs given).
-SS work in pairs.

3-

Work

with

a

partner.


-Some SS give the advice.

Suppose you are Tim’s mother.

-T gives the correct answers.

Report

-SS copy.

commands and requests in her

3- Activity 3:

Miss

Jackson’s

conversation with Tim’s mother.

-T presents the way to change the
direct to indirect.

* Formation:

-SS copy.

S + asked + O + to-infinitive.

• Thay đổi đại từ nhân xưng, đại từ

Told
Ordered

sở hữu:

commander

Ngôi1 => ngôi 3

Ngôi 2=> cùng ngôi với O của mệnh * Answer key:
đề chính.

a). Miss Jackson asked me to wait

Ngôi 3 => giữ nguyên không đổi.

outside her office.

• Đổi thì của động từ:

b). Miss Jackson told me to give

simple present => simple past

you your report card for this

present

progressive=>

past semester.

progressive

c). Miss Jackson told me to help

future => future in the past.

you

• This => That

pronunciation.

• These => Those

d). Miss Jackson asked me to meet

• Here => There

her next week.

• Now => Then

4. Work with a partner. Report

• Today => That day
• Tonight => That night
• Tomorrow => The next day
• Yesterday => The day before

with

your

Spanish

Miss Jackson’s advice...
a. Miss Jackson said you should
spend more time on Spanish
pronunciation.

b. Miss Jackson said you should


• Last night => The night before.
4.

speaking

Spanish

every day.

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practice

c. Miss Jackson said you should
4- Activity 4:

listen to Spanish conversation
on TV.

-T guides SS to do exercise.

d. Miss Jackson said you should

(Now you follow similar instructions

practice reading aloud passages

as exercise 3, report Miss Jackson’s

in Spanish.

advice to Tim).

e. Miss Jackson said you should
use this dictionary to find out

-SS work in pairs.

how to pronounce Spanish
words.

-Some pairs of SS practice aloud
before class.
- Check any mistakes if necessary
-T gives answer key.

5. Home work: : -Lean by heart the usage of reported speech, do exercises again.
Prepare new lesson: Unit 6.
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