Unit 15- English 8

Tan Lam High School Lesson plan English 8
Date: Unit 15: Computer Period 91: Listen and Read
LESSON PLAN
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A. OBJECTIVES:
I. Knowledge: Ss will be able to express their opinions about a problem.
II. Skills: Speaking, writing, reading
B. PROCEDURE:
I. Settlement: Checking attendance
II. Checking: No check-up
III. New lesson: Listen and Read
Teacher’s Activities Students’ Activities
* Warm up: GETTING STARTED
Brainstorming.
- Write the topic on the board
• Computers can help us:
- Save time
LISTEN AND READ
1. Pre - teach vocabulary
- Elicit words from Ss.
1. (a) printer (picture)
2. (a) manual /mnjul/(explanation / realia)
(a book coming with a machine tells you how to
use / operate the machine.
3. (to) connect: (hand gesture)
4. under guarantee: (situation) (The machine
you buy at a shop will be under guarantee from
6 to 12 months.)
5. (a) plug (realia)
6. (a) socket (picture /realia)
- Have Ss copy.

*Checking Technique: R.O.R
2. While - reading
a. True / False prediction:
- Set the scene:
Nam and his father, Mr. Nhat are talking about
the problem of the computer they've just
bought. What happens to the computer?
- Put the chart on the board and have Ss guess
which statements are true and which are false.
1. The printer isn't working.
2. Nam has already turned the computer on.
3. Nam knows how to connect a printer but he
hasn't connected it properly.
4. The manual helped them to find out the
Class work
Suggestions:
+ Computers help us learn interestingly.
+ Computers help us learn more quickly.
+ Computers are convenient/ easy for keeping/
storing information.
+ Computers are very quick in giving answers
to our questions.
+ Máy in
+ Sách hường dẫn sử
dụng
+ kết nối
+ thời gian bảo hành
+ phích cắm điện
+ ổ cắm điện
Listen to the teacher

Look at the chart
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Tan Lam High School Lesson plan English 8
problem.
5. Mr. Nhat bought the computer in HCM City
and it's still under guarantee.
6. Mr. Nhat thinks the company wouldn't do
anything with his computer because it's too far
from his place.
- Call on some pairs to give their answers.
- Write Ss' guesses on the board.
b. Checking prediction:
- Ask Ss to open their books, read the dialogue
on page 138 and listen to the tape.
- Have Ss work in pairs again to check if their
guesses are right or not.
- Give feedback and correct.
c. Reading Comprehension
- Explain the words: "Fact and Opinion"
+ Fact: a thing that is known to be true,
especially when it can be proved.
+ Opinion: Your feelings or thoughts about
someone or something, rather than a fact.
- Get Ss to read the statements and check (v) the
suitable boxes.
- Call on some Ss to give their answers.
- Ask Ss to think of the topic and express their
opinions.
- Collect Ss opinions and write them on the
board.

- Have Ss copy.
3. Post - reading:
- Ask Ss to use reported speech to rewrite the
dialogue.
- Divide the class into 3 groups and assign each
group to report about 3  4 sentences.
- Have them write their report on a poster and
put it on the board for public check.
Give their guess
Listen to the dialogue
Check the True/ False statements
Answer key:
1. True
2. True
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
6. False: Mr. Nhat thinks the company should
do something with it.
Individual work
Group work
IV. Consolidation:
V. Homework: Write it up
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Tan Lam High School Lesson plan English 8
Date: Unit 15: Computer Period 92: Speak + Listen
LESSON PLAN
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A. OBJECTIVES:

I. Knowledge: Ss will be able to use some common useful expressions to express
agreement and disagreement. Listening for details to complete a flow chart.
II. Skills: Speaking, Listening, Writing
B. PROCEDURE:
I. Settlement: Checking attendance
II. Checking: New words
III. New lesson: Speak + Listen
Teacher’s Activities Students’ Activities
• SPEAK:
1. Brainstorming
- Write the topic on the board:
Useful expressions to express agreement and
disagreement.
- Put the table on the board and elicit Ss' answers
then write them in the table.
- Explain the phrase "on the other hand" to Ss
- Get Ss to copy the table.
2. Matching
- Put the photocopied pictures (p.139) on the right
of the board and the word cues on the left (not in
order).
- Ask Ss to match the words with the pictures.
3. Picture Drill
• ORAL DRILL
- Erase the words but leave the pictures.
- Get a student to demonstrate the model (a)
Class work
Pair work
Key:
1. b

2. c.
3. a
4. d
Listen to the teacher
Practice speaking
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a b
c
d
Tan Lam High School Lesson plan English 8
T: I think driving a car is easy.
P: I disagree. I think it's difficult to drive a car.
Or So do I.
- Ask Ss to use the adjectives in the box on page
140 to express their opinions after going. through
the meaning of some new words.
- Ask Ss to use the pictures on the board to practice
speaking with their partners.
- Call on some pairs to demonstrate for the class.
- Give feedback and correct.
4. Production
- Present the dialogue and have Ss repeat, sentence
by sentence.
- Call on one student to demonstrate the dialogue.
- Open pair.
- Closed pairs: Ss make similar dialogues referring
the cues on page 140 (below the dialogue) to
replace the information.
Mapped dialogue
- Put the mapped dialogue chart on the board.

• LISTEN
1. Pre-teach
- Put the flow chart on the board and have Ss copy
it into their exercise books.
- Get Ss to understand how events are sequenced in
a flow chart and the meanings of all the shapes used
in the chart.
- Ask Ss to look at the flow chart and guess the
words in the gaps.
Copy the chart
Guess the words in the chart
Listen to the tape
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Tan Lam High School Lesson plan English 8
2. While listening:
- Play the tape (2 or 3 times) and ask ss to listen.
- Tell Ss to fill the gaps with the information they
have heard from the tape.
- Have Ss compare the answers with their partners.
- Call on some Ss to go to the board to write their
answers.
- Give feedback and correct.
3. Post - listening
- Have Ss write a set of instructions on how to get a
drink from a machine, using the flow chart.
- Call on some Ss to read their writing for the class.
Individual work
IV. Consolidation:
V. Homework: Write complete dialogues in your notebooks.
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