Lesson Plan Grade 8
Period 2 Date of planning:
Unit 1
My friends
Getting started + Listen & read
I. OBJECTIVES : By the end of the lesson, S will be able to introduce people, respond
to introductions, describe people.
II. LANGUAGE CONTENTS :
- Grammar: present simple tense
(not) + adj + enough + to inf
- Vocabulary:
III. METHODS :
Communicative approach
IV. TEACHING AIDS
Text books
V PROCEDURES :
Activities
Contents
1. Warm up:
- T introduce the topic of the
lesson.
- Ask S to lool at the picture
(getting started) and say what they are
doing.
2. Presentation:
Pre teach vocabulary
- Give S some questions & ask them
to work in pairs to answer them.
- T: give feedback.
- Ask S to read the dialogue between
Hoa, Lan on page 10 and check if their
answers are correct or not.
Comprehension questions
Ask S to read the dialogue again and
answer the questions in E
2
on page11 (in
pairs).
- playing soccer.
- studying.
- playing chess.
- playing volleyball.
1. Vocabulary
- to seem.
- a next door neighbor.
- to look like.
2. Questions
a. Is Nien Lan’s friend or Hoa’s friend?
b. How old is Nien ?
c. Where does Nien live ?
d. Is she a beautiful girl ?
A nswers
a. Nien lives in Hue.
b. No, she doesn’t.
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c. The sentence is She was not old
enough to be in my class.
d. At Christmas.
3. Practice:
- Ask S to practice the dialogue with
their partner.
- Ask S to ask & answer the questions
in front of the class.
4. Consolidation:
- Ask S to write a paragraph about
Hoa and Lan.
- Give students some cues.
- Choose some answers and correct
them front of the class.
Revise the structures
(not) adj + enough + to inf
- What + do/does + S + look like
- What + N !
Cues
a. Lan/ Hoa best/ friend
b. They/ same class/ Quang Trung
school.
c. Last year/ Hoa/ to school first time.
d. Lan/ show/ around/ introduce/ to new
friends.
5. Homework:
- Practice the dialogue many times.
- Learn the vocabulary by heart.
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Lesson Plan Grade 8
Period 3 Date of planning:
Unit 1
Speak
I. OBJECTIVES :
By the end of the lesson, S will be able to describe someone.
II. LANGUAGE CONTENTS :
- Grammar : Present simple tense.
- Vocabulary:
III. METHOD : Communicative approach
III. TEACHING AIDS : textbook, picture.
IV. PROCEDURES :
Activities
Content
1. Warm up :
- Ask S to think of the adjectives
used to describe body build and fair.
2. Presentation :
- Ask S to read the dialogue.
- Show S a picture of Mary and
ask them to describe her hair, her body
build.
* Brainstorming :
Thin curly
* Possible answers :
5
Body build
hair
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3. Practice :
- Prepare 6 cards so that S can
drill easily.
- Call on a Student to describe one
person, the others have to guess who
he/ she is.
* Consolidation :
Ask S to describe one of their
classmates and the others have to
guess.
* Homework :
- fat - straight
- slim - long
- tall - short
- short - black/ dark
- over weight - blond/ fair
- slender - brown
- grey
* Ex : She is short and thin. She has
long blond hair.
- Form : S + be + adj
S + have/ has + adj + hair
a. Van : - Tall and thin
- short black hair
b. Mr. Lai : - short and fat
- bald head
c. Miss. Lien : - Tall and slim
- long brown hair
d. Ann : - Tall and slim
- curly blond hair
e. Mr. Khoi : - Tall and thin
- short dark hair
f. Mary : - Tall and slim
- long fair hair
Write a dialogue describing a famous
person or one of their classmates in their
notebooks.
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Lesson Plan Grade 8
Period 4 Date of planning:
Unit 1
LISTEN
I. OBJECTIVES :
Developing sts' listening comprehension skill
II. LANGUAGE CONTENTS :
1/ Grammar: It's a pleasure to meet you.
2/ vocabulary:
III. METHODS : Communicative approach
IV. TEACHING AIDS : Text books
V PROCEDURES :
1/ Warm up:
- Greeting
- Roll calling
2/ Presentation:
Teacher's & student's Activities
a) Pre listening:
- Set up situations
- Sts read the D in silent
- Sts read the D
- Give key words:
- Explains new structure
It + be Noun + to infinitive
- Sts work in pairs
b) While listening:
- Sts listen the dialogues ( 3)
- Sts work in pair
Contents
The Dialogue
ma'am
principal
It's a pleasure to meet you
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1. Fill in the blanks( 2ms)
- Sts correct then T corrects if
possible.
- Sts listen the dialogue again
- Writes on the board
- Correct if possible
c/ Post reading
- Listen again
- Ask some questions about the
dialogue
Keys:
a- I'd like you to meet
b- Nice to meet you
c- I'd like you to meet
d- It's a pleasure to meet you
e- Come and meet
f- How do you do?
3/ Consolidation:
Ask & answer about some students in the class
4/ Home works:
- Learnt new words by heart.
- Prepare Unit 1: Read
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Lesson Plan Grade 8
Period 5 Date of planning:
Unit 1
Read
I. OBJECTIVES :
Reading for specific information.
By the end of the lesson, S will be able to know more about Bas friends.
II. LANGUAGE CONTENTS :
- Grammar: present simple tense.
- Vocabulary: to annoy, generous, reserved, chareter, joke, orphanage.
III. METHODS :
Communicative approach
IV. TEACHING AIDS
Text books
V PROCEDURES :
Activities
Contents
Pre reading
a. Preteach vocabulary
a character
an orphanage
reserves (a)
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b. T / F statements prediction
- S tick the poster of T/F statements
on the board.
- Set the scene: these statements are
about Ba and his friends, read them and
guess which statements are true, which
are false.
- Get S to work in pairs.
- Give feedback.
While reading
- Ask S to open their books and read
the text on page 13.
- Let S to check their prediction.
- Ask S to correct false statements
sociable (a)
to tell jokes
sense of humor
a. Ba only has three friends. Bao, Khai &
Song.
b. Ba and his friends have the same
characters.
c. Bao, Khai and Song are quite resenved
in public.
d. They enjoy school and study hard.
Guess Correct
a
F
b
F
c
F
d
T
- Get S to do E
1
on page 14. Ask them
to work in pairs to choose the best
answers.
* Ask S to work in pair to do E
2
on
page 14.
* Let S to read the text again and
anwer the questions.
* Call on some pair of S to ask &
answer the questions T correct their
pronunciation.
Post reading:
Ask S to work in closed pairs.
Ask S to work in groups and talk to
one another about their friends, using
the adjectives they have just learn to
describe.
Correction.
a. Ba has a lot of friends but he spends
most of his time with Bao, Khai and Song.
b. They have different characters.
c. Only Song and Khai are quite
resenved.
Multiple choice
* A nswer s
a. A b. C c. B d. D
Comprehension questions
* A nswers
a. He feels lucky having a lot of friends.
b. Bao is the most sociable.
c. Khai likes reading.
d. His jokes sometimes annoy his
friends.
e. Bao spends his free time at a local
orphanage.
f. Students answer.
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Homework :
Ask each S to write a paragraph (about 40 words) about one close friend.
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Lesson Plan Grade 8
Period 6 Date of planning:
Unit 1
Write
I. OBJECTIVES : Writing about oneself and about other people.
By the end of the lesson, S will be able to write a paragraph about their closefriends.
II. LANGUAGE CONTENTS :
- Grammar: present simple tense.
- Vocabulary
III. METHODS : Communicative approach
IV. TEACHING AIDS Text books
V PROCEDURES :
Activities
Contents
Warm up
Ask s to introduce them selves.
Pre writing
Ask S to read the information about
Tam, then answer some question.
While writing
Let S write a paragraph about Tam,
using the information they have just got
(individually).
- Ask S to compare with the paragraph
in their books on page 15.
- Ask S to write some information
about one of their friends, then write a
paragraph about him or her.
Post writing:
Ask each S to write a similar
paragraph about him self/ herself.
- T moves around the class and helps
S, then ask some S to speak in front of
the class about himself or herself.
Questions
a. What’s his name?
b. How old is he ?
c. What does he look like ?
d. What is he like ?
e. Where does he live ?
f. Whom does he live with ?
g. Who is his friend?
Homework: Ask S to write another paragraph about one of their famly members.
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Period 7 Date of planning:
Unit 1
Language focus
I. OBJECTIVES : Revision of simple present and simple tense.
- Writing about other people.
- Writing some sentences using “(not) adj + enough”
II. LANGUAGE CONTENTS :
- Grammar: - simple tense
- (not) adj + enough.
- Vocabulary:
III. METHODS :
Communicative approach
IV. TEACHING AIDS Text books
V PROCEDURES :
Activities
Contents
Warm up
Ask S to find out the adjectives
beginning with the letters that the
teacher gives.
- Devide the class into two groups.
- Give out four adjectives beginning
with the four letters given.
I.1. Consolidation
2. Practice
Ask S to use the simple present and
simple past tense to complete paragraph
1 (a), (b) on page 16.
Ask S to work individually and then
compare their answers with their
partners.
Give feedback.
Categories
E x :
T writes a b c d
S: awful - big - clever - dirty
Simple present tense
(always, often, usually, every)
(be) → is/ am /are
(V) → V s /es.
Simple past tense
(Yesterday, last.,.ago)
(be) → was/ were
(V) → V- ed/ V
2
* A nswe r
a. 1. lives 2. sent
3. was 4. is
b. 1. are 2. came
3. showed 4. introduced
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II.- Pre teach vocabulary.
- Review simple present tense
(formation usage)
- Focus on one of the usage of simple
present tense (it is used to express an
action which is always true).
Practice : Ask S to
- Complete the dialogue between Ba
and Tuan, his younger cousin.
- Get S to work in pairs.
- Get S to practice the dialogue in pairs.
- Correct the pronunciation.
- a planet
- Mars
- Mercury
- silly
* A nswer
1. sets 2. goes 3. moves
4. is 5. is 6. is
III. Practice : Ask S to look at the
picture on page 17 quickly. Then let
them keep their books closed.
- Devide the class into four groups.
- Give S three questions, the group
which answer correctly the fastest win
the game.
IV.
- Consolidate the structure
- Practice: Ask S to do E
4
on page 17
in pairs.
- Give feedback and ask S to practice
the dialogue.
Further practice
Give S some cues and ask them to use
the simple present tense or simple past
tense.
* A nswers
a. four
b. The man standing next to the taxi is
tall and heavy set.
+ The woman is tall and slim.
+ The boy is tall and thin.
+ The man standing across the street is
short and fat.
c. He is wearing a gellow shirt and
brown trousers.
+ She is wearing a ret shirt and a green
skirt.
+ He is wearing a white shirt and blue
shorts.
+ He is wearing a pink shirt and blue
trousers.
→ not adj + enough + to- inf
* A nswers : a. not big enough
b. not old enough
c. strong enough
d. good enough.
* Cues : a. Thu/ my best friend.
b. We/ same class/ VTS school.
c. Last year/ I/ to school first time.
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Homework: Ask S to write five sentences about them selves using the structure
“(not)adj + nough + to inf
Period 8 Date of planning:
Unit 2
Making arrangements
(Getting started Listen & read)
I. OBJECTIVES :
Reading for details about a conversation on the phone.
By the end of the lesson, S will be able to use the telephone to make and confirm
arrangements.
II. LANGUAGE CONTENTS :
- Grammar: be going to
- Vocabulary: fax machine, answering machine
III. METHODS :
Communicative approach
IV. TEACHING AIDS
Text books
V PROCEDURES :
1/ Warm up:
- Greeting
- Roll calling
2/ Presentation:
Activities
Contents
Warm up:
Ask S to match each object (pictures
on page 18) with its name.
* A nswers
a. an answering machine.
b. a mobile phone.
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T sets the scene Hoa and Nga are
talking on the phone. They are talking
about going to see a movie.
- Ask s to guess.
Presentation :
- Ask s to read the conversation
between Nga $ Hoa on page 19 and give
them feedback.
- Matching the phares with their
meaning.
c. a fax machine.
d. a telephone directory.
e. a puplic telephone.
f. an address book.
made the call ?
introduced herself
Who invited the other to the movie?
arranged a meeting place?
arranged the time ?
agreed to the time?
* A nswers.
a. Nga.
b. (c, d, f) Nga..
c. Hoa
a. Hold on
→ b. Is six thrity all right?
Practice
Role play: Ask S to play the roles of
two students who are talking on the
phone making arrangements.
Consolidation:
Give S some questions and ask them
to work in pairs to answer them.
- Get some pairs of students to ask
and answer the question (open pairs).
- Let all S work in pairs (closed pairs)
c. Wheres it on?
d. A bit far from?
1. Nã ®îc chiÕu ë ®©u?
2. Kh¸ xa
3. 6.30 ®îc chø
4. Chê nhÐ!
* Questions
a. What is Hoas telephone number?
b. Which movie are they going to see ?
Where ?
c. How is Hoa going to see the movies?
d. Where are they going to meet? What
time ?
Homework : Ask S to write a similar dialogue on their notebooks.
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Date of planning:
Period 9
Unit 2 Speak
I. OBJECTIVES : By the end of the lesson, S will be able to talk on the phone about
inventions with “going to”.
II. LANGUAGE CONTENTS :
- Grammar : Be going to + V (bare _inf).
- Vocabulary
III. TEACHING AIDS : textbook.
IV. PROCEDURES :
Activities
Content
1. Warm – up :
- Talk to S about using the phone.
- T asks some questions.
* Presentation :
- Ask S to look at E on page 20.
- T ask S some questions to check
students understanding.
- T : introduce the structure.
- Ask S to put the sentences in
the correct order to make a complete
conversation.
* Practice :
Ask S to practice the dialogue in
pairs.
* Production :
Practice the structure “be going
to”.
- Model two cues then ask S to
repeat chorally and individually.
a. Do you have a telephone at home ?
b. How often do you make a phone
call?
c. What would you say if you are the
caller ?
d. What would you say when you pick
up the telephone to answer it ?
* Questions :
a. Are they talking on the phone ?
b. What do they intend to do ?
c. What time are they meeting ?
Where?
- Form : S + be + going to + V
(bare_inf)
- Use : express an intention
* Answers :
1. b 6. c
2. f 7. e
3. j 8. k
4. a 9. g
5. i
* Model sentence :
Are you going to see a movie ?
Yes, I am/ No, I am not.
a. play sports
b. meet your friends
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- Ask some S to practice asking
and answering.
- Ask the whole class to work in
pairs.
2. Presentation :
* Role play :
- Set the scene : “Ba and Bao are
making arrangements to play chess”.
- Ask S to work with their
partners to complete the dialogue.
- Give feedback.
* Practice :
Ask S to play the roles of Ba and
Bao to practice the dialogue.
* Production :
Ask S to make the similar
arrangements and practice talking
with a partner.
* Homework :
c. help your mother
d. do your homework
e. watch T.V
* Answers :
- Can I speak to Ba, please ? This is
Bao.
- I’m fine, thanks. And you ?
- Can you play chess to night ?
- What about tomorrow afternoon ?
- I’ll meet you at the central chess
club.
- Is 2.00 Ok ?
Ask S to write five things that they
intent to do nextweek.
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Period 10
Unit 2 Listen
I. OBJECTIVES : By the end of the lesson, S will be able to complete telephone
message by listening.
II. LANGUAGE CONTENTS :
- Grammar : Past simple tense.
- Vocabulary
III. TEACHING AIDS : textbook, poster, cassette.
IV. PROCEDURES :
Activities
Content
* Warm up :
- Divide S into two teams.
- Choose 6 volunteers from each
team.
- T : shows the first student (in
each team) a telephone number
He/ she whispers the telephone
number to the next person in his/ her
team.
- The second S whispers to the
third until the last one.
- The last S shouts out the
number, if it is the same as the
number teacher shows that team win
the match.
* Pre – listening :
- Ask S to look at the form of the
telephone message on page 21 and set
the scene “A woman phoned the
principal of Kingston Junior high
school but he was out”.
- Have S guess the message.
- Let S work in pairs.
- Give feedback.
* While _ listening :
Get S to listen to the tape twice
and fill in the message, compare with
* Telephone transmitting
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their guess.
* Post _ listening :
Practice making a message.
* Homework :
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Lesson Plan Grade 8
Period 11 Date of planning:
Unit 2
Read
I. OBJECTIVES :
Reading the paragraph for details about A. G Bell.
By the end of the lesson, S will be able to know more about A.G. Bell.
II. LANGUAGE CONTENTS :
- Grammar: simple past tense
- Vocabulary:
III. METHODS :
Communicative approach
IV. TEACHING AIDS
Text books
V PROCEDURES :
1/ Warm up:
- Greeting
- Roll calling
2/ Presentation:
Activities
Contents
Warm up:
Let S answer the questions by coming
to the board and write (What is the
telephone used for?)
Pre reading
1. pre teach vocabulary.
2. T/ F statement prediction S guess
which statements are true and which are
false.
- Give feedback
- Ask S to read the text on page 21 22
and check their prediction.
- Have S correct false statements.
* Possible answers:
to have a message.
to call someone.
to make arrangements.
to talk to a person.
Who lives far from.
- To get information at the airport or
railway station quickly.
- to emigrate.
- to transimt.
- to conduct = to carryout.
- to demonstrate.
- a device.
- a deaf mute.
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While reading
Guess answer Correction
a
F
He was born in Edinburgh in Scotland.
b
F
………………………Boston University.
c
T
/
d
F
1876
e
F
He experimented with ways of transmitting
f
T
Speech over a long distance.
O rdering : Ask S to look at the book (page 22). Get S to read the events
of Bells life and put them to compare with their partners.
- Ask them to compare with their parners.
Post reading
Writing it up : Get S to write a paragraph about Bells life, using the
information from the text.
1. d
2. e
3. a
4. g
5. c
6. b
7. f
Homework : Ask S to write the paraghaph into their notebooks.
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Lesson Plan Grade 8
Period 12 Date of planning:
Unit 2
Write
I. OBJECTIVES :
Writing a message.
By the end of the lesson, S will be able to write a telephone message.
II. LANGUAGE CONTENTS :
- Grammar: simple past tense.
- Vocabulary: customer, midday, message, furniture, service.
III. METHODS :
Communicative approach
IV. TEACHING AIDS
Text books
V PROCEDURES :
1/ Warm up:
- Greeting
- Roll calling
2/ Presentation:
Activities
Contents
Warm up: jumbledwords
T writes the word letters in a random
order on the board.
S (2 teams) write the correct words
(The team which writes more correct
words first wins the game).
Pre writing: Talk to S about taking a
telephone message.
- Pre teach vocabulary.
* A nswers
1. customer.
2. midday.
3. message.
4. furniture.
5. service.
- Have you ever taken a telephone
message? (Yes / No).
- When you take a message?
- What should be mentioned in the
message? (Date, time, who sent, to whom,
content).
a customer.
a delivery.
stationery.
to pick S.O up.
* A nswers :
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While writing : T asks S to read the
message and fill in the gaps in the
passage on page 23.
(1) phoned (2) May 12 (3) speak
(4) took (5) name (6) delivery
(7) at
* A nswers :
Thanh Cong delivery service.
- Let S work in pairs.
- Ask S to read passage 2 on page 23
to get information and write the
message.
- Let S write individually then share
with a partner.
Post writing:
- Ask S to write another message. Set
the scene: “Tom phoned Nancy, but she
out, Lisa Nancys sister took a message
for Nancy. Help Lisa to write a message.
- Ask S to read the dialogue between
Lisa and Tom then write a message (in
pairs).
- Give feedback.
Date of planning: June 16
Time: After midday
For : Mrs Van
Message: Mr Nam called about his
stationery order. He wanted to call you at
8634082.
Taken by: Mr Toan
* A nswers :
Date :
Time:
For: Nancy
Message: Tom called about playing tennis
this afternoon. He will come over to pick
you up at 1.30
Taken by: Lisa.
Homework : Ask S to write the message on their notebooks.
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Period 13 Date of planning:
Unit 2
Language focus
I. OBJECTIVES :
By the end of the lesson, S will be able to talk about intentions with be going to.
+ Practicing adverbs of place.
II. LANGUAGE CONTENTS :
- Grammar: be going to.
- Vocabulary:
III. METHODS :
Communicative approach
IV. TEACHING AIDS
Text books
V PROCEDURES :
1/ Warm up:
- Greeting
- Roll calling
2/ Presentation:
Activities
Contents
1. Warm up: (telephone transmitting)
2. Consolidation:
T asks some questions to check
students understanding and focus on the
structure be going to.
Practice 1 :
- T ask S to do E
1
on page 25.
- They have to work with a partner
and say What the people are going to do.
- Give an example first.
- Give feedback.
Practice 2:
Model two cues then ask S to repeat
Questions
- What do you intent to do this evening?
- What form of the verbs do you use to
talk about intention ?
Form: S + be + going to + bare-inf
U se : express an intention.
T: Nga has a movie ticket
“What is she going to do?”
S: She is going to see a movie
a. They are going fishing.
b. She is going to read the new novel.
c. She is going to do her homework.
d. He is going to watch it.
e. She is going to give him a birthday
present.
Model sentence
Are you going to see a movie ?
Yes, I am / No, I am not.
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chorally then individually.
- Ask some S to practice asking &
answering.
- Ask the whole class to work in pairs.
- S complete the you and the your
partner columns of questionaire.
3. Revise the adverbs of place
- Make sure S know the meaning of
these adverbs.
Practice 3 :
Ask S to do E
3
on page 26.
T sets the scene Ba is playing hide
and seek with his cousin, Mr Tuan. Use
the adverbs of place to complete the
speech buddles.
S: work in pair then compare with
another pair.
- Give feedback.
3 more activities
- read books.
- go on a picnic.
- go swimming.
* A nswers
a. upstairs.
b. here.
c. downstair.
d. outside.
e. there.
f. inside.
Homework :
Write six sentences about your house using adverbs of place
(Ex: My room is upstairs)
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