Unit 8 lesson 6 revision period 49 51 week 17

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TuÇn: 17
49-51
Ngµy so¹n:
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TiÕt:
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revision
for the first semester test
A. The objectives
- By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to do some revision on the
vocabulary and structures learned in the last units. They’ll improve their
listening, reading and writing skills.
b. content: Vocabulary: Words to talk about study habits; words to talk
about school life/ activities; words to talk about future plans: play soccer, plant
trees, save natural resources, raise funds, etc
Words to talk about characters and appearance; words to talk about home/
house and the chores;
words to talk about comparisons: the same as, different from,
words to describe country and city life: modern, busy, noisy, dirty,
entertainments, comfortable, fresh air, etc
Grammar: Present tenses with future meaning. Reported speech: commands,
requests, advice. Gerunds. Modals: Can, could, May to ask for favors, offer
assistance. ‘Used to’ to talk about past habits. Adverbs of manner: hard, fast,
well, etc.

enough + to infinitive; going to to talk about intentions; simple tenses; modal
verbs: must/ have to/ ought to;
The present perfect tense with how long, for/ since
Comparisons: comparatives and superlatives, equal comparisons,
The present progressive tense to show changes
C. Materials: Transparent papers, OHP, exercises,
Work arrangements: Individuals, pairs, groups, T-WC
Anticipated problems: Too many target items practiced
D. Procedure
I. Warmer
II. Checking the old
lesson
III. New lesson
I. Grammar and
Vocabulary
1. Modal verbs: Can/ Could/
May/ must/ have to/ ought
to/ should
- Can/ Could/ May Asking
for favors & Responding
- Can/ Could/ May Offering
assistance & Responding
- must/ have to/ ought to/
should to talk about
obligation and advice

I. Grammar & Vocabulary
1. Modal verbs
Can I speak to Eric, please?  Request
Could you do me a favor, please?

Could you show me the way to the nearest
bank, please?  Asking for favors.
May I help you?  Offering assistance
2. Gerunds
I enjoy drawing and I like traveling
He loves playing the guitar
She hates gardening
3. Tenses

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2. Gerunds
Use: after some specific
verbs: like, love, enjoy,
hate, dislike, etc
3. Tenses:
3.1 Present tenses with
future meaning
Study the examples
Form:
Use:
3.2 Used to
Study the examples
Form:
Use: to talk about past
habits
3.3 Future simple tense and

Going to
Going to to talk about
intentions
Will: to talk about someone
decides to do something at
the time of speaking; to
give offers/ promise/
request/ invitations/ etc
Ask students to do
exercises in the workbook
Unit 2 Ex1,2,3
3.4 The present perfect
tense with How long, for/
since
Study the examples
Form:
Use:
Exercises
3.5. The present
progressive tense
Study the examples:
Meaning:
Form:
Use: to show changes
4. Adverbs of manner
Adjectives  adverbs
Form:
Use: an adverb modifies an
action
5. Reported speech

Study the example
Notes: Changes in reported
speech
Commands, requests,

When do they collect and empty garbage?
On January 9th
What time do they start and finish work?
They start at 8.00 a.m. and finish at 5.00
p.m.
When are you arriving?
On Thursday
Is the boat to Dong Hoi leaving at 10.25?
No, it’s been delay. Now it’s leaving at
10.40
3.2 Used to
He used to get up late last year, but now
he gets up early.
3.3. Will or Going to
I have a ticket for a concert. I’m going to
the concert tonight.
Will you open the door for me, please?
3.4. The present perfect tense:
We’ve been here since last week
How long have you lived here?
We’ve lived here for about ten years.
3.5 The present progressive tense
We should go home. It’s getting dark
Your English is improving a lot.
4. Adverbs of manner

He always gets good grades, that’s
because he works hard
He speaks English quite well
5. Reported speech: Commands, requests,
advice
“Please give Tim this dictionary”
She told me to give you this dictionary
“Can you help Tim with his Spanish
pronunciation?”
She asked me to help you with your
Spanish pronunciation
6. Enough/ Too
He is not old enough to drive a car
He is too young to drive a car
7. Comparisons
7.1 Equal comparisons:
He is as tall as I am
The apartment is not as expensive as the
house
7.2. Unequal comparisons: Comparatives
and superlatives
The house is bigger than the apartment
The villa is the biggest of the three
8. Vocabulary
Words to talk about the chores
Words and phrases to give advice
Words to talk about people’s appearance

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advice in reported speech:
S + told
+ smb + to V/
not to V
asked
advised

and characters.
Words describing home and house
Words to talk about the Y&Y activities,
school life: take part in, plant trees, raise
funds, help save, earn some money, etc
Words and expressions to ask for favors
6. Enough/ Too
and offer assistance
Study the examples
Words to talk about study habits; improve,
Form:
learn by heart, revise, etc
Exercises:
Words to talk about future plans
7. Comparisons
Words to talk about the country and city
7.1 Equal comparisons
life
Study the examples:
II. Skills

Form:
III. Exercises
Use:
Exercise 1
7.2 Comparatives and
1. I will be back _______ 8.30 and 9.30.
superlatives
(at/ between/ from/ after)
Study the example:
2. My elder sister enjoys _____
(cook/
Form:
to cooking/ cooking/ to be cooking)
Use:
3. ______ do you have English? - Three
8. Vocabulary
times a week. (How long/ How often/ How/
Words to talk about the
When)
chores
4. Tim was born ___ December 30, 1975
Words and phrases to give
(at/ in/ on/ during)
advice
5. ‘Could you help me, please?’ - ‘
Words to talk about
_____________’
people’s appearance and
(No problem/ No, thank you/ No, I'm fine/
characters.

Not at all)
Words describing home and 6. You have to fill ________________ your
house
application form.
(on/ in/ at/ over)
Words to talk about the Y&Y 7. In the past people ____ in small houses
activities, school life: take
and cottages (used to living/ used to live/
part in, plant trees, raise
were used to live/ was used to living)
funds, help save, earn
8. Miss Jackson asked me____ you this
some money, etc
dictionary. (give/ giving/ to giving/ to give)
Words and expressions to
9. Tim's mother is always proud _________
ask for favors and offer
him because he works so hard. (with/ about/
assistance
of/ at)
Words to talk about study
10. “Would you like some coffee?” –
habits; improve, learn by
“________”
(Yes, I’m glad you like it/ Yes, please/ No,
heart, revise, etc
Words to talk about future
thank you. I’m fine/ Of course)
plans
11. The goods in the new stores will be ……

II. Skills
the ones here.
1. Listening
A. the same with B. the same as
C.
- Listen and complete the
the same to
D.
different
form
as
- Listen and complete the
12. He is not old enough ...... a motorbike.
report card
A. riding
B. to ride C. ride
- Listen and order the
D. rode
sentences to make a
13. Some people try to learn new words
complete story
and phrases ……

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Notes:
Read the requirement

Prediction

A. by heart
B. by the heart
C.
in the heart
D. with heart
14. The children enjoy................. to
traditional stories.
A. listen
B. listened
C. listening D. listens
2. Reading
15. He prefers country life …… city life.
- Read the text about
A. more than
B. to
C. better than
D.
learning words and answer
than
the questions
16. We …… English since 2003.
A. learn
- Read the text about study
B. are learning
C. learnt
D.
habits and decide whether
have learnt

the statement is true or
17. … did you get to school yesterday? – I
false
walked. A. How B. How often
C. How
Notes: skimming skill for
long D. How far
main ideas: Read the title,
18. I’m glad that you had an …… Christmas
topic sentences of the
vacation. A. enjoyment B. enjoying C.
paragraph
enjoyable D. enjoyably
+ scanning skill to get
19. Can you…… me the way to the nearest
specific information: Read
bank?
A. show
B. getC. take
the questions first then find
D. give
the information in the text,
20. The Y&Y is planning to help the
focus on the key words
community by …… all members to
3. Writing
participate in a recycling program.
- Write a letter to a friend to A. encourage
B. encouraged
talk about your report

C. encouraging
D.
- Write a letter to a friend to encouragement
talk about your Y&Y activity
intentions/ arrangements
Exercise 2
- Write a story using the
1. Your friend: Could you do me a favor,
suggested words/ phrases.
please?
Notes:
You: ______________________________________?
Tenses:
Your friend: Can you help me fix my bike? It
Structures:
has a flat tire.
Function words:
You:
+ articles
___________________________________________
+ possessive pronouns
Your friend: Thank you very much. That’s
+ some/ any/ a lot of
very kind of you.
+ connectives: and/ but/ so/ 2. You:
because/ etc
____________________________________?
+ prepositions: on/ in / at/
Tourist: Yes. Can you show me how to get
for/ etc

to the post office, please?
You: _______________________________________
Exercise 5
____________________________________________
1. I/ happy/ tell/ you/ I/
Tourist: Thanks a lot.
going/ join/ the Y&Y Green
You: _______________________________________
Group.
Exercise 3
2. The Y&Y Green Group/
1. Tom is taller than Mary.
planning/ have/
A. Tom is tall and so is Mary
environment week.
B. Tom is as tall as Mary
3. We / going/ sweep and
C. Mary isn’t so tall as Tom
tidy/ the roads/ near our
D. Mary is as short as Tom
school.
2. She started learning English ten years

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4. We/ going/ plant trees
and flowers/ the school

garden/ water /them/
everyday.
5. We/ also/ plant / young
trees / sell/ other schools.
6. We/ hope/ give/ more
green color/ our school/
and/ earn / money/ our
school Y&Y.
7. It/ interesting/ activity?
8. Write/ me/ tell/ your
news.
Exercise 6

My son is a secondary
school student. He goes to
school five days a week and
studies many subjects at
school. Last week I went to an
end-of-semester meeting with
his form-teacher and she gave
me his report card. I was
shocked to know that he
worked excellently on Math,
Physics, Chemistry, English
but he had poor results with
the other subjects such as
Geography, History. I found
out that he is clever but lazy.
He doesn’t like to learn his
lessons by heart. His final

result was only satisfactory.
The form-teacher advised me
to talk some sense into him
when I returned home. I came
home and told him about his
result. He only smiled and
said that was all he could do
with Geography and History.
Oh, what can I do?

ago.
A. She has not learnt English before.
B. She has learnt English
since ten years.
C. She started learning English for ten
years.
D. She has learnt English
for ten years.
3. My mother is very tired. She can’t cook
tonight.
A. My mother is so tired to cook tonight.
B. My mother is too tired to
cook tonight
C. My mother is very tired but she can cook
tonight.
D. My mother is tired so
as to cook tonight.
4. “Can you open the door for me, please?”
she said to me.
A. She asked me to open the door for her.

B. She said she could
open the door
C. She said to me that I can open the door
for her
D. She asked to
open the door for me
Exercise 4
1. You must not let children to play in the
kitchen because it is a dangerous place.
2. I used to stayed on a farm with my
grandparents and my parents.
3. He doesn’t know that my father is
different to other people in my family.
4. My uncle has worked in that company
since ten years now.

1. How often does he go to
school?
2. What did his formteacher give his mother?
3. How did he work on
Math?
4. Were his Geography and
History results good?
5. What did the teacher
advise his mother to do?
IV. Consolidation
Vocabulary: Words to talk about study habits; words to talk about
school life/ activities; words to talk about future plans: play soccer, plant
trees, save natural resources, raise funds, etc

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Grammar: Present simple with future meaning. Reported speech:
commands, requests, advice. Gerunds. Modals: Can, could, May to ask for
favors, offer assistance. ‘Used to’ to talk about past habits. Adverbs of
manner: hard, fast, well, etc.
V. Homework
Study vocabulary and structures by heart
Do the exercises again
Prepare for the test

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