English 8 - Week 1

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<b>Period: 1 Unit 1: My friends</b>

<i><b> Date: 20/9/2014 Getting Started + Listen and </b></i>
<b>Read</b>

<b>A. Objectives:</b>

- By the end of the lesson, students will be able to study and
memorize new words to talk about their friends.

- Train reading and listening skills.

- To educate students polite attitude in describing their friends
<b>B. Teaching aids: Tape, computer, projector.</b>

<b>C. Methods:</b>

Eliciting, pairwork, groupwork, ask and answer .
<b>D. Procedure: </b>

<b>1. Organization:</b>

Class Date of teaching Absent
students

8A
8B
8C
8D
8E

<b>Teacher</b> <b>Students</b>

<b>I. Warm up:</b>

<i><b>Getting Started -P10 (computer, projector)</b></i>

-T: “Look at the pictures. These are activities that
Ss often do, now answer my questions ”

+ What are these children doing?
+ Where are they?

+ Are they all boys?
+ Do girls play soccer?
+ Do you like soccer?

+Do you play soccer and where do you often
play soccer?

- Asks Ss to ask and answer the same questions
with each picture.

- Introduces the lesson: Today you are going to
listen and read the dialogue between Hoa and
Lan

<b>II. Presentation:</b>

- Listen
- Answer

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<i><b> Vocabulary </b></i>

- (to) seem (translation): dường như

- (to) look like (example): trơng gióng như

- a next-door neighbor (explanation): người hàng
xóm

- a smile (translation): nụ cười

Checking vocab: Rub Out and Remember

- Sets the scene: “Look at this picture. They are
Hoa and Nien. And now you listen to the
dialogue between Hoa and Lan, Hoa is talking
about her friend Nien.”

<i><b> Pre- questions: (poster)</b></i>

T: “First, you guess and answer these questions”
a. Where does Nien live?

b. How old is Nien?
c. Is she a beautiful girl?
<b>III. Practice:</b>

- Asks students to listen to the tape and check the
answers for the pre- questions.

- Gets feedback and corrects

- Asks students to practice the dialogue
- Introduces model sentense:

She was not old enough to be in my class.
- Concept check

<i><b>Comprehension questions: Computer, projector</b></i>
- Asks students to answer the questions

- Gets feedback and corrects Ss’answers
- Calls some pairs to practice before the class
a. She lives in Hue.

b. No, she doesn’t.

c. “She wasn’t old enough to be in my class”
d. She is going to visit Hoa at Christmas
- Corrects Ss’ pronunciation

<b>IV. Production: Computer, projector</b>
<i><b> Writing: word cues (poster)</b></i>
a. Lan/ Hoa’s best friend.

b. They/ same class/ Quang Trung School.
c. Last year/ Hoa/ to school/ first time.

d. Lan/ show/ around/ introduce/ new friends.

- Asks Ss to write sentenses using the word cues

- Repeat in chorus
- Repeat individually

- Detemine meanings and acent marks
- Copy

- Remember then rewrite the new words
- Listen to the teacher.

- Look at the questions then work in
pairs guessing the answers for the
questions

Answer key
- in Hue

- twelve
- yes, she is.

- Listen twice and check the answers for
the questions

- Call out the answers

- Work in pairs (closed pairs) practicing
the dialogue

- Listen and take note

- Work in pairs (closed pairs)
- Call out the answers

<i><b>Answer key</b></i>

a. She lives in Hue.
b. No, she doesn’t.

c. “She wasn’t old enough to be in my
class”

d. She is going to visit Hoa at Christmas
- Practice again

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- Calls some sts to go to the board to write the
sentences on the board.

- Gives feedback and corrects
* Consolidation: T repeat
<b>V. Homework:</b>

- Learn the new words by heart

- Write the answers in Listen and Read 2 in your
Ex- book

- Do Ex7- P11 (workbook)

- Guides sts to prepare for the new lesson.

Goodbye.

- Listen and take note.
- Listen and take note
Goodbye
<b>Period: 2 Unit 1: My friends</b>
<i><b> Date: 20/9/2014 Speak + Listen</b></i>
<b>A. Objectives:</b>

- By the end of the lesson, students will be able to describe people,
then listen to the tape and complete the conversation using the expressions
given on page 13.

- Train speaking and listening skills.

- To educate students respecful attitude to adults in communication.
<b>B. Teaching aids: Pictures, computer, tape, projector</b>

<b>C. Methods:</b>

Eliciting, pairwork, ask and answer .
<b>D. Procedure: </b>

<b>1. Organization:</b>

Class Date of teaching Absent
students

8A
8B

8C
8D
8E

<b>Teacher</b> <b>Students</b>

<b>I. Warm up:</b>
<i><b> Brainstorming</b></i>

- Asks students to think of the adjectives used to
describe body build and hair

- Give 2 lists of adjs that Ss have learnt
To describe people’s apearance.

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- Introduces the lesson: Today you are going to
speak about people’s appearance

<b>II. Presentation: (Pictures, computer, projector)</b>
<i><b> Vocabulary:</b></i>

- curly (adj) (picture): quăn, xoăn
- blond (adj) (picture): vàng hoe
- bald (adj) (picture): hói (tóc )
- slim (adj) (explanation): mảnh dẻ
- straight (adj) (example): thẳng
- principal (n) Thầy hiệu trưởng
Checking vocab: Slap the board
*

<b> Speaking</b>

<i><b> Presentation Dialogue:</b></i>

- T: “Look at this picture. They are Hoa and Lan.
Hoa is describing someone and asks Lan to
guess. Now listen to their conversation”

- Reads the dialogue twice

- Asks some students to practice the dialogue
before the class.

<i><b> Model Sentenses: Computer, projector</b></i>
- Elicits the models from students

She is short and thin.
She has long blond hair
- Detemine form and use
Form: S + be + adj….

S + have/ has + adj + hair

Use: To talk about someone’s body build and
hair

<i><b> Concept check:</b></i>

<i>- explains some more about the verbs be/ have</i>
<i><b> Picture Drill: P11-13</b></i>

- Gives instructions: Now take turns to make

- Listen to the teacher.

- Listen then repeat in chorus
- Repeat individually

-Determine meanings and acent marks.
- Copy

- Work in groups of 4 slap on English
words when hearing teacher read
Vietnamese meanings

- Pay attention.
- Listen

- Work in pairs (closed pairs) to
practice the dialogue

- Listen and take note.

- A st translate the sentence into
Vietnamese.

- Detemine form and use
Form: S + be + adj….

S + have/ has + adj + hair

Use: To talk about someone’s body
build and hair

- Pay attention

- work in pairs making similar
dialogues to describe the people in the
long

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similar dialogues describing the people in the
pictures, using the adjectives in the table-P11
<i><b> Example:</b></i>

T: He is short and fat. He has bald black hair.
S1: Is this Mr Lai?

T: Yes.

- Asks students to practice the same

- Calls on some pairs to demonstrate their
dialogues before the class.

- Gives feedback and corrects.

<i><b> * Listen: computer, tape, projector</b></i>
Sets the scene.

- Asks Ss to work in pairs, guessing the

expressions to complete the conversations on P13.
- Gets feedback.

- Turns on the tape. Asks Ss to listen to the tape
and correct the predictions.

- Asks ss to listen to the tape again and complete
the conversations.

- Gets feedback and corrects.
<b>III. Production:</b>

- Asks students to describe someone in the class
with their partners

- Gives feedback and corrects
* Consolidation: T repeat
<b>IV. Homework:</b>

- Learn the new words by heart

- Guides students to do exercises in workbook
and prepare for the next lesson.

Goodbye

pictures.

- Some pairs practice their dialogues in
front of class.

- Listen to the teacher then work in
pairs completing the conversations
using the expressions gigen.

- Listen to the tape and check the
predictions.

- Listen to the tape again and complete
the conversations.

- Some Ss to practice the conversations
before class.

- Work in pairs describe someone in
class, then read the descriptions aloud
in front of class.

- Listen and take note.

- Listen and take note.

Goodbye.

<b>Period: 3</b>

<i><b>Date: 20/9/2014</b></i>

<b>Unit 1: My friends</b>
<b> Read</b>

<b>A. Objectives: </b>

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<i><b>- Train reading comprehension skill. </b></i>

- To educate studens how to keep a true friendship
<b>B. Teaching</b><i><b> aids</b></i><b> : Tape, computer, projector.</b>

<b>C. Methods:</b>

Set the scene, groupwork, ask and answer .
<b>D. Procedure: </b>

<b>1. Organization:</b>

Class Date of teaching Absent
students

8A
8B
8C
8D
8E

<b>Teacher</b> <b>Students</b>

<b>I. Warm up: Greeting</b>
Chatting

- Asks students some questions about their

friends:

Do you have any friends?
Where do they live?
Who is your best friend?
What does he/ she look like?
What is he / she like?

- Introduces the lesson: Today you are going
to read a text about Ba and his friends

<b>II. Pre- reading</b>

<i><b>1. Pre- teach vocabulary: </b></i>
- character (n) (expl): tính cách
- orphanage (n) (expl): trại trẻ mồ côi

- sense of humor (n phrase)(example): khiếu
hài hước

- sociable (adj)(expl): dễ hồ đồng
- reserved (adj) (expl): kín đáo, dè dặt
- tell jokes (v) (example): nói đùa

- outgoing (adj) (= friendly): thân thiện, cởi
mở

Checking vocab: Rub Out and Remember
<i><b>2. Set the scene: “Look at this picture. They</b></i>

Greeting
- Answer (WC )

- Pay attention

- Listen carefully
- Repeat in chorus
- Repeat individually

- Determine meanings and acent marks
- Copy

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are friends. Now you read a text in which
someone describes some of his friends. First,
you guess information about the text”

T/F Statements Prediction: computer,
projector.

a. Ba has only three friends: Bao, Song and
Khai. (F )

b. Ba and his friends have the same
characters. (F )

c. Bao, Song and Khai are quite reserved in
public. (F )

d. They all enjoy school and study hard. ( T )
- Asks Ss to guess the T/F Statements

- Gets feedback and writes some guesses on
the board

<b>III. While- reading</b>

- Asks students to read the text once and
check their predictions.

- Gets feedback and corrects.
<i><b>Multiple choice</b></i>

- Asks Ss to read the text again and do Ex1-P
14

- Asks Ss to give their answers.
- Gives feedback and corrects.

<i><b>Comprehension questions: </b></i> <i><b>Computer,</b></i>
projector.

- Asks Ss to do

- Gets feedback and corrects.
Answer key

a. Ba feels lucky having a lot of friends.
b. Bao is the most sociable.

c. Khai likes reading.

d. A bad thing about Ba’s jokes is that
sometimes his jokes annoy his friends.

e. Bao spend his free time doing volunteer
work at a local orphanage.

- Pay attention

- Work in pairs to guess

- Call out the guesses

- Read silently and check the
predictions.

- Call out the answers.
Answer key:

a- F/ b- F /c- F /d- T
- Read the text again

- Work in pairs to do the multiple
choice.

- Give the answers
Answer key

a - A c - B
b - C d - D

- Work in pairs asking and answering
comprehension questions.

- Call out the answers
Answer key

a. Ba feels lucky having a lot of friends.
b. Bao is the most sociable.

c. Khai likes reading.

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<b>IV. Post- reading</b>

- Asks students to talk to one another about
their friends using the adjectives they have
just learnt.

- Calls on some students to check
- Gets feedback and corrects

<i><b>Guessing games( For good students)</b></i>

- Call on one student to go to the board and
describe one of the students of the class.
- Asks the others to guess

* Consolidation: T repeats
<b>V. Homework</b>

<i><b>- Guides students to do exercises 4-6 P8-18</b></i>
in workbook and prepare writing for the next
lesson.

Goodbye.

-Work in pairs talking about their
friends. Then some students talk in front
of class.

- Go to the board to describe one of their
friends. Others listen then guess who
they are.

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