Unit 4 Our past-Tiếng anh 8

Vocabulary : Nouns Adjectives Verbs equipment cruel traditional to appear to look after festival excited upset to escape to shout folk tale magical magically to graze to tie mark II

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UNIT 4 : OUR PAST ( Total : 5 periods )

I.Objective :

Helping students :

-To talk about the past events -To express feelings

-To distinguish between facts and opinions

-To write a short imaginary story

II Language contents :

1 Grammar:

1 Simple past tense

2 Prepositions of time : in,on,at ,after,before,between

3 Used to

2 Vocabulary :

Nouns Adjectives Verbs

equipment cruel traditional to appear to look after

festival excited upset to escape to shout

folk tale magical magically to graze to tie

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III.Preparation: pictures ,flashcards,cassette,poster

IV.Unit allocation

Lesson 1 Getting started

Listen and read Reading the dialogue about about life of many years ago

Lesson 2 Speak Practicing speaking about the way things used to be and the

way they are now

Listen Listening to the folk tale and understand the main idea of the

story

Lesson 3 Read Reading the story “the lost shoes “ for details

Lesson 4 Writing Writing a short imaginary story

Lesson 5 Language forcus Revision and Further Practice in the past simple tense Further

Practice in Used to + inf and prepositions of time

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Week: 7 th Preparing Day: 28/9/2013

I Objectives :

By the end of the lesson, students will be able to tell the activities people used to do in the past

1 Educational aims: Students are able to talk about their past They are proud of their

traditional customs

2 Teaching aims: Reading the dialogue about the life of many years ago.

1 Vocabulary: (n) equipment, folktale, great-grandma, tradition

(adj) traditional

2 Grammar: - Structure: + What like ?

+ used to

III Techniques: Eliciting, True / False

IV Teaching aids: pictures, cassette, sub board

V Procedures:

1 Warm-up: Using the picture and list of

things which don’t belong to the past

Eg: lighting fixture, mobile phone, TV,

stereo

2 Presentation :

-Introduce the dialogue by picture and eliciting

questions

“Who is this ?” “What did Nga’s grandma do

when she was young?”

-Present new words and structure:

New words:

equipment (n)

folktale (n)

light (v) ® lit (past)

great-grandma (n)

tradition (n) ® traditional (adj)

look after (v) = take care of (v)

Structure:

What like ?

Used to + V-infinitive

-True / False prediction : (subboard)

a Nga’s grandma went to school when she

was young

- Play a game

- Work in three groups, go to the board and write Which group write more things is winner -Answer

-Guess -Copy the new words

-Role-play -Read and check -Work in pairs -Individuals

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b She used to watch TV in the evening.

c She cooked the meals and washed clothes

-Present new words and structures

-Ask Ss to read the statements and predict they

are true or false

3 Practice :

-Ask students to read the dialogue between

Nga and her grandma and check their

prediction

-Give feedback

a F (Grandma used to live on a farm)

b T

c F ( She had a hard life )

d T

e ( It is an old folk tale )

-Get Ss to work in pairs ,asking nd answering

questions

-Give feedback.

a She used to live on a farm

b Because she had to stay at home and help her

Mom to look after her younger brothers and

sisters

c She used to cook the meals, clean the house

and wash the clothes

d Her great grandma used to lit the lamp and

her great grand father used to tell stories

She ask ed her grandma to tell her the tale “

The Lost Shoes “

4 Production :

* Explain “Fact” and “Opinion”

* Do model

* Make correction

a F b.F c F d f e O f O

5 Homework :

-Write 5 sentences about your habits in the

past

-Do exercises 1,2 (Page 27) in Workbook

-Prepare the part : Speak

-Do -Exercise 1 (Page :39)

- To read the dialogue between Nga and her grandma and check their prediction

Check True or False

-Work in pairs -Question and answer (Exercise 2)

-Read the statements part 3 on page 39 and decide which is a fact and which is an opinion

VI COMMENTS:

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I Objectives:

-Students can talk about their past, about the things used to be and the way they are now

-By the end of the lesson, students will be able to use “USED TO” talk about the things

they used to do

II Language contents:

1 Vocabulary :

2 Grammar: - used to + V-inf

III Techniques: Brainstorming, eliciting

IV Teaching aids

picture, cassette

V Procedures:

Teacher’s activities

*1 Warm up:

-Use the pictures of a person in the past and now

-Ask questions : What do you think of the picture ?

(in the past and now)

-Have Students find out many changes of this

person (Group work)

Introduction : A person has many changes from the

past up to now : face, lifestyle everything can

change So today we are going to learn Unit 4 .

2 Pre-Speaking : Brainstorming

*What do you think about our life nowadays?

*Is it comfortable?

*Can you imagine the life of our great grandfather?

*Did they have a TV or Mobile Phone?

-T writes some sentences using “used to “ on

the board to emphasize the structure

*In the past, People used to live in small houses.

*In the past, people didn’t use to have a TV set.

*Did they use to have a TV set?

-Hang the pictures in the Textbook

-Ask some questions :

*What do you think about these people?

*How did they travel?

*Where did they live ?

Students’ activities

-Listen to the teacher

Answer:

*Our life is very comfortable

*The life of our great grandfather was very hard

*No, they didn’t

-Work in groups

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-Have Students work in groups to find out many

changes as possible from the pictures

3 While-Speaking :

-Have Students talk about the changes

-Encourage Students to find out many changes as

possible

Possible Answer :

* People used to live in small houses Now people

live in big houses and buildings

* People used to walk on travel Now they can

travel by bike or car.

* There wasn’t any electricity in the past Now,

there is electricity everywhere.

* People used to work hard all the time Now, they

have a lot of time for entertainment.

* Children used to stay home Now, they go to

school .

-Take note the mistakes and correct

4 Post-Speaking :

-Tell the things Students to do last year

Eg: Last year, I used to walk to school, but now I

go to school by bicycle

-Check and correct

5 Homework :

Do exercises 3, 4, 5 (Page 28, 29) in Workbook

Prepare Unit 4: Listen &Language focus

-Individuals

-Work in pairs

VI Comments:

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Period: 23 rd Teaching Day: 8/10/2013

I Objectives :

1 Educational aims :

- Students barn the lesson:” A good person will have a happy life”

- Students are able to barn moral lessons from folktales

2 Teaching aims :

By the end of the lesson, students will be able to understand the main idea of the story by listening, developing listening skill (finding out the main idea and Moral lesson

- Students will be able to understand and retell the story “The Lost Shoe “

1 Vocabulary : (v) lay -> laid, (adj) foolish, greedy, (n) harvest festival, broken heart,

prince, fairy, rag, (adj) upset, (v) drop, fit, fall in love

2 Grammar : - Simple Past Tense

III Techniques :

Eliciting, Questions and Answers, Retell, Find someone who , brainstorm

IV Teaching aids: computer, cassette

V Procedures :

Teacher’s activities A: READ

1 Warm-Up : Eliciting questions:

-Do you like folktales?

-Can you tell me the names of some stories ?

2 Pre-reading :

-Introduce : ‘Today, we are going to read one of

the folktales’

-Look at the title, have students find out the

name of this story in Vietnamese

-Have Students read through the story and tell ‘

Who was Little Pea ?’

‘Who was Stout Nut ?’

‘Whose shoe was lost?’

-Supply the new words :

* broken heart (n)

* harvest festival (n)

* fairy (n)

* rag (n)

-Have Students guess the meanings of the rest

3 While-reading :

Students’ activites

- Answer the questions

- Listen

-Scan the story and answer:

Little Pea was Tam Stout Nut was Cam The lost shoe belonged to Tam.

-Copy the new words

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-Have students read the story in silent.

-Have students do practice 1 (P.42)

*Answer Key:

a farmer d marry

b died e new clothes

c had – again f lost

-Have students do practice 2 (P.42)

Answer the questions

*Answers :

a She was a poor farmer’s daughter.

b She made Little Pea do the chores all day.

c Before the festival started, a fairy appeared

and magically changed her rags into beautiful

clothes.

d The shoe fitted Little Pea

e No, it isn’t Because there is a fairy

4 Post-reading :

-Rearrange the story (Sub board)

a Her father died of a broken heart 3

b Little Pea was a daughter of a poor farmer 1

c Little Pea didn’t have new clothes for the

harvest festival 4

d Her step-mother was very cruel to her 2

e She lost her shoe at the festival 6

f She had her beautiful clothes magically 5

g The prince fell in love with Little Pea 8

h The prince wanted to marry the shoe owner

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B LISTEN

1 Pre-Listening :

-Brainstorming by questions:

* Do you always read folktales ?

* Which folktales do you like best ?

* What do you learn from that story ?

-Introduce the topic: “We are going to listen to

one of those stories”

-Ask some questions:

Have you ever seen the gold eggs?

Do you like cartoon “Tom and Jerry” ?

® Moral Lesson

Vocabulary:

* lay (v) ® laid greedy (adj)

-Silent reading

- Group work

- Work in pairs

- Work in groups

Answer :

a Yes, I do.

b I like Tam Cam story best.

c Don’t be cruel to someone.

-Listen -Answer

-Listen and repeat new words

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* foolish (adj) * collect (v)

* in amazement

-Have Students listen and decide which of the

following is the most suitable moral lesson

a Don’t kill chickens

b Don’t be foolish and greedy

c Be happy with what you have

d It’s difficult to find gold

2 While-Listening :

-Play the tape (3 times)

-Have Students tell the main idea of the story

according to their understandings

-T summarizes and gives the answer

“ Don’t be foolish and greedy”

3 Post-Listening :

-Story telling

Have Students tell a story according to their

understandings: (Students can use their own

words or phrases)

-Call some presentations to tell their stories

*Content of listening

Once a poor farmer lived a comfortable life

with his family His chickens laid many eggs

which the farmer used to buy food and clothing

for his family.

One day, he went to collect the eggs and

discorved one of the chickes laid a gold eggs

He shouted excitedly to his wife,”We’re rich!

We ‘re rich!”

His wife ran to him and they both looked the

egg in amazement The wife wanted more, so

her husband decided to cut open all the

chickens and find more gold eggs

Unfortunately he couldn’t find any eggs When

he finished all the chickens were dead.

There were no more eggs of any kind for the

foolish farmer and his greedy wife

6 Homework :

-Tell a story

-Do exercises 5, 6 (Page 29,30) in WB

-Prepare Unit 4 Write

-Read the lessons

-Listen and choose the suitable moral lesson

-Groups of 6

VI Comments:

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CORRECTING TEST 1

I OBJECTIVES :

-Correcting some mistakes which students have done, explaining what most students didn’t do well such as rewrite the sentences, finding out words learned

II.COMMENTS :

1.Comment on the students’ result

Class Sts

Pron Vocabulary and Grammar Speaking Reading

Writing Transfor Guided

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 1 2 1 2 3 4 8A1 26 15 12 15 15 12 16 15 13 15 13 16 17 18 18 12 11 6 5 4 4 1 3 14 22 12 18 0 9 8 8 5 8A2 25 21 18 19 20 23 24 20 23 22 23 25 23 21 22 20 18 12 12 9 13 10 11 23 25 22 24 2 21 21 21 20 8A3 25 14 9 18 16 19 13 13 16 12 18 21 15 17 14 14 9 5 7 2 4 3 2 14 21 12 19 0 10 6 9 4 Total 76 50 39 52 51 54 53 48 52 49 54 52 55 56 54 46 38 23 24 15 21 14 16 51 68 46 61 2 40 35 38 29

2 Comment on theme of the test :

The test is suitable for the students’ knowledge There are three requirements in the test : recognization, understanding and application,they are suitable for three types of the

students : poor students, fair students and good students

3 Comment on teacher’s teaching:

Teacher helped students revise the knowledge from unit 1 to unit 3 carefully Teacher guided students how to learn and to remember the grammar structures, vocabulaty effectively The teacher gave a lot of exercises for students to practice However, students didn’t pay attention to studying They didn’t revise the old lesson before doing the test, so their result is not good

III PROCEDURES

1 Giving the test for all the students:

Teacher: give the test for all the students

Students : see their tests carefully and recognize their mistakes

2 Correcting the test :

THEME 1

A PRONUNCIATION

*Choos the word that has the underlined part pronunced differently from others

1 B 2 A

B VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR

*.Choose the most suitable word or phrase to fill in the blanks

3 B 4 D 5.C 6.B 7.A 8.C

9 D 10.D 11.C 12.B 13.D 14.D

C SPEAKING

*Choose the most suitable word or phrase to fill in the blanks

15 A 16 B

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I Reading the following passage and choose the best answer for each blank

II.Reading the passage below and choose one correct answer for each question

1 He invented the telephone in 1876

2 He moved to Canada when he was twenty-three/ he moved to Canada in 1870

3 Yes, he did

E WRITING

I Complete each of the following sentences in such a way that it has the same meaning as the

sentences printed before it

1 Peter is good enough to answer the questions

2 He ought to study hard

II Complete the sentences with the words provided

1.There is a desk on the left of the room

2 On the desk, there are many folders

3 Next to the desk is the bed

4 On the other side of the room, there is a window

THEME 2

A.READING