Giáo án Tiếng Anh 8 Unit 2: Making arrangements

Teaching aids: Teacher: textbook, poster, pictures Students: textbook, notebook, pens, rulers.. Main activities: Teacher’s and students’ activities On the board - T asks Ss to match each

GIÁO ÁN ENGLISH 8

UNIT 2: MAKING ARRANGEMENTS

LESSON 1: GETTING STARTED - LISTEN AND READ (P 18, 19)

A Aim: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to use the telephone to make and

confirm arrangements

B Methods: Communicative approach

C Teaching aids: Teacher: textbook, poster, pictures

Students: textbook, notebook, pens, rulers

D Procedure:

I Class organization: 1 minute

II Revision: (5 minutes) WARM-UP

III New lesson:

1 Setting the scene: Included in the WARM-UP

2 Main activities:

Teacher’s and students’ activities On the board

- T asks Ss to match each object (pictures on

P 18) with its name

- T gives the definitions of these objects on a

poster and asks Ss to match the object with

its definition

- Ss match each object (pictures on P 18)

with its name

WARM UP

Definitions:

1 to send fax

2 to find someone's telephone number

3 to write address and telephone numbers

4 to make a phone call in a street telephone box

5 to leave and take messages

- T elicits the vocabulary and models three

times

- T uses ROR to check vocabulary

- T sets the scene: "Hoa and Nga are talking

on the phone They are talking about going

- (to) arrange (translation)

 (to) make an arrangement

II Open prediction:

1 Who made the call?

2 Who introduced herself?

3 Who invited the other to the movies?

4 Who arranged the meeting place?

- T gives feedback

- T asks Ss to read the conversation between

Nga and Hoa on P.19 and gives them

feedback

- Ss work individually reading the

conversation between Nga and Hoa on P 19

- T gives Ss some questions and asks them to

work in pairs to answer Give feedback

- Ss work in pairs answering the questions

- T gets some pairs of Ss to ask and answer

the questions

- Ss ask and answer the questions (open

pairs - closed pairs)

- T hangs the poster of Matching the phrases

with their meanings on the BB and asks

students to work individually

- Ss work individually and give answers

5 Who arranged the time?

6 Who agreed to the time?

WHILE READING

- Expected answers:

1 Nga made the call

2 Nga introduced herself

3 Nga invited Hoa to the movies

4 Nga arranged a meeting place

5 Hoa arranged the time

6 Nga agreed to the time

I Comprehension questions

1 What is Hoa's telephone number?

2 Which movie are they going to see? Where?

3 How is Hoa going to see the movies?

4 Where are they going to meet? What time?

- Expected answers:

1 3847329

2 Dream City

3 By bike

4 Outside Sao Mai movie theater at 6.30

II Matching the phrases with their meanings

a Hold on 1 Nó được chiếu ở đâu?

b Is six thirty all right? 2 Khá xa

- T models the dialogue with a student then

asks the whole class to play the roles of 2 Ss

who are talking on the phone making

- By bike?

-  meet outside theater

- 7.00 p.m?

-  Bye

- Bye

Sample dialogue:

Lan: 3854146Mai: Can I speak to Lan please?

Lan: Yes Lan speaking

Mai: Hello Lan This is Mai

Lan: Hello Mai

Mai: I'm going to see a movie at 7.30 this evening Would you like to come?

Lan: Of course But I have to ask my Mom Hold on Ok She says I can go, where's it on?

Mai: At Sao Mai Movie Theater

Lan: Let's go by bicycle

Mai: Ok Let’s meet outside the theater

Lan: Is 7.00 OK?

Mai: All right See you at 7.00 Bye

Lan: Bye

IV Consolidation: (2 minutes)

- T asks students to go through the main points of the lesson and teacher comments

V Homework:

- T asks students to do exercises 1 & 2 in workbook

- Students prepare Speak + Listen

UNIT 2: MAKING ARRANGEMENTS

LESSON 2: SPEAK & LISTEN (P 20 & 21)

A Aim: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to talk on the phone about

intentions with BE GOING TO and listen to complete a telephone message

B Methods: Communicative approach

C Teaching aids: Teacher: textbook, cards, chart, cassette + CD

Students: textbook, notebook, pens, rulers

D Procedure:

I Class organization: 1 minute

II Revision: (5 minutes) WARM-UP

III New lesson:

1 Setting the scene: Included in the WARM-UP

2 Main activities:

Teacher’s and students’ activities On the board

- T asks Ss to play the game: Divide

students into 2 teams

Rules: “Each team takes turns to choose

any number You have to look at the

pictures to guess what they are If you

have the correct answer, you will get 1

point If any team can give me the red

word before all the crosswords are

found, that team will get 3 points.”

3 (picture)

4 (picture) what are they playing?

5 a child whose parents died

- Students play the games in team

- After the key word “telephone” is

revealed, T asks students the following

questions:

+ Do you have a telephone at home?

+ How often do you make a phone call?

+ What would you say when you pick up

the phone to answer it?

+ What would you say when you are the

- T asks Ss to do exercise 1 on P 20 Ss

have to work in pairs to put the sentences

in the correct order to make a complete

conversation

- T asks Ss some questions to check Ss'

understanding and focus on the structure

GOING TO

1 Are they talking on the phone?

2 What do they intend to do?

3 What time are they meeting? Where?

4 What form of verbs do you use to talk

about intentions?

- Ss’ expected answers:

1 Yes

2 They intend to go to the pop concert

3 They are meeting inside the center at

7.15

4 be going to

- T runs through the vocabulary / first

cues / second cues / all cues

- T models two cues then asks Ss to

repeat chorally then individually

- T asks Ss to practice asking and

Are you going to see a movie?

Yes, I am / No, I'm not

1 see a movie √

2 play sports 

3 meet your friends √

4 help your mother √

5 do your homework 

6 watch TV 

- Set the scene: “Ba and Bao are making

arrangements to play chess."

- Ask Ss to work with their partners to

complete the dialogue

- Ss work in pairs to complete the

dialogue

- Full sentences:

2 Are you going to play sports?

No, I'm not

3 Are you going to meet your friends? Yes, I am

4 Are you going to help your mother?

Yes, I am

5 Are you going to do your homework?

No, I'm not

6 Are you going to watch TV?

No, I'm not

2 Dialogue completion:

Expected answer:

- Can/May I speak to Ba, please? This is Bao

- I’m fine, thanks How about you?

- Can you play chess tonight?

- How about tomorrow afternoon?

- I’ll meet you at the Central Chess Club

- Is 2.00 OK?

3 Role play:

Model dialogue:

Lan: Hello, 3825022Mai: Can I speak to Lan, please? This is Mai

- Students play the role of Ba and Bao

They can change some information like

the model dialogue

- T asks Ss to look at the form of the

telephone message on P 21 and sets the

scene: "a woman phoned the principal of

Kingston junior high school, but he was

out"

- T has Ss guess the message

Lan: Hello, Mai How are you?

Mai: I’m fine I am going to a comedy tonight Would you like to come?

Lan: I’d love to, but I’m afraid I can’t I’m going to help my mom with the housework Mai: How about tomorrow evening?

Lan: Yes I’m free tomorrow evening

Mai: Well, I’ll meet you at Megastar theater Lan: At Megastar theater? Let’s meet outside the theater

Mai: Is 7.00 OK?

Lan: Great See you then

PRODUCTION LISTENING

Prediction

Kingston junior high school

Date:

Time:

For:

Message:

Telephone:

While listening

- Expected answers:

Kingston junior high school Date: Tuesday

- T gets Ss to listen to the tape twice and

fill in the message, compare with their

guess

- T gives feedback

Time: 9.45For: the principalMessage: Mr Mary Nguyen wanted to see you at 9.45 on Tuesday morning

Telephone number: 6468370942

IV Consolidation: (2 minutes)

- T asks students to go through the form and usage of near future tense and teacher comments

V Homework

- Do exercises 3 & 4 in workbook

- Write 5 activities that you intend to do next week

- Prepare Read

UNIT 2: MAKING ARRANGEMENTS

LESSON 3: READ (P 21 - 22)

Aim: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to know more about Alexander

Graham Bell and practise reading skill for specific information

B Methods: Communicative approach

C Teaching aids: Teacher: textbook, pictures of Bell, poster

Students: textbook, notebook, pens, rulers

D Procedure:

I Class organization: 1 minute

II Revision: (5 minutes) WARM-UP

III New lesson:

1 Setting the scene: Included in the WARM-UP

2 Main activities:

Teacher’s and students’ activities On the board

- T asks students to answer the questions

by going to the board and write

+ Students take turns to write the answers

- T elicits: “The telephone has a number of

functions, but do you know who invented

it?”

+ Ss: “Yes, A Graham Bell.”

- T: “Right Today we are going to learn

something about Bell and his great

invention: the telephone”

- T models 3 times and get Ss repeat

- Ss repeat after the T (chorally and

- to talk to a person who lives far from

- to get information at the airport or railway station quickly

PRE - READING

I Pre - teach vocabulary:

- to emigrate (explanation: go to another place to live)

- to transmit (translation)

- to conduct (synonym: what is

the synonym of (to) carry out?)

II True - False prediction

1 Alexander G Bell was born in the USA

2 He worked with deaf-mute patients in a

about A G Bell, some of them are true but

some are false In pairs, predict which

statements are true and which are false”

- T sticks the poster of T/F statements on

the BB and asks Ss to work in pairs and

guess which statements are true and which

are false

- T asks Ss to open their books, read the

text on P 21 – 22 and check their

prediction

- Ss open their books, read the text on P

13 and check their prediction

- T asks Ss to correct false statements

- T asks Ss to read the events of Bell's life

again and put the statements correct order

Then asks them to compare with their

partners

hospital in Boston

3 Thomas Watson was Bell's assistant

4 Bell and Watson introduced the telephone

in 1877

5 Bell experimented with ways of transmitting speech between deaf-mutes over a long distance

6 Bell demonstrated his invention at a lot of exhibitions

WHILE - READING

I Correction

- Expected answers:

1 He was born in Edinburgh in Scotland

2 He worked with deaf-mute patients at Boston University

1 was born in Scotland

2 went to live in Canada

3 went to live in the United States

4 worked with people who could neither

- T calls some pairs to give the answers.

- T sticks poster of “Gap-filling” on board

and asks students to work in pairs

- Ss answer, and then T gives feedback

speak nor hear

5 worked with Thomas Watson

6 successfully demonstrated his invention

7 invented the telephone

III Gap – filling:

1 A G Bell was born in on March

4 In , Bell and Watson introduced a device

5 The first telephone message was:

- T gets Ss to write a paragragh about a

famous figure in groups of 4

- T gets some groups to read their work

aloud for the whole class to comment

passage about Bell

IV Consolidation: (2 minutes)

- T asks students to summarize the passage and teacher comments

V Homework

- Do exercises 5 & 6 in workbook

- Copy the writing (Post-reading)

- Prepare Write

UNIT 2: MAKING ARRANGEMENTS

LESSON 4: WRITE (P 23 - 24)

Aim: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to write a telephone message.

B Methods: Communicative approach

C Teaching aids: Teacher: textbook, poster

Students: textbook, notebook, pens, rulers

D Procedure:

I Class organization: 1 minute

II Revision: (5 minutes) WARM-UP

III New lesson:

1 Setting the scene: Included in the WARM-UP

2 Main activities:

Teacher’s and students’ activities On the board

- T writes the words whose letters are in

random order on the board

- T divides the class into 2 teams: Ss from 2

teams go to the BB and write the correct

words The team writing more correct

words first wins the game

- Students play the game in team

- T talks to Ss about taking a telephone

+ Have you ever taken a telephone

message?

+When you take a message, what should be

mentioned in the message?

- Ss give the answers:

+ Yes / No

+ Date, time, who sent, to whom, content

- T models 3 times and gets Ss repeat

- Ss repeat after the T (chorally and

individually)

- Ss copy down

- T asks Ss to read the message and fill in

the gaps in the passage on P 23

- Ss work in pairs, read the message and fill

in the gaps in the passage on P 23

II Vocabulary:

- delivery service (n) (translation)

- furniture (n) (example = table, chair, desk, bed)

- customer (n) (explanation = a person that buy things from a shop)

- stationery (n) (example = paper, pen, envelope)

- T asks Ss to read passage 2 on P 23 to get

information and write similar message

- Ss work individually, read passage 2 on P

23 to get information and write the

Date: June 16Time: After middayFor: Mrs VanMessage: Mr Nam called about his stationery order He wanted you to call him

For: KevinMessage: Tom called about joining his birthday party this evening He will wait for you at Celadon hotel at 7 p.m

Taken by: David

IV Consolidation: (2 minutes)

- T asks students to state the main points in taking a message

V Homework

- Do exercises 7 & 8 in workbook

- Write a similar message

- Prepare Language Focus 1 & 2

UNIT 2: MAKING ARRANGEMENTS

LESSON 5: LANGUAGE FOCUS 1 + 2 (P 25)

A Aim: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to further practice talking about

intentions with "be going to" and further practice in adverbs of places

B Methods: Communicative approach

C Teaching aids: Teacher: textbook, poster

Students: textbook, notebook, pens, rulers

D Procedure:

I Class organization: 1 minute

II Revision: (5 minutes) WARM-UP

III New lesson:

1 Setting the scene: Included in the WARM-UP

2 Main activities:

Teacher’s and students’ activities On the board

- T divides students into 2 teams and

states the rules of the games: “There are 9

numbers and three of them are storming

You will choose one number and answer

one question If you choose a storming

number, you will be discounted 2 points

and lose your turn 2 points for a correct

answer and no point for an incorrect

answer The other group helps will get 1

point for their correct answer Which

group gets more points wins the game”

- Students of 2 teams take part in the game

- T gives feedback and comments

WARM UP Storming numbers

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

1 SN

2 What are you going to do tomorrow?

3 Are you going to school tomorrow?

4 What are you going to do this weekend?

5 SN

6 SN

7 Are you going to see a movie tonight?

8 What city are you going to visit this