Giáo án Tiếng Anh 8 - Unit 1: My Friends

 and answer, eliciting, 
IV. Teaching aids: exercises, 
V. Procedure:
Review the tenses which they have learnt.
I. SUMMARY OF TENSES
1. Simple Present Tense 
 I / We / You / They / + V + O 
 He / She / It  + V(s/es ) + O 
* Negative: I / We / You / They /  + don’t + V + O 
 He / She / It  + doesn’t + V + O
* Question Do + I / We / You / They / + V + O ?
 Does + He / She / It  + V + O ?
 2.Simple Past Tense 
 S + V ( simple past ) + O 
* Negative : S + Didn’t + V + O
* Question: Did + S + V + O ?
3. Simple future Tense 
S + Will + V + O
* Negative : S + Will + not + V + O
 Will + not = won’t 
* Question: Will + S + V + O ?
Near Future : Be going to + V(infinitive 
4. Present Continuous Tense : 
S + Am / Is / Are + V-ing + O
* Negative : S + Am / Is / Are + Not + V-ing + O
* Question: Am / Is / Are + S + V-ing + O ?
II.PREPOSITIONS OF TIME :
 - On+ thứ / ngày /tháng ngày .
 - In + tháng / năm / mùa / buổi .
 - At night /  o’clock .
 - For + 1 khoảng thời gian ( a year / a week / Two days / a long time .)
 - Since + 1 mốc thời gian ( 1989 / last year / yesterday )
 - Between  and.
 - Up to / until 
III..COMPARATIVE . SO SÁNH .
 	a. Equative : so sánh bằng 
 S + be (not) + as + Ajective + as 
 b. Comparative : so sánh hơn 
S + Be + Short Adjective – ER + Than + ..
S + Be + More -Long Adjective + Than + ..
 c. Superlative : so sánh nhất 
S + Be + The + Short Adjective – EST + Noun
S + Be + The + Most - Long Adjective + Noun 
Short Ajective : tính từ ngắn( tt một âm tiết ) 	
Long Ajective : tính từ dài (tt có 2 âm tiết trở lên) 
d. Irregular adjectives:
Good / well - better - the best 
Bad - worse - the worst 
Many - more - the most 
Little - less - the least 
VI. FORM OF VERBS :( DẠNG ĐỘNG TỪ )
 Có 3 dạng ĐT :Bare infinitive ( V ) .To infinitive ( To V ).Gerund (V-ing )
 1. Bare infinitive 
 Động từ nguyên mẫu đứng sau các động từ sau :
 - Modal Verbs / would rather / had better / let / make / feel / see / hear / notice/used to + V 
To infinitive 
 Động từ nguyên mẫu có to đứng sau các động từ sau :
 -want / intend / decide / expect / hope / mean / offer / promise / refuse / wish / ask / 
 invite/agree/ advise / start / try / remember / would like / stop / regret ..+ To infinitive 
 - Be + Adjectives + To infinitive .
 3.Gerunds after some words :
 Động từ gerund (V-ing ) đứng sau các động từ sau :
like, love, dislike, hate , enjoy , avoid, stop , suggest, ask + V-ing 
 want , intend , start , begin , try , mind, finish, tell 
Prepositions ( on / in / of / for/ of /at .) + V(infinitive)
Be + Adjective + to infinitive 
 c.Exercises :
Supply the past forms of the following verbs :
buy → 	put →
come →	wear →
take →	speak →
teach →	send →
think →	see →
Supply the correct form of verbs :
Everyday Hoa ____________(get) up at 6 o’clock.
I ____________ (borrow) a book yesterday.
Last week Nam _____________ (be) ill ,so she __________ (go) to see a doctor.
Lan and Mai ____________ (play) badminton when they were young.
3.New material :
-Introducing how to learn best English 8.
Preparation :
Books : Student’s book & Exercise book
Notebook : Notebook in class & Exercise notebook at home.
Introducing ‘English 8’ :
English 8 consists of 16 units. Each unit contains 8 parts.
Getting started, listen & read	- Listen
Speak	- Write
Read 	- Language Focus
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 UNIT 1	MY FRIENDS 
The total period: 5
I Objectives:
	Helping students:
	-To introduce the people.
	-To respond to introductions.
	-To describe people.
	-To write about themselves and about other people .
II. Language contents:
 	1. Grammar:
	1. Present simple to talk about general truths .
	2. ( Not ) + Adjectives + enough + to infinitive.
	3. Simple past tense (Review)
	2. Vocabulary:
	 Nouns	Adjectives	Verbs
 character blond sociable	annoy
 joke	slim	straight	rise
 orphanage	curly	volunteer	seem
	public	fair	reserved	set
	generous humorous	lift
II. Skills:
	Listening	Speaking	Reading	Writing
IV. Procedures:
Lesson 1
Getting started Listen and read 
Reading for details a conversation 
Lesson 2
Speak + Listen
Practicing in describing someone. Listen for details to complete the dialogue.
Lesson 3
Read
Reading a text for details about Ba’s friends
Lesson 4
Write
Writing about oneself and about other people.
Lesson 5
Language focus
Revision of simple present and simple past tense. ( Not ) + Adjectives + enough + to infinitive
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Week: 1st	 Preparing Day: 25/08/2012
Period: 2	 Teaching Day: 29/08/2012
UNIT 1	MY FRIENDS 
Lesson 1	GETTING STARTED + LISTEN AND READ
I. Objectives:
Teaching aims: At the end of the lesson, students can introduce people and describe people.
II. Language contents:
	1. Vocabulary:
 Verbs: To seem , to look like .
	 Nouns: a next door neighbor .
	2. Structures:	-What do / does . . . look like ? (What does she look like ?)
	-Adj / Adv + enough + to infinitive. (She wasn’t old enough to be in my class)
	-What + Noun (What a lovely girl!)
III. Techniques: Eliciting, questions and answers
IV. Teaching aids: pictures, cassette.
V. Procedure:
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
1.Warm up : Getting Started
-Introducing the topic: Ask Sts to give out some activities in their free time.
-Introducing the pictures (Page 10)
-Questions : Example (Picture a)
* What are these children doing?
* Where are they?
* Are they all boys?
* What time of the day do you think it is?
* Do girls play soccer?
* Do you like playing soccer?
-Ask Sts to work in pairs: Ask and answer about the other pictures.
-Checking some pairs.
-Asking similar questions about the students.
2. Presentation :
-Introducing the topic : Describe friends
-Use the picture and ask some questions.
* Who’s Hoa?
* Where is she from? * Who does she live with now ?
-Introducing the dialogue : Hoa is talking to
Lan and describing her friend, Nien.
-Play the tape.
-Eg: I play soccer with my friends (table-tennis, chess, volleyball. . .)
Picture a : Possible answers 
* These children are playing soccer.
* They are in the village common.
* Yes, they are.
* It’s in the afternoon.
* Yes, they do.
* Yes, I do.
-Teacher – Individuals
-Work in pairs.
-Ask and answer about the pictures.
-Teacher – Individuals.
-Listen
-Look and answer.
-Listen and repeat.
-Introducing vocabulary and the structures: by using the situation in the dialogue.
*Vocabulary : 
Verbs : To seem , to look like .
Nouns : a next door neighbor .
*Structures : 
What do / does . . . . look like ?
(not) adj + enough + to infinitive
What + Noun ! (what a lovely girl !)
3.Practice :
Practice 1 :
Practice 2 : Questions
a. Where does Nien live?
b. Does Lan know Nien?
c. Which sentence tells you that Hoa is older than Nien ?
d. When is Nien going to visit Hoa ?
4. Production :
1.Ask and answer about a friend .
2.Make sentences using the following cues .
6. Homework :
-Learn the structures and the new words by heart.
-Do exercises 1, 2 in workbook (page 5, 6)
-Listen 
-Copy vocabulary and the structures 
- Find examples in the dialogue
-Practice the dialogue with a partner .
-Work in pairs.
a. Nien live in Hue.
b. No. She doesn’t know Nien .
c. ’She wasn’t old enough to be in my class’
d. She is going to visit Hoa ay Christmas .
-Work in pairs .
a. Lan / enough / strong / lift the stone .
b. They / not / old / enough / drive / car .
-Write down the homework . 
VI. Comments
_________–&—__________
Week: 1st	 Preparing Day: 25/08/2012
Period: 3	 Teaching Day: 31/08/2012
UNIT 1	MY FRIENDS 
Lesson 2	SPEAK AND LISTEN
I. Objectives :
	1. Teaching aims: - Developing speaking skill for describing one’s appearance.
	 - Listening skill for completing the dialogues.
	2. Educational aims: - At the end of the lesson, and describe others. 
	 - Students can know how to greet each other
II. Language contents :
	1. Vocabulary : (adj) slim, blond, curly, fair, bold, straight .
	2. Structures :	 Review (V) ‘to be’ and ‘to have’
	S + have/has + adj +hair.
	S + be + adj
	Expressions : Nice to meet you .
	The pleasure is all mine.
	How do you do?
III. Techniques : ask and answer, eliciting, picture description, gap-filling
IV. Teaching aids : pictures, sub boards, cassette.
 V. Procedures :	
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
1. Warm up :
* Play the game: Brainstorming :
-Ask students to think of the adjectives used to describe body build and hair .
	thin	short
Body build
 hair
	Body build	
2.Pre-Speaking :
-Using the pictures to explain the new words
*Vocabularies :
( Adj ) : curly, bold, slim, fair, straight
-Asking the Sts to read the dialogue
-Review ‘to be’ and ‘to have’
*Form :
S + have / has + Adjectives + hair 
S + be + Adjectives
3.While-Speaking :
-Ask Sts to practice dialogue 1
Hoa :This person is short and thin .
 She has long blond hair.
Lan : Is this Mary ?
Hoa : Yes .
-Ask Sts to use Adjectives below to replace: long, tall, . . . 
-Ask Sts to describe people through pictures to make similar dialogue.
-Have Sts practice new dialogues.
4. Post-Speaking : (Guessing game)
-Call a student to describe a student of his class. (guess who he is . . . ) 
-Ask Sts to complete the sentences given by the teacher
1. He / thin / tall / 
2. She / short brown hair .
3. She / slim / 
4. She/ long black hair.
B. LISTEN
1. Pre-listening :
-Reviewing the expressions of greetings in the box.
-Skimming the dialogues to know the contents and they can guess how to complete the dialogues.
2. While-listening :
-Play the tape (3 times)
*Answer key :
(1):I’d like you to meet .
(2): Nice to meet you .
(3): I’d like you to meet .
(4): It’s pleasure to meet you .
(5): Come and meet.
(6): How do you do .
3. Post-listening :
-Checking the answers by calling 4 Sts to write on the board / correct.
-Ask Sts to make similar dialogues 
.
4. Homework :
-Do exercises 3,4,5 6 in workbook (Page 7,8,9)
-Describe your close friend.
 -Learn by heart the structures
- Prepare SECTION READ.
-Play game
- List out some adjectives to describe one’s build and hair.
-Listen and repeat the new words
-Read
-Listen
-Role-play
-Work in pairs.
-Describe pictures (Individuals)
-Work in pairs.
-Work in groups.
-Complete the sentences given by the teacher
-Listen and repeat the expressions
-Work in pairs
-Compare with your partner
-Listen and write the answers. Compare the answers with their guessing.
-Check their answers
-Teacher –the whole class.
 VI. Comments
_________–&—__________
Week: 2nd	 Preparing Day: 1/09/2012
Period: 4	 Teaching Day: 4/09/2012
UNIT 1	MY FRIENDS 
Lesson 3	READ
I. Objectives : 
1. Educational aims: 
Students should know about their friend’s characters and hobbies.
2. Teaching aim : 
Reading for specific information and the end of the lesson ,students will be able to know about Ba’s friends 
II. Language contents :
1. Vocabulary :
 sociable, generous, reserved, outgoing, volunteer, local orphanage, sense of humor ,tell jokes, 
2. Grammar : Simple present.
III. Techniques : -picture description , True / False guessing, question-answer, multiple choice.
IV. Teaching aids : pictures, sub boards, poster
V. Procedures :
1.Warm-up :
- Have Sts answer some questions
-Do you have any close friends?
-How many close friends do you have?
-How old are they? 
-Where do they live?
-What are they like?
-What do they look like?
-Do you and they have the same or different characters ?
2. Pre-Reading :
-Have students guess how many close friends Ba has, how they look like.
-Introducing some new words through Sts’ answer : *Vocabulary :
- Character (n)
- sociable (adj)
- generous (adj)
- reserved (adj)
- volunteer (adj)
- local orphanage (n)
- annoy (v)
-Have students read the words.
-Stick 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 students to work in pairs.
a. Ba only has three friends –Bao , Song and Khai 
b. Ba and his friends have the same character .
c. Bao –Song and Khai are quite reserved in public.
d. They all enjoy school and study hard .
3.While-Reading :
-Have students open their book and read the text(page13 ,14 ) in silence and check their predictions
 -Get feedback
 a.F b.F c.F d.T
-Ask students to correct false statements
*Multiple choice
-Ask students to read the text again and choose the best answer (practice 1)
-Asking students to cross check
-Get feedback
 a. A b. C c. B d. D
*Comprehension questions :
-Have Sts answer the questions in pairs.
-Get feedback
*Answer key:
a He feels lucky having a lot of friends .
b. Ba is the most sociable .
c. Khai like reading .
d. His jokes sometimes annoy his friends .
e. Bao spends his free time doing volunteer work at a local orphanage.
f. Sts’ answers
4.Post-Reading :
-Have students look at the pictures to summarize the text in groups.
-Have Sts work in groups and talk to one another about their close friends, using the adjectives they have just learnt to describe.
5. Homework :
-Do exercises : 5 / P.9 (Workbook)
-Write a short passage to describe your close friends .
-prepare the section Write
-Listen to the teacher and answer the questions.
-Guessing
-Answer (individual)
-Read (chorus and individual)
-Work in pairs
-Guessing
-Read silently.
- Check their predictions
-Correct false statements
-Cross check
-Giving feedback
-Work in groups
-Work in pairs 
-Giving feedback
-Individual
-Work in groups
-Write homework
VI. Comments
Week: 2nd	 Preparing Day: 01/09/2012
Period: 5	 Teaching Day: 07/08/2012
UNIT 1	MY FRIENDS 
Lesson 4	WRITE
LANGUAGE FOCUS 3
I. Objectives :
 1. Educational aims: Students should know about their friend’s characters and hobbies.
 2. Teaching aims: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to write a paragraph about their friends.
II. Language contents:
1. Vocabulary: humorous (adj)
2. Grammar: Review
III. Techniques: network, question-answer, eliciting
IV. Teaching aids : poster
V. Procedures :
Teacher’s activities
1. Warm up :
 *Kim’s game :
-Ask students to look at the picture on page 17 quickly (for 20 seconds ).Then let them keep their books closed .
-Divide the class into four groups.
-Give students three questions, the group which answers correctly the fastest wins the game.
a. How many people are there in the picture?
b. What does each person look like?
b. What is each person wearing?
Answer:
a. There are four people in the pictures
b. There is a tall, heavy-set man; there is a tall, thin woman with short hair; there is a boy sitting on the ground, holding his head, and there is a short man standing across the street.
c. The man standing next to the taxi is wearing a yellow shirt and black trousers; the woman is carrying a shoulder bag, and is wearing a green skirt and red blouse. The man across the street is wearing blue trousers and a pink shirt.
2. Pre-Writing :
-Have students read information about Tam and a description of Tam.
-Have students compare information in a paragraph with short information above.
-Asking some questions about Tam :
* How old is Tam?
* What does he look like?
* What is he like?
* Who are his friends?
3. While-Writing :
-Make a similar form for your partner. Using the following questions : (Practice 2)
-List out some Adjectives to describe the characters and appearance before carrying out pair work. (Networks)
-Call some students to read their forms and correct mistakes.
-Ask students to write some information about one of their friends ,then write a paragraph about him / her .
-Get students to share with their partners and correct if possible .
-Give feedback
4. Post-Writing :
-Ask each student to write a similar paragraph about himself / herself.
-Move around the class and help students ,then ask some students to speak in front of the class about himself / herself.
5.Homework : 
-Do exercise : 7 / P.11 (W.B)
-Ask students to write another paragraph about one of their family members.
Students’ activities
-Play game 
-Divide the class into four groups and then answer the questions 
-Read
-Compare (Individual)
* Answer
* Tam is 14 years old
* He’s tall and thin and has short black hair.
* He is sociable, humorous, helpful.
-Work in pairs
Eg:
Name : Age :
Appearance :
Characters :
Address :
Family : Friends :
 Sociable Reserved
characters
 Generous Kind Mean 
 Outgoing shy
 Long Hair Big Nose
appearances
	 thin
 Curly hair Fat	 short
 Tall Attractive Slim Shy 
 -Write (Individual)
- Give feedback (self-correct / teacher corrects)
- Write a similar paragraph about himself / herself.
- Some students to speak in front of the class about himself / herself.
-Write homework
VI. Comments: ..	
Week: 2nd	 Preparing Day: 03/09/2012
Period: 6	 Teaching Day: 09/09/2012
UNIT 1	MY FRIENDS 
Lesson 5	LANGUAGE FOCUS 1, 2, 4
I. Objectives :
1.Educational aim :
2.Teaching aim :
 By the end of the lesson ,students will be able to use simple present tense to talk about general truths and write some sentences using the structure “(not ) + adjectives enough + to infinitive .
II. Language contents :
1. Vocabulary: Review
2. Grammar : Simple tenses
	Present simple to talk about general truths
	(not) Adj - enough + to-infinitive
III. Techniques :
 picture description, question-answer
IV. Teaching aids : pictures, posters, sub boards
V. Procedures :
Teacher’s activities
1. Warm up :
* Categories :
-Ask students to find out the adjectives beginning with the letters that the teacher gives.
-Divide the class into two groups.
-Give four letters at the same time, students are to find out four adjectives beginning with the four letters given.
Example : a , b , c , d , g , l
-The team which finishes first gets one mark. 
2. Presentation 
+Vocabulary : 
Planet :( the sun ,the moon , the earth ), Mars , Mercury , silly ,
+ Structures:
 -Present simple to talk about general truths
 - .. (not) Adj - enough + to-infinitive
-Review simple present tense: formation ,usage
-Focus on one of the usage of the Simple present tense .It is used to express an action which is always true .
3. Practice 
LF 1. Complete the paragraphs :
-Review the simple present tense and simple past tense (their usages)
-Do exercise 1 (a, b)
-Emphasize some Adverbs used in simple present and simple past tense.
-Have students compare their answers in pairs.
-Check and correct
Answer:
a. 1.lives b. 1.are
 2.sent 2.came
 3.was 3.showed
 4.is 4.introduced
LF 2. Complete the dialogue :
-Explaining the usage of simple present tense (talking about general truths)
-Have students complete the dialogue
-Attention: students can use a verb more than once.
- Have students compare their answers.
-Call students to practice in front of the class.
-Check and correct
Answer:
1.rises 2.goes 3.moves 4.is 5.is 6.moves
LF 4. Complete the dialogues :
-Introducing the structure
(not) Adj - enough + to-infinitive
Eg: I’m lucky enough to have a lot of friends.
-Have Sts practice the dialogue.
-Check and correct mistakes
Answer:
a. not big enough b. not old enough
c. strong enough d. good enough
-Giving out some further exercises to practice the structure.
4. Production
*Combine each of the following pairs of sentences into one sentences, using (not) Adj enough + to-inf
a. He wasn’t very experienced. He can’t do the job.
b. The ice’s quite thick. We can walk on it.
5. Homework :
-Do exercises 5, 6 / P.9 (W.B)
-Learn by heart the structures
Students’ activities
-Find out the adjectives beginning with the letters that the teacher given.
 a : awful d : dirty 
 b : big g : great 
 c :clever l : love
-Listen and writ