Giáo án Tiếng Anh lớp 8 - Period: 20 - Unit 4: Our past - Lesson 1: Getting started & listen and read

Preparing: 05/10/2012
Teaching: 09/10/2012
Period: 20
Unit 4 : our past .
Lesson 1: getting started & listen and read.
Objectives.
-At the end of the lesson students can:
 +Talk about past habits, using “ used to”
-Contents:
 +Vocabulary: 
look after, equipment, great- grandma, folktale.
 +Grammar: used to + V 
-Skill.
Read, listen…… 
Teaching aids.
 - Lesson plan, Students’ book , work-book, CD-Player
Teaching procedure. 
Activities
Content
Organization. (2’)
-Greetings and checking attendances:
What is the weather like?
Who is absence today?
Checking the old lesson.(3’)
(optional)
-The topic of the lesson will be introduced to the students.
New lesson.(35’)
Presentation. 
- Ask the students to look at the picture ( P. 38), the work in groups to find out the things that did not belong to the past and write the names of them.
-Let the students ask and answer about the things.
-Do you have a mobile phone?
Do you have school uniforms?
- Guide the students study some new words.
*. Give the model sentences.
- Check : meaning, form and pronunciation.
Practice.
*Introduce the topic and characters in the dialogue.( Nga’s told about the past…..)
-Listen to the dialogue.
-Listen again then predict the answers of the questions.
-Students listen to the Audio-CD again.
-Find out the answers to the pre- questions.
-List the works that Nga’s Grand ma did.
-Students use the model sentences to practice:
 ( Group work)
+She used to clean the house.
-Let the students practice in pairs in turns.
-Correct the mistakes if any.
-Ask the students to practice asking about the family.
-Work in pair to ask and answer the questions.
a) Where did Nga’s grandmother used to live?
b)Why didn’t she go to school?
c)What did Nga’s great grandmother used to do ?
d) What did Nga’s great grandmother and 
great grandfather do after dinner?
e)What did Nga ask her grandmother to do at the end of the conversation?
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-Explain the meaning of fact and option to the students.
-Read the dialogue in silence.
-Students work in pairs and decide which is fact or option.
-Compare the result.
Production.
Give some examples so as to students can understand more about the fact/option.
Feedback.(3’)
Help the students to review “used to+ V”
- Write down into their notebooks.
Homework.(2’)
Guide the students do the works:
Attendance: 8………....
I. Getting started.
 100 hundred years ago, Viet Nam didn’t have : (stereo, lighting fixture, mobile phone, television .....)
The TV.
The radio.
The mobile phone.
The light fixture.
Modern clothing.
School uniforms.
II. New words.
look after (v) ch¨m sãc 
equipment (n) dung cô
great- grandma ( n ) 
folk tale ( n) chuyÖn d©n gian 
*Model sentences.
- She / I used to look after her / my younger brothers and sisters.
 *. Model sentence: 
 S + used to + V .......
III. Practice.
*Listen and read:
*. Questions: 
- Where did Nga’s grandmother live when she was young?
- What did she often do at that time?
*. Key:
-> She used to live on a farm.
-> She used to look after her younger brothers and sisters, cook the meals, clean the house, and wash the clothes.
- clean the house.
- wash the clothes.
- listen to the folktales.
- live on a farm.
- do every thing by hands.
1. Practice the dialogue with a partner.
 ( Group work)
Where did your grand mother used to live?
What did they have to do ?
3. Work with a partner. Answer the questions:
a, She used to live on a farm.
b, Because she had to stay at home and help her mom. ( She used to look after .....sisters.)
c, She used to cooked meals, clean the house, ...
d, Her great- grandmother used to lit the lamp and her great- grandfather used to tell them stories.
e, She asked her grandmother to tell her the tale: “ The lost shoe”.
4. Fact or opinion? Check the boxes.
 a, Fact d, Fact
 b, Fact e, Opinion
 c, Fact f, Opinion
Fact: This flower is red.
Option: It is the most beautiful flower I have seen.
Fact: I eat chicken and beef.
Option: I don’t like pork.
*Home works.
+Do exercises in workbook.
+Prepare for the next lesson.