Giáo án Tiếng Anh lớp 8 - Unit 1: My friends

LESSON PLAN
UNIT 1 : MY FRIENDS
Division of lessons
Period
Lesson
Part
2
1
Getting started & listen and read
3
2
Speak & Listen
4
3
Read
5
4
Write
6
5
Language focus
Week: 1
UNIT 1 : MY FRIENDS
Lesson 1: 	- Getting started
	- Listen and read
Period: 2
Date: 21/08/2014
I. AIM : Help students state their favorite activities which they often play with their friends and know how to describe their friends.
II. LANGUAGE CONTENTS :
1. Grammar : 	- What does she look like ?
 	- (not) adj + enough + (for S.O) + to do S.T
 	- What + (a/an) + adj + n!
 2. Vocabulary : 	(n) neighbor = next-door neighbor
(v) receive # send, seem
III. TECHNIQUES : Rub out and remember, Guiding questions, Making a dialogue
IV. TEACHING AIDS :- Pictures, tape, cassette player, extra-board 
V. PROCEDURE :
TEACHER’S AND STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES
CONTENT
- Ss work in pairs, asking and answering about their favorite activities in their summer.
- Ss look at the pictures on the page 10 and talk about these activities. Then, talk about their activities after school in pairs.
- T gets feedback from Ss.
- T shows the photo of Hoa and Nien and sets the situation by asking some questions.
- Ss anwer
- T new words.
- Ss practice pronunciation. 
- T check vocabulary by asking Ss do Rub out and remember
- T uses pictures, actions and explaination to remind and present model sentences.
- Ss follow the T and then copy down.
- T asks some questions before asking Ss listen to the tape.
- Ss guess to answer
- Ss listen to the tape and answer some questions. Ss can anwer with short anwers.
- T gets feedback from Ss.
- Ss listen and repeat. Then Ss practice the conversation in pairs. Some pairs practice the dialogue in front of the class.
- T helps them with their pronunciation if possible
- Ss read the dialogue then answer some questions about Hoa and Nien.
- Ss make up a dialogue using the original dialogue as prompts. (pairworks)
- T gives the homework on the board.
- Ss take note.
I. WARM UP :
Describe these groups of friends and their favorite activities. What are they doing?
Ex:
- What did you do during the summer vacation?
- What do you remember most?
- Do you have any new friends in this school year?
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à Activities after school
- Playing soccer
- Reading
- Playing chess 
- Playing volleyball
- Collecting stamps
- Watching TV 
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II. PRESENTATION:
1. Getting started
Guiding questions:
- How many people are there in each picture?
- Where are they?
- What are they doing?
- What time of the day do you think it is?
- Do you enjoy such activities?
2. Listen and Read
Questions:
1. Do you remember Hoa?
2. Where does she come from?
3. Who does she live with now?
4. Which grade is she in?
a. New words 
1. neighbor (n) à next-door neighbor(n): (explaination)
2. receive (v) # send: 
3. seem(v): (translation)
Rub out and remember
b. Modelsentences:
- What a lovely smile!
à What + ( a/an ) + adj + noun !
- Nien wasn’t old enough to be in Hoa’s class 
à (not)+ adv /adj +enough +(for O)+to inf
- What does she look like?- She’s beautiful.
à What + do /does + S + look like?
Questions:
a. Who received the letter from her friend Nien ?
b. What does Nien look like?
c. How old is Nien?
d. Was Nien Hoa’s classmate?
III. PRACTICE:
1. Listen and answer the questions.
a. Hoa
b. She is beautiful
c. 12
d. No, she wasn’t
2. Practice the dialogue.
3. Answer the questions.
a. Nien 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.
IV. PRODUCTION:
* Suggested dialogue.
A: Hello B
B: Hi A. You look very happy.
A: Yes. I received a letter form my friend C today.
B: Do I know him?
A: I don’t think so. He was my next-door neighbor in Ho Chi Minh City.
B: What does he look like?
A: He’s so handsome. Here is his photo.
B: What a lovely smile. Was he your classmate?
A: Oh, no. He wasn’t old enough to be in my 
class.
B: How old is he?
A: He’s twelve. He is going to visit me this summer. Would you like to meet him.
A: That’s great. I’d love to.
V. HOMEWORK :
- Learn model sentences and new words by heart.
- Do exercise 1(WB)
- Prepare: Unit 1 – Speak + Listen
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