Anh văn 8 (phần 1)

UNIT 1: MY FRIENDS

I. Aim

Helping students:

- to introduce people

- to respond to introductions

- to describe people

- to write about themselves and about other people

II. Language focus

1. Present Simple to talk about general truths.

2. (Not) Adjectives + enough + to infinitive

3. Attributive and predicative adjectives.

III. Vocabulary

Verbs Adjectives Nouns

(to) annoy blond slim a character

(to) rise curly sociable a joke

(to) seem fair straight an orphanage

generous

reserved

IV. Unit Allocation

Lesson 1 Listen and read 1-2

Language focus 1

Reading for details a conversation and revision

of simple present and simple past tense.

Lesson 2 Read 1-2

Getting started

Reading a text for details about Ba’s friends.

Lesson 3 Speak 1-2

Listen a-b-c-d

Listening for details to complete the dialogue

and practice in describing someone.

Lesson 4 Write 1-2

Language Focus 3

Writing about oneself and about other people

Lesson 5 Language focus 2-4 Further practice in Simple Present and Not Adj

+ enough + to-infinitive

UNIT 1: MY FRIENDS

Lesson 1: Section: - Listen and read (page 10,11)

Period 2 - Language focus 1 (page 16)

Aim:

Reading the dialogue and revision of simple present and simple past tenses.

Objective:

By the end of the lesson, students will be able to know more about Hoa – Lan –

Nien and to review simple present and simple past tense.

Teaching aids:

Text book, cards

PROCEDURE

Stage Steps/Activities Work

arrangement

Warm up

Pre￾reading

* Pelmanism:

- Prepare twelve cards with numbers on one side and

the verbs on the other.

- Make sure the verbs are mixed up. Stick the cards on

the board so students can only see the numbers.

- Divide students into two teams and ask them to

choose two numbers.

- Turn the cards over and see if they match .

Eg: teach - taught, give them one mark. If not, turn the

cards over again and ask the next team.

- Continue until all the cards are finished.

meet come live think send though

receive met lived received came Sent

I. Pre-teach vocabulary

- to seem (translation)

- a next door neighbor (explanation: a person who lives

next to your house)

- to look like: (translation)

* Checking vocabulary: Rub out and remember

- Rub out the new words one a time.

- Each time you rub out an English word, point to the

Vietnamese translation and ask “what's this in

English?"

- When all the English words are rubbed out go,

through the Vietnamese list and get students to call the

English words.

- If there's time, get students to come to the board and

write the English words again.

II. Pre- questions

Group work

Whole class

Pair work

While

reading

- Give students some questions and ask them to work in

pairs to answer them.

a. Is Nien Lan's friend or Hoa's friend?

b. How old is Nien?

c. Where does Nien live?

d. Is she a beautiful girl?

- Give feedback

- Ask students to read the dialogue between Hoa, Lan

and Nien on page l0 and check if their answers are

correct or not.

* Answers:

a. She is Hoa's friend

b. She 's twelve years old.

c She lives in Hue.

d. Yes, she is.

I. Comprehension questions

- Ask students to read the dialogue again and answer

the questions in exercise 2 on page 11 (work in pairs)

a. Where does Nien live?

b. Does Lan know Nien?

c. Which sentence tells you that Hoa is older than

Nien?

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Pair work

Pair work

d. When is Nien going to visit Hoa?

* Answers:

a. Nien lives in Hue.

b. No, she doesn't.

c. The sentence is “She wasn't old enough to be in my

class”.

d. At Christmas

- Call on some students to ask and answer the

questions.

- Correct their mistakes or pronunciation.

- Ask them to work in closed pairs.

II. Gap-filling

- Ask students to use the simple present and simple past

tense to complete paragraph 1 (a) on page 16.

- Provide some verbs so that students can use them to

fill in the gaps.

- live (2) – send - be(2) - come

“ Hoa (1) in Hue last year, but now she (2) in Hanoi.

Yesterday, Hoa's friend Nien (3) Hoa a letter. Nien (4)

Hoa's neighbor when Hoa lived in Hue. She (5)

younger than Hoa. She (6) to Hanoi in December.

* Answers:

Open pairs

Closed pairs

In dividual

Work

Post

reading

(1) lived (2) lives (3) sesen

(4) was (5) is (6) comes

- Ask students to work individually and then compare

their answers with their partners.

- Give feedback.

* Writing:

- Ask students to write a paragraph about Hoa and Lan.

- Give students some cues and ask them to use the

simple present or simple past tense to write

individually.

Pair work

Whole class

Individual

work

Homework * Cues:

a. Lan / Hoa's best friend

b. The same class / Quang Trung School.

c. Last year / Hoa / to school first time.

d. Lan / show / around / introduce / to new friends .

- Let students discuss with their partners.

- Choose some answers and correct them in front of the

class.

- Ask students to do exercise 1(a); 1(b) on their

notebooks .

Pair work

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UNIT 1: MY FRIENDS

Lesson 2: Section: - Speak (page 11)

Period 3 - Listen (page 12,13)

Aim:

Listening for details to complete the dialogue and speak to describe someone.

Objective:

By the end of the lesson, students will be able to describe somoen and complete

the dialogue by listening.

Teaching aids:

Text book, pictures

PROCEDURE

Stage Steps/Activities Work

arrangement

Warm up * Brainstorming:

- Ask students to think of the adjectives used to describe

body build and hair.

thin curly

Whole class

* Possible answers:

body

build

hair

Presentatio

n

- fat - straight

- slim - long

- tall - short

- short black/dark

- overweight - color blond/fair

brown

grey

- overweight

- slender

- Show students a picture of Mary and ask them to

describe her hair, her body build.

Ex: She has long blond bair.

She is short and thin.

Form:

S + have / has + adjectives + hair

S + be + adjectives

T-Whole

class

Practice I. Word cue drill

- Prepare 6 cards so that students can drill easily.

a. he / tall / thin He is tall and thin

b. She/short / slim She is short and slim.

c. He/ short / fat He is short and fat.

d. long / black She has long black hair.

e. curly / blond She has curly blond hair.

f. straight/ brown She has straight brown hair.

II. Practice Speaking

- Show the posters of six people / or ask students to look

at six people on page 11-12.

- Call on a student to describe one person, the others

have to guess who he/she is.

Example: S1: This person is short and thin. She has long

blond hair.

Whole class

Whole class

Pre-listening

While

listening

S2: Is this Mary?

Yes

- Go on until six people on the poster are described.

- If there’s time, ask students to describe a famous

person or one of their classmates and their friends have

to guess.

- Ask students to do exercise "Listen a, b, c, d." on page

12-13.

- Give students some expressions and make sure they

know their meanings.

- Get students to guess and to complete four dialogues on

page 12-13, using the given expressions.

- Give feedback.

Individual

work

- Let students listen to the tape twice. .

- Get students to work in pairs to complete the dialogues

and compare with their prediction.

* Tape transcript:

a.

Hoa: Hello, Nam.

Nam: Morning, Hoa.

Hoa: Nam, I’d like you to meet my cousin, Thu.

Nam: Nice to meet you, Thu.

Thu: Nice to meet you too, Nam.

b.

Khai: Miss Lien, I’d like you to meet my mother.

Miss Lien: It's a pleasure to meet you, Mrs.

Mrs. Vi: The pleasure is all mine, Miss Lien.

Miss Lien: Oh, there is the principal.

Please excuse me, Mrs. Vi, but I must talk to

him.

Mrs. Vi: Certainly.

c.

Ba: Bao, come and meet my grandmother.

Pair work

Post￾listening

Bao: Hello, ma'am.

Grandmother: Hello young man.

Ba: Bao is my classmate, grandmother.

Grandmother: What was that?

Ba: Classmate! Bao is my classmate.

Grandmother: I see.

d.

Mr. Lam: Isn't that Lan's father, my dear?

Mrs. Linh: I'm not sure. Go and ask him.

Mr. Lam: Excuse me. Are you Mr. Thanh?

Mr. Thanh: Yes, I am.

Mr. Lam: I'm Lam, Nga's father.

Mr. Thanh: How do you do?

- Ask students to practice speaking the dialogues.

- Call on some students to play the roles of Nam - Hoa

Thu; Khai - Mrs. Lien - Mrs. Vi; Ba-Bao Grandmother;

Mr. Lam - Mrs. Linh - Mr. Thanh and practice the

dialogues.

- Correct their pronunciation.

- Let students work in pairs to practice the dialogues.

(closed pairs).

Open pairs

Closed pairs

UNIT 1: MY FRIENDS

Lesson 3: Section: - Getting started (page 10)

Period 4 - Read (page 13,14)

Aim:

Reading for specific information

Objective:

By the end of the lesson, students will be able to know more about Ba’s friend.

Teaching aids:

PROCEDURE

Stage Steps/Activities Work

arrangement

Warm up

Pre￾reading

Chatting:

- Ask students to look at four pictures on page 10 and

talk about the activities they want to do after school or

in their free time.

- Give them some questions.

• What are these students doing?

(play soccer / play chess / read books / play volley ball)

• What time of the day do you think it is? (in the

morning / evening, after school)

• Do you like soccer / reading books ...?

• Whom do you like playing with?

I. Pre-teach vocabulary:

- a character: (translation)

- an orphanage: (explanation: a place where children

without parents live)

- reserved (adj)

- sociable: (adj) (Translation)

- (to) tell jokes: (explanation: tell a story which makes

people laugh)

- sense of humor (translation)

* Checking vocabulary: what and where

- Write the word on the board, put one word in each

circle.

- Have students repeat the words in chorus then rub out

word by word but leave the circles.

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Whole class

- Go on until all the words are rubbed out.

- Point to each circle and ask students to repeat chorally

the English words.

Ask students to go to the board and write the words

Reserve

d

characte

r

sociable

tell

jokes

orphanag

e

Sense of humor

While

reading

again in the correct circles.

II. T /F statements prediction

- Stick the poster of T / F statements on the board.

- Set the scene: These statements are about Ba and his

friends, read them and gues which statements are true,

which are false.

- Get students to work in pairs.

a. Ba only has three friends - Bao, Song, Khai

b. Ba and his friends have the same characters

c. Bao - Song - Khai are quite reserved in public.

d. They all enoy school and study hard.

- Give feedback.

- Ask students to open their books and read the text on

page 13.

- Let students check their prediction.

Guess Correct

a.

b.

c.

d.

F

F

F

T

- Ask students to correct false statements.

* Correction:

a. Ba has a lot of friends but he spends most of his time

with Bao, Song and Khai.

b. They have different characters.

c. Only Song and Khai are quite reserved.

I. Multiple choice

- Get students to do exercise 1 on page 14.

Pair work

Pair work

Pair work

- Ask them to work in pairs to choose the best answers.

* Answers:

a. Ba talks about three of his friends.

b. Bao's volunteer work does not affect his school work.

c. Khai and Song are rather shy.

d. Ba's friends sometimes get tired of his jokes.

- Explain the meanings of the phrases:

• doesn't affect his school work (khoâng aûnh höôûng tôùi

vieäc hoïc)

• rather shy (hôi nhuùt nhaùt)

• get tired of (nhaøm chaùn)

II. Comprehension questions

- Ask students to work in pairs to do exercise 2 on page

14.

- Let students read the text again and answer the

questions.

Pair work

Pair work

* Questions and answers:

a. How does Ba feel having a lot of friends?

(He feels lucky having a lot of friends.)

b. Who is the most sociable?

(Bao is the most sociable.)

c. Who likes reading?

(Khai likes reading.)

d. What is the bad thing about Ba's jokes?

(His jokes sometimes annoy his friends.)

e. Where does Bao spend his free time?

(Bao spends his free time doing volunteer work at a

local orphanage.

f. Do you and your close friends have the same or

different characters? (students' answer)

- Call on some pair of students to ask and answer the Pair work

Post

reading

Home

work

questions. Teacher corrects their pronunciation.

- Ask all students to work in closed pairs.

- Ask students to work in groups and talk to one another

about their friends, using the adjectives they have just

learnt to describe.

- Ask each student to write a paragraph (about 50

words) about one close friend.

Group work

UNIT 1: MY FRIENDS

Lesson 4: Section: - Write (page 15)

Period 5 - Language Focus 3 (page 17)

Aim:

Writing about oneself and about other people.

Objective:

By the end of the lesson, students will be able to write a paragraph about their

close friends.

Teaching aids:

Text book, pictures

PROCEDURE

Stage Steps/Activities Work

arrangement

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 two questions, the group which

Group work