FIRST SEMESTER OF GRADE 8

UNIT 1: MY FRIENDS

I Objectives: By the end of the lesson ,ss will be able to know more about Hoa - Lan -Niên and to review simple present and simple past tense.
_ ss will be able to describe someone and complete the dialogue by listening.
_ss will be able to know more about Ba` s Friend.
_ss will be able to write a paragraph about their close friend.
_ss 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.Teaching aids: - Cues
III.Unit allocatton: 5 lessons
Getting started +Listen and read
Speak + Listen
Read
Write
Language focus
Date of preparing:
Period 1

LESSON 1: - GETTING STARTED
- LISTEN AND READ
I. The aim of the lesson
1. Knowledges:
+ The aims: By the end of the lesson ss will be able to listen and read a dialogue about Hoa’s old friend Nien in Hue for general or detailed information
- Standard: Read and understand the passage to know about Nien and Hoa
- Higher: Ask and answer more questions about the dilogue
+ Vocabulary: receive(v) ; smile(v;n), look like (v); seem(v) ; enough(adv;adj)
+ Structures : - “ be(not) + adj+ enough+ to + V(infi)
- Past simple : regular and irregular verbs (review)
- Exclamations: What a lovely smile! (review)
- What does she look like? To ask about one’s appearance
2. Skills: concentrate on listening and speaking skills
3. Education: Educate ss to learn hard and to be friendly
II. Preparation
1. Teacher: lesson plan, English 8-book, tape, cassette, pictures, extra board
2. Students: review the grammar points and vocabulary in English 7
III. Content:
A.Organization:
Class Date of teaching Absentstudent(s)
8B …………………. ………………....
B.New lesson:

time
Teacher’s activities
Students,activities


1 / Warm up : Pelmanism
Meet
Come
Live
think
send
Thought

receive
Met
Lived
received
came
Sent

- Remark and lead in new lesson .
2 / Presentation :
1. Pre- reading
a) Pre- teach vocabulary : Introduce the aims and some new words
- to seem ( translation ) dường như
- a next door neighbor : a person who lives next to your house
- to look like ( translation ) trông giống như
* Checking vocabulary : Rub out and remember
b) Pre- questions
- Give Ss some questions and ask them to work in pairs to answer them
1. Is Nien Lan,s friend or Hoa,s friend ?
2. How old is Nien ?
3. Where does Nien live ?
4. Is she a beautiful girl ?
- Give feedback
2. While - reading :
- Turn on the tape 2 times and ask them to read the dialogue between Hoa , Lan and Nien . Then check if their answers are correct or not
Answers :
She is Hoa,s friend .
She is 12 years old .
She lives in Hue .
Yes , she is .
a) Comprehension questions
- Ask Ss to read the dialogue again and answer the questions in exercise 2 / page 11
- Have them work in pairs to answer the questions - Call on some pairs to demonstrate in front of class and correct their mistakes or pronunciation .
- Correct and give feedback :
a) She lives in Hue
b) No , she does not .
c) The sentence is “ She was not old enough to be in my class. “
d) At Christmas
- Ask them to work in open pairs to practice asking and answering the questions and the dialogue .
b) Gap filling
- Ask Ss to use the present simple and simple past tense to complete the paragraph , using some verbs : live – send – be – come
Hoa ..... in Hue last year , but now she ....in Ha Noi . Yesterday , Hoa ,s friend Nien ..... Hoa a letter . Nien ..... Hoa, neighbor when Hoa lived in Hue . She ..... younger than Hoa . She ..... to Ha Noi in December .
- Get Ss to work individually and then compare their answers with their partners .
- Give feedback
lived – lives – sent – was – is - comes
- Call on some Ss to read the completed paragraph in front of class .

3. Post - reading : Writing
- Ask Ss to write a paragraph about Hoa and Lan .
- Give Ss some cues and ask them to use