Date of teaching: 03 - 07/10/2016
Class: 8A5, 8A7
Period 23
UNIT 4: OUR PAST
Lesson 3: Section: - Listen (page: 41)
OBJECTIVES:
Knowledge:
Developing listening skill.
Listening and further practice in Past Simple Tense.
Grammar: 1. past simple tense 2. Used to
Vocabulary: Some words to talk about folktale and the past (lay, collect, discover).
Skills:
Listening:
Listen to monologues/ dialogues within 100-120 words for general or detailed information
Attitude:
By the end of the lesson,
Sts will be able to understand the main idea of a story by listening and further practice in Past Simple Tense.
Sts will be happy with what they have and don’t be foolish and greedy.
PREPARATION:
Teacher:
-Prepare lesson carefully: (teaching aids, make lesson plan by power point, book, laptop, sound)
Students:
-Learn previous lesson by heart.
-Prepare new lesson at home: (write new words; read text; translate the text into Vietnamese; answer questions)
STEPS FOR TEACHING:
Check old lesson:
Write some new words.
Write 2 sentences using “used to”
New lesson:
Stage
Steps/Activities
Work arrangement


Warm up













- Ask Sts to work in group and list the old folktales they have read.
+ The Hundred-Knot Bamboo (Cây Tre Trăm Đốt)
+ The Man In The Moon (Chú Cuội)
+ Earth Cakes, Sky Cakes (Bánh Chưng, Bánh Giày)
+ The Story of Tấm and Cám (Tấm Cám)
+ An Tiêm and The Watermelon (Sự Tích Mai An Tiêm)
+ The Starfruit Tree (Sự Tích Cây Vú Sữa)
- Ask Sts to match verbs (simple present form and simple past form)
Ru

Ran

Fly
Flew

Live
Lived

Eat
Ate

Shout
Shouted

Look
Looked

Lay
Laid

Light
Lit

Go
Went

Decide
Decided

Discover
Discovered


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Pre-listening

1. Vocabulary:
- comfortable: thoải mái
- lay - laid – laid: đẻ trứng
- discover: khám phá
- a gold egg: trứng vàng
- excitedly: hào hứng, hứng khởi
- amazement: sự ngạc nhiên
- cut open: mổ bụng
- unfortunately: xui thay
- foolish: ngu ngốc
- greedy: tham lam
* Checking: Rub out the meaning in Vietnamese and ask Sts to fill in again in 2 minutes.
2. Prediction: Predict the moral lesson of the story
- Ask Sts to look at four choices in the book (p.41) and guess which is the most suitable to the story.
a. Don`t kill chickens.
b. Don`t be foolish and greedy.
c. Be happy with what you have.
d. It is difficult to find gold.
- Give feedback
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While listening
- Have Sts to listen to the tape twice and check their prediction.
- Answer : "Don`t be foolish and greedy"
* Tape transcript:
Once a farmer lived a comfortable life with his family. His chicken laid many eggs which the farmer used to buy food and clothes for his family.
One day, he went to collect the eggs and discovered one of the chickens laid a gold egg. He shouted excitedly to his wife: "We`re rich”! His wife ran to him and they both looked at the egg in amazement. The wife wanted more, so her husband decided to cut open all the chickens and find more eggs. Unfortunately, he couldn`t find any egg. When he finished, all the chickens were died.
There were no more eggs of any kind for the foolish farmer and his greedy wife.
- Ask Sts what tense is used in the story (Simple Past Tense).
- Have Sts listen again and try to write as many verbs as possible. The student who writes more verbs gets good marks.
- Answers:
- went - were
- discovered - ran
- laid - looked
- shouted - wanted
- finished - decided
- couldn`t
- Ask Sts to give the infinitives of these verbs
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Post-listening





- Asks Sts to answer T’s