Date of teaching: 26-30/9/2016
Class: 8A5, 8A7
Week: 7
Period: 21
UNIT 4: OUR PAST
Lesson 1: Section: Getting Started - Listen and Read 1-2-3 (p.p.38+39)
OBJECTIVES:
Knowledge:
Introduce, leading to the topic of a unit.
Read the dialogue about the life of Vietnamese people many years ago.
Grammar: 1. past simple tense 2. Used to
Vocabulary: Some words to talk about folktale in the conversation.
Skills: Listening - Reading
Attitude:
By the end of the lesson,
Sts will be able to tell the activities people used to do in the past.
Sts will be grateful and remember their ancestors.
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: (5’)
- Write some new words about household chores.
- Make questions with “Why” for the following sentences.
8A5
I was late this morning because I didn’t set the alarm clock last night.
He cooked dinner himself because his mother got home late.
8A7
I study English because I want to communicate with foreigners.
The children stopped laughing because they saw the teacher.
New lesson: (40’)




Stage
Steps/Activities
Work Arrangement

Warm-up
(5’)
GETTING STARTED:
- Ask Sts to look at the picture on page 38 and write the names of the things that do not belong to the past.
Answer:
- The TV
- The radio
- The lighting fixture
- The mobile phone
- Modern clothing (shirt, pants)
- School uniforms
- The stereo
Group work




Presentation
(10’)





















Vocabulary:
- Ask Sts to list the things their grandparent did in the past.
- Teach Sts new words
live on a farm: sống ở nông trại
stay home: ở nhà
help my mom: giúp mẹ
look after: chăm sóc
cook the meals: nấu ăn
clean the house: lau nhà
wash the clothes: giặt đồ
the sounds like: nghe có vẻ
hard work: công việc cực nhọc
electricity: điện năng
a modern equipment: thiết bị hiện đại
light-lit-lit the lamp: thắp, đốt đèn
tell story: kể chuyện
an old folktale: chuyện cổ tích
traditional: truyền thống
Great grandma: bà cố (explain by drawing a chart of family)
Once: ngày xưa (Once upon a time)
- Get Sts to repeat the words including
- Ask some Sts to stand up and say the new words
Checking: What and where
- Write each word on the blackboard inside a circle. Rub out tie words one - by - one.
T / F statement prediction
- Ask Sts to read the statements (on poster) and predict they are true or false. Sts write T if it is true and F if it is false.
a. Nga is used to live on a farm.
b. Nga’s grandma didn’t get to school.
c. She has an easy and happy life when she was young.
d. There wasn’t any modern equipment at her time.
e. “The lost shoe” is a short story.
- Ask Sts to read the dialogue between Nga and her Grandma and check their prediction.
- Ask them to correct the false statements.
- Give feedback




a.
b.
c.
d.
e.

Guess

Answer

Correction








F
T
F
T
F
Grandma used to live on farm.

She had a hard life.

It is an old folk tale.

-Ask Sts to listen to and repeat the conversation, then practice with their partners.






Whole class














Individually

Whole class



Individually








Individually









Pair work


Practice
(10’)
- T asks Sts to work in pairs, ask and answer questions.
a. Where did Nga`s grandmother use to live?
She used to live on a farm.
b. Why didn`t she go to school?