Hoi Son Secondary School Lesson Plan English 8 Date of preparation: 07/10/2009 Date of teaching: 08/10/2009 Period 21: Unit 4: Our past Lesson 1: Getting started. Listen and read. *) Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to: + talk about things they used to do in the past. + read the dialogue about the life of many years ago. *) Language focus: - Vocabulary: look after, modern equipment, great-grandmother, folktale,light lamp. - Grammar / Structure: be used to. *) Language skills: listening, reading. *) Teaching aids: text book, pictures. *) Teaching procedure: Stages Teacher's activities Student's activities Warm-up - Asks students to work in 2 groups: go to the board and write names of furnitures in the house. - Feedback and corrects the mistakes. *Net works: - Work in 2 groups: go to the board and write names of furnitures in the house. *Possible answers: Television, refrigerator, telephone, lamp, stereo, couch, chairs, clock… Presentation - Show Ss the picture and ask them to identify the things that do not belong to the past. - “About 100 years ago we couldn’t I. Getting started: Look at the picture. Write the names of the things that do not belong to the past. - Discuss with the partner to say the things that do not belong to the past (about 100 years ago). NguyÔn ThÞ Quúnh Nga N¨m häc: 2009 - 2010 Furniture in your house Hoi Son Secondary School Lesson Plan English 8 see TV,mobile phone,uniform,stereo, lighting fixture”. ? Do you have a mobile phone? ? Do you have school uniform? - Sets the scene: Sticks a picture and ask some questions to introduce the lesson. ? Who is this? ? Is this her grand-mother? “Now listen to the tape.There were some activities we often did in the past but now we didn’t do them any more. Today we are going to listen the conversation between Nga and her grandma. Can you guess what they are talking about?” -synonym - example - antonym - example:washing machine, electric fan,computer - explanation. - example: Tam cam - Read new wrods and gets students to follow. - Elicits from students. - Introduces grammar notes. *Keys: mobile phone, uniform, TV, stereo, lightingfixture, modern clothing, school uniform. II. Listen and read: - Listen to the tape 1. Vocabulary: + look after (v) = take care of: ch¨m sãc + sound (v): nghe nh + modern (a) ≠ ancient(a): hiÖn ®¹i + equipment (n): trang thiÕt bÞ + great-grandma(n): grandma’s mother + folktale(n): truyÖn d©n gian - Read after teacher. *) Checking vocab: “Slap the board” 2. Presentation the dialogue: *) Model sentences: NguyÔn ThÞ Quúnh Nga N¨m häc: 2009 - 2010 Hoi Son Secondary School Lesson Plan English 8 ⇒ Form: S + used to + V + O Note: when we want to talk about things happened repeatedly in the past but don’t happen now or have changed. Practice - Asks students to work in pairs: read the dialogue with their partners. - Feedback and correct the mistakes. - Answer the questions about the dialogue. - Feedback and correct the mistakes. - Explains the meaning of fact and Opinion. Fact : This flower is red . Opinion : I don’t like this flower - Work in groups: read the statement and decide which is fact /opinion. - Feedback and corrects the mistakes. 3. Practice the dialogue with a partner: - Work in pairs: read the dialogue with their partners. 4. Comprehension questions: - Answer the questions about the dialogue. *) Answer keys: a. She used to live on the farm. b. Because she had to stay at home and help her mom. c. She used to cook the meal, clean the house and wash the clothes . d. Her great-grandmother used to light the lamp and her great-grandfather used to tell them stories e. Nga asked her grandmother to tell her the tale:“The Lost Shoe” 5. Fact or opinion? Check the ( √ ) the boxes. - Listen - Work in groups: read the statement and decide which is fact /opinion. *) Answer keys: a) Fact b) Fact c) Fact d) Fact e) Opinion f) Opinion Further - Asks students to use phrases to * Ask Ss to say what they used / didn’t NguyÔn ThÞ Quúnh Nga N¨m häc: 2009 - 2010 Hoi Son Secondary School Lesson Plan English 8 practice say what they used/didn’t use to do when they were younger children. use to do when they were younger children . Example: when I was a girl, I used to skip . Now I can’t skip any more. + cry at night + take a bath in the rain + eat too much candy Homework - Asks students to: + Learn the new words by heart. + Finish all exercises in the work book. - Write exercises Date of preparation: 08/10/2009 Date of teaching: 09/10/2009 Period 22: Unit 4: Our past Lesson 2: Speak & Listen. NguyÔn ThÞ Quúnh Nga N¨m häc: 2009 - 2010 Hoi Son Secondary School Lesson Plan English 8 *) Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to: + use“used to”to talk about the life in the past and what they used to do. + talk the differences between the life in the past and now. + understand the main idea of the story by listening. *) Language focus: - Vocabulary: foolish, amazement, gold, lay eggs. - Grammar / Structure: + simple present tense. + prepositions of place. + modal verbs. *) Language skills: speaking, listening. *) Teaching aids: text book, pictures. *) Teaching procedure: Stages Teacher's activities Student's activities Warm-up - Prepares 10 cards with numbers on one side and the verbs on the other side. - Sticks the cards on the board so that the students can only see the numbers, make sure the verbs are mixed up. - Turns the cards over if they match. If not, turn the cards over again. Continue until all the cards are finished. *) Pelmanism: run ran fly flew ride rode eat ate sit sat *Keys: run eat fly sit ride ran ate flew sat rode Pre-speaking - example: a cock can not lay eggs but Hoa thinks that it can lay eggs. She is foolish . - translation - Example: A hen is laying egg. - translation - translation - Read the new words and gets the students to follow. 1. New words: + foolish (adj):ngí ngÈn + amazement(n):kinh ng¹c + gold (n): vµng + lay eggs (v): + moral lesson (n): - Reads after teacher. *) Checking vocabulary: “Rub out and remember” While- speaking 2.Look at the pictures.Talk about the way things used to be and the way they NguyÔn ThÞ Quúnh Nga N¨m häc: 2009 - 2010 Hoi Son Secondary School Lesson Plan English 8 - Stick 2 pictures on board and guides students to do the task. - Feedback and answer keys. ? Where did people live in the past? And now? ? How did they travel? ? What’s about electricity? ? What’s about their life / work? ? Did children use to go to scholl? ? What’s about entertainment? “ Along with development of science and technology. Do our life get more and more comfortable comparing with life in the past?” - Feedback and corrects the mistakes. are now . - Work in groups:look at 2 pictures. Using ”used to” to talk about the actions in the past. - Work in pairs. Ask the partner the questions. *Keys: - People used to live in a small house, but now they live in big house or tall building. - Long ago, people travel on foot, but now they travel by car, by motorbike. - There didn’t use to be electricity in the home,but now there is enough electricity every wher. - People used to work hard, but now they have a lot of time for entertainment. - In the past, children stayed at home, but now they go to school. - People used to watch black and white TV, but now they can watch colored TV. - There didn’t use to be facilitites such as: school, hospitals, hotels, markets …but now there are enough facilitites for us to live on. - There didn’t use to be telephones, telegraph lines, internet services but now there are telephones,telegraph lines, internet services available for us to use. Post- speaking - Sets a scence: There are a lot of Vietnamese folktales which have 3. Listening: - Listen to the tape and decide the statement is the most suitable moral NguyÔn ThÞ Quúnh Nga N¨m häc: 2009 - 2010 Hoi Son Secondary School Lesson Plan English 8 precious moral lessons . We are going to listen to one of those stories. You listen to it and decide the statement is the most suitable moral lesson. - Explains 4 moral lessons in the book then ask them to listen to the tape and tick which one about the story. - Asks stuidents to work in groups: listen to the tape and write the the verbs in the story: lesson. *) Answer key: b. Don’t be foolish and greedy *) Find out the verbs in the story: - Work in groups:listen to the tape and write the the verbs in the story: + went + were + discovered + ran + laid + looked + shouted + wanted + finished +decided + couldn’t Homework - Asks students to: + Learn the new words by heart. + Prepare: ”Read” - Write exercises *) Tape transcript: Once a farmer lived a comfortable life with his family. His chicken laid many eggs which the farmer used to sell to buy food and clothing for his family. One day, he went to collect the eggs and discovered one of the chickens laid a gold egg. His wife ran to him and they both looked at the eggs in amazement. The wife wanted more, so her husband decided to cut open all the chickens and find more gold eggs. Unfortunately,he couldn’t finf any eggswhen he finished all,the chicken were dead. There were no more eggs of any kind for the foolish farmer and his greedy wanted wife. Date of preparation: 11/10/2009 Date of teaching: 12/10/2009 Period 23: Unit 4: Our past Lesson 3: Read. NguyÔn ThÞ Quúnh Nga N¨m häc: 2009 - 2010 Hoi Son Secondary School Lesson Plan English 8 *) Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to read for details to understand the story “The Lost Shoe” and to answer the questions about the story. *) Language focus: - Vocabulary: cruel, upset, magical, fairy, rag, marry, own. - Grammar / Structure: The simple past tense. *) Language skills: reading. *) Teaching aids: text book, pictures. *) Teaching procedure: Stages Teacher's activities Student's activities Warm-up - Prepare 10 cards with numbers on one side and the verbs on the other side. - Sticks the cards on the board so that the students can only see the numbers, make sure the verbs are mixed up. - Turns the cards over if they match. If not, turn the cards over again. Continue until all the cards are finished - Asks students to work in groups: say the names of the foltales they know. - “Today you’ll read this foltale. It’s “ The lost shoe”. Can you guess: How many characters there are in the story? How does the story end?” *) Pelmanism: have had come came go went lose lost find found *Keys: have lose come go find had lost came went found - Work in groups: say the names of the foltales they know. *Name some foltales: +Tam Cam. + One-hundred-section bamboo + Chicken lay gold eggs + Snow White and seven dwarfs + Seven-mile shoes + The frog prince + The lost shoe Pre- reading - explanation - explanation - explanation - antonym - translation - translation 1. New words: + die (v):to stop living. + marry (v): to take someone as a husband /a wife. + cruel (adj): extremely unkind (a) + upset (adj) ≠ sad (a) + a broken heart: + fairy (adj): NguyÔn ThÞ Quúnh Nga N¨m häc: 2009 - 2010 Hoi Son Secondary School Lesson Plan English 8 - antonym - translation - Reads and gets studentst o follow. - Share Ss handouts and guide them to do the task. - Asks students to work in groups: read the statements and decide which is true/false. + prince (n) ≠ princess (n): + fall in love with someone: - Read after teacher. *) Checking vocabulary: “Slap the board”. 2. True / false statement prediction: - Work in groups:read the statements and decide which is true / false a. Little Pea’father is a rich farmer. b. Her father got married again after his wife died. c. Her new mother was very kind to her. d. She worked hard all day. e. She didn’t have new clothes to take part in thefestival. f. The story has an unhappy ending. While- reading - Asks students to read the story and check their predictions. - Feedback and corrects mistakes. - Share srudents handouts and guides them to do the task. - Asks stuents to work in groups: read the passage and complete the sentences suitable with information in the text. 2. Checking prediction: a. F Little Pea’father is a poor farmer. b. T c. F Her new mother was very cruel to her. d. T e. F The story has an happy ending. 3. Complete the sentences with words from the story: - Work in groups: read the passage and complete the sentences suitable with information in the text. *) Answer keys: a. a poor farmer / a farmer b. died c. used/again d. choose/marry e. new clothes f. lost Post- reading - Explain the questions then give 4. Answer the questions and write the answer in your exercise book. NguyÔn ThÞ Quúnh Nga N¨m häc: 2009 - 2010 Hoi Son Secondary School Lesson Plan English 8 students the multiple choice exercise. - Feed back - correct and give the right answers. a. Little Pea was a…. A. poor farmer‘s daughter B. fairy. C. Stout Nut’s mother . b. Stout Nut’s mother made Little Pea A. play with Stout Nut. B. go to the festival C. do the chores all day c…… magically changed her rags beautiful clothes. A. Her father B. Stout Nut C. A fairy d. The Prince decided to marry A. the girl who owned the shoe. B. the fairy C. Stout Nut’s mother Homework - Asks students to: + Learn the new words by heart. + Prepare:”Write” -Write exercises Date of preparation: 14/10/2009 Date of teaching: 15/10/2009 Period 24: Unit 4: Our past Lesson 4: Write *) Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to write a short imaginary story NguyÔn ThÞ Quúnh Nga N¨m häc: 2009 - 2010 [...]... preparation: 15/10/2009 Date of teaching: 16/10/2009 Period 25: Unit 4: the tiger The tiger escaped , but it still has black stripes from the burns today - Talk before class - Write exercises Our past Lesson 5: Language focus *) Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to: - utilize the simple past tense to talk about past habit (used to) - utilize prepositions:in, on, a, after,... Structure: + simple past tense + prepositions *) Teaching aids: text book, pictures *) Teaching procedure: ? ? ? ? *) Chatting: What do you often do in the evening? What did you do last night? Did you watch TV last night? How are you today? A Simple past tense: S + V(ed) + O S + didn’t + V + O Did + S + V + O? ⇒ Express an action happened and completed at a definite point of time in the past (yesterday,... time in the past (yesterday, ago, last … , in 2007 ) 1 Write the past simple form of each verb a run→ran d go→went h ride→rode b fly→flew e have→had i eat→ate c take→took f do→did j sit→sat NguyÔn ThÞ Quúnh Nga N¨m häc: 2009 - 2010 Hoi Son Secondary School Lesson Plan English 8 g be→was / were k come→came 2 Complete the dialogue Use the past simple tense a Lan: Did you eat breakfast for lunch? Nga: No.I... (bare) + O S+ didn’t + use to + V (bare) + O Did + S + use to + V (bare) + O? EX: + He used to play marbles + He didn’t use to play marbles + Did he use to play marbles? ⇒ Express a past habit or an action happened in the past 4 Look at the pictures Complete the dialogue Use “Used to”and the vesbs in the box “ *) Answer keys: 1 used to have 2 used to be 3 used to live NguyÔn ThÞ Quúnh Nga N¨m häc: 2009... Son Secondary School Lesson Plan English 8 “How the tiger got his strips” *) Language focus: - Vocabulary: wisdom, strip, straw, servant, to escape, to graze, to light - Grammar / Structure: The simple past tense *) Language skills: writing *) Teaching aids: text book, pictures, extra board *) Teaching procedure: Stages Teacher's activities Warm-up Pre-writing - Asks students some questions: ? Do you . Prepare:”Write” -Write exercises Date of preparation: 14/10/2009 Date of teaching: 15/10/2009 Period 24: Unit 4: Our past Lesson 4: Write *) Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to. 16/10/2009 Period 25: Unit 4: Our past Lesson 5: Language focus *) Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to: - utilize the simple past tense to talk about past habit (used. 08/10/2009 Period 21: Unit 4: Our past Lesson 1: Getting started. Listen and read. *) Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to: + talk about things they used to do in the past.