Giáo án Tiếng Anh 8 - Unit 1: Period: 4 lesson: 3 (read)

LESSON PLAN
Date: 14/09/06	UNIT 1
Period: 4	LESSON: 3 (READ)
I. Aim:
Reading for specific information
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to know more
Ba's friend.
II. Language contents:
Grammar:
Vocabulary:
Character, orphanage, reserved, sociable, jokes, outgoing, (to) annoy, sense of humor.
III. Techniques:
What and Where, True or False statements, Multiple Choice
IV. Teaching aids:
Textbook E8, board, colored chalks, projector
V. Procedure:
Teacher’s and student’s activities
Contents
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.
1. Warm up
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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 guess
Which statements are true, which are false?
Get students to work in pairs
- Ask students to correct false statements.
- Correction:
2. Pre
Pre - teach vocabulary:
- a character: (translation)
- an orphanage: (explanation: a place where children without parents live)
(Translation)
- reserved (adj.)
- sociable: (adj.)
- (to) tell jokes: (explanation: tell a story which makes people laugh)
- sense of humor (translation)
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 enjoy school and study hard.
- Give feedback.
- Ask students to open their books and read the text on page 13.
- Let students check their prediction.
- Ask students to correct false statements.
- Correction:
. Multiple choice
- Get students to do exercise 1 on page 14.
- Ask them to work in pairs to choose the best answers.
- Explain the meanings of the phrases:
- Ask students to work in pairs to do exercise 2 on page!4.
- Let students read the text again and answer the questions.
- Call on some pairs of students to ask and
Answer the questions. Teacher corrects
their pronunciation.
3. While
Guess
Correct
F
F
F
T
* Answers:
a. Ba talks about three of his friends.
his
b. Bao's volunteer work does not affect
school work.
c. Khai and Song are rather shy. d. Ba's friends sometimes get tired of his
jokes.
doesn't affect his school work
rather shy
get tired of
Comprehension questions
* 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)
- 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 
4. Post
- Ask each student to write a paragraph (about 50 words) about one close friend.
5. Homework
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