Giáo án Tiếng Anh 8 - Unit 4: Our past

UNIT 4 : OUR PAST
Division of lessons
Period 21	Lesson 1	Getting started 
	Listen and read
Period 22	Lesson 2	Speak & Listen
Period 23	Lesson 3 	Read
Period 24	Lesson 4	Write
Period 25	Lesson 5	Language Focus
Period 26	Corrections 1
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Date : 21/10/2006 	
Unit 4 : OUR PAST
Period 21
 Lesson 1	GETTING STARTED 	 
	 LISTEN AND READ 	
 I. Objectives:
By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to:
- Tell the activities people used to do in the past
- Review S.past tense
- Learn some new words
II. Language contents:
1. Grammar:
- Used to + V-inf
- S + V(ed, 2) + O
2. Vocabulary: Great-grandma, folktale, traditional stories
III. Techniques: T / F Statement Predictions, What and Where, Guessing
IV. Teaching aids: Textbook E8, colored chalks, pictures, tape
V. Procedures:
Teacher’s and Students’ activities
Content
- T asks Ss to look at the picture on page 38 and write the names of the things that do not belong to the past
- Ss work in groups (2’)
ª Pre - teach :
- T reads once - Ss listen
- T reads again - Ss read after and guess the meaning
- T asks Ss to read one more time (in chorus, individualy)
- T corrects if necessary
ª Checking :
- T writes each word on the board inside a circle. Rub out the words one by one
- T gets Ss to repeat the words including the rubbed out words
- Ss try to remember all the words 
- T asks Ss to read the statements on the posters and predict they are True or False
- Ss write T if it’s True, F if it’s False
- Ss work in pairs
- T plays the tape “Listen and read” page 38
- Ss listen
- T plays the tape again
- Ss liten and check their predic -tions
- T asks Ss to correct the False sta -tements
- Ss correct and write on the board
- T gives feedback
- Ss work in pairs (ask and answer the questions)
- Ss closed pairs
- T corrects the mistakes
- T asks Ss to write the answers in their note-books
- T asks Ss to read the statements part 3 on page 39 and decide which is a fact and which is an opinion
- Ss work individualy
- T gives feedback
- T asks Ss some questions to check
get up late ?
Who used to
ride bicycle  ?
Ss answer and write down
1. Warm up: (4’)
Getting started: 
- the TV
- the stereo
- the mobile phone
- the light fixture
- modern clothes / school uniforms
Listen and read:
2. Pre - reading: (10’)
New words:
- (to) look after : (synonym)
- equipment (n) : (example)
- a folktale : (example)
- traditional (a) : (translation)
- a great-grandma : (explanation)
ª What and Where :
ª T / F statement predictions :
a. Nga used to live on a farm
b. Nga’s grandma didn’t go to school
c. She has an easy and happy life when she was young
d. There wasn’t any modern equip -ment at her time
e. “The lost shoe” is a short story
3. While - reading: (15’)
Guess
Read
Corrections
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
F
T
F
T
F
- Grandma used to live on a farm
- She had a hard life
- It is an old folktale
ª Ask and answer the questions :
a. She used to live on a farm
b. Because she had to stay at home and help her mom to look after her young brothers and sisters
c. She used to cook the meals, clean the house and wash the clothes
d. Her great grandma used to lit the lamp and her great grandfather used to tell stories
e. She asked her grandma to tell her the tale “The lost shoe”
ª Fact or opinion: (6’)
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
F
O
x
x
x
x
x
x
4. Post - reading: (8’)
Did you used to   ?
Name
- get up late
- ride bicycle too fast
- go to school late 
- eat too much candy
- forget to do your homework
5. Homework: (2’)
- Learn by heart new words
- Read the dialogue page 38 at home
- Do exercises: 1,2 page 27, 28
Prepare: U4-L2: Speak and Listen 
 page 40, 41
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