Giáo án môn Tiếng anh Lớp 8 - Unit 1: Leisure Activities

WEEK 1
Period 1
Preparing date : 15/8/ 
 Teaching date:
 Class 8A: 22 /8/ 
Class 8B: 23 /8/ 
Class 8C:23 /8/ 
 INTRODUCE ABOUT ENGLISH SUBJECT
I./OBJECTIVES: 
1. Knowledge.
By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to:
- Know about the English 8 student's book and the workbook
- Know how to learn English 8 effectively
2. Skills. 
- Communication.
3. Attitudes.
	- Students have serious attitude in learning. 
- Ss are interested in learning English.
4. Competence.
	- Co-operation
- Self- study
- Using knowledge to do exercises
II./ PREPARATIONS.
1- Teacher :- Text book, pictures, extra board, laptop 
2 - Students : - Notebook, textbook.
III./ TEACHING METHODS.
 - Groupwork, pairwork, games, communication approach.
IV./PROCEDURES
Têảch and students’ activities
Contents
1./.Warm up : Kim's game
? Look through all the names of the 6 Unit in the Student's book in 10 seconds and try to remember as many names as possible.
- Teacher divide the class into two teams.
? Go to the board and write the words
- Teacher gets feedback
- Look at the names of the units only
.
- Work in groups 
- Write on the board.
2. Presentation.
- T asks Ss some questions.
- Ss answer the questions and take notes
? How many weeks are there in a school year?
? How many weeks are there in the first terms?
- English 8, Student's book is the third of four levels English language textbooks for Vietnamese students in lower secondary school learning English as a foreign language. It focuses on the use of language (pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar) to develop the four language skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing)
? How many units are there in the first terms?
1. Introduce the time to learn
- 37 weeks
- 19 weeks
3. Introduce about English book.
- There are two mains themes: Our Communities and Our Heritage
- After each theme is a review 
- There are two 45-minute tests: 
one after unit 3 and another after unit 5
2. The content of the text book.
- There are 6 topic-based units in term 1:
Unit 1: Leisure activities
Unit 2: Life in the countryside
Unit 3: People of Viet Nam
Unit 4: Our customs and traditions
Unit 5: Festivals in Viet Nam
Unit 6: Folk tales
* Introduce the workbook .
? What is the Workbook about?
? Study the Workbook quickly then answer the question
- The workbook mirror and reinforces the content of the Student's book. 
 + Further practice of the language and skills taught in class
 + Four additional tests for students' self-assessment.
Study the workbook quickly then answer the question
*How to learn English 8 effectively 
? Discuss in groups of 3 or 4 about "How to learn English 8 effectively?"
- Prepare the lesson carefully before each period
- Learn by heart all the new words and structures
- Do exercises regularly
- Practice the four skills
3. How to learn
Discuss and tell the class
4. Further practice
? Recall how to learn English 8 effectively?
- Reading the text and doing exercises before going to class.
- Ss need to learn by heart vocabulary and their usage in each unit.
- Review the lesson everyday.
- English is not too difficult but it requires you to work hard.
- Learn English everyday.
- Answer teacher's questions.
5. Productions.
 Prepare: Unit 1: Getting started
? Prepare some pictures about some popular leisure activities.
4. Homework.
- Say out the words 
- Take note
WEEK 1
Period 2 
Preparing date : 18/8/ 
 Teaching date :
Class 8A:23/8/ 
Class 8B: 25 /8/ 
Class 8C:25 /8/ 
UNIT 1: LEISURE ACTIVITIES
Lesson 1:Getting started.
I./OBJECTIVES: 
1. Knowledge.
By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to : 
- Listen and read for specific information about different leisure activities
- Practice listening and speaking with the lexical items related to the topic 
- Vocab: - Use the lexical items related to the topic" leisure activities"
- Grammar: Use verbs of liking that are followed by gerunds and to –infinitives.
2. Skills. 
- Students develope listening, speaking, reading and writing skills.
3. Attitudes.
	- Students have serious attitude in learning. 
- Ss are interested in learning English.
4. Competence.
	- Develop listening, reading comprehension skills, language, spoken interaction. 
II./ PREPARATIONS.
1- Teacher :- Text book, pictures, extra board, laptop 
2 - Students : - Notebook, textbook.
III./ TEACHING METHODS.
 - Groupwork, pairwork, games, communication approach.
IV./PROCEDURES
Teacher and students’ activities 
Contents
1- Warm up: 
Chatting: 
- Ask Ss to open their books to the picture. 
- Introduce Mai, Phuc and Nick. 
- Ask Ss to guess 
“Where they are and what they are doing?”. For more able classes, brainstorm questions with Ss and write them on the board. Questions may include:
What can you see in the picture?
Why do you think Mai, Phuc and Nick are there?
What are they holding in their hands?
What are they talking about?
Can you guess what Mai, Phuc and Nick like doing in their free time?
2. Getting started
-Present new words.
- Teacher use different techniques to teach vocabulary (situation, realia)
- Follow the seven steps of teaching vocabulary 
- Repeat in chorus and individually
- Copy all the words
* Checking vocab: Recall
1. Listen and read. 
1.1. Vocabulary
- leisure activity
(n):
hoạt động thư giãn nghỉ ngơi
- trick
(n):
trò lừa gạt, hoạt động
 khéo tay
- craft kit
(n):
bộ đồ dùng làm thủ công
- beads
(n):
hạt chuỗi
- sticker
(n):
nhãn dính 
- savings
(n):
tiền tiết kiệm
- melody
(n):
Giai điệu
- it’s right up your street
Đúng vị của bạn
- Look at the picture on page 6
? What can you see in the picture?
? Why do you think Mai, Phuc and Nick are there?
? What are they holding in their hands?
? What are they talking about?
? Can you guess what Mai, Phuc and Nick like doing in their free time?
- We are going to listen and read a dialogue about Nick's, Phuc's and Mai's leisure activities 
- Play the recording twice.
? Listen and read then check your answer for the last question.
- Accept all possible answers from Ss without any correction.
1.2. Set the scene 
3. Doing
 - Run through the statements.
- Work individually.
 - Read one by one sentence.
- Decide if they are true or false.
- Share the answers with your partner.
- Teacher gets feedback
a. Circle the correct answer (1a P7)
Key:
 1. Bookstore 2. Book 	 3. dog
 4. craft kit 5. Folk music 
 6. Vietnamese
- Go through the list of activities mentioned
- Refer back to the conversation to tick the boxes. 
b./ Grid (1b. P7)
Phuc
Mai
Nick
1. Pet training
ü
ü
2. Making
3. Reading
ü
ü
4. Listening to music
ü
5. Learning languages
ü
6. Playing sports
ü
ü
ü
7. Helping parents with DIY projects
ü
ü
- Draw Ss’ attention to the contexts when Mai said ‘Check out this book’ and Phuc said ‘It’s right up your street!’. Together with Ss elicit the meaning of these two expressions.
c./ Answer the questions (P7)
1.To check out something means to examine something or get more information about it in order to be certain that it is suitable (or true, or false ).
2. Right up one’s street: If something is right up your street, it is the type of thing that you are interested in or that you enjoy doing.
Ex. This job seems right up your street. 
- Ss work in pairs to match the words/ phrases in the box to the photos, then they listen together to check their answers.
2. Listen and match the words /phrases in the box to the photos:
Key: 
1. playing computer games 
2. playing beach games
3. doing DIY 
4. texting
5. visiting museum 
6. making crafts
 .
? Work individually to do the task then compare their answers with a partner.
Note that ‘good’ and ‘satisfied’ fit both items 1 and 5. Acknowledge this point with Ss who have them the other way round.
3. Complete the sentences (3 P7)
Key: 
 1. satisfied 
 2. relaxing, exciting 
 3. fun 
 4. boring 
 5. good 
4. Further practice.
Game: Changing partners
- Choose one leisure in 2 or 3
- Work in groups of four or six to talk about it. Try to keep going for one minute,
- When the time is up and T calls out ‘change!’, they will move meet a new partner and talk about another activity. 
4. Further practice. 
5. Production.
5. Homework.
- Learn by heart new vocabulary
- Practice reading “Listen and read”
-Prepare new lesson: A closer look 1.
WEEK 1
Period 3 
Planning date : 18/8/ 
 Teaching date :
Class 8A:26 /8/ 
Class 8B:26 /8/ Class 8C:26 /8/ 
UNIT 1: LEISURE ACTIVITIES
 Lesson 2: A closer look 1.
I./OBJECTIVES: 
1. Knowledge.
- By the end of the lesson, ss will be able to:
- Use the lexical items related to the topic" leisure activities"
- Use verbs of liking that are followed by gerunds/ to –infinitives 
- Pronounce words containing the clusters /br/ and /pr/ correctly in isolation and in context 
2. Skills. 
- Listening, speaking, reading and writing skills.
3. Attitudes.
	- Students have serious attitude in learning. 
- Ss are interested in learning English. 
- Ss love leisure activities.
4. Competence.
	- Develop listening, speaking skills, pronunciation , self-learning capability, creative capacity, ability to use of language 
II./ PREPARATIONS.
1- Teacher :- Text book, pictures, extra board, word cards,cassette & tape.
2 - Students : - Notebook, textbook.
III./ TEACHING METHODS.
 - Groupwork, pairwork, games, communication approach.
IV./PROCEDURES
Teacher and students’ activities 
Contents
1. Warm up : Kim's game. 
? Look at the pie chart on page 8 in 20 seconds and try to remember as many words as possible.
- Teacher divide the class into two teams.
? Go to the board and write the words
- Teacher gets feedback
-> Today we are going to learn some more leisure time on an average day in the US
2. Vocabulary.
- T. elicits vocab by using pictures or real items.
- Teacher use different techniques to teach vocabulary (situation, realia)
- Follow the seven steps of teaching vocabulary 
* Checking vocab: Slap the board
*Vocabulary.
- apricot
- bracelet
(n):
(n):
Trái mơ
Vòng đeo tay
- princess
(n):
Công chúa
- broccoli
(n):
Súp lơ hoa xanh
- president
(n):
Chủ tịch, tổng thống
- present
(n):
Món quà
- origami
(n):
nghệ thuật xếp giấy Nhật Bản
- socialize
(v):
xã hội hóa, tổ chức theo phương thức XHCN
- Before starting the lesson explain what a ‘pie chart’ is and how each slice can be calculated as a percentage of the whole. - Give Ss some simple statistics and make a pie chart with them as a class.
? Work in pairs to examine the pie chart closely in order to understand its contents, including the heading, subheadings, figures, color codes, source and notes.
? Answer the questions that follow the chart.
If necessary, T may elicit information by asking question such as:
-What is the pie chart about? Where can you find the information?	
-What do the different colored sections of the chart refer to?
-How are these sections calculated?
-What does the ‘Note’ tell you?
-What does the ‘Source’ tell you?
1. Questions and answers (1 P8)
Key:
1. In 2014, people in the USA spent 5.1 hours a day on sport and leisure activities.
2. The main activities they did include watching TV, socializing and communicating, reading, participating in sports, exercise and recreation, using computers for leisure, relaxing and thinking.
3. The three most common activities were watching TV, socializing and communicating and using computers for leisure.
? Work individually to complete the task. 
- After giving corrective feedback, draw their attention to the parts of speech of the words mentioned 
- Then introduce the concept of gerund - Give Ss some examples where a gerund is transformed from a verb and used as a noun.
2/ Complete the table(2 P8)
e.g. relaxing comes from the verb relax with –ing added, and it refers to the activity
- a noun made from a verb by adding –ing
Key.
Name of activity
Verb
Relaxing
Thinking
Using
Doing
Watching
Reading
Socializing
communicating
Relax
Think
Use
Do
Watch
Read
Socialize
Communicate
- Look at the words and try to guess what these words have in common. 
- What is the common verb we often use with these? 
- How can we use this verb to escribe the activity?
- Who do we often do these with?
- Where do we often do these? Etc.
- Do not give correction at this step. 
- Work in pairs to complete the task. 
- Once they have finished and T has given corrective feedback
 - Add more words in each category.
3./ Matching (3 P8)
Ex. B. Reading: a novel, poetry, ...
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
e
B
f
a
d
h
c
g
3. Pronunciation.
- Have Ss work individually to complete this task. Once they have finished , Ss work in pairs to compare their answers. 
- Play the recording for Ss to check and then repeat. Pause the recording to drill difficult items.
* Pronunciation.
Cluster: /br/ and /pr/
 /br/ : bridge, bracelet, bread, broccoli, .
 /pr/ : apricot, princess, president, present 
4. Complete the words (5 P9)
 1. Apricot 2. Bridge 
 3. Bracelet 4. Bread
 5. princess 6. President 
 7. President 8.broccoli
Have Ss practice the words with the clusters first. Then ask them to repeat the whole sentences.
5. Listen and repeat. (6 P9)
Auto script: 
1.She loves making apricot jam. 
2.My dad likes making bread in his free time.
3.Hien is our club president.
4.Mai keeps all her bracelets in a beautiful box.
5.You will need a brush if you want to paint your room.
6.This is a wonderful present.Thanks so much.
4.Further practice. 
- Work in small groups.
- Think about what your average day may look like (including study and work) and how much time is spent on leisure activities.
- If there is plenty of time, encourage them to calculate these times as percentages and put them in a simple pie chart similar to 1.
6./ Speaking (4 P8)
Ex: We don't have music today.
5. Production.
7./ Homework.
- Learn by heart new words.
- Practice the sounds /br/ and /pr/.
- Do Ex in Ex book
WEEK 2
Period 4
Preparing : 21/8 / 
 Teaching :
29 /8 / 
 UNIT 1: LEISURE ACTIVITIES
Lesson 3: A closer look 2
I-OBJECTIVES 
1. Knowledge.
By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to:
- Use the lexical items related to the topic" Leisure activities"
- Know how to use verbs of linking + gerund and verbs of linking + to-infinitives and doing exercises well.
- Read Minh Duc's email to find grammar mistakes.
2. Skills. 
- Practicing doing exercise skills (Listening, speaking, reading and writing skills).
3. Attitudes.
	- Students have serious attitude in learning and love learning English.
	- Ss are interested in doing exercises and making sentences with new structures,
4. Competence.
	- Develop doing exercise skills themselves. 
- Co-operation 
- Ability to use of language 
II- PREPARATIONS
1- Teacher :- Text book, pictures, extra board, planning, laptop 
2 - Students : - Notebook, textbook.
III- TEACHING METHODS.
 - Groupwork, pairwork, games, communication approach.
IV- PROCEDURES
Teacher and students’ activities
Contents
1.Warm up. Game:
(Network)
-Have Ss work in 2 teams
-Get Ss to write down the verbs express hobbies.
-Give feed back and decide which is the winner of the game.
-Provide some more verbs about hobbies.
* Network.
Verbs express hobbies
 Like
 love
Suggested answers:
- like, love, enjoy, prefer, adore,fancy
- >< hate, dislike, don’t like, ..
2. Grammar 1: (Presentation) 
*Vocab. 
Adore
(v)
yêu thích
- fancy
(v):
ưa thích
- Remind Ss of the concept of the gerund from A closer look 1. 
? How is the gerund formed and how it functions grammatically?
- Draw Ss’ attention to ‘love to watch’ and ‘enjoy listening’ which appear in the text in GETTING STARTED :
*Answer the questions
 -I love to watch him 
 -But I think I’ll enjoy listening 
- Play the recording in GETTING STARTED for Ss to listen.
? Underline the verbs of liking followed by gerunds or to-infinitives that they find in the text. 
? Go through the Look out box with Ss. 
- Introduce Ss to the Learning tip box
1. Underline verbs that are followed by a gerund (in getting started): 
 * Grammar: Verbs of liking + gerunds/ to V
(If we want to follow a verb with another action, we must use a gerund or an infinitive// some verbs are followed by only gerunds: enjoy; fancy; detest )
ex. She loves going out with her friends.
 = She loves to go out with her friends. 
- Text Ss that verbs of liking/disliking are often followed by gerunds, but verbs such as love, like, hate, start and prefer may go with gerunds or to-infinitives with almost no change in meaning.
3. Grammar 2.(Practice.) 
? Work individually and then compare the answers with their partners.
Then play the recording for Ss to check their answers
2.Tick (ü) the appropriate box. Then Listen and check (2 P9)
Followed by gerund only
Followed by both gerund and to-infinitive
1. love
ü
2. enjoy
ü
3. detest
ü
4. prefer
ü
5. fancy
ü
* Work in pairs
- Ss work in pairs to complete this task.
- T gives feedback .
3. Write the correct form of the verbs (3P10) 
Key: 
1. making 2. to watch/watching 
3. skateboarding 4. to learn/learning 
5. Sitting
? Work in groups of five or six. 
- Give Ss time to work individually at first and write each sentence on a strip of paper.
? Mix up the strips in groups. 
? Each students picks up and reads out a sentence,. then they guess who wrote that sentence.
4. Write sentences about what you like or don’t like doing in your free time , beginning with the following .Then share what you have written with your partner (4P10)
1.I adore ........
2. I love ..........
3. I fancy ..........
4. I don’t mind ..........
5. I don’t like ............ 
6. I detest................ 
- Have Ss quickly familiarize themselves with the e-mail by asking: ? Who wrote this e-mail? To whom? ? What is it about? 
? Scan the email to find the answers.
5. Look at the following e-mail that Minh Duc wrote to a new penfriend. (5 P10)
a./Find 6 mistakes – correct
1. like do =>like to do/ like doing 
2. enjoy do=>enjoy doing 
3. like have=> like to have/ like having 
4. mind to do=> mind doing
5. hate spend=> hate to spend/ hate spending
6. love eat=> love to eat / love eating
-Ask Ss to read the e-mail again and answer the questions 
b./Answer the questions :
1. The activities Duc mentions in his e-mail are ; playing video games , watching TV , going to the park , playing football , helping his parents , doing homework and eating out with his family 
2.The two activities he enjoys the most are playing football with his friends and eating out with his family
4 .Further practice.
? Work individually to write the e-mail then exchange it with their partners and check for mistakes. 
6.Write a similar e-mail to tell your friend about your free time , using the verbs of liking +gerunds or verbs of liking + to-infinitives .Swap your work with a partner and check for mistakes
5. Production. 
7.Homework.
- Learn by heart vocabulary and structures.
- Write a similar e-mail to tell your friend about your free time , using the verbs of liking +gerunds or verbs of liking + to-
-Prepare “Communication
WEEK 2
Period 5
Preparing : 22/8/ 
 Teaching :
30 /8/ 
UNIT 1: LEISURE ACTIVITIES
Lesson 4: Communication
I-OBJECTIVES: 
1. Knowledge.
By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to:
- Read some articles on the 4T website for general and specific information about .
- Understand some abbreviations and talk how they spend their free time.
- Vocab: - Use the lexical items related to the topic" leisure activities"
- Grammar: Use verbs of liking that are followed by gerunds and to –infinitives.
2. Skills. 
- Students develop listening, speaking, reading and writing skills.
3. Attitudes.
	- Students have serious attitude in learning and love learning English.
- Ss are interested in taking part in leisure activities.
4. Competence.
- Student develop their communication, confident, 
- Ability to use of language 
II- PREPARATIONS.
1- Teacher :- Text book, pictures, extra board, chalk, laptop 
2 - Students : - Notebook, textbook.
III- TEACHING METHODS.
 - Communicative approach, work in pairs , play as a character, teaching methods with game, , teaching methods by practising, discussion group, 
IV- PPROCEDURES
Teacher and students’ activities
Contents
1.Warm up. Chatting.
- Teacher asks and students anwer some questions.
Questions: +Do you like reading in your free time ?
+What kind do you like best ?
+Do you often read articles on the magazine ?
2. Communication 1:
1. Vocabulary
T. elicits Vocabs by using pictures or real items.
- Listen and repeat.
Check: Rub out and remember.
T. calls a student to the board and rewrite al the words in English.
- Extra vocabulary
- window shopping = hang out : đi chơi với ban bè ngắm đồ bầy bán ở cửa hàng.
- to be hooked on sth: bị mắc vào.., ham mê vào, yêu thích vào ..
- to be addicted to sth: bị nghiện làm 
- to sound + adj ( weird / strange / challenging ): nghe có vẻ kì lạ
- netlingo (n): ngôn ngữ dùng để giao tiếp trên
* Set the scene: You are going to read about some activities teenagers do in their spare time.
? Cover the text and just look at the
photos ( with name and country ).
- Encourage Ss to guess what these
students in the photos like doing as
leisure activities.
- Then set a reading time limit
? Close books and play a memory
game in competing groups.
? Tell how much information you can
remember from the text. 
- Motivate Ss by counting every detail they remember without any checking comprehension 
1. Read the following article on the magazine 4 Teen website 
3. Communication 2:
- Ask Ss if they notice any other particular features of the text. 
 - Drawing their attention to the form of the text (e.g. its layout and the abbreviation). Explain that this is from a webpage and that these abbreviations are informal language that is used online and in texting messages. 
- Introduce the first abbreviation. 
? Work in pairs to complete the task.
? Add to the dictionary with any other abbreviations you know that are used online. 
? Work in pairs to create your own mini dictionary, then ask other pair to guess the meaning.
2. Study the abbreviation
2 moro
tomorrow
WBU
What about you?
J4F
Just for fun
DYLI
Do you like it?
EZ
easy
J4F
Just for fun
Goin’
going
n’
and
NUFF
enough
r
are
ur
your
w/
with
WBY?
What about you?
WF
Note: These abbreviations are informal language that is used on line and in texting message.
- add some more abbreviations you know, then write a short text or message in which you use your abbreviations & send to each other – if time left 
- Have Ss work in pairs or small groups to complete the table. Allow Ss to read the text more closely to fill in the table.
3. Complete the table
Who?
What activity is mentioned?
What does he/she thick of it?
Emily
-hanging out with friends ( window shopping)
-working as a volunteer
She loves it.
Hang
Cloud watching
She adores it. It’s easy
Linn
Going to community centre, painting, dancing, doing drama
She loves it
Minh
-playing football
-helping his aunt in running cooking class
He likes it.
He’s fun.
Manuel
-Playing computer games
-doing judo
He’s addicted to it.
It’s Ok.
4. Further practice
? Work in pairs to put the leisure activities in the text in order from the most interesting to the most boring. 
- Once they have their list, form a bigger group of four and each pair shares their list with the other. 
? Discuss, give opinions, and negotiate with each other in order to agree on a mutual list. 
-With class 8C :- Encourages Ss speak in front of the class.
4. Speaking.
5. Production
5. Homework.
 ? Learn by heart all the new words and structures
? Do C1, 2, D1 P 6-7 (SBT)
- Prepare next lesson. Unit 1. Lesson 5 Skills 1
WEEK 2
Period 6
Preparing : 24/8/ 
 Teaching :
01 /9/ 
UNIT 1: LEISURE ACTIVITIES
Lesson 5: Skills 1
I-OBJECTIVES: 
1. Knowledge. 
By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to:
- Read for general and specific information about the positive and negative effects of using computer.
- Practice speaking by giving fact or opinion about using computers and mobile phone for leisure activities.
- Revise tenses of verbs; asking/ giving for an opinion. 
2. Skills.
 - Develop reading,writing and speaking skills.
3. Attitudes.
	- Students have serious attitude in discussion .
	- Positive about the school
- Ss are interested in finding how to spend time for leisure activities.
4. Competence.
	- Develop language, communication, speaking, reading skills
II- PREPARATIONS.
1- Teacher :- Ss’ books, text book, posters, pictures, laptop 
2 - Students : - Notebook, textbook.
III- TEACHING METHODS.
 - Groupwork, pairwork, asking and answering, communication approach, discussion, role play 
IV- PPROCEDURES
Teacher and students’ activities
Contents.
1.Warm up: Discussion
Listing
- Divide the class into two teams
? Discuss and make a list of benefits of using computer or mobile phone for leisure activities
? Take turns to write on the board.
- Get feedback.
? What are the harmful things of using computer or mobile phone for leisure activities? 
Benefits of using computer or mobile phone for leisure activities
E. g: 
- Means of e-mail or chatting
- A source of information (news, articles, the weather forecast....)
- A source of entertainment (music, movies, games...)
2. Reading
2.1/ Pre- reading.
T uses some techniques to present new words
Check: R.O.R.
I. Reading.
1.Vocabs
- virtual
(adj):
thực sự
- effect
(n):
sự ảnh hưởng, hậu quả
- mind
(n):
tâm trí, trí tuệ
- exist
(n):
tồn tại, hiện có
- rely
(v)
dựa vào
- ban
(v)
cấm
- play - hooky/ truant
trốn học đi chơi
* Set the scene: 
? Look at the title and the picture and predict what you are going to read. 
- Encourage Ss to develop their ideals by guessing what Quang’s story is about.
*Pre- question
- We are going to read about a student named Quang. 
2.2./ While reading.
- Ask Ss to work in groups of 4 to read the text and choose the correct answer. – Give feedback
2. Read and choose the correct answer)
Key: 1 B 2. C
? Look at the keywords in the responses in order to find out the questions. 
? Work individually then compare their answers with a partner.
– Give feedback
3. Write the qs for the answers based on information from the text. 
Key: 
1. Is Quang’s garden real?
2. What is the problem with using technology in your free time?
3. What leisure activities do teenagers do these days?
4. What are the benefits of using the computer?
3./. Speaking 
? Study the language in the Language notes box. 
? How do you give an opinion? 
? How do you ask for an opinion?
- Work in pairs
II. Speaking 
Giving an opinion: 
- I think that...........
- In my opinion.........
Ask for an opinion
 - What do you think?
- How do you feel about that?
Agreeing: 
I agree with you./ That's so true./ Exactly
Disagreeing:
I'm afraid I don't agree./ I don't think so.
A: In my opinion, computer games train
 your mind and your memory.
B: That’s so true./ I’m afraid I don’t agree.
I think computer games train my mind and my memory
- Explain to Ss that these speech bubbles are from Quang and his parents. 
- Students practice speaking skills: asking/ giving an opinion 
- Ss answer the questions: What do you think about playing computer games? (I think computer games train my mind and memory)
? Do you agree with your friend? (I agree, but you shouldn’t spend much time on it.) .
4. (Exervise 4 P12) 
Go out and play a sport. It’s good for you!
Key:
 Quang 
My English is much better because I surft the net
Quang’s parents
I’ve made lots of friends from the game network.
 Quang
You see your real friends less and less
Quang 
Sitting for too long in front of the computer makes your eyes tired
 Quang’s parents
Sitting for too long in front of the computer makes your eyes tired
 Quang’s parents 
4. Further practice.
. Role play:
- Arrange Ss into three groups: 
Group 1: plays Quang
Group 2: plays Quang’s parents
Group 3: plays his teacher. 
? Brainstorm how you are going 
to express your opinions. 
- When they are ready, put Ss into new groups which contain Quang, Quang’s parents, and Quang’s teacher.
- Tell Ss that they can use the language in 4 for their role-play, and emphasise in the Study skill box should be used in their discussion.
- Call on two or three groups to repeat their role-play for the class
III. Further practice.
5. Role play: What’s the solution?
Q: I believe that my E is much better because I surf the Internet.
Q’ parents : I don’t agree with you. Go out and play with your friends is much better.
Teacher: I agree with you Q. However, you shouldn’t spend much time on surfing the Net. It’s not good for your eyes
5. Production. 
IV. Homework. 
- Learn by heart all the new words
- Do Ex D1, 2, 3 (WB)
- Prepare for the next lesson: Unit 1: Skills 2.
WEEK 3
Period 7 
Planning : 28/8/ 
 Teaching :
 /9 / 
 UNIT 1: LEISURE ACTIVITIES
 	Lesson 6: Skills 2
I-OBJECTIVES: 
1. Knowledge. 
By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to : 
- Listening for specific information about ways of spending time with friends
 - Write to discuss an opinion about leisure activities
2. Skills.
 - Develop students' listening and writing skills.
3. Attitudes.
	- Students have serious attitude in learning , love learning English.
4. Competence.
	- Develop language, communication, listening and writing skills, co-operation,
self- study.
II- PREPARATIONS.
1- Teacher :- Ss’ books, text books, posters, laptop, projector
2.Students: books, notebooks
III- TEACHING METHODS.
 - Groupwork, pairwor