Giáo án Tiếng Anh Lớp 8 - Unit 5: Study habits - Lesson 3: Read (Tiết1)

Date of preparation:
Date of teaching: 
WEEK 9
PERIOD: 
UNIT 5 STUDY HABITS
 	Lesson 3: Read (Tiết1)
I.Objectives.
1.Knowledge
By the end of the lesson,Ss will be able to understand the text ,get specific information .
2.Skill: Listening ,speaking ,reading ,writing
3.Attitudes: Students love more mother tongue 
4. Competence and quality:
	4.1. Competence:
	- General capacity:self-learning ability, communication capacity, capacity to use language, cooperation capacity, 
	- Specilized capacity: English language ability, develop self capacity,.. 
	4.2. Quality: Love family and country, willing to participate in social activities, live humanty, cooperate with people around, 
II.Preparation:
1, Teacher's: text book, teacher’s book, sub-boards, pictures, cues
.2, Students': text book, note book, chalks, pens
III.Procedures	
Activities
Content
ACTIVITY 1 (WARM-UP) (5’)
a. Aim: Set the scene, lead students to the main part of the period.	
b. Content: Active words and structures
c. Outcome: Ss’ understanding, ability of using the words and structures
d. Organization:
1.Warm-up : (5’) . Chatting
Ask Ss some questions about their English learning:
-Do you likelearning English?
-How many new words do you try to learn a day?
-What do you do when you read a new word?
-How do you learn/remember new words?
2. ACTIVITY 2: PRESENTATION (15’)
a. Aim: Students can memorize some new words
b. Content: vocabulary, set the scene, structures
c. Outcome: students can read and write the new words
d. Organization:
: Introduce the topic of the reading passage and some new words . 
-TM: Play game, practising, discussion group, technical present .
-C: Co-operation, communication, 
-Q: Love family, friends and country
a. Pre- teach vocabulary : 
* Checking : Slap the board 
b. True / False statements Prediction p50
- Ask Ss to read the statements and decide which is true and which is false . 
( Page 50 )
- Call on Ss to read their answers and give feedback 
a.All language learners write the meaning of new words in their mother tongue.F
b.Some learners write examples of words they want to learn.T
c.Every learnertries to learn all new words they come across.F
d.Many learners only learn new words that are important.T
3. ACTIVITY 3: PRACTICE (20’)
a. Aim: Helps students to speak and listen, understand the tasks 
b. Content: 	
- answer the questions in the questionaire.
c. Outcome: ss can do the task correctly
d. Organization:
-TM: Play game, practising, discussion group, technical present .
-C: Co-operation, communication, 
-Q: Love family, friends and country
. Reading : p 49
- Call on 2 or 3 Ss to read the passage aloud .
4. ACTIVITY 4: APPLICATION (5’)
a. Aim: Stundents apply the knowledge they learnt in practice
b. Content: Discussion, Survey 
c. Outcome: students’s talks 
d. Organization:
Survey 
- Ask Ss to work in groups to interview one another and tick the ways they have used to learn new words 
- Call on Ss to report about their groups. 
Ex : Lan learns words by making a list of words . 
Homework : (1’)
1. Write the ways of learning words that you think are the best for you . 
2. Prepare the next lesson
Chatting
some questions about their English learning:
-Do you likelearning English?
-How many new words do you try to learn a day?
-What do you do when you read a new word?
-How do you learn/remember new words?
I.Vocabulary:
-To make a list: liệt kê danh sách
-to put into it the meanings: ghi nghĩa
-instead: thay vào đó
-in the right way: đúng
-at any time: bất kì lúc nào
-to try:thử
-so as=in order to:để
- mother tongue ( example ):tiếng mẹ đẻ
- to underline ( example ):gạch chân
- to highlight ( example ):làm nổi bật
- to come across ( synonym )gặp tình cờ
- to stick ( mime ):dán
II.True / False statements prediction p50
.
III.Read:
Key:
 a. F b. T 
 c . F d . T
IV.Survey:
Ways of learning words 
Lan 
Hoa 
...
1. Make a list of words , their meanings and learn them by heart .
2. Write sample sentences with new words 
3. Stick new words somewhere in the house .
4. Underline or highlight the words .
5. Read stories in English . 
6. Learn words through songs . 
 Homework : (1’)
1. Write the ways of learning words that you think are the best for you . 
2. Prepare the next lesson
Date of preparation:
Date of teaching: 
WEEK 9
PERIOD: 
UNIT 5 STUDY HABITS
 	Lesson 3: Read (Tiết2)
I.Objectives.
1.Knowledge
By the end of the lesson,Ss will be able to understand the text ,get specific information .
2.Skill: Listening ,speaking ,reading ,writing
3.Attitudes: Students love more mother tongue
4. Competence and quality:
	4.1. Competence:
	- General capacity:self-learning ability, communication capacity, capacity to use language, cooperation capacity, 
	- Specilized capacity:English language ability, develop self capacity,.. 
	4.2. Quality: Love family and country, willing to participate in social activities, live humanty, cooperate with people around, 
 II.Preparation:
1, Teacher's: text book, teacher’s book, sub-boards, pictures, cues
.2, Students': text book, note book, chalks, pens
III.Procedures
Activities
Content
ACTIVITY 1 (WARM-UP) (5’)
a. Aim: Set the scene, lead students to the main part of the period.	
b. Content: Active words and structures
c. Outcome: Ss’ understanding, ability of using the words and structures
d. Organization:
1.Warm- up : (5’) . Brainstorming 
- Ask Ss to work in pairs to make a list of the ways how a language learner can learn new words . 
list of the ways 
how a language learner 
can learn new words . 
* Possible answers : 
- Learn by heart - Translate it into mother tongue - Learn through example sentences 
- Write each word on one piece of paper and put it into the pocket to learn whenever
- Write it on small piece of paper and stick everywhere in the house .
2. ACTIVITY 2: PRESENTATION (15’)
a. Aim: Students can memorize some new words
b. Content: vocabulary, set the scene, structures
c. Outcome: students can read and write the new words
d. Organization:
Introduce the topic of the reading passage and some new words -TM: Play game, practising, discussion group, technical present .
-C: Co-operation, communication, 
-Q: Love family, friends and country
3. ACTIVITY 3: PRACTICE (20’)
a. Aim: Helps students to speak and listen, understand the tasks 
b. Content: 	
- answer the questions in the questionaire.
c. Outcome: ss can do the task correctly
d. Organization
TM: Play game, practising, discussion group, technical present .
-C: Co-operation, communication, 
-Q: Love family, friends and country
1. Reading : p 49
- Call on 2 or 3 Ss to read the passage aloud .
 2. Comprehension questions p50
- Have Ss work in pairs to answer the questions 
- Call on some Pairs to practice asking and answering the questions .a.Do learners learn words in the same way?
b.Why do some learners write example sentences with new words? 
c.What do some learners do in order to remember words better?
d.Why don’t some learners learn all the new words they come across ?
e.What is necessary in learning words?
f.How should you learn words?
- Give feedback 
.a.Do learners learn words in the same way?
b.Why do some learners write example sentences with new words? 
c.What do some learners do in order to remember words better?
d.Why don’t some learners learn all the new words they come across ?
e.What is necessary in learning words?
f.How should you learn words?
4. ACTIVITY 4: APPLICATION (5’)
a. Aim: Stundents apply the knowledge they learnt in practice
b. Content: Discussion, Survey
c. Outcome: students’s talks 
d. Organization:
- Ask Ss to work in groups to interview one another and tick the ways they have used to learn new words 
- Call on Ss to report about their groups . 
Ex : Lan learns words by making a list of words .
Homework : (1’)
1. Write the ways of learning words that you think are the best for you . 
2. Prepare the new lesson.
. Brainstorming 
list of the ways
 how a language learner
 can learn new words . 
* Possible answers : 
- Learn by heart - Translate it into mother tongue - Learn through example sentences 
- Write each word on one piece of paper and put it into the pocket to learn whenever
- Write it on small piece of paper and stick everywhere in the house .
.
I.Read:P 49
II. Answer the questions:p50
a. No . They learn words in different ways .
b. Because they help them to remember the use of new words .
c. They write examples , put the words and their meanings on stickers , underline or highlight them d. They may think they can not do so . Instead , they learn only important words . 
e. Revision is necessary in learning words . 
f. Learners should try different ways of learning words t find out what is the best
III.Survey:
Ways of learning words 
Lan 
Hoa 
...
1. Make a list of words , their meanings and learn them by heart .
2. Write sample sentences with new words 
3. Stick new words somewhere in the house .
4. Underline or highlight the words .
5. Read stories in English . 
6. Learn words through songs .
Homework : (1’)
1. Write the ways of learning words that you think are the best for you . 
2. Prepare the new lesson.
Date of preparation:
Date of teaching: 
WEEK 9
PERIOD: 
UNIT 5 STUDY HABITS
Lesson 5: Write
I.Objectives.
1.Knowledge
By the end of the lesson , Ss will be able to know the format of a friendly ,practice writing a letter to a friend
2.Skill: Listening ,speaking ,reading ,writing
3.Attitudes: Students love more friends and their country
4. Competence and quality:
	4.1. Competence:
	- General capacity:self-learning ability, communication capacity, capacity to use language, cooperation capacity, 
	- Specilized capacity:English language ability, develop self capacity,.. 
	4.2. Quality: Love family and country, willing to participate in social activities, live humanty, cooperate with people around, 
II.Preparation:
1, Teacher's: text book, teacher’s book, sub-boards, pictures, cues
.2, Students': text book, note book, chalks, pens
III.Procedures
Activities
Content
ACTIVITY 1 (WARM-UP) (5’)
a. Aim: Set the scene, lead students to the main part of the period.	
b. Content: Active words and structures
c. Outcome: Ss’ understanding, ability of using the words and structures
d. Organization:
Chatting 
1. Have you ever written to someone ? 
 2. To whom do you usually write ?
3. What do you often write about ? 
- Lead in new lesson . T & Ss correct
2. ACTIVITY 2: PRESENTATION (15’)
a. Aim: Students can memorize some new words
b. Content: vocabulary, set the scene, structures
c. Outcome: students can read and write the new words
d. Organization:
Introduce the topic of the writing and some new words to Ss .
-TM: Play game, practising, discussion group, technical present .
-C: Co-operation, communication, 
-Q: Love family, friends and country
a. Pre – teach vocabulary :
* Checking : Rub out and remember 
b. Ordering 
- Ask Ss to put the parts of the letter in the correct order .
a. Opening d. Body of the letter 
b. Closing e. Signature 
c. The date f . Writer,s address .
- Give feedback 
- Ask Ss to read the letter to check their order .
c. Labeling 
- Ask Ss to label each section with the correct letter . 4 . Comprehension questions 
- Have Ss work in pairs and answer some questions 
a. Who wrote the letter ? To whom ?
b. What are there in the heading ? 
c. What is the main part of the letter ? 
d. What did Hoa receive a few days ago ? 
e. What subject is Hoa good at ? 
f. Where is she going to celebrate the Lunar New Year Festival ? 
- Call on some pairs to practice asking and answering in front of class . 
3. ACTIVITY 3: PRACTICE (20’)
a. Aim: Helps students to speak and listen, understand the tasks to write a letter 
b. Content: 	writing
c. Outcome: ss can do the task correctly
d. Organization:
3
-TM: Play game, practising, discussion group, technical present .
-C: Co-operation, communication, 
-Q: Love family, friends and country
- Ask Ss to imagine that they are Lan and write a letter to her pen pal Donna in San Francisco , using the given information .
- Call on some Ss to demonstrate their writings in front of class . 
4. ACTIVITY 4: APPLICATION (5’)
a. Aim: Stundents apply the knowledge they learnt in practice
b. Content: Discussion, Correction 
c. Outcome: students’s talks 
d. Organization:
-TM: Play game, practising, discussion group, technical present .
-C: Co-operation, communication, 
-Q: Love family, friends and country
- Call on Ss to read aloud their letters and correct the mistakes . 
Homework : (1’)
1. Write a letter to your friend to tell him / her about your second semester report and about Summer holiday
Chatting 
1. Have you ever written to someone ? 
 2. To whom do you usually write ?
3. What do you often write about ? 
- Lead in new lesson . T & Ss correct
I.Vocabulary:
- Lunar New Year Festival
 ( explanation ):tết nguyên đán
- Enjoyable (adj ) = vui thu , thich thu 
- to celebrate = ki niem 
-> celebration (n) 
II. Ordering 
1-f 2-c 3-a 
 4-d 5-b 6-e
III.Answer the questions:
a.-Hoa ;To Tim
b.-12 Tran Hung Dao St
Ha noi
February 10,200..
c. “Thank for your letter .Write soon and tell me all your news”
d.-First semester report
e.-Science,English,and history
f.Hue.
IV.Write
* Suggested letter : 
15 Quang Trung street 
Hanoi , July 12 th , 2005 
Dear Donna, 
Thanks for your letter . I am glad to hear you had an interesting Mother,s Day .
We have received our second semester report last month . I got good grades for Geography , Physics and Math but my English and History results were poor . My teacher advises me to improve English and History . I think I have to study harder next school year . 
In a few weeks , we are going to celebrate the mid Autumn festival . That is an Autumn moon festival in Vietnam . This afternoon , I am going to Ha Long Bay with my aunt and uncle by bus and I am going to stay ther with them until the festival comes . I will send you a postcard from there . 
Write soon and tell me all your news . 
Best 
Lan , 
Homework : (1’)
1. Write a letter to your friend to tell him / her about your second semester report and about Summer holiday
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