Giáo án Tiếng Anh lớp 8 Unit 5: Study habits - Lesson 1

Teacher^/s activities

Ss^/ activities

*) Lead-in: (1’) Network

- Asks Ss to look at the picture in textbook and answer questions:

?Who is this? (Tim/ his mother)

?What does Tim do? (a student)

?What are they talking about?

I. PRE-STAGE: (12’)

1. Vocabulary

- Elicits first and says out the words

- Writes and checks.

+ (To) improve (Sit.)

-> improvement (N)

Ex: I always improve my English

+ (a) report card (Example)

Ex: My teacher gives me a report card.

+ (To) be excellent (Exam.)

+ (a) semester = (a) term (Example)

+ (To) be proud of

+ (To) try/do one^/s best (Trans.)(to/in)

Ex: I always do my best to study well.

- Instructs Ss to read them through.

2. Practise the dialogue

- Plays the tape twice for Ss to listen.

- Asks Ss to play the roles in the dialogue then read it in pairs.

- Helps the whole to check pronunciations

II. WHILE-STAGE: (15’)

1. T/F statements (Part 2- P.47)

- Hangs on the statements and asks Ss to read them through.

- Asks Ss to read the dialogue to choose the statements be T/F in pairs

- Gets feedback and invites for corrections of the false statements.

2. Comprehension questions (Part 3 - Page 47)

- Hangs on the Qs & explains the way to do the exercise.

- Asks Ss to read the text again and answer the five above questions.

- Asks the whole to check.

III. POST-STAGE: (10’)

* The advice in Reported Speech

- Makes the questions:

?What did Miss Lien ask Tim to do?

- Writes the direct sentence and asks Ss to give the meaning, use and form and compare the direct sentence with the indirect one.

- Elicits the way to change the persons in the indirect sentence.

- Asks Ss to work in groups of three and complete the exercise 4-P.53- Language Focus.

- Gets feedback.

- Asks the whole to check the sentences and help Ss to correct.

+ Model:

Miss Jackson said: “Tim should work harder on his Spanish pronunciation”

→ Tim^/s mother reported to Tim:

Miss Jackson said you should work harder on your Spanish pronunciation

- Answer T’s questions.

- Try out and repeat chorally- individually

- Give the meaning & make sentences

- Read the words in front of class.

- Listen with the closed books.

- Read the dialogue in pairs then read it aloud to the front.

- Check pronunciation with teacher.

- Read through the statements.

- Read the dialogue, share their ideas in pairs to find out the results.

- Speak out their choice and correct the flase statements.

*) Answer key:

a. F b. T c. F d.T e.F f.T

- Read through the questions.

- Ask and answer the questions in pairs and then read aloud the answer.

- Check the answer with teacher.

*) Answer key:

a. She is Tim^/s teacher.

b. She gave Tim^/s mother his report card.

c. He studied really hard.

d. She said Tim should work harder on his Spanish pronunciation.

e. She gave him a Spanish dictionary

- Use Reported speech, try to change it into the indirect sentence.

- Share their ideas and compare two kinds of sentence

- Give their ideas and take notes about how to change the persons in indirect sentence.

+ Structure:

Direct: S +said: ”S + should + Vbare-inf.”

Indirect: We have to keep Should, but change the persons.

+ Rule:

- reported verb: say → said (that)

- persons: Tim/she → you; I → he/she

We → they

- Work in groups of three and complete the exercise 4-P.53- Language Focus

- Read aloud the answer.

- Check the answer with teacher.