Long Son Secondary School Lesson Plan of
English 8 - Unit 1
Week 1 Period 1 Preparing day: …. / 8 /
2010
Teaching day: …. / 8 /
2010
REVIEW AND GUIDE THE WAY TO LEARN
* Objective: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to review main knowledge that
students have studied in English 7. Introduce more effective methods of learning.
* Teaching aids: Text book, cards, lesson plan, etc.
* Procedures:
Contents T's activities Sts' activities
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Long Son Secondary School Lesson Plan of
English 8 - Unit 1
I/ Grammar: 15’
1/ Present tense:
 Form:
 Adv: usually, often, always, sometimes,
never, every, …
Ex: - Hoa (be) is a beautiful girl.
- She (go) goes to school everyday.
2/ Present continuous:
 Form:
 Adv: now, at the moment, at present, at this /
that time, …
Ex: - I (play) soccer now
 I am playing soccer now
- What Nam (do) at the moment?
 What is Nam doing at the moment?

- Look.
- Copy down.
- Give the form.
- Look.
- Look and copy.
- Listen.
- Give the form.
- Look.
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S + will / shall + V
0
+ O
S + be going to + V
0
+ O
S + am / is / are + V
-ing
+ O
S + was / were + O
S + V
2
ed
+ O
S + am / is / are + O
S + V
(s/es)
+ O
Long Son Secondary School Lesson Plan of
English 8 - Unit 1

- Prepare Unit1, lesson 1: - Getting started.
- Listen and read.
- Gives example.
- Explains and gives
answer.
- Reminds.
- Guides sts the way to
learn English 8.
- Asks sts what to do at
home.
- Listen.
- Look and copy.
- Remind.
- Listen carefully.
- Listen and take
notes.
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Comments:
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Long Son Secondary School Lesson Plan of
English 8 - Unit 1
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Unit 1: MY FRIENDS

- (to) seem : dửụứng nhử
- (to) look like : troõng gioỏng nhử
- (to) smile : mổm cửụứi
- a next door neighbor : ngửụứi haứng xoựm
2/ Scene:
- Do you remember Hoa ?
- Where is she from ?
- Who does she live with now ? Hoa
- Which grade is she in ?
Hoa is from Hue. Now she lives in Ha Noi
with her uncle and aunt. She is talking to Lan
about one of her friend in Hue.
3/ Dialogue / P.
10
:
- Asks sts some questions
- Asks sts to look at 4
pictures/ P.
10
and asks.
- Asks sts to work in
pairs (ask and answer),
describe these groups
of friends and their
favorite activities.
- Corrects the mistakes.
- Asks sts to write the
question & the answers
in their notebooks.
- Elicits new words.

and answer the
questions.
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Week 1 Period 2 Preparing day: . / 8 /
2010
Teaching day: . / 8 / 2010
Long Son Secondary School Lesson Plan of
English 8 - Unit 1
 Structures:
*
Ex: What does she look like ?
She is beautiful

*
Ex: What a lovely smile!
*
Ex: She wasn’t old enough to be in my class
III/ Practice: (Answer the questions 2/ P
11
) 14'
 Answer key:
a) Nien lives in Hue.
b) No, she doesn't know Nien.
c) The sentence is "She wasn't old enough to
be in my class"
d) Nien is going to visit 8 Hoa at Christmas.
IV/ Consolidation: (True/ False statements) 5'
1) Nien is Lan’s friend. F (Hoa’s friend)
2) Hoa and Lan are old enough to be in class. T

- Listen carefully and
write notes.
- Listen.
- Read the dialogue in
pairs.
- Present.
- Reread and answer
the questions in pairs.
- Write on the board.
- Check & take notes.
- Look.
- Read statements and
check T/F.
- Give feedback.
- Correct.
- Listen and take
notes.
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Week 1 Period 3 Preparing day: …. / 8 /
2010
Teaching day: …. / 8 / 2010
Unit 1: MY FRIENDS
Lesson 2: Speak + Listen
* Objective: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to describe someone and complete the
dialogue by listening.
* Teaching aids: Text book, pictures, chalk, stereo.
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What do / does + S + look like ?
=> S + is / look(s) + adj

1
: This person is short and thin. She has
long blond hair.
S
2
: Is this Mary?
S
1
: Yes.
III/ Listening:
1/ Pre - listening: 5'
 Present the expressions in the box (P.
12
).
- How do you do
- Nice to meet you
- Asks sts to think of
the adjectives used to
describe body build and
hair.
- Elicits some new
words.- Shows sts a picture of
Mary and ask them to
describe her hair and
her body build.
- Writes on the board.
- Explains the structure.

- Listen.
- Make sentence.
- Look at 6 people
and describe them in
pairs.
- Present.
- Look at the
expressions.
- Listen and read the
expressions.
- Read the open
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S + have/has + adj + hair
S + be + adj
Long Son Secondary School Lesson Plan of
English 8 - Unit 1
- It’s a pleasure to meet you
- I’d like you to meet / - Come and meet.
 Gap fill prediction. (Dialogues P.
12-13
)
2/ While - listening: 7'
a/ (1) I'd like you to meet.
(2) Nice to meet you.
b/ (3) I'd like you to meet.
(4) It's a pleasure to meet you.
c/ (5) Come and meet.
d/ (6) How do you do ?
3/ Post - listening: 5'

- Correct.
- Role play.
- Listen and take
notes.
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Unit 1: MY FRIENDS
Lesson 3: Read
* Objective: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to know more about Ba's friend.
* Teaching aids: Text books, pictures, poster, chalks.
* Procedures:
Contents T's activities Sts' activities
I/ Warm-up: Describe people. 5'
Ex: - She is ……… She has …………
II/ Reading:
- Hangs picture on bb.
- Asks sts to describe
people.
- Checks & gives marks
- Look at the picture.
- Describe people.
- Observe.
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Week 2 Period 4 Preparing day: …. / 8 /
2010
Teaching day: …. / …. /
2010
Dialogues Guesses Listen
a)
(1)… ; (2)… ?

a) F → Ba has a lot of friends but he spends
most of his time with Bao, Song and Khai.
b) F → They have different characters.
c) F → Only Song and Khai are quite
reserved.
d) T.
 Multiple choice: (Exercise 1 /P.
14
).
Answers
a) A
b) C
c) B
d) D
3/ Post - reading: 7'
 Comprehension questions: (Exercise 2/ P.
14
)
a) Ba feels lucky having a lot of friends.
b) Bao is the most sociable.
c) Khai likes reading.
d) His jokes sometimes annoy his friends.
e) Bao spends his free time doing volunteer
work at a local orphanage.
f) My friends and I …….
III/ Homework: 3'
- Elicits new words.
+ Translation.
+ Explanation.
+ Translation.

- Teamwork.
- Look.
- Listen.
- Look.
- Read statements
and guess T/F.
- Give feedback.
- Read and check.
- Give feedback.
- Correct the false
sentences.
- Correct.
- Read the text and
do the exercise.
- Give feedback.
- Correct.
- Pairwork.
- Present.
- Listen and take
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Long Son Secondary School Lesson Plan of
English 8 - Unit 1
- Learn vocabulary by heart.
- Write the answers (2/ P.
14
) in notebooks.
- Prepare Unit 1, lesson 4: Write.
at home. notes.
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her.
3/ Post-writing: 7'
 Correction:
His / Her name is She is years old.
- Hangs poster on the
board.
- Asks sts to match.
- Checks.
- Sets the scene.
- Gives the situation
for sts answer the
questions.
- Ask sts to read the
information about
Tam then answer the
questions.
- Asks sts to write a
paragraph about one
of their friends.
- Goes round & helps.
- Asks sts to share the
- Look at the words
on the board.
- Match.
- Check.
- Look.
- Listen.
- Read and answer the
questions about Tam.
- Write a paragraph

about general truths and write some sentences using the structure (not) + adj + enough + to-inf.
* Teaching aids: Text book, teacher's book, posters, chalks.
* Procedures:
Contents T's activities Sts' activities
I/ Revision of simple tense: 15'
 Pelmanism:

 Present simple to talk about general truths:
- Form:
{
0
//
/
/
++
−
areisam
VV
ess
S

- Use: express an action which is always true.
Ex: The sun rises in the east.
 Past simple tense:
- Form:
- Use: express an action which happened in the
past with clear time.
Ex: - He went to Ba Dong beach yesterday.
- We visited Ba Om pond last week.
* Exercise 1.a)/ P.

words.
- Give feedback.
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S + V
2
ed
+ O
meet
com
e
live think send
though
t
receiv
e
met
live
d
receive
d
cam
e
sent
S + be (not) + adj + enough + to
- inf
Long Son Secondary School Lesson Plan of
English 8 - Unit 1
(0) lived (3) was
(1) lives (4) is

Form:

Meaning: ẹuỷ / (khoõng ủuỷ) ủeồ laứm gỡ ủoự.
* Exercise 4/ P.
17
:

Complete the dialogues.
Answers:
a) not big enough
b) not old enough
c) strong enough
d) good enough
III/ Further practice: 10'
Word cue drill:
- Checks and corrects.
- Explains some new
words.
- Asks sts to read the
words in the box and
then complete the
dialogue 2/ P.
16
.
- Gets feedback.
- Checks and corrects.
- Asks sts to look at
the picture/ P.
17
.

people.
- Write sentences
about persons in the
pictures.
- Look and listen.
- Give the form,
meaning.
- Look & copy down.
- Open books and pay
attention.
- Complete the
dialogues.
- Pairwork.
- Present.
- Listen.
- Listen and repeat
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Lan
Long Son Secondary School Lesson Plan of
English 8 - Unit 1
a) Nga / drive a car / x old
b) She / read English books / good
c) Ba / carry this bag / strong
d) He /solve this problem / x clever
e) I / have a lot of friends /  lucky
Ex: Nga is not old enough to drive a car.
IV/ Homework: 3'
- See again all the grammar points above.
- Write full exercises 1.a),2,3,4 / P.

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