Giáo án Tiếng Anh 8 - Năm học 2008 - 2009
unit 4: our past
Week: 7
th
Date of planning: 5/10/2008
Period: 21
st
Date of teaching: 10/10/2008
10/10/08 (Tiết 2 - 8B, Tiết 4 - 8C Tiết 5 - 8A)
I. The aims and progressives.
1. The aims.
- To provide students know some vocabulary and a dialogue between Nga
and her grandma about the past.
- By the end of the lesson, students will be able to use the simple past tense
to talk about things in the past.
2. Teaching points.
- Past simple tense.
- "used to" to talk about the past habit.
3. Preparation.
a. Teacher.
- English books, posters, stereo, tape, cue.
b. Students.
- Books, notebooks.
II. Procedures
1. Organization. (2)
- Greetings.
2. Warm up. (3)
- Ask students to look at the picture on page 38, tell the names of the things
that do not belong to the past.
- Get feedback from students.
3. New lesson.

- Meaning: Thêng....
c. Practice.
* Word cue drill.
- Ask students to use "used to" and the cue to
make sentences.
Nam/ go to school on foot.
We/ swim in Luc Nam river.
They/ study together.
She/ play football.
I/ see horror films.
Eg: Nam used to go to school on foot.
- Get students to practice chorally, individually.
* Part 2 (Page 39): Asks students to listen and
read the dialogue between Nga and her grandma
again, answer the questions in part 2 (page 39).
Keys
a. She used to live on a farm.
b. Because she had to stay
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 them stories.
e. She asked her grandmother to tell her the
tale "The lost shoe".
* Part 3 (page 39): Ask students to read the
dialogue again, discuss and decide if these
sentences in part 3 (page 39) are fact or opinion.
Keys
a. fact b. fact c. fact d. fact
d. fact e. opinion f. opinion

7’
3’
2’
- Discuss in pairs.
- Talk aloud about the
past habit.
- Retell and
remember.
- Do at home.
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unit 4: our past
Week: 8
th
Date of planning: 8/10/2008
Period: 22
nd
Date of teaching: 13/10/2008
13/10/08 (TiÕt 2 - 8C, TiÕt 3 - 8A) - 15/10/08 (TiÕt 2 - 8B)
I. The aims and progressives.
1. The aims.
- To provide students some vocabulary and chance to talk about the
difference between life in the past and that at present, using "used to" and the
present simple tense.
- By the end of the lesson, students will be able to talk about the difference
between life in the past and that at present.
2. Teaching points.
- Talking about the difference between life in the past and that at
present, using "used to" and the present simple tense.
3. Preparation.
a. Teacher.

Meaning: thờng xuyên, không thờng xuyên
làm gì. Nói về một thói quen trong quá khứ mà
bây giờ đã thôi không làm nữa.
Structure: (+) S + used to + V
(inf)
(-) S + didnt + use to + V
(inf)
- Get feedback from students.
* Divide students in two teams. Ask students to
look at two pictures on the board, in three
minutes students in each teams come to the
board and write as many words and phrase
words about the difference between picture in
the past and picture at present.
- Get feedback from students.
c. While speaking.
- Asks the students to look at the pictures and
talk about the way things "used to be" and the
way they are now in groups.
- Teacher goes round, corrects the mistakes.
- Get feedback from students by asking them to
stand up and tell sentences.
Provided keys
4
9
10
- Listen
- Listen, repeat and
copy.
- Rewrite

now I don't do.
* Language focus 2.
Keys
a. Did you eat rice for breakfast?
b. I got to school by bike.
c. Where were you yesterday morning?
d. I had Math, English and history.
* Language focus 4.
- Ask students to complete the dialogue in pairs.
Keys
1. used to have. 2. used to be.
3. used to live.
4. Consolidation.
- Ask student to retells how to use the structure
"used to…".
5. Homework.
- Ask students to learn by heart the lesson.
- Do exercises in workbook and Vë BTTA 8.
- Prepare new lesson.
11’
3’
2’
- Tell about things
used to be done last
year.
- Do language focus 2.
- Give the correct
answer.
- Do language focus 4.
- Give the correct

- Greetings.
2. Warm up. (3) Chatting
- Ask students to answer the questions.
1. What do you often raise at home?
2. Did you raise chickens and ducks?
3. Did your chickens and ducks lay gold eggs?
- Ask students to answer.
3. New lesson.
Lesson 3: Listen
Teachers activities Time Students activities
a. Pre teach:
- (to) lay: đẻ trứng (Exp).
- (to) discovery: phát hiện (Trans).
- in amazement: trong sự ngạc nhiên (Trans).
- greedy (adj): tham lam (Exp).
- excitedly (adv): háo hức (Trans).
- foolish (adj): đần độn (Exp).
* Checking: What and where.
b. Pre-listening:
- Hang the poster on blackboard and ask
students to guess if these statements are True (T)
or False (F).
1. The farmer raised the ducks.
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5
- Listen
- Listen, repeat and
copy.
- Rewrite
- Read the statements

2. He used to buy food and clothing for his
family.
3. Yes, it did.
4. She wanted more gold eggs.
5. He cut open all the chickens to found more
gold eggs.
6. They were dead.
d. Post-listening.
- Discussion:
- Asks students to discuss and find out the most
suitable moral lesson of the story.
Keys:
b.
- Get feedback from students.
4. Consolidation.
- Ask student to tell the main grammar of this
15’
8’
3’
- Give the predictions.
- Listen and check the
predictions.
- Listen and answer
the questions on the
board.
- Give the correct
answer.
- Discuss, find out the
suitable moral lesson.
- Give the correct

a. Teacher.
- Lesson plan, textbook, posters.
b. Students.
- Textbook, notebook.
II. Procedures
1. Organization. (2’)
- Greetings.
2. Warm up. (3’) Revision.
- Ask students to come to the board and write the vocabulary in previous
lesson.
- Give the remarks and marks.
- Ask students to answer the question.
Which folktale did Nga's grandma tell her?
- Students to answer. Teacher presents the lesson.
3. New lesson.
Lesson 4: Read + Language focus 3.
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Teachers activities Time Students activities
a. Pre teach:
- cruel (adj): độc ác (Exp).
- upset (adj): buồn phiền, thất vọng (Exp).
- harvest festival (n): lễ tạ mùa, lễ cúng cơm mới
(Trans).
- magical (adj) - magically (adv) thần kỳ
(Trans).
- Prince (n): Hoàng tử (Antonym)
- a fairy: Tiên, cô tiên. (Exp)
- rag (n): quần áo rách, giẻ rách (Trans)

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- Listen
- Listen, repeat and
copy.
- Rewrite the rubbed
out words.
- Read the statements
and decide if these
statements are T or F.
- Give the predictions.
- Read and check the
predictions.
- Give the correct
answers.
- Read the story again
and complete
sentences.
- Give the correct
answers.
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* Asks students read the story again and answer
the questions (Part 2 - page 42).
- Asks students to give the answers.
Keys
a. She was the poor farmer's daughter.
b. Stout Nut's mother made her do the house
work all day.

- Retell.
- Do and prepare at
home.
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Trả và chữa bài kiểm tra 1 tiết số 1
Week: 9
th
Date of planning: 17/10/2008
Period: 25
th
Date of teaching: 20/10/2008
20/10/08 (Tiết 2 - 8C, Tiết 3 - 8A) - 22/10/08 (Tiết 2 - 8B)
I. The aims and progressives.
1. The aims.
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- To help students revive all the grammars and vocabulary and know their
results of their English test.
- By the end of the lesson, students will be able to understand and
remember grammars, vocabulary and the wrong sentences of their test.
2. Teaching points.
- Grammars and vocabulary revision.
3. Preparation.
a. Teacher.
- Lesson plan, English test.
b. Students.
- English test.
II. Procedures
1. Organization. (2)

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Week: 9
th
Date of planning: 19/10/2008
Period: 26
th
Date of teaching: 22/10/2008
22/10/08 (TiÕt 1 - 8C, TiÕt 4 - 8A) - 23/10/08 (TiÕt 3 - 8B)
I. The aims and progressives.
1. The aims.
- To provide students some vocabulary and a writing task about the story
"The lost shoe".
- By the end of the lesson, students will be able to understand the main
contents of the story and role play to write it again.
2. Teaching points.
- Writing a story.
3. Preparation.
a. Teacher.
- Lesson plan, over head project.
b. Students.
- Textbook, notebook.
II. Procedures
1. Organization. (2’)
- Greetings.
2. Warm up. (3’) Chatting
- Ask students to answer the questions.
Do you like reading old folktales?
- Ask students to look at the picture of the story "How the tiger got his
stripe" and guess the titer of the story.
Do you know the story "How the tiger got his stripe"?

a servant dây thừng
a master đầy tớ
a rope chạy thoát
(to) escape ông chủ
- Get feedback from students.
- Ask students to give the correct answers.
Keys
1. appeared 2. was
3. said 4. left
5. went 6. tied
7. lit 8. burned
9. escaped.
c. While-writing:
* Asks students to use the words provided in
part 2 page 43 and write the story again as the
role of the man.
Eg: One days as I was in my field and my
buffalo
- Ask students to share with their friends, look at
the keys on the board and correct.
Keys
One day, as I was in my field and my buffalo
grazed nearby, a tiger came. It asked me why
the strong buffalo was my servant and I was its
master. I told the tiger that I had something
called wisdom. The tiger wanted to see it but I
said that I left the wisdom at home that day.
Then I tied the tiger to a tree with a rope
because I didn t want it to eat my buffalo. I
went to get some straw and I burned the tiger.

One day, as a farmer was in his field and his
buffalo grazed nearby, I came. I asked the
farmer why the strong buffalo was the servant
and he was its master. He told me that he had
something called wisdom. I wanted to see it but
he said that he left the wisdom at home that day.
Then he tied me to a tree with a rope because he
didn’t want me to eat his buffalo. He went to get
some straw and he burned me. I escaped, but
today I still have black stripes from the burn.
The buffalo
One day, as a farmer was in his field and I was
grazing nearby, a tiger appeared. It asked the
farmer why I was the servant and he was my
master. He told the tiger that he had something
called wisdom. The tiger wanted to see it but he
said that he left the wisdom at home that day.
Then he tied the tiger to a tree with a rope
because he didn’t want it to eat me. He went to
get some straw and he burned the tiger. The
tiger escaped, but today it still has black stripes
from the burn.
4. Consolidation.
- Ask student to tell the main grammar of this
lesson. (The past tense).
5. Homework.
- Do exercises in workbook and Vë BTTA 8.
- Prepare new lesson.
3’
2’

1. Organization. (2’)
- Greetings.
2. Warm up. (3’) Revision
- Ask students to come to the board and write the form of "used to".
- Get feedback from students.
3. New lesson.
Revision
I. Give the correct form of verbs.
1. Hoa used (visit) ……………. Thien Mu pagoda when she lived in Hue.
2. They (not cook) ………………… dinner yesterday.
3. She usually (help) …………….. her parent do the chores.
4. I (not use) ………………. to play badminton, but now I sometimes play
badminton in the afternoon.
5. We (give) ……………… her some presents on her birthday last week.
6. My mother (be) ……………….. home late tomorrow.
II. Underline the mistake in each of the following sentences and correct:
1. We must to do our homework everyday.
2. Do you use to get bad marks last year?
3. Nam is enough clever to do the difficult exercises.
4. Nga tells me the truth myself.
III. Combine these pairs of sentences with "enough to":
1. They work hard. They can get high salary.
2. He is kind. He can help every people.
3. Nam speaks loudly. All of us can hear.
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4. This story is interesting. We can read it.
Keys
I.

for details.
2. Teaching points.
- Reading the dialogue for details
3. Preparation.
a. Teacher.
- English books, posters, stereo, tape.
b. Students.
- Books, notebooks.
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II. Procedures
1. Organization. (2)
- Greetings.
2. Warm up. (3) (Chatting)
- Ask students to answer the questions.
How often do you have Math/ Literature/ history/ Geography/ Chemist?
- Students answer.
3. New lesson.
Lesson 1: Getting started + Listen and read
Teachers activities Time Students activities
a. Pre teach.
- report card (n): phiếu điểm (Exp).
(to) improve: cải thiện, tiến bộ (Exp).
- proud (of) (adj): tự hào về (Exp).
- (to) promise: hứa (Trans).
- (to) try one's best: cố gắng hết sức (Trans)
- (to) believe: tin tởng (Exp).
- pronunciation (n): sự phát âm (Trans)
* Checking: Rub out and remember.

- Give the prediction.
- Listen, read and give
the correct answers.
- Read again and
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