Giáo án môn Tiếng Anh Lớp 8 nâng cao - Dong Hop secondary school

The best of friends (N©ng cao 8)
I. the contents:
 - Helping students consolidate and understand more how to say about their friendship; describe the body (appearance,character ) of their relatives, friends, famous people and favorite activities.
- Saying the same and the difference from them.
II. Skill:
* Starter:
	- Getting used to communicative situations and knowledgeable language, vocabulary, structure sentences.
* Speaking:
	- Describing appearance and character of other people and their favorite activities.
	- Saying the same and the difference from them.
* Listening:
	- Listening to descriptions of famous people.
	- Listening information and filling the gaps, completing the missing words of the paragraph.
* Reading:
	- Reading about people’s descriptions (match the paragraphs to the headings, answer questions).
	- Reading comprehension (True/False statements).
* Project (Writing).
	- Guided writing about oneself, relatives, friends and famous people.
	- Write the paragraph about people who they like best or famous people.
* Test yourself:
	- Doing a test.
III. Grammar and vocabulary:
* Grammar:
	- Present simple tense to talk about general truths.
	- Simple past tense.
	- Comparasions of adjectives: short adjectives and long adjectives.
	- Attributive, predicative and descriptive adjectives.
	- Relative pronoun: “Who”
	- Structures of advice with “ Should”
* Vocabulary:
	- Adjective about body, appearance and character.
	- Descriptive and characteristic nouns.
	- Verbs of interest: “Like, dislike, love, hate ”
IV. Unit allocation:
	Lesson 1: Starter.	Lesson 4: Listening.
	Lesson 2: Reading.	Lesson 5: Project/ Writing.	
	Lesson 3: Speaking.	Lesson 6: Test.
The best of friends
Lesson 1: STARTER
Task I: Fill the opposite adjectives with the following words:
Example:	Tall 	 short
a. attractive	f. big	k. noisy
b. light	g. dull	l. strong
c. slim	h. short	m. sociable
d. old	i. curly	n. mean
e. shy	j. exciting	o. thick	
* Divide the class into eight groups and ask them to find the opposite adjectives.
* Ask Ss to say before the class. (Ss give the opposite adjectives).
Answer keys:
	a. ugly	f. small	k quiet
	b. dark	g. lively	l. weak
	c. fat	h. long/ tall	m. unfriendly.
	d. young	i. straight	n. generous
	e. outgoing	j. boring	o. thin
* Ask Ss to make up sentences (using above adjectives).
Example: Tall 	 short
1. His brother is tall but his sister is short.
2. She looks weak but she is strong enough to carry the heavy box.
* Oder Ss to play “ Who is faster; more intelligent”.
* Divide the class into 8 groups and ask Ss to go to the board and write sentences. Who writes more sentences exactly will be winner.
* Hang on some pictures about famous people ( singers, footballers, leaders, teachers, students) ask SS to describe.
Task II: Friendship.
* Ask Ss to work inpair and discuss about friendship.
“ A friend is someone who.”
* Call on some Ss to give their opinions.
+ Possible answers:
A friend is someone who helps you in your study.
A friend is someone who understands you and loves you.
A friend is someone who always pays attention you.
A friend is someone who shares your sadness and happiness.
A friend is someone who never tell alie with you.
A friend is someone who always say you the truths.
A friend is someone who .
* Ask Ss to discuss the questions.
+ Do you and your close friends have the same or difference characters?.
+ which characters do you like a friends/ a famous person, singer/ musician)has? Why?
	* Call on some Ss to give their opinions.
Task III: Agree or Disagree.
 - How similar do people need to be to become good friends?
 - Do you agree with the statements in this list. Add more statements pf your own.
 - Let Ss give some opinion, then tick (v) in column agreement or disagreement.
Friends
agree
disagree
1. Should be the same age as you.
2. Should have similar appearances.
3. Should have the same interests and personalities.
4. Should like playing sports such as: soccer, volleyball
	* Ask Ss why they agree those opinions.
	Why they disagree those opinions.
Homework
Ask Ss to describe a famous person who they like best.
The best of friends
Lesson 2: reading
I: Pre – reading:
 + Divide class into groups.
- Ask Ss to answers five question below:
who is your best friend?
when did you meet him/her?
what does your friend look like?
 Is your best friend like?
what are your friend’s best qualities?
how is your friend similar to or different from you?
- Call on some students to give their answers.
 New words:
 - sensible - exploring
 - talkative - personalities.
II. While – reading: - Ask Ss to read the text silently.
 My best friend, Anna and I study in the same school. I met her in the school English Speaking Club three years ago.
 Anna look pretty and attractive. She is about five feet tall. I think. She is slim – slimmer than me – with an over face, shoulder – length straight hair and round grey eyes. Anna and I are different in many ways, but we have one important thing in common. Whenever I have difficulties in my study, she always give me help or advice. She is very sensible and generous.
 The differences between Anna and me are great. Anna loves talking photographs and drawing pictures of the interesting things she sees. I am interested in singing, especially English songs and talking the films. She is very quite, but I’m a very talkative person who enjoys telling stories.
 Still, Anna and I both love exploring new places. We discovered this shortly after we met three years ago. One day we were talking about vacations and we found we had both traveled to many same places. Yesterday we made a plan to visit a nearby historical city the following weekend.
 Although our personalities are quite different, Anna and I have become close over the years, and we now have a very special friendship. Every time we meet, we’ll always full of news, and It’s always a pleasure. I think the main reason for this is that respect and enjoy each other’s personality and interest.
Divide the class into 8 groups and do 3 tasks.
Task I: Match the paragraphs to the headings:
Paragraph 1: a. Anna’s appearance and personality.
Paragraph 2: b. The differences.
Paragraph 3: c. The situation the met.
Paragraph 4: d. The reasons of their friendship.
Paragraph 5: e. The similarities.
Call on some students to give their answers before the class.
Answer keys: 1 – c; 2 – a; 3 – b; 4 – e; 5 – d.
Task II: Answer the following questions.
When and where did they meet?
What is Anna like?
What does she look like?
What do they have in common?
How are they different?
Why do they have a close friends?
Ask Ss to work in pairs and find the answers.
Call on some pairs Ss to say before the class.
Answer keys:
They met Anna’s school English Speaking Club three years ago.
She is pretty and attractive.
She is slim with an oval face, shoulder – length straight hair and round grey eyes.
They love exploring new places.
They are great differences.
+ Anna loves talking photographs and drawing pictures of the interesting things she sees. She is very quite.
+ Other is interested in singing, especially English songs and talking the films, and is a very talkative person.
Because they are always full of news. They respect and enjoy each other’s personality and interest.
Task III: Read the text again and fill in the following table:
Adjectives describing appearance
Adjectives describing personality
Structures describing like or dislike
Slim......
.
.........
.
.........
.
Answerkey: 	Slim – straight – grey.
	Sensible – generous.
	Love/enjoy – Ving; Be interested in + Ving.
III. Post – reading:
	Work in group. Tell each other about one of your best friends. 
Attention should be paid to the appearance, the personality.
The similarities or differences and the reasons of your close friendship.
IV. Home work:
- Write about a famous person you like.
The best of friends
Lesson 3: speaking
I: Pre – speaking:
* Ask Ss to repeat adjectives describing appearance and personality and definite them.
	Examples:	Weak – lacking in strength.
	Lively – Full of life or energy or interest.
	Long – Measuring much from end to end in space or time.
	Slim – not fat or over weight.
	Generous – giving or given freely.
	Small – not large or big.
	Strong – physically or morally or mentally powerful.
	Straight – not curly.
II. While – speaking:
Task I:	Match the word in column A with the meaning in column B
Column A
Column B
Shy
Sensible
friendly
Kind
Hard – working
Cheerful
Anxious
Calm
a. likes going to parties and meeting people
b. ready to help others.
c. often worries about things.
d. never loses temper.
e. doesn’t like going to parties.
f. jokes about everything.
g. usually works very hard.
h. worries about what people think.
Divide the class into 8 groups and match.
Call on some Students to say their answers before the class.
Answer keys:	1 – e	2 – h	3 – a	4 – b
	5 – g	6 – f	7 – c	8 – d
Ask the class to find 8 students who has one of 8 character above.
Example: Shy: Lan is shy, she doesn’t like going to parties and meet many strange people.
Ask Ss to answer the questions:
“ Which character do you like best? Why? (8 characters above).
Task II: Tell your partner about someone’s personality using the following structure “Relative pronoun – Who”.
Example:	“A calm person is someone who never loses temper.”\
Ask Students to work in pair using 8 characters above.
Call on Ss to say before the class.
Answer keys:
A shy person is someone who doesn’t like going to parties.
A sensible person is someone who worries about what people think.
A friendly person is someone who likes going to parties and meeting people.
A kind person is someone who is ready to help others.
A hardworking person is someone who usually works very hard.
A cheerful person is someone who jokes about everything.
A anxious person is someone who often worries about things.
III. Post – speaking:
* Ask students to work in groups or in pairs and describe the personality of one of close friends.
	Example: 1. Thuy is very generous. She always gives her friends help when they need. Lastweek, She found out Iwas sick, she came and cooked dinner for me.
	 2. one of my best friends is Lan. She is very sensible. She always gives me good advice when I need it. Until I met her, I used to make some very bad decisions.
IV: Home work:
Describe your relatives.
The best of friends
Lesson 4: listening
1: Pre – listening:
Divide the class into 8 groups and discuss what they notice the impression when they meet a new comer/ new person/ new friend.
* Pre teach vocabulary.
mingle:	Trén lÉn, pha lÉn.
snub:	mòi hÕch.
freckle:	tµn nhang (da).
dimple:	lç tròng nhá.
+ Ask Ss to find a person who has snub or freckle.
2. While – listening:
Task 1: Look at the words and check the meanings of the ones you don’t know:
	Shoulder – length	straight	snub
	Tall	black	fat
	Oval	narrow	freckle
	Wide	short	dimple
	Full	mingle	medium
	Large	small	dark
	Heavy	thin	curly
	Brown	round	light
	Square	long	blond.
	+ Ask Ss to work in pairs and arrange above words into: Describing body, face and hair.
	+ Call on some Ss to say before the class.
Answer keys:
* Adjectives: describing body build.
Tall, heavy, short, small, thin, fat, dark, slim, light.
* Adjectives: describing face.
Oval, wide, full, square, narrow, mingle, round, snub, freckle, dimple.
* Adjectives: describing hair:
Shoulder – length, black, straight, short, long, dark, curly, blond.
play the radio, Ss listen and check in.
Task II: Read the words in task I and put them in the part of body. Ss work in pairs and find the answers.
1. Height:	tall, short
2. Build:	heavy, light, fat, thin.
3. Face:	oval, round, freckle, dimple.
4. Hair:	curly, blond, straight, black, should – length.
5. Eyes:	brown, black.
6. Nose:	snub.
7. Lips:	full, thin.
8: Special features.
Play the radio, ask Ss to listen to the tape.
Task III: Listen and complete the passage below:
	I’ll be at Noi Bai international airport to meet you. I haven’t got a photo to send you so I ought to tell you what I look like. I’m (1). About (2) I’ve got (3) eyes (4)forehead and (5).,(6).nose. As for hair – well, I had (7) . hair until a month ago, but now It’s (8) - I’m not sure if I like it yet! I’m (9)Well, quite (10) Oh, I’m short – sighted so I have to wear glasses.
	* Get Ss to read the passage silently and guess the missing words.
	* Play the radio and ask Ss to listen to the tape and complete the missing words.
	* Compare with your partners’ answers.
* Play the radio and ask Ss to check in.
Answer keys:
(1) tall	(4) high	(7) short straight dark
(2) 1.65 metre high.	(5) long	(8) curly
(3) blue round	(6) straight	(9) slim - well	(10) slim
III: Post – listening:
Let Ss to work in pairs and answer the following questions:
How old he/ she is.
How tall he/ she.
What build he/ she is.
How his/ her face (hair, nose, eyes, lips) is/are.
What color his/ her hair (eyes) is (are).
Ask Ss to give their answers before the class.
Answer keys:
(no information).
He’s about 1.65 metre high.
he’s is slim –well, quite slim.
His hair is short straight dark, his nose is straight, his eyes are blue round and short –singted.
His eyes are blue. And his hair is dark.
The best of friends
Lesson 5: project
I. pre – writing:
- Ask Ss to write the adjectives and structures they have learned to describe:
A, Someone’s personality and characters.
B, Someone’s appearance.
C, Someone’s like and dislike.
- Call on some Ss to go to the board and write them on it.
Answer keys:
A, generous, friendly, outgoing, sociable. He’s rather/extremely
B, Slim, fat, thin, short, She/ he’s; he/she has.
C, Tolerant, patient. She/ he likes + Ving; He/ she is interested + Ving.
Pre – teach vocabulary:
tolerant:	chÞu ®ùng, kiªn nhÉn.
entertain:	xem xÐt, gi¶i trÝ.
bun:	bói tãc nhá.
spirit:	tinh thÇn.
* Get Ss to read the following passage silently.
Of all my friends, I like Thuy the best. She studies in the same class with me. She is fifteen years old, but she is not quite young in spirit. She has a complexion, thick black hair which she wears in a bun,and dark brown eyes. She has a kind face, and when you meet her, the first thing you notice is her smile. Her nose is long and straight. Her oval face and thin lips look rather attractive. She is the sort of person you can always go to if you have a problem.
She like reading, listening to music and watching T.V and sometimes she goes for long walks over the hills. She’s very active girl – either she is doing her homework or housework, or doing something to entertain herself. She’s extremely generous, but not very tolerant with friends who don’t agree with her. She is sensible, too. She is always ready to give her friends useful help or good advice when they need them. She is a kind of friend I always admire.
II. While – writing:
Task I: The text consists of factual description and personal opinions. Go through the text and underline this	 What is factual description, and like this	 What is personal opinion.
Ask Ss to work in pair and make a list about factual description and personal opinion.
Call on some Ss to go to the board and write them on it.
Answer keys:
Factual description: 	* not quite young.
thick black hair.
Dark brown eyes.
Long and straight nose.
Oval face.
Thin lips.
Personal opinion:	* Her lips look like rather attractive
a very active girl.
Generous, sensible.
Not very tolerant.
A kind of friend.
Task II: Go through the text again and say which sentences describe:
her face and body
her character.
Her likes and dislikes.
Her habits.
* Ask Ss to work in groups and write the answers.
* Call on some Ss to write on the board.
Answer keys:
a, She has a fair complexion.thin lips look rather attractive.
b, she’s (very) extremely generous.she is sensible.
c, She likes readingdoing(smth) to entertain herself.
d, She is always ready.they need them.
Task III: list the adjectives in the text and say if they describe the person’s character or appearance.
+ Character: Adjectives describing character:
Generous, sensible, attractive.
+ Character: Adjectives describing appearance:
Think, black, dark, brown, long, straight
III: Post – writing:
* Ask Ss to write a similar description about famous people including the following:
Physical facts and description.
Character.
Like and dislike.
Your opinion.
* Call on some Ss to say before the class.
* ( Teacher corrects the students’ mistakes if they make).
IV: Home work:
* Ask Ss to review the topic: “ The best of friends”.
The best of friends
Lesson 6: test
I: Listen comprehension:
Listen and complete the passage:
I am sixteen years old, not very (1).and I have (2)..hair and (3) .grey eyes. I like to wear (4).clothes, but when my father sees me, he get angry. He wants me to wear clothes, which look more (5). I am a student at Leeds University, which is the north of England. After the lectures in the morning, I like (6)in the student’s union and chatting with my friends who have the same (7)as me. I share a flat with (8)..other friends. The walls of my bedroom are covered with (9).posters which made the room (10)
II: Grammar recognition:
Complete the following questions using the phrasal verbs in the box.
Cheer (sb) up let (sb) down Get along run into (sb)
 Get over (st/sb) talk (st) over make up
Which of your friends do youwith the best?
When you are felling down, do you have a special friend who can alwaysyou.?
Have you ever had a bad argument with a friend?
Did it take you a long time to ..your anger?
Do you ever find it impossible to .. with someone and resume your friendship?
Have you ever .. a friend that you hadn’t seen in a long time? If so, did you make plans to see each other again?
Has a friend ever disappointed you, that isyou.in some way? In those situations, Is it a good idea to ..your feelings..with the friend?
III: Reading comprehension: 
Read the story and complete sentences.
Friends again – forever
Mary Allen was my best friend – like th sister I never had. We did everything together: piano lesson, movies, swimming, horseback riding.
When I was 13, my family moved away, Marry and I kept in touch through letters, and we saw each other on some occasion – like Christmas and new year holiday. Soon we were busy with study and work, and we wrote less often. Oneday a letter that I sent to her come back with these words on the envelope “Address Unknown” I had no idea how to find Mary.
Over the years, I thought of Mary often, I wanted to share stories of my school and my family. But I could not find her anywhere. There was an empty place in my heart that only a friend like Mary could fill.
Oneday, I was reading the newspaper when I noticed a photo of a young woman who looked a lot of like Mary and whose name was Allen “There must be hundreds of Allen” I thought, I wrote to her anyway.
She called as soon as she got my letter “Elinor, How are you!” she said excitedly. I heard a voice that I recognized instantly, even over the years. We laughed and cried and caught up on each other’s lives.
Now the empty place in my heart is filled, and there’s one thing that Mary and I know for sure: we won’t lose each other.
1. As a child, Elinor liked it when....
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2. As a 13 years old, Elinor didn’t like it when........
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3. Later, it upset Elinor when...
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4 . Elinor was excited when......
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5. Elinor was very happy when.
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IV: Writing:
Write a small essay about one of your best friends.
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