Giáo án môn Tiếng Anh Lớp 8 - Unit 1: My friends - Lesson 1: Getting started & listen and read

Week: 1	 Date of preparation: 16/ 08/ 2011
Period: 2	 Date of teaching: 18/ 08/ 2011
UNIT1: MY FRIENDS
 LESSON 1: GETTING STARTED & LISTEN AND READ 
I. OBJECTIVES:
Teaching aims: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
- Talk about favorite activities in free time.
- Introduce people and respond to introductions.
II. PREPARATIONS:
Textbook, cassette tape
III. PROCEDURES:
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
1. Warm – Up: (5’)
- Chat with students: Ask students to look at the four pictures on page 10 and talk about the activities they want to do after school or in their free time. (play soccer / read books / play chess / play volleyball)
- Ask questions
1. What are these students doing?
2. What time of the day do you think it is?
3. Do you play soccer (after school)?
4. When do you play soccer? 
5. Who do you like to play with?
- Have students work in pairs to ask and answer about the pictures.
	2. Presentation: (10’)
- Introduce the lesson”Hoa is talking to Lan about Nien, her next-neighbor in Hue”
- Ask some questions about Nien.
1. Where does Nien live?
2. How old is she?
3. Is she Hoa’s classmate?
4. Is she beautiful?
- Get feedback.
- Explain new words: 
1. Seem (v)
 She seems beautiful.
2. Next-door neighbor 
3. Look like (v)
What does she look like? = What’s she like?
4. enough (adv)
 She wasn’t old enough to be in my class.
- Explain grammar: tobe + adj + enough + to-inf
Ex: She wasn’t old enough to be in my class.
3. Practice: (15’)
- Play the tape for students. 
- Ask students to read the dialogue to recheck the 
pre-reading questions.
1. She lives in Hue.
 2. She is twelve.
 3. No, she isn’t.
 4. Yes, she is.
- Have students practice the dialogue in pairs.
- Ask students to answer the questions: 
a. She lives in Hue.
 b. No, she doesn’t.
c. The sentence “She wasn’t old enough to be in my class’
d. She’s going to visit Hoa at Christmas.
- Call some students to ask and answer the questions.
4. Production: (13’)
- Have students practice the structures: 
A. “What does  look like?”
 1. Thu / young 2. Mr. Long / fat
 3. Nam / short 4. Mrs. Nga / old
B. “Be (not) + adj + enough to + V-inf”
 1. Nam / strong / carry that heavy box.
 2. The fire / not hot / boil the kettle.
 3. They / tall / play volleyball.
 4. Mr. Thanh / not rich / buy a big house.
5. Homework: (2’)
- Reread the dialogue and answer the questions.
- Prepare next lesson: Unit 1 -Speak and Listen/ p.11, 12.
- Whole class.
- Answer the questions: 
1. They are playing soccer 
2. I think it’s in the morning / afternoon / evening.
- Pair works. 
- Listen to the teacher.
- Whole class
- Give feedback.
- Listen and write.
- Listen.
 - Listen to the tape.
- Read silently, check and give feedback. 
- Pair works. 
- Group works.
- Pair works.
- Whole class.
A. 1. What does Thu look like? _ She’s young.
2. What does Mr. Long look like? _ He’s fat.
B. 1. Nam is strong enough to carry that heavy box.
2. The fire isn’t hot enough to boil the kettle.
Take note
IV. COMMENTS: 
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