Giáo án môn Tiếng Anh Lớp 8 - Unit 12: A vacation abroad - Lesson 1: Getting started + listen & read

Week: 26	 Date of preparation: 27/ 02/ 2012
Period: 77	 Date of teaching: 29/ 02/ 2012
UNIT 12: A VACATION ABROAD
LESSON 1: Getting started +Listen & Read
I. OBJECTIVES:
 Teaching aims: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to be aware of how to make, accept and decline invitations. 
II. PREPARATIONS: Book, cassette tape
III. PROCEDURES:
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
1. Warm – Up: (5’)
- Have a chat with students: 
T: Which country do you want to visit?
S: I’d like to visit Australia.
T: Why?
S: Because Australian people are friendly.
2. Presentation: (10’)
- Introduce the lesson: Mrs. Quyen is going to The USA for a vacation. She is ringing her friend, Mrs. Smith, to tell her about her tour.
- Have students read the dialogue and predict the True/False sentences: 
1. Mrs. Quyen is calling Mrs. Smith from the airport in San Francisco.
2. Mrs. Smith invites Mrs Quyen and her husband to stay with her while they are in town.
3. Mrs. Quyen doesn’t accept Mrs. Smith’s invitation because she wants to stay with a Vietnamese friend of her.
4. Mrs. Quyen and her husband will be in the USA for three days.
5. Mrs. Quyen and her husband will come over to Mrs. Smith’s place for dinner one night.
6. Mr. Thanh, Mrs. Quyen’s husband, goes abroad for a business meeting.
- Explain vocabulary:
1. come on a tour
2. include (v) 
3. come over (v) 
4. have a business meeting
5. pick someone up (v) 
6. abroad (adv) 
 - Check vocabulary: “Rub out and Remember”
3. Practice: (15’)
- Play the tape for students to check their predictions.
1. F ª  from Ha Noi.
2. T
3. F ª  because her accommodation is included in her ticket price.
4. T
5. F ª Only Mrs. Quyen.
6. T
- Have students practice the dialogue in pairs.
- Ask students to complete Mrs. Quyen’s schedule.
DATE
Mon. 25
TUE. 26
WED. 27
THU. 28
SCHEDULE
Coming to San Francisco.
Going out
Having dinner with the Smiths
Leaving San Francisco.
- Ask students read the dialogue to answer the questions. 
a. No, they won’t. because they are coming on a tour , and their accommodation is included in the ticket price, so they will stay at a hotel.
b. No, he won’t. Because he will have a business meeting in the evening.
c. Mrs. Smith will pick her up at her hotel.
4. Production: (13’)
- Have students play game: “Networks”
Famous places around the world
5. Homework: (2’)
- Reread the dialogue 
- Prepare next lesson: Unit 12: Speak / p. 114
- Whole class.
- Listen to the teacher. 
- Group works. 
- Listen and write. 
- Individual work 
- Listen to the tape.
- Pair works. 
- Pair works. 
- Group works. 
- Group works.
Take note.
IV. COMMENTS:
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