Giáo án môn Tiếng Anh Lớp 8 - Unit 2: Making arrangements - Lesson 1: Getting started & listen and read

Week: 3	Date of preparation: 05/ 09/ 2011
Period: 7	Date of teaching: 07/ 09/ 2011
UNIT 2: MAKING ARRANGEMENTS
LESSON 1: GETTING STARTED & LISTEN AND READ
I. OBJECTIVES:
Teaching aims: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to talk about intentions, use the telephone to make and confirm arrangements, take a telephone message.
II. . PREPARATIONS: Book, cassette tape, pictures
III. PROCEDURES:
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activitie
1. Warm – Up: (5’)
- Ask students to describe one of their friends.
- Ask students to look at the pictures in the book and to identify them.
- Point to the pictures and answer the questions. 
 What is this?
 When do you use them?
2. Presentation: (10’)
- Ask students to work in pairs to match the words in the box and the pictures.
- Have students to look at the pictures and introduce the characters in the dialogue.
 This is Nga. She is telephoning her friend, Hoa. She is asking Hoa to go to the movies at Sao Mai Theater.
- Ask questions. 
 a. What would you say when you pick up the phone to answer it?
 b. What would you say if you are a caller?
 c. What would you say to invite your friend to go out for a movie/a walk/  ?
- Play the tape for students. 
- Explain and emphasize some structures in making the call: 
 Can speak to  , please? , Hold on, where is it on? , I know where it is , Is 6.30 all right?
- Ask students to notice the present continuous tense to express the future action.
 I’m using my cousin’s bike tonight (future action)
3. Practice: (15’)
- Have students practice the dialogue.
- Call some pairs of students to practice the dialogue in front of the class.
- Ask students to look at the dialogue silently.
- Ask students to answer the questions. 
 a. Nga made the call.
 b. Nga introduced herself.
 c. Nga invited Hoa to go to the movies.
 d. Nga arranged a meeting place.
 e. Hoa arranged the time.
 f. Nga agreed the time.
4. Production: (13’)
- Have students write sentences with cues.
 Write sentences with cues, using present continuous to refer future action.
 a. I / go out /tonight.
 b. we / not come / class / tomorrow.
 c. My cousin / visit us / Saturday.
 d. You / meet / Lan / tonight?
 e. What / they / do / this weekend?
- Have students notice the process of making arrangements.
5. Homework: (2’)
- Learn by heart vocabulary, do exercise 1/p.13 (workbook)
- Prepare next lesson: Unit 2-Speak and Listen/ p.20, 21. 
- Describe one of the classmates.
- Look and identify the communication devices.
- Answer the questions. 
 It’s a 
 I use it when I 
- Pair works. 
 a. an answering machine.
 b. a mobile phone.
 c. a fax machine.
 d. a telephone directory.
 e. a public telephone.
 f. an address book
- Listen to the teacher.
- Answer the questions. 
 ¯ Suggested answers.
 a. I would say ‘Hello! (home phone number). Speaking.
b. I would say ‘Hello! Can I speak to .?’
 c. I would say ‘ Would you like to go ..?
- Listen to the tape 
- Listen and write. 
- Listen.
- Pair works. 
- Listen and write. 
- Read the dialogue silently.
- Group works. 
- Do the exercise.
a. I am going out tonight.
b. we are not coming to class tomorrow.
c. My cousin is going to visit us on Saturday.
d. are you going to meet Lan tonight?
e. What are they doing this weekend?
- Listen and write. 
Take note.
IV. COMMENTS: 
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