Giáo án môn Tiếng Anh Lớp 8 - Unit 4: Our past - Lesson 2: Speak

Week: 8	 Date of preparation: 03/10/ 2011
Period: 22	 Date of teaching: 05/ 10/ 2011
UNIT 4: OUR PAST
LESSON 2: SPEAK
I. OBJECTIVES:
Teaching aims: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
	- Talk about the difference between life at present and life in the past.
	- Use the structure “Used to + V-inf” to talk about the things they used to do.
	- Develop speaking skill.
II. PREPARATIONS: Book, cassette tape
III. PROCEDURES:
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
1. Warm – Up: (5’)
Have students play game: “Jumbled words”
 + rieletcicty ð electricity
 + menttaenterin ð entertainment
 + rkamet ð market
 + permasuekt ð supermarket
 + libugnid ð building
2. Pre – Speaking: (8’)
- Ask students to list the things in each picture.
Picture 1: + small houses / small thatched houses.
 + people work in the paddy fields.
 + children play at home.
 + dirty lane / path
 + stacks / heaps of straw.
 + people walk to somewhere.
 + children stay at home / do not go to school.
 + people work hard / do not have time for entertainment.
Picture 2: + big houses and buildings.
 + car , motorbike, 
 + shop, Tv
 + electricity
 + traffic lights.
 + children go to school.
 + clean street.
- Explain the structure “Used to” + V-inf: to talk about things did in the past.
3. While – Speaking: (20’)
- Ask students to compare two pictures in the books on the page 40, using “used to” to talk about the actions in the past.
 Suggested questions: 
1. Where did they live in the past? And now?
2. How did they travel? And now?
3. What about the electricity?
4. What’s about their life/work?
5. Did children go to school?
6. What’s about children’s entertainment?
7. What about shops/stores.
8. What about clothes?
9. What about going shopping?
10. What about the communications and the media?
- Let students work in groups /pairs.
1. People used to live in small thatched houses. Now they live in the big houses and buildings.
2. People used to walk to everywhere. Now they can go by car or motorbike.
3. There used to be no electricity in the home. Now there is electricity everywhere.
4. People used to work hard all the time. Now they have a lot of time for entertainment.
5. Most children used to stay at home. Now they all go to school.
6. They used to play some traditional game such as hide and seek, skip rope, blind man’s bluff, play catch, play marbles, outdoors. Now they have a lot of modern games, video games indoors.
7. There didn’t use to be shops/stores. Now there are a lot of shops/stores of all kind.
8. People used to wear old traditional clothes. Now they wear the most expensive, beautiful and fashionable clothes.
9. People didn’t use to go shopping. Now they usually go shopping whenever they like, especially the rich people.
10. People didn’t use to have televisions, radios, newspaper, magazines, or telephones. Now most of them have all of them.
- Ask students do the exercise in part 2/ p.41
Model some examples:
 a. Ten years ago I used to smoke. But now I don’t smoke any more.
 b. Last year I used to get up late. Now I get up early and do morning exercises.
4. Post – Speaking: (10’)
- Call students to tell the things they used to do before the class.
- Call some students to write their answer.
5. Homework: (2’)
- Write about the things you used to do last year.) 
- Prepare next lesson: Unit 4– Read + Listen/ p.41, 42.
- Team works.
- Group works 
- Listen and write. 
- Look at the pictures and compare the differences between them.
- Listen and do.
- Group works. 
- Tell partners about things you used to do last year. Refer the cues given.
 + have long hair.
 + stay up late
 + walk to school.
 + study in the early morning.
 + play soccer after school.
 + go home late from school.
- Whole class. 
- Write on the board.
 Take note.
IV. COMMENTS: 
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