Giáo án Tiếng Anh 8 - Week 2, Unit 1: Leisure activities (Lesson 4-6)

 Week: 2
Period: 4 
Date of planning: 
 UNIT 1: LEISURE ACTIVITIES
 Lesson 4: Communication
I. Objectives 
1. Knowledge, skills, and attitude: 
 - Knowledge 
 +Talk about good and bad sides of leisure activities.
 + Practice reading a forum for friends around the world to share how they spend their 
free time 
 - Skills: reading and speaking 
 - Attitude: Ss are aware of taking part in good and useful leisure activities.
2. Competence and quality: 
 - Co-operation: work in pairs, groups, teams
 - Self- study: work individually.
 - Using language to talk about leisure activities.
II. Preparation: 
Teacher : teacher’s book, posters
Students: Prepare the lesson at home, text book, workbook
III. Procedures
 1. Class order: Greeting, checking attendance
 2. Checking up: Have ss make sentences with verbs of liking
 3. New lesson:
III. Procedures:
 Teacher’s Students’ activities Content
 activities
 Activity 1
 Warm up:5’ - In pairs talking
 - Have Ss talk 
 about the people in 1. Read the following article on the 
 the pictures magazine 4 teen website.
 Activity 2 - Guess what these 
 Presentation: students in the 
 10’ photos like doing as 
 - Explain to Ss that leisure activities.
 they are going to 2. Can you understand the abbreviations 
 read about some in the text? Use this ‘netlingo’ dictionary 
 activities teenagers - Work in pairs to if necessary.
 do in their spare complete the task.
 time.
 Activity 3
 Practice:19’ - Ask Ss if they 
 notice any other 3. Find information in the text to 
 particular features complete the table.
 of the text. Elicit - Read the text more * Key: 
 answers from Ss by closely to fill in the Who What activity What does he/ 
 drawing their table. ? is mentioned? she think of 
 attention to the it?
 form of the text. Emil * hanging out She loves it.
 - Have Ss work in y with friends
 pairs or small * working as a 
 groups to complete volunteer
 the table. Hang * cloud She adores it. 
 watching It’s easy.
 Linn * going to She loves it.
 community 
 centre, 
 painting, 
 dancing, doing 
 drama
 Minh * playing He likes it.
 football It’s fun.
 * helping his 
 aunt in running 
 cooking class
 Man * playing He’s addicted 
 uel computer to it.
 Activity 4 games It’s OK
 Production: 8’ * doing judo
 - Have Ss work in 
 pairs to put the - Discuss, give 4. Work with your partner and put the 
 leisure activities in opinions and activities in 3 in order from the most 
 the text in order negotiate with each interesting to the most boring. Then 
 from the most other in order to compare your ideas with other pairs.
 interesting to the agree on a mutual 
 most boring. list.
 4. Homework : 3’
- Learn by heart all the new words
- Practice writing and talking about good and bad sides of leisure activities.
- Prepare: Skills 1
IV. Feedback:
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Week: 2 Period: 5 
Date of planning: 
 UNIT 1: LEISURE ACTIVITIES
 Lesson 5: Skills 1
I. Objectives: 
1. Knowledge, skills, and attitude: By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to: 
- Knowledge: Read for general and specific information about the positive and negative 
effects of using computers. (Scanning, skimming).
- Practice speaking by giving fact or opinion about using computers and mobile phone for 
leisure activities.
- Skills: Reading and speaking. 
- Attitude: Ss are aware of taking part in good and useful leisure activities.
2. Competence and quality: 
 - Co-operation: work in pairs, groups, teams
 - Self- study: work individually.
 - Using language to talk about leisure activities.
II. Preparation: 
Teacher : teacher’s book, TV, Laptop
Students: Prepare the lesson at home, text book, workbook
III. Procedures
 1. Class order: Greeting, checking attendance
 2. Checking up: Have ss share how they spend their free time
 3. New lesson:
 Teacher’s Students’ activities Content
 activities
Activity 1 Chatting: 
Warm up:5’ - Talk about the Look at the picture. What can you see in 
- Have Ss talk about picture the picture?
the picture
Activity * Reading
2Presentation: 10’ - Discuss and write 1.What are the benefits of using 
- Have Ss work in the ideas on the computers or mobile phones for leisure 
pairs to discuss the board. activities? What are the harmful things 
questions. it may bring us?
 - The benefits: look for useful 
 information, play games, listen to music .
 - Harmful things: bad for eyes, be 
 addicted, learn bad things easily ..
Activity 3 2. Read the text and choose the correct 
Practice: 19’ - Read the text and answer
Ask Ss to look at choose the correct * Vocabulary:
the title and the answer. - virtual (adj): ảo ( trên mạng) picture and predict - imagine (v) 
what they are going - exist (v)
to read. *Key:
 1.B 2.C
 3. Write the questions for the answers 
- Tell Ss for this - Work individually based on information from the text.
exercise they will then compare their *Key:
need to look at the answers with a 1. Is Quang’s garden real?
keywords in the partner. 2. What is the problem with using 
responses in order technology in your free time?
to find out the 3. What leisure activities do teenagers do 
questions. these days?
 4. What are the benefits of using the 
 computer?
 * Speaking
 Language notes
- explain the Giving an opinion: I think that.. In my 
expressions to use opinion...
in discussion Asking for an opinion: What do you 
 think? How do you feel about that?
 Agreeing: I agree with you; That's so 
 true. Exactly.
 Disagreeing: I'm afraid I don’t agree. I 
 don't think so.
 4. Quang and his parents are talking 
 - Work in pairs. about how he should spend his free 
- Explain to Ss that time. Decide which statements are 
these speech from Quang and which are from his 
bubbles are from parents.
Quang and his Quang's parents
parents. - Go out and play a sport. It’s good for 
 you .
 - Sitting for too long in front of the
 computer makes your eyes tired.
 - You see real friends less and less.
 Quang:
 - I think computer games train my mind
 and my memory.
 - My English much better because I surf
 the net.
 - I’ve made lots of friends from the game network.
Activity4 5. Role-play: Free practice
Production:8’ - Role play. Quang, his parents, and his teacher are 
- Arrange Ss into discussing the impacts of his using the 
three groups and computer. Play the following roles
ask each group to Quang's parents: . ..
 Quang: .. . ..
brainstorm how Teacher: . ..
they are going to 
express their 
opinions.
4. Homework :3’
- Learn by heart all the new words
- Practice talking about the good and bad sides on using computers and mobile phone for 
leisure activities.
- Prepare: Skills 2
IV. Feedback:
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Week: 2 
Period: 6 
Date of planning: 
 UNIT 1: LEISURE ACTIVITIES
 Lesson 6: Skills 2
I. Objectives: 
1. Knowledge, skills, and attitude: 
 - Knowledge:
 + Practice writing to discuss an opinion about leisure activities.
 +Practice listening for specific information about way of spending time with friends.
2. Skill: Listening and writing 
3. Attitude: Ss are interested in writing a similar paragraph about the leisure activities 
2. Competence and quality: 
 - Co-operation: work in pairs, groups, teams
 - Self- study: work individually.
 - Using language to talk about leisure activities.
II. Preparation: 
Teacher : teacher’s book, TV, Laptop and CD player
Students: Prepare the lesson at home, text book, workbook
III. Procedures
 1. Class order: Greeting, checking attendance
 2. Checking up: Have ss share how they spend their free time 3. New lesson:
 Teacher’s Students’ Content
 activities activities
Activity 1 1. What do you usually do with your 
Warm up: 5’ - Discuss and friends in your free time? 
- Share some of the answer the I often go shopping, play badminton, cook 
 things you often questions. at home with my friends.
 enjoy doing with 
 your friends in *Listening
 your free time. 2. Listen to the radio programme and 
Activity 2 - Listen to the answer the questions.
Presentation:10’ radio programme * Key:
- Tell Ss that they and answer the 1.The topic of this week’s programme is 
are going to listen questions. hanging out with your friends.
to a radio 2. There are two main ways: hanging out 
programme. indoors or outdoors.
 3. Listen again and complete the table.
Activity 3 - Work *Key:
Practice: 19’ individually then 1. movies 2. cinema
- Play the compare answers 3. crafts 4. sports
recording as many with their partner. 5. physical health 6. people
times as needed. 7. cultural centres.
 *Writing
 - Work 4. Complete the following paragraph with 
 individually to the words in the purple box.
- Have Ss cover complete the task. Key:
the box and write 1. In my opinion/ I believe
some of these 2. Firstly 3. Secondly
words/ phrases on 4. Besides/ Also/ In addition
the board. 5. For these reasons/ In short/ As I have 
 noted.
 5. Now write a similar paragraph to 
Activity 4 answer one of the following questions.
Production: 8’ - Work in small I believe the best leisure activities for 
- Guide Ss do the groups. teenagers is any group activity .
task.
 4. Homework :3’
- Learn by heart all the new words
- Practice writing and talking about best leisure activities for teenagers. 
- Prepare: Looking back
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