Giáo án Tiếng Anh 8 - Week 3, Unit 1+2

 Week: 3
Period: 7 
Date of planning: 
 UNIT 1: LEISURE ACTIVITIES
 Lesson 7: Looking Back and Project
I. Objectives: 
1. Knowledge, skills and attitude:
 - Knowledge 
 + Practice doing some exercises to consolidate and apply what they have learnt 
in Unit 1.
 + Grammar: verbs of liking + gerunds
 verbs of liking + to-infinitives
 + Vocabulary: leisure activities
 - Skill: - Develop ss' skills of listening , reading ,writing and speaking.
 - Attitude: Co-operation & aware of spending time on 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’ Content
 activities activities
Activity 1
Warm up: (5ms) 1. Which one is the odd one out?
- Have Ss complete - Complete this Key:
this exercise exercise 1. DIY 2. hanging out 3. hospital
individually or in individually or in 4. detest 5. boring 6. computer
pairs. Once they pairs.
have finished they 
should be able to 
explain their 
answers as well. 2. Rearrange the letters to find the name 
Activity 2 of the activities.
Presentation: Key:
10’ - Complete this 1. socialising with friends 2. relaxing
- Have Ss task individually. 3. communicating with friends. 
complete this 4. doing DIY 5. using computers 
exercise 6. making crafts individually 
Activity 3 3. Fill the gaps with the correct form of 
Practice:19’ the verbs.
- Have ss remind - Work Key:
how to use the individually to 1. working 2. learning/to learn 3. 
verbs of liking complete the seeing 4. doing 5. meeting 6. to 
- Have Ss exercise. play/ playing 
complete this 
exercise 4. Complete the following sentences with 
individually. your own ideas.
 - Work (Text book- page 14)
- Have Ss individually to 
complete this complete this 
exercise with their exercise with their 
own ideas. own ideas.
- Accept different 
answers if Ss can 5. Read this paragraph from .
make sense. - Work in pairs to Key:
- Have Ss exchange their 1. Firstly 2. Secondly 3. Thirdly 
complete this answers. 4. In addition 5. In short
exercise 
individually then 
compare their 
answers with a 6. Choose from the leisure activities in 
partner. this unit.
Activity 4 - Work in pairs to (Text book- page 14)
Production:8’ discuss and 
- Guide Ss how to exchange their 
do the task. ideas.
4. Homework :3’
- Learn by heart all the new words and complete all the exercises in their notebooks.
- Practice talking about their leisure activities and explaining.
- Do the PROFECT : Join our leisure activity!
- Prepare: Unit 2- Getting started
III. Feedback:
 ---------------------------------------- Week: 3
Period: 8 
Date of planning: 
 UNIT 2: LIFE IN THE COUNTRYSIDE
 Lesson 1: Getting Started – Life in the countryside
I. Objectives: 
1. Knowledge, skills, and attitude: 
Knowledge: 
-Listen and read a conversation between Nick and Nguyen about life in the 
countryside
 -Use the lexical items related to the topic of life in the countryside
- Grammar: - Comparative forms of adjectives
 - Comparative forms of adverbs
- Vocabulary: the lexical items related to the topic of life in the countryside
Skills: Develop ss' skills of listening, reading 
 Attitude: - Ss are interested in life in the countryside
4. Competence and quality:
* Competence: 
- Co-operation: work in pairs, groups, teams
- Self- study: work individually.
- Using language to talk about life in the countryside
II. Preparation: 
Teacher : teacher’s book, posters, CD player
Students: Prepare the lesson at home, text book, workbook
III. Procedures
 1.Class order: Greeting, checking attendance
 2. Checking up: have ss say activities in the countryside 
 3.New lesson:
 Teacher’s activities Students’ Content
 activities
Activity 1
Presentation: 1. Getting started
- Introduce the topic Vocabulary:
“Life in the - Listen - buffalo-drawn cart(n)
countryside” - harvest time (n)
- Play the recording. - herd (v)
- Have some pairs - paddy field (n) 
role play in front of - practice Collect 
the class a. Are these sentences T or F?
- Ask Ss to read the Key: 
sentences and decide - Work 1.T 2.F 3.F 4.T 5.T
if they are true or individually 
false and explain 
- give feedback
Activity 2 b. Answer the following questions. 
Practice: Key: - Ask Ss to try to - In pairs to 1. He’s in the countryside.
answer the questions. practice in front of 2. Right on his first day there 
Then refer to the class. 3. It’s a big and colourful 
conversation again for - Listen and 4. His grandfather.
the correct answers. correct. 5. He means that he wishes he were in 
- Correct the answer the countryside too.
as a class. c. Complete the sentences with 
 Key: 
- Ask Ss to look at the 1. colourful 2. move slowly 
words in the box and 3. harvest time 4. paddy field 
do the exercise. When - In pairs to do the 5. herding 6. buffalo-drawn cart
they finish, ask them exercise.
to check their answers 
with their partner. d. In groups, discuss and find how 
- Have Ss work in .
small groups to Suggested answers:
discuss and tick the - Work in groups He likes it.
correct box and look to do the exercise. ‘ it’s more exciting than I expected.’
for expression(s) to “It (the kite) looks great up there in the 
support their answer. sky”.
 ‘It live more happily here, and there’s 
 still a lot more to explore’.
 2. Use the words and phrases .
- Ask Ss to label the Key: 1. e 3. f 3. a
pictures, then - Work 4. c 5. d 6. b
compare their individually. Then 
answers with a check their 
partner. T writes the answers.
correct answers on 3. Can you think of some more .. 
the board. 
- Have Ss work in 
pairs to brainstorm - Work in pairs to 
some more do the task. 
countryside activities. 
Call on each pair to 
share their list with 
the class. T writes the 4. Game Countryside charades
combined list of Play charades with the countryside 
activities on the activity vocabulary from Activity 2 and 
board. the Ss’s list on the board. To increase 
Activity 3 - Work in teams to the fun element, give the teams a time 
Production: play the game. limit of 10 seconds to guess the activity 
- Divide the class into before it moves to the other team. T 
two teams for this keeps score on the board and announces 
game. They can give the winning team at the end. 
themselves a relevant 
team name such as the ‘horses’ and the 
‘buffaloes’. 
4. Homework :
- Learn by heart vocabulary and practice the conversation.
- Prepare: A closer look 1
IV. Feedback:
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Week: 3
Period: 9 
Date of planning: 
 UNIT 2: LIFE IN THE COUNTRYSIDE
 Lesson 2: A Closer Look 1
I. Objectives: 
1. Knowledge, skills, and attitude: 
 - Knowledge:
 + Pronounce words containing the clusters /bl/ and /cl/ correctly in isolation 
and in context
 + Vocabulary: The lexical items related to the topic “Life in the countryside”
 + Grammar: Comparative forms of adverbs of manner
 - Skills: Reading and listening
 - Attitude: Ss will be able to know the differences between life in the 
countryside and the one in the city.
2. Competence and quality:
- Co-operation: work in pairs, groups, teams
- Self- study: work individually.
- Using language to talk about life in the countryside
II. Preparation: 
Teacher : teacher’s book, posters, CD player
Students: Prepare the lesson at home, text book, workbook
III. Procedures
 1.Class order: Greeting, checking attendance
 2. Checking up: have ss say activities in the countryside 
 3.New lesson:
 Teacher’s act Students’ act Content
Activity 1 (adjectives to describe life in the 
Warm up ( 5ms) countryside)
- Have Ss play - - Play game.
Brainstorm 
- Give comment Vocabulary
Activity 2 - brave (adj)
Presentation - Listen to the - nomadic (adj) (10ms) recording and - cattle (n)
- Have Ss listen to repeat the words - convenient ( adj) 
the recording and in chorus. -vast (adj)
repeat the words. - Share the 1. Listen and repeat the words.
Then check answers 1. slow 2. colourful 
understanding of 3. friendly 4. hard 
these words. 5. brave 6. boring 
 7. inconvenient 8. vast 
 9. peaceful 10. nomadic
Activity 3 2. Put the words in 1 into the ...
Practice: (19ms) Key: 
- Have Ss work - Work People: Friendly, brave, boring, nomadic, 
individually put individually to do colourful
the words then the task. Some Ss Life: Slow, hard, boring, inconvenient, 
compare their may write the peaceful, nomadic, colourful
answers with a answers on the Scenery: Colourful, vast, peaceful
partner and then board. Check 3. Match the nouns/ noun phrases 
discuss as a class. their answers. Key: 
- Make sure Ss - ride: a horse, a camel
understand the - Work - put up” a tent, a pole
meanings of the individually then - collect: hay, water
verbs first. Then in pairs to do the - herd: the buffaloes, the cattle 
ask them to work task. - pick: wild flowers, apples 
independently or 
in pairs. Let them 
exchange their 
answers with a 
partner/ another 
pair. Then T 4. Use the words in 1 and 3 to 
elicits the correct Key: 
answer. 1. picking 2. inconvenient, collect 
- Have Ss use the 3. herd 4. ridden, brave
vocabulary they - Work 5. peaceful 6. nomadic 
have learnt in individually or in 7. vast 8. put up, hard
activities 1 and 3 pairs to do this 
to do this exercise.
exercise. PRONUNCIATION Clusters: /bl/ and /cl/
Activity 4 5. Listen and repeat ..
Production: - Listen and 
(8ms) repeat.
- Play the 
recording and let 6. Listen and circle the words you hear.
Ss listen and Key:
repeat as many 1. blame
times as required. 2. blast
- Play the 3. blue
recording again 4. clock and let Ss listen 5. close
carefully and 7. Listen to the sentences and repeat. 
circle the words.
- Play the 
recording and let 
Ss listen and 
repeat as many 
times as required.
4. Homework (3m)
- Learn by heart all the new words. Practice saying about “Life in the countryside”
- Prepare: Closer Look 2
IV. Feedback:
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 Pham Hong Phuong