UNIT FOUR: OUR PAST
I.Objectives:After finishing the lesson, Ss will be able to:
- talk about the past events - express feelings
- distinguish betwwen facts and opinions - write a short imaginary story
*Main grammar points:
- used to + V( inf).
- Past simple tense
- Preposition of time: on, in, at, after, before, between.
II.Teaching aids: Text-book; lesson plan; pictures; posters,cassette.
III.Procedure: 6 lessons:
-Lesson 1: Getting started + Listen and Read -Lesson 4: Read
-Lesson 2: Speak -Lesson 5: Write
-Lesson 3: Listen -Lesson 6: L.Focus
Date of preparing : Period 19 UNIT 4 - OUR PAST
LESSON 1: GETTING STARTED - LISTEN AND READ
A. Objectives
*Knowledge: By the end of this lesson , Ss will be able to to talk about past habits, using
“ used to” by reading a text about the past .And using vocabulary: look after, equipment, great- grandma, folktale.
* Attitude: Help Ss to be more confident to communicate with others in learning English and help them to respect what is in the past.
* Skill: Practise reading and listening skill.
B. Teaching aids
T's preparation: Lesson plan, text book, tape and cassette , pictures Ss' preparation: Text book, notebook, pen, homework.
C. Methods
- Slap the board, Pre questions, Comprehension questions, Repeatation drill, - Pairs, individual and group work
D. Contents I. Organization
Class Date of teaching Absent students
8A
II. Warm up: Getting started (7m) -T introduces the situation
+Ss listen and look at picture that hang on the board and work in group
Today we will learn about life in Vietnam 100 years ago, during the lasson, we’ll know what our great-grandma used to do, how their like was. Firstly, we work in group, look at the picture and make the list of thing that do not belong to the past in Vietnam 100 years ago.
Answer :
- The TV - The stereo
- The mobile phone - The lighting fixture - Morden clothes/ uniform II. New lesson
Step 1 - Presentation.(13m)
T introduces vocab using some techniques:
Ss listen and repeat.
T checks stresses.
Ss copy down the words.
Check vocab by " Slap the board"
- St look at the picture p38(below)and answer qs: (Who are they?/ what are they doing? Is Nga’s grand mom old?/).
- Then T asks Ss work in pairs to guess and answer pre- Qs.
- Sts listen to the dialogue
- Sts work in pairs to read the dialogue.
- Sts find out the answers of the pre- questions.
T asks Ss to find out the model sentences in the text.
Ss repeat the model sentences.
* Concept check.
T: Does Nga's grandmother live on the farm now?
Ss: No.
T: When did she live on the farm?
Ss: When she was young.
T: Does she have to look after her younger sister and brother now?
Ss: No
T: When did she do these work?
Ss: In the past, when she was young.
T asks Ss to give the form, usage and meaning.
Step 2. Practice (15m) Act 1.Repeatation
- Sts use the model sentence to practice:
( Group work)
- T says -> Sts repeat + clean the house.
+ wash the clothes.
+ listen to the folktales.
+ live on a farm.
Act 2.Answer the questions
1. Vocabulary :
- great-grandma ( n ) ( picture ) : cụ bà - folktale ( n )(give example): truyện dõn gian
Ex: The Lost shoe is a folktale.
- Traditional stories : truyện cổ tớch (give example)
Ex : Thach Sanh is a traditional stories - look after (v) ( explaination) : trụng nom, chăm súc.
- equipment (n) ( example): thiết bị gia đỡnh Ex: washing machine, dishwasher,
refrigerator....are equipments.
Pre-questions
- Where did Nga’s grandmother live when she was young?
- What did she often do at that time?
* Key:
-> She used to live on a farm.
-> She used to look after her younger brothers and sisters, cook the meals, clean the house, and wash the clothes.
* Model sentences
She used to live on the farm
She used to look after her younger brother and sister
She used to cook the meal
* form:
S + used to + infinitive S + didn,t + use to + infinitive Did + S + use to + infinitive?
* use: used to express a past habit, or an action
usually happened in the past
* meaning: đã thờng / hay làm gì
* Repetition:
She used to clean the house She used to wash the clothes She used to listen to the folktales She used to live on the farm
* Answer the questions
T asks Ss to read the text and asnwer the questions in individual.
T gives feedback.
- T reviews structure:
( what + be + S + like?)
Eg: What was life like? ( ntn?) What is she like?
Step 3 - Production (8m)
*. Fact or opinion:
- T gives 2 sentence:
- T asks some ss make some sentences to make it clearly.
* Chatting
T asks Ss to talk about their past habits using " used to"
a. She used to live on a farm.
b. Because she had to stay at home and help her mom. ( She used to look after ...sisters.)
c. She used to cooked meals, clean the house, ...
d. Her great- grandmother used to lit the lamp and her great- grandfather used to tell them stories.
e. She asked her grandmother to tell her the tale: “ The lost shoe”.
* Fact or opinion 1. I learn English.( fact)
2. English is very difficult.( idea of one or some)
a. Fact d. Fact b. Fact e. Opinion c. Fact f. Opinion
IV. Summary(1m)
T stresses on some main ideas of the lesson.
- Remember:
-
The way to use “ used to”- fact and opinion.
V. Homework(1m) + study the lesson
+ do the exercise A1,A4( work book027,28 + prepare unit 4: Speak + listen
* Evaluation:
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Date of preparing : Period 20 UNIT 4 - OUR PAST
LESSON 2: SPEAK
A. Objectives
*Knowledge: By the end of this lesson , Ss will be able to talk about the differences between the past and the present life.
* Attitude: Help Ss to be more confident to communicate with others in learning English.
respect what is in the past.
* Skill: Practise speaking B. Teaching aids
T's preparation: Lesson plan, text book, pictures Ss' preparation: Text book, notebook, pen, homework.
C. Methods - Chatting,
- Pairs, individual and group work D. Contents
I. Organization
Class Date of teaching Absent students
8A
II.Warm up * Chatting(5m)
1.What sports or games did you used to play when you were a child ? - Square game :
- Flying the kite
- Dragon – snake game
- Game with small bamboo sticks 2. Did you use to have a nick name ?
3. Did you use to cry a lot when you were a small child?
III. New lesson
Step 1. Pre –speaking(15m)
-T asks Ss to look at the pictures on p.39 +40 and then brainstorm all the verbs about the difference between life in the past and now.
Step2
.While-speaking(15m)T asks Ss to work in groups to write as many sentences as possible to talk about life in the past and now.
-Let Ss talk about this individuals.T corrects mistakes after all.
listening and ordering.)
Step3- Post- speaking(8m)
T asks Ss to write what they used to do last year.
walk to travel go by car
Answer key:
Life in the past - live in the cottage - work on the farm - light the lamp
- wear traditional clothes - walk to travel
- do things by hands
- children didn’t go to school Life in the present -live in the building
-work in the office -use electricity
-wear modern clothes -go/travel by car……
-do something by machine - children go to school Ex:
* In the past People, used to live in small houses. Now they live in big houses and building.
* In the past people used to walk . Now they can go by car or motorbike.
* In the past there wasn’t electricity in the home. Now there is electricity everywhere.
* In the past people used to work hard all the time. Now, they have a lot of time for entertainment.
* In the past children used to stay home.
Now, they go to school…
* Write it up
What did you use to do last year?
Ex: I used to go to school in the morning.
IV. Summary(1m)
Life in the past
Life in the present
- T stresses on some main ideas of the lesson.
V. Homework(1m)
- Prepare for the next lesson. Do exercise in workbook
* Evaluation:
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Date of preparing : Period 21 UNIT 4 - OUR PAST
LESSON 3: LISTEN
A. Objectives
*Knowledge: By the end of the lesson Ss will be able to listen to a story to draw out a moral lesson
* Attitude: Help Ss to be more confident to communicate with others in learning English, help them to draw a moral lesson for themselves
* Skill: Practise listening skill.
B. Teaching aids
T's preparation: Lesson plan, text book, pictures, tapes, cassette player.
Ss' preparation: Text book, notebook, pen, homework.
C. Methods
- Transformation, Ordering, Comprehension questions - Pairs, individual and group work
D. Contents I. Organization
Class Date of teaching Absent students
8A
II.Warm up: * Transformation (5m)
-T says about Nga’s life now , and Sts transform them to Nga’s grandmother’s life in the past.
T: Nga goes to school.
Sts: But her grandmother used to stay at home.
T : Nga lives in the city.
Sts: But her grand mother used to live on a farm.
III. New lesson:
Step 1- Pre listening (15m) a. Preteach:
- T introduces vocab using some techniques - Sts listen and read in chorus 3 times, then individually.
T checks stresses
* Checking technique Ro &Re
b. Ordering: T sets the scence:
?. Do you always read moral- stories?/ Which story do you like best?
- Now we are going to listen to a story. Look at the poster, run through all the sts guess and reorder to make a story.
- Ss work in pairs.
1. Vocab
-foolish (adj): khùng, ngốc ngếch ( expl) -greedy(adj):tham lam (expl)
-gold(n):vàng ( example)
-(to) lay-laid:đẻ trứng ( example) -amazement(n): sự ngạc nhiên ( expl) -unfortunately(adv):không may (antonym)
-moral(adj):đạo đức 2. Ordering
a. kill chickens.
b. live a comfortable life.
c. discover a gold egg.
d. no more eggs.
e. become poor and unhappy.
f. collect lots of eggs.
- SS give some ideas
Step 2 - While- listening (15m) * Sts listen to the story.
- Check their predictions.
* Sts listen again and choose the most suitable moral lesson.
* Comprehension questions:
- Sts work in pairs
3. Post- listening (8m) - Retell the story.
c. Listen
* Key:
1 - b 3 – c 5 - d 2 - f 4 – a 6 - e
* Title of the story:
“ Don’t be foolish and greedy”.
* Comprehension questions:
a. How did the farmer’s family live at first?
( They lived on selling eggs).
b. What did they discover one day?
( They discovered a gold egg.) c. What did they decide to do?
( They decided to kill all the chickens to find more gold eggs).
d. Could they collect any eggs?
( No, they couldn’t).
* Retell the story:
IV. Summary(1m)
- T stresses on some main ideas of the lesson.? The moral lesson that drawn from the story.
V. Homework(1m)
- Do exercise in workbook.
- Prepare for the next lesson.
* Evaluation:
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Date of preparing : Period 22 UNIT 4 - OUR PAST
LESSON 4: READ
A. Objectives
*Knowledge: By the end of the lesson Ss will be able to understand and retell the story and then know the way to tell about the events in the past.
* Attitude: Help Ss to be more confident to communicate with others in learning English, help them to draw a lesson from the folk tales
* Skill: Practise reading skill.
B. Teaching aids
T's preparation: Lesson plan, text book, pictures Ss' preparation: Text book, notebook, pen, homework.
C. Methods
- Transformation, Ordering, Comprehension questions - Pairs, individual and group work
D. Contents I. Organization
Class Date of teaching Absent students
8A
II.Warm up(5m)* Matching T asks Ss to match the verbs in infinitive and its past form( individual on board)
come found make held go fell run came lose made find lost fall went
* Dictation list: T reads the words and Ss put them in the right colunm according to its ending sound 'ed'
- died, married, started, appeared, changed, fitted, owned, stopped, decided, wanted.
/ d/ /t/ /id/
died stopped started married fitted appeared decided changed wanted owned
III. New lesson:
Step 1. Pre - reading (15m)
* Preteach:
- Sts read in chorus 3 times, then read individually.
* Checking technique:
- Rub out and remember.
? Do you like folktales?/Name some? The end of the folktales?
* Prediction
? Ss look at the title of the story and guess the content of the story, who Little Pea and Stout Nut was and whose shoe was lost?
Step 2. While- reading (15m) Act 1. Read the story.
Act 2. Check their predictions.
Act 3. Complete the sentence.
T asks Sts to complete the sentences in Read 1 ( P. 42)
* Sts read the story again and then answer the questions in Read 2 ( P. 42)
? After reading the story, what Vnese folktale it is?
Step 3. Post- reading (8m) Act 1. Recall.
- Sts work in pairs, using the word cues given to retell the story.
1. New words
cruel ( adj); độc ác rag ( n): quần áo rách
upset (adj): buồn phiền, thất vọng fairy ( n): ông/bà tiên
fit (v ): vừa vặn festival (n): lễ hội
2. Complete the sentences
a. poor farmer d. choose / marry b. died e. new – clothes c. had to - again f. lost
3. Answer the questions:
a. She was a poor farmer’s daughter.
b. Little Pea had to do chores all day.
c. She got her new clothes from a fairy.
d. He decided to marry Little Pea.
e. No, it isn’t. It has a fairy.
* Retell:
1. After/ mother/ died/ father/ got married again.
2. daughter/ Stout Nut.
3. to do chores.
4. died/ broken heart.
5. village/ harvest/ festival.
6. prince/ choose.
7. Stout Nut’s mother/ new clothes / . / Little Pea
8. fairy/ changed/ rags/ beatiful clothes.
9. as/ ran/ festival/ lost/ shoe
10. prince/ the shoe/ decided/ the shoe’s owner
IV. Summary(1m)
- T stresses on some main ideas of the lesson.?
The content of the folk tales V. Homework(1m)
- Do exercise in workbook.
- Prepare for the next lesson.
* Evaluation:
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Date of preparing : Period 23 UNIT 4 - OUR PAST
LESSON 5: WRITE
A. Objectives
*Knowledge: By the end of this lesson , Ss will be able to write and then retell a story using the past simple tense.
* Attitude: Help Ss to be more confident to communicate with others in learning English, love and respect what is in the past.
* Skill: Practise writing skill.
B. Teaching aids
T's preparation: Lesson plan, text book, pictures Ss' preparation: Text book, notebook, pen, homework.
C. Methods
- Substitution box , Write it up, Correcttion, retell the story.
- Pairs, individual and group work D. Contents
I. Organization
Class Date of teaching Absent students
8A
II. Warm up(5m)* Substitution box : T gives the words on the board and ask Ss to write sentences using these words
we / used / when / listen / were / to / children / we / old / after / grandma / dinners / folktales / small / to / our / from /.
-> When we were small, we used to listen to old folktales from my grandma after dinners III.New lesson
Step 1 - Pre - writing (15m)
? Do you know why tigers have black stripes? Which story tells you about that?
Can you tell me the story? ( in Vnese) - In this lesson, we will learn more about this story.firstly we have some new words:
- Sts read in chorus 3 times, then read individually.
Checking by matching.
Act1. Complete the story:
- Sts use the verbs in the box.
- Work in group.
- Read the story.
Act 2. Comprehension questions:
- Play game:
Noughts and crosses.
- Key for the questions:
1. He was in his field and his buffalo was grazing nearby.
2. It wanted to know why the strong...
1. New words
- escape ( v): ch¹y trèn (exp) - graze (v) : gÆm cá (picture)
- tie ( v) : buéc ( mime) - light (v) -> lit: ch©m löa ( mime)
- straw (n): r¬m,r¹ ( picture) - wisdom (n):trÝ kh«n ( expl) - stripe (n)vÕt v»n ( b. drawing) 2. Write 1
* Complete the story:
1. appeared 6. tied 2. was 7. lit 3. said 8. burned 4. left 9. escaped 5. went
* Comprehension questions:
Noghts and crosses
1 2 3
4 5 6
7 8 9
1. Where were the farmer and his buffalo
3. He had “ wisdom”.
4. Because he left the wisdom at home.
5. He tied the tiger to the tree with a rope.
6. He brought some straw.
7. He lit the straw.
8. The tiger escaped but today it still has black stripes from the burn.
9. He made the tiger burn by straw.
Step 2 - While- writing (15m)
Act 1. Transformation from the farmer to I - Work in group of 4 to write the story.
- Exchange to correct.
Step 3 - Post- writing (8m) - T corrects
- Sts read the story (Retell the story)
when the tiger appeared?
2. What did the tiger want to know?
3. What did the farmer tell the tiger?
4. Why did the farmer go home?
5. What did he do before he went home?
6. What did he bring with him?
7. What did he do then?
8. What happened to the tiger?
9. What was the farmer’s wisdom?
3. Write 2
* Imagine you are the man. Write the story:
One day, as I was in the field and my buffalo was grazing nearby, a tiger came.
It asked why the strong buffalo was my servant and I was its master. I told the tiger that I had something called wisdom. The tiger wanted to see it, but I told it I left the wisdom at home. Then I tied the tiger to a tree with a rope because I didn’t want it to eat my buffalo...
IV. Summary(1m)
T stresses on some main ideas of the lesson: How to write a description of a room?
V. Homework(1m)
- Do exercise in workbook. Prepare for the next lesson.
* Evaluation:
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Date of preparing : Period 24 UNIT 4 - OUR PAST
LESSON 6: LANGUAGE FOCUS
A. Objectives
*Knowledge: - By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to review and remember the main grammar points : the past simple tense, the useage of preposition : in, on ,of , after, before, between and the way to use " used to"
* Attitude: Help Ss to be more confident to communicate with others in learning English
* Skill: Practise doing exercises skill.
B. Teaching aids
T's preparation: Lesson plan, text book, reference books Ss' preparation: Text book, notebook, pen, homework.
C. Methods
- Review , Pairs, individual and group work D. Contents
I. Organization
Class Date of teaching Absent students
8A
II. Warm up:Chatting(3m)
- T asks Ss some questions about the weather and the health.
I. Review 1(15m)
* Review the past simple tense.
1. The past simple - Form : S + Ved ...
- Use: Express the past events...
* Review irregular verbs.
- Sts write the past form of verbs.
- Work in pairs to read the dialogue:
II. Review 2(15m)
* Prepositions:
- Sts give examples.
- Work in groups to do exercise.
III. Review 3(10m)
* Pairwork:
One : Hoa.
One : Nga
* Exercise 1 (P.44):
Write the past form of the verbs:
a. run -> ran e. have/ has -> had b. fly -> flew f. eat -> ate c. take -> took g. come -> came d. go -> went h. be -> was/ were
* Exercise 2 (P.44):
Complete the dialogue below:
a. Did you eat rice for lunch?
b. I rode a bicycle to school.
c. Where were you yesterday?
d. I had ( Math).
2. Prepositions of time at / after / before ( 8am) on ( Tuesday / 23rd /...) in ( January....)
between ... and .../ from .... to ....
* Exercise 3 (P.44):
Complete the sentences:
a. on d. at - after b. in e. before c. between
3. Used to + V:
- Form: used to + V....
didn’t use to + V...
Did + S use to + V ...?
- Use: Express an action usually happen in past.
* Exercise 4 (P.45):
Complete the dialogue:
1. I used to have...
2. She used to live ....
3. They used to be ...
IV. Summary(1m)
Remind some grammar notes : past simple tense, the preposition, used to) V. Homework(1m)
- Do exercise in workbook. Prepare for the next lesson.
* Evaluation:
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