UNIT 1: MY FRIENDS
I. Aims
By the end of the unit students will be able to introduce people, respond to introductions, discribe people , write about oneself and about other people
II . Language items
Students practice present simple and structure " adj + enough + to + inf "
III. Teaching skills
Listening, speaking, reading , writing
IV . Teaching aids
Blackboard , chalks , stereo , ..........
V . Teaching procedures
Period 1 : Getting started - Listen and read
Period 2 : Speak and listen
Period 3 : Read
Period 4 :Write
Period 5 : Language focus
Teaching grade 8
 Date of preparing: 20/8/2009

 Period: 02
 Date of teaching : 24/8/2009



 UNIT 1: MY FRIENDS


LESSON 1: GETTING STARTED & LISTEN AND READ


I. Objects
- By the end of the lesson, students will be able to know more about Hoa – Lan – Nien.
II. Contents of language:
1. Grammar.
+ Review simple present and simple past tense
2. Vocabulary:
+ To seem a next door neighbor to look like
III..Teaching aids:
- Textbook, pictures and cassette
IV.Methods
- Explanation, elicits.
V.Procedure:
Time & stage
Teacher ‘ s activities
Students’ activities

1.Organization
3’
- Greet and check absentees
- Greet and answer


2. Warm- up
5
* Chatting:
- Ask sts practice in pairs asking and answering about summer vacation.
+ What did you do during the summer vacation?
+ What do you remember most?
+ Did you have any new friends?

- Practice in pairs asking and answering about summer vacation.



3. New lesson.
a .Pre-reading.
11`
1. Pre- teach vocabulary.
- Play the tape.
- Give the new words and their meaning.
+ To seem (v):[ Translation]
+ A next door neighbor (n): [Explanation: a person who lives next to your house]
+To look like (v)::[ Translation]
- Read the new words.
Checking vocabulary: Matching.
- Write the new word on the left side and the picture on the right side on the board.
-Ask sts to go to the board and match the pictures with the suitable words.
- The team which is faster & match more words will win the game.
2. Pre – questions
- Give sts some questions and ask them to work in pairs to answer them.
a. Is Nien Lan‘s friend or Hoa’s friend?.
b. How old is Nien?
c. Where does Nien live?
d. Is she beautiful girl?
- Give feedback.


- Listen to the tape.
- Listen and take notes.





- Listen and repeat.







- Work in pairs to answer them.






bWhile reading
15’
- Ask sts to read the dialogue between Hoa, Lan on page 10 and check if their answers are correct or not.
* Answers:
a. She is Hoa’s friend
b. She is twelve years old.
c. She lives in Hue.
d. Yes, She is.
* Comprehension questions
- Ask sts to read the dialogue again and answer the questions in exercise 2 on page 11 (work in pairs)
* The questions:
a. Where does Nien live?
b. Does Lan know Nien?
c. Which sentence tells you that Hoa is old than Nien?
d. When does Nien going to visit Hoa?
- Call on some sts to ask and answer the questions.
- Correct their mistakes or pronunciation
- Ask them to work in closed pairs.
- Read the dialogue between Hoa, Lan on page 10 and check if their answers are correct or not






- Work in pairs to answer them.


* The answers:
a. Nien lives in Hue.
b. No, she doesn’t.
c. The sentence is “She wasn’t old enough to be in my class”.
d. At Christmas.
- Ask and answer the questions.

- Correct their mistakes
- Work in closed pairs.

c.Post reading
5’

Gap – filling
- Ask sts to use the simple present and simple past to complete paragraph 1 (a) on page 16.
“Hoa (live) … (1)… in Hue last year, but now she (live