Giáo án Tiếng Anh Lớp 8 - Tiết 4, Unit 1: My friends (Lesson 3) - Năm học 2011-2012 - Phan Thị Thanh Luyến

Week: 2	Date of preparation: 22/ 08/ 2011
Period: 4	Date of teaching: 24/ 08/ 2011
UNIT 1: MY FRIENDS
LESSON 3: READ
I. OBJECTIVES:
 Teaching aims: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to describe people’s characters, and hobbies, read the passage and answer the questions about characters, hobbies of Ba’s friends.
II. PREPARATIONS: Book, cassette tape
III. PROCEDURES:
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
1. Warm – Up: (5’)
- Chatting: Ask questions about their friends.
 l Do you have many close friends?
 l Who is your best close friend in your class?
 l What does he/she look like?
 l Is he/she (intelligent)?
 l What does he/she like/dislike you know?
 l What does he/she do in his/her free time?
2. Pre – Reading: (5’)
- Have students match the words in column A and their meanings in column B.
Column A
Column B
1. outgoing
2. generous
3. sense of humor 
4. kind
5. hard-working
6. reserved
7. sociable
a. kín đáo 
b. tử tế
c. hào phóng, rộng rãi
d. chăm chỉ
e. thân mật, dễ gần gũi 
f. khơi hài, hài hước
g. cởi mở, dễ hòađđồng 
- Check vocabulary: Rub out and remember.
- Set the scene: These statements are about Ba and his friends. 
- Ask students to read them and guess which statements are true, which are false.
 1. Ba only has three friends: Bao, Song and Khai.
 2. Ba and his friends have the same characters.
 3. Bao, Song and Khai are quite reserved in public.
 4. They are all enjoying school and study hard.
 5. Ba has a sense of humor.
- Ask students to give feed back. 
3. While – Reading: (20’)
- Have students read the text silently to check the T/F statements and correct the false sentences.
 1. F. Ba has a lot of friends but he spends most of his time with Bao, Song and Khai.
 2. F. They have different characters.
 3. F. Only Song and Khai are quite reserved in public.
 4. T.
 5. T. 
 - Ask students to read the text silently to do multiple choices in pairs. 
- Get feedback.
 a) A. three 
 b) C. does not affect his school work 
 c) B. doesn’t talk much in public.
 d) D. get tired of
- Explain the meanings of the phrases
 + doesn’t affect his school work
 + get tired of 
- Ask students to read the text again to answer the questions in groups.
 a. Ba feels lucky to have/having a lot of friends.
 b. Bao is the most sociable.
 c. Khai likes reading.
 d. A bad thing about Ba’s jokes is that sometimes his jokes annoy his friends.
 e. Bao spends his free time doing volunteer work at a local orphanage.
 f. (students’ answers)
4. Post – Reading: (13’)
 - Ask students to work in groups to describe a friend in the class, using the adjectives they have learnt.
- Call one or two of them to demonstrate their answer before the class.
5. Homework: (2’)
- Ask students to learn by heart the descriptive adjectives of characters.
- Write a short paragraph (50 words) to describe one of your close friends.
- Prepare next lesson: Unit 1- Write/ p.15.
- Think and answer the questions.
- Pair works. 
 1 + g
 2 + c
 3 + f
 4 + b
 5 + d
 6 + a
 7 + e
- Whole class.
- Listen.
- Group works. 
- Give feed back.
- Pair works.
- Give feedback. 
- Listen.
- Group works.
- Group works. 
- Read the answer.
Take note.
IV. COMMENTS:
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