Week: 14th Preparing Day: 15/11/2013

Period: 41th Teaching Day: 19/11/2013

UNIT 7 MY NEIGHBORHOOD
Lesson 1 GETTING STARTED & LISTEN AND READ
I. Objectives :
1. Educational aims:
Students get acquainted with the topic “my neighborhood”.
2. Teaching aims:
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to know more about Nam’s new neighbor .
II. Language contents :
1. Vocabulary: wet market, since, for, area, pancake,
2. Grammar: - present perfect with for and since/ comparison with like,
III. Techniques: Eliciting, True / False
IV. Teaching aids: pictures, cassette, sub board
V. Procedures :

Teacher’s activities Students’ activities

1. Warm up :
* Getting started - Play games.
-Ask students to match the names of places with the - Matching.
suitable pictures. - Correct.
+ Answers :
a. grocery store
b. stadium
c. wet market
d. drug store
e. hairdresser’s
f. swimming pool
2. Pre-reading
New words: - Listen and repeat
-Wet Market (n) - Read in class/ individual.
- Area (adv) -Copy the new words
- Pancake(n)
- Try one’s best (v)
- serve (v)
- tasty = delicious (a)
Guides students how to use present perfect tense
S + have /has + pp
Eg: I have lived here since 1982 - Listen.
She has lived here for 10 years. - Give example.
3. While-reading :
Do the exercise A.1 practice in pairs read the dialogue
again. -Role-play
Complete the sentence with the word from the dialogue -Read and check
a) Na is new to the neighborhood. -Work in groups
b) She and her family arrived last week. - Answer
c) Na’s mother is very tired. - Correct.
d) There is a restaurant in the area.
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e) The restaurant serves food from Hue.
f) Nam thinks the pancakes are tasty.
4. Post-reading :
* Questions.
a) How long has Nam lived here?
b) Is Na’s mother tired? - Answer
c) What kind of food does the restaurant serve? a) Nam has lived here for 10 years.
d) What does the food like? b) Yes, she is.
5. Homework : c) The restaurant serves hue food.
-Write 5 sentences about your habits in the past. d) The food is delicious.
-Do exercises in Workbook.
-Prepare the part : Speak + Listen

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Week: 14th Preparing Day: 17/11/2013

Period: 42th Teaching Day: 22/11/2013
UNIT 7 MY NEIGHBORHOOD
Lesson 2 SPEAK + LISTEN

I. Objectives:
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Developing speaking skill. Students can speak about how to send a letter or a parcel.
Listening for details to complete the advertisement.
II. Language contents:
1. Vocabulary: surface mail, airmail, item, charge, parcel.
2 .Grammar: Ask for assistant: Can I help you?
III/ Techniques: Question and answer, brainstorming, True or False, Fill in the blanks
IV/ Teaching aids: Picture, chart, real object,
V. Procedures :
Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
A. Speak.
1. Pre-Speaking :
-Have students answer some questions. Answer:
- Show the letter and ask students some questions: + It’s a letter.
What is this? + … at the post office.
Where can I post it to my friend? + … stick stamp on it.
How can I post it? + 800 dong
How much? + Yes, Of course.
Is it more expensive when I send a parcel?
Have you ever sent a letter or a parcel?
-introduce the lesson.
-teaching the new words.
* air mail
*surface mail
2. While -Speaking: - Listen.
Set the scene: Mrs. Kim wants to send a parcel to
Qui Nhon, so she has to go to the post office.
- T read the dialogue -Work in pairs.
- Have students practice in pairs. - Some pairs read.
- Call some pairs to read. - Listen and correct.
- Listen and correct.
* Complete the dialogue. Use information in your
books. -Work in pairs to complete the dialogue.
Clerk: Can I help you?
Mrs. Lan: I want to send a letter to ……….. .
Clerk: Do you want to send it airmail or surface
mail?
Mrs. Lan: I send it ……….. How much is it?
Clerk: Let me see. ………. grams, it’s only …d - Work in pairs to complete the dialogue.
Mrs. Lan: Here you are.
Clerk: Thank you.
3. Post – Speaking:
- Have students make similar dialogue.
Check the mistakes and correct the answers. - Listen.
B. LISTEN.
1. Pre-Listening : - Listen
- Introduce the situation (eliciting Question)
“What do you like doing on the weekend?”
-Set up the scenes: “Na is new in the neighborhood.
She is talking to Nam about what is she going to do - Answer.

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Ask them to look at the advertisements and ask them - Listen and repeat.
to answer the question: “What’s on the week?” - read in class/ individual.
- Teaching the new words.
Town Ground, Millennium cinema, Cultural house,
English speaking contest, the new comer. - Guess.
-vs=versus.
- Ask them to guess the place and program to fill the
blanks in the advertisement -Look at the handout and listen then fill
2. While-Listening : in the gaps
-Play the tape for students with out stop. -Compare in groups.
-Have Students listen and fill in the blanks (1/ p66 ) -Listen and check. Then write the
- Student change the handout and compare. answer on the board.
- Have Student listen to the tape again -> Teacher
correction
- Give the answer: -Listen to the tape and stick
1. The new comer.
2. Town ground.
3. English speaking contest
4. Culture house.
Task 2. Listen and tick T / F or No information.
- Ask them to guess the statements are true or false or
no information.
Have students listen and tick T / F or No information -Write homework.
- Ask them to compare the answer with their partners. -group work.
Get feedback.
Have students listen and correct the mistake.
a. T b. F c. F
d. T e. T f. No
information.
3. Post-Listening.
* Listen and answer the questions. - Answer the questions.
a) Does Na like movies? a) Yes, she does.
b) Why won’t she go to see the film “The New b) Because she has seen it before.
comer”? c) She will go with Nam, ba and Minh.
c) Who will Na go to the soccer match with?
- Give the answer.
4. Homework :
-Learn by heart new words and structure.
-Do exercises in WB
-Prepare Unit 7 : Read
*Content of listening :
Na:Hi, Nam
Nam:Hello, Na. What are you going to do this weekend?
Na:I’m not sure. I just don’t know what to do and where to go in this neighborhood.
Nam: Why don’t we look at “ What’s on this weekend?” in the newspaper.
Na: Good idea. Can you suggest what I should do?
Nam: Do you like movies? There’s a film at Millennium Cinema.
Na: What’s that? The new comer, an Australian film. I’ve seen this film before. I saw it on Star
Movies channel.
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Nam: You did?
Na: Yes.(pause). Here , the photo exhibition at the cultural House sounds exciting!
Nam: But it does not open during the weekend. And you can not go to the English Speaking
Contest either. It is at Nguyen Khuyen School., and it is on Thursday. (pause). Ah, yes. Here, the
soccer, a match between Le Do School and Quang Trung School- the best UÏ teams in our
province. I will definitely go and see it with BA and Minh
Na: Where do they play?
Nam: At the Town Ground. This is a very special event in town. I can tell you.Would you like to
join us?
Na: Oh, yes. I’d love to. I’ve never been to a soccer match before . It must be fun to watch a real
match at the stadium. And I’d like to visit the Town Ground, too
Nam: Great. I’ll tell Minh and Ba to come to your home, and we will go together. Remember the
match starts at 4p.m, but we must be there by 3.30 if we don’t want to miss the opening show.
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Week: 15th Preparing Day: 30/11/2012

Period: 43th Teaching Day: 03/12/2012
UNIT 7 MY NEIGHBORHOOD

Lesson 3 READ

I. Objectives:
By the end of the lesson, students should know more about shopping malls.
Developing reading skill (True o False, answer the questions)
II. Language contents:
1. Vocabulary:
+ roof (n)
+ convenient (adj)
+ selection (n)
+ available (adj)
+ mall (n)
+ resident (n)
2. Grammar:
Present perfect tense:
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III/ Techniques: Question and answer, brainstorming, True or False, Fill in the blanks
IV/ Teaching aids: Picture, chart,…
V. Procedures pictures, sub boards.

1. Warm up:
T: greeting and giving some definition so as to - Work in two groups
students to find out the words quickly
+ A place where you can buy everything .-Read silently.
+ A place where you buy vegetables and fruit -Give out the new words.
+ A place where you can come to eat
+ A place where you can come to see a movie
+ A person who go to buy something in a store
Ss: participate the guessing game Read the text again and notice how to
2 .Pre-Reading : pronunciation new words.
-Introduce a new center for shopping: “ We can do all
of these things in a shopping mall.”
-Have student read silently the text and find the new
words.
+ Explain some new words.
- shopping mall, special discounts, wider selection of
product, resident, in comfort, take their business,…
3. While-Reading:
-Have Students read the text again then find out -Work in groups
answers for the exercise 1/p68.( T or F) Shopping Books Video
Check and correct the answer. mall games
-Get feedback. See a Vegetable seafood
Ex2: Answer the questions : movie
a) It’s different from the present shopping area. All Buy Fruits Super
the shops are under one roof. So customer will market
shop in comfort and don’t notice the weather
b) There are 50 air conditioned specialty stores, 4
ovie theater and 10 restaurants . there is also a
children’s playing area
c) They think the mall will take their business
d) The stoe in the mal will offer a wider selection of - Work in pairs.
products, some goods are at lower prices
-Have students ask and answer the questions in
pairs(practice 2).
- Have students write the answers on their mini board.
-Get feedback
4. Post-Reading : - Play game
- Have students play nought and crosses .
- Ask and answer about the shopping mall.
Ex: Can you buy vegetables in a shopping mall?
What can you buy at the super market?
5. Homework :
-Lean new words by heart.
-Prepare the next lesson. (Writing)

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Week: 15th Preparing Day: 02/12/2012

Period: 44st Teaching Day: 05/12/2012

CORRECT TEST 2
I. Objectives :
Correcting some mistakes which students have done, explaining what most students didn’t
do well such as rewrite the sentences, finding out words learned . . .
II.COMMENTS :
1.Comment on the students’ result
Writing
Pron Vocabulary and Grammar Speaking Reading Transfor G
Class Sts 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 1-3 1-3
8A2 22 19 16 12 14 9 11 15 7 17 18 15 20 15 22 29 14 13 19 13 15 17 12 17 15 22 11 12
8A3 24 18 15 14 14 13 10 20 12 15 20 13 19 14 23 19 14 18 15 11 10 13 16 10 9 11 12 8
Total 46 37 31 26 28 22 21 35 19 32 38 28 39 29 45 48 28 31 34 24 25 30 28 27 24 33 23 20

2. Comment on theme of the test :

The test is suitable for the students’ knowledge. There are three requirements in the test :
recognization, understanding and application,they are suitable for three types of the students :
poor students, fair students and good students.
3. Comment on teacher’s teaching:
Teacher helped students revise the knowledge from unit 4 to unit 7 carefully. Teacher
guided students how to learn and to remember the grammar structures, vocabulaty effectively.
The teacher gave a lot of exercises for students to practice . However, students didn’t pay
attention to studying. They didn’t revise the old lesson before doing the test, so their result is not
good.
III. PROCEDURES
1. Giving the test for all the students:
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 Teacher: give the test for all the students
Students : see their tests carefully and recognize their mistakes
2. Correcting the test :
A. PRONUNCIATION
*Choos the word that has the underlined part pronunced differently from others
1. B 2. D
B. VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR
*.Choose the most suitable word or phrase to fill in the blanks
3. D 4. C 5.A 6.B 7.B 8.A
9.A 10.A 11.C 12.A 13.B 14.D
C. SPEAKING(0.5pts)
*Choose the most suitable word or phrase to fill in the blanks.
15. C 16. C
C.READING
I. Reading the following passage and choose the best answer for each blank.
1. D 2. C 3. B 4. A 5. C 6. A
II.Reading the passage below carefully and answer the questions .
1. The girl was called Little Red Riding Hood because of the red hood she always wore.
(Because she always wore the red hood)
2. Yes , he did .
3. A woodcutter came to her grandmother’s house and cut the wolf open to rescue them.
D.WRITING
I. Complete each sentences so that the meaning stays the same.
1. The teacher said that I should improve my English.
2. Nam asked Hoa to get him a piece of chalk.
3. Mr Minh used to go the the zoo when he was a child.
II. Write a letter , using the given cues.
Dear Mom and Dad,
1. I am glad to tell you that I am going to join the Y & Y Green Group.
2. The Y & Y is holding an environment month
3. We hope to give more green color to the city and earn money for our school Y & Y
IV. RESULT

Khoá Toång Ñieåm >= 5 Ñieåm 8 - 10 Ñieåm < 5 Ñieåm 0 - 3

i lôùp soá SL % SL % SL % SL %
8A2 22 16 72.7 6 27.3 6 27.3 2 9.1
8A3 24 17 70.8 3 12.5 7 29.2 3 12.5

V. PREPARATION:
-Prepare Unit 7: Write
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 Week: 15th Preparing Day: 3/12/2012
Period: 45th Teaching Day: 6/12/2012
UNIT 7 MY NEIGHBORHOOD
Lesson 4 WRITE
I. Objectives
By the end of the lesson, students know how to write a notice.
Developing writing skill (write a paragraph).
II/ Language contents:
1/ Vocabulary:
Effect (n),Hardware (n),Contact (v), Celebrate (v), Hall (n), Hold (v)
2/ Structures: Gerund.
III/ Technique: Questions and answers, group work
IV/ Teaching aids:
Textbook, handout.
V. Procedures:
1. Warm up: T sticks a notice on the board:
………’s Birthday Party -Answers
Date:...........................................................
Time:......................................................... - (Individual)
Place:.........................................................
And asks students some questions and complete the - Work in groups.
notice: - Share and compare with other group
 How old are you?
 When’s your birthday? -Work in pairs
 Where’s your birthday party? What time?
2. Pre-Writing :
- Teaching some new words -Read individual.
Effect (n) - Read in class.
Hardware (n)
Contact (v)
Celebrate (v)
Hall (n)
Hold (v)
Ask students some questions
-“Do you often write a notice? Or Do you read a
notice?”
Check and correct.
-set the scene: “The residents and store owners on Tran
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Phu street are going to hold a meeting to discuss the
effects of the new mall”.
- Ask them to read the notice and answer some
questions to check their understand.
a. Why are the residents and store owners on Tran phu
street are going to hold a meeting? Answer the questions:
b. When will they hold a meeting? What time? a. To discuss the effects of the new hall.
c. Where will they hold the meeting? b. They will hold on May 20 at 8.00 p.m.
- Give the answer: c. They hold the meeting at 12 hang da
3. While-Writing : street, Binh’s hardware store.
-Have student read the community notice.
Check students comprehension.
* Where is Binh’s hardware store?
* Who do you contact?
* What time will the meeting start?
“Have students read the notice then answer the
questions”
Give the handout for the students write the similar
format to write a notice about English speaking contest
bellow.
The School English Speaking club.
HOLDING A SPEAKING CONTEST TO
CELEBRATE TEACHER’S DAY
Date: November 15
Time: 7.30 pm to 10.00 pm -Write (Individual)
Place: Hall 204, Building G - Read the notice.
Please contact Ms.Tran Thi Thu Hang of Class 8H at -Give feedback (self-correct / teacher
the above address for more information. corrects)
4. Post-Writing:
-Have students write the notice about the meeting in
your class
-Get feedback / Correct mistakes
5. Homework : -Write homework
-Do exercise : in work book
-Prepare: Language focus
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Week: 16th Preparing Day: 8/12/2012
Period: 46th Teaching Day: 11/12/2012
UNIT 7 MY NEIGHBORHOOD
Lesson 5 LANGUAGE FOCUS
I. Objectives :
1. Educational aims:
2. Teaching aim :
By the end of the lesson students can know how to use the present perfect with for and since.
Comparison with like, (not) as … as, (not) the same as, different from.
II. Language contents :
1. Vocabulary :
2. Grammar: The present perfect with for and since. Comparison with like, (not) as … as, (not)
the same as, different from.
III. Techniques : Eliciting, ask and answer
IV. Teaching aids: pictures, cassette, sub board
V. Procedures:

Teacher’s activities Students’ activities

1. Warm up :
* Matching each verb to its past participle.
verbs Past participle - Play game
Be Gone - Work in two groups
Go Lived
Eat Attended
Live Been
Attend Eaten
See Collected
Do Seen
Write Done
Work Written
collect Worked - Listen and write
2. Activities 1: Present perfect with since or for
* Language focus 2 - Give example.
S + Have/has +pp +… + since / for
Ex: I have lived here for ten years.
+ since: a point of time. - Work in pairs.
+ for: a period of time - Answer
- Have students work in pairs to fill.
- Call some students to answer. - Oral and written
Listen and correct. - Correct.
* Language focus 3.
- Have students complete the sentences with the
present perfect.
- Correct
* Answer.
b) haven’t eaten
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d) have attended
e) has worked - Work in pairs
f) has collect - Some pairs read
* Language focus 4. Use the correct form of the - Listen and correct.
verbs in the box.
- Have students read the dialogue in pairs and give
the correct form of the verb.
- Call some pairs to read.
- Listen and correct.
* Answers.
1) have been 2. hope
3) have … lived 4) Is
5) want 6. looks - Look at the pictures and adjective.
7) have … been 8) have seen - Work in pairs.
*Activities 2. Comparison. - Answer.
*Language focus 5.
S1 + Be + (not) as + adj + as + S2
- Have students look at the pictures.
- Have students work in pairs
- Call some students to answer.
- Answer.
c) different from: not as/ so cheap as
d) the same as
e) as cheap/ expensive as
f) different from
g) as long as
h) not as modern as
i) not as / so cheap as
5. Homework:
- Do all exercises in your notebook.
- Prepare unit 8
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