Tài liệu tự chọn môn Anh Văn Lớp 8 năm học 2008-2009

Date of Preparations: August 24th, 2008
Date of teaching: August 25th, 2008
TOPIC: MY FRIENDS
Period 1 + 2: Starter and Reading
1. Objectives: Help the students to improve their reading skill through reading texts about friendships
2. Vocabulary: adjectives
3. Grammar: review
4. Procedure:
Time
Teaching steps
5’
3’
5’
3’
8’
5’
10’
15’
5’
10’
3’
3’
A.STARTER
Task 1:Rearrange the letters to have meaningful words
dneirf:__________
nigoehbr:_________
euiubatfl :_________
hagthproop :________
casaelsmt :__________
-asks the students to work individually and order the jumbled words
- calls some students go to the board and write their answers
- asks other students remark their friends’ work.
- give correct answers to the students 
* Keys:
 a. friend 
 b. neighbor 
 c. beautiful 
 d. photograph 
 e. classmate
Task2: Find the odd one out
slim	 thin	 	 fat	 	 long
straight 	 curly 	 bald 	 dark
principal 	 dentist 	headmaster 	 teacher
beautiful 	generous 	reserved 	 sociable
 - Explains the requirement to the students 
- asks them look at the words and find out one in four words which is different.
-calls some students to present their work
- asks other students to say their ideas
- gives feedback.
* Keys:
long 2. bald 3. dentist 4. beautiful 
B. READING 
 I. Pre –Reading:
1. Answer the following questions
Who are your close friends?
When did you meet?
What is your friend like?
What are your friend’s best qualities?
How is your friend similar to or different from you? 
- asks the students to answer the questions about them
- calls students to answer the questions.
2. Presentation:
Today we will read a text about Bao, Khai and Song, author’s friends
II. While – Reading: 
 - asks the students to read the text below, then do three tasks 
I am lucky enough to have a lot of friends. Each of us, however, has a different character. Bao is the most sociable. He looks more handsome than me .He is tall and slim with an oval face, black straight hair and round grey eyes. He is also extremely kind and generous. Khai and Song are quite reserved in public. but I’m a very talkative person who loves telling jokes Both boys enjoy school, but Khai is also a star soccer player and Song only likes the peace of the school library. I am not as outgoing as Bao. My friends are usually interested in my sense of humor. Although we have different characters, the four of us are very close friends
Task 1: Write True (T), False (F) or Not given (NG) for each of sentences below.
	True 	False 	 Not given
My friends and I are not alike.	0 	 0	 0
Bao likes helping people. 	0	 0	 0
Khai is very sociable. 	0	 0	 0
Song hates everybody. 	0	 0	 0	
I am the most sociable of all 	 0	 0	 0
- asks the students to give their ideas about the five statements 
- asks them to give evidences for each answer
- gives feedback
* Keys:
1.T ( its information from line 1 to line 5)
2.T (evidence is in line 4)
3.F (evidence in line 4)
4.N 
5.F ( evidence in line 7)
Task 2: Answer the questions 
a, Does the author have any close friends? What are their names?
b, What is Bao like?
C, What is Khai like doing?
d, What is the author’s hobby? 
e, What are the author’s characters?
- asks the students to read the text again, then answer the questions
- asks some students to give their answers in front of the class
- give answer keys:
yes ,he does. They are Bao, Khai Khai and Song
Bao is sociable
Khai likes playing soccer
The author like jokes
The author is talkative person
Task 3: Read the text again and fill the following table.
Adjectives describing appearance
Adjectives describing personality
Adjectives describing 
 Like and dislike
slim
.......
- asks the students to work in groups of 6 and find out adjectives, then fill in the table.
- calls three students go to the board and write their answers.
- asks the other remark and corrects if possible
- corrects their work and gives feedback
* keys:
Adjectives describing appearance
Adjectives describing personality
Adjectives describing 
 Like and dislike
slim, oval, shoulder-length, pretty, attractive
sensible
generous
talkative.
love, enjoy, be interested
III. Post – Reading:
 - Write a short passage about your friendship, using the adjectives in the table above
- helps the students while they are writing.
-calls two students write their writing on the board
- T and whole class correct mistakes if possible
IV. Consolidation:
 1. Retell about friendship between author, Bao, Khai Khai and Song. (Work in groups). 
 2. Tell each other about one of your best friends: appearance, the personality, the similarities or differences and the reasons of your close friendship.
 - calls students to recall the main ideas of the text
 - calls some groups to present their work
 - asks the students to hear and give their remark to the students’ work.
V. Homework:
Describe about your close friend
VI. Remark: Teacher remarks the lesson
Self – evaluation:
Date of Preparations: August 24th, 2008
Date of teaching: August 25th, 2008
TOPIC: MY FRIENDS
Period 3 : Speaking
1. Objectives: Help the students to improve their speaking skill through talking about friendship topic.
2. Vocabulary: adjectives
3. Grammar: present simple tense and structures describe people
4. Procedure:
Time
Teaching steps
6’
7’
7’
10’
10’
5’
I. Warm – up:
 “What do you think about friendship?”
- asks the students give their ideas about the questions
- gives example top the students:
 + A friend is someone who helps you in your study.
 + A friend is someone who understands you and loves you.
 + .
- writes students’ ideas on the board
- corrects mistakes if possible.
* Presentation:
 Today we will talk about making friends topic.
II. Pre – Speaking:
A
B
Where are you from?
How old are you?
How many people are there in your family?
How far is it from your how to your school?
Why are you learning English?
When did you first begin to learn English?
Do you like traveling abroad?
Do you intend to visit England some time in the future?
Because it is very interesting
Not really
Yes, I do.
I’m from Ha Noi
By bus
Yes, very much
I’m fourteen 
There are four people in my family
It is about one kilometer.
Well, about three years ago.
 - asks the students to introduce themselves, using the following questions as cues
1. What’s your full name? 
2. How old are you? 
3. What do you look like?
4. What are you like? 
5. Where do you live? 
6. Who do you live with? 
 7. What‘s your hobbies? 
 8. Do you have any close friends?
 9. Who are they?
- make model to the students :
 Hello, every body. My name’s Nguyen Thi Thanh Tung. I’m twenty-seven years old. I’m short, rather fat, has long black hair and fair complexion. I’m kind but reserved. I live at 16 Le Loi street with my parents in law, my husband and my daughter. I like reading and listening to rock music very much. I have 6 close friends. They are Hien, Phuong, Ly, Ngan, Ngoc, Anh 
 - calls students ( about 5 students ) introduce themselves
III. While – Speaking:
Task1:Match the questions in column A with its appropriate answer in column B
- asks the students to read the questions in A and answers in B
- match the questions and answers in pairs
- asks some students to say their matching.
- corrects if possible
- asks them to practice the questions and answers in pairs.
- asks them to present in front of the class.
* Keys:
1)_ d; 2)_g; 3)_ h; 4)_ I; 5) _ a; 6)_j; 7)_c; 8)_f
Task3: Put the interchanges in the box in order to have a meaningful conversation. One example has been done for you
A. Yes , I am , originally .I was born in Argentina.
B. Here is the park .This is only my second time
C. And I’m Ana .Nice to meet you.
D .I’m fine .But I’m not very good at this.
G Yes, I did, but my family moved here eight years ago, when I was in high school.
F. sure . Just follow me
Nam: Oh, I’m sorry, Are you Ok?
Tam(0) : I’m fine. But I’m not very good at this.
Nam: Neither am I, are you from South American?
Tam:(1)
Nam: Did you go up there?
Tam: (2) .
Nam: And where did you learn to rollerblade?
Tam: (3)..
Nam: Well it’s my first time .Can you give me my lesson?
Tam: (4)..
Nam: By the way, my name is Ted.
Tam: (5)..
- asks the students to play the roles of Nam and Tam to complete the dialogue
- calls some pairs read the completed dialogue
- gives feedback:
1)_A; 2)_G; 3)_B ; 3)_F; 4)_C
IV. Post – Speaking:
- asks the students to describe the personality of one of their close friends, using the following structure:
 One of my close friends is Lan. She is generous. She always gives her friends help when they need. Last year, my bike was lost; she picked me up to school through school year.
V. Homework:
 Write a paragraph to introduce one of your close friends
Self – evaluation:
Date of Preparations: August 24th, 2008
Date of teaching: August 25th, 2008
TOPIC: MY FRIENDS
Period 4 : Listening
1. Objectives: Help the students to improve their listening skill through listen about friendship topic.
2. Vocabulary: adjectives
3. Grammar: present simple tense and structures describe people
4. Procedure:
Time
Teaching steps
7’
10’
2’
4’
12’
6’
2’
I. Warm - up:
- asks the students work in four groups
- asks them to list as much as possible adjectives which are used to describe people
- asks the students to write their adjectives on the board.
- checks quality and mistakes if possible
- Which groups has more corrects adjectives will win the game.
II. Pre – Listening:
1. teaches new words to the students 
- square (a): vuông
- mingle (a): pha trộn, trộn lẫn
- snub (a): hếch (mũi)
- freckle (n): tàn nhang trên da
- dimple (n): lúm đồng tiền
- medium (a): trung bình
- narrow (a): chật , hẹp
2. 
- asks the students to work in groups again to say what they notice first impression when they meet someone new.
- gives example to the students: 
 I’m usually impressed by their soft voice.
- asks them to give their ideas in front of the class.
III. While – Listening:
 Task1: Look at the words and check the meanings of the ones you don’t know.
shoulder-length 	brown small 	dimple
tall 	square 	 thin 	 	 medium
oval 	black 	 round 	dark
wide 	 straight 	 long 	curly
full 	narrow 	 snub 	light
large 	 short 	 fat 	slim
heavy 	mingle 	 freckle 	 blond
Task2:Read the words in the task 1 and put them in the columns
Height 
build 
face
 hair 
eyes 
nose 
lips 
special Features
- asks the students to put the words into the correct columns.
- checks and corrects.
Task3: Listen to a description of a friend. Fill in the missing information
MY WONDERFUL CLASSMATE
Name: (1)	
Age: (2)	
Nationality: (3)	
Appearance:
Face : (4)	 Eyes (5)	
Mouth: (6)	
Lips: (7)	Hair (8)	
 Others: (9)	
Bull:
Height:	 (10) Weight: (11)	
Personality: (12)	
- plays the cassette two times
- asks them look at the box and fill what they hear into the blankets
- plays the cassette sentence by sentence for the students to check their work.
- plays once through.
- asks them gives correct answers.
- comments and gives keys:
 1. Julia	 2. 12 3. Australian 4. oval
 5. big blue 6. heart-shaped 7. full 8. blond
 9. dimples 10. 140 cm 11. 30kg	
12. lively, friendly, hard-working ,helpful amusing
IV. Post – Listening:
 - asks the students to work in groups and describe a friend of theirs using cues below.
How old is she/he is?
How tall she/he is?
What build she/he is? How his/her face (hair/nose/eyes/lips)is / are
What color his/her hair (eyes) are
- explains how to do the exercises
- asks them to present in front of the class.
V. Homework:
- describes Julia, using information in the answer keys
Self – evaluations:
Date of Preparations: August 24th, 2008
Date of teaching: August 25th, 2008
TOPIC: MY FRIENDS
Period 5 : Project
1. Objectives: Help the students to improve their listening skill through listen about friendship topic.
2. Vocabulary: adjectives
3. Grammar: present simple tense and structures describe people
4. Procedure:
Time
Teaching steps
3’
6’
3’
7’
4’
12’
10’
2’
I. Warm – up:
Grid:
 - asks the students to think and write adjectives into three columns.
Adjectives describing appearance
Adjectives describing personality
Adjectives describing 
 Like and dislike
Slim
...
generous
be interested
..
II. Pre – Writing:
* Game: Who she / he is?
- asks the students to use Adjective in Warm up to describe a person in their class.
- all other students listen and guess who is described
- gives example to the students:
Teacher: She’s fourteen years old. She is tall and thin, has long black hair and fair complexion. She is kind but reserved. She lives on Le Loi street with her parents and her sister. She likes reading and listening to music very much. Who is she?
Student 1: Is this Nga?
Teacher: No.
Student 2: That is Hong
Teacher: Yes.
- calls some students to describe their classmates in front of the class. And asks other students to guess.
- corrects their mistakes if possible.
III. While – Writing:
1. Read the passage and do the tasks that follow 
Of all my friends, I like Thuy the best. She studies in the same class with me. She is fifteen years old, but she is not quite young in the spirit .she has a fair complexion, thick back hair which she wears in a bun, and dark brown eyes. She has a kind face and went you meet her, the first thing you notice is her smile .her nose is long and straight .Her oval face and thin lips look rather attractive .She is the sort of person you can always go to if you have a problem.
She like reading, listening to music and watching TV and sometimes she goes for long walks over the hill. She is a very active girl- either she is doing her homework or housework, or doing some thing to entertain herself. She is extremely generous, but not very tolerant with friends who don’t agree with her. She is sensible, too. She is always ready to give her friends useful helpful help or good advice when they need them .she is a kind of friends I always admire.
Task 1:
- ask the students to work in groups of 6 to reads the passage and write down factual descriptions and optional descriptions
- asks the students to hangs their group boards on the board.
- corrects
- gives answer keys:
* Factual description:
1) She has a fair complexion, thick back hair that she wears in a burn, and dark brown eyes.
2) Her nose is long and straight.
3) She like reading, listening, to musical watching TV and sometimes she goes foe long walks over the hills.
* Personal opinions:
 1, She is not quite young in spirit.
2, Her oval face and thin lips look rather attractive
3, She has a kind face.
4, She‘s extremely generous, but not very tolerant with friends who don’t agree with her.
5, She is sensible, too.
Task 2:Go through the text again and say which sentences describe
her face and body
her character
her like and dislikes
her habits
- divides class into two groups.
- reads the sentences 
- Students listen then put these sentences in to their these descriptions: her face, body, characters, like and dislike or her habits
- Which group has a member raises her/his hand first will answer the teacher’s requirement
- Which group has more correct descriptions will win the game.
Activity2: Write a similar passage about one of your best friends including the following:
physical facts and description
character
like and dislikes
your opinions
 - asks the students to write a similar passage about their friends in pairs
- asks some pairs to show their work on the board
IV. Post – Writing:
- asks the students to look at the board and find out the mistakes.
- asks them to correct if possible
- gives feedback
V. Homework:
Redo activities 2 individually
 Self – evaluation:
Date of Preparations: August 24th, 2008
Date of teaching: August 25th, 2008
TOPIC: MY FRIENDS
Period 6 : Test yourself
1. Objectives: Help the students to revise what they learnt in this topic and self - evaluate what they can get for their friendships from this topic
2. Vocabulary: review
3. Grammar: review
4. Procedure:
Time
Teaching steps
 TEST YOURSELF
I. Listening comprehension (2.5 points)
Listen and fill in the gaps with the missing words.
My cousin
My cousin Khang is a big guy of (0)180 pounds. You know, he’s very (1)______ with broad-shoulders .He’s 32 and full of energy. He’s got a square (2)______ with round eyes and a straight (3) ______ .No, he’s not(4)_____
At all but looks (5) _______ with his short brown hair. he’s a salesperson and has to work outdoors all day, so his complexion is quite (6) _______ .One thing I don’t like about him is his (7)______ .He talks too much and this disturbs everybody. However, he is very (8) ______ and (9)_______ He always helps with all his heart .The thing I like best about him is immense (10)_______ to me.
II. Grammar recognition (2.5 points)
Complete the sentences with the words in the box.
generous	 orphanage 	sociable 	planet 	next-door	 humor	 joke
The earth is the name of the ________ we live on.
He has a good sense of _______ .He always makes people laugh.
After the death of his parents, he was send to an ________ 
Don’t do it as a _______ .It’s a serous thing.
She lives next to my house. She is my __________ neighbor.
It was __________ of you to share your food with me.
Mai has a lot of friends. She is very _________.
III. Reading comprehension(2.5point)
Read the passage carefully, then answer the questions.
Do you have any close friends? I think everybody at least has one close friend in their life. And so do I have two close friends, Hanh and Mai .We have in the same classmate the primary school, and then secondary school .We have also neighbors so we spend most of our time in learning and playing together. Hanh is a beautifull girl with big black eyes and an oval rosy face. she is intelligent student who is always at the stop of the class .she likes reading, and she often goes to the library whenever she has free time. Mai isn’t as beautiful as Hanh , but she has lovely smile and looks very healthy .Mai very sporty .She spends most of her free time playing sports. Mai is a volleyball star of our school. She is also very sociable and has a good sense of humor. Her jokes always make us laugh. I love both of my friends and always hope our friendship will never die.
Questions
Does the author have any close friends ? What are their names?
What does Hanh look like?
What does she like?
What does she often do in their free time?
Is Mai more beautiful than Hanh?
What is Mai’s hobby?
Which sport does Mai play in the school team?
What is Mai’s character?
IV. Writing (2.5 points)
Write a paragraph about Trung , using the information in the box.
Name:	 Nguyen Manh Trung 
Age:	 15
Appearance: tall, fat, short curly hair
Characters: sociable, generous , kind
Address:	 24 Nguyen Du Street Ho Chi Minh City
Family: 	mother, father and two younger sisters
Hobbies:	 swimming, reading
Friends: 	 Nam, Thanh, Phong
His name is 	
KEYS:
TEST YOURSELF
I. Listening comprehension (2.5 points)
 Listen and fill in the gaps with the missing words.
1)well-built
2) face
3) nose
4) handsome
5) gentle
6) dark
7) talkativeness
8) kind
9) friendly
10) love 
II. Grammar recognition (2.5 points)
Complete the sentences with the words in the box.
1)planet
2)humor
3)orphanage
4) joke
5))next-door
6)generous	
7)sociable
III. Reading comprehension(2.5point)
Questions 
Yes , she does. She has two close friends. They are Hanh and Mai
Hanh is a beautiful girl with big black eyes and an oval rosy face.
She likes reading.
She often go to the library in her free time.
No, she isn’t. Mai isn’t as beautiful as Hanh.
Mai’s hobby is playing sports.
She plays volleyball in the school team.
Mai is very sociable and humorous 
IV. Writing
 His name is Nguyen Manh Trung and she is fifteen years old. He lives at 24 Nguyen Du street, Ho Chi Minh City with his mother, father and two younger sisters .He’s tall and fat and he has short curly hair. He is sociable, generous and very kind .He likes/enjoys swimming and reading .his best friends are Nam ,Thanh and Phong.
Date of Preparations: August 24th, 2008
Date of teaching: August 25th, 2008
Topic 1: MY FRIENDS
Period 7: REVISION 
1. Objectives: Help the students to revise what they learnt in this topic and self - evaluate what they can get for their friendships from this topic
2. Vocabulary: review
3. Grammar: review
4. Procedure:
A. Theory: 
1. Enough .. to: S + be (not) + adj+ enough (+ for + O) + to Inf .
	A. Đồng chủ ngữ: Nam is not old. He is in my class.
	 Nam is not old enough to be in my class.
	B. Khác chủ ngữ: This book is very interesting. You should read it.
	 This book is interesting enough to for you to read. (bỏ very
2. Adjective order in a noun phrase:
(a/ an)
size
shape
age
color
national
material
Noun
A
big
round
old
black
Chinese 
wooden
chair
B. Exercises:
I. Choose and underline the best answers: (2ps)
1. I’m (enough strong/ strong enough/ enough strongly/ strongly enough) to lift this box up.
2. He is not .. get married. (enough old to/ old enough to/ enough old for/ old enough for)
3. He was busy yesterday and . was I. (too/ either/ so/ neither)
4. What does she look like? - She’s (interesting and humorous/ generous and helpful/ tall and thin)
5. I (buy/ buys/ buying/ bought) a new hat yesterday.
6. She has a (long curly blond/ curly long blond/ blond curly long/ long blond curly) hair.
7. She is wearing a  dress. (red new pretty/ new red pretty/ pretty red new/ pretty new red)
8. Stop! There are (many/ too many/ a lots/ too much) coffee.
II. Fill in the blank with each suitable word in the box: (2ps)	
hard - working exciting inside jokes 
strong orphanage sociable more 
1. Hoang always gets good grades because he’s a....student in our class.
2. Mai has a lot of friends. She is very ....
3. Nam often makes other people laugh because he likes telling ....
4. I open the box and look ....
5. After his parents’ dead, he was sent to an ....
6. The red car is ....expensive than the blue one.
7. Let me help you lift this box. – No, thank you. I’m ..enough to lift it alone.
8. That was the most ....play I’ve ever seen.
III. Writing: (using: + adj + enough + (for + O) + to Inf)
	1. Lan is very young. She couldn’t do that work. 
.....
	2. Mai is very tall. She can touch the top of the shelves. 
.....
3. The film was very good. I saw it through. (Omit it.)
.....
	4. You are very young. You can't have a front-door key.
.....
5 The ladder wasn't very long. It didn't reach the window.
 .....
6. Tom was very foolish. He told lies to the police.
.....
7. The ice is quite thick. We can walk on it. (Omit it.)
.....
8. The shoes aren’t big. They can’t wear them.(omit them)
.....
C. KEYS:
II.
hard - working 
sociable
jokes 
inside 
orphanage
more
strong
exciting 
I.
strong enough
old enough to
so
tall and thin
bought
long curly blond
new red pretty
too much
III.
Lan is not old enough to do that work.
Mai is tall enough to touch the top of the shelf.
The film is good enough to see through 
You are not old enough to have a front – door key.
The ladder is not long enough to reach the window
Tom wasn’t intelligent enough to tell lies to the police.
The ice is thick enough to walk on.
The shoes aren’t big enough to wear
Date of Preparations: August 24th, 2008
Date of teaching: August 25th, 2008
TOPIC: MY FRIENDS
Period 8 : Test of 45’
1. Objectives: Help the students to revise what they learnt in this topic and self - evaluate what they can get for their friendships from this topic
2. Vocabulary: review
3. Grammar: review
4. Procedure:
I. Choose the best options to complete the sentences below :( 2 ms) 
He wasn’t busy yesterday and . was I. 	 (too/ either/ so/ neither)
I used to .when I was a young girl.	 (lived - live - living – lives) 
Would you like a message? 	( to leave/ leave/ leaving/ left)
Would you like to go fishing?	 Yes, .................. (I do – I like – I will – I’d love to)
She isn’t old to be in my class. 	 (enough – only – very – for)
 You ought ... your hands before meals. (wash – to wash – washing – washed)
My little brother looks verybecause he misses Dad. 
 (happy/happily/ happiness/ unhappy)
8. What would you like? - A cup of coffee. (to eat – to drink – to wash – to do)
II. Give the correct form of the verbs in the blankets :( 2 ms) 
 1. I (not have) breakfast this morning, but I (be) not hungry now.	 	/
 2. I lived with my grandma when I (be) a young girl.	.... 
3. Where we (spend) the night tonight? – I think we (come) to the festival.	....
4. My friend (get) married in August this year.	.
 5. My father (read) newspaper every morning.	 
6. You (invite) the newcomers of our class to the party last night?	 	 
III. Match the answers with the questions :( 2 ms) 
a. Reading, acting and outdoor activity.
b. Certainly. Oh, they are heavy.
c. In June, 1960.
d. They are farmers.
e. My mother and my brother.
f. He is a taxi- driver.
g. She went to Birmingham.
h. Peaceful and clean.
1. What is his job?
2. How did you parents earn their living?
3. What did she do? 
4. Can you help me to carry these books?
5. When did you start work?
6. What does the countryside look like?
7. What are you hobbies? 
8. Who do you live with?
IV. Writing: Rewrite the sentences, keeping a similar meaning to the first :( 2 ms) 
1. Peter is too young to see the horror films 	
 Peter is not 
	2. I intend to come over to pick you up.	
 I am 
 3. Hoa is older than Nien.	 
 Nien is 
 4. Her hair is long and black.	 
 She has 
V. Write these sentences using given cues :( 2 ms) 
 1. He/ continue/ his study/ future.
 2. What /you/ do/ last night?
 3. You/ ought to/ go / market/ buy/ fish/ vegetables.
 4. What/ life/ country/ like/ when/ you/ young?
III. 
f
d
g
b
c
h
a
e
.
B. KEYS:
II.
didn’t / am
was
will we spend/ will come
got
reads
invited
I
neither
live
to leave
I’d love to
enough
unhappy
to wash 
to drink 
IV.
Peter is not old enough to see the horror film.
I am going to come over to pick you up.
Nien is younger than Hoa
She has long back hair
V.
He will continue his study in the future.
What did you do last night?
You ought to go to the market and buy some fish and some vegetables.
What was the life in the country like when you were young?