Lesson Plan - English 8 - Unit 7 School year: 2014-2015
Planning date: 20 - 11 2014–

Period 40: UNIT 7: MY NEIGHBORHOOD
Lesson 1: GETTING STARTED + LISTEN AND READ. P.63 - 64
I. Aims:
- To help students know about the places in their neighborhood
- To help students know the present perfect tense with the prepositions “for” and
“since”
- To develop students’ skills.
II. Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to know some
vocabulary about their neighborhood and the prepositions “for” and “since” in the
present perfect tense.
III. Ways of working: T-WC, pair work, individual work.
IV. Materials: Textbook, pictures in the textbook,cassette, word cards.
V. Anticipated problems:
- The past participle may be difficult for some students.
- The lesson may take time.
VI. Teaching steps:
1.Warm up: (1 minute) * Teacher greets and checks the students’ attendance.
2. New lesson:
STAGES T & SS’ACTIVITIES THE CONTENTS ON BOARD
PRESEN
TATION
(24
minutes)
* Getting started. P.63
- Matching:
Students match the pictures
with the correct words.
- Teacher calls students to go

to the board to match.
Matchings:



grocery store hairdresser’s
drugstore swimming-pool
stadium wet market
* Answer key:
a. grocery store
b. stadium
c. wet market
d. drugstore
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* Pre-teach vocabulary:
- Teacher uses techniques to
teach students new words
* Set the scene:
- Nam and Na are talking
about the place where they
live.
* Prediction:
- Students predict:
+ Who is new to the
neighborhood, Na or Nam?
+ What is there around the
corner in the neighborhood?
- Teacher plays the tape;

students listen and read the
dialogue.
- Students check their
predictions.
- Students practice the
dialogue in pair.
- Students do the exercise 2 on
page 64.
- Teacher asks some students
to go to the board to complete
these sentences.
* Teacher elicits the model
sentences:
* Concept checking:
- What do these sentences
mean in Vietnamese?
- What kind of speech are
“been” / “lived”?
- What are before them?
(have) / (has)
=> The present perfect tense.
e. hairdresser’s
f. swimming-pool
I. New words:
- close by (adv) = near by
- a pancake: bánh bột mì có trứng, bơ rán
- tasty (adj) = delicious (adj)
- (to) serve: phục vụ (món ăn, đồ uống)
II. Prediction
- Who is new to the neighborhood, Na or

Nam?
- What is there around the corner in the
neighborhood?
III. Listen and read:
1. Checking predictions
- Na is new to the neighborhood.
- A restaurant.
2. Complete the sentences. Use the words
from the dialogue:
* Answer key:
a. Na is new to the neighborhood.
b.She and her family arrived last week.
c. Na’s mother is very tired.
d.There is a restaurant in the area.
e. The restaurant serves food from Hue.
f. Nam thinks the pancakes are tasty.
3. Model sentences:
- We have been here since last week.
V
pp
- How long have you lived here?
V
pp
- I have lived here for 10 years .
V
pp
* Note:
The present perfect tense.
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- What does the phrase “since
last week” / “for 10 years”
mean in Vietnamese?
- How to use since/ for?
S + have / has + V
pp
+…
“Since” is used for a point of time
“For” is used for a period of time.
PRACTICE
(10
minutes)
- Students practice speaking:
+ Put “since” or “for” before
these words or phrases.
* Game: Lucky Wheel
- Students practice the present
perfect tense with since and
for. (say the whole sentences)
4. Practice:
a) Put “since” or “for” before these
words/phrases.
_______ ten years
_______ an hour
_______ three years
_______ two weeks
_______ last week
_______ ten o’clock
_______ last year

_______ 2004
b) Say the whole sentence. Use the present
perfect tense.
PRODUC
TION
(8 minutes)
* Talking:
- Students talk about their
neighborhood.
IV. Talking:
Talk about your neighborhood. These are
some suggestions:
1. How long have you lived in your
neighborhood?
2. Is there a shop / a drugstore / a market …
near your neighborhood?
3. Do you like your neighborhood? Why?
3. Summary:(1 minute)
- Repeat the lesson
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WE / BEEN HERE / LAST WEEK
I / LIVED HERE / 10 YEARS
WE / LEARNT ENGLISH / 4 YEARS
WE / LEARNT ENGLISH / 2004
THEY / WORKED AT THE DRUGSTORE / 2
YEARS
HE / COLLECTED STAMPS / LAST
YEAR
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4. Homework: :(1 minute)
- Learn by heart all the new words and the structure
- Read the dialogue again.
- Prepare Speak
Planning date: 21 - 11 - 2014
Period 41. UNIT 7: MY NEIGHBORHOOD
Lesson 2: SPEAK
I. Aims:
- To help students speak about how to send a parcel or a letter.
- To develop students’ skills.
II. Objectives: - By the end of the lesson, students will be able to talk about how to
send parcels or letters.
III. Ways of working: T-WC, pair work, group work
IV. Materials: Textbook, additional board, real things (letters, parcels )…
V. Anticipated problems: The activities in the stage further practice may be difficult
for some students.
VI. Teaching steps:
1. Warm up: (5 minutes) * Teacher greets and checks the students’ attendance.
* Chatting:
- Teacher shows a letter and asks students some questions:
+ What is it? (a letter)
+ Where can I post it to my friend? (at the post office)
+ How can I post it? (stick a stamp on it)
+ How much is a stamp? (800 dong)
+ Is sending a parcel cheaper or more expensive? (more expensive)
+ Have you ever sent a letter or a parcel?
=> T. introduces the new lesson.
2. New lesson:
STAGES T & SS’ACTIVITIES THE CONTENTS ON BOARD
PRE

SPEAKING
(15
minutes)
* Pre-teach vocabulary:
- Teacher uses techniques to teach
students new words.
- Checking understanding: Rub out
and remember
* Set the scene:
- Mrs. Kim wants to send a parcel to
Quy Nhon, so she has to go to the
post office.
- Students read the dialogue between
Mrs. Kim and the Clerk.
I. New words:
- airmail(n): thư / bưu phẩm gửi
bằng đường hàng không, máy bay
- surface mail(n): thư / bưu phẩm
gửi bằng đường bộ, đường thuỷ
- item (n): danh mục
- charge (n): tiền phải trả, giá tiền
II. Read the dialogue. P.64:
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- Comprehension questions:
+ Does Mrs. Kim send a parcel
airmail or surface mail? Why?
(surface mail / cheaper)
+ What is the weight of her parcel?

(5 kilograms)
+ How much does she pay?
(19,200 dong)
WHILE
SPEAKING
(15
minutes)
* Practice:
- Students practice the dialogue in
pair.
- Teacher calls some pairs to play
the roles in the dialogue in front of
the class.
- Teacher gives a situation and
elicits the dialogue.
- Teacher gets students to practice
the dialogue in pair.
- Students look at the information in
the box to practise in pair making
the same dialogue.
III. Speak
Clerk Mrs. Lan
Can I help you? Yes, I letter to …
Kon Tum, please.
Do you .airmail…
or surface mail?
I . surface mail.…
How much ?…
Let me see. Hm
20g. It . 800 …

dong.
Here you are
Thank you.
POST
SPEAKING
(8 minutes)
* Role play:
- Students play the roles: one is a
customer and the other is the clerk.
Make similar dialogues.
IV. Role play:
3. Summary: (1 minute)
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LETER / KON TUM / SURFACE MAIL
/ 20G / 800 DONG
POST CARD / HCM CITY / AIRMAIL
15G / 1, 200 DONG
PARCEL / CA MAU / AIRMAIL / 2 KG
13, 000 DONG
PARCEL / BUON MA THUOT /
SURFACE / 5 KG / 19,200 DONG
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- Repeat the lesson
4. Homework: (1 minute)
- Learn by heart all the new words.
- Write a dialogue on the notebook.
- Prepare Listen
Planning date: 21 - 11 -2014
Period 42: UNIT 7: MY NEIGHBORHOOD

Lesson 3: LISTEN. P.65 - 66
I. Aims:
- To help students listen for specific information.
- To develop students’ listening skills.
II. Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to know what Na is
going to do on the weekend by listening.
III. Ways of working: T - WC, team work, pair work, individual work.
IV. Materials: Textbook, tape.
V. Anticipated problems:
- Listening & “Post listening” activity may be difficult for students in class 8C and
some students in class 8B
VI. Teaching steps:
1. Warm up: (5 minutes) * Teacher greets and checks the students’ attendance.
* Chatting:
- Teacher asks students some questions:
+ Do you remember Na?
+ Is she new to her neighborhood?
+ Who is her friend in this area?
* Set the scene:
In her neighborhood, there is some activities on the weekend. They have advertised
these activities. Look at the advertisements and predict the words in the blank.
2. New lesson:
STAGES T & SS’ACTIVITIES THE CONTENTS ON BOARD
PRE
LISTENING
(10 minutes)
* Pre-teach:
- Teacher uses techniques to teach
students new words.
- Checking understanding:

Rub out and remember
* Open prediction:
I. New words:
- the photo exhibition: cuộc triển
lãm ảnh
- a real match: trận đấu thật (trên sân)
- the opening show: lễ khai mạc
Prediction:
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MILLENNIUM CINEMA
1. The Newcomer
Two performances
Monday - Saturday
5 pm - 8 pm
FOOTBALL
Le Do school vs
Quang Trung schol
________2_______
kick off 4pm
Saturday, 24
th
March
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- Students look at the
advertisements and predict the
words in the blanks.
WHILE
LISTENING
(18 minutes)

* Listen:
- Students listen to the
conversation for 2 times and
complete the advertisements.
- Students look at part 2 on page 66
and discuss with their partner to
see which one is true, which one is
false and which one is no
information.
- Students listen to the
conversation again and tick the
correct box for True, False or No
information.
II. Listen:
1. Checking predictions:
* Answer key:
1. Newcomer
2. Town Ground
3. English Speaking Contest
4. Culture House.
2. Tick the correct boxes (part 2.
P.66)
* Answer key:
a. Na doesn’t know the
neighborhood very well.
T
b. Na doesn’t like movies. F
c. Na will go to the photo
exhibition this weekend.
F

d. Na won’t go to the English
Speaking Contest.
T
e. Na will go to the soccer
match with Nam
T
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____3_____
Nguyen Khuyen school
Thursday, 22
nd
Match
7.30 pm - 9.30 pm
PHOTO EXHIBITION
hundreds of photos taken
by young photographers
_____4______
Monday - Friday
open: 9.00 am - 9.00 pm
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f. Nam is a soccer fan. N
POST
LISTENING
(12 minutes)
* Lucky number:
- Teacher uses some
comprehension questions to check
students’ understanding of the

conversation.
* Comprehension questions:
1. Does Na like movies? (Yes)
2. Lucky number!
3. Why won’t she go to see the
film The Newcomer? (Because
she has already seen it before)
4. Why won’t Na go to the photo
exhibition? (Because it doesn’t
open during the weekend)
5. Lucky number!
6. Who will Na go to the soccer
match with? (Nam, Ba and Minh)
7. What time does the match start?
(At 4 pm)
8. Lucky number!
* Lucky number:
1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8
3. Summary: (1 minute)
- Repeat the lesson
4. Homework: (1 minute)
- Do exercise: 3, 4. P. 45, 46 (WB)
- Prepare Read
* Tapescript:
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 new
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 new film at the Millennium Cinema.
Na: What’s that? The Newcomer, an Australian film. I have seen this film before.
I saw it on Star Movies channel.
Nam: You did?
Na: Yes. (pause). Here, the photo exhibition at the Cultural House sounds
exciting!
Nam: But it doesn’t 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.
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(pause) Ah, yes. Here, the soccer, a match Le Do School and Quang Trung
School - the best U15 teams in our province. I’ll go and see it because my
brother plays in the match.
Na: Where do they play?
Nam: At the Town Ground. Would you like to join us?
Na: Oh, yes. I’d love to. I have 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 Min and Ba to come to your home, and we all go together.
Remember, the match starts at 4 pm, but we must be there by 3.30 if we don’t
want to miss the opening show.

Planning date: 25 -11- 2014
Period 43 : UNIT 7: MY NEIGHBORHOOD
Lesson 4: READ. P.67
I. Aims:
- To help students read for details about Tran Phu Shopping Mall.
- To develop students’ reading skills.

II. Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to understand the
passage about the new shopping mall.
III. Ways of working: T-WC, group work, pair work, individual work.
IV. Materials: Textbook.
V. Anticipated problems:
The guessing words activity may difficult for the students in class 8C.
VI. Teaching steps:
1. Warm up: (5minutes) * Teacher greets and checks the students’ attendance.
* Guessing the words:
- Teacher gives the definition of the word, students listen and call out what it is.
1. A place where you can buy every thing. (supermarket)
2. A place where you can buy vegetables and fruits. (grocery store)
3. A place where you can buy books. (bookstore)
4. A place where you can come to eat. (restaurant)
5. A place where you can come to see the movies. (Movies Theater)
6. A person who come to the store and buy something. (customer)
2. New lesson:
STAGES T & SS’ ACTIVITIES THE CONTENTS ON BOARD
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PRE
READING
(12
minutes)
* Pre-teach vocabulary:
- Teacher uses techniques to
teach students new words.
- Checking understanding:
Rubout and remember.

* Set the scene:
In Nam’s neighborhood there is
a new shopping mall.
* T-F prediction:
- Students predict if the
statements are true or false.
I. New words:
- a shopping mall: khu thương mại
- convenient (adj): tiện lợi
- a selection: sự lựa chọn
- comfort(n): sự thoả mái
- concerned (about) (adj): lo lắng (về)
- (to) take one’s business: lấy mất cơ hội
làm ăn của ai đó.
- resident (n): cư dân
II. True - False prediction(Part1/68)
1. The mall is open six days a week.
2. There are more than 50 stores in the
mall.
3. Everyone in the neighborhood is
pleased about the new mall.
4. It will be more comfortable to shop in
the mall than in the present shopping area.
5. Some of the stores on Tran Phu Street
may have to close.
WHILE
READING
(18
minutes)
* Read:

- Students read the passage and
check their predictions and
correct the false sentences.
- Students read the passage
again and answer the
comprehension questions on
page 68. (pair work)
III. Read. P.67:
1. Checking predictions:
* Answer key:
1. F (The mall is open daily = seven days
a week)
2. F (There are 50 stores in the mall.)
3. F (Not everyone is pleased about the
new mall)
4. T
5. T
2. Answer the comprehension
questions:
* Answer key:
a. It is very different from the present
shopping area. All the shops are under one
roof. That will be very convenient,
especially during the hot and humid
summer months. Customers will shop in
comfort and won’t notice the weather.
b. In the shopping mall, there are 50 air-
conditioned especially stores, 4 movie
theaters and 10 restaurants; there is also
children’s play area.

c. They think the new shopping mall will
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take their business.
d. The stores in the mall will offer a wider
selection of products; some kinds of goods
are at cheaper prices.
POST
READING
(8
minutes)
* Talking:
- Students look at the poster on
page 67 and talk about Tran
Phu Shopping mall
IV. Talking:
E.g:
Tran Phu Shopping mall is in Nam’s
neighborhood. It is open today. It is very
different from the present shopping
area ……
3. Summary: (1 minute)
- Repeat the lesson.
4. Homework: (1 minute)
- Learn by heart all the new words.
- Read the text again.
- Prepare Write.
Planning date: 26 - 11 - 2014
Period 44: UNIT 7: MY NEIGHBORHOOD

Lesson 5: WRITE. P.68
I. Aims:
- To help students to write a notice.
- To develop students’ skills.
II. Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to write a notice.
III. Ways of working: T-WC, pair work, individual work.
IV. Materials: Textbook
V. Anticipated problems: Writing may be difficult for some students.
VI. Teaching steps:
1. Warm up: (5 minutes) * Teacher greets and checks the students’ attendance.
* Revision:
Read the text at page 67 then answer some teacher’s
questions .
2. New lesson:
STAGES T & SS’ ACTIVITIES THE CONTENTS ONBOARD
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PRE
WRITING
(16
minutes)
* Pre-teach:
- Teacher uses techniques to teach
students new words.
- Checking understanding:
Rub out and remember
* Set the scene:
The residents and store owners on
Tran Phu Street are going to hold a

meeting to discuss the effects of the
new mall.
* Read:
- Students read the community notice
(thông cáo tới toàn thể nhân dân) and
then answer the teacher’s questions.
(orally)
- Key to the comprehension
questions:
1. To discuss the effects of the new
mall.
2. They will hold the meeting on
May 20 at 8 pm.
3. They will hold the meeting at 12
Hang Da Street, Binh’s hardware
store.
* Teacher asks some questions:
- How do we write a notice? Do we
write full sentence?
- What information do we need to
write in a notice?
* Read:
- Students read the passage 2 on page
68 and answer the questions:
+What is the English Speaking Club
going to hold? (a Speaking Contest)
+ Where and when will it be held?
(At Hall 204 on November 15)
+ What time?
(From 7.30 pm to 10.00 pm)

+ Who is the person to contact?
(Tran Thi Thu Hang of class 8H)
I. New words:
- (to) make plan: lập kế hoạch
- an effect: sự ảnh hưởng
- (to) contact: liên lạc
II. Read.
1. Passage 1. P.68:
* Comprehension questions:
1. Why are the residents and store
owners on Tran Phu Street going to
hold a meeting?
2. When will they hold the meeting?
What time?
3. Where will they hold the meeting?
2. Passage 2. P.68:
- Speaking contest
- November 15
- 7.30 pm to 10.00 pm
- Hall 204, Building G
- Tran Thi Thu Hang of class 8H
WHILE
WRITING
(12
* Write:
- Students write the notice about the
English Speaking contest.
III. Write:
1. A notice about the English
Speaking contest:

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minutes) - Students exchange their writing and
find their partner’s mistakes.
- Teacher calls a student to write his /
her writing on board.
- Teacher and the whole class
correct.
* Suggested writing:
The school English Speaking club
HOLDING A SPEAKING
CONTEST TO CELEBRATE THE
TEACHER’S DAY
Date: November 15
Time: 7.30 pm to 10.00 pm
Place: Hall 204, Building G
Please contact Tran Thi Thu Hang of
class 8H at the above address for
more information.
POST
WRITING
(10
minutes)
- Students write a notice about their
class meeting.
- Students check their partner’s
writing.
- Teacher corrects students’ writing.
2. A notice about your class

meeting:
* Suggested writing:
Students of class 8A
HOLDING A CLASS MEETING
TO MAKE PLANS FOR THE
PICNIC NEXT WEEK
Date:
Time:
Place:
Please contact Nguyen Thi Thuy, the
8A monitor, at the above address for
more information.
3. Summary: (1 minute)
- Repeat the lesson.
4. Homework: (1 minute)
- Learn by heart all the new words.
- Prepare Language focus
Planning date: 27 - 11- 2014
Period 45: UNIT 7: MY NEIGHBORHOOD
Lesson 6: LANGUAGE FOCUS. P.69 - 71
I. Aims:
- To help students practise the present perfect tense and making comparisons by using
adjectives: like, the same as, different from.
- To develop students’ skills.
II. Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to know how to use the
present perfect tense.
III. Ways of working: T-WC, team work, pair work, individual work.
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IV. Materials: Textbook, additional board.
V. Anticipated problems:
- The language focus 5 may be difficult for the students in class 8C.
- The lesson may take time.
VI. Teaching steps:
1. Warm up: (1 minute) * Teacher greets and checks the students’ attendance.
2. New lesson:
STAGES T & SS’ ACTIVITIES THE CONTENTS ON BOARD
FURTHER
PRACTICE
(42
minutes)
* Language focus 1(Matching)
(Teacher uses additional board with
the verbs and its past participleto
hold this activity)
- Teacher divides the class into 2
teams. These teams go to the board
and match the infinitive and the past
participle. Example: be - been
* Language focus 2 (Substitution
drill)
- Teacher read out the phrases,
students add since or for.
* Language focus 3
- Students complete the sentences
using the present perfect tense of
the verbs in brackets
- Students go to the board to write
completed sentences.

Example:
I have lived here since last week.
I. Language focus 1:
Matching:
BE GONE
GO LIVED
EAT ATTENDED
LIVE BEEN
ATTEND EATEN
SEE COLLECTED
DO SEEN
WRITE DONE
WORK WRITTEN
COLLECT WORKED
II. Language focus 2:
* Answer key:
for five minutes
since January
since 1990
since the summer
for three hours
for 10 weeks
since Friday
for 20 years.
III. Language focus 3:
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* Language focus 4:
- Teachers asks students some

questions to review the English
tenses. (E.g: When do we use the
present simple? When do we use the
present perfect tense?)
- Students complete the dialogue
then practise it in pair .
- Teacher corrects
* Language focus 5
- Teacher shows students 3 rulers; 2
rulers are the same and the rest is
longer.
- Teacher asks students to look at 3
rulers and compare.
E.g:
My ruler is as long as Hoa’s ruler.
My ruler is the same as Hoa’s ruler.
My ruler is not as long as Lan’s
ruler.
My ruler is different from Lan’s
ruler.
- Teacher write the form on the
board
- Teacher lets students complete the
exercise in group of 4.
Noughts and crosses:
- Students choose the number and
teacher read the correspondent
sentences. Students have to
complete the sentences, using the
correct form above.

IV. Language focus 4:
* Answer key:
1. have been
2. hope
3. have lived…
4. Is
5. want
6. looks
7. Have been…
8. have seen
V. Language focus 5.
* Form:
* Noughts and crosses:
1. a) 2. b) 3. c)
4. d) 5. e) 6. f)
7. g) 8. h) 9. i)
* Answer key:
a. not as large as
b. different from
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
3. Summary: (1minute)
- Repeat the lesson.
4. Homework: (1 minute)
- Review unit 7.

- Prepare Getting started + Listen and read (Unit 8)
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as + adj + as: … bằng
the same as: giống như
different from: khác
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