Date of teaching: 17-21/04/2017
Class: 8A5, 8A7
Week: 34
Period: 100
UNIT 15: COMPUTERS
Lesson 1 LISTEN AND READ (p.p.138-139)
I. OBJECTIVES:
1. Knowledge: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to express their opinions about a problem.
a. Grammar: 1. Present perfect with Yet and Already 2. Comparison of present perfect and past simple
b. Vocabulary: Some words to talk about computers.
2. Skills: Listening - Reading
3. Attitude: Sts will value their personal things.
II. PREPARATION:
1. Teacher:
- Prepare the lesson carefully: (teaching aids make lesson plan by power point, book, laptop, sound)
2. Students:
- Learn the previous lesson by heart.
- Prepare the new lesson at home: (write new words; read text; answer questions)
III. STEPS FOR TEACHING:
1. Check the previous lesson: (5’)
- Change into indirect questions
2. New lesson: (40’)
Stage
Steps/Activities
Work arrangement

Warm up













Pre-reading
 GETTING STARTED: Brainstorm.
• Write the topic on the board
Computers can help us:
- Save time
- ………………
- Ask Ss to think of the topic and express their opinions.
- Collect Ss opinions and write them on the board.
Suggestions:
+ Computers help us learn interestingly.
+ Computers help us learn more quickly.
+ Computers are convenient / easy for keeping / storing information.
+ Computers are very quick in giving answers to our questions.
LISTEN AND READ
I. Preteach vocabulary
- Elicit words from Ss.
1. (a) printer (picture)
2. (a) manual (explanation / realia)
(a book coming with a machine tells you how to use / operate the machine.
3. (to) connect: (hand gesture)
4. under guarantee: (situation)
(The machine you buy at a shop will be under guarantee from 6 to 12 months.
5. (a) plug (realia)
6. (a) socket (picture /realia)_
- Have Ss copy.
Checking Technique: Bingo (*)
Individual














Teacher-Ss



















While-reading












While-reading
II. True / False prediction
- Set the scene:
Nam and his father, Mr. Nhat are talking about the problem of the computer they`ve just bought. What happens to the computer?
- Put the chart on the board and have Ss guess which statements are true and which are false.
1. The printer isn`t working.
2. Nam has already turned the computer on.
3. Nam knows how to connect a printer but he hasn`t connected it properly.
4. The manual helped them to find out the problem.
5. Mr. Nhat bought the computer in HCM City and it`s still under guarantee.
6. Mr. Nhat thinks the company wouldn`t do anything with his computer because it`s too far from his place.
- Call on some pairs to give their answers.
- Write Ss` guesses on the board.
- Ask Ss to open their books, read the dialogue on page 138 and listen to the tape.
- Have Ss work in pairs again to check if their guesses are right or not.
- Give feedback and correct.
Answer key:
1. True
2. True
3. False: Nam knows how to connect a printer and he has connected it properly.
4. False: Mr. Nhat thinks it isn`t very helpful.
5. True
6. False: Mr. Nhat thinks the company should do something with it.
- Have Ss copy the corrected sentences.
III. Reading Comprehension
- Explain the words: "Fact and Opinion"
+ Fact: a thing that is known to be true, especially when it can be proved.
+ Opinion: Your feelings or thoughts about someone or something, rather than a fact.
- Get Ss to read the statements and check (() the suitable boxes.
- Call on some Ss to give their answers
Teacher




Pairwork












Whole class

Pair work

Teacher Ss










Teacher





Individual










Post-reading