Giáo án Tiếng Anh 8 - Period 4, Unit 1: Leisure time (Lesson 3) - Năm học 2023-2024

 Date of preparing: 09/9/2023 
 Period 4: UNIT 1: LEISURE TIME 
 Lesson 3: A closer look 2 
 I. OBJECTIVES 
 By the end of this lesson, Ss will be able to: 
 1. Knowledge 
 - use the verbs of liking and disliking with gerunds and to-infinitive 
 2. Competences 
 - Develop communication skills and creativity 
 - Be collaborative and supportive in pair work and teamwork 
 - Actively join in class activities 
 3. Personal qualities 
 - Love talking about activities in leisure time 
 II. MATERIALS 
 - Grade 8 textbook, Unit 1, A closer look 2 
 - Computer connected to the Internet 
 - Projector / TV 
 - hoclieu.vn 
 III. PROCEDURES 
 1. WARM-UP (5 mins) 
 a. Objectives: 
 - To review vocab related to leisure activities. 
 - To introduce the term of comparative form of adverbs 
 b. Content: 
 - Game: Find someone who 
 c. Expected outcomes: 
 - Students get familiar with verbs of liking / disliking + gerunds / to-infinitive. 
 d. Organisation: 
 TEACHER’S AND STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES CONTENTS 
Game: Find someone who Questions: 
 Find someone who 
- Teacher delivers the questions ● likes playing computer games 
- Teacher asks students to go around the class and ● enjoys knitting 
ask their friends for answers. ● detests cooking 
- Teacher calls students to report when they finish. ● fancies going shopping 
- Teacher gives comments if necessary. ● loves doing puzzles 
- Teacher leads in the lesson. ● hates hunting 
 ● dislikes watching TV 
 ● prefers going to the cinema 
 e. Assessment: 
 - Teacher corrects for students (if needed) 
 2. ACTIVITY 1: PRESENTATION (10 mins) a. Objectives: 
 - To teach Ss verbs of liking and disliking with gerunds and to-infinitives 
 b. Content: 
 - Teacher teaches grammar. 
 - Teacher asks students to read the grammar box and share their answers. 
 c. Expected outcomes: 
 - Students know how to use the target grammar. 
 d. Organisation 
 TEACHER’S AND STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES CONTENTS 
Grammar teaching Verbs of liking: 
- Remind Ss of the concept of the gerund that they love 
learnt in grade 7. Ask them how the gerund is like 
formed and how it functions grammatically. fancy 
- Write on the board: I didn’t know you like knitting. prefer 
and I love to watch TV on Saturdays. enjoy 
- Explain that in English if we want to follow a verb 
with another action, we must use a gerund or an Verbs of disliking: 
infinitive. There are certain verbs that can only be detest 
followed by one or the other, and these verbs must hate 
be memorised. dislike 
- Go through the Remember! box with Ss. Tell Ss 
that verbs of liking / disliking are often followed by 
gerunds and to-infinitives, and verbs such as love, 
like, hate and prefer may go with gerunds or to-
infinitives with almost no change in meaning. 
- Have Ss read the examples in the Remember! box, 
and then encourage them to give their own 
examples. 
 e. Assessment: 
 - Teacher checks students’ understanding by asking some checking-questions. 
 3. ACTIVITY 2: PRACTICE (15 mins) 
 a. Objectives: 
 - To help Ss practise using verbs of liking and disliking with gerunds and to-infinitives. 
 b. Content: 
 - Task 1. Work in pairs. Put the verbs in the appropriate column. 
 - Task 2. Choose the correct answer A, B, or C. 
 - Task 3. Look at the pictures and complete the sentences, using the verbs in brackets in 
 their suitable form. 
 - Task 4. Complete the sentences about yourself. 
 c. Expected outcomes: 
 - Students understand how to use the target grammar. 
 d. Organisation: 
 TEACHER’S AND STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES CONTENTS 
Task 1. Work in pairs. Put the verbs in the appropriate column. (3 mins) 
- Have Ss do these exercises individually and then Answer key: 
compare their answers with a partner. Verbs followed by gerunds only: 
- Ask some Ss to write their answers on the board. detest, fancy, dislike, enjoy - Check the answers with the whole class. Accept Verbs followed by both gerunds and 
different sentences provided that they are correct. to-infinitives: love, like, hate, prefer 
Task 2. Choose the correct answer A, B, or C. (3 mins) 
- Have Ss do these exercises individually and then Answer key: 
compare their answers with a partner. 1. A 
- Ask some Ss to write their answers on the board. 2. A 
- Check the answers with the whole class. Accept 3. C 
different sentences provided that they are correct. 4. B 
 5. A 
Task 3: Look at the pictures and complete the sentences, using the verbs in brackets in 
their suitable form. (4 mins) 
- Ask Ss what they see in each picture. For a less able Answer key: 
class, T may want to write some key language on the 1. Mark likes surfing / to surf the 
board (e.g. play computer games / surf the net). net. 
- Have Ss do these exercises individually and then 2. The girls enjoy knitting. 
compare their answers with a partner. 3. My cousin dislikes cooking. 
- Ask some Ss to write their answers on the board. 4. My father hates going / to go 
- Check the answers with the whole class. Accept shopping. 
different sentences provided that they are correct. 5. Tom and his sister prefer doing / 
 to do puzzles. 
Task 4. Complete the sentences about yourself. (6 mins) 
- Have Ss work individually to write the sentences about Suggested answer: 
themselves. I like playing basketball. 
- Invite some Ss to write their answers on the board. I hate cooking. 
- Comment on their answers. Accept different answers 
provided that they are logical and correct. 
 e. Assessment: 
 - Teacher corrects students as a whole class. 
 4. ACTIVITY 3: PRODUCTION (10 mins) 
 a. Objectives: 
 - To help Ss practise using verbs of liking and disliking with gerunds and to-infinitives 
 b. Content: 
 - Task 5. Game: Likes and dislikes mimes 
 c. Expected outcomes: 
 - Students can make questions using verbs of liking / disliking. 
 d. Organisation: 
 TEACHER’S AND STUDENTS’ CONTENTS 
 ACTIVITIES 
Task 5. Work in groups. One mimes a leisure activity he / she likes or dislikes. The others 
guess the activity by asking yes / no questions using the verbs they have learnt. (10 mins) 
- Divide Ss into groups. Assign a group leader to Suggested outcome: 
keep watch of the game. A: Do you like surfing the net? 
- Explain the rules of the game: B: No, I don’t. • One student mimes a leisure activity he / she C: Do you love messaging your friends? 
likes or dislikes. Other Ss guess what the activity B: Yes, I do. 
is by asking Yes / No questions using the verbs 
they have learnt. 
• For each correct guess, each student gets one 
point. The group leader records the points of his 
/ her group members. 
- Have Ss read the example in the book and 
model the way to play the game with one student 
if needed. 
- Let groups play the game for about 3 - 5 
minutes. 
- Invite some groups to perform the game in 
front of the whole class. Comment on their 
performance. 
 e. Assessment 
 - Teacher gives corrections and feedback. 
 5. CONSOLIDATION (5 mins) 
 a. Wrap-up 
 - Summarise the main points of the lesson. 
 - Ask Ss to make sentences about themselves, using comparative adverbs. 
 b. Homework 
 - Students’ workbook.