Grade 8 Unit 3: At Home

Period 18+19 – Lesson 6+7: Language

Focus1-4 – P34-37
I. Warm up: Brainstorming

tidy up water trees

things you can do

fix the TV set

things you can’t do

paint the house

 I. Grammar
A. Reflexive pronouns (Đại từ phản
thân):
I do my homework myself.
myself.
He does his homework himself.
himself.
She does her homework herself
herself..
Note:
I  myself: tự tôi, chính tôi
He  himself: tự bạn ấy, chính bạn ấy
She  herself: tự bạn ấy, chính bạn ấy
It  itself: tự nó, chính nó , chính điều đó
We  ourselves: tự chúng tôi, chính chúng tôi
You  yourself/ yourselves: tự (các)bạn, chính (các) bạn;

They themselves: tự họ, chính họ

Ex.1: Word cue drill
1. My father / fix washing machine
 My father fixed washing machine himself.
2. Mary / cook / lunch
 Mary cooked lunch herself.

3. They / look after

 They looked after themselves
Ex. 2: Language Focus 3 (P35-36)
1. 4. himself 7.
ourselves yourselves
2. myself 5. herself
3. yourself 6.
themselves
 B. Modal verbs

We have to do our homework before going to

school.
I must tidy my bedroom.

Ex 3: Word cue drill

1. Students / wear school uniform / Monday /
Saturday
 Students have to wear school uniform from
Monday to Saturday.
2. He / go to school on time
 He have to go to school on time.

3. Children / obey their parents

 Children must obey their parents.
 Ex. 4: Language Focus 1 (P34)
a) b) c)

1. have to/ must 2. must/ have to 3. must/ have to

tidy dust sweep
d) e) f)

4. must/ have to 5. must/ have to 6. must/ have to

clean empty feed
 Ex. 5: Language Focus 2 (P35)

a) You ought to study b) You to get up earlier.

harder.
c) d)

c) You ought to go on a diet. d) You ought to go to the

/ You ought to eat more fruit
dentist’s.
& vegetables.
C. Question “Why?” and answer “ Because”
Ex. 6: Language Focus 4 (P36-37)

Why did Hoa go to school late this

morning?
Because she watched TV late last night.
b) Why did Nam have to cook
dinner?
Because his mother came home
late. c) Why did Mrs. Vui come home
late?
Because she had to go & visit
Nam’s grandma.

d) Why did Ha failed her

English test?
Because she didn’t learn hard.
She played the computer
games.
e) Why did Nga go to the
movies late?
Because she had to do the
chores. She had to clean the
kitchen, sweep the living
 D. Tenses of the verbs
I. The present simple tense
S1: Do you often wear school uniforms from Monday to
Saturday?
S2: Yes, we do.

S1: What about Sundays?

S2: No. We don’t wear them on Sundays.

Note: (+) S + V / V-s / -es .

(-) S + don’t/ doesn’t + V.

(?) Do/ Does + S + V ?

- Yes, S + do/ does. / No, S + don’t/ doesn’t.

Ex. 7: Put the verbs in brackets into the corect form

Vichai is my pen pal. He (1. be) is 14 years old. He (2.

live) lives in a town house with his family in Bangkok,
Thailand. Yesterday I (3. receive) received his letter. In the
letter he said: “ I usually (4. have) have boiled rice for
breakfast, and chicken with fried rece or a bowl of
noodles for lunch. In the evening, I (5. eat) eat the food
my mother (6. cook) cooks . Her food (7. be) is the best in
the whole world.” Last week, I (8. write) wrote a letter to
him. I (9. introduce) introduced myself and (10. send) sent
him a photograph of my family.
 II. The past simple tense
Note: (+) S + V -d/ -ed .
S +V irregular .

(-) S + didn’t + V.

(?) Did + S + V ?

- Yes, S + did. / No, S + didn’t.

Ex.8: Write complete sentences with the verbs in
the box. Use reflexive pronouns only where
necessary.
a. d. enjoyed ourselves
feel
b. e.
dried concentrate
c. f. shaved/
met washed
 E. Structure with “ enough”
S + (be) + Adj. enough (for sb) + to do
sth
Ex. 9: Combine each of the following pairs of
sentences into one sentence, using “ (not) adj. +
enough”
a) The weather wasn’t very warm. We couldn’t go
a) The weather wasn’t very warm. We couldn’t go
swimming.
 The weather wasn’t warm enough for us to go
swimming.
b) He wasn’t very experienced. He couldn’t do the job.

 He wasn’t experienced enough to do the job.

c) The ladder wasn’t very long. It didn’t reach the
window.
 The ladder wasn’t long enough to reach the window.

f) The ice is quite thick. We can walk on it.

 The ice is thick enough for us to walk on.

 F. Structure with the description of
someone’s characters & appearance.

1. What does he/ she look like?

- He/ She is + adj. for describing appearance.

2. What is he/ she like?

- He/ She is + adj. .

for describing characters
 Homework

1. Redo all the Language Focus

2. Revise all the model sentences, grammar,
Listen and Read, Read and Write from Unit 1
to Unit 3
3. Prepare “ Written Test in English – 45
minutes”
 Grade 8 Unit 3: At Home
Lesson Plan18 – Lesson 6: Language Focus1-4 –
Period
P34-37
I. Warm up:
Brainstorming
II. Grammar
A. Reflexive pronouns (Đại từ phản
thân):
B. Modal verbs
C. Question “Why?” and answer “ Because”
III. The past simple
tense
E. Structure with “
enough”
F. Structure with the description of
someone’s characters & appearance.
IV. Homework