Unit 4: Our Past
Lesson 1: getting started
listen and read
Welcome to our class today
Grade 8- Ninh Xa secondary school
The TV
The radio/ stereo
The mobile phone
Modern clothes/ long dress
The lighting fixtures
School uniforms
T/F statement prediction
Nga used to live on the farm.
Nga’s grandma didn’t go to school.
She has an easy life when she was young.
There wasn’t any modern equipment at her time.
“ The lost shoe” is a short story.
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Discuss the questions
a. Where did Nga’s grandmother use to live?

b. Why didn’t she go to school?

c. What did Nga’s great-grandma use to do?

d. What did Nga’s great-grandma & grandfather do after dinner?

e. What did Nga ask her grandma to do at the end of the conversation?

Nga’s grandma used to live on the farm.
Because she had to stay home and help her mom, look after her sisters and brothers
She used to cook the meals, clean the house and wash the clothes.
Great-grandma lit the lamp and great grandfather used to tell stories.
Nga asked her grandma to tell her the tale.
Fact or opinion
I used to live on a farm.
b. There wasn’t any electricity.
c. Mom had to do everything without the help of modern equipment.
d. My father used to tell us stories.
e. The best one was “ The lost shoe.”
f. Traditional stories are great.

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Did you use to ...................
Get up late?
Ride bike too fast?
Go to school late?
Eat too much candy?
Forget to do homework?
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S + used to + V-inf  past habit, doesn’t exist any more.
Unit 4: Our Past
Lesson 2: Speak and listen
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Welcome to our class today
Grade 8- Ninh Xa secondary school
Eg: She used to live on a farm when she was young.
Is she young now?
Where did she live ?
Does she live in a farm now?
S + used to + V-inf
showing past habits or something that often happened in the past but now it stops.
S + didn’t use to + V-inf
Did + S + use to + V-inf ?
Eg: I used to walk to school but now I go to school by bike.
He used to get up early, now he gets up late.
Make sentences with these cues.
I/ live/ Hue/ Ha Noi.
She/ long hair/ short hair.
Ha/ study/ morning/ afternoon.

Look at the two pictures and find out the differences
Small houses
Go to school
Stay at home
buildings
Walk
Go by cars/ motor
Work hard all day
Relax/ watch TV
No electricity
Go to the market
Go to the supermarket
The people used to live in small houses, but now they live in buildings.
Now, talk about YOU
What did you do in the past?
What do you do now?
Listen to a story.



Don’t kill chickens.
Don’t be foolish and greedy.
Be happy with what you have.
It’s difficult to find gold.
Choose the most suitable moral lesson.
The Lost Shoe
Once a poor famer had a daughter named Little Pea. After his wife died, the farmer married again. His new wife had a daughter, Stout Nut. Unfortunately, the new wife was very cruel to Little Pea. Little Pea had to do chores all day. This made Little Pea’s father very upset. He soon died of a broken heart.
Summer came and went. In the Fall, the village held its harvest festival. That year, everyone was excited as the prince wanted to choose his wife from the village. Stout Nut’s mother make new clothes for her, but poor Little Pea had none. However, before the festival started, a fairy appeared and magically changed Little Pea’s rags into beautiful clothes.
As Litlle Pea was running to the festival, she dropped one of her shoes and lost it. When the price found the shoe, he decided to marry the girl who owned it. Of couse the shoe fitted Little Pea, and the price immediately fell in love with her. Now they are still living happily with lots of children.