Unit 5
Study Habits
(Read)
ENGLISH 8
Answer The Questions
1. When do you do your homework?
2. Who helps you with your homework?
3. How much time do you spend on Math / Physics / Chemistry / Literature / English / .
4. Which subject do you need to improve?
5. What do you do to improve your English?
Period 28
Unit 5
STUDY HABITS
(READ)


How do you learn vocabulary?

Example:
We are having an environment
month.


Look up words in the dictionary
1. A table: Cái bàn
2. A teacher: Giáo viên
3. Pink: Màu hồng
4. To go: đi
5. Can I help you? Tôi có thể giúp được gì cho bạn.
6. Thank you very much: Cám ơn bạn rất nhiều
Write English words and translate them into Vietnamese.
Look at the picture to find out its meaning.




A cat
Learn words in groups.
Write Networks

SCHOOL
THINGS
Computers
Erasers
Books
Schoolbags
Rulers
Pens
Boards
Pencils
Reading Stories, Newspapers or Magazines, .
Underline or highlight
the important words
1. I went to school today and Miss Jackson gave me your report card
2. Alexander Graham Bell worked with deaf-mutes at Boston University.
VOCABULARY
1. Make a list (n):
2. Mother tongue (n):
Eg: We speak Vietnamese. Vietnamese is our mother tongue. English is not our mother tongue. It is a foreign language.
3. Come across (v):
4. Important (a):
5. Revise (v):
-> Revision (n):
Eg: Revision of voabulary is necessary. You can learn the ten words the first day and revise them the next day.
Task 1
Read the text silently, then
work in pairs to do True - False Questions
Task 1
a) False -> Not All language learners but only SOME
b) True (Paragraph 1 , Lines 9 -> 11)
c) False -> Many learners DO NOT try to learn.
d) True (Paragraph 3 , Lines 3 -> 7)
Task 2
Read the text silently, then work in pairs to answer the questions
Task 2
a) No. Learners learn words in different ways.
b) Because such sentences help them remember the use of new words.
c) To remember words better, learners write example sentences, put the words and their meaning on stickers, underline or highlight them
d) They may think they can`t do so. Instead, they learn only important words.
e) Revision is necessary in learning words.
f) Learners should try different ways of learning words to find out what is the best.
Task 3
Read the text silently, then work in groups to five out the ways of learning vocabulary.
Task 3
1. Make a list of new words and put into it the meanings of new words in their mother tongue, and try to learn them by heart.
Task 3
2. Write one or two example sentences with each new word in order to remember how to use the word in the right way.
Task 3
3. Write each word and its use on a small piece of paper and stick everywhere in the house so as to learn it at any way.
Task 3
4. Underline or highlight only the important words we want to learn.
Task 3
5. Learn ten words in two days: learn the five words the first day, and then learn the other five next day. Or learn all the ten words the first day and revise them the next day.
Talk about yourselves.
How do learn vocabulary?
Model:

I learn words in group.
I learn vocabulary by writing English words and put them into Vietnamese and learn them by heart.
The End
Thank you very much
See you again!