Starter unit | Tiếng Anh 8 (Friends Plus) - Lớp 8

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VOCABULARY • Routines

I can talk about routines and say when I do things.

1. Study the words in the box. Which of these things do you do every day?

cook do my homework finish get home get up go shopping go to bed go to school go to work have breakfast listen to music relax tidy my room wake up watch videos

2. 1.02 Complete the interviews using the correct form of the verbs in exercise 1. Then listen and check.

Kate Excuse me. I’m asking people about their morning routines. Have you got a minute?

Dylan Yes, sure.

Kate What are you doing in town this morning?

Dylan I’m looking for a present for my mum.

Kate Do you always hinh-anh-starter-unit-11364-0

_____ on Saturday mornings?

Dylan No, I don’t. I normally play football, but I’m not playing this morning.

Kate Oh, right. What time do you hinh-anh-starter-unit-11364-1 _____ in the morning?

Dylan It depends. My mum usually hinh-anh-starter-unit-11364-2 _____ at seven o’clock, before she hinh-anh-starter-unit-11364-3 ____.

Kate Do you hinh-anh-starter-unit-11364-4 _____?

Dylan Yes, I have some cereal or toast. Then my sister and I hinh-anh-starter-unit-11364-5

_____.

Kate What time do you start school?

Dylan I start school at nine.

Kate Thanks for your help! Have a good day.

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3. Look at the words in blue in the dialogues in exercise 2. Where do adverbs of frequency go in a sentence? Think of more adverbs.

Remember!

on Mondays / on Tuesday evenings

on weekdays

at the weekend / at night / at (about) seven o’clock

in the morning / in the afternoon / in the evening

once or twice a day / week / month

every Saturday

4. USE IT! Work in pairs. Ask and answer questions to compare your daily routines. Use time expressions, adverbs of frequency, and the words and phrases in exercises 1 and 2. Are your routines similar?

What time do you get up?

I usually get up at seven o’clock on weekdays. I get up later at the weekend.

5. USE IT! Use the information about your partner in exercise 4 to write a paragraph about their daily routine.

Kate Hello. Do you have a minute to answer some questions? I’m asking people about how they spend their evenings.

Lucy OK.

Kate Do you usually go home straight after school?

Lucy Usually, yes. I hinh-anh-starter-unit-11364-7 __________ school at four and I like to hinh-anh-starter-unit-11364-8 __________ when I hinh-anh-starter-unit-11364-9 __________. Then I can relax in the evening.

Kate How do you hinh-anh-starter-unit-11364-10

__________? I see you’ve got some headphones. Do you hinh-anh-starter-unit-11364-11

__________?

Lucy Yes, I like hip hop. I also go on my laptop and chat online or hinh-anh-starter-unit-11364-12 __________.

Kate Do you help at home much after school? Does someone hinh-anh-starter-unit-11364-13 __________ and cook your meals?

Lucy I don’t often tidy my room. My mum does it. My dad always hinh-anh-starter-unit-11364-14 __________ dinner and I sometimes help him.

Kate And what time do you hinh-anh-starter-unit-11364-15

__________?

Lucy Around ten o’clock. Sometimes a bit earlier if I’m tired.

Kate OK, great. Thanks very much.

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LANGUAGE FOCUS • Present simple and present continuous

I can talk about repeated and scheduled actions and things happening now.

1. Study sentences 1–5 from the interviews on page 6. Then answer questions a–d.

What are you doing in town this morning?
I’m looking for a present for my mum.
I start school at nine.
I have some cereal or toast.
Do you always go shopping on Saturday mornings?

Which sentence refers to a scheduled action?
Which sentences refer to actions happening now?
Which sentence refers to a repeated action?
Which sentence contains a verb that we can’t usually use in the present continuous?

2. Write the negative forms of sentences 1–5 in exercise 1.

3. Read the interviews on page 6 again. Find examples of:

Negative forms of the present simple and present continuous.
Question forms of the present simple and present continuous.
Third person singular forms of the present simple.

4. Pronunciation: Consonant clusters

A consonant cluster is a group of consonants without any vowels between them. A consonant cluster can be at the beginning (school /skuːl/), in the middle (describe /dɪsˈkraɪb/), or at the end of a word (fact /fækt/).

Underline consonant clusters in the words below and pronounce them. Listen and check.

break extra gift cold scholar history text discover planet

5. Complete the phone conversation on the right using the correct present simple and present continuous forms of the verbs.

6. Work in pairs. Match 1–8 with a–h. Then ask and answer the questions with your partner.

1. What are

2. Where does

3. Who are

4. Why are

5. How are

6. How often do

7. What time do

8. When does

a you sitting next to?

b the lesson finish?

c you usually get up?

d you feeling today?

e you doing now?

f you studying English?

g your best friend live?

h you play sport?

7. USE IT! Work in pairs. Write another six questions using the question words in blue in exercise 6. Then ask and answer the questions with your partner. What do you both have in common? What are the differences?

Erica Hi, Claire. Where are you?

Claire hinh-anh-starter-unit-11364-17 . __________ (I / sit) on the bus. I'm nearly in town. hinh-anh-starter-unit-11364-18 __________ (you / want) to meet at the shopping centre?

Erica I can’t hinh-anh-starter-unit-11364-19 __________ (I / do) my history homework at the moment.

Claire Why hinh-anh-starter-unit-11364-20

__________ (you / do) your homework now? It's Saturday morning!

Erica I know! hinh-anh-starter-unit-11364-21 __________ (I / not / usually / do) homework on Saturdays, but I've got a netball tournament tomorrow. hinh-anh-starter-unit-11364-22 __________ (They / always / finish) late.

Claire But hinh-anh-starter-unit-11364-23 __________ (Miss Macken / not / usually / check) our homework.

Erica That's not true hinh-anh-starter-unit-11364-24 __________ (She / always / check) it!

Claire Oh come on, Erica! Take the day off!

Erica No, hinh-anh-starter-unit-11364-25

__________ (I / not / come) to town, Claire. Speak to you later, OK?

Claire OK ... looks like I'm shopping on my own, then!

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S VOCABULARY AND LISTENING • Irregular past simple verbs

I can ask and answer questions about memories.

1 🔊1.04 Complete the table with the infinitive and past simple forms of the verbs in blue in the quiz. Then listen and check.

Infinitive	Past simple
see	saw

2 Do the quiz. Compare your scores with a partner. Who has got the best memory?

How GOOD is your MEMORY?

What was the last film that you saw?
When was the last time that you ate in a restaurant?
When did you last go to a circus or a zoo?
Where and when did you first ride a bike?
Who taught you English at primary school?
How old were your parents on their last birthdays?
What was the last music that you heard?
When did you last make something to eat?
What mark did you get in your last English exam?
At what age did you first have a mobile phone?
What did you do on your last birthday?
Who spoke to you first at school today?
Who did you speak to last before you left home this morning?
How many people gave you presents last year? What were they?
How many people did you buy presents for last year? What were they?

KEY

How many things did you remember?

11–15: Well done! You've got an excellent memory.
6–10: Not bad, but you could do more to improve your memory.
0–5: What a terrible memory you've got! Eat well, exercise and get a good night's sleep to improve it.

3 🔊1.05 Listen to five short dialogues about some other memories and complete the Key Phrases.

KEY PHRASES

Talking about the past

When did you last _______________?
At what age did you first _______________?
When was the last time that you _______________?
What was the last

_______________ that you _______________?
What did you _______________ last _______________?

4 🔊1.05 Listen again. Write down the answers to the questions in the Key Phrases.

5 USE IT! Work in pairs. Ask and answer questions using the verbs in exercise 1 and the question words in the box.

How much What Where Who Why

Did you watch a film last night

Yes, I did.

What did you watch?

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S LANGUAGE FOCUS • Past simple • Object and subject questions

I can talk about what I did in the past.

Past simple

1 Complete sentences 1–5 with the words in the box. Then answer questions a–c.

bought did didn’t started wasn’t

I __________ scared, but I was nervous.
I __________ some new sport clothes.
I __________ see you at the sports centre.
What __________ you do last weekend?
She __________ to sing professionally when she was only six.

Which of the verbs in the box are regular and which are irregular?
How do we form the past simple of regular verbs?
Which verbs do we use to form questions and negatives?

2 Complete the interview using the correct past simple form of be.

Dan How old hinh-anh-starter-unit-11364-35

__________ you when you moved to France?

Joe I hinh-anh-starter-unit-11364-36 __________ four or five. I lived with my mum and my older brother and sister. My dad travelled a lot. He hinh-anh-starter-unit-11364-37 __________ at home much.

Dan hinh-anh-starter-unit-11364-38 __________ your brother and sister happy to live in France?

Joe No, they hinh-anh-starter-unit-11364-39 __________ . They hinh-anh-starter-unit-11364-40

__________ lonely because their friends hinh-anh-starter-unit-11364-41

__________ all in England.

Dan hinh-anh-starter-unit-11364-42 __________ it a happy time?

Joe No, it hinh-anh-starter-unit-11364-43 __________ a happy time for my brother and sister. But it hinh-anh-starter-unit-11364-44 __________ a great time for me!

3 Write sentences that are true for you using the past simple and the ideas in 1–6. Add a second sentence for each one giving extra information.

(go) to a football match last year

I went to a football match last year. It was between

Hoàng Anh Gia Lai and Hà Nội FC.

(watch) a good TV programme last night
(listen) to music yesterday
(meet) friends on Sunday
(do) homework yesterday
(play) video games this morning
(ride) a bicycle last week

Object and subject questions

4 Study the object and subject questions below. Then find two more examples of each question in the memory quiz on page 8.

Object questions

Question word + auxiliary verb (do / does / did) + subject + main verb?

Who did you visit? I visited my aunt.

(The question word refers to the object.)

Subject questions

Question word + main verb?

Who visited you? My grandfather visited me.

(The question word refers to the subject.)

5 Write object or subject questions using the past simple.

Who (buy) a present for Rachel?
What (they / get) her?
How many people (go) to her party?
Who (you / meet) there?
Why (you / leave) early?

6 Read Ed’s text message. Then write questions for answers 1–5. Use Who and How many.

Kyle told Lucy about the football match and they came with me. Kyle bought the tickets and they met me at the ground. There were 70,000 people at the match. Mesut Özil scored two goals.

Kyle told her.

Who told Lucy about the match?

Kyle, Lucy and Ed went.
Kyle bought them.
Kyle and Lucy met Ed there.
There were 70,000 people.
He scored two.

7 USE IT! Work in pairs. Ask and answer questions about the events in the box. Use both subject and object questions.

concert exhibition festival funfair parade

What was the last event you went to?

It was a funfair last September.

Who told you about the funfair?

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Kate OK, great. Thanks very much.

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S VOCABULARY AND LISTENING • Irregular past simple verbs

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