UNIT 9 FESTIVALS AROUND THE WORLD Lesson 1 Getting started I OBJECTIVES By the end of the lesson, students will be able to 1 Knowledge Vocabulary Gain an overview about the topic “Festivals around the[.]
Trang 1UNIT 9: FESTIVALS AROUND THE WORLD
Lesson 1: Getting started
I OBJECTIVES:
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
1 Knowledge:
Vocabulary:
- Gain an overview about the topic “Festivals around the world”
- Use lexical items related to the topic “Festivals”: names of different festivals around the world
Custume, fireworks display, feast, float, folk dance, parade, decorate.
2 Competences:
- Develop communication skills and cultural awareness
- Be collaborative and supportive in independent work, pair work and teamwork
- Actively join in class activities
3 Qualities:
- Develop self-study skills
- Have positive attitude in English language learning so that they actively
participate in all classroom activities
- Know more festivals around the words and choosing the festival that they like
II TEACHING AIDS
1 Teacher:
- Grade 7 textbook, Unit 9 - Getting started, lesson plan
- Computer connected to the internet
- Projector/ TV/ pictures and sets of word cards
- Sachmem.vn
2 Students: Text books, notebooks, posters, ….
III PROCEDURES:
1.Warm-up (5’)
Trang 2* Aim: - Activate students’ knowledge on the topic of the unit.
- Set the context for the listening and reading part
* Content: Game: Kim’s game (about festivals around the world) and answer the
questions
* Products: Ss write words exactly on the board.
* T asks Ss to look at the picture on page 93 in
20 seconds and try to write the festivals they
know as many words as possible
- Teacher divides the class into two teams
- Ss go to the board and write the words
- Teacher gets feedback -> Today we are
going to learn some festivals around the
world
* Teacher shows the picture of the Tulip
Festival and asks students some related
questions:
What can you see in the picture?
Can you guess the name of the festival?
Have you ever heard of this festival? If yes,
what do you know about it?
- Students raise hands to answer the
questions
Teacher and students discuss the questions
Teacher accepts all students’ questions
* Kim's game:
- Easter
- folk dance
- Firework play
- Mid – Autumn festival
- Thanksgiving
* Chatting
2 Presentation (5’)
* Aim: Enrich students’ vocabulary to talk about festivals around the world.
* Content: Vocabulary about festivals.
* Products: Read and understand the meaning of words
Trang 3Pre teach vocabulary
- Teacher use different techniques to
teach vocab (pictures, situation, realia)
- Follow the seven steps of teaching
vacabulary
- Repeat in chorus and individually
- Copy all the words
* Checking vocab: < Matching>
* Vocabulary
- Custume (n): Phong tục
- Fireworks display (n) Bắn pháo hoa
- Feast (n) : Bữa tiệc
- Float (n) : Xe diễu hành
- Folk dance (n) : Múa dân gian / điệu nhảy
- Parade (n) : Cuộc diễu hành
- Decorate (v) : Trang trí
3 Practice (27’)
* Aim:
- Introduce the names of festival topic
- Ss know more vocabularies related to festival activities
- Get specific information of the text
- Check Ss’ knowledge of some familiar festivals
* Content:
- Listen and read
- Read and tick the correct columns (Who did the activities?)
- Write a word or phrase under each picture
- Fill in the blanks with a word or phrase
- Match each description with a festival
* Products:
- Ss listen and read, write words with the correct pictures
Teacher’s and Ss’activities
Content
Task 1: (7’) Listen and read (T-Ss)
- Teacher asks students to listen the topic “A
Tulip Festival”
- Teacher can play the recording more than
Task 1: Listen and read.
Trang 4- Students listen and read in pairs
- Teacher calls some pairs of students to read
aloud
- Teacher checks students’ pronunciation and
gives feedback
Task 2: (5’) Read the conversation again
Who did the following activities? Tick (√)
the correct culumn Sometimes you need to
tick both (T - Ss, Ss – Ss)
- - Teacher tells students to read the
conversation again and work independently to
find the words in Task 1 to tick the correct
columns
- Students do the task individually
- Teacher allows students to share their
answers before discussing as a class and
encourages them to give evidence
- Teacher calls some students to give the
answers and gives feedback
Task 2: Read the conversation again Who did the following activities? Tick (√) the correct culumn Sometimes you need to tick both.
*Answer key:
Task 3: (5’) Write a word or phrase from
the box under each picture (p.93).
Game: Who is faster?
(T-Ss, Ss-Ss)
-Teacher divides the class into 2 teams Each
team sends a leader to play the game on the
board
-Teacher explains the instructions of the game:
-Teacher gives each team a set of cards with
word/phrases from the box
- The two leaders of the teams come to the
board and pin the cards under the correct
pictures
- Who can finish faster with more correct
answers will be the winner
- Students play the games in team mode
- - Teacher has students write down the correct
answer
Task 3: Write a word or phrase from the box under each picture (p.93) Game: Who is faster?
Answer key:
1 parade
2 costumes
3 feast
4 float
5 fireworks display
6 folk dance
Trang 5- Teacher confirms the answers and gives
feedback Teacher can ask for translation to
check their understanding
Task 4: (5’) Fill in each blank with a word
or phrase from 3 You may have to change
the form of the word or phrase (p.93).
(T-Ss, Ss-Ss)
- - Teacher asks students to work individually to
complete the task Remind them to change the
form of the words/phrases of needed
- - Students fill in the blanks with the most
suitable form of word/phrase
- - Teacher allows students to share answers
before discussing as a class
- - Teacher can ask for translation to check their
understanding
Task 4: Fill in each blank with a word
or phrase from 3 You may have to change the form of the word or phrase (p.93).
Answer key:
1 folk dances
2 fireworks display
3 feast
4 parades
5 floats; costumes
Task 5 ( 5’) Quiz What festival is it?
Match each description with a festival
(p.93) (T-Ss, Ss – Ss)
- Teacher lets Ss work in groups of 4-6
- Ss work in groups to find the answers
- Teacher can go around to help weaker
students
- Teacher calls the first group to come up
with the answers to share
Task 5: Quiz What festival is it? Match each description with a festival (p.93).
Answer key:
1 e
2 a
3 d
4 c
5 b
4 Production (6’)
* Aim:
- To consolidate what students have learnt in the lesson
- To give students a chance to apply what they have learnt
* Content: Game : Write sentences using one of the festivals or the words they have
learnt
* Products: Students read aloud their sentences
Trang 6- T divides class into 3 groups.
- Teacher asks groups to write sentences using
one of the festivals or the words they have
learnt
- Ss work in groups
- Teacher asks each group to hand in their
paper and checks, the group with more
correct sentences is the winner
- Teacher invites the winner to read aloud their
sentences
* Game: Who is faster?
- (e.g: On New year’s Eve, we went to
Hoan Kiem lake to watch the fireworks display
- At christmas, people decorate pine
trees and give each other gifts ).
5 Homework (2’)
- T reminds Ss to do homework and prepare
the new lesson - Learn by heart all the new words.- Rewrite the sentences into notebooks
- Do exercises in workbook
- Prepare vocabulary for the next lesson:
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