Unit 8- Getting started- Listen and read

- Says: The Mid-Fall festival is one of the most important celebrations of Vietnamese people?. 65 and the names of the celebrations and ask Ss to work in pairs to match the names with su

Wednesday, Fabruary 20 th , 2010

Unit 8 Celebrations

Lesson 1(P.49) Getting started + Listen and read

A Objectives: By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to

- get some information about Tet, Passover and Easter celebrations

- practice reading comprehension skill for details to complete a table

B Language focus:

1 Vocabulary: slavery, sticky rice cake, joyful, parade, Jewish

2 Grammar: Relative clause

C Teaching aids: Cassette, CD, pictures, poster.

D Procedure:

Teacher s activities’s activities Students activites’s activities

1 Warm-up:

- Shows a picture of the Mid-Fall festival

and ask Ss:

(?) What can you see in the picture?

(?) When do these activites happen?

- Says: The Mid-Fall festival is one of the

most important celebrations of

Vietnamese people

- Asks Ss to list the names of other

celebrations in VN and in the world

II Pre-reading

1 Getting started:

- Show the pictures p 65 and the names

of the celebrations and ask Ss to work in

pairs to match the names with suitable

pictures

- Check in public

- Give feedback

- Show the pictures of a village teacher,

Pssover, and Easter to lead in the content

of the passages p.65-66

2 Vocabulary:

- Use different techniques to teach some

vocab

 sticky rice cake (n) (picture)

 slavery (n) (picture)

 parade (n) (picture)

 Jewish (adj) (picture)

 joyful (adj) (picture)

* Check vocab : What and Where

3 True or False statements:

- Give Ss some statements and ask them

to guess which information is true and

- Look at the picture and asnwer the questions:

 A lot of people , especially children and lion dances

 In the Mid-Fall festival

Valentine Day Christmas

- Teacher’s activitiess Day Wedding

- Look at the pictures and work with a partner

to do the task

- Give the answer:

1-Easter 2-Wedding 3- Birthday 4- Christmas 5- Mid-Fall festival

6- Lunar New Year

- Observe teacher’s activitiess techniques to guess the meaning of the words

 B¸nh tÐt

 Sù n« lÖ

 Cuéc diÔu hµnh

 Ngêi Do Th¸i

 vui mõng

- Read the statements and give their ideas

celebration s

which one is false.

II While-reading

1 Listen and read to check the

prediction

- Ask Ss to listen to the tape for the first

time to check the prediction

- Check the answer

- Give feedback

2 Table completion

- Gets Ss to listen to the tape for the

second time and complete the table p.66

with the missing information in groups

of three

- Check the answer by collecting the

posters from 3 groups and give feedback

3 Comprehension questions:

- Asks Ss to work in pairs to answer the

three questions:

a What do Vietnamese people think

about Tet?

b When do Jewish eat the special meal

called the Seder?

c In which condition on Easter can

young children get chocolate or sugar

eggs?

- Check in public and give feedback

4 Grammar: Relative clause

- Asks Ss some questions to elicit the

model sentences

(?) Is Tet a festival?

(?) When does it occur?

-> Tet is a festival which occurs in late

January or early February

- Give the second example:

* The boy is friendly He sits next to me

-> The boy who sits next to me is

friendly

- Explain the use of relative pronouns:

Which and Who

- Asks Ss to find two more examples

from the passages

III Post-reading

- Asks Ss to work in groups od three Ss

to discuss about what happen in some

celebrations they know

- Give feedback

IV Consolidation

- Sum up the lesson

V Homework

- Asks Ss to wrote a short paragraph

- Listen and check the prediction and find the correct information for the false statements

- Give the answer

- Work in groups of three Ss and listen to fill

in the table the information missing on a poster

- Give the asnwer:

- Work in pairs to answer the questions

 Tet is the most important celebration for Vietnamese people

 On the first or second nights of Passover

 When they are good

- Asnwer

- Tet is a festival

- It occurs in late January or early February

- Note down

- Read the text and do the task EX1: Family members who live apart try to

be together atTet

EX2: Easter is a joyful festival which is celebrated in many countries

- Work in groups to give their ideas and the leader of each group take notes and then present their ideas in fron of the class

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