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Anticipated problems: Ss have difficulties in guessing meaning of words, lack vocabulary - Game: Matching - T hangs 3 pictures of celebrations of Vietnam and 3 phrases on the board: Teac

ThaiNguyen University of Education Foreign Languages Faculty

UNIT 8: CELEBRATIONS

Period 1: Reading Grade: 11th

Class: 11 A10 School: Luong Ngoc Quyen high school

Coach: Vu Hoang Ha Trainee: Nguyen Thi Anh Date of planning: 28/11/09 Date of approval: 30/11/09 Date of teaching: 3/12/09 Time: 45 minutes

ThaiNguyen November, 28th 2009

UNIT 8: CELEBRATIONS

Lesson 1: Reading

By the end of the lesson, Ss will:

• Develop dictionary skills

• Decide on True or False statements

• Develop passage comprehension

II Materials:

Textbook, pictures

III Anticipated problems:

Ss have difficulties in guessing meaning of words, lack vocabulary

- Game: Matching

- T hangs 3 pictures (of celebrations of Vietnam) and 3 phrases on the board:

Teachers’ day, Mid-autumn festival, Happy women’sday

- T gives Ss 2 minutes to answer

- T has 3 Ss match phrases with these 3 pictures

on the board

- T checks and gives correct answers (Appendix)

- T asks Ss to guess what the topic today is about

- T introduces the topic

- Look at the board

- Give answers

- Checks their answers

- Guess the topic

- T has Ss to open their books and look at the picture on page 90

- T asks Ss to answer some questions:

1 What’s the picture about?

2 What are they doing?

3 What did you do last Tet?

4 What do you enjoy doing at Tet?

Suggested answers:

+ Tet holiday + Lucky money + Peach blossom + Decorating the house

+ Making bánh chưng

- Open their books

- Give answers

+ Eating special Tet foods + Visting pagoda

+ Visting relatives and friends

- T has Ss answer these questions above

- T asks Ss to read the passage on page 91

- T asks Ss to answer “What’s the passage about?”

- T has Ss give new words

- T explains meanings of new words, and then reads and asks Ss to repeat them

- Give new words and write on the notebooks

20’

While-reading

T has Ss read the whole text carefully and do task 1,

2, 3

Task 1: Find what the following words mean in

the text.

- T has Ss read out the requirement of task 1

- T checks Ss’ understanding

- T has Ss findout the new words given in task

1 in the passage

- T asks Ss to guess the meaning of these words

- T hangs the poster containing these 6 words above and asks Ss to match

1 Grand a Apples mixed with sugar

2 Banner b connected with farming

3 Sugared

apples

c Large and important

4 Agrarian d The state of feeling excited

5 Pray e A piece of cloth with message

hung in public place

6 Excitement f Give thanks or ask God for

help

- T calls some Ss to match

- T checks and gives correct answers 1-c 4-b

2-e 5-f

3-a 6-d

Task 2: Decide whether the statements are true (T)

or false (F).

- T has Ss read out the requirement

- T checks Ss’ understanding

- T asks Ss to work individually

- T asks Ss to answer question 1-6

- T has some Ss answer T/F (which line?

Which paragraph?) and if it is false, correct it

- T checks and gives feedback:

- Read the requirement

- Recall meanings of new words

- Do task 1

- Check their answers

- Read the requirement

- Individual work

- Give answers

1 F (line 2-3, paragraph 1) Always on 20th February → Sometimes

between 19 th January and 20 th February

2 F (line 3-4, paragraph 1)

People anywhere → agrarian people

3 T (line 1-2, paragraph 2)

4 F (line 5-6, paragraph 4)

Everyone → children

5 T (line 3-4, paragraph 3)

6 T (line 1, paragraph 4)

Task 3: Answer the following questions

- T asks Ss to read the requirement and checks their understanding

- T asks Ss to give key words of questions 1-6

- T checks:

1 when?

2 how long, Tet preparations and celebrations,

in the past

3 what, streets, look like

4 what, people, prepare

5 what, “banh chung”, made

6 what, “mut”

7 what, popular activities

- T has Ss work in pairs and do task 3

- T has some pairs answer

- T checks and give correct answers:

1 It is sometimes between 19th January and 20th

February (line 2-3, paragraph 1) (already done

in task 2, sentence 1)

2 Tet’s preparations and celebrations used to be spread over months (line 1-2, paragraph 2)

3 They are decorated with coloured lights and red banners (line 3-4, paragraph 2)

4 They buy gifts, clean and decorate their houses and cook traditional foods (line 4-5, paragraph 2)

5 It is made from sticky rice, green beans and fatty pork (line 5-6, paragraph 3)

6 Mut is candies fruit (line 6-7, paragraph 3)

7 Visiting friends and other family members, exchanging wishes, going to the pagoda, playing games… (last paragraph)

- Read out the requirement and gives key words of questions 1-6

- Pair work

- Give amswers

- Check their answers

- T asks Ss to work in groups to tell each other about their last Tet holiday, basing on these questions on page 92

- T asks Ss “what verb tense do they use to decribe the events in the past?”

- Group work

- Give answers

- Speaking in

- T has Ss answer

- T goes around the class to give help with difficulties

- T corrects Ss’ answers

turns

- T summarizes main points of the lesson

- T asks Ss to learn by heart all new words and practice to tell Tet, prepare for speaking lesson

- Listen

- Write on the notebooks and prepare for speaking lesson

Signature of coach

Vu Hoang Ha

Appendix