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Welcome to our class 11A8

Dong Dau high school

I WARM UP: Listen the following music then answer the question

What is the name of this song?

It is the “happy birthday to you “ song

Have you ever celebrate your birthday party?

UNIT 3: A PARTY

Period 15: Reading

II Before you read

Look at the pictures and answer the questions:

2 what are they celebrating?

1 what is the relationship between the people in the pictures?

They might belong to a family.

The people in the first picture are celebrating a birthday and the people in the second picture are celebrating the 50th wedding anniversary.

* vocabulary

Birthday cake (n)

present / gift (n) Birthday card (n)

Celebrate (v) anniversary (n)

Silver anniversary :

celebration of the 25 th

wedding anniversary

Golden anniversary :

celebration of the 50 th

wedding anniversary

Diamond anniversary :

celebration of the 60 th

wedding anniversary

blow out (v)

Milestone (n):

Joke (n) :

(v):

Mark (n):

(v):

sự kiện quan trọng

chuyện đùa nói đùa

điểm, đánh dấu

• Read the passages about birthdays and anniversaries and then do the tasks that follow.

III WHILE YOU READ

Task 1: Decide which of the activities below takes place at

a birthday party or at a weeding anniversary or at both Put

a tick (  ) in the right box.

Activities

Birthday party

Wedding anniversary party

1 People sing a song

2 People eat cake

3 People receive cards and gifts from friends

and relatives

4 People joke about their age

5 People remember their wedding day

6 People go out to dinner

7 People blow out candles, one for each

year

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Task 2 : In each of the following sentences, there is ONE word which is not true

according to the reading passage Underline the wrong word and provide the correct

one.

1 Lisa’s family and friends are at her eighth birthday party.

2 Everyone makes cake and ice cream at the birthday party.

3 Lisa opens birthday cards and book from her family and friends.

4 Many Americans over the age of 30 don’t like to talk about their anniversaries.

5 Fifty months ago, Rosa and Luis got married.

6 People call the 5 th wedding anniversary the “ golden anniversary”.

7 Rosa and Luis are happy to be together for their silver

anniversary.

Seventh

eats

presents

age

Years

50 th

golden

(line1; paragraph 1) (line2; paragraph 2)

(line3; paragraph 2)

(line3, 4; paragraph 3) (line2; paragraph 4)

(line2; paragraph 6)

(last line; paragraph 6)

IV AFTER YOU READ

Match each question in box A with the suitable answers in box B, then give opinion

1 Where do you prefer to

celebrate your birthday,

at home or in the

restaurant? Why?

2 Do your parents celebrate

their wedding

anniversaries?

3 Are you going to celebrate

your wedding

anniversaries in the

future? Why (not)?

a Yes, they do They celebrate their

wedding anniversaries every years

b Because it’s warmer or quieter than in the

restaurant.

c Yes,Because they mark the milestones of

a happy and lasting relationship between us.

d No, they don’t Because they are too busy

to look after their children and earn living

e Because it makes us more romantic than

at home.

comfortable than in the restaurant.

g No,Because Vietnamese don’t often

celebrate their wedding anniversary.

• Learn the old lesson and prepare the next lesson