unit 8.speaking

Warm – up: Give the names of the celebrations or festivals through the given images 5 4 Mid-Autumn Festival Thanksgiving Tet holiday Valentine Christmas...  Activity 1: Practise pronou

Warm – up:

Give the names of the celebrations or festivals through the given images

5 4

Mid-Autumn Festival

Thanksgiving Tet holiday

Valentine Christmas

Part B: Speaking

 Activity 1: Practise pronouncing the words:

Celebrate Lunar

Exactly Special Relative Traditional Thanksgiving Chocolates Valentine Mid – Autumn festival Parade

Harvest Roast turkey

 Activity 2 : Practise reading the dialogue between Mai and

Anna about Tet hoilday in Viet Nam (Task1)

Mai: Do you know that Tet holiday is next month?

Anna: What is Tet?

Mai: It’s the time when Vietnamese

people celebrate the beginning of spring

It’s also the start of the lunar new year

Anna: When is it exactly?

Mai: Well, this year it’s

on the 9th of February

Anna: What do you usually do at Tet?

Mai: Well, we eat a lot of special foods, we dress up and visit

friends and relatives, and we also play some traditional games

 Activity 3 : Match the holidays with its date , its main

purpose and it activities.

Holiday/

celebration Its date Its main purpose Its activities

1.thanks

-giving

a.15 th day of the 8 th

lunar month

A.People celebrate the largest full moon in the year

I.They give chocolates, flowers or gifts to people they love

2.Valentine’s

day b.Third Thursday inNovember B.People celebrate

the harvest

II.Family members get together They prepare a large meal with roast turkey

3.Mid-Autumn

Festival

c.14 th February C.People

express their love to each other

III.Children wear masks, parade in the streets, have parties with special

cakes and lots of fruits

Activity 3 : Ask and answer about the holidays above, using the dialogue

in Task 1 as model and the following suggestion:

A: When is (name of the hoiliday) ?

B: It is on (date)

A: What is its purpose?

B; People (the purpose)

A: What do you usually do at that day?

B: Well, (the activities)

A: Oh, that sounds really interesting

 Activity 4 : Retell one of the holidays above,

using the suggestion:

Tet is the time when Viet namese people

celebrate the beginning of spring It’s also

the start of the lunar new year This year Tet

is on the 9th of February.At Tet we eat a lot

of special foods, dress up and visit friends and relatives, and we also play some

traditional games Tet is really interesting.

 Homework: :

-Write a short paragraph about one of the holidays you have just learnt.

- Prepare Listening.