Unit 13. Festivals ( Write )

to the river to get the 5 ...In the fire-making contest two team members had to make a fire in the 6 .... people from each team took part in the rice-cooking contest.. by Festival Counci

2 Lunar new year

1 Halloween

5 Mid-Autumn festival

4 Rice - cooking festival

3 Christmas

Thursday, March 18th , 2010

(Page 126 – 127 )

Thursday, March 18th , 2010

Lesson 4: Write (Page 126 – 127)

- a lantern : lồng đèn

a lantern – making contest : cuộc thi làm lồng đèn

- a moon cake : bánh trung thu

- to announce : thông báo

The Rice-cooking Festival

This report shows how the (1) festival was held

The festival was held in the communal house yard about (2) kilometer away from a river There were three competitions: (3) ., fire-making and rice-cooking The festival took one day

In the water-fetching contest one person from each team had to (4) to the river to get the (5) In the fire-making contest two team members had to make a fire in the (6) way They tried to rub pieces of (7) together to make the fire (8) people from each team took part in the rice-cooking contest They had to (9) the rice from the husk and then cook the rice

After the three contests, all the points were (10) and the

Thon Trieu group won the grand prize The festival was wonderful

by Festival Councilor Pham Phuong Linh

rice - cooking

one / a

water - fetching

traditional bamboo

Six

separate

added

a) What is the name of the festival?

b) Where was the festival held?

c) How long did the festival last?

d) How many activities were there?

Were there any competitions?

e) How were the activities organized?

f) How many people took part in each

activity?

g) What did you think about the festival?

* Write a similar report on a festival you joined recently The answers to the questions below can help you.

1) The festival / hold / 15th of August / school yard.

2) It / last / 4 hours.

3) There / lot / activities / such as / sing / play traditional games / … 4) Children / interested / special cake / called “Moon cake”.

5) The / interesting activity / be / lantern – making contest.

6) This contest / four students / each team / have to / make / lantern 7) Contest / last / 2 hours.

8) Finally / council leader / announce / the / beautiful lantern / be / class 8A5.

9) First prize / award / class 8A5.

10) Festival / be / happy / wonderful.

The festival / hold / 15th of August / school yard.

It / last / 4 hours.

There / lot / activities / such as / sing / play

traditional games / …

Children / interested / special cake / called “Moon cake”

Finally / council leader / announce / the / beautiful lantern / be / class 8A5.

First prize / award / class 8A5.

The / interesting activity / be / lantern – making

contest

Contest / last / 2 hours.

The festival was held on the 15th of August in the

school yard It lasted four hours.

There were a lot of activities such as: singing,

playing traditional games,… Children were

interested in a special cake called “Moon cake”.

The most interesting activity was the lantern –

making contest In this contest four students from each team had to make a lantern The contest lasted

2 hours.

Finally, the council leader announced the most

beautiful lantern was of class 8A5

The first prize was awarded to class 8A5

The festival was held on the 15th of August in the

school yard It lasted four hours.

There were a lot of activities such as: singing, playing traditional games,… Children were interested in a

special cake called “Moon cake”.

The most interesting activity was the lantern – making contest In this contest four students from each team had to make a lantern The contest lasted 2 hours.

Finally, the council leader announced the most

wonderful.

- Learn by heart all the new words.

- Report the rice – cooking festival and the

mid – autumn festival.

- Prepare the new lesson: lesson 5: Language focus:

* Grammar:

+ Passive form: be + past participle

+ Compound words: rice - cooking, fire - making, ect + Reported speech.

See you again!!!