Unit 8: Celebrations Reading

PRE- READING ACTIVITIESWARM - UP The teacher asks students to listen to the song and then answer the following questions 1 What is the title of the song?.  The teacher asks students to

TRƯỜNG THPT L C H NG ỘC HƯNG ƯNG

READING

UNIT 8: CELEBRATIONS

AIM:

Reading a passage of 250 –300 words for general and specific information

OBJECTIVES:

By the end of the lesson students will be able to

- know more about one of the traditional

Vietnamese festivals.

- Use words and expressions related to festivals.

- improve reading skill through true- false

sentences and comprehension questions

UNIT 8: CELEBRATIONS

• Teaching aids: whiteboard,

pictures showing activities

people often do during Tet

holidays, computer, overhead projector etc.

PRE- READING ACTIVITIES

WARM - UP

The teacher asks students to listen to the song and then answer the following questions

1) What is the title of the song?

2) When and why do people often sing it?

3) What is it about?

 Students answer.

Suggested Answers.

1) HAPPY NEW YEAR

2) On the last days of the old year and at the beginning of the new year To welcome to the new year 3) the feelings about the old year and the new year.

  

T:  The teacher presents new vocabulary.

 The teacher asks students to look at the picture on page 12 and answer the questions about it

 Students answer them

The teacher asks students to look at the

picture on page 90 and then work in pairs

to answer question 1

1.What time of the year is it?

Tet, The Vietnamese lunar New year

The teacher asks students to look at the

picture again and says:

“Look at the picture again This is a

Vietnamese family on new year’s day

There are six people: the grandparents, the parents and the two children What are they doing?”

The grand mother is giving her grand

children lucky money inside red envelopes

What else do you see in the picture?

We can see the peach blossom,

kumquat tree, the ancestral altar

with a tray of five fruits, banh chung, mut on the table

The teacher asks students to work in pairs to talk about what activities they enjoy doing most at Tet Are there any other things you like doing?

a.making banh chung

b.decorating the house

c.eating special Tet foods

d.going to the flowers market

e.going to the pagoda

f watching fireworks

g.receiving “lucky money”

h.visiting relatives and friends

  The teacher sets the scene by saying: “To

understand more about Tet Holidays today we’ll learn unit 8 and by the end of the lesson you’ll be able to talk about some activities during Tet

holidays”

WHILE- READING ACTIVITIES

The teacher allows 3 minutes for

students to read the passage silently and then ask them to do task 1

individually

Students find what the following words mean in the text They can use a

dictionary when necessary

Suggested Answers

1.grand:

2.agrarian:

3.banner:

4.pray:

5.sugared apples:

6.excitement:

to lớn, hoành tráng

thuộc về nông nghiệp băng rôn, khẩu hiệu

cầu nguyện

táo dầm / tẩm đường sự nô nức, nhộn nhịp

The teacher divides the class into four

groups and then asks students to decide which are correct If the sentence is

false, the teacher asks students to make

it true, or explain why it is false

 After students finish, the teacher has

one member of each group go to the

blackboard to do his task.

1 Tet is always on 20th February on the

Western calendar F

Tet is sometimes between 19 January and

20th February on the Western calendar.

2.According to the text, for people

anywhere in the world the beginning

of spring is the start of a new year F According to the text, for agrarian

people the beginning of spring is the start of a new year.

3 Tet used to be longer than it is

nowadays T

4 According to the text, “lucky

money” is given to everyone at Tet

F

According to the text, “lucky

money” is given to children at Tet.

5 Kumquat trees are popular

both in the North and in the

South of Vietnam T

6 People try to be nice and

polite to each other because they want to have good luck

on New Year’s Day F

On the days of Tet people try to be

nice and polite to each other

because they believe that what

they do on the first day of the

year will influence their luck

during the whole year.

1 When is Tet holiday in Vietnam?

2 How long did Tet preparations and

celebrations last in the past?

It’s sometime between 19 January

and 20 February.

For months.

The teacher asks students to work in pairs to answer the questions in task 3.

The teacher moves round helping students

when they are in difficulty.

When students have finished, the teacher has some pairs ask and answer the questions in

front of the class.

The teacher gives feedback and correct

answers.

 Suggested Answers

Task 3:

They buy gifts, clean and decorate their house and cook traditional foods.

It’s made from sticky rice, green beans and

fatty pork

Visiting friends and other family members,

exchanging wishes, going to the pagoda, playing

games, etc.

It is candies fruit such as sugared apples,

plums or tomatoes.

They are decrated with coloured lights and red

banners.

THE POST-READING ACTIVITIES

The teacher asks students to work in

groups to talk about their last Tet holiday, focusing on the following main points:

•how you prepared for Tet

•how you decorated your house

•who you visited

•what special foods you ate

•what activities you enjoyed doing

most during Tet.