Giáo án Tiếng Anh 11 Unit 8: Celebrations

Giáo án Tiếng Anh 11Unit 8: CELEBRATIONS Part A: READINGObjectives Help students understand the content of the reading how Vietnamese people celebrate their Lunar New year / Tet and the

Giáo án Tiếng Anh 11

Unit 8: CELEBRATIONS

Part A: READINGObjectives

Help students understand the content of the reading (how Vietnamese people celebrate their Lunar New year / Tet) and the new words in context

Students can do Tasks 1, 2, 3

-Teacher shows the picture in the

textbook and raises some questions like

these

1 Are the people in the picture

members of the same family?

-Answer

 Yes / Yes, they are

2 What time of the year is it?

3 What are they doing?

4 What can you see on the table?

5 What else can you see in the picture?

-Teacher has the students work in pairs,

telling each other which of these

activities he/she doing most at Tet

A making banh chung

B decorating the house

C eating Tet special foods

D going to flowers market

E going to the pagoda

F watching fireworks

G receiving “lucky money”

H visiting relatives and friends

 It is the first day of the Lunar year

 They are celebrating the New Year

 There are banh chung, mut, fruits and red envelops

on the table

 We can see the apricot flowers and kumquat tree behind the people

-Work in pairs

While

Reading

30’

-Have students listen to the tape

-Explain some new words in the

-Have students do Task 1 (giving

Vietnamese equivalents for some

English words in the text)

- grand

- agarian

- banner

-Do Task 1

-Have students read the whole passage

silently and do task 2 (True/ False

Have students work in groups and

answer the questions

 Have the representative of each

group write their answers on the board

 Have some pairs practise asking

-Listen and take notes

-Take notes

9’ and answering questions.

Have students work in pairs, telling

each other about his/her last Tet

holidays focusing on the main points :

-how you and your family prepared

for Tet

-how you decorated your house

-who you visited and who visited you

-which special foods you liked best

-which activities you most enjoyed

Write down Task 3 in the notebooks

Prepare Part B - Speaking

III Teaching aids

Chalks , board , pictures in text book , some greeting cards

IV Teaching procedures

STAGES TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES

occasion these are used

- Explain the verb “ dress up “

dress up : to wear one’s best clothes

Ex: Don’t bother to dress up – Come

Answer

- Listen and take notes

30’ as

You are

Task 1 :

- Give instructions

- Ask students to do task 1 ( page 93),

playing the role of Mai and Anna , and

then

reverse the role

- Ask one or two pairs perform their

dialogue in front of the class

Task 2 :

- Have students do Task 2 ( match the

holidays with their meanings and

C

Post-speaking

10’

S 1 : It’s Valentine’s Day

S 2: They give chocolates , flowers or

S2 : What is Valentine’s Day ?

S1 : It’s the time when people express

IV Homework

+ Write down Task 3 in the notebooks

+ Prepare Part C: Listening (Students get to know some new words in the Listening part on p.94)

Unit 8: CELEBRATIONS

Part C: LISTENINGObjectives

Help students know some aspects of the Japanese New Year

wearing kimonos or special dress

giving or receiving lucky money

going to the pagoda

While-listening

30’

Read the new words provided

Explain some new words (similarities, fraction, broadcast …)

Task 1Ask students to read Task 1 silentlyHave students listen to the tape twice and do Task 1

They put on special clothes ()Everyone cleans the house ()Bells ring 108 times ()

Housewives prepare special foods

()They decorate their houses with kumquat trees

They go to a shrine ()They give each other “lucky money.”

They drink rice wine ()They play cards

visiting friends

-Listen and repeat

-Read Task 1-Listen to the tape twice and choose the best answers-Give answers

They watch television ()

They eat a special meal ()

Because they want to get rid of the

old year and welcome the new one

They hear the bells from television or

the radio

They wear kimonos or special dress

No, they don’t New Year’s Day is

mostly celebrated among family only

Correct mistakes

Ask students to work in pairs,

comparing the following aspects of

-Take notes

-Read the questions in Task 2.-Listen to the passage and answer the questions

Post-listening

9’

the Vietnamese New Year with those

of the Japanese one

preparationsfoods and clothesactivities on New Year’s Evepeople to celebrate withhave some pairs of students perform

in front of the class

give feedback

-Work in pairs

-Give their presentation

Homework

Practice listening at home

Prepare Part D - Writing

III TEACHING AIDS:

- Textbook ( English 11 ), Chalks, Outline of the description

IV TEACHING PROCEDURES :

STAGE

S

TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES

Warm up

- Write on the blackboard some

popular celebrations in Vietnam

 Mid-Autumn Festival

 National Independence

Day

 Teachers’ Day

Pre-Writing

(5’)

 Women’s Day

- Ask students some questions

1 When is Teachers’ Day?

2 What do you often do on that

- Give some cues related to some

popular celebrations Our

students’ description should

include the following main

points:

 name of the celebration

 time of the celebration

 purpose of the celebration

 main activities of the

- Do the writing.

Post-Writing

(15’)

- Have the representatives of two

groups to write their description

Every year, on November

20th , all schools throughout our country celebrate Teachers’ Day It is a good time for students to show their love, respect and gratitude towards their teachers On the morning

of November 20th , all students are at school to attend the celebration and enjoy the music show played by our school bandand other students After that

we give our teachers beautiful flowers, cards and best wishes

- Give remarks and correct

mistakes

We also pay a visit to our former teachers in the afternoon

I enjoy Teachers’ Day because it is on that day that we can show our gratitude towards our teachers

- Listen and take notes

* HOMEWORK :

- Students reread carefully the description, practise rewriting it

- Prepare Part E – Language Focus

-have the students listen and repeat the

-Work in pairs  read aloud the dialogue in the textbook

- Go to the board to group the words from the

dialogue

words provided.

B Grammar Pronoun ONE(S)

Pronoun ONE(S) is used to avoid

repeating a noun when you are referring

to sb/sth that has already mentioned

Example:

+Which pen would you prefer, the blue

or the red one?

+These cases are heavy Those ones are

light

SOMEONE, NO ONE, ANYONE and

EVERYONE are used with singular

+Look! Someone is knocking at the door.

-choral and individual repetition

-Work in pairs

-Do Exercise 1,2 and 3

+Everyone speaks English in this class.

+Is there anyone at home?

+There isn’t anyone at home.

+There’s no one at home.

-Have students do Exercise 1,2 and 3

-Correct mistakes  Suggested answers

Exercise 1 (p.98)

1 anyone 2 Someone 3 anyone

4 someone 5 no one 6 everyone

Exercise 2 (p.98)

1 Of the three bags I like the blue one

2 Mai is making a fruit cake, Huong is

making one, too

3 I like reading books, especially the

ones about the natural world

4 I don’t have a computer, and my

father doesn’t want me to have one

5 They let me choose a pencil, and I

took the red one

6 There are several celebrations in

+individual +pair work-Give answers-Take notes

Vietnam, but perhaps the most

meaningful one is Tet holiday

7 We told each other both happy stories and sad ones about our lives