Unit 8 - Celebrations

I.Warm-up Brainstorming Celebrations you know * Possible answers: Birthday, Tet Lunar New Year, Christmas, Valentine Day, Women’s Day, Teacher’s Day, Wedding, May Day, Passover, Easter

English 9

Unit 8 - Celebrations

lessson 1:

Getting started + listen and read

Vũ Văn Hà – THCS Phù Cừ

I.Warm-up ( Brainstorming )

Celebrations you

know

* Possible answers:

Birthday, Tet (Lunar New Year), Christmas, Valentine Day, Women’s Day, Teacher’s Day, Wedding, May Day, Passover, Easter, Mid Autumn Festival…

II Pre-reading

1.Getting started

2.Vocabulary

(to) occur:

(to) decorate:

Freedom (u.n):

Slavery (u.n):

(be) jewish :

(a) parade:

Xảy ra

Trang trí

Sự tự do

Sự nô lệ, chế độ nô lệ

Thuộc về Do Thái, Người Do Thái

Cuộc diễu hành, đám rước

* Checking vocab

Slap the board

Xảy ra Trang t rí Sự tự do

Cuộc

diễu

hành

Sự nô lệ Ngườ

i Do T hái

3 Gap-filling

* Tet: The Lunar New Year (1) …… is the most

important celebration for (2) people Tet is a … festival occurs in late (3) or early February …

* Passover: (4) is in late March or early (5) … …

On this (6) , people celebrate freedom from

slavery.

chocolate or sugar eggs as long as they are good

Students' answers:

1.Checking answers:

Students read and check the anwers:

Answers:

1 holiday 2 Vietnamese 3 January

4 Passover 5 April 6 festival

7 Easter 8 receive

III While-reading

2.Complete the table

Celebration When? Activities Food Country

Tet

In late January or early February

Cleaning and decorating homes, wearing new clothes and enjoying special food

Sticky rice cakes

Vietnam

Passover In late March or

early April

Eating special meal

Speacial meal called seder Israel

Easter Watching colorful

parades

Around the same time as Passover

Chocolate, sugar, eggs In many

countries

1 is / When / Vietnam / in / celebrated / Tet?

⇒is / in / January / early / late / February / It / or

celebrated

2 People / do / What / on Tet / do?

⇒clean / decorate / homes / they / and / their

3 they / new clothes / Do / wear?

=> they / Yes / , / do

4 Vietnamese people / do / What / eat / on Tet?

=> usually / sticky rice cakes / eat / They

IV Post-reading

Put the given words in their right orders to make meaningful questions and anwers.

1 When is Tet celebrated in vietnam?

⇒ It is celebrated in late January or early

February

2 What do people do on Tet?

⇒ They clean and decorate their homes

3 Do they wear new clothes?

⇒ Yes, they do

4 What do Vietnamese people eat on Tet?

=> They usually eat sticky rice cakes

V Homework

- Look at the table again, use the cues and make

questions and answers about "Passover" and

"Easter" ( 4 questions and answers for each )

The lesson ends

Good health, good luck, good learning and goodbye !