TIẾNG ANH CHUYÊN NGÀNH unit 2 part2

• Chung – day cakes, tet cake, candy fruit and seeds • Offer the ancestors and treat the guests decoration • Clean the house, redecorate • Clean and decorate the altar • See off the evi

Steps to write a description

Unit goal: Steps to write a descriptive essay Topic for practice: Write an essay to describe some of your favorite features of Tet holiday in

Vietnam.

• Chung – day cakes, tet cake, candy fruit and seeds

• Offer the ancestors and treat the guests

decoration

• Clean the house, redecorate

• Clean and decorate the altar

• See off the evil, welcome the good luck

• Invite the ancestors to enjoy the festival

customs • “Xong dat”, “tat nien” offering,

giving lucky money

Step 1 : Brainstorming the ideas

Vietnamese TET holiday

Step 1 : Brainstorming the vocabulary

◦Prepare

◦Preparation

◦Celebrate

◦Celebration

◦Reunite

◦Reunion

◦Occasion

◦Grave

◦Altar

◦Ancestors

◦New Year’s Eve

◦Pay off the debt

◦Show respect

◦Kitchen Gods

◦Peach blossom

◦Kumquat tree

◦Lucky money

◦Tet greetings

◦Sticky rice cake

◦Taboo

◦Buddhist temples

◦Swept away

◦Roasted watermelon seeds

◦Meat stewed in coconut water

◦Pickled onion

◦Dried candy fruit

◦ Five fruit tray

◦ Pray

◦ Good health

◦ Prosperity

◦ Longevity

◦ Symbolize for

◦ Symbol

◦ Red/yellow color

◦ Lion dance

◦ Noisy/noise

Step 2 : Outlining

Introduction

1. Hook: The role of Tet among holidays

2. Background:

When to celebrate?

Why to celebrate?

3. Thesis statement: Which features of the Tet

do you like best?

1 Hook: Tet is the most important traditional holiday in Vietnam

2 Background:

- on the first three days of Lunar Calendar

- to welcome the New year, to show their respect to the ancestors, to reunite the family, to enjoy after a year working hard

3 Thesis statement:

- preparation for the Tet with my beloved family

Body: Paragraph 1

◦Topic sentence:

- prepare our house with lots of work in decoration and

cleaning.

◦Descriptive details:

- What do we do to prepare our house, our

neighborhood? Why?

- What do you use to decorate?

- What colors do you prefer in this occasion ? Why?

- Why do we clean and decorate the altar?

Supporting point 1: clean and decorate the house

Descriptive details:

+ sweep away the bad luck to welcome the good ones + clean their house, do the wash up, buy new furniture -> want to make a new look for a new start in the New year

+ Prefer the red and the yellow -> bring good luck and wealthy to the house -> choose red Peach blossom or bright yellow marigold to be the flower of the holiday

+ Decorate the house with the objects like red envelopes, or trees like kumquat that symbolize for the prosperity or fertility.

Supporting point 2: clean and decorate the altar

Descriptive details:

+ clean and decorate the altar to invite the ancestors to enjoy the holiday + Burn the jot sticks or offer the “five fruit tray”

Body: Paragraph 2

◦Topic sentence:

- Prepare traditional foods

◦Descriptive details:

What are the traditional foods?

What are some of their descriptions (look,

taste, smell)?

What are the meanings of these foods?

Who enjoy the foods?

What other foods for the occasion?

Supporting point 1: general description of foods and meaning

Descriptive details:

◦the menu includes rice, meat, fish and vegetables -> Vietnamese traditional products

◦prepare big feast to offer their ancestors, treat the guests and enjoy together.

Supporting point 2: description of traditional foods and meaning

Descriptive details:

◦Chung cake: square cake made of glutinous rice, pork and green beans wrapped in the dong leaves and boiled for a day It symbolizes the Earth.

◦Day cake: round cake made of glutinous rice and green beans It symbolizes the Sky.

◦pork cooked with eggs in coconut milk and fish sauce.

◦bitter melon stuffed with meat,

◦preserved fruit such as ginger, coconut, kumquat fruit, or tomatoes in various shapes and colors

◦Restate the controlling idea of the

essay

◦Summarize the two main ideas that

support the controlling idea of the

essay

◦Give final thought

Restatement

◦the most interesting part is the preparation for Tet

Summary

◦Spend time and energy

to clean up decorate the house cook many kinds of foods… -> working together makes the Tet’s atmosphere warm and cosy

Final thought

◦to reunite, together hold feasts

to offer the ancestors,

to visit parents and relatives… -> tighten the relationship among members in the family

Step 3 : Drafting

Use your brainstorming vocabulary, and your outline to write your first draft While writing, pay attention to your use of descriptive adjectives and prepositions/

prepositional phrases to describe the features of Tet that you like best.

Step 4 : Editing

Editor’s check list

◦ 1 Checking on the form:

- Does the essay have an introduction, body and conclusion?

- Does the essay have transitional words and phrases?

- Does the essay have any irrelevant ideas?

◦ 2 Checking on the content:

Introduction

- Does the introduction have a hook to get the reader’s attention?

- Does it have background information to tell the reader when to celebrate Tet and the meaning of the holiday?

- Does the thesis statement state your favorable features of Vietnamese Tet?

Body

- Do the body paragraphs have the topic sentences?

- Do the body paragraphs include details that describe the favorable features of Vietnamese Tet? Do they touch the senses of the reader (seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting)?

- Does the essay have similes to make the writing more descriptive?

- Does each paragraph have a concluding sentence?

◦ Conclusion

- Does the conclusion restate the controlling idea of the essay?

- Does it have a summary of the main ideas stated in each body paragraph?

- Does it include the final thought of the writer?

◦ 3 Checking on language

- Do you use the sensitive details in description?

- Do you use the emotional details in description?

- Do you use any kinds of phrases in writing?

Step 4 : Peer Editing

Peer Editor’s check list

◦1 Checking on the form:

 Does the essay have an introduction, body and conclusion?

 Does the essay have transitional words and phrases?

 Does the essay have any irrelevant ideas?

◦2 Checking on the content:

◦Introduction

◦ Does the introduction have a hook to get the reader’s attention?

 Does it have background information to tell the reader when to celebrate Tet and the meaning of the holiday?

 Does the thesis statement state your favorable features of Vietnamese Tet?

Do the body paragraphs have the topic sentences?

 Do the body paragraphs include details that describe the favorable features of Vietnamese Tet?

 Do they touch the senses of the reader (seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting)?

 Do the body paragraphs need more details supported? If yes, what paragraph?

Does the essay have similes to make the writing more descriptive?

Does each paragraph have a concluding sentence?

◦Conclusion

Does the conclusion restate the controlling idea of the essay?

Does it have a summary of the main ideas stated in each body paragraph?

Does it include the final thought of the writer?

Thank you for enjoying the lesson!