Unit 8. Celebrations

receiving “lucky money” visiting relatives and friendsEg: I like making Banh Chung I don’t like eating special Tet foods... According to the text, for people anywhere in the world the b

Can you guess the topic we will study today ?

Unit 8:

decorating the house

making banh chung

eating special Tet foods going to the flower market

going to the pagoda watching fireworks

receiving “lucky money” visiting relatives and friends

Eg: I like making Banh Chung

I don’t like eating special Tet foods

ɔsəm] (n) Mai

* Lunar New Year

c sự nô nức, nhộn nhịp

d to lớn hoành tráng

e thuộc về nông nghiệp

f.biểu ngữ

Find out the Vietnamese equivalent

for the following words

false (F)

2 According to the text, for people anywhere

in the world the beginning of spring is the start of a new year

3 Tet used to be longer than it is nowadays

4 According to the text, “lucky money" is given to everyone at Tet

5 Kumquat trees are popular both in the North and in the South of Vietnam

6 People try to be nice and polite to each other because they want to have good luck

on New Year’ Day

2 Task 2:

2 According to the text, for people anywhere

in the world the beginning of spring is the start

of a new year

3 Tet used to be longer than it is nowadays

4 According to the text, “lucky money” is given

1 When is Tet holiday in Vietnam?

2 How long did Tet preparations and celebrations last in the past?

3 What do the streets look like before Tet?

4 What do people often do to prepare for Tet?

7 What are some popular activities at Tet?

5 What is banh chung made from?

6 What is Mut?

1 When is Tet holiday in Vietnam?

2 How long did Tet preparations and celebrations last in the past?

3 What do the streets look like before Tet?

4 What do people often do to prepare for Tet?

7 What are some popular activities at Tet?

5 What is banh chung made from?

6 What is Mut?

When is Tet holiday

in Vietnam?

It’s sometime between 19th January and 20th February

 Tet’s preparations and celebrations used to

be spread over months

and celebrations last in the past?

What do streets look like

before Tet?

They are decorated with coloured lights and

red banners

 They buy gifts, clean & decorate their

houses & cook traditional foods

do to prepare for Tet?

 It is candied fruit

What is mut?

 It is made from sticky rice, green beans and fatty pork

made from?

What are some popular activities at Tet?

 Visiting friends and other family

members, exchanging wishes, going to the pagoda…

3 Task 3: 6 It is candied fruit

2 Tet’s preparations and celebrations used to

be spread over months

5 It is made from sticky rice, green beans and fatty pork

4 They buy gifts, clean & decorate their houses & cook traditional foods

3 They are decorated with coloured lights

and red banners

1 It’s sometime between 19th January and 20th February

7 Visiting friends and other family members, exchanging wishes, going to the pagoda…

Decide which statements are in

Before Tet During Tet After Tet

WEIRD NEW YEAR TRADITIONS

A strange and weird New Year

tradition in Denmark is

breaking the dishes at

neighbor’s door Strangely

this makes them happy

instead of annoying them

The family with the hugest

tower of broken plates,

glasses, cups and other

crockery is considered to be

the luckiest one because it

means that they have lots of

loyal friends.

Talca is a small town in Chile with a

very strange, weird and freaky New

Year custom The people of Talca

celebrate the new year with their dead relatives in the cemetery

People are welcomed in the cemetery with light classical music and dim

blinking lights making the cemetery are perfect party place They believe that their loved ones wait for them in the

cemetery and they should start the new year with them The tradition began in

1995, when a local family jumped the cemetery fence to spend New Year’s

near their father’s grave Now over

5,000 people have adopted this

tradition

WEIRD NEW YEAR TRADITIONS

It’s a tradition in America to share

a sweet midnight kiss with your

girlfriend or boyfriend or with

anyone in case you don’t have one This will make the coming year

incredibly beautiful for you They believe that this practice brings

true love It washes away the bad memories and fate from the past and marks the beginning of a New Year full of love and life A famous movie, “In Search of A Midnight

Kiss” is themed on this New Year

Ritual.

Imagine streets full of people

wearing polka dots and

dinning table full of

round-shaped food and fruits on

one single day of the year These actually happen in the

Philippines on New Year’s

eve every year Filipinos

believe this will bring them prosperity by associating the round dots to coins and

wealth.

Residents of Brazil, Mexico,

American states welcome the New Year by wearing colorful underwear The usually wear

red, yellow or other brightly

colored under-wears past

midnight to catch good fortune for the coming year Red means an amorous love life ahead and yellow expresses the desire to gain money and wealth The wishes of the locals are

expressed via their underpants.

Decide which statements are in

Before Tet During Tet After Tet

 How you prepare for Tet

 How you decorated your house

 Who you visited

 What special foods you ate

 What activities you enjoyed doing most during Tet

time of the year is it ?

Valetine’s Day

Christmas

Mid – Autumn Festival