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- Use the information they have read to discuss the topic III/ Materials Textbook, whiteboard, … Pictures, IV/ Anticipated problems Ss may not have enough vocabulary to talk about the to

Unit 8: celebrations Peroid 1: reading I/ Aim

Reading about Lunar New Year in Vietnam

II/ Objectives

By the and of the lesson, Ss will be able to:

- Develop such reading micro-skills as scanning for specific ideas and guessing meaning in the context

- Use the information they have read to discuss the topic

III/ Materials

Textbook, whiteboard, …

Pictures,

IV/ Anticipated problems

Ss may not have enough vocabulary to talk about the topic, so T should be ready to help them

V/ Procedure

- Ask Ss to work in individual and look at the

pictures

- Give some pictures and tell Ss to answer the

puestion

What time of the year is it?

- Work in individual

- Look at the pictures

- Answer the quetion

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4’

- Call some Ss to answers

- Give feedback

Picture1 : Tet Holiday

Picture2 : Christmas

Picture3 : Teachers’ Day

Picture4 : Mid – Autumn Festival

- Introduce: Vietnam and other countries in

the world have special days we call

celebrations And Lunar New Year or Tet is a

great celibration in Vietnam To understand

more about it we will move to the reading

- Ask Ss open the book on page 90, 91

Before you read

- Tell Ss to look at page 61 and to tell the

partner which of these activities they enjoy

doing most at Tet

- Call some pair of Ss to tell their enjoyment

- Give some new words:

Agrarian /ә’greәriәn/(adj): lien quan den nog

nghiep

Agrarian person (n) : farmer : nong dan

Peach blossom [pi:t∫'bl ɔsәm] (n): Hoa Đào

Apricot blossom ['eiprikɔt 'bl ɔsәm] (n): Hoa

Mai

Kumquat tree ['kʌmkwɔt tri:] (n): Cây Quất

Candied fruit /’kændid fru:t/ (n): Mứt

Lucky money (n): Tiền Lì Xì

- Open the book

- Discuss with the partner

- Answer

- Write down the vocabularies in their notebooks

- Read after T

- Read the passage

- Ask T new words

- Read the letters

- Work in pair

- Answer

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Lunar New Year ['lu:nә nju jiә(r)] (n): Tết âm

lịch

- Read once and ask Ss to repeat

While you read

-Tell Ss to read quickly the text in 5’

- Go around class and help Ss in explain new

words if they are necessary

Task 1

-Call 1 S to read 6 letters in this task

- Explain the request

- Give Vietnamese meaning

- Ask Ss match English words with suitable

Vietnamese meaning

- Call some pair to answer

- Correct the answer

Grand trong dai

Banner khau hieu

Sugared apples tao dam duong

Agrarian thuoc ve nong nghiep

Pray cau nguyen

Excitement hao hung

Task 2

- Ask Ss to scan the passage and decide

whether the statements are true or false

- Call some pair to answer and ask the the

position of information in the passage

- Give correct answer

1 Tet is always on 20th February on the

Western calendar F (sometimes between

19th January and 20th February)

2 According to the text, for people anywhere

in the world the beginning of spring is the

start of a new year F (agrarian people)

3 Tet used to be longer than it nowadays T

4 According to the text, “lucky money” is

given to everyone at Tet F (children)

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

-Work in pair -Do the task

- Answer

- Work in pair

- Scan the passage

- Answer the question

- Write down the answers

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other because they want to have good luck on

New Year’s Day F (during the whole year)

Task 3

- Ask Ss to work in pair, scan the passage and

answer the question

- Call on some pairs to answer and write

down the answesr on whiteboard

- Ask Ss the position of the anwer in the

passage

- Give feedback

1 It’s sometimes between 19th January and

20th Fecbuary

2 Tet’s preparations and celebrations used to

be spread over months

3 They are decorated with coloured lights

and red banners

4.They buy gifts, clean and decorate their

houses and cook traditional foods

5 It is made from sticky rice, green beans and

fatty pork

6 It is candied fruit such as sugar apples,

plums or tomatoes

7 Visiting friends and other family members,

exchanging wishes, going to the pagoda,

playing games

After you read

- Ask to Ss towork in pair and tell their

partners about their last Tet holiday

- Give some suggested questions to support

1 How you prepared?

(cleaned up , decorated the house …)

2 Who you visited ?

(relatives, teachers, friends… )

3 What special foods you ate?

(banh chung, candied fruit…)

4 What activities you enjoyed most ?

( receiving lucky money, going to the flower

market… )

- Call some pair to talk about the last Tet

holiday

- Work in pair

- Discuss with partner

- Answer

- Ask Ss to translate the passage into Vietnamese and prepare the speaking part