Unit 7 Readinng 11 NC.ppt

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UNIT 8:

Period I : Reading

1 Vietnamese National Day

2 King Hung’s Death Aniversary

4 Vietnamese New Year’s Day

5 Vietnamese Teacher’s Day

3 Mid-Autumn Festival

These are Celebrations

Square glutinous rice cakes Cylindrical glutinous rice cakes

Red envelopes

Vietnamese New Year’s Day ( 1 st of the first lunar month)

c Vocabulary

+ Lunar New Year :Têt Âm lịch

+ Positive comments: những lời nói tốt đẹp

+ Candied fruit: mứt

+ Grand(a): lớn, quan trọng

+ Banner(n): băng rôn, khẩu hiệu

+ Agrarian(a): thuộc về nông nghiệp

+ Pray(v): cầu nguyện,

+.spread(v): kéo dài, trải ra

+ To be full of: đầy, nhiều

+ To fall between… and…rơi vào khoảng thời

gian từ…đến…

Matching game

Paragraph 1 Tet’s preparation

Paragraph 2 The purpose of the

Tet Paragraph 3 During the Tet

Paragraph 4 Tet’s plants and foods

3 Tet used to be longer than it is nowdays.

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 poline to each other because they want to have good luck on New Year Day.

Task 3: Answer the following

questions

1 When is Tet holiday in Vietnam ?

It’s sometime between 19 January and 20

February

2 How long did Tet preparations and

celebrations last in the past ?

For months

3 What do streets look like before Tet ?

Streets are decorated with colored lights

and red banner

Task 3: Answer the following

questions

1 When is Tet holiday in Vietnam ?

* It’s sometime between 19 January and 20

February

2 How long did Tet preparations and

celebrations last in the past ?

* For months

3 What do streets look like before Tet ?

* Streets are decorated with colored lights

and red banner

4.What do people often do to prepare for Tet?

* They buy gifls, clean and decorate their houses and cook traditional foods

5 What is banh chung made from ?

* It is made from sticky rice, green beans and

fatty pork

6 What is mut ?

* Mut is candied fruit

7.What are some popular activities at Tet ?

* Visiting friends and other family members,

exchanging wishes, going to the pagoda,

playing game, etc

Culture What? When? Activities

Tet Nguyen Dan

Vietnamese The first

3 days of the first lunar month

- Cooking traditional foods, buying gifts and ornamental trees and flowers

- Visiting family members,neighbors

…

- Engaging in games and entertaining

activities

- Learn the new words and make sentences.

- Read the text again and translate it into Vietnamese

- Prepare listening skill for the next period.

1 When is Tet holiday in Vietnam ?

4.What do people often do to prepare for Tet?

They buy gifls, clean and decorate their houses and cook traditional foods.

5 What is banh chung made from ?

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

6 What is mut ?

Mut is candied fruit.

6.What are some popular activities at Tet ?

Visiting friends and other family members, exchanging

wishes, going to the pagoda, playing game, etc.

Lunar calendar /‘lu : nə /

b Name the celebrations and their dates

King Hung’s Death Anniversary ( 10th of the 3rd lunar month)

Moon cake

Mid-Autumn Festival

( 15th of the 8th lunar month)

Vietnamese National Day ( September 2nd)

Vietnamese Teachers‘ Day

1 glutinous rice cake

2 wrestling

3 buffalo fighting

4 dragon dancing

5 unicorn dancing

6 (to) beat chest

7 (to) blow (blew- blown) horn

* Match the words in A with their definitions in B

b Live without food or eat

only certain kinds of food.

c Sorrow for having done

sth.

d consider, judge.

e to keep coming to your

mind so that you can’t forget it.

f Express happy.

Culture What? When? Activities

/mu:’hærəm/

1 st month of Islamic

calendar

- Beating chests

Shiite

/’ i: ait ʃ /

- Processions gathering

Culture What? When? Activities

and repenting

Rosh Hashanah /ha’ ʃɔ:n ə/

( Tishri) September

or October

6 What foods and drinks are typically served

during Tet?

a Glutinous rice cakes g Fast food

c Drinking water i Beer

f Candied ginger l Fruits, tea

7 What are Tet Nguyen Dan’s traditional forms of entertainment mentioned in the text?

2 Dragon/unicorn dancing 7 Lottery drawing

5 Buffalo fighting

8 What is the key difference between Shiite and Jewish New Year observances and

those of the other countries described in

the text?

During Shiite and Jewish New year’s Day, people mourn by beating chests or by fasting to show repentance New Year’s Day in Europe, the USA, and Viet Nam are joyous and festive

IV post- reading

One of the most common New Year

preparations is music Give a list of your favorite songs you would select for your whole family to listen to during the New Year days

1 Happy New Year!

2 Jingle Bells

3 Last Christmas