- Guessing - Listening and taking notes - Giving context - Listening - Writing word on board - Taking notes - Asking Ss to guess meaning - Guessing - Giving correct meaning - Listening a[r]
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Period: 1st
LESSON PLAN
Unit 8: CELEBRATIONS
Period 1: Reading
A Aims: By the end of the lesson, students (Ss) will be able to:
- Understand more about Tet holiday in Vietnam
- Use new words to talk about the activities in the celebrations
B Method: Communicative Approach
C Teaching aids:
- Textbook
- Wallcharts
- Pictures
- Handouts
D Content:
Time
(min.)
Content and Requirements Teacher’s Activities Students ’
Activities
2
6
8
I Classroom stabilization
1 Establishing new class order
2 Checking attendance
II Warm- up
Game: Face to face
List holidays and festivals taking
place every year in Vietnam
Rule: - 2 groups discuss the question
in 2 minutes
- leaders of 2 groups stand in
front of class and play
one-two-three to know who will play first
- 2 leaders will in turn say
their answers Who gives wrong or
repetitive anwers will lose
Suggested answers: Tet holiday,
Liberity Day, Independent Day,
Mother’s Day, Teacher’s Day,
Women’s Day, Summer holiday,
International Labor Day,
Mid-Autumn Festival
III New lesson
A Before you read
* Vocabulary:
- agrarian people(n) ~ farmers
Context: People in my village work
- Greeting class
- Asking monitor
- Presenting the rule of game
- Dividing class in to 2 groups: A and B
- Giving question for discussion
- Asking each group choose a leader to play
- Listen to their answers
- Deciding the winner
- Leading to Tet holiday
- Asking Ss to discuss in pairs about the activities they like doing most at Tet
- Calling some Ss to talk about that
- Introducing new lesson
- Giving context
- Writing word on board
- Greeting teacher
- Responding
- Listening
- Sitting in 2 groups
- Listening to question
- Discussing in 2 mins
- Choosing leader
- Saying answers
- Clapping hands to congratulate winner
- Discussing
- Talking
- Listening
- Listening
- Taking notes
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on fields to produce rice They are
agrarian people
- decorate(v) ~ make st (house,
street ) more beautiful
Context: I decorate my house to
make it more beautiful at Tet
- traditional(adj) ≠ modern(adj)
Context: Kimono is traditional dress
of Japanese women What is the
traditional dress of Vietnamese
women?
- peach bloosom(n)
- apricot blossom(n)
- kumquat tree(n)
* Guiding question:
What is the text about?
B While you read
1 TASK 1:
Match words in colum A with its
synonyms:
1 grand a bang ron,
khau hieu
2 agrarian b su phan
khich
3 banner c thuoc ve
nong nghiep
4 pray d mut tao
5 sugared apples e cau nguyen
6 excitement f hoanh trang
Suggested answers:
1-f, 2-c, 3-a, 4-e, 5-d, 6-b
- Asking Ss toguess meaning
- Giving correct meaning
- Giving context
- Writing word on board
- Asking Ss to guess meaning
- Giving correct meaning
- Asking Ss to use this word
to make sentence
- Calling a S to read sentence
- Giving context and asking question
- Writing word on board
- Asking Ss to guess meaning
- Giving correct meaning
- Showing pictures
- Showing pictures
- Showing pictures
- Reading all words 1 time
- Asking Ss to listen and repeat in chorus
- Calling some Ss to read new words individually
- Checking by hiding new word and asking Ss to read the word basing on its synonym
- Asking Ss to read through the text to answer guiding question
- Hanging the wallchart
- Dividing class into groups
of 3
- Asking Ss to discuss to find out the answers
- Calling some Ss at random
to say answers
- Asking others Ss to check
- Giving correct answers
- Asking Ss to give Vietnamese meaning
- Guessing
- Listening and taking notes
- Listening
- Taking notes
- Guessing
- Listening and taking notes
- Making sentences
- Reading sentence
- Listening and answering
- Taking notes
- Guessing
- Listening and taking notes
- Looking at picture to get meaning of words
- Listening
- Listening and repeating
- Reading
- Remembering and reading
- Reading silently to get the main idea
- Answering guiding question
- Looking at the wallchart
- Sitting in groups of 3
- Discussing
- Reading the answers
- Checking
- Taking notes
- Giving Vietnamese meaning
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2 TASK 3:
Answer the following questions:
1 When is Tet holiday in Vietnam?
2 How long did Tet preparations
and celebrations last in the past?
3 What do streets look like before
Tet?
4 What do people often do to
prepare for Tet?
Suggested answers:
1 It falls sometime between 19th
January and 20th February on the
Western calendar (line 2-3)
2 They used to last over months
(line 5)
3 Streets are decorated with
coloured lights and red banners
(line 7-8)
4 They buy gifts, clean and
decorate houses and cook traditional
food (line 8-9)
3 GAME: Right or Wrong
Find out wrong information in the
passage and correct it:
Thanksgiving is Vietnam’s
main holiday It falls sometime
between 18th January and 20th
February on the Eastern calendar It
used to be shorter than it is
nowadays Streets are decorated
with plants and flowers Homes are
often decorated with coloured lights
and red banners Peach blossom is
traditional at Tet in the South while
apricot blossom is traditional in the
North Everyone receive lucky
number in.side yellow envelopes
Suggested answered:
1, Thanksgiving =) Tet
2, 18th =) 19th
3, Eastern =) Western
4, shorter =) longer
5, streets =) homes
6, homes =) streets
7, South =) North
8, North=) South
9, everyone =) children
10, lucky number =) lucky money
11, yellow =) red
- Asking Ss to read the questions from 1 to 4 of task 3
- Asking Ss to read the passage again and do task 3 individually
- Calling some Ss to read answers
- Asking in which line they find out the answer
- Asking others to comment
- Giving correct answers
- Asking Ss to close books
- Asking Ss to sit in groups
of 3 or 4
- Giving each group a handouts
- Giving them 2 minutes to discuss to find and correct the wrong information in the passage in the handout
- Giving them 3 minutes to write the answers on board
- Hanging the wallchart of passage
- Checking answers with Ss
Which group finishes first and has more correct answers will be the winner and get gift
- Reading questions
- Reading the passage again to do task 3
- Reading answers
- Answering
- Giving comment
- Listening and taking notes
- Closing books
- Sitting in groups
- Receiving handouts
- Discussing
- Writing answers on board
- Looking at the wallchart
- Checking
Trang 4E Self – evaluation:
Strength:
- prepare lesson plan carefully
- organise the board well
- use teaching aids effectively
- control class well
- change something in task 1 to make it easier for students
- make task 2 more interesting
- use individual work, pair work and group work effectively
Weakness:
- do not ask some specific information
- use soft voice
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C After you read
Work in pairs: Tell each other about
your last Tet holiday:
- preparations
- special foods
- activities
IV Consolidation
V Homework:
- read the text again
- learn new words
- do the rest of task 2
- prepare for new lesson
- Asking Ss to work in pairs
to talk about their last Tet holidy
- Calling some Ss to talk
- Giving comment
- Asking a S to summarize
- Summarizing again
- Giving Ss requirements for homework
- Talking in pairs about last Tet holidy
- Talking aloud
- Listening
- Summarizing
- Listening
- Listening and taking notes
Trang 5Thanksgiving is Vietnam’s main holiday It falls sometime between 18th January and 20th February on the Eastern calendar It used to be shorter than it is nowsaday Streets are decorated with plants and flowers Homes are often decorated with coloured lights and red banners Peach blossom is traditional at Tet in the South while apricot blossom is traditional in the North Everyone receive lucky number inside yellow envelopes
Thanksgiving is Vietnam’s main holiday It falls sometime between 18th January and 20th February on the Eastern calendar It used to be shorter than it is nowsaday Streets are decorated with plants and flowers Homes are often decorated with coloured lights and red banners Peach blossom is traditional at Tet in the South while apricot blossom is traditional in the North Everyone receive lucky number inside yellow envelopes
Thanksgiving is Vietnam’s main holiday It falls sometime between 18th January and 20th February on the Eastern calendar It used to be shorter than it is nowsaday Streets are decorated with plants and flowers Homes are often decorated with coloured lights and red banners Peach blossom is
Trang 6traditional at Tet in the South while apricot blossom is traditional in the North Everyone receive lucky number inside yellow envelopes