Suggested answer: +, Name and time of festival: MidAutumn festival, the fifteen day of the eighth lunar month +, Purpose / meaning of festival to welcome the brightest full moon of the y[r]
Trang 1Planning date: 23.11.2011 Teaching date: 28.11.2011 class 11B
29.11.2011 class 11A 29.11.2011 class 11D
45th Period
Unit 8: Celebration
Period 1: Reading.
I Objective:
1 Knowledge
Students will understand more about one of traditional festivals in Vietnam – Lunar New Year – Tet Sts can improve their vocabulary about the topic through speaking and writing activities
2 Skills:
- Develop such reading micro-skills such as scanning for specific ideas and guessing meaning in the context
- Use the information they have read to discuss the topic
3 Education:
- Educate Sts to understand well our culture and festival in their country
II Preparation of the teacher and students:
1 Teacher: Textbook, Lesson plan, Pictures of Tet holiday
2 Students: textbooks, notebooks, pens
II Procedure.
1 Organization (1’).
- Greeting
- Check attendance
2 Check-up.
- No checking
3 New lesson.
Teacher’s Activities Time Students’ Activities.
Warm-up.
T plays or sings the song “Happy New
Year” of the band ABBA Then give
some questions:
What is the title of the song?
When do people often sing it?
What is it about?
5’ Sts listen to the song and then answer some questions on teacher
Suggested answer:
1 Happy New Year
2 To welcome the New Year.
3 Feeling about the old year and the new year.
Trang 2Before you read.
T asks Sts to look at the picture in the
notebook and answer three questions
If Sts have difficulties, T can suggest by
making some questions:
Are they family?
Where are they?
What are they doing?
Are they happy?
What are on the table?
What trees is on the right of the picture /
on the left of the picture?
Have Ss work in pairs to tell which of
the activities in the book they enjoy
doing the most at Tet Sts may also list
other activities they like doing at Tet T
reminds Ss to give reason for their
answers
Call on some Sts to present their answers
and other Sts comment
T pre-teach some words and phrases:
T use a piece of calendar and present
western and lunar calendar
February
2007
17
Thu Bay
- Western month
- Western year
Thang gieng
1
Dinh hoi
lunar month lunar year
10
Look at the picture and answer them with a partner
1 It is Spring and it should be Tet holiday because we can see the apricot blossom and kumquat tree full of ripe fruit.
2 The people in the picture may be a family The grandmother is giving her niece and nephew some lucky money The girl, the boy and their parents may be wishing their parents good health and happiness.
3 In the picture we can also see a five-fruit tray on the ancestral altar and a dish of fruits, a tray of candied fruits and a banh chung on the table.
Talk about the activities they like doing at Tet
Listen to T’s explanation and write down in the book
- spread (v): kéo dài
- a great deal of = a lot of
- to be busy doing sth:
- throughout (pre): khắp
- influence (v): ảnh hưởng
- exchange wishes: chúc nhau
- red envelope: phong bì đỏ
- festival (n): lễ hội
- fall between…and…
- to be full of: tràn đầy
- Candied fruit : bánh mứt
- positive comment: lời chúc tốt đẹp
- banner(n):
- sugared apple(n):
- grand(a):
Trang 3While you read.
Task 1.
T sets the scene: You are going to read a
passage about Tet holiday in Vietnam
While you are reading, do the tasks in
the textbook.
T writes these words on the board:
Grand, banner, sugared apples,
agrarian, pray, excitement.
Instruct Sts to read the passage quickly
and stop at the lines that contain these
words to guess their meaning.
T checks that Sts understand the words
correctly T can check Sts’
understanding by asking them to provide
the Vietnamese equivalent tot the words
Task 2.
Instruction: you are going to read the
passage and decide whether the
statements are true of false.
T and Sts read through the statements
Ask Sts to underline the key words
Ask Ss to work individually to do the
task and discuss their answers with their
peers
Call on some Ss to give their answers
and ask them to explain their choices
8
3’
Read the text Guess the meaning of the words based in the contexts in the sentences For example, to guess
the meaning of grand (line 1, first paragraph) St may base their
guessing on the other words such as
main holiday, important To guess the meaning of pray (line 6, last paragraph) they pay attention to pagoda, happy year…
Suggested answer:
1 grand: hoành tráng
2 banner: dải băng
3 sugared apples: mứt táo
4 agrarian:người nông dân
5 pray: cầu nguyện
6 excitement: náo nức
Sts read through the statement to get
an idea of it
Suggested answer:
1 F (It falls between 19 th January and February)
2 F (It’s just for agrarian people)
3 T
4 F (according to the passage, lucky money tends to be given to children)
5 T
6 T
Trang 4Task 3
Instruction: You are required to answer
the seven questions in the book.
- T checks if Ss can answer the
comprehension questions in Task 3
without having to read the passage
again If Ss can not, T gets them to read
the questions carefully and give them
some tips to do the task
- Ask Ss to work individually to do the
task, and then discuss their answers with
their peers
- Call on some Ss to write their answers
on the board and ask them to explain
their choices
After you read.
Ask Ss to work in groups to tell each
other about their last Tet holiday Ask Ss
what verb tense they should use
Go around helping Ss when necessary
When Ss have finished, t call on some Ss
to report their ideas to the class
T elicits corrective feedback from other
Ss and gives her own comments
10
5’
Read the questions carefully; underline the key words; go back to the passage and locate information; answer the questions with their own words
Suggested answer:
1 It sometime between 19 th January and 20 th February
2 Tet’s preparations and celebrations used to be spread over months
3 They are decorated with colorful lights and red banners.
4 They buy gift, clean and decorate their houses and cook traditional foods.
5 It is made from sticky rice, green beans and fatty pork
6 Mut is candied fruits
7 Visiting friends and other family members, exchanging wishes, going
to the pagoda, playing games…
Talk about their last Tet with their friends They should use the past simple tense to talk about their last holiday
- Give the answers
- Listen to others and then take note
Trang 6IV Summarize (2’)
- summarize the content of the lesson: Tet Holiday in Vietnam
V Homework Assignment (1’)
- Do exercise in the workbook
- Prepare new lesson: Unit 8 – Period 2: Speaking
VI experience from the lesson:
Trang 7
Planning date: 24.11.2011 Teaching date: 29.11.2011 class 11B
30.11.2011 class 11A 30.11.2011 class 11D
46th Period
Unit 8: Celebration
Period 2: Speaking.
I Objective:
1 Knowledge
Students will understand more about one of traditional festivals in Vietnam – Lunar New Year – Tet Sts can improve their vocabulary about the topic through speaking activities
2 Skills:
- St will be able/have chance to talk about the celebrations of Tet and other activities’ festivals
3 Attitude:
- By the end of the lesson, Sts will understand well our culture and festival in their country
II Preparation of Teacher and students:
1 Teacher: Textbook, Lesson plan, Pictures
2 Students: textbook, notebook, pens
III Procedure.
I Organization (1’).
- Greeting
- Check attendance
II Check-up(5’).
Question: how many new words can you remember? What are they? Give
examples
Answers:
- spread (v): kéo dài
- a great deal of = a lot of
- to be busy doing sth:
- throughout (pre): khắp
- influence (v): ảnh hưởng
- red envelope: phong bì đỏ
- festival (n): lễ hội
- fall between…and…
- to be full of: tràn đầy
- Candied fruit : bánh mứt
Trang 8- exchange wishes: chóc nhau
Example: 1, I like to receive red envelopes in Tet Holiday
2, I am busy decorating my house with colorful pictures
III New lesson.
Teacher’s Activities Time Students’ Activities.
Warm-up.
Ask Sts some questions:
Do you know Santa Claus?
Who is he?
Who often bring gifts to children at
Christmas Eva?
Task 1.
T sets the scene: You are going to
read a conversation between Mai and
Anna who are talking about Tet
holiday in Vietnam.
T asks the whole class to read the
dialogue silently and asks them what
points are mentioned in the dialogue
Check with the whole class and make
clear that; in the dialogue the two
friends talk about Tet holiday, its time
and activities
Go around observing
When Ss have finished, T calls on
some pairs to act out the dialogue and
give comments
T prepares some structures for the
next step
Task 2.
Instruction: You are going to match
the holiday with its description and
3’
15
10
Answer T’s questions
Ss practice the dialogue in pairs They should remember the dialogue
so that they can act out it more naturally
Carry out the conversations in front
of the whole class
Useful expression.
When is it exactly?
What do people often do at…?
Oh, that sounds really interesting
Look at the pictures and match them with the description
Trang 9Before Ss do the task, T asks them to
look at three pictures on page 93 and
work out the name of each holiday Ss
may be asked to give the Vietnamese
equivalents to each holiday
T checks with the whole class and
give out the correct answer
Ask Ss to list the activities people
usually do in these holidays and write
them quickly on the board so that Ss
can compare these with the
information they will deal with later
Call on some Ss to give the answer
and asks other Ss to give feedback
T may also ask Ss to compare their
answers with the information written
on the board earlier
Task 3.
T sets the requirement: You are going
to ask and answer about the holidays
in Task 2, using the dialogue in Task
1 as the model.
Have Ss work in pairs to ask and
answer about the holidays in Task 2
T asks Ss to add any information
about the holiday they know to make
the dialogue more interesting For
example, they can tell about the
origin of the holiday…
T goes around observing and offering
help T may give Ss some background
10
Suggested answer:
+, Picture 1: Mid-autumn Festival +, Picture 2: Thanksgiving
+, Picture 3: Valentine’s day
Turn to the next page and do the task
in pairs They match the holiday with its main purpose and activities
Answer:
2 a A
With a partner, using the dialogue in Task 1 as model, ask and answer about the holidays above
Model
T: what do you know about Mid-Autumn Festival?
S: people celebrate the largest full moon in the year and it is special day for the children.
T: When is it exactly?
S: It falls on the fifteenth day of the
8 th lunar month T: what do people do on that day? S: people east moon-cakes, fruit, drink tea and admire the full moon T: what about the children?
Trang 10IV Summarise (1’):
- Summarise the main point of the lesson
V Homework Assignment (1’).
- Do exercise in the workbook
- Prepare new lesson: Unit 8 – Period 3: Listening
VI Experience from the lesson:
* Advantages:
*Disadvantages
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knowledge of the holidays or provide
Ss with some vocabulary items
Call on some pairs to act out the
conversation and ask other Ss to
comment T corrects some typical
mistakes in the end
S: Children have moon-cakes and a lot of fruit Then they carry their beautiful glowing lanterns along the streets in their neighborhood Dragon dances also a special activity on this day.
T: Oh, that sounds really interesting.
Trang 11Pla nni
ng dat e: 24 11.
2011 Teaching date: 29.11.2011 class 11B
30.11.2011 class 11A 30.11.2011 class 11D
47th Period
Unit 8: Celebration
Period 3: Listening.
I Objective:
1 Knowledge
Students will get some information of Tet festival in Japan
2 Skill:
- Develop such listening micro-skills such as intensive-listening for specific information
- Synthetic the information of Tet in Japan and compare the similarities and difference with Tet in Vietnam
3 Attitude:
- By the end of this lesson, Sts will understand well culture and festival in their
country and in the world
II Preparation of the teacher and students:
1 Teacher: Textbook, Lesson plan, Cassette tape
2 Students: textbooks, notebooks, pens
III Procedure.
1 Check-up.
-No checking!
2 New lesson.
Teacher’s Activities Time Students’ Activities.
Warm-up.
Trang 12T hangs some pictures of Tet holiday in
Japan and ask Sts:
Do you know what festival is?
Where is it taken place?
When is it?
Is Tet in Japan similar to one in
Vietnam?
Before you listen.
Ask Sts to work with a partner
To make the atmosphere excite, T calls
on one Sts to speak aloud the activities in
the textbook and the whole class say
aloud the activities Japanese do by say
‘yes / no’
T calls on some Sts to give their opinion
(T shouldn’t say the ideas are right or
wrong, T tells Ss to find information in
the listening text.)
T plays the tape for Sts listen the words in
the listen and repeat.
T pre-teach some new words those taken
from the listening text
T explains briefly in Vietnamese So that
Sts can catch the meaning and the
pronunciation
T instructs Sts to pronounce the words on
board
3’
8’
Sts look at the picture and answer T’s questions
Sts work in pairs and guess which of the activities the Japanese often do
on their New Year’s Days
Sts add any other activities that they think the Japanese do at New Year
Sts listen and repeat Then put the stress of word
Take note
- similarities (n): điểm tương đồng
- household (n): hộ gia dinh
- get rid of :loai bỏ
- broadcast (v): phát, truyền
- represent (v): đai diện
- longevity (n): trường trọ
- constancy (n): bền vững
- shrine (n): đền thờ
- do a big cleaning up: tổng vệ sinh
- dirt (n) bui bẩn
Trang 13While you listen.
Task 1
Instruction: You are going to listen to
people to talk about how the New Year is
celebrated in Japan Listen and tick the
thing you will hear.
Ask Sts to read through the statement
T can read aloud the statement so that Sts
can get used to the sounds
T can let Sts guess: What activities do you
think Japanese will not do?
T plays the tape once
T checks the answer after the first
listening and writes the on board for later
using
T plays the tape twice
T checks the answer by asking them why
they choose this statement
Depend on the situation; T can play the
tape again or not
For advances Sts: T asks Sts to put the
information they hear in the order they
appear in the listening text
(4-2-10-3-1-6-11-8)
Task 2.
Instruct Sts to read through the questions
T checks whether Sts have answer from
the previous listening T encourages Sts to
say phrases or words relevant to the
questions;
T plays the tapes again
12’
12’
Read through the statement to catch the general idea of the listening text
Make a guess
Sts listen to the tape individually And put a tick on the thing they hear
In the second listening, Sts work in pairs and discuss the answers
Suggested answer:
1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11.
Scan the questions to identify the information they will hear Recall the knowledge from previous listening
Sts listen again and take note information