Teacher’S Students’ Warm up8m Noughts and crosses Ask Ss to make sentences from the Work in group of 4 students words in the table Peach Kumquat Candied blossom tree fruits Lucky Exchang[r]
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Unit 8: Celebrations
Reading
A Objectives:
1 Educational aim: Students should know more about the celebration of Tet and
other festivals’ activities
2 Knowledge:
- General knowledge: - Through this unit, students know the history of tet and some kinds of celebration
- New words: Words related to celebration
3 Skills: Reading for identifying the main idea and specific information
B Teaching aids: Real objects, pictures, English textbook 11, hand-outs
C Method: Integrated, mainly communicative
D: Contents:
I.Organization
Class Date of teaching Absent students
Teacher’S activities Students’ activities
II Warm- up(6m)
Brainstorm
- T shows some real objects and
pictures such as the pictures of
Banh Chung, peach blossom,
kumquat tree…., real objects as
red envelops, a box of candied
fruits…
- T points the pictures and real
objects and ask questions:
+ What do you think of when you
see this?
+ Why so?
+ What do you often do before Tet?
III New lesson
Pair work
I think of Tet holiday Because they are the symblols
of Tet Clean and decorate the house,
go shopping to buy new clothes, candied fruits, make Banh Chung……
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read(10m)
Discussing Tet holiday
-Ask Ss to look at the picture on
page 90 and discuss the 3
questions in pairs
- T goes around to offer help
- T calls on some Ss to present
their answer and elicits comments
from other Ss T gives feedback if
necessary
1 What time of the year is it?
2 What are the people in the
picture doing?
3 What else do you see in the
picture?
Pre -teaching vocabulary
Lunar New Year
To fall between… and………
To spead:
To be full of
Candied fruit
Peach blossom /pi:t∫'blɔsəm/
Apricot blossom /'eiprikɔt
'blɔsəm/
Positive comments:
Ask Ss to make sentences with the
above words to check their
understanding
* Activity 2: While you read
Setting the scene
You are going to read a passage
about Tet holiday in Vietnam While
you are reading, do the tasks in
textbook
Pair work
It is Spring and it should be Tet holiday because we can see peach blossom and kumquat tree full of ripe fruits
The grandmother is giving her niece and nephew some lucky money The girl, the boy and their parents good health and happiness
In the picture we can 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
Tết âm lịch Rơi vào khoảng thời gian từ…đến
kéo dài
đầy nhiều Mứt
Hoa đào Hoa mai Những lời nói tốt đẹp
Whole class pay attention
Individual work
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Find the meanings of the words
You can also use your dictionary
+ T writes these words on the
board
+ Ask Ss to read the passage
quickly and stop at the lines that
contain these words to guess their
meaning
1 grand: impressive and large
2 banner: along piece of cloth with
a message on it that is carried
between two poles or hung in a
public place to show support for st
3 sugared apples
4 agrarian: connected with farming
and the use of land for farming
5 pray: to speak to God especially
to give thanks or ask for help
6 excitement: the state of feeling
excited
Task 2 (5m)
Ask Ss to work individually to do
the task and discuss their answers
with their partners
Call on some Ss to give their
answers and ask them to explain
their choices
Task 3(6m)
- Ask Ss to work individually to
do the task, then discuss their
answer with their peers
- Call on some Ss to write their
answers on the board and ask
them to explain their choices
5 It is made from sticky rice, green
beans and fatty pork
6 Mut is candied fruit
7 Visiting friends and other family
members, exchanging wishes,
going to the pagoda, playing
Trọng đại, hoành tráng Biểu ngữ, băng rôn
Táo tẩm đường Thuộc về nông nghiệp Cầu nguyện
sự háo hức, nhộn nhịp
individual work and pair work
1, 2,4 – F
3, 5, 6 – T
Individual work and pair work
1 It falls sometime between
19th January and 20th February
2 Tet’s preparations and celebrations used to be pread 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
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- Ask Ss to work in groups to tell
eachother about their last Tet
holiday
- When all groups have finished,
T calls on some Ss to report
their ideas to the class
Consolidation and
homework(2m)
- T summarises the main points
- Ask Ss to learn by heart all of
the new words and give
examples
- Summarise the main ideas of
the passage
Group work
Whole class
E Valuation
Ss may not have enough vocabulary to talk about the topic, so T should be ready to help them
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Period 51
Unit 8: Celebrations
SPEAKING
I Objectives
By the end of the lesson Ss will be able to:
Talk about the celebrations of Tet and other festivals’ activities
II Teaching aids
Textbook, handouts, …………
III Anticipated problems
Ss may have limited linguistic resources for discussion, so T should be ready
to assist them
IV Procedure
I.Organization
Class Date of teaching Absent students
Teacher’S Students’
Warm up(8m) Noughts and crosses
Ask Ss to make sentences from the
words in the table
Peach
blossom
Kumquat tree
Candied fruits Lucky
money Exchange wishes Banh chung
Relatives
and friends Special Tet foods pray
Task 1 (8m)
Ask the whole class to read the dialogue
silently
And ask them what points are metioned
in the dialogue
Work in group of 4 students
Pair work
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pairs
Call some pairs to act out the dialogue
and give comments
Task 2(14m)
Ask Ss to look at the 3 pictures on page
93 and work out the name of each
holiday
T checks with whole class and gives 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
Call on some Ss to give the answer and
ask other Ss to feedback
Task 3(13m)
Get Ss to work in pairs to ask and
answer about the holiday in task 2 T
asks Ss to add any information about
holiday they know to make the D more
interesting
Consolidation and homework(2m)
T summarises the main points of the
lesson
Ask Ss to do exercises in workbook
E: Valuation: Ss learnt well
Whole class Pic1: Mid- Autumn festival Pic 2: Thanksgiving
Pic 3: Valentine’s Day
1 c C
2 a A
3 b B
Pair work
Whole class
Period 52
Unit 8:Celebrations
LISTENING
A Objectives:
1 Educational aim: Students should know more about the New Year celebration in
Japan
2 Knowledge:
Trang 7- General knowledge: Students listen for the main idea and comprehension questions.
- Language:
- New words: Words related to new year
3 Skills: Listening for gist and for specific information.
C Method: Integrated, mainly communicative.
B Teaching aid: Pictures ,text book
D Contents:
I.Organization
Class Date of teaching Absent students
Teacher’S activities Students’ activities
II Warm up (7m)
Competition game- Guessing game
- T divides Ss into 2 groups: A and B
- T tells Ss the rule of the game: One
member from each group will go and
stand in the front of the class with their
back facing the board T will write the
word/phrase which was learnt from the
previous lesson on the board Other
Ss from each group have to explain
the word without mentioning it or
translating it into Vietnamese so that
their representative can guess the
word The student with the quickest
and correct answer will get 1 point for
their group Ss take turn to be the
representative After some turns, the
group with more points will be the
winner
III New lesson
* Activity 1: Before you listen(10m)
1 Guessing
- T introduces the listening passage
- T asks Ss to work in pairs to guess
Group work
The word/phrase T may write on the board are:
Thanksgiving, Mid-Autumn festival, grand, pray, agrarian, lucky money, Peach blossom Apricot blossom…………
Whole class pay attention Pair work
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Japanese often do on their New
Year’s Day
- T calls on some Ss to give their
answers and write them on the
boards T also asks Ss to add any
other activities that they think the
Japanese do at the New Year
2 Pre-teaching vocabulary
Shrine(n) /∫rain/
Longevity(n) [lɔn'dʒeviti]
Pine trees
Constancy(n)
To represent: to be symbol of sth
T may get Ss to make sentences with the
words and gives corrective feedback
* Activity 2: While you listen
1 Task 1 (10m)
Ask Ss to read read through the
statements
T plays the tape once for Ss to do the
task
T asks for Ss’answers and write them on
the board
T plays the tapes the second time for Ss
to check their answers
T asks Ss to work in groups of 4 to
compare their answers
Call some Ss to stand up and answer
2 Task 2(8m)
T asks Ss to read and answer the
questions with the things they remember
from the previous time of listening
T plays the tape again for Ss to do the
task
After playing the tape, T gets Ss to work
in pairs and check their answers
T calls on some Ss to give the answers
and elicits feedback from other Ss
* Activity 3: After you listen(8m)
điện thờ, miếu thờ tuổi thọ
cây thông
sự bền lòng, không thay đổi, trờng tồn)
Biểu trng cho, tợng trng cho
Correct answer
- They put on special clothes
- Housewives prepare special foods
- They go to a shrine
- They drind rice wine
- They watch television
- They eat a special meal
Individual work and pair work
1 B they want to get rid of the dirt
of the old year and welcome the new year
2 from the television and radio
3 Kimonos or special dress
4 No, New Year is mostly celebrated among family only
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aspects of the Vietnamese New Year
with those of the Japanese one
Before Ss take part in the activity, T
elicits of the transition signal/phrases to
talk about the similarities and differences
between two things
Go around to offer help and collect Ss’
mistakes
Call some pairs to present their answers
Elicit feedback from the class and give
final comments
IV Consolidation and homework(2m)
T summarises the main points of the
lesson
Ask Ss to learn by heart all new words
and do the exercises in workbook as
home work
Pair work
Whole class
E: Valuation: Ss may not have difficulty doing the first task, so T should be ready to give them some strategies
Period 53
Unit 8: Celebrations
WRITING
A Objectives:
1 Educational aim: Students know how to describing a celebration.
2 Knowledge:
- General knowledge: Students can write a passage describing a celebration
- Language:
-New words : Words related to celebration
3 Skills: Describing a celebration
B Teaching aids: Some models, hand outs ,pictures.
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D Contents:
I.Organization
Class Date of teaching Absent students
Teacher’S activities Students’ activities
II Warm up (7m)
Competition game- Christmas Cloze
- T divides the class into small groups
of 3-4 students Then give handout for
Ss to do in their own groups Ss have
to fill each blank in the passage with
one suitable word from the box Which
group finishes first and has all the
correct answers will be the winner
Christmas is an annual holiday
that(1)…….the birthday of Jesus of
Nazareth Christmas Day
falls on December 25 It is preceded by
Christmas Eve on December 24, and
in some countries it is (2)… by Boxing
Day on December 26, when many
people go shopping for sales It is a
(3)……when people get together
with(4)……Peole give(5)…… to each
other or send(6)… wishing each other
a(7)…….Christmas
At Christas, people(8)…carols to get
into the Christmas(9)….As well,
Group work
Answers:
1 marks 6 cards 11 lights
2 followed 7 merry 12 turkey
3 holiday 8 sing 13 baked
4 family 9 spirit 14 peaceful
5 presents 10 decorate
Followed marks cards lights
turkey marry holiday sing baked spirit
Family peaceful presents decorate
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up(11)…around the house A common
Christmas dinner is (12)….There are
also lots of(13)… goodies for the kids
People love Christmas because it is
the time when they can
share(14)….moments with their family
III New lesson:
* Activity 1: Preparing Ss to
write(13m)
- To prepare Ss for the writing task, T
uses the passage in the Warm-up
as a model
- T gets Ss to read the passage again
and discuss the main points
included in the passage in pair At
the same time, Ss should write
down which sentences belong to
which main point
- Now get Ss to work individually to
writee an outline for their
description, using the main points
set in previous activities
* Activity 2: Writing(15m)
- T gets Ss to describe the festival
they have chosen in 15 minutes
- T goes around to observe and offer
help with vocabulary or structures
* Activity 3: Feedback on Ss’
writings(8m)
- T asks Ss to exchange their writing
with another student for peer
correction
- T goes around and collects
mistakes and errors
- Choose one or two descrition and
read it/them to the class
- Then T elicits corrective feedback
from the class and gives final
comments afterwards T should
Suggested answers:
The description includes 6 main points:
+ Name of the festival (sentence 1) + Purpose of the festival (sentence 1)
+ Time of the festival(sentence 2-3) +Main activities of the festival/what people do in the festival(sentence4-7)
+Foods eaten(sentence8-9) + Peope’s feeling about the festival(like/dislike?
Reason(s)?)(sentence 10)
Individual work Mid-Autumn Festival is of my most favourite festivals It is held on the
15th day of the 8th lunar month every year It’Ss the time when
Vietnamese people celebrate the largest full moon in the year The children have parties with special cakes and grapefruits They also parade in the street with their beautiful lantern, which come in all shapes and sizes Adults buy moon
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organization of ideas and language
use
IV Consolidation and
homework(2m)
- T summarises the main points of
the lesson
- For homework, T asks Ss to
improve their writing taking into
consideration their friends’ and T’Ss
suggestions and correction
cakes for their relatives and friends
It is a great time for not only children but also adults
Whole class
E: Valuation: Ss may not have sufficient vocabulary to write about the topic,
so T should be ready to assist them
Period 54:
Unit 8: Celebrations
LANGUAGE FOCUS
A Objectives:
1 Educational aim: Students know how to distinguish the clusters /fl/ and /fr/ and/
θr/ in a word or a sentences
2 Knowledge:
- General knowledge: Students can Use pronouns :one(s), someone, no one ,anyone, everyone appropriately
- Language:
- New words: Words related to holiday and celebrations
3 Skills:
- Pronunciation: fl/ - /fr/ and/ θr/
- Grammar: - pronouns :one(s), someone, no one ,anyone, everyone
-Vocabulary about holidays and celebrations
C Method: Integrated, mainly communicative.
B Teaching aids: Textbook
D Contents: