GV: Nguyn Th Bích Thy – THPT BC T Kit – Cai Ly – Tin Giang
UNIT 8 : CELEBRATIONS LESSON 1 : READING PERIOD:
I. Aims :
- To help students read and understand the traditional festival “Tet in Viet Nam”.
- To help students know how to use a dictionary to find the meaning of words or phrases in the celebrations
- To develop students’reading skills.
II. Objectives : by the end of the lesson, ss will be able to :
Know the meaning of vocabulary basing on the text.
Understand the traditional festival “Tet in Viet Nam”.
III. Materials : posters , pictures…
IV. PROCEDURE:
Time Contents Teacher’s activity Students’activity
5’
5’
5’
8’
7’
I
.
Warm
-
up
: Network
II. Pre-reading :
Ask and answer the following questions:
1.Are they happy ?
2.What are they doing ?
3.What are on the table and the alter?
4.What tree is on the right of the picture ?
* New words :
- agrarian(n, adj)
- apricot blossom
- beach blossom
- kumquat tree
- sugared apple
- comment (n)
- pray (v)
- firework (n)
III.While-reading :
1. Task 1 : The meaning of these words
(page 92)
1. to ln, hoành tráng
2. thuc v nông nghip
3. băng r ô n,khu hiu
4. cu nguyn
5. táo tm ñưng
6. s nô nc, nhn nhp
2.Task 2 :True & false statements:
1.F 2.F
3.T 4.F
5.T 6.F
3.Task 3 :Answer the following questions :
1. It’s sometimes between 19 January and
20 February.
2.for months.
3. They are decorated with coloured lights
and red banners.
4. They buy gifts, clean and decorate their
- Gives instructions.
( what do you often do at “
Tet days” ?)
- Gives remarks.
- Gives instructions.
- Asks students to work in
pairs .
- Corrects.
- Gives remarks.
- Provides students with
new words .
- Rub out and remember.
- Gives instructions.
- Asks students to read the
reading and to do the task
individually.
- Corrects answers.
- Gives instructions.
- Asks students to work in
pairs to do the task.
- Corrects answers.
- Gives instructions.
- Asks students to work in
pairs.
- Gives remarks
Play the game.
- Pairwork
- Look at the picture on
page 90
- Give answers.
- Give meaning of new
words
- Do the exercise
individually.
- Compare the answers
with a partner.
- Give answers.
- Pairwork : do the
task.
- Give answers on the
blackboard.
- Pairwork : do the
task.
- Give answers.
Tet in Viet
Nam
Make cakes
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houses and cook traditional foods.
5.It is made from sticky rice, green bean and
fatty pork.
6. It is candied fruit such as sugared apples,
plums or tomatoes.
7. Visiting friends and others family
members, exchanging wishes, going to the
pagoda, playing games, etc.
IV.Post-reading :
Tell each other about your last Tet holiday
:
- How you and your family prepared for Tet
.
- How you decorated your house.
- Who visited you and who you visited.
- Special food you ate
- Activities you most enjoyed during Tet.
V. Homework : Write about your last Tet,
using what you have just said.
- Gives instructions.
- Asks students to do the
task in groups of four.
- Corrects answers.
- Goes around and gives
help
- Groupwork .
- Give answers
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UNIT 8 : CELEBRATIONS
LESSON 2 : SPEAKING PERIOD:
I. Aims:
- To help students ask and answer about the celebrations in Viet Nam or other countries : time, main
activites…..of those celebrations.
- To develop students’speaking skill.
II. Objective : by the end of the lesson, ss will be able to :
Ask and answer about the celebrations in Viet Nam or other countries : time,main activites…..of those
celebrations.
III. Materials: posters , pictures…
IV. Procedure:
Time
Contents Teacher’s activity Students’ activity
10’
8’
7’
15’
I. Warm –up
:
Game Jumbled words :
1.DOFO (food)
2.LETOSCH (clothes)
3.LFVETAIS (festival)
4.ASGEM (games)
5.ARITNALDITO (traditional)
6.PAYHP( happy )
7.NPGSIR (spring)
8.YTPRA (party )
II. Pre speaking:
* Task 1 :Practice reading the dialogue:
(textbook on page 93 )
III.While speaking :
* Task 2 : Match the holidays with its
main purpose and activities:
- Mid-autumn festival
- Thanksgiving
- Valentine’s day
1.c. C 2.a. A
3.b. B
* Task 3:Ask and answer about the
holidays above,using the dialogue in task 1
as the model:
Suggestion:
A : Do you know that Mid-Autumn festival
is next week?
B: What is Mid-Autumn festival?
A: It’s the time people celebrate the large
full moon in the year and it’s a special day
for children.
B: When is it exactly ?
A: It comes on the fifteenth day of the 8
th
lunar month.
B : What do people usually do on that day ?
A: Children have mooncakes and lots of
fruits.Then they carry their beautiful
glowing lanterns along the streets in their
- Gives instructions and ask
students to work in groups
to play the game.
- Gives remarks.
- Gives instructions.
- Asks students to work in
pairs to do the task.
- Goes around and gives
help
- Gives remarks.
- Gives instructions.
- Asks sts look at the
pictures and tell the name of
celebrations.
- Asks students to work in
pairs to do the task.
- Calls students to give out
their answers.
- Gives marks.
- Asks students to work in
pair to do the task.
- Goes around and gives
help
- Calls students to speak out
their dialogues.
- Gives remarks.
- Close their books
- Play the game.
- Pairwork :
- Look at the task and
do it.(2 or 3 pairs)
- Look at the pictures
on page 93
- Pairwork : do the task
- 2 or 3 pairs speak
their results loudly
- Pairwork .
- Give answers.
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neighbourhood. Dragon dance is also a
special activity on that day.
B: Oh, that sounds really interesting.
IV. Post speaking:
Talk about one festival you like best
V. Homework :
Write a short paragraph about the festival
you like best.
- Asks students to work in
groups of four to do the
task.
- Goes around and gives
help
- Calls students to give out
their presentation.
- Gives remarks
- Groupwork .
- Present.
GV: Nguyn Th Bích Thy – THPT BC T Kit – Cai Ly – Tin Giang
UNIT 8: CELEBRATIONS
LESSON 3 : LISTENING PERIOD:
I. Aims:
To help students listen to understand the conversation about the New Year’s activites in Japan.
II. Objectives:
By the end of the lesson students will be able to understand the conversation about the New Year’s
activites in Japan.
III. Materials : cassette player, disc, posters, pictures…..
IV. Procedure:
Time
Contents Teacher’s activity Students’activity
7’
8’
10’
13’
7’
I. Warm- up:
Answer the following
question :
-Can you guess what Japanese do on the
New Year holiday ?
+ decorate their houses.
+ make special food.
+ wear special clothes.
+ visit friends and relatives.
………
II. Pre- listening :
* Vocabulary:
- Similarity (n)
- Kimono (n)
- Shrine (n)
- longevity (n)
- constancy (n)
* Guess which of the following activities
the Japanese often do on their New year’s
days.
- wearing kimonos or special dress.
- decorating their houses with peach
flowers .
…………
III. While –listening :
1. Task 1: Listen and tick (
√
√√
√
) the things
you hear:
1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11
2. Task 2 : Answer the questions:
1. Because they want to get rid of the dirt
of the old year and welcome the new
year.
2. From television or the radio.
3. Kimonos or special dress.
4. No, New Year’s day is mostly
celebrated among family only.
IV. Post –listening:
Compare the Tet in Viet Nam and The
New Year in Japan
- Gives instructions .
- Asks sts to work in pairs and
answer the question
- Gives remarks.
- Provides students with new
words and their pronunciation .
- Rub out and remember
-Asks students to answer
“Yes-No”
- Gives remarks and lead to the
new lesson.
-Asks sts to read the task and
do the task individual.
- Plays the tape.
- Gives remarks.
- Ask sts read the questions.
- Plays the tape .
- Asks sts answer these
questions.
- Plays the tape again
- Corrects the answers.
- Gives instructions.
- Asks students to work in
- Close their books
- Pair work.
- Ask and answer
freely.
- Give meaning of new
words
- One st. read some
statements loudly,
others answer “Yes-
No”
- Listen.
- Read the task
- Listen and do the task
- Compare the answers
with a partner.
- Give answers.
- Pair work : listen and
do the task.
- Give answers.
- Groupwork
- Give the ideas