UNIT 8 : CELEBRATIONS LESSON 1 : READING PERIOD potx

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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
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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 lớn, hoành tráng
2. thuộc về nông nghiệp
3. băng r ô n,khẩu hiệu
4. cầu nguyện

5. táo tẩm ñường
6. sự nô nức, nhộn nhịp
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.


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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
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- preparations
- activities on New Year’s Eve
- foods and clothes
- people to celebrate with

* Homework
:
- Write the comparison on your notebook.
- Prepare for new lesson: Writing
groups.
- Gives remarks.






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UNIT 8 : CELEBRATIONS
LESSON 4 : WRITING PERIOD:

I.Aims:
- To teach students to describe the activities in a celebration.
- To help students develop their writing skill.
II.Objectives: By the end of the lesson students will be able to :
- Describe the activities in a celebration.
III .Materials: posters , pictures…
IV. Procedure:

Time

Contents Teacher’s activity Students’activity


10’

5’















20’

10’








I. Warm –up: Listing :
List some celebrations which are famous in
Viet Nam you know.
- New Year.
- Independence Day.
- Woman’s Day.
- Teacher’s Day.
- Mid- Autumn Festival
II. PRE-WRITING:
- Describe the Mid- Autumn Festival in Viet
Nam.
* New words :
- lantern (n)
- dragon or lion dance.
- moon cake (n)
- full moon
* Making the detailed outline
- Name and time of festival : Mid- Autumn
Festival, the fifteenth day of eighth lunar month.

- Purpose: to welcome the brightest full moon of
the year.
- Activities : children carrying beautiful glowing
lanterns, admiring the full moon, singing,
dancing, dragon dance, having mooncakes.
- Whether you like it or not and the reason- like
it because it’s a great ocassion for children.
II. WHILE-WRTING:
* Write a paragraph





III. POST-WRITING:
Talk about the other popular celebrations in
Vietnam (names, time, purposes, feelings,…)
Hint:
National Independence Day:
- the 2
nd
of September
- to remember the birth of Vietnam / the day
Vietnam was founded
- meetings, parades, displays of fireworks,
special programs on TV and radio, …

- Gives instructions.
- Divide class into 2
groups

- Gives remarks.






- Asks sts to remember
voca. and activities in
that festival.



- Explains
- Asks students to work
in pairs to discuss and
write down the main
ideas of the composition
- Goes around and gives
help.


- Asks sts to write
individual.
- Asks sts to correct the
composition of each
other .
- Corrects some papers.

- Asks ss to work in
group of 4 or 5 to discuss
- Take notes on the BB






.

- Play the game.
- Write the answers on
the blackboard (one by
one of each group)







- Remember voca. and
activities in that
festival.



- Pairwork :
- Discuss and write

down the main ideas of
the composition





- Write individual

- Correct the
composition with the
partner


- Groupwork
- Present about one
- Copy down






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Teacher’s Day:
- the 20
th
of November
- to honor the important work of teachers

- students give their teachers gifts / flowers /
cards, meetings are hold at schools, …
Women’s Day:
- the 8
th
of March
- to honor the work of women at home as
well as in society
- meetings, men give women gifts / flowers /
cards, male family members (father, sons)
volunteer to do the housework, …
* Homework :
Write another paragraph about one of the
festival in Viet Nam.







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UNIT 8 : CELEBRATIONS
LESSON 5 : LANGUAGE FOCUS PERIOD:

I.Aims :
- To help students distinguish and pronounce the compound consonants / fl/ , /fr/ and /θr/ correctly.
- To teach students to use pronoun :one(s), someone, no one, anyone, everyone.
- To teach sts to remember vocabulary about holidays and celebrations.
II.Objectives: By the end of the lesson students will be able to :

- pronounce the compound consonants : / fl/ , /fr / and /θr/ correctly.
- know how to use pronoun: one(s), someone, noone, anyone, everyone.
- to remember vocabulary about holidays and celebrations.
III.Materials: cassette player, disc, posters, pictures…
IV. PROCEDURE:

Time

Contents Teacher’s activity Students’activity
7’

8’
















5’


A. Warm –up : Guessing the
pronunciation of these pictures :






Three, flag, flowers, fruits, frog
B. New lesson :

I.
PRONUNCIATION :
/ fl/ , /fr/ and /θr/ .




* Listen and repeat : on page 97



* Practise the sentences : on page 97




II
.
GRAMMAR

1. Someone, anyone, no one,
everyone
a. Presentation :

- Gives instructions.
- Asks ss to guess the
pronunciation of these
pictures (in pairs)

- Gives remarks.
- Introduce new lesson






- Play the disc to models
words in the columns.
- Asks students to repeat
after the speaker.
- Asks students to practise
the words in pairs.
- Asks students to practise
the sentences .
- Gives remarks.

- Gives examples to lead to
new lesson.

- Pair work
- Give the words to
describe the pictures
- Guess the pronunciation
of these pictures















- Listen and repeat.

- Pairwork : practise the
words.

- Practise the sentences.











- Draw out the rules from
the examples.
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10’













10’






Ex :
1. Someone has stolen my wallet.
2. Is there anyone home?
3. No one likes to play with him.
4. Everyone goes to the church today.
* Note:

- Someone, anyone, no one, everyone
được sd với động từ số ít.
- Someone và everyone được dùng
trong câu khẳng đònh.
- No one được dùng với động từ ở thể
khẳng đònh.
- Anyone được dùng trong câu hỏi và
câu phủ đònh.
b. Practice :
* Exercise 1 :Using someone, anyone,
no one or everyone to complete the
sentences:
1. anyone 2. someone
3. anyone 4. someone
5. no one 6. everyone
7. no one
2. Pronoun ONE(S)
a. Presentation:
Ex:
1. My motorbike is broken. I want to
buy a new one.
2. Let me choose the flowers. I will
take all the white ones.
* Note:
ONE(S) được dùng để thay thế cho
một danh từ để tránh lặp lại danh từ đó
trong câu.
b. Practice:
*Exercise 2 :Rewrite the sentences,
using the pronoun one(s):

1. Of the three bags I like the blue one.
2. Mai is making a fruit cake, Huong is
making one, too.
3. I like reading books, especially the
ones about the natural world.
4. I don’t have a computer, and my
father doesn’t want me to have one.
5. They let me choose a pencil, and I
took the red one.
6. There are several celebrations in
Viet Nam, but perhaps the most
meaningful one is Tet.
7. We told each other both happy
stories and sad ones about our lives.
III. VOCABULARY:
* Exercise 3 : Use the words from the
- Elicits students to draw
out the rules.
- Gives instructions.

- Asks students to do the
ex.
- Gives remarks.






- Ask ss to look at the
examples and give out the
usage.






- Gives instructions.
- Asks students to work in
pairs to do the ex.
- Corrects answers.

- Gives instructions.

















- Do the ex. individually.
- Compare the answers
with a partner.

- Give answers.
- Pairwork : do the ex.




- Work in pair to draw
out the rule.








- Give answers.

- Do the ex. dividually.
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box to complete the following
sentences
1. traditional 2. grand
3. gifts 4. celebrating
5. polite 6. good luck
7. excitement
C. Homework : Find ten words
pronounce / fl/ , /fr/ and /θr/ .
- Asks students to work
individually to do the ex.

- Corrects answers.



- Compare the answers
with a partner.
- Give answers and
explain.