Giáo án Tiếng Anh 9 unit 8: Celebrations

Giáo án Tiếng anh lớp 9.
GRADE 9 – UNIT 8
CELEBRATION
GETTING STARTED & LISTEN AND READ
Teaching steps:
Stage
Warm-up

Pre-reading

Steps/ Activities
- Ask Ss the name of some celebrations on VN & in other
countries.
- Give Ss some picture about birthday, wedding, Tet holiday,…
and then ask Ss to guess the names of the pictures.
- Ask Ss to look the picture are the books and then have they
read the names of the celebration.
- Give Ss the corrects answers.
- Ask Ss which celebrations they like best
Answer:
1. Easter
2. Wedding
3. Birthday
4. Christmas 5. Mid-Fall Festival
6. Lunar New Year

Listen and read:
- Introduce the subject matter of the text
- Introduce new words and then explain them
1. Celebration (n)/ To celebrate (v)
2. Easter (n)

3. Lunar New Year (n)
4. Mid-Fall Festival (n)
5. To occur (v)/ occurrence (n)
6. Sticky rice (n)
7. Apart (adv)
8. Passover (n)
9. Jewish (a)/ Jew (n) = Jewish people
10.Freedom (n)/free (v)/ free (n)
11. Slavery (n)
12. Joy (n)/ Joyful (a)
13. Parade (n)
- Get Ss to copy.
While-reading - Ask Ss to listen to the tape (books closed); ask them to find out
the celebrations mentioned in the text.
- Ask Ss to give the answers.

Work
arrangement
Individual

Teacher-Ss

Whole class


- Get Ss to listen to the tape (books opened)
- Then have them find out the words or phrases which are
concerted with celebrations.
- Ask Ss to reread the new words on the board
- Explain new structure briefly: relative clauses ( Mệnh đề quan

hệ) – Who, whom, which, whose, that.
- Get Ss to finish the table in the text
- Correct the mistakes if necessary
Celebrati When?
Activities
Food
Country
on
Tet
In late
Cleaning
Sticky rice Viet Nam
January or and
cakes
early
decorating
February homes, and
enjoying
special food
Passover Late in
Not
Special
Israel
March or available
meal
early
called the
April
Seder
Easter

Around
People
Chocolate In many
the same
crowd the
and surge countries
time as
streets to
eggs
Passover watch
colorful
parades
Post-reading

Homework

- Give Ss some questions to check their comprehension.
1. Can you tell me the names of some celebrations you know?
2. In what occasion do young children receive chocolate or
sugar eggs?
3. Which celebration occurs in late January or early February?
4. Which festival is celebrated in many countries?
- Ask Ss to give some information about the other celebrations
which they know. (Ex: Mid-Fall Festival, Wedding, Lunar New
Year,…)
Celebration
When? Activities Food
Countries
Mid-Fall
Festival

Christmas
Rereading the text
Find more information about celebrations.

Group work
Whole class
group
individual

Teacher – Ss


UNIT 8: CELEBRATION
Lesson 2:
Section:
- Speak
(page 66-67)
Period 51:
Aim
Practice giving and responding to compliments
Objective
By the end the lesson, students will be able to give a respond to compliments
Teaching aids
Text books, cards
PROCEDUCE
Stage
Steps/ Activities
Warm-up

Presentation

Charity
Active

* Revision of adjectives
- Have students review adjectives
- Get students to make sentences.
I have + a/an adjective + friend
- The first students has to use the adjective beginning with the
letter A. The second students has to use the adjective beginning
with the letter B. The third with C…
* Ex:
S1: I have an active friend
S2: I have a beautiful friend
S3: I have a clear friend
S4: I have a dirty friend
……………………………………
- Go on until the last student with the adjective beginning with
the letter Y.
Pre-teach vocabulary
- active (adj)
-activist (n): người hoạt động tích cực (translation)
- nominate (v): ghi danh, mệnh danh, chọn
Nomination (n) (translation)
- charity (n): lòng từ thiện, hội từ thiện
(explanation: kindness in giving help to the poor)
* Checking vocabulary: What and Where
- Write the words on the board, put one word in each circle.
Welldone
Nomination

Effective
Activist

- Have students repeat the words on chorus then rub out word by

Work
arrangement
T- whole class

T-whole class


Practice

Further
Practice

word but leave the circle.
- Go on until the circle are empty
- Get students to rewrite the words in their correct circle
II. Model sentences:
- Set the scene: Trang has just won the first prize in the English
speaking contest. What does Mai say to pay Trang a
compliment? And what does Trang respond?
Mai: Well done, Trang
Trang: Thanks.
- Ask students how to give and respond to compliments
* Give a compliment:
- Well done

- That’s a great…
- That’s an excellent…
- Congratulation on…
- Let me congratulate you on…
* Respond to a compliment:
- Thanks/ Thanks a lot
- It’s very nice/kind of you to say so
- That’s very kind of you
* Word-cue drill:
a. Well done/thanks
b. Congratulations/ thanks a lot
c. Let/congratulate/ on passing the exam/kind
d. Great report/ nice of you
- Have students practice giving and responding the compliments
- Have students works in open pairs then closed pairs
- Ask students to works in pairs, to read the situation on page
66. 67 then give and respond to compliments.
- Give feedback
- Call on some pairs of students to act out.
* Answer keys:
a. On her mother’s birthday, Huyen made a big beautiful cake to
celebrate.
* Mother: Well done, Huyen
* Huyen: Thanks, Mom.
b. Tuan is an active student. He has taken pair in different
charity activities in his town. Tuan has been the most nominated
as the most effective activist in the town charity program.
o Friend: Congratulation on your nomination, Tuan
o Tuan: It’s very nice of you to say so.
c. Hoa brings to class a new picture she has painted

You: That’s an excellent drawing, Hoa.

T- whole class

Open pair
Closed pair
Pair work


Production

Homework

Hoa: That’s very kind of you to say so.
- Divide the class into 4 teams: A, B, C and D
- Have students work in groups to think of situations in which
they can give compliments
- Ask team A to give situation, team B, C, D to make up the
dialogue.
- Have the teams take turns giving the situations
- Give good marks for the teams which give good situations and
make up suitable dialogue.
* Suggested answers:
a. Situation 1: Tam has just passed the graduation examination.
Friends: Congratulation!
Tam: Thanks a lot.
b. Situation 2: Hoa make an excellent report on saving energy.
Hoa: It’s very kind you to say so.
c. Situation 3: Lan got high mark for Math.
You: Well done

Lan: It’s very nice of you to say so
d. Situation 4: Ba has just won the school swimming
championship
Friends: Congratulations on your great efforts, Ba.
Ba: Thank you very much
- Ask students to write some situations with the compliments,
the response to the compliments into their notebooks.

Group work


GRADE 9 - UNIT 8: CELEBRATION
Section: Listen
• Aim: Filling the missing words by listening to a song.
• Objective: By the end the lesson, students will be able to complete a song and
sing a song beautifully.
• Teaching aids: Text books, picture, cassette player.
Stage

Steps/ Activities

Warm-up

- Listen to a song:
- Ask students “Have you ever listened to the song before?”
- Let students listen to the song Auld Lang sine for fun.

Pre-listening

Vocabulary:

- Give some new words to students
o Auld Lang Sine (The Good Old Days)
o Due to (a) = cause by
o Bureau = department
o Acquaintance
o Trusty (a)
- Explain new words, using pictures, body language, or objects.
Guessing:
- Have students listen to the song Auld Lang Sine and then to
guess the words in the blanks
- Give feedback
- Let students listen to the song twice

Whilelistening

Post-listening
Homework

- Check their guess
- Give feedback
- Give students some questions to check their comprehension.
- Have some students sing a song
Sing the song by heart

Work
arrangement
T- whole class

T-whole class

Pair work
Individual
work
Pair work


LESSON PLAN
UNIT 8: CELEBRATION
Lesson 3: READ
----I. Objectives:
Students can express their opinions.
II. Language Contents:
Vocabularies: to lose heart, to distinguish, groom (n), hug (n), priority (n), and
considerate (adj)
Grammar: Relatives Clauses
III. Techniques:
Questions and Answers, Matching, Write-it-up
IV. Teaching Aids:
Pictures, Worksheets.
V. PROCEDUCE
Steps
Warm-up
(5’)
Pre-reading
(10’)

While –
Writing
(20’)

Teachers Activities
* Having Sts listen to the song “Cha Yêu”
* Having Sts sing it at the same time if they like.
* Asking Sts about the topic of the song
* Having Sts work in groups ask and answer about Father’s
Day.
- What do you know about Father’s Day?
- When did Father’s Day organized?
- Where did is fist organized?
- What is the purpose of this celebration?
- What is the representative activity of Father’s Day?
* Explaining some new words.
To lose heart
groom (n)
To distinguish
hug (n)
Considerate (adj)
priority (n)
Task 1: Matching
* Giving Sts worksheets.
‘s farther always put his family in the first
RITA
position, got married, he was very sad.
Is proud of him because he is a considerate and
JANE
children.
Is always a little girl of her father although she
BOB
had children
Received the best education from him

* Having Sts read the text in silence.

Student’s
activities
The whole
class
The whole
class
Group work

The whole
class


* Having Sts work in groups to match the details with the
suitable names.
* Having some groups to perform their work in front of the
class.
* Giving the feedback.
Task 2: Questions and Answers
* Having Sts read the text again, then work in pair to discuss the
questions.
* Having some pair to act out their work in front of class.
* Giving comment.

Group work
The whole
class
Pair work
The whole

class

Post-Writing
(10’)

Task 3: Write – it – up
* Having Sts write a short paragraph (about 50 words) to show
their opinions, feelings, and memories about their father.
* Having some Sts read this paragraph in front of class.

The whole
class

Homework

* Having Sts find some details about Mother’s Day

The whole
class


LESSON PLAN
UNIT 8: CELEBRATION
Lesson 4: WRITE
----I. Objectives:
Students can write a letter to a friend to share their ideas.
II. Language Contents:
Vocabularies: to enhance, to support, nationwide (adj)
III. Techniques:
Questions and Answers

IV. Teaching Aids:
Text books and Cards.
V. Procedures:
Steps

Teachers Activities

Warm-up
(5’)

* Using the game “Jumbled words” to review vocabularies.
* Giving each group (4 groups) some words whose letters is in a
random order on the board, and asking them to write the correct
words.
1. calerbetoni => celebration
5. ftigs => gifts
2. tratidoni => tradition
6. fleenigs => feelings
3. folwres => flowers
7. rebemern => remember
4. pirtase => parties
8. spicale => special

Pre-Writing
(10’)

* Sticking the cards of the some celebrations on the board, and
asking Sts to write the correct date for each celebration:
- Women’s Day: 8-3
- Teachers’ Day: 20-11

- Children’s Day: 1-6
- May Day: 1-5
- Christmas Day: 25-12
- Vietnamese Independence Day: 2-9
* Through the celebrations above, presenting the new lesson by
asking Sts some questions:
1. In the celebrations above, which one can stand for a Mother’s
Day in Vietnam?
2. What about a Father’s Day in Vietnam?
* Reading the situation in 6 – Write/page 70.

The Whole
class

* Asking Sts to read the outline carefully.
* Explaining some new words:
To enhance, to support, nationwide (adv)
* Giving some suggesting questions for each paragraph on the

The Whole
class

Whilereading
(20’)

Student’s
activities
Group work

The Whole

class


board on order to help Sts discuss in groups more easily.
Paragraph 1:
- Do you love your parents? If yes, I do thinks it is necessary to
have a Day for your Father? You’re Mother?
- Tell the reason for celebrating this day. (Sts can use the
suggesting ideas in the Paragraph 1)

Group work

Group work
Paragraph 2:
- When do you celebrate? Why?
- Celebrating this day at home or a restaurant? Why?
- Should you have a party with many guests or should you have
lunch/dinner with family members?
- What gifts should you buy for your father/mother>
- What food should you serve?
(Sts can use the suggesting ideas in the Paragraph 2)
Paragraph 3:
Do you thing your idea will be sororities nationwide? Why?
* After discussing in groups, asking each group write a letter to
a friend to share their ideas about celebrating a Day for Father
or Mother on the papers A4.

Group work

Post-Writing

(10’)

* Asking 2 representatives of 2 groups to stick their papers on
the board.
* Asking Sts to give their opinions about the two papers on the
board.
* Correcting mistakes.

The Whole
class

Homework

* Having Sts write a letter about celebrating a Day for
Father/Mother in their notebooks.

The Whole
class


GRADE 9 - UNIT 8: CELEBRATION
Section: Language Focus
• Aim: Practice in Relative clause
• Objective: By the end the lesson, students will be able to use relative clauses.
• Teaching aids: Text books, picture.
Stage

Steps/ Activities

Warm-up

Jumbled words:
Give the words whose letters are in a random order on the
board/poster.
Ex: ubclpi = public
Paephn = happen
…………………
Vocabulary:
- Give new words to students:
• Compose (v)
• Occur (v) = happen
• Satisfy (v) = please
• Violet (n)
• Jumper (n)
• Lap (n)
- Explain the new words, and how tousle Relative Pronouns
WHO, WHICH, EVEN THOUGH, THOUGH, CONCESSION,
ALTHOUGH (using pictures, objects or Vietnamese)
Form and use:
 Who-which: replace the pronoun
 Who is used for people, which is used for things?

Presentation

Even though
Practice
Though
Concession
Although

Work
arrangement
T- whole class

T- whole class

+ adverbial clause of
- Give students 2 examples.
- Set the scene.
- Have students do language focus 1 exercises, using relative
clauses.
- Have students look at 2 pictures on page 71 to describe
each of the people in the pictures, using Relative clauses.
- Correct the mistakes if they appear.
- Have Ss do language focus 3 exercise individually, using

Pair work

Individual
work


Free practice

Homework

though, although or even or though
- Have Ss look as the pictures on page 72-73 and complete
the sentences, using correct tense of the verb.
- Call on some Ss to read aloud their sentences and correct

their mistakes.
- Ask students to describe the people in their families’
photographs.
- Have students write sentences to describe the people in the 2
pictures on page 71 in their notebooks.
- Get Ss write 5 sentences, using adverbs clauses of concession.