Unit 13 Festival

TiÕt theo PPCT: 78.
Unit 13 festivals.
Lesson 1: - Getting started.
- Listen and read.
- Language focus 3.
I. The aims.
- Reading for details about traditional festivals.
II. The objectives.
- By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to ask for explainations of events.
III. The ways of working.
T-whole class, pair work, group work, individual, less controlled...
IV. The materials.
T-book, text book, pictures,...
V. Anticipated problems.
VI. Procedures.
Teacher s activities’ Students activities’
1. Warm up.
* Getting started: Chatting.
- Write the names on the board: Tom,
David, Huckleberry, Oliver, Robinson.
- Tell Ss these people are going to go on
their visits to VN and they need advance
on where to go.
- Introduce the names, one by one.
1. Tom likes swimming and sunbathing.
Where should he go? Why?
2. David is interested in ancient cities.
3. Huckleberry likes mountain climbing.
4. Oliver is keen on pottery.
5. Robinson is fond of crowded places.
2. Pre-reading.

1. Pre-teach vocabulary.
(to) fetch.
(to) yell.
(to) urge.
(to) rub.
(to) participant.
(to) award.
* Checking: Rub out and remember.
- Rub out a word in English and point to
the Vietnamese translation and ask
“What’s this in English?”. When all the
English words are rubbed out, go through
the Vietnamese list and get Ss to call out
the English words. If there’s time, get Ss
to come to the blackboard and write the
English words again.
2. Open prediction.
- Set the scene: Ba invites his friend Liz
to a traditional festival in the North of
VN. Do you know what kind of festival it
is? (It is the rice-cooking festival).
- Ask Ss to guess what they are going to
read by asking questions then write Ss’
answers on he board.
* Suggestions:
* Checking: Rub out and remember.
(to) fetch.
(to) yell.
(to) urge.
(to) rub.

(to) participant.
(to) award.
a. How many competitions do people
enter in a rice-cooking festival?
b. In water-fetching competition, what do
people do? How about a fire-making
competition? A rice-cooking
competition?
3. While-reading.
- Ask Ss to open their books (P. 122),
read the dialogue and listen to the tape.
- Play the tape.
- Check if Ss’ guesses are correct or not.
* True or False.
- Ask Ss to read the statements (P. 122)
and check (v) the boxes, using the
information in the dialogue.
- Get Ss to give their answers and correct
the false statements.
- Have Ss copy.
4. Post-reading.
1. Grammar drill: Compound adjectives.
rice-cooking festival.
A water-fetching competiton.
fire-making
* Concept check:
Use: to form a compound adjective.
Form: Noun + Verb-ing.
- Have Ss copy.
2. Transformation drill.

- Diliver posters to Ss.
- Ask Ss to do the exercises (p. 130) and
write their answers on the posters.
- Have Ss put their posters on the board.
- Give feedback and correct.
- Open the books (P. 122), read the
dialogue and listen to the tape.
- Read the statements (P. 122) and check
(v) the boxes, using the information in
the dialogue.
- Give their answers and correct the false
statements.
* Answer key:
a. False (Only one team member takes
part in the water-fetching contest).
b. False (One person has to collect one
water bottle).
c. True.
d. False (Pieces of bamboo are used to
make the fire).
e. False (In the final contest, the judges
taste the rice.
f. True.
- Do the exercises (p. 130) and write their
answers on the posters.
- Put their posters on the board.
* Answer key:
a. A fire-making contest.
b. A bull-fighting festival.
c. A ccar-making industry.

d. A flower-arranging contest.
e. A rice-exporting country.
f. A clothes-washing machine.
VII. Homework.
- LF 3: write the sentences and rewrite them using compound adjectives.