Giáo án Tiếng Anh 12 - Unit 2: Cultural diversity (Speaking)

Unit 2: CULTURAL DIVERSITY

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SPEAKING

I. Objectives:
1. Educational aim: Students can talk about the differences among cultures
2. Knowledge:
- General knowledge: Through this unit, students can talk about the differences
among cultures
- Know how to arrange opinions sensibly
- Language: Students use sentences, words, phrases and expressions for making their
view
3. Skills: Fluency in expressing opinion and expressions for making an opinion
II. Method: Integrated, mainly communicative
III. Teaching aids: Pictures, English textbook 12, hand-outs
IV. Procedures:
Teacher’s activities
Student’s activities
Warm-up: (5minutes)
Checking the last lesson
- Listen to the teacher
- Call two students to go to the board.
Students 1 and 2: Talk about the differences between a
traditional family and a modern family they’ve written at
home.
- Ask the other students to comment about the talking.
-Read the paragraph in front of the
- Feedback and give correction if necessary
class

- Lead the whole class to the topic of the lesson.
Pre-reading: (8 minutes)
Task 1:
We are going to talk about the differences among cultures. - Listen to the teacher
- Ask students to express their point of view on the
followings ideas, using the words or expressions in the
box.
* In Vietnam, three or even four generations may live in
home.
- Read the sentences given and work
* A happy marriage should base on love.
in groups to discuss.
* In some Asian countries, love is supposed to follow A: In my opinion, it is not good for
marriage not precede it.
three or four generations to live in a
* In some countries, a man and a woman may hold family because they will find it
hands and kiss each other in public.
difficult to sympathy their interests
- Listen to the students and give remark
and habits… and I agree that love is
supposed to follow marriage not
precede it.
B: I don’t agree with your ideas, I
think it is good to have three or four
generations living under one roof
because they can help each other a lot
While –speaking: (16munites)
- Work in pairs to discuss and give
Task 2:
their ideas about the differences

- Ask students to work in pairs to discuss about the + Give the culture in Vietnam.


differences between the culture in America and in
Vietnam.
+Give the culture in America:
- Two generations (parents and children) live in a home.
- Old- aged live in nursing home.
- It is not polite to ask questions about age, marriage and
income.
- Americans can greet anyone in the family first.
- Groceries are bought once a week.
- Christmas and New Year holidays are the most
important.
- Children sleep in their own bedrooms.

-There are more generations in a
home (grand parents, parents and
children ...)
- Elders live with their children and
are taken care of by their sons.
- Can ask the questions about the age,
marriage and income...
- Have to greet the older first.
- Do the shopping everyday.
- Tet holiday is the most important.
- Children can share bedrooms with
the other in a family.

+ Listen to the students and give more the ideas about

the differences.

Post-reading: (14 minutes)
Task 3:
- Ask students to work in pairs or work in groups to talk
about the similarities and differences between Vietnamese
and American cultures, using the features discussed in the
task 2.
- Listen and give remarks on their opinions

- Work in groups or in pairs to
compare.
Ps: - There are differences and
similarities between Vietnamese and
American cultures .In America, two
generations (parents and children) live
in a home. In Vietnam, two, three or
even four generations live under one
roof… etc.

Homework: (2minutes)
-Students write a paragraph about the cultures in Vietnam. -Listen and copy
- Do the exercises in the workbook
- Prepare for the next lesson