Bài soạn Unit 8 Celebrations

Class
Date of teaching Absent students
11B4
11B5
Period 43 Unit 8: celebrations
LESSON 1 : Reading
I. Objectives:
1. Aims:- Students should know more about the celebration of Tet and other
festivals’
Activities
- Through this unit, students know the history of tet and some kinds
of
celebration
2. Knowledge:- Grammar:The tenses
- New words: Words related to celebration
3. Skills: -Main skill: Reading
- Sub-skills: Listening, writing ,speaking.
II. Method: Intergrated, mainly communicative
III. Teaching aids: handouts,board makers, pictures, etc.
IV. Procedures:
Teacher s activities’ Students activities’
Checking in the whole lesson
Warm-up: (4 minutes)
- Let students to listen to the song and ask some
questions:
a. What is the title of the song?
b.When do people often sing it?
c.What is it about?
-There are many things about Tet that we want to
say. Today, we’ll study a new lesson Unit 8-
Reading

1. Before you read: (10 minutes)
- Ask students to look at the picture and discuss
the three questions in pairs
-Go around to offer help
-Call on some students to present their answers
and give comments from other students
-Give feedback
- Look at the picture
- Answer the questions
a. Happy New Year
b. to welcome the New Year/it is
often sung on the last days of the
old year and the at the beginning of
the New year
c. Feeling about the old year and
the New Year
- Listen to the teacher look at the
picture and answer the questions
-The answers are various
1,It is spring and it should be Tet
holiday because we can see the
apricot blossom and a kumquat tree
full of ripe fruits
2,the people in the picture may be a
- Let students work in pairs to tell which of the
activities in the book they enjoy most at Tet
- Call on some students to present their answer
and other students comment
-Ask students to read through the passage and
find some new words

+positive comments
+candied fruit
+spread (v): to extend over a place
+Lunar New Year
-Let students read and copy in their notebooks
2. While you read: (29 minutes)
You are going to read about the Tet holiday in
Vietnam
-Make the class read the small talks, to scan the
details and do the tasks
1. Task 1 :
-Ask students to read a passage about Tet
holiday, and then underline those words which
match with the definitions on the right column in
the task 1
- Firstly, ask students to study individually then
in pairs
- Walks around the class, offer ideas and
comments when students need help
-Call on some students to explain their answer in
front of the class
- Give suggestions
Task 2
- Work in pairs, read the small talks again and
answer these questions
- Ask students to work individually then work in
family. the grandmother is giving her
niece and nephew some lucky
money. The girl, the boy and their
parents may be wishing their

grandparents good health and
happiness
-work in pair and discuss these
activities they enjoy most doing in
the Tet
-Read individually
-Listen to the teacher and write down
-Read in chorus
-Listen to the teacher
-Read the passage and underline new
words
-Try to guess the meanings of the
words
-Listen to their friends answers
-Listen to the teacher and correct
-Key:1,trọng đại, hoành tráng
2,biểu ngữ, băng rôn
3,táo dầm đờng
4,thuộc về nông nghiệp
5,cầu nguyện
6,niềm vui thích, sự nô nức
-Read passage again
-Work individually
Key
1F( it fall between 19
th
January and
Teachers
Headmaster
Headmistress

Students
Classmaster
Friends
Close
friends
Friendship
Subjects
Geography
Chemistry
English
Sports
Frotball
Jogging
Problems at school
Live far
From school
Students cheat in exams
pairs
- Walk round the class and comments when
students need
-Check the answer in front of the class as a
whole
-Give correct answers
Task 3 :
- Ask students to read all questions to answer the
questions in task 3
- Ask students to work with a partner
- Walks around the class to help students
whenever they need
-Give correct answer

(the answer is in the passage)
Homework : (2 minutes)
-Ask students summarize the passage at home
and prepare the next lesson
20
th
Febuary)
2,F( it’s just for agrarian people)
3.T
4,F( according to the passage, lucky
money tends to be given to children)
5T
6,T
-Work individually
-Copy down on the notebooks
Class
Date of teaching Absent students
11B4
11B5
Period 44 Unit 8: celebrations
LESSON 2 : Speaking
I. Objectives:
1. Aims: -Students could talk about the celebrations of Tet and other festivals’
activities
- Through this unit, students can express their opinions about Tet
holiday in Vietnam
2. Knowledge:- Vocabulary: Related to the topic
- Language: Ask and answer questions about the Tet holiday in
Vietnam
3. Skills: -Main skill: speaking

- Sub-skills: Listening, writing, reading.
II. Method: Intergrated, mainly communicative
III. Teaching aids: handouts,board makers, pictures, etc.
IV. Procedures:
Teacher s activities’ Student s activities’
Checking in the whole lesson
Warm-up:(6 minutes)
- Ask students close the book and find
- Listen to the teacher
words that go with “traditional” in groups
Today, we will practice speaking about Tet
holiday in Vietnam
1. Pre - speaking: (5 minutes)
Task 1:
-Ask students to read the dialogue and ask them
what points are mentioned in the dialogue
- Ask student to work individually then work in
groups
-call on some pairs to act out the dialogue
- Give suggestions
2. While - speaking :(24 minutes)
Task 2:
-Ask students to look at the three pictures and
work out the name of each holiday
- Ask students to work individually then in pairs
- Walk around the class to help student when
necessary
- Check and give suggestions
- Ask student to practice it with a partner
- Corrects students’ pronunciation if necessary

3. Post-reading: (13 minutes)
Task 3:
- Ask students to read all words in the task 3
-Give the meaning of some words when
necessary
- Ask students to work individually then work in
pairs
Ask and answer about the holidays use the
suggestion
What do you know about……?
When is it exactly?
What do people often do at…..?
Oh what sounds really interesting?
Example
What do you know about mid- Autumn
Festival?
-Find out the words
-Suggested answer: food, flowers
clothes ,games , costumes
- read individually and then work in
pairs
- listen to the friend and give
comments
-Listen to the teacher
-Answer :
1,picture 1: Mid-Autumn
2,Picture 2: thanksgiving
3, picture3 :Valentine’s Day
-1cC ,2aA ,3bB
- Do the task 3

-Compare the answer with the
partners
- Work in groups
-Ask the teacher if necessary
-Some groups present their answer in
front of the class