Unit 13 Festivals

WELCOME THEM TO CLASS
TODAY


WEDNESDAY, March 16th 2016


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Christmas Day


Tet holiday


Halloween

Rice- cooking


Mid-Fall festival


Bull-fighting


VOCABULARY


(to) wrestle: vật


The cock – fighting: chọi gà


The Rice-cooking Festival
rice - cooking festival was held.
This report shows how the (1) ............................
The festival was held in the communal house yard about
(2)........................
kilometer away from a river. There were three
one / a
competitions: (3) ...........................
water - fetching fire-making and rice-cooking. The
festival took one day.

In the water-fetching contest one person from each team had to
run
(4) ....................
to the river to get the (5) water
......................In the firemaking contest two team members had to make a firetraditional
in the
(6) .................. way. They tried to rub pieces
of (7) ................... together
bamboo
Six (8) ........................ people from each team took part in
to make the fire.
the rice-cooking contest. They hadseparate
to (9) .................. the rice from the
husk and then cook the rice.
added and the
After the three contests, all the points were (10) ...................
Thon Trieu group won the grand prize. The festival was wonderful.


Ask and answer
a) What is the name of the festival?
b) Where was the festival held?
c) How long did the festival last?
d) How many activities were there? Were there any competitions?
e) How were the activities organized?
f) How many people took part in each activity?
g) What did you think about the festival?

Write a similar report on a festival you joined recently. The
answers to the questions below can help you.
a)

What is the name of the festival?

=> Rice cooking festival
b) Where was the festival held?
=> In the communal house yard about one km away from the
river
c) How long did the festival last?
=> It lasted one day.


e) How were the activities organized?
=> In the water- fetching contest one person …
f) How many people took part in each activity?
 Six people took part in the rice – cooking
contest.
 One person took part in the water-fetching
contest
 Two people took part in the fire – making
contest.
g) What did you think about the festival?
=> The festival was wonderful.


Modal report
This report shows how the Christmas Festival
was held.

The festival was held in every family so everyone
took part in this activity and it lasted in two days.
On Christmas Eve people stayed up late to have
pudding and greeted to each other. At the
midnight the Santa Claus came from the chimney
and gave presents for children.
On Christmas Day people went to the Church.
The festival was wonderful. Everyone were very
excited about it.


Homework
- Write a similar report on a festival you joined
recently.

- Prepare Language Focus