Giáo án Tiếng Anh lớp 10 - Unit 8: Celebrations

 	LESSON PLAN
Presenters: 	 Nguyen Thi Nhung and Nguyen Thi Mai Hue
Lesson:	 Unit 8: CELEBRATIONS (Lesson1:A. Reading) 
Student’s language level: Grade 11
Number of students:	 30 students
Time allowance:	 45 minutes
Date of teaching:	 21st October 2013
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 I. Aim of teaching:
To assure that students are able to get the information of the text to do the tasks.
 II. Terminal objective of teaching: 
 By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to :
 - Use the information they have read to discuss the topic.
 - Develop such reading micro-skills as a scanning for specific ideas and guessing meaning in context.
III. Enabling objective of teaching:
 - Students will enrich their vocabulary about the celebrations.
 - Get information about the celebrations
 - Students will be able to summarize the text in English and retell the activities on Tet holiday.
IV. Teaching reference:
 - Handout
 - Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary
 V. Teaching aids:
 - textbooks, computer, chalk, board, power point, handout, lesson plan.
VI. Language to be presented and practiced:
 - Grammar: Pronouns one(s), someone, no one, anyone , everyone everyone.
 - Vocabulary about holidays and celebrations
 - Students may not have enough vocabulary to talk about the topic, so T should be ready to help them.
VII.TEACHING PROCEDURES
Time
 Steps and content
 Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
 6’
10’
5’
6’
10’
6’
2’
WARM- UP:
- play games by listening to the songs, looking at the pictures to guess what’s celebration?
 The first picture:
 The second picture:
The third picture:
The last picture:
 ______________________
NEW LESSON
Unit 8:
 CELEBRATIONS
 A. Reading.
I.BEFORE YOU READ
 Discussing Tet holiday.
- Look at the picture on page 90 and discuss the three questions:
1. What time of the year is it? 
2. What are the people in the picture doing?
3. What else can you see in the picture?
 Suggested answers:
1. It is Spring and it should be Tet holiday because we can see the apricot blossom, a kumquat tree and full of ripe fruits.
2. The people in the picture may be a family. The grandmother is giving her niece and nephew lucky money. The daughter, the son and their parents may be wishing their grandparents good health and happiness.
3. In the picture we can also a five-fruit tray on the ancestral altar, a dish of fruits, a tray of candies, Mut, Banh Chung on the table.
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a. Making banh chung.
b. Decorating the house
c. Cooking traditional foods 
d. Going to the flower market 
 e. Going to the pagoda
f. Watching fireworks
g. Receiving “lucky money” 
h. Visiting relatives and friends 
i. Going to work.
 New words:
- Lunar new year: ['lu:nə]Tết âm lịch
- peach blossom: /pi:t∫'bl ɔsəm/ (n)
 hoa đào
- apricot blossom: /'eiprikɔt 'bl ɔsəm/ (n) hoa mai
- lucky money: /‘lʌki mʌni/ (n):
 tiền lì xì
- agrarian: /ә’greәriәn/(adj):
 thuộc về nông nghiệp
- banner: băng rôn 
- kumquat tree : /'kʌmkwɔt tri:/(n)
 cây quất
- candies fruits: /’kændid fru:t/ (n)
 mứt	
II. WHILE YOU READ:
Read the text about Tet in Vietnam, and then do the tasks that follow.
Task 1. The following words all appear in the passage. Find the Vietnamese equivalent for each of them
1. grand: hoành tráng
2. banner: băng rôn 
3. sugared apples:
4. agrarian: thuộc về nông nghiệp
5. pray: cầu nguyện
6. excitement: niềm vui thích.
 Task2: Work in pairs. Decide whether the statements are true (T) or false (F).
1. Tet is always on 20th February on the Western calendar.
- F, sometime between 19th Jan and 20th Feb
2. According to the text, for people anywhere in the world, the beginning of spring is the start of a new year.
- F, agrarian people
3. Tet used to be longer than it is nowadays. T, (L1-2,P2).
4. According to the text, “lucky money” is usually given to everyone at Tet.
- F, children
5. Kumquat trees are popular both in the North and in the South of Vietnam.
- T, (L3-4, P3)
6. People try to be nice and polite to each other because they want to have good luck on New Year’s Day.
- F, during the whole year
Task3: .Work in pairs. Ask and answer the following questions.
1.When is Tet holiday in Vietnam?
2. How long did Tet preparations and celebrations last in the past?
3. What do streets look like before Tet?
4.What do people do to prepare for Tet?
5. What is banh chung made from?
6. What is mut?
7. What are some popular activitives at Tet ?
Keys:
1. It falls sometime between 19th January and 20th February on the Western calendar.Line2- 3.
 Paragraph1
2.They used to be spread over months. ( They lasted for months.)Line 1, paragraph 2
3. They are decorated with coloured lights and red banners. Line 3 – 4 , paragraph 2
4. They often buy gifts, clean and decorate their houses and cook traditional foods. Line 4 – 5 , paragraph 2
5. It is made from sticky rice, green beans and fatty pork. Line 5-6,
paragraph 3
6. It is candied fruit such as sugared apples, plums or tomatoes.Line 6 -7 ,paragraph 3
7. They are: visiting other family members and friends, exchanging .
New Year’s wishes, going to the pagoda, taking part in games, etc…
 Last paragraph.
III. AFTER YOU READ
Work in group:Tell each other about your last Tet holiday,focusing on the following main points.
 - How you prepared for Tet
 - How you decorated your house
 - Who you visited
 - What special foods you ate
 - What activities you enjoyed doing most during Tet
WRAPPING UP:
- T summarises the main points.
- T asks Ss to learn by heart all of the new words and do the extra exercise as homework.
- T gives some questions:
1, What is the title of the song?
2, When do people often sing it?
3, What is it about?
 - T gives several suggested answers:
For example in the last picture:
1, Ngaỳ xuân long phụng sum vầy.
2, To welcome the New Year/ It is often sung on the last days of the old year and at the beginning of the new year.
3, Feelings about the old year and new year.
à All these events are organized and What is called? 
“CELEBRATIONS”
-T asks the whole class to look at the picture on page 90 and discuss the three questions in pairs.
-T goes around to offer help.
- T calls on some Ss to answer and elicits comments from other Ss. T gives feedback if necessary.
-T asks Ss to watch the video below then circle the activities you see about Tet holiday
-T reads/ plays tape vocabulary.
-T asks Ss to scan the passage to find out in task 1.
- Tcalls 2 Ss to write on board.
- T corrects
-T runs though the sentences
-Tasks Ss to work in pairs
-T instructs Ss to use some the strategies to do to the task:
-T asks Ss to work individually to do the task and discuss their answers with their peers.
-T calls on some Ss to give their answers and asks them to explain their choices.
-T calls each S to answer 
-T gives the correct answers
-T checks if Ss can answer the comprehension questions in task 3 without having to read the passage again. If Ss cannot, T gets them to read the questions carefully and gives them some tips to do the task:
-T asks Ss to work individually to do the task, then discuss their answers with their peers.
-T calls on some Ss to write their answers on the broard and ask them to explain their choices.
-T gives the correct answers:
-T explains difficult words
-T calls Ss to answer
- T corrects errors.
- T raises the winner.
- T asks Ss to work in group to tell each other a bout their last Tet holiday
- T goes around to help Ss when necessary.
- T calls on some Ss to report their ideas to the class and do homework .
-T asks Ss to learn new words and prepare speaking.
- answer the questions.
(Individual work)
- listen to the song and look at the picture to guess celebrations.
- Whole class look at the picture on page 90 and answer the questions.
- watch the video below then circle the activities you see about Tet holiday.
- chose the activities without on Tet holiday.
- listen and reapeat ( whole class, individual)
- read in silent to find Vietnamese meaning.
- answer and take note.
- pair works
- answer orally
- take notes.
- quickly read though the statements to get an idea the about topic.
- whole class, individual work and pair work.
- Ss answer and explain
- group work
- play lucky numbers game in group A and B answering the questions 2, 3, 4, 5,7 orally,( 1,6 are the lucky number).
- work individually to do the task .
- write the answers on the board
- clap hands.
- tell about the last Tet holiday(groupwork and whole class).
-whole class
 learn by heart, do homework.