Period: 44 Date of planning: 18/11/2010
UNIT 8: CELEBRATIONS
READING
AIMS: Helping students practise reading skills.
Helping students can get more knowledge about Lunar New Year (or Tet holiday) in Vietnam.
METHOD: Communicative approach.
AIDS: Textbooks, posters, pictures, handouts, real things.
PROCEDURE:
Time
Content
T’s activities
Sts’ activities

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I. Check up: Put the verbs into the correct form. (poster)
1. If he (eat) _________ all that, he will be ill.
2. I shouldn’t drink that wine if I (be) _________ you.


II. Warm up :
- What are these?
- When do you see them?
- What do you receive inside red envelopes?







III. New lesson:
A. Pre-reading :
1. Activity 1: Look at the picture and discuss the questions. (Textbook/ p.90)
1. What time of the year is it?
2. What are the people in the picture doing?
3. Are they family?
4. Are they happy?
5. What else do you see in the picture?
2. Activity 2: Tell your partner which of these activities you enjoy doing most at Tet.





B. While-reading:
1. Task 1: Find what the following words mean in the text.
- grand: to lớn
- agrarian: (thuộc) nông nghiệp
- banner: băng rôn
- pray: cầu nguyện
- sugared apples: mứt táo
- excitement: sự nô nức, nhộn nhịp



2. Task 2: Decide whether the statements are true (T) or false (F).(handouts)
a. Kumquat trees are popular both in the North and the South of Vietnam
b. Tet is always on 20th February on the Western calendar.
c. People try to be nice and polite to each other because they want to have good luck on New Year’s Day
d. According to the text, for people anywhere in the world, the beginning of spring is the start of a new year
e. Tet used to be longer than it is nowadays
f. According to the text, “ Lucky Money” is given to everyone at Tet

3. Task 3: Game: Lucky numbers
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* Questions:
1. Lucky number
2. What do streets look like before Tet?
3. When is Tet holiday in Vietnam?
4. What is mut?
5. How long did Tet preparations and celebrations last in the past?
6. What is banh chung made from?
7. What are some popular activities at Tet?
8. Lucky number
9. What do people often do to prepare for Tet?
* Answers:
2. Streets are decorated with coloured lights and red banners.
3. It’s sometime between 19 January and 20 February on the Western calendar.
4. It’s candied fruit.
5. For months.
6. It’s made from sticky rice, green beans and fatty pork.
7. Visiting friends and other family members, exchanging wishes, going to the pagoda, playing games, etc.
9. They buy gifts, clean and decorate their houses and cook traditional foods.
C. Post-reading: (For good and excellent students)
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






IV. Homework:
- Learn vocabulary and answers
- Prepare Speaking.
- T calls 1 st to go the board and give the structure of conditional sentences.
- T evaluates
- T gives sts some reds envelopes and asks sts some questions
- T introduces: “To know more things about Tet holiday, today we learn Unit 8: Celebrations – READING”.


- T shows the picture on the screen and asks sts some questions