UNIT 9 FESTIVALS AROUND THE WORLD Lesson 1 Getting started I OBJECTIVES By the end of the lesson, students will be able to 1 Knowledge Vocabulary Gain an overview about the topic “Festivals around the[.]
UNIT 9: FESTIVALS AROUND THE WORLD Lesson 1: Getting started I OBJECTIVES: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to: Knowledge: Vocabulary: - Gain an overview about the topic “Festivals around the world” - Use lexical items related to the topic “Festivals”: names of different festivals around the world Custume, fireworks display, feast, float, folk dance, parade, decorate Competences: - Develop communication skills and cultural awareness - Be collaborative and supportive in independent work, pair work and teamwork - Actively join in class activities Qualities: - Develop self-study skills - Have positive attitude in English language learning so that they actively participate in all classroom activities - Know more festivals around the words and choosing the festival that they like II TEACHING AIDS Teacher: - Grade textbook, Unit - Getting started, lesson plan - Computer connected to the internet - Projector/ TV/ pictures and sets of word cards - Sachmem.vn Students: Text books, notebooks, posters, … III PROCEDURES: 1.Warm-up (5’) * Aim: - Activate students’ knowledge on the topic of the unit - Set the context for the listening and reading part * Content: Game: Kim’s game (about festivals around the world) and answer the questions * Products: Ss write words exactly on the board Teacher’s and Ss’activities Content * T asks Ss to look at the picture on page 93 in * Kim's game: 20 seconds and try to write the festivals they know as many words as possible - Easter - Teacher divides the class into two teams - folk dance - Ss go to the board and write the words - Firework play - Teacher gets feedback -> Today we are - Mid – Autumn festival going to learn some festivals around the - Thanksgiving world * Teacher shows the picture of the Tulip Festival and asks students some related questions: * Chatting What can you see in the picture? Can you guess the name of the festival? Have you ever heard of this festival? If yes, what you know about it? - Students raise hands to answer the questions Teacher and students discuss the questions Teacher accepts all students’ questions Presentation (5’) * Aim: Enrich students’ vocabulary to talk about festivals around the world * Content: Vocabulary about festivals * Products: Read and understand the meaning of words Teacher’s and Ss’activities Content Pre teach vocabulary - Teacher use different techniques to teach vocab (pictures, situation, realia) * Vocabulary - Follow the seven steps of teaching vacabulary - Fireworks display (n) Bắn pháo hoa - Custume (n): Phong tục - Repeat in chorus and individually - Feast (n) : Bữa tiệc - Copy all the words - Float (n) : Xe diễu hành - Folk dance (n) : Múa dân gian / điệu nhảy - Parade (n) : Cuộc diễu hành * Checking vocab: < Matching> - Decorate (v) : Trang trí Practice (27’) * Aim: - Introduce the names of festival topic - Ss know more vocabularies related to festival activities - Get specific information of the text - Check Ss’ knowledge of some familiar festivals * Content: - Listen and read - Read and tick the correct columns (Who did the activities?) - Write a word or phrase under each picture - Fill in the blanks with a word or phrase - Match each description with a festival * Products: - Ss listen and read, write words with the correct pictures Teacher’s and Ss’activities Content Task 1: (7’) Listen and read (T-Ss) - Teacher asks students to listen the topic “A Tulip Festival” - Teacher can play the recording more than Task 1: Listen and read once - Students listen and read in pairs - Teacher calls some pairs of students to read aloud - Teacher checks students’ pronunciation and gives feedback Task 2: (5’) Read the conversation again Who did the following activities? Tick (√) the correct culumn Sometimes you need to tick both (T - Ss, Ss – Ss) Task 2: Read the conversation again Who did the following activities? Tick (√) the correct culumn Sometimes you need to tick both - - Teacher tells students to read the *Answer key: conversation again and work independently to find the words in Task to tick the correct columns - Students the task individually - Teacher allows students to share their answers before discussing as a class and encourages them to give evidence Teacher calls some students to give the answers and gives feedback Task 3: (5’) Write a word or phrase from the box under each picture (p.93) Task 3: Write a word or phrase from the box under each picture (p.93) Game: Who is faster? Game: Who is faster? (T-Ss, Ss-Ss) Answer key: - Teacher divides the class into teams Each team sends a leader to play the game on the board - Teacher explains the instructions of the game: - Teacher gives each team a set of cards with word/phrases from the box - The two leaders of the teams come to the board and pin the cards under the correct pictures - Who can finish faster with more correct answers will be the winner - Students play the games in team mode - - Teacher has students write down the correct answer parade costumes feast float fireworks display folk dance - Teacher confirms the answers and gives feedback Teacher can ask for translation to check their understanding Task 4: (5’) Fill in each blank with a word Task 4: Fill in each blank with a word or phrase from You may have to change or phrase from You may have to the form of the word or phrase (p.93) change the form of the word or phrase (p.93) (T-Ss, Ss-Ss) - - Teacher asks students to work individually to Answer key: complete the task Remind them to change the folk dances form of the words/phrases of needed fireworks display - - Students fill in the blanks with the most feast suitable form of word/phrase parades - - Teacher allows students to share answers floats; costumes before discussing as a class - - Teacher can ask for translation to check their understanding Task ( 5’) Quiz What festival is it? Match each description with a festival (p.93) (T-Ss, Ss – Ss) Task 5: Quiz What festival is it? Match each description with a festival (p.93) - Teacher lets Ss work in groups of 4-6 Answer key: - Ss work in groups to find the answers e - Teacher can go around to help weaker a students d - Teacher calls the first group to come up c with the answers to share b Production (6’) * Aim: - To consolidate what students have learnt in the lesson - To give students a chance to apply what they have learnt * Content: Game : Write sentences using one of the festivals or the words they have learnt * Products: Students read aloud their sentences Teacher’s and Ss’ activities Content - T divides class into groups - Teacher asks groups to write sentences using one of the festivals or the words they have learnt - Ss work in groups - Teacher asks each group to hand in their paper and checks, the group with more correct sentences is the winner * Game: Who is faster? - (e.g: On New year’s Eve, we went to Hoan Kiem lake to watch the fireworks display - At christmas, people decorate pine - Teacher invites the winner to read aloud their trees and give each other gifts ) sentences Homework (2’) Teacher’s and Ss’ activities - T reminds Ss to homework and prepare the new lesson Content - Learn by heart all the new words - Rewrite the sentences into notebooks - Do exercises in workbook - Prepare vocabulary for the next lesson: A closer look