Unit 8: Week: 26, Period: 50 Date: 25/02/2009 CELEBRATIONS GETTING STARTED & LISTEN AND READ I AIMS: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to know more about the popular celebrations II LANGUAGE CONTENTS: Grammar : - The simple present tense - Relative clauses Vocabulary : III TEACHING AIDS: - Posters, pictures, textbook IV PROCEDURES: CONTENTS Warm up: (5’) Brainstorming: Lunar New Year May Day Celebration s Passover Easter TECHNIQUES - Teacher asks students to think of the names of the celebrations in Viet Nam and all over the world they have known + Students go to the board and write the birthday names of the celebrations on the board Wedding + Individual - Feedback - Teacher asks some questions about those days + Students answer the questions Christmas Answer the questions: - What day is Lunar New Year / Eater / - Then teacher asks students to look at Passover? the icons on page 65 and match them - What they on that day? with the suitable name of the celebration Presentation: (15’) + Students work in pairs Pre _ teach vocabulary - Pre teach vocabulary - occur (v): xảy + Students listen and repeat - decorate (v): trang trí + Whole class - freedom (n): tự + Individual - slavery (n): nô lệ - Jewish (adj): người Do Thái - parade (n): diễu hành - Checking vocabulary: What and Where Matching the icons with the names of the - Then teacher hangs the pictures on the celebrations they represent: (P 65) board and asks students to match the + Answers: icons with the names of the represent 1) Easter + Individual Pairs 2) Wedding 112 3) birthday 4) Christmas 5) Mid _ Fall Festival 6) Lunar _ New year + Students guess and complete the table: (P 66) - Feedback - Teacher introduces the content of the text and asks students to complete the table on page 66 Practice: (15’) + Ss guess and complete the table Listen and read: (P 65, 66) - Teacher asks Ss to listen to the tape + Students read the text on page 65, 66 and check + Students listen and read the text their prediction + Ss read and complete the table + Answers: + Individual Pairs Celebration When? Activities Food Country - Feedback In late Cleaning and Sticky rice Viet Nam - Teacher corrects the mistakes and January decorating cakes gives the correct answers Tet or early homes, and - Teacher asks Ss to look at the grids February enjoying and introduce the celebrations: Tet – special food Late (Not Special Israel Passover – Easter to the whole class March or available) meal + Individual Passover early called the “Tet is celebrated in Viet Nam Tet April Seder occurs in late January or early February Around People crowd Chocolate In many the same the streets to or sugar countries On this occasion people clean and Easter decorate their homes They wear new time as watch colorful eggs clothes Family members enjoy special Passover parades + Students look at the grids and introduce the food such as sticky rice cakes “etc …” celebrations: Tet – Passover – Easter to the - Teacher asks students to pick out the whole class sentences with relative pronouns “Who” or “Which” Modal sentences: + Students read the text again and pick + Relative clause: - Tet is a festival which occurs in late January or out the sentences early February - Family members who live apart try to be - Teacher writes the model sentences on the board together at Tet - Teacher explains the use, the meaning Production: (8’) of the sentences Students practice the model sentences: + Students practice the model sentences + Fill in the blanks with Who or Which: 1) The doctor helped you yesterday, is very kind 2) The book is on the table, is mime 3) Passover is a festival occurs in late March or early April 4) The girl is sitting at that desk, is my friend Homework: (2’) - Study the lesson carefully - Write the answers in your exercise books - Teacher guides students what to at home V INSTRUCTIVE 113 ... Write the answers in your exercise books - Teacher guides students what to at home V INSTRUCTIVE 11 3 ... model sentences: + Students practice the model sentences + Fill in the blanks with Who or Which: 1) The doctor helped you yesterday, is very kind 2) The book is on the table, is mime 3)... introduces the content of the text and asks students to complete the table on page 66 Practice: (15 ’) + Ss guess and complete the table Listen and read: (P 65, 66) - Teacher asks Ss to listen