Unit 8: Celebrations Speaking

UNIT 8: CELEBRATIONS PART C: SPEAKING OBJECTIVES • Aims:Students learn to talk about the holidays • Lexical items:words or phrases related to the celebration • Teaching aids:computer , pictures PROCEDURE • Warm-up: • LOOK AT THESE PICTURES AND ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS What’re they? Lucky money Do you like receiving lucky money ? When you usually receive lucky money ? At Tet Have students answer these questions • Do you dress up like this boy? • What you usually at Tet? PRE-SPEAKING • Have students pay attention to the structure and some words : » It’s the time when » What you usually ? » :Do you know that ………? » Special food  use picture » Dress up -> use picture » Play traditional games-> use picture WHILE-SPEAKING • TASK 1: Mai is talking with Anna, her new English friend, about Tet holiday in Vietnam Work in pairs Practice reading the dialogue Students work in pair • Mai: Do you know that Tet holiday is next month? • Anna: What is Tet? • Mai: It’s the time when Vietnamese people celebrate the beginning of spring It’s also the start of the lunar new year • Anna: When is it exactly? • Mai: Well, this year it’s on the 9th of February • Anna: What you usually at Tet? • Mai: Well, we eat a lot of special foods, we dress up and visit friends and relatives, and we also play some traditional games • Anna: Oh, that sounds really interesting TASK 2: Below are some popular holidays and celebrations in Vietnam and in the world Work in pairs Match the holidays with its main purpose and activities Holiday/ Celebration Its main purposes Its activities a.People express Thanksgiving(t their love to each hird Thursdayin other November) A.They give chocolates, flowers or gifts to the people they love Valentine’s b People celebrate B Children wear Day the largest full masks, parade in the street, have (14th February) moon in the year parties with special cakes and lots of fruits, etc Mid-Autumn c People celebrate Festival the harvest (15th day of the 8th lunar month) C Family members get together They prepare a large meal with roast turkey 1cC ANSWER 2aA 3bB • Have students work in pair :ask and answer about holiday / celebration, its purpose ,and its activities after matching the holiday with its main purpose and activities e.g – When’s Thanksgiving ? – What people celebrate it for ? – What people usually on that day? Post-speaking • Have students work in pairs Ask and answer about VietnameseTeachers’ Day using the dialogue in Task as the model • Some words and expression are needed :show respect to our teachers , traditional ,send flowers to ,gather at the schoolyards , visit our old teachers at their home ,sing songs , wish our best wishes , be grateful to our teachers Homework • Have students write a report about what they talk above The end • Thank you for your attention [...]...Post -speaking • Have students work in pairs Ask and answer about VietnameseTeachers’ Day using the dialogue in Task 1 as the model • Some words and expression are needed :show respect to our teachers , traditional ... students answer these questions • Do you dress up like this boy? • What you usually at Tet? PRE -SPEAKING • Have students pay attention to the structure and some words : » It’s the time when ... Special food  use picture » Dress up -> use picture » Play traditional games-> use picture WHILE -SPEAKING • TASK 1: Mai is talking with Anna, her new English friend, about Tet holiday in Vietnam... traditional games • Anna: Oh, that sounds really interesting TASK 2: Below are some popular holidays and celebrations in Vietnam and in the world Work in pairs Match the holidays with its main purpose