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(1)School: Teacher: Vu Thi Nga Class: 11 Date: November, 8th, 2010 Period: 1st LESSON PLAN Unit 8: CELEBRATIONS Period 1: Reading A B C D Time (min.) Aims: By the end of the lesson, students (Ss) will be able to: Understand more about Tet holiday in Vietnam Use new words to talk about the activities in the celebrations Method: Communicative Approach Teaching aids: Textbook Wallcharts Pictures Handouts Content: Content and Requirements I Classroom stabilization Establishing new class order Checking attendance II Warm- up Game: Face to face List holidays and festivals taking place every year in Vietnam Rule: - groups discuss the question in minutes - leaders of groups stand in front of class and play one-twothree to know who will play first - leaders will in turn say their answers Who gives wrong or repetitive anwers will lose Suggested answers: Tet holiday, Liberity Day, Independent Day, Mother’s Day, Teacher’s Day, Women’s Day, Summer holiday, International Labor Day, MidAutumn Festival III New lesson A Before you read * Vocabulary: - agrarian people(n) ~ farmers Context: People in my village work Teacher’s Activities Students ’ Activities - Greeting class - Asking monitor - Greeting teacher - Responding - Presenting the rule of game - Dividing class in to groups: A and B - Giving question for discussion - Asking each group choose a leader to play - Listen to their answers - Deciding the winner - Listening - Sitting in groups - Leading to Tet holiday - Asking Ss to discuss in pairs about the activities they like doing most at Tet - Calling some Ss to talk about that - Introducing new lesson - Giving context - Writing word on board Lop11.com - Listening to question - Discussing in mins - Choosing leader - Saying answers - Clapping hands to congratulate winner - Discussing - Talking - Listening - Listening - Taking notes (2) on fields to produce rice They are agrarian people - decorate(v) ~ make st (house, street ) more beautiful Context: I decorate my house to make it more beautiful at Tet - traditional(adj) ≠ modern(adj) Context: Kimono is traditional dress of Japanese women What is the traditional dress of Vietnamese women? - peach bloosom(n) - apricot blossom(n) - kumquat tree(n) * Guiding question: What is the text about? B While you read TASK 1: Match words in colum A with its synonyms: grand a bang ron, khau hieu agrarian b su phan khich banner c thuoc ve nong nghiep pray d mut tao sugared apples e cau nguyen excitement - Asking Ss toguess meaning - Giving correct meaning - Guessing - Listening and taking notes - Giving context - Listening - Writing word on board - Taking notes - Asking Ss to guess meaning - Guessing - Giving correct meaning - Listening and taking notes - Asking Ss to use this word - Making sentences to make sentence - Calling a S to read sentence - Reading sentence - Giving context and asking - Listening and question answering - Writing word on board - Taking notes - Asking Ss to guess meaning - Guessing - Giving correct meaning - Listening and taking notes - Showing pictures - Looking at picture to - Showing pictures get meaning of words - Showing pictures - Reading all words time - Asking Ss to listen and repeat in chorus - Calling some Ss to read new words individually - Checking by hiding new word and asking Ss to read the word basing on its synonym - Asking Ss to read through the text to answer guiding question - Hanging the wallchart - Dividing class into groups of - Asking Ss to discuss to find out the answers - Calling some Ss at random to say answers - Asking others Ss to check - Giving correct answers - Asking Ss to give Vietnamese meaning f hoanh trang Suggested answers: 1-f, 2-c, 3-a, 4-e, 5-d, 6-b Lop11.com - Listening - Listening and repeating - Reading - Remembering and reading - Reading silently to get the main idea - Answering guiding question - Looking at the wallchart - Sitting in groups of - Discussing - Reading the answers - Checking - Taking notes - Giving Vietnamese meaning (3) TASK 3: Answer the following questions: When is Tet holiday in Vietnam? How long did Tet preparations and celebrations last in the past? What streets look like before Tet? What people often to prepare for Tet? Suggested answers: It falls sometime between 19th January and 20th February on the Western calendar (line 2-3) They used to last over months (line 5) Streets are decorated with coloured lights and red banners (line 7-8) They buy gifts, clean and decorate houses and cook traditional food (line 8-9) GAME: Right or Wrong Find out wrong information in the passage and correct it: Thanksgiving is Vietnam’s main holiday It falls sometime between 18th January and 20th February on the Eastern calendar It used to be shorter than it is nowadays Streets are decorated with plants and flowers Homes are often decorated with coloured lights and red banners Peach blossom is traditional at Tet in the South while apricot blossom is traditional in the North Everyone receive lucky number in.side yellow envelopes Suggested answered: 1, Thanksgiving =) Tet 2, 18th =) 19th 3, Eastern =) Western 4, shorter =) longer 5, streets =) homes 6, homes =) streets 7, South =) North 8, North=) South 9, everyone =) children 10, lucky number =) lucky money 11, yellow =) red - Asking Ss to read the questions from to of task - Asking Ss to read the passage again and task individually - Calling some Ss to read answers - Asking in which line they find out the answer - Asking others to comment - Giving correct answers - Reading questions - Asking Ss to close books - Asking Ss to sit in groups of or - Giving each group a handouts - Giving them minutes to discuss to find and correct the wrong information in the passage in the handout - Giving them minutes to write the answers on board - Hanging the wallchart of passage - Checking answers with Ss Which group finishes first and has more correct answers will be the winner and get gift - Closing books - Sitting in groups Lop11.com - Reading the passage again to task - Reading answers - Answering - Giving comment - Listening and taking notes - Receiving handouts - Discussing - Writing answers on board - Looking at the wallchart - Checking (4) C After you read Work in pairs: Tell each other about your last Tet holiday: - preparations - special foods - activities IV Consolidation V Homework: - read the text again - learn new words - the rest of task - prepare for new lesson - Asking Ss to work in pairs to talk about their last Tet holidy - Calling some Ss to talk - Giving comment - Talking in pairs about last Tet holidy - Asking a S to summarize - Summarizing again - Summarizing - Listening - Giving Ss requirements for homework - Listening and taking notes E Self – evaluation: Strength: - prepare lesson plan carefully - organise the board well - use teaching aids effectively - control class well - change something in task to make it easier for students - make task more interesting - use individual work, pair work and group work effectively Weakness: - not ask some specific information - use soft voice Lop11.com - Talking aloud - Listening (5) Thanksgiving is Vietnam’s main holiday It falls sometime between 18th January and 20th February on the Eastern calendar It used to be shorter than it is nowsaday Streets are decorated with plants and flowers Homes are often decorated with coloured lights and red banners Peach blossom is traditional at Tet in the South while apricot blossom is traditional in the North Everyone receive lucky number inside yellow envelopes Thanksgiving is Vietnam’s main holiday It falls sometime between 18th January and 20th February on the Eastern calendar It used to be shorter than it is nowsaday Streets are decorated with plants and flowers Homes are often decorated with coloured lights and red banners Peach blossom is traditional at Tet in the South while apricot blossom is traditional in the North Everyone receive lucky number inside yellow envelopes Thanksgiving is Vietnam’s main holiday It falls sometime between 18th January and 20th February on the Eastern calendar It used to be shorter than it is nowsaday Streets are decorated with plants and flowers Homes are often decorated with coloured lights and red banners Peach blossom is Lop11.com (6) traditional at Tet in the South while apricot blossom is traditional in the North Everyone receive lucky number inside yellow envelopes Lop11.com (7)