- T asks Ss to learn by heart all new words and practice to tell Tet, prepare for speaking lesson. - Listen[r]
(1)ThaiNguyen University of Education Foreign Languages Faculty
LESSON PLAN
UNIT 8: CELEBRATIONS
Period 1: Reading Grade: 11th Class: 11 A10
School: Luong Ngoc Quyen high school
Coach: Vu Hoang Ha Trainee: Nguyen Thi Anh Date of planning: 28/11/09 Date of approval: 30/11/09 Date of teaching: 3/12/09 Time: 45 minutes
(2)ThaiNguyen November, 28th 2009
UNIT 8: CELEBRATIONS
Lesson 1: Reading I. Objectives:
By the end of the lesson, Ss will: Develop dictionary skills
Decide on True or False statements Develop passage comprehension
II. Materials:
Textbook, pictures
III. Anticipated problems:
Ss have difficulties in guessing meaning of words, lack vocabulary
IV. Procedure
Time Teacher’s activities Ss’ activities
5’ Warm-up
- Game: Matching
- T hangs pictures (of celebrations of Vietnam) and phrases on the board: Teachers’ day, Mid-autumn festival, Happy women’sday
- T gives Ss minutes to answer
- T has Ss match phrases with these pictures on the board
- T checks and gives correct answers (Appendix)
- T asks Ss to guess what the topic today is about
- T introduces the topic
- Look at the board
- Give answers
- Checks their answers
- Guess the topic
10’ Before-reading
- T has Ss to open their books and look at the picture on page 90
- T asks Ss to answer some questions:
1 What’s the picture about? 2 What are they doing? 3 What did you last Tet? 4 What you enjoy doing at Tet?
Suggested answers:
+ Tet holiday + Lucky money
- Open their books
(3)+ Peach blossom + Decorating the house + Making bánh chưng
+ Eating special Tet foods + Visting pagoda
+ Visting relatives and friends
- T has Ss answer these questions above
- T asks Ss to read the passage on page 91
- T asks Ss to answer “What’s the passage about?”
- T has Ss give new words
- T explains meanings of new words, and then reads and asks Ss to repeat them
- Give new words and write on the notebooks
20’
While-reading
T has Ss read the whole text carefully and task 1, 2,
Task 1: Find what the following words mean in
the text.
- T has Ss read out the requirement of task
- T checks Ss’ understanding
- T has Ss findout the new words given in task in the passage
- T asks Ss to guess the meaning of these words
- T hangs the poster containing these words above and asks Ss to match
1 Grand a Apples mixed with sugar 2 Banner b connected with farming 3 Sugared
apples
c Large and important 4 Agrarian d The state of feeling excited 5 Pray e A piece of cloth with message
hung in public place
6 Excitement f Give thanks or ask God for help
- T calls some Ss to match
- T checks and gives correct answers 1-c 4-b
2-e 5-f 3-a 6-d
Task 2: Decide whether the statements are true (T)
or false (F).
- T has Ss read out the requirement
- Read the requirement
- Recall meanings of new words
- Do task
- Check their answers
(4)- T checks Ss’ understanding
- T asks Ss to work individually
- T asks Ss to answer question 1-6
- T has some Ss answer T/F (which line? Which paragraph?) and if it is false, correct it
- T checks and gives feedback: F (line 2-3, paragraph 1)
Always on 20th February → Sometimes
between 19th January and 20th February
2 F (line 3-4, paragraph 1)
People anywhere → agrarian people T (line 1-2, paragraph 2)
4 F (line 5-6, paragraph 4) Everyone → children T (line 3-4, paragraph 3) T (line 1, paragraph 4)
Task 3: Answer the following questions
- T asks Ss to read the requirement and checks their understanding
- T asks Ss to give key words of questions 1-6
- T checks: when?
2 how long, Tet preparations and celebrations, in the past
3 what, streets, look like what, people, prepare 5 what, “banh chung”, made 6 what, “mut”
7 what, popular activities
- T has Ss work in pairs and task
- T has some pairs answer
- T checks and give correct answers:
1 It is sometimes between 19th January and 20th February (line 2-3, paragraph 1) (already done in task 2, sentence 1)
2 Tet’s preparations and celebrations used to be spread over months (line 1-2, paragraph 2) They are decorated with coloured lights and
red banners (line 3-4, paragraph 2) They buy gifts, clean and decorate their
houses and cook traditional foods (line 4-5, paragraph 2)
5 It is made from sticky rice, green beans and fatty pork (line 5-6, paragraph 3)
6 Mut is candies fruit (line 6-7, paragraph 3) Visiting friends and other family members,
exchanging wishes, going to the pagoda, playing games… (last paragraph)
- Individual work
- Give answers
- Read out the requirement and gives key words of questions 1-6
- Pair work
- Give amswers
(5)7’ Post-reading
- T asks Ss to work in groups to tell each other about their last Tet holiday, basing on these questions on page 92
- T asks Ss “what verb tense they use to decribe the events in the past?”
- T has Ss answer
- T goes around the class to give help with difficulties
- T corrects Ss’ answers
- Group work
- Give answers
- Speaking in turns
3’
Summary
- T summarizes main points of the lesson
- T asks Ss to learn by heart all new words and practice to tell Tet, prepare for speaking lesson
- Listen
- Write on the notebooks and prepare for speaking lesson
Signature of coach
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