- Asks students to work in groups to compare the aspects of the Vietnamese New Year with those of the Japanese one Before students take part in the activity, T elicits of the transiti[r]
(1)Bui Bich Lien
Date of preparing: 5/10/2010 Date of teaching:
Unit 8: CELEBRATIONS
period 1: Reading
I AIMS:
1 Educational aim:
- Student should contribute their part to some traditional festival
- Student should know more about the celebration of Tet and other festivals’ activities
2 Knowledge:
General knowledge: Through the unit students understand some background information about the festival such as time, activities in the festival
Language: understand some word use to describing celebrations
3 Skills:
- Scan for specific information
-Skim for the gist of the context
II Teaching Aids
Teacher : Handouts, pictures concern to Tet holiday Students: School documents
III Anticipated problems
Ss may not have enough vocabulary to talk about the topic, so T should be ready to help them
VI Procedure
1 Organizations: Teacher comes to class and asks Ss how they prepare their lesson at home (1mm)
2 Oral test: during new lesson new lesson:
Teacher’s activities Students’ activities Aims
1 Warm- up (5m) Brainstorm
- Shows some pictures such as the pictures of Banh Chung, peach blossom, kumquat tree, kumquat tree,
- - Points the pictures and asks whole class some questions:
+ What you think of when you see this?
+ Why so?
+ What you often before Tet? - Call some pairs to ask and answer in the class
- T leads into the new lesson
- Work in pairs
- Look at the picture to answer the questions
Suggested answers: + I think of Tet holiday
+ Because they are the symbols of Tet
+ Clean and decorate the house, go shopping to buy new clothes, candied fruits, make Banh Chung……
- Ss have chance
to exchange
(2)Before you read(10m) Discussing Tet holiday
- Asks Ss to look at the picture on page 90 and discuss the questions in pairs - Goes around to offer help
- Calls on some Ss to present their answer and elicits comments from other Ss T gives feedback if necessary
1 What time of the year is it?
2 What are the people in the picture doing?
3 What else you see in the picture?
2 Pre –reading: (8m) *vocabulary
Lunar New Year:(n) Tết âm lịch
To fall between… and………: Rơi vào khoảng thời gian từ…đến
To spread:(v) kÐo dµi
To be full of : đầy nhiều
Candied fruit:(n) Mứt
Peach blossom /pi:t∫'blɔsəm/:(n) Hoa đào
Apricot blossom /'eiprikɔt 'blɔsəm/:(n) Hoa mai
Positive comments: Những lời nói tốt đẹp
Ss work in pairs
1 It is Spring and it should be Tet holiday because we can see peach blossom and kumquat tree full of ripe fruits
2 The grandmother is giving her niece and nephew some lucky money The girl, the boy and their parents good health and happiness In the picture we can see a five-fruit tray on the ancestral altar and a dish of fruits, a tray of candied fruits and a Banh chung on the table
-Ss write down and make sentence with the new words
- Get more Ss involve
- Help together to answers all the question
(3)above words to check their understanding
3 While you read: (20m)
Use the text book : Silent reading
Setting the scene
You are going to read a passage about Tet holiday in Vietnam After reading, do the tasks in textbook
Task 1
- Asks Ss to the task Find the meanings of the words
+ T prepares a hand down which consist of column
+ Asks Ss to read the passage quickly and stop at the lines that contain these words to guess their meaning and matching the word in column A with their meaning in column B Column A grand banner sugared apples agrarian pray excitement column B
a CÇu ngun b Táo tẩm đuờng c Thuộc nông nghiệp
d Trọng đại, hồnh tráng e Biểu ngữ, băng rơn
f Sự háo hức, nhộn nhịp
- Calls on some Ss stand up and read aloud their answers
- Gives feedback and the correct answers
Task
- Asks Ss to work individually to the task and then discuss their answers with their partners
- Calls on some Ss to give their answers and ask them to explain their choices - Checks students’ answers
Whole class pay attention - Read the passage silently
Individual work then compare with their partner
- Stand up and read aloud their answers:
- Correct answers: d e b c a f
Individual work and pair work Answers:
1.F – It falls between 19th January
and 20th February
2.F – It’s just for agrarian people 3.T
4.F - lucky money tends to be given to children
5.T 6.T
- Ss read individually and silently to avoid Ss make noise and pay more attention in reading
- Individual to help Ss more independent - compare with their partner to check answer - Get more Ss’ attentions
- Ss compare and check their answers
(4)Task 3
- Ask Ss to work individually to the task, then discuss their answer with their peers
.- Calls on some Ss to stand up and read
aloud their answers and ask them to explain their choices
- Checks students’ answers
3 After you read(10m)
- Asks Ss to work in groups to tell each
other about their last Tet holiday focusing on the main points on book p.92
- When all groups have finished, T calls
on some Ss to report their ideas to the class
summaries(2m)
- T summarizes the main points
+ date of Tet
+ Activities during the Tet
- Asks Ss to learn by heart all of the new
words and give examples
- Summarizes the main ideas of the
passage
Homework
- Asks Ss to learn by heart all of the new words and read the text to understand
Ss work in groups
1 It falls sometime between 19th
January and 20th February (line
2-3, paragraph 1)
2 Tet’s preparations and
celebrations used to be spread over months (line 1- 2, pr 2)
3, They are decorated with colored lights and red banners
(line 3- pr 2)
4 They buy gifts, clean and decorate their houses and cook traditional foods (line 4-5 pr 2) It is made from sticky rice, green beans and fatty pork
(line 5-6, pr 3)
6 Mut is candied fruit
- The answer of the lucky number (line 6-7, pr 3)
7 Visiting friends and other family members, exchanging wishes, going to the pagoda, playing game (last paragraph)
Group work
Some Ss to report their ideas to the class
Answers may vary
- Listen and take note
- Share informations
- Share informations
(5)more
- Asks Ss to prepare new lesson Comments
Signature
Bui Bich Lien
(6)Unit 8: CELEBRATIONS
Period : Listening
I AIMS
1 Educational aim: student should contribute their part to some traditional festival
2 Knowledge
General knowledge: - Through the unit student listen to get specific information about know how the New Year in is celebrate in Japan
- Compare the aspects of the Vietnamese New Year and those in Japan
Language: understand some word use to describing celebrations and how its pronounce
3 Skills:
- practice listening skill
- Fluency in describing celebrations
II Teaching aids
1 Teacher: Handouts, pictures, cassette tapes Students: School documents
IV Anticipated problems
Ss may not have enough vocabulary to talk about the topic, so T should be ready to help them
V Procedure
1 Organizations: Teacher comes to class and asks Ss how they prepare their lesson at home (1mm)
2 Oral test: during new lesson new lesson
Teacher’s activities Students’ activities Aims
1 Warm up (5m)
- Asks student work in pairs and discuss some questions:
“In your point, what is special about the New Year holiday in Japan? Is that the same with the New Year of Vietnam?” “Can you guess what Japanese on this day?”
- Asks some students stand up and present their answers
- Checks and gives feedback if necessary - Lead in: to check all your answers, we are going to listen to the talking about how the New Year celebrated in Japan
2 Before you listen(10m) Guessing
- Introduces the listening passage
- Work in pairs and answer the questions
- Stand up and present
Whole class pay attention - Ss work in pairs
- Help Ss to guess
(7)- Asks Ss to work in pairs to guess which
of the activities on page 94 the Japanese often on their New Year’s Day
- Calls on some Ss to give their answers
and write them on the boards T also asks Ss to add any other activities that they think the Japanese at the New Year
Pre-teaching vocabulary
Shrine(n) /∫rain/(n) điện thờ, miếu thờ Longevity:(n) [lɔn'dʒeviti] tuổi tho Pine trees(n) thông
Constancy:(n) s bn lũng, khụng thay i, trờng tồn)
To represent: BiĨu trng cho, tỵng trng cho
- T may get Ss to make sentences with the words and gives corrective feedback
3 While you listen (20m) Task
- Instruction: “You are going to listen to two people talking about how the New Year is celebrated in Japan After listening, please the task on your book.”
- Asks Ss to read through the statements - Plays the tape once for Ss to the task - Asks for Ss’ answers and write them on the board
- Plays the tapes the second time for Ss to check their answers
- Asks Ss to work in groups of to compare their answers
- Calls some Ss to stand up and answer - Checks students answers
Task 2
- Asks Ss to read and answer the questions with the things they remember from the previous time of listening
- T says: “you are going to read and
- Go to board and write down their answers
- Listen to teacher and take note
Individual work and pair work Correct answers:
1 They put on special clothes Housewives prepare special foods
3 They go to a shrine They drink rice wine They watch television They eat a special meal
- Do the task
the board help other Ss easy to follow especially easy to realize if their friend have add ideas
- Prepare word to listen
(8)choose the best answers for the following questions ”
Question:
1 Why Japanese people a big clean up before the New Year comes?
A They want to get rid of the dirt of the old year
B They want to welcome the new year C Both A and B are correct
D The speaker was not mention
2 Where the Japanese hear the bells from? A They hear from the church
B They hear from the television and radio
C They hear from the post office D They hear from the others
3 Do Japanese often celebrate the new Year with their friends?
A Often B Sometimes C A little D No
4 What Japanese after visit their shrines?
A They come home B They eat special food
C They drink a lot of rice wine D All the below answers are correct - Plays the tape again for Ss to the task After playing the tape, T gets Ss to work in pairs and compare their answers with their peers
- Calls on some Ss to give the answers and elicits feedback from other Ss
- Plays the tapes slowly and pauses to check one by one
4.After you listen(8m)
- Asks students to work in groups to compare the aspects of the Vietnamese New Year with those of the Japanese one Before students take part in the activity, T elicits of the transition signal/phrases to talk about the similarities and differences between two things
Individual work and pair work Answers:
1 C B D D
- Present answers - Listen and check
Whole class
(9)- Goes around to offer help and collect Ss’ mistakes
- Calls some re-presenter of some groups to present their answers
- Elicits feedback from the class and give final comments
Summarizes (2m)
T summarizes the main points of the lesson
Ask Ss to learn by heart all new words and the exercises in workbook as home work
Homework
- Asks Ss learnt buy heart all the new word and listen again and again at home - Asks Ss prepare new word
*Comments
- - Summarize help Ss to remember