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(1)GRADE: 11 UNIT 8: CELEBRATIONS
LESSON: SPEAKING PERIOD: 46
I Objective: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to know some holidays with its main purpose and activities as well as talk about some festival activities
II Material: textbook, colored chalks, pictures, posters
III Procedure:
Timing Content Teacher’s & Students’ activities 5’ I) WARM-UP: Naming pictures
Picture Valentine’s Day Picture Tet holiday
Picture Mid-autumn Festival Picture Thanksgiving
- T gives instruction
- T divides class into groups - S play the game
- T decides the winner
12’ II) PRESENTATION
Pre-teaching vocabulary
a mask (n) : mặt nạ
(picture)
to parade : diễu hành
(situation)
harvest (n) = crop : vụ
mùa (synonym)
roast turkey (n) : gà tây
quay (picture)
Task : Ask and answer the question
1 When is Tet? What is its purpose?
3 What people often at Tet?
- T elicits vocabulary from students - S answer teacher’s questions - T gives a model
- S repeat chorally and individually - T checks part of speech, stress and the meaning
- T asks some questions and elicits the answers from students
- S answer
- T leads to the next exercise
15’ III) PRACTICE:
Task 2: Match the holidays with its main purpose and activities
Holiday/
Celebration Its mainpurpose Its activities
1 Thanksgivin g
(third Thursday in November)
a People express their love to each other
A they give chocolates, flowers or gifts to the people
2 Valentine’s Day ( 14th
February)
b People celebrate the largest full moon in the year
B Children wear masks, parade in the street, have parties with special cakes and lots of fruits, etc Mid-Autumn c People C Family
- T asks students to work individual to match the holidays with its main purpose and activities
- S the task alone
(2)(15th day of the
8th lunar month)
celebrate the harvest
members get together They prepare a large meal with roast turkey
Task : Ask and answer about the holidays above, using the dialogue below as the model
Tet holiday in Vietnam
Mai Anna 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
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 special foods , visit relative, etc Anna: Oh, that sounds really interesting
- T models and asks students to repeat
-S repeat after the teacher
- T asks students to work in pairs to practice the dialogue and make similar conservation using the provided cues
- T calls on some pairs to perform their conservation
12’ IV) PRODUCTION
Discuss the main purposes and activities of Halloween, Teacher’s Day, Women’s Day
- T asks students to work in groups to talk discuss the main purposes and activities of Halloween, Teacher’s Day, Women’s Day
- S work in group to discuss
- T goes around and provides help if necessary
- T calls on some students to present their work
1’ V) HOMEWORK
Revise the lesson
Prepare for the listening lesson