Period 37 :
UNIT 4: FESTIVALS and FREE TIME
Lesson 2( 6th) Part 3 (Page 35) – Pronunciation, Practice and Speaking Time: 45 minutes
Class Date of teaching Absent students 6A
6B
I. THE AIMS OF THE LESSON.
1. Knowledge.
By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to identify the sound changes in speaking and listening.
Vocabulary:.
Grammar: - use sound changes in the question: “What time …?”.
- talk about festival activities.
2. Ability:
- Students practice speaking skills
- Students form and develop competencies: the ability to autonomy and selfstudy, the ability to communicate and cooperate, to solve problems and tocreate, the ability to develop communication skills and creativity, demonstrate teamwork skills
3. Quality:
- Being active to broaden and percept the knowledge.
- Having a good behavior toward the family.
- Having the good attitude to working in groups, individual work, pairwork,cooperative learning.
- Having serious learning attitudes; love learning English, energetically andactively participate in learning activities
- Students’ qualities are helped to develop such as: building their love for family, homes and community.
II. TEACHING EQUIPMENT AND LEARNING MATERIALS.
- Teacher prepares the lesson plan, textbooks, teaching aids such as personal computers, projectors, speakers…
- Students prepare textbooks, notebooks, studying tools, … ready for the lesson.
III. TEACHING PROCESS.
Activities 1. Warm up: (6’)
a) Objective: to introduce the new lesson and set the scene for Ss to acquire new language; to get students’ attention at the beginning of the class by means of enjoyable and short activities as well as to engage them in the steps that follow.
b) Content: revision of how to say the time in English /vocabulary.
c) Products: Ss review knowledge in the previous lessons and they are ready for the new lesson.
d) Organization of implementation:
Teacher’s Activities Students’ Activities - Give greetings
- Check attendance
Option 1: Telling the Time - Have Ss close all books
- Show some clocks with different time markers, have Ss read the time
- Call Ss to give answers
- Give feedback, correct Ss’ answers if necessary
Lead to the new lesson
Option 2: FIND THE OPPOSITE - Have Ss close all books
-Greet T
- Close books
- Look, read the time
- Give answers
Answers keys
- Give some words, have Ss find their opposites
1. start 2. open
3. begin 4. boring 5. wrong 6. false
- Call Ss to give answers
- Give feedback, check answers as a whole class
Lead to the new lesson
- Close books - Find the opposites
- Read answers
- Check answers with the teacher Answers keys 1. start >< end
2. open >< close
3. begin >< finish / end 4. boring >< interesting 5. wrong >< right 6. false >< true
Activities 2: Pronunciation (12’)
a) Objective:Ssknow how to use sound changes in the question: “What time
…?”
b) Content:
- recognizing the sound changes in the question: “What time …?”.
- listening and focusing pronunciation feature, finding and correcting mistakes.
- practice saying the target pronunciation point.
c) Products: Ss can apply the sound changes to their speaking skill.
d) Organization of implementation:
Teacher’s Activities Students’ Activities a + b. Listen. Notice the sound
changes of the underlined words - Play the recording (CD1, track 49) - Ask Ss to listen and pay attention to the sound changes
- Call Ss to make their comments on the sound changes of the questions:
“What time …?”
- Give feedback, explain the
pronunciation feature: “What time
…?” often sounds like /wʌˈtaɪm/
- Play the recording again, have Ss listen and repeat with a focus on the pronunciation feature
c + d. Listen and cross out the one with the wrong sound changes, then read the sentences with the correct sound changes to a partner.
- Play the recording, have Ss listen and cross out the option that doesn’t use the correct sound changes
- Call Ss to give answers
- Play the recording again and check answers as a whole class.
- Then have Ss practice saying the sentences with a partner, using the correct sound changes, then encourage Ss to use their own sentences
- Call some Ss to read their sentences in front of the class
-Check and correct Ss’ pronunciation
- Listen
- Comment
- Listen
- Listen again and repeat
- Listen and cross out
- Give answers
- Listen again and check
- Work in pairs - Present
Activity 3: Practice (10’)
a) Objective:Ss can ask and answer questions about events and time.
b) Content: practicing a conversation and using pictures on the right as a cue.
c) Products: Ss can apply what they have learnt into practice and into producing the language successfully.
d) Organization of implementation:
Teacher’s Activities Students’ Activities V. Practice the conversation. Swap
the roles and repeat. (Controlled practice)
Option 1:
- Demonstrate the activity by practicing role- play with a student
- Emphasize the structures to ask about time:
What time does it begin / end?
What time does it / do they open / close?
What time + do / does / + S + V…?
- Have pairs practice the conversation
- Call some pairs to read in front of the class - Have pairs swap roles and repeat-using the pictures on the right
- Have some pairs demonstrate the activity in front of the class
- Check Ss’ pronunciation
Option 2: (for class with better students) - Follow the same steps as option 1
- Then give Ss an extra activity: Practice the conversation in the textbook; however, they try to remember the conversation content - Have some pairs demonstrate the activity in
- Listen
- Work in pairs
- Act out the conversation
- Listen to the instruction and work in pairs. Ss can practice the new conversation with the information in the pictures.
front of the class, not looking at the textbook;
encourage Ss to present as naturally as possible
- Give feedback and evaluation
b. Practice with your own ideas. (Free – practice)
- Have pairs practice the conversation with their own ideas, then swap roles
- Go round, observe Ss’ work and give help if necessary
- Call some pairs to demonstrate the activity in front of the class
- Give feedback and evaluation
- Act out the conversation
- Listen
- Work in pairs
- Present
V. Practice the conversation. Swap the roles and repeat. (Controlled practice)
Option 1:
- Demonstrate the activity by practicing role- play with a student
- Emphasize the structures to ask about time:
What time does it begin / end?
What time does it / do they open / close?
What time + do / does / + S + V…?
- Have pairs practice the conversation
- Call some pairs to read in front of the class - Have pairs swap roles and repeat-using the pictures on the right
- Listen
- Work in pairs
- Have some pairs demonstrate the activity in front of the class
- Check Ss’ pronunciation
Option 2: (for class with better students) - Follow the same steps as option 1
- Then give Ss an extra activity: Practice the conversation in the textbook; however, they try to remember the conversation content - Have some pairs demonstrate the activity in front of the class, not looking at the textbook;
encourage Ss to present as naturally as possible
- Give feedback and evaluation
b. Practice with your own ideas. (Free – practice)
- Have pairs practice the conversation with their own ideas, then swap roles
- Go round, observe Ss’ work and give help if necessary
- Call some pairs to demonstrate the activity in front of the class
- Give feedback and evaluation
- Act out the conversation
- Listen to the instruction and work in pairs. Ss can practice the new conversation with the information in the pictures.
- Act out the conversation
- Listen
- Work in pairs
- Present
Activity 4: Speaking (15’)
a) Objective:Ss can discuss things to do when they go to a festival.
b) Content: asking and answering questions about activities.
c) Products: Ss produce the language naturally, confidently and successfully.
d) Organization of implementation:
Teacher’s Activities Students’ Activities
a. You are going to a festival. Student B goes to page 120, file 2. Look at the schedule for the festival. Take turns
asking about the activities. Choose at least 3 things to do.
- Demonstrate the activity by practicing role- play with a student
- Remind Ss to use the Present Simple tense and some structures of asking time
- Have student A stay on page 35 and student B turn to page 120, file 2
- Have Ss ask and answer and choose at least 3 things to do.
- Have some Ss share their ideas with the class
- Give feedback and evaluation
b. Join another pair. Did you choose the same activities?
- Have Ss join another pair, discuss which activities they choose to do
- Have some Ss share their ideas with the class
- Give feedback and evaluation
- 1 S practices role-play with the teacher
- Listen
- Work in pairs
- Role play
- Work in pairs
V. Homework (2’)
- Practice using sound changes in the question: “What time …?”.
- Practice asking and answering about festival activities.
- Prepare: Lesson 3: Social Studies – New Words and Listening (page 36 – SB).
Period 38 :
UNIT 4: FESTIVALS and FREE TIME
Lesson 3(7th) – (Page 36) – New words , Listening and Useful Language Time: 45 minutes
Class Date of teaching Absent students 6A
6B
I. THE AIMS OF THE LESSON.
1. Knowledge.
By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to talk about a Vietnamese festival’s activities.
Vocabulary: : firework (n); lucky money (n); gift (n); parade (n); decorate (v);
traditional (a) Grammar:
2. Ability:
- Students practice speaking skills
- Students form and develop competencies: the ability to autonomy and selfstudy, the ability to communicate and cooperate, to solve problems and tocreate, the ability to develop communication skills and creativity, demonstrate teamwork skills
3. Quality:
- Being active to broaden and percept the knowledge.
- Having a good behavior toward the family.
- Having the good attitude to working in groups, individual work, pairwork, cooperative learning.
- Having serious learning attitudes; love learning English, energetically and actively participate in learning activities
- Students' qualities are helped to develop such as: building their love for family, homes and community.
II. TEACHING EQUIPMENT AND LEARNING MATERIALS.
- Teacher prepares the lesson plan, textbooks, teaching aids such as personal computers, projectors, speakers…
- Students prepare textbooks, notebooks, studying tools, … ready for the lesson.
III. TEACHING PROCESS.
Activities 1. Warm up: (6’)
a) Objective: to introduce the new lesson and set the scene for Ss to acquire new language; to get students' attention at the beginning of the class by means of enjoyable and short activities as well as to engage them in the steps that follow
b) Content: introducing some festivals in the world
c) Product: Ss get to know some festivals they are going to study in the lesson.
d) Organization of implementation:
Teacher’s Activities Students’ Activities - Give greetings
- Check attendance
Option 1: MATCHING
- Introduce some festivals, using pictures - Have Ss look at the pictures and match each picture with its right name
- Have Ss give answers, give feedback
Lead to the new lesson
-Greet T
- Look and match
Option 2: Game: Guessing the festival - Give Ss 3-4 questions, for each question – Ss have 4 cues to guess which festival is being mentioned.
- Explain rules: If Ss can give correct answers from the first cue, they will get 40 points. The match will be reduced to 30, 20 and 10 until the last cue is given. (T can think of any way to carry out this game, it depends).
- Illustration:
Lead to the new lesson
Answers keys
- Find out the festival (whole class)
- Listen
Answers keys
Question 1: The Mid-Autumn Festival
Question 2: The Lunar New Year
Question 3: The Diwali Festival
Activities 2: Vocabulary (17’)
a) Objective:Ssknow more festival activities.
b) Content:
- numbering the picture.
- discussing things people do during holidays.
c) Products: Ss know how to pronounce the new words correctly and use them in appropriate situations.
d) Organization of the activity:
Teacher’s Activities Students’ Activities a. Number the pictures. Listen and repeat.
- Have Ss look and the pictures and read the activities in the book
- Demonstrate the activity, using the example - Have Ss number the pictures
- Ask Ss to work in pairs to check their answers with their partners
- Call Ss to give answers
- Check answers as a whole class.
- Play audio (CD1 – Track 50). Have Ss listen and repeat
- Call some Ss to read the phrase again - Correct Ss’ pronunciation if necessary
b. Discuss the things you think people do during these holidays.
Option 1 :
- Have Ss discuss the things you think people do during these holidays
- Go round and give help if necessary - Have Ss share their ideas with the class - Give feedback and evaluation
- Look and read
- Work in pairs
- Give answer
- Listen and repeat - Read the phrase again
Answers keys
B.5 C. 3 D. 8 E. 4 F. 2 G. 6 H. 7
- Work in pairs
Option 2 :
- Design the task: Put the given activities into the right column
- Have Ss work in pairs and put the activities in the right column
- Encourage Ss to add more activities - Call Ss to give answers
- Give feedback
- Give answers
Expected answers - People eat traditional food at Christmas / New Year
- People decorate a house or tree at Tet (New Year) / Christmas
- People get lucky money, candy of gifts at New Year
- People play games or music at Halloween / Christmas / New Year
- Work in pairs
- Give answers
Answer keys
Activity 3: Listening (10’)
a) Objective:Ss can develop their listening comprehension skills.
b) Content: Ss listen to some people talking about traditional festivals.
c) Products: Ss can listen for main ideas and specific information, then they can talk about festivals.
d) Organization of the activity:
Teacher’s Activities Students’ Activities
*Conversation Skill: Getting time to
think
- Focus on the Conversation Skill box - Explain to the Ss that they are going to learn how to use hesitation devices - Give more words / phrase to express hesitation:
Well … Umm … Let me see … I see …
Well, you know …
- Play audio. (CD 1 – Track 52). Have Ss listen and repeat
- Have some Ss practice the
conversation skill in front of the class - Give feedback
a. Listen to some people talking about traditional festivals. Are all the festivals celebrated in the same country?
- Have Ss look at the request of the task
- Play audio (CD1 – Track 51) - Have Ss listen and answer the question by circling Yes / No - Check answers as a whole class b. Listen and draw lines
- Have Ss read the festivals and activities in the task
- Demonstrate the activity
- Play audio (CD1 – Track 51) again
- Look and read
- Listen and take notes
- Listen and repeat
- Practice in pairs
- Read
- Listen and give answer Answer keys No.
- Read
- Listen and draw lines
- Have Ss listen and draw lines - Call Ss to read their answers - Check answers as a whole class
- Read answers
Answer keys
Teacher’s Activities Students’ Activities a + b. Listen. Notice the sound
changes of the underlined words - Play the recording (CD1, track 49) - Ask Ss to listen and pay attention to the sound changes
- Call Ss to make their comments on the sound changes of the questions:
“What time …?”
- Give feedback, explain the
pronunciation feature: “What time
…?” often sounds like /wʌˈtaɪm/
- Play the recording again, have Ss listen and repeat with a focus on the pronunciation feature
c + d. Listen and cross out the one with the wrong sound changes, then read the sentences with the correct sound changes to a partner.
- Play the recording, have Ss listen and cross out the option that doesn’t use the correct sound changes
- Call Ss to give answers
- Play the recording again and check answers as a whole class.
- Then have Ss practice saying the sentences with a partner, using the correct sound changes, then encourage Ss to use their own sentences
- Listen
- Comment
- Listen
- Listen again and repeat
- Listen and cross out
- Give answers
- Listen again and check
- Call some Ss to read their sentences in front of the class
-Check and correct Ss’ pronunciation
- Work in pairs - Present
Activity 4: Grammar – Useful language (10’)
a) Objective:Ss can use some useful languages in their speaking.
b) Content: Structures to ask and answer about festival activities c) Products: Ss can apply the structure in everyday communication.
d) Organization of the activity:
Teacher’s Activities Students’ Activities Listen then practice
Option 1:
- Have Ss look at the Useful Language box - Explain more about the structures used to ask about festival activities
How do people prepare for…?
What do they do during …?
- Play audio (CD1 – Track 53)
- Have Ss practice the useful language - Have Ss practice the conversation, using other activities from “New words” and Listening”, and their own ideas
- Call some pairs to present, give feedback and evaluation
Option 2:
- Follow the same steps as option 1 - Call some Ss to ask and answer about a
- Look
- Listen and take notes
- Listen
- Practice in pairs
- Present
- Work in pairs
festival activity (Ss can choose which one to talk about)
- Have Ss act out the conversation as naturally as they can (without using the textbook)
- Give feedback and evaluation
- Present
IV. Homework (2’)
- Find more information about some famous festivals in the world.
- Ask and answer about festival activities.
- Do exercises in Workbook: Lesson 3 - New words – Listening (page 24).
- Prepare: Lesson 3 – Reading, Speaking and Writing (page 37 – SB).
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Period 39 :
UNIT 4: FESTIVALS and FREE TIME Lesson 3 (8th): Part 3 (Page 37) – Reading, Speaking
Time: 45 minutes
Class Date of teaching Absent students 6A
6B
I. THE AIMS OF THE LESSON.
1. Knowledge.
By the end of this lesson, students will be able to read an article about a festival in Vietnam and speak about a festival.
Vocabulary: peach flower (n); apricot flower (n); lantern (n); lion dance (n);
special (a)
Grammar:
2. Ability:
- Students practice read and speak skills
- Students form and develop competencies: the ability to autonomy and selfstudy, the ability to communicate and cooperate, to solve problems and tocreate, the ability to develop communication skills and creativity, demonstrate teamwork skills
3. Quality:
- Being active to broaden and percept the knowledge.
- Having a good behavior toward the family.
- Having the good attitude to working in groups, individual work, pairwork, cooperative learning.
- Having serious learning attitudes; love learning English, energetically and actively participate in learning activities
- Students' qualities are helped to develop such as: building their love for family, homes and community.
II. TEACHING EQUIPMENT AND LEARNING MATERIALS.
- Teacher prepares the lesson plan, textbooks, teaching aids such as personal computers, projectors, speakers…
- Students prepare textbooks, notebooks, studying tools, … ready for the lesson.
III. TEACHING PROCESS.
Activities 1. Warm up: (6’)
a) Objective: to introduce the new lesson and set the scene for Ss to acquire new language; to get students' attention at the beginning of the class by means of enjoyable and short activities as well as to engage them in the steps that follow
b) Content: introducing “Tết” or the Mid-Autumn Festival.
c) Product: Ss have a general idea about the festivals that are mentioned in the lesson.
d) Organization of the activity:
Teacher’s Activities Students’ Activities - Give greetings
- Check attendance
Option 1:
- Prepare things about Tet such as peach
blossom, bánh chưng, red envelope, watermelon seed, fruits, … and put them in a box or bag
-Greet T
- Have 1 S touch these things without looking inside the box, describe things
- Have the rest of the class guess what thing is being described
- Ask Ss to tell the name of the festival through things in the box.
Lead to the new lesson.
Option 2: Game: JIGSAW PUZZLE
- Prepare a picture which is cut into many pieces - Have Ss work in groups to arrange the pieces to make a right picture, then hang it on the board - Have Ss give name of the festival in the picture - The quickest group to have the right picture and name of the festival will be the winner.
Lead to the new lesson
- Do as the teacher requests
- Guess
- Give name of the festival Answer keys
Luna New Year Festival or Tết
- Work in groups
- Give names
Answer keys
Name: The Mid-Autumn Festival
Activities : Reading (12’)
a) Objective:Ssimprove their reading skill (scanning, skimming)
b) Content:Reading an article and recognizing the correct and incorrect information.
c) Products: Ss know about Tết – a traditional festival in Vietnam.
d) Organization of the activity:
Teacher’s Activities Students’ Activities a. Read the article and underline all the
festival activities
- Have Ss read the article individually - Have some Ss read the article aloud
- Demonstrate the activity using the example - Have Ss underline all the festival activities - Check answers as a whole class.
b. Read and write “Yes” or “No”
Option 1:
- Have Ss read the article again
- Have Ss read the sentences and write “Yes”
or “No”
- Call Ss to give answers
- Check answers as a whole class.
- Read in silence
- Read in front of the class
- Do the task - Check
Answer keys
- Read
- Do the task
- Give answers, explain Answer keys
1. No 2. No 3. No 4. Yes
- Read, find key words
Option 2:
- Have Ss read the sentences to guess the key word (the word that helps they find the answers quickly and correctly)
- Have Ss read the article again and write
“Yes / “No”
- Haves Ss underline the sentences that help them find the answers
- Call Ss to give answers, explain - Check answers as a whole class.
- Have Ss make the “No” sentences into “Yes”
- Do the task
- Give answers, explain Answer keys Keywords:
1. during 2. Every, same 3. during 4. during
No Yes
1. People buy fruits and flowers before Tết.
2. People in the north and the south have different types of trees.
3. People clean their houses before Tết.
Activity 3: Speaking: Festival Fun (10’) a) Objective:Ss can talk about a festival.
b) Content: Talking about what people do before and during the Mid – Autumn Festival.
c) Products: Ss can talk about the festivals they like.
d) Organization of the activity:
Teacher’s Activities Students’ Activities a. You’re telling a friend from overseas
about the Mid-Autumn Festival. Take turns to talk about what people do before and during the Mid-Autumn Festival
- Demonstrate the activity by asking and answering with a student
- Have Ss practice the conversation in pairs - Observe and listen
- Have Ss take turns to talk about what people do before and during the Mid-Autumn Festival - Remind Ss to use the words / sounds to get time to think (hesitate)
- Have some pairs act out the conversation in front of the class
- Give feedback and evaluation.
b. Talk about other festivals you know
Option 1:
- Have Ss work in pairs to talk about other festivals they know
- Go round and give help if necessary
- Call some pairs to demonstrate the activity - Give feedback and evaluation
Option 2:
- Give Ss some suggestions about other festivals (like pictures and phrases in part a.) Example: The Christmas Festival
- Have Ss practice the conversation in pairs and present their conversation in front of the class - Give feedback and evaluation
- Work in pairs
- Present
- Work in pairs
- Present
- Look
- Work in pairs - Present
IV. Homework (2’)
Do exercises in Workbook: Reading
- Prepare: Lesson 3 period 9: Social Studies –
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