UNIT 8: CELEBRATIONS
I, Aims of the unit:
Helping students:
- To give and response to complements.
- To describe events.
- To express opinions.
- To write a letter.
II. Teaching aids:
- Text book, Radio, tape Notebook, Map dialogue, pictures ……
III, The content of the unit:
Lesson 1: Getting started - Listen and read.
Lesson 2: Speak.
Lesson 3: Listen - Language focus 3, 4.
Lesson 4: Read.
Lesson 5: Write.
Lesson 6: Language focus 1 - 2.
Date of preparing: March 10th 2021 Period 49th Week: 25th
UNIT 8: CELEBRATIONS
LESSON 1: Getting started
(page 65)
Listen and read
(page 65, 66) A. Aims of the lesson:1. Knowledge: - By the end of the lesson Ss will be able to;
- Reading a text about some celebrations in the world for details.
- By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to know more about the popular celebrations in the world.
*. Language focus:
a. Vocabulary: Easter, celebration, freedom, Passover, slavery, decorate, occur, ancient.
b. Grammar: the simple present tense 2. Skills:
- Practice listening and reading the text then answer questions.
- Ss work in pairs to suggestion how to celebration?
*. Giáo dục kĩ năng sống:
- Học sinh biết tự tin và nhận thức được những lời nói của mình khi chúc mừng cho người khác.
- Biết cảm thông và ứng phó với căng thẳng dù là không muốn để hoàn thành mục tiêu của bài học đề ra.
- Biết phê phán, phản đối những công việc làm mang tính chất trái ngược với cái tốt đẹp.
3. Attitude:
- Actively practice the reading text to find out what the main topics are summarized in the text.
- Use the information from the text to answer the question following.
4. Knowledge should be achieved:
+ Qualified: Ss can understand the holidays that need congratulations and appropriate greetings according to the holidays. Read the text and give yourself simple congratulation suggestions.
+ Advanced: Good students can write a paragraph about congratulating someone on a holiday like 20-11.
B
. Teaching aids :
Teacher: Some flashcards, speaker, tape, pictures, objects about festivals …...
Students: Notebook, card, pen, information about some festivals.
C. Teaching Methods: PPP - Individual work, Pairs work.
D. Procedure:
Step I: Organization: (02 minutes)
? Good morning! How are you?
? Who’s absent today?
? What’s the date today?
Date of teaching:
9: March 17th 2021 Absents: ……….………
Step II: warm up: (06 minutes) “Brainstorming”
- Let Ss think of the name of the celebrations all over the world they have known.
- Ask Sts some questions about those days.
Lunar New Year
Women Day Easter birth day - What day is Lunar New Year?
Teacher’s day celebration Christmas - What do they do on that day?
May Day Valentine Mid Autumn festival
Step III: New lesson: (37 minutes)
Teacher + student’s activities Contents
1. Pre – Reading: (08’)
- Help Ss know the meaning of some new words and the way of pronunciation
- Sts listen and repeat then copy down.
- Ask the individual to check orally.
1. Vocabulary:
occur (v) : Xảy ra decorate (v) : Trang trí freedom (n): Sự tự do slavery (n): Chế độ nô lệ Jewish (n): Dân Do thái parade (n): Diễu hành
*. Matching: Answer keys:
1. Easter 2. Wedding 3. Birthday 4. Christmas 5. Mid Autumn Festival
6. Lunar New Year 2. While – Reading: ( 12’)
- Have Ss look at the icons on page 65 and match them with the suitable name of the celebration.
3. Grids.
- Have Ss read silently and listen to the tape at the same time.
- Sts work in pairs to complete the word map on page 66.
* Answer keys:
Cele bra- tion
When Activities Food Coun- try Tet
(Lun al New Year
)
In late January or early Februar
y
Cleaning &
decorating homes, wearing new
clothes &
enjoying special food
Sticky rice cake
Viet- nam
Pass over
In late March or early
April
Eating special meal
Specia l meal called Seder
Israel
East er
Around the
Watching colourful
Choco -
In many
- Give feedback.
3. Post – Reading: (10’)
- Get 3 Ss to look at the grids and introduce the celebrations.
- Tet
- Passover
- Easter to the whole class.
- Help Ss correct if necessary.
4. Conclusion: (05’)
- Summarize the main content of the lesson.
same time as Passove
r
parades
late, sugar,
eggs
coun- tries
* Suggestions:
+ Tet is the most important celebration in Vietnam. It is in late January or early February.
On this occasion, people clean and decorate their homes, they wear new clothes and family
members enjoy together special food such as sticky rice cake. Everyone in Vietnam feels happy
on Tet holiday.
+ Passover is the festival in Israel and all Jewish people celebrate it. Passover occurs in late March or early April. On the first or second nights of Passover, Jewish families eat a special
meal called the Seder. Passover celebrates freedom from slavery.
+ Easter is celebrated in many countries. It happens in late March or early April. On Easter Day, people crowd the streets to watch colourful
parades. They give children chocolates and sugar
eggs if they are good.
5. Homework. (02’)
- Set homework and guide Sts to do
E. Lesson evaluation:
………...
………
………
…………
Date of preparing: March 10th 2021 Period 50th Week: 25th
UNIT 8: CELEBRATIONS
LESSON 2: SPEAK
(page 66- 67)A. Aims of the lesson:
1. Knowledge:
- Practice giving and responding to compliments.
*. Objectives:
- By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to give and respond to compliments. By the end of the lesson pupils will be able to give and respond to compliments and remind how to use adverbial clause of concession.
*. Language focus:
a. Vocabulary. activist nominate nomination charity b. Structure:
2. Skills:
- Listen then write the compliment sentences.
- Review the structure in the present simple tense.
*. Giáo dục kĩ năng sống:
- Thông qua bài học h/s nâng cao về sự nhận thức của bản thân. Biết đánh giá về giá trị của những ngày lễ lớn, sự quan hệ của mọi người và xã hội.
- Biết nhìn nhận, đánh giá đúng về tiềm năng, tình cảm, sở thích, thói quen, điểm mạnh, điểm yếu của người thân để có được những lời khen ngợi, động viên nhau trong cuộc sống hàng ngày.
- Thắt chặt hơn nữa mối quan hệ với bạn bè, người thân trong các dịp lễ tết, những lời chúc mừng nhau cho cuộc sống tốt đẹp.
3. Attitude:
- Students can focus on reading and finding basic information of the lesson to complete the blank sentences.
- Additional education for h / s to communicate and evaluate the value of each lesson.
- Cooperate with friends to practice suggestions and responses in pairs.
4. Knowledge should be achieved:
- H / s year is the way to give greetings at reasonable times. - Know how to choose a suitable topic for congratulations and can use proficiently in congratulation sentences with your classmates.
- Through practice can create a strong combination with other friends.
*. Advanced: H / s can write proficiently congratulatory sentences on each topic in the book or given by the teacher.
B. Teaching aids:
Teacher: Text book, posters, lab room, speaker, word cue ……….
Students: Notebook, card, word cue.
C. Teaching Methods:
- Individual work, Pair work, Group work.
D. Procedure:
Step I: Organization: (02 minutes)
? Good morning! How are you? Who’s absent today?
? What’s the date today?
? What's the weather like today? Is it cool?
Date of teaching:
9: March 19th 2021 Absents: ……….………
II. Warm up: (05’) Questions and Answers 1. When do people give a compliment to other ?
2. Do you usually give a compliment ? 3. On which occasion ? To whom ? 4. Do you know how to respond it ?
- Ask Ss to practice asking answering the questions . III. New lesson: (38 mins)
1. Pre- speaking : (16’)
- Introduce the topic of the speaking and some new words . a) vocabulary :
- active (adj) tích cực - activist (n) người tích cực - nominate (v) ghi danh - nomination (n): Sự ghi danh - charity (n) từ thiện
( kindness in helping the poor)
- an effective activist = a person who actively take part in social work .
Work in pairs
Listen and copy
Listen and repeat chorally , individually
- Charity program (n) : voluntary actions given to people in need or distress .
- Take part in (v) = participate - To congratulate -> congratulations
- to nominate : appoint -> to be nominated
* Checking vocabulary : Slap the board
b) Expressions used to give and respond to compliments:
- Ask Ss to rearrange these words into the meaningful sentences :
a. a is good that idea .
b. on let congratulate me you the passing exam . c. so of nice it you is say .
d. you is kind of that
- Call on some Ss to read their sentences and ask Ss to explain the uses of each one .
=> Introduce the structures to give and respond to a compliment .
Give a compliment
Respond to a compliment Well done
That is a great / an excellent ….
Let me congratulate you on … Tanks
It is nice of you to say so . That is very kind of you .
Ex : Trang has just won the first prize in the English speaking contest .
Mai : Well done , Trang . Trang : Thanks
2. While Speaking : (12’)
Copy down .
Play game
Work individually
Listen and repeat , then copy
Work in pairs Demonstrate in front
- Ask Ss to work in pairs . Read the situations in the book and then give and respond to appropriate compliments .
- Call on some pairs to practice the dialogue before class . - Feedback and give suggested answers
b) Mother : Well done , Huyen . Huyen : Thanks , Mom
c) Friends : Congratulations on your nomination , Tuan . Tuan : It is nice of you to say so .
d) You : That is excellent drawing , Hoa . Hoa : That is vry nice of you to say so . 3. Post - speaking : (08’)
- Ask Ss to work in groups of three to make similar dialogues Example :
Nga : Mai , Lan has passed the final exam with the best results Mai : well , done .
Lan : Thanks .
- Call on some groups to practice in front of class . - Ask them to write the completed dialogues in their notebooks.
* Feedback :
of class .
Work in group of three
Write them in their
notebooks.
Suggested situations : - Win the cooking contest
- win the running race - buy a new watch - make progressive in English
Listen and copy . 4. Homework : (02’)
- Copy the completed dialogues in their notebooks . - Do the exercises ( 1,2 ) in the work book .
- Prepare the next lesson . E. Lesson evaluation:
………...
………
………
…………
