Period 49. Unit 8: celebrations
Lesson 1: getting started - listen and read. P.65 - 66
I. Aims:
- To introduce some festivals in the world to the students.
- To teach students the relative pronouns WHO and WHICH used in the relative clauses.
II. Objectives:
- By the end of the lesson, students will be able to know more about the popular celebrations in the world and recognize the relative clauses in the text.
III. Ways of working: T - WC, teamwork, individual work.
IV. Materials: Textbook, pictures in the textbook, tape and cassette player.
V. Anticipated problems: The lesson may take time.
VI. Teaching steps:
1. Warm up: (1 minute) Greet and check the students` attendance.
2. Revision: (5 minutes) Shark attack: CELEBRATION
3. New lesson:
STAGES
ACTIVITIES
ON BOARD

PRE READING
(12 minutes)
* Getting started: Matching
- Students match the icons with the names of the celebrations they present














- Teacher gets students to add more the list of the celebrations.
* Preteach vocabulary:
- Teacher uses techniques to teach students new words.
- Checking understanding:
Rubout and remember
* Open Prediction:
- Teacher gets students to predict the three celebrations from the text.
I. Matching:
Easter
Lunar New Year
Christmas
Birthday
Mid-Fall Festival
Wedding





1 2 3




4 5 6
Answer key:
1- Easter
2- Wedding
3- Birthay
4- Christmas
5- Mid-Fall Festival
6- Lunnar New Year


II. New words:
- (to) occur = (to) happen
- (to) decorate: trang trí
- slavery: sự nô lệ
- parade: cuộc diễu hành, đám rước
III. Prediction: Three celebrations from the text:
E.g: 1- Christmas

WHILE READING
(17 minutes)
* Listen and read. P.65 - 66:
- Students read the text for the first time and check their predictions:


- Students read the text for the second time and match the English words and phrases with their Vietnamese meanings:


- Students read the text for the third time and complete the table:
















IV. Listen and read. P.65 - 66:
1. Checking predictions:
* Answer Key:
1- Tet or the Lunar New Year holiday
2- Passover
3- Easter
2. Matching:
(to) live apart
Passover
Jewish people
freedom
(to) crowd
người Do Thái
tụ tập
sống xa nhau / nhà....
Lễ Quá Hải
sự tự do

3. Complete the table:
Celebration
When
Activities
Food
Country

Tet
in late January or early February
cleaning and decorating homes, enjoying special food
sticky rice cakes
Viet Nam

Passover
late March or early April
(not available)
special meal called the Seder
Israel

Easter
around the same time as Passover
People crowd the streets to watch colorful parades
chocolate or sugar eggs
in many countries



POST READING
(8 minutes)
* Retell story:
- Students retell the three celebrations mentioned basing on the grid.
- Teacher asks students to find the sentences in the text in which WHO and WHICH are used.

- T. asks students to translate them into Vietnamese.
4. Retell story:


5. Model sentences:
- Family members who live apart try to be together at Tet.
- Tet is a festival which occurs in late January or early February.
- Easter is a joyful festival which is celebrateed in many countries.

4. Homework: (2 minutes)
- Learn by heart all the new words and read the text again.
- Do exercises: 1, 3. P.52 - 53 (Workbook)
* Teacher guides students to do the exercises: Bt 1: Điền who / whom / which / where vào chỗ trống.
BT 3: Đọc đoạn văn sau đó điền who / which / where vào chỗ trống.
Period 50. Unit 8: celebrations
Lesson 2: speak - listen
I. Aims:
- To help students give and respond t complements.
- To help students listen to a song and fill in the missing words.
- To teach students how to sing the song "Auld Lang Syne".
- To develop students` skills.
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