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Unit 8: CELEBRATIONS
Part A: READING
Objectives
Help students understand the content of the reading (how Vietnamese people celebrate their Lunar New Year / Tet) and the new words in context.
Students can do Tasks 1, 2, 3
Methods
Communicative approach
Teaching aids
Cassette player, chalks, board, pictures
Teaching procedures

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Teacher and Students’ activities
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Warm up
-Teacher shows the picture in the textbook and raises some questions like these
1. Are the people in the picture members of the same family?
2. What time of the year is it?
3. What are they doing?
4. What can you see on the table?
5. What else can you see in the picture?
St: give answer
-Teacher has the students work in pairs, telling each other which of these activities he/she doing most at Tet.
St: Work in pairs.

A. making banh chung
B. decorating the house
C. eating Tet special foods
D. going to flowers market
E. going to the pagoda
F. watching fireworks
G. receiving “lucky money”
H. visiting relatives and friends

-Have students listen to the tape.
-Explain some new words in the passage:
Gives sts some new words :
Grandest [grænd] (n) quan ,
to fall between…. and…
to spread [spred] (n) ra
to be full of :
Candied [`kændid] fruit (n) møt
positive comments (n)
Agrarian [] people (n)
peach blossom [pi:t∫] (n) hoa
Banner [] (n)
Apricot blossom [](n) hoa
Kumquat tree [] (n)
Task 1.
-Have students do Task 1 (giving Vietnamese equivalents for some English words in the text)
-Give feedback
St: do the task 1
Task 2.
-Have students read the whole passage silently and do task 2 (True/ False statements)

St: Take note
Teacher corrects mistakes.

Task 3
Have students work in groups and answer the questions.
( Have the representative of each group write their answers on the board.
( Have some pairs practise asking and answering questions.
Have students work in pairs, telling each other about his/her last Tet holidays focusing on the main points :
-how you and your family prepared for Tet.
-how you decorated your house
-who you visited and who visited you
-which special foods you liked best
-which activities you most enjoyed during Tet
Ss: Work in pairs
Have one or two pairs present their talk in front of class.
Ss: -Perform in front of the class
Correct mistakes and give feedback



-Answer.
( Yes. / Yes, they are.

( It is the first day of the Lunar year.
( They are celebrating the New Year.
( There are banh chung, mut, fruits and red envelops on the table.
( We can see the apricot flowers and kumquat tree behind the people.
























Task 1:
1.Grand : impressive and large
2. Banner
3. Sugared apples
4. Agrarian
5. Pray
6. Excitement


Task 2:

1. F ( it falls between 19th January and 20th February)
2. F (It`s just for agrarian people)
3.T
4. F( according to the passage, lucky money tends to be given to children)
5. T
6. T

1. It sometime between 19th January and 20th February .
2. Tet`s preparations and celebrations used to be spread over months
3. They are decorated with coloured li9ghts and red banners.
4. They buy gifts, clean and decorate their houses and cook traditional foods
5. It is made from sticky rice, green beans and fatty pork










Homework
Write down Task 3 in the notebooks.
Prepare Part B - Speaking

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