Bài soạn môn học Tiếng Anh lớp 11 - Unit 8: Celebrations

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UNIT 8 : CELEBRATIONS LESSON 1 : READING PERIOD: 
I. Aims : 
 - To help students read and understand the traditional festival “Tet in Viet Nam”. 
 - To help students know how to use a dictionary to find the meaning of words or phrases in the celebrations 
 - To develop students’reading skills. 
II. Objectives : by the end of the lesson, ss will be able to : 
- Know the meaning of vocabulary basing on the text. 
- Understand the traditional festival “Tet in Viet Nam”. 
III. Materials : posters , pictures 
IV. PROCEDURE: 
Time Contents Teacher’s activity Students’activity 
5’ 
5’ 
5’ 
8’ 
7’ 
I. Warm-up : Network 
II. Pre-reading : 
Ask and answer the following questions: 
1.Are they happy ? 
2.What are they doing ? 
3.What are on the table and the alter? 
4.What tree is on the right of the picture ? 
 * New words : 
 - agrarian(n, adj) 
 - apricot blossom 
 - beach blossom 
 - kumquat tree 
- sugared apple 
 - comment (n) 
 - pray (v) 
 - firework (n) 
 III.While-reading : 
1. Task 1 : The meaning of these words 
(page 92) 
 1. to lớn, hoành tráng 
 2. thuộc về nông nghiệp 
 3. băng r ô n,khẩu hiệu 
 4. cầu nguyện 
 5. táo tẩm ñường 
 6. sự nô nức, nhộn nhịp 
2.Task 2 :True & false statements: 
1.F 2.F 
3.T 4.F 
5.T 6.F 
3.Task 3 :Answer the following questions : 
1. It’s sometimes between 19 January and 
20 February. 
2.for months. 
3. They are decorated with coloured lights 
and red banners. 
4. They buy gifts, clean and decorate their 
- Gives instructions. 
( what do you often do at “ 
Tet days” ?) 
- Gives remarks. 
- Gives instructions. 
- Asks students to work in 
pairs . 
- Corrects. 
- Gives remarks. 
- Provides students with 
new words . 
- Rub out and remember. 
- Gives instructions. 
- Asks students to read the 
reading and to do the task 
individually. 
- Corrects answers. 
- Gives instructions. 
- Asks students to work in 
pairs to do the task. 
- Corrects answers. 
- Gives instructions. 
- Asks students to work in 
pairs. 
- Gives remarks 
Play the game. 
- Pairwork 
- Look at the picture on 
page 90 
- Give answers. 
- Give meaning of new 
words 
- Do the exercise 
individually. 
- Compare the answers 
with a partner. 
- Give answers. 
- Pairwork : do the 
task. 
- Give answers on the 
blackboard. 
- Pairwork : do the 
task. 
- Give answers. 
Tet in Viet 
Nam 
Make cakes 
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houses and cook traditional foods. 
5.It is made from sticky rice, green bean and 
fatty pork. 
6. It is candied fruit such as sugared apples, 
plums or tomatoes. 
7. Visiting friends and others family 
members, exchanging wishes, going to the 
pagoda, playing games, etc. 
 IV.Post-reading : 
Tell each other about your last Tet holiday 
: 
- How you and your family prepared for Tet 
. 
- How you decorated your house. 
- Who visited you and who you visited. 
- Special food you ate 
- Activities you most enjoyed during Tet. 
V. Homework : Write about your last Tet, 
using what you have just said. 
- Gives instructions. 
- Asks students to do the 
task in groups of four. 
- Corrects answers. 
- Goes around and gives 
help 
- Groupwork . 
- Give answers 
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UNIT 8 : CELEBRATIONS LESSON 2 : SPEAKING PERIOD: 
I. Aims: 
 - To help students ask and answer about the celebrations in Viet Nam or other countries : time, main 
activites..of those celebrations. 
 - To develop students’speaking skill. 
II. Objective : by the end of the lesson, ss will be able to : 
 Ask and answer about the celebrations in Viet Nam or other countries : time,main activites..of those 
celebrations. 
III. Materials: posters , pictures 
IV. Procedure: 
Time Contents Teacher’s activity Students’ activity 
10’ 
8’ 
7’ 
15’ 
I. Warm –up : Game Jumbled words : 
1.DOFO (food) 
2.LETOSCH (clothes) 
3.LFVETAIS (festival) 
4.ASGEM (games) 
5.ARITNALDITO (traditional) 
6.PAYHP( happy ) 
7.NPGSIR (spring) 
8.YTPRA (party ) 
II. Pre speaking: 
 * Task 1 :Practice reading the dialogue: 
(textbook on page 93 ) 
III.While speaking : 
* Task 2 : Match the holidays with its 
main purpose and activities: 
- Mid-autumn festival 
- Thanksgiving 
- Valentine’s day 
1.c. C 2.a. A 
3.b. B 
* Task 3:Ask and answer about the 
holidays above,using the dialogue in task 1 
as the model: 
Suggestion: 
A : Do you know that Mid-Autumn festival 
is next week? 
B: What is Mid-Autumn festival? 
A: It’s the time people celebrate the large 
full moon in the year and it’s a special day 
for children. 
B: When is it exactly ? 
A: It comes on the fifteenth day of the 8th 
lunar month. 
B : What do people usually do on that day ? 
A: Children have mooncakes and lots of 
fruits.Then they carry their beautiful 
glowing lanterns along the streets in their 
- Gives instructions and ask 
students to work in groups 
to play the game. 
- Gives remarks. 
- Gives instructions. 
- Asks students to work in 
pairs to do the task. 
- Goes around and gives 
help 
- Gives remarks. 
- Gives instructions. 
- Asks sts look at the 
pictures and tell the name of 
celebrations. 
- Asks students to work in 
pairs to do the task. 
- Calls students to give out 
their answers. 
- Gives marks. 
- Asks students to work in 
pair to do the task. 
- Goes around and gives 
help 
- Calls students to speak out 
their dialogues. 
- Gives remarks. 
- Close their books 
- Play the game. 
- Pairwork : 
- Look at the task and 
do it.(2 or 3 pairs) 
- Look at the pictures 
on page 93 
- Pairwork : do the task 
- 2 or 3 pairs speak 
their results loudly 
- Pairwork . 
- Give answers. 
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neighbourhood. Dragon dance is also a 
special activity on that day. 
B: Oh, that sounds really interesting. 
IV. Post speaking: 
Talk about one festival you like best 
V. Homework : 
Write a short paragraph about the festival 
you like best. 
- Asks students to work in 
groups of four to do the 
task. 
- Goes around and gives 
help 
- Calls students to give out 
their presentation. 
- Gives remarks 
- Groupwork . 
- Present. 
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UNIT 8: CELEBRATIONS LESSON 3 : LISTENING PERIOD: 
I. Aims: 
 To help students listen to understand the conversation about the New Year’s activites in Japan. 
II. Objectives: 
By the end of the lesson students will be able to understand the conversation about the New Year’s 
activites in Japan. 
III. Materials : cassette player, disc, posters, pictures.. 
IV. Procedure: 
Time Contents Teacher’s activity Students’activity 
7’ 
8’ 
10’ 
13’ 
7’ 
I. Warm- up: Answer the following 
question : 
-Can you guess what Japanese do on the 
New Year holiday ? 
+ decorate their houses. 
+ make special food. 
+ wear special clothes. 
+ visit friends and relatives. 
II. Pre- listening : 
* Vocabulary: 
- Similarity (n) 
- Kimono (n) 
- Shrine (n) 
- longevity (n) 
- constancy (n) 
* Guess which of the following activities 
the Japanese often do on their New year’s 
days. 
- wearing kimonos or special dress. 
- decorating their houses with peach 
flowers . 
III. While –listening : 
1. Task 1: Listen and tick (√ ) the things 
you hear: 
 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11 
2. Task 2 : Answer the questions: 
1. Because they want to get rid of the dirt 
of the old year and welcome the new 
year. 
2. From television or the radio. 
3. Kimonos or special dress. 
4. No, New Year’s day is mostly 
celebrated among family only. 
IV. Post –listening: 
Compare the Tet in Viet Nam and The 
New Year in Japan 
- Gives instructions . 
- Asks sts to work in pairs and 
answer the question 
- Gives remarks. 
- Provides students with new 
words and their pronunciation . 
- Rub out and remember 
-Asks students to answer 
“Yes-No” 
- Gives remarks and lead to the 
new lesson. 
-Asks sts to read the task and 
do the task individual. 
- Plays the tape. 
- Gives remarks. 
- Ask sts read the questions. 
- Plays the tape . 
- Asks sts answer these 
questions. 
- Plays the tape again 
- Corrects the answers. 
- Gives instructions. 
- Asks students to work in 
- Close their books 
- Pair work. 
- Ask and answer 
freely. 
- Give meaning of new 
words 
- One st. read some 
statements loudly, 
others answer “Yes-
No” 
- Listen. 
- Read the task 
- Listen and do the task 
- Compare the answers 
with a partner. 
- Give answers. 
- Pair work : listen and 
do the task. 
- Give answers. 
- Groupwork 
- Give the ideas 
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- preparations 
- activities on New Year’s Eve 
- foods and clothes 
- people to celebrate with 
* Homework: 
- Write the comparison on your notebook. 
- Prepare for new lesson: Writing 
groups. 
- Gives remarks. 
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UNIT 8 : CELEBRATIONS LESSON 4 : WRITING PERIOD: 
I.Aims: 
 - To teach students to describe the activities in a celebration. 
 - To help students develop their writing skill. 
II.Objectives: By the end of the lesson students will be able to : 
 - Describe the activities in a celebration. 
III .Materials: posters , pictures 
IV. Procedure: 
Time Contents Teacher’s activity Students’activity 
10’ 
5’ 
20’ 
10’ 
I. Warm –up: Listing : 
 List some celebrations which are famous in 
Viet Nam you know. 
- New Year. 
- Independence Day. 
- Woman’s Day. 
- Teacher’s Day. 
- Mid- Autumn Festival 
II. PRE-WRITING: 
- Describe the Mid- Autumn Festival in Viet 
Nam. 
* New words : 
- lantern (n) 
- dragon or lion dance. 
- moon cake (n) 
- full moon 
 * Making the detailed outline 
 - Name and time of festival : Mid- Autumn 
Festival, the fifteenth day of eighth lunar month. 
- Purpose: to welcome the brightest full moon of 
the year. 
- Activities : children carrying beautiful glowing 
lanterns, admiring the full moon, singing, 
dancing, dragon dance, having mooncakes. 
- Whether you like it or not and the reason- like 
it because it’s a great ocassion for children. 
II. WHILE-WRTING: 
* Write a paragraph 
III. POST-WRITING: 
Talk about the other popular celebrations in 
Vietnam (names, time, purposes, feelings,) 
Hint: 
National Independence Day: 
- the 2nd of September 
- to remember the birth of Vietnam / the day 
Vietnam was founded 
- meetings, parades, displays of fireworks, 
special programs on TV and radio,  
- Gives instructions. 
- Divide class into 2 
groups 
- Gives remarks. 
- Asks sts to remember 
voca. and activities in 
that festival. 
- Explains 
- Asks students to work 
in pairs to discuss and 
write down the main 
ideas of the composition 
- Goes around and gives 
help. 
- Asks sts to write 
individual. 
- Asks sts to correct the 
composition of each 
other . 
- Corrects some papers. 
- Asks ss to work in 
group of 4 or 5 to discuss 
- Take notes on the BB 
. 
- Play the game. 
- Write the answers on 
the blackboard (one by 
one of each group) 
- Remember voca. and 
activities in that 
festival. 
- Pairwork : 
- Discuss and write 
down the main ideas of 
the composition 
- Write individual 
- Correct the 
composition with the 
partner 
- Groupwork 
- Present about one 
- Copy down 
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 Teacher’s Day: 
- the 20th of November 
- to honor the important work of teachers 
- students give their teachers gifts / flowers / 
cards, meetings are hold at schools,  
Women’s Day: 
- the 8th of March 
- to honor the work of women at home as 
well as in society 
- meetings, men give women gifts / flowers / 
cards, male family members (father, sons) 
volunteer to do the housework,  
* Homework : 
 Write another paragraph about one of the 
festival in Viet Nam. 
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UNIT 8 : CELEBRATIONS LESSON 5 : LANGUAGE FOCUS PERIOD: 
I.Aims : 
 - To help students distinguish and pronounce the compound consonants / fl/ , /fr/ and /θr/ correctly. 
 - To teach students to use pronoun :one(s), someone, no one, anyone, everyone. 
 - To teach sts to remember vocabulary about holidays and celebrations. 
II.Objectives: By the end of the lesson students will be able to : 
 - pronounce the compound consonants : / fl/ , /fr / and /θr/ correctly. 
 - know how to use pronoun: one(s), someone, noone, anyone, everyone. 
 - to remember vocabulary about holidays and celebrations. 
III.Materials: cassette player, disc, posters, pictures 
IV. PROCEDURE: 
Time Contents Teacher’s activity Students’activity 
7’ 
8’ 
5’ 
A. Warm –up : Guessing the 
pronunciation of these pictures : 
 
 
Three, flag, flowers, fruits, frog 
B. New lesson : 
 I. PRONUNCIATION : 
 / fl/ , /fr/ and /θr/ . 
 * Listen and repeat : on page 97 
 * Practise the sentences : on page 97 
 II.GRAMMAR 
1. Someone, anyone, no one, 
everyone 
a. Presentation : 
- Gives instructions. 
- Asks ss to guess the 
pronunciation of these 
pictures (in pairs) 
- Gives remarks. 
- Introduce new lesson 
- Play the disc to models 
words in the columns. 
- Asks students to repeat 
after the speaker. 
- Asks students to practise 
the words in pairs. 
- Asks students to practise 
the sentences . 
- Gives remarks. 
- Gives examples to lead to 
new lesson. 
- Pair work 
- Give the words to 
describe the pictures 
- Guess the pronunciation 
of these pictures 
- Listen and repeat. 
- Pairwork : practise the 
words. 
- Practise the sentences. 
- Draw out the rules from 
the examples. 
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Ex : 
1. Someone has stolen my wallet. 
2. Is there anyone home? 
3. No one likes to play with him. 
4. Everyone goes to the church today. 
* Note: 
- Someone, anyone, no one, everyone 
ñöôïc sd vôùi ñoäng töø soá ít. 
- Someone vaø everyone ñöôïc duøng 
trong caâu khaúng ñònh. 
- No one ñöôïc duøng vôùi ñoäng töø ôû theå 
khaúng ñònh. 
- Anyone ñöôïc duøng trong caâu hoûi vaø 
caâu phuû ñònh. 
b. Practice : 
* Exercise 1 :Using someone, anyone, 
no one or everyone to complete the 
sentences: 
1. anyone 2. someone 
3. anyone 4. someone 
5. no one 6. everyone 
7. no one 
2. Pronoun ONE(S) 
a. Presentation: 
Ex: 
1. My motorbike is broken. I want to 
buy a new one. 
2. Let me choose the flowers. I will 
take all the white ones. 
* Note: 
ONE(S) ñược dùng ñể thay thế cho 
một danh từ ñể tránh lặp lại danh từ ñó 
trong câu. 
b. Practice: 
*Exercise 2 :Rewrite the sentences, 
using the pronoun one(s): 
1. Of the three bags I like the blue one. 
2. Mai is making a fruit cake, Huong is 
making one, too. 
3. I like reading books, especially the 
ones about the natural world. 
4. I don’t have a computer, and my 
father doesn’t want me to have one. 
5. They let me choose a pencil, and I 
took the red one. 
6. There are several celebrations in 
Viet Nam, but perhaps the most 
meaningful one is Tet. 
7. We told each other both happy 
stories and sad ones about our lives. 
III. VOCABULARY: 
* Exercise 3 : Use the words from the 
- Elicits students to draw 
out the rules. 
- Gives instructions. 
- Asks students to do the 
ex. 
- Gives remarks. 
- Ask ss to look at the 
examples and give out the 
usage. 
- Gives instructions. 
- Asks students to work in 
pairs to do the ex. 
- Corrects answers. 
- Gives instructions. 
- Do the ex. individually. 
- Compare the answers 
with a partner. 
- Give answers. 
- Pairwork : do the ex. 
- Work in pair to draw 
out the rule. 
- Give answers. 
- Do the ex. dividually. 
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box to complete the following 
sentences 
1. traditional 2. grand 
3. gifts 4. celebrating 
5. polite 6. good luck 
7. excitement 
C. Homework : Find ten words 
pronounce / fl/ , /fr/ and /θr/ . 
- Asks students to work 
individually to do the ex. 
- Corrects answers. 
- Compare the answers 
with a partner. 
- Give answers and 
explain.