Bài soạn môn học Tiếng Anh 11 - Unit 8: Celebrations - Period 1: Reading

School: Class: 11
Teacher: Vu Thi Nga	Date: November, 8th, 2010
	Period: 1st
LESSON PLAN
Unit 8: CELEBRATIONS
Period 1: Reading 
Aims: By the end of the lesson, students (Ss) will be able to:
Understand more about Tet holiday in Vietnam.
Use new words to talk about the activities in the celebrations.
Method: Communicative Approach
Teaching aids:
Textbook
Wallcharts
Pictures
Handouts
Content:
Time
(min.)
Content and Requirements
Teacher’s Activities
Students ’ Activities
2
6
8
4
5
5
7
5
2
1
I. Classroom stabilization
 1. Establishing new class order
 2. Checking attendance
II. Warm- up
Game: Face to face
List holidays and festivals taking place every year in Vietnam. 
Rule: - 2 groups discuss the question in 2 minutes
 - leaders of 2 groups stand in front of class and play one-two-three to know who will play first
 - 2 leaders will in turn say their answers. Who gives wrong or repetitive anwers will lose.
Suggested answers: Tet holiday, Liberity Day, Independent Day, Mother’s Day, Teacher’s Day, Women’s Day, Summer holiday, International Labor Day, Mid-Autumn Festival...
III. New lesson
Before you read
* Vocabulary:
- agrarian people(n) ~ farmers
Context: People in my village work on fields to produce rice. They are agrarian people
- decorate(v) ~ make st (house, street...) more beautiful
Context: I decorate my house to make it more beautiful at Tet
- traditional(adj) ≠ modern(adj)
Context: Kimono is traditional dress of Japanese women. What is the traditional dress of Vietnamese women?
- peach bloosom(n)
- apricot blossom(n)
- kumquat tree(n) 
* Guiding question: 
 What is the text about?
While you read
TASK 1:
Match words in colum A with its synonyms:
1. grand
a. bang ron, khau hieu
2. agrarian
b. su phan khich
3. banner
c. thuoc ve nong nghiep
4. pray
d. mut tao
5. sugared apples
e. cau nguyen
6. excitement
f. hoanh trang
Suggested answers:
 1-f, 2-c, 3-a, 4-e, 5-d, 6-b
 2. TASK 3: 
Answer the following questions:
1. When is Tet holiday in Vietnam?
2. How long did Tet preparations and celebrations last in the past?
3. What do streets look like before Tet?
4. What do people often do to prepare for Tet?
Suggested answers:
1. It falls sometime between 19th January and 20th February on the Western calendar (line 2-3)
2. They used to last over months (line 5)
3. Streets are decorated with coloured lights and red banners 
(line 7-8)
4. They buy gifts, clean and decorate houses and cook traditional food (line 8-9)
 3. GAME: Right or Wrong
Find out wrong information in the passage and correct it:
 Thanksgiving is Vietnam’s main holiday. It falls sometime between 18th January and 20th February on the Eastern calendar. It used to be shorter than it is nowadays. Streets are decorated with plants and flowers. Homes are often decorated with coloured lights and red banners. Peach blossom is traditional at Tet in the South while apricot blossom is traditional in the North. Everyone receive lucky number in.side yellow envelopes.
Suggested answered:
1, Thanksgiving =) Tet
2, 18th =) 19th
3, Eastern =) Western
4, shorter =) longer
5, streets =) homes
6, homes =) streets
7, South =) North
8, North=) South
9, everyone =) children
10, lucky number =) lucky money
11, yellow =) red
After you read
Work in pairs: Tell each other about your last Tet holiday:
preparations
special foods
activities
IV. Consolidation
V. Homework:
- read the text again
- learn new words
- do the rest of task 2
- prepare for new lesson
- Greeting class
- Asking monitor
- Presenting the rule of game
- Dividing class in to 2 groups: A and B
- Giving question for discussion
- Asking each group choose a leader to play
- Listen to their answers 
- Deciding the winner
- Leading to Tet holiday
- Asking Ss to discuss in pairs about the activities they like doing most at Tet
- Calling some Ss to talk about that.
- Introducing new lesson
- Giving context
- Writing word on board
- Asking Ss toguess meaning
- Giving correct meaning
- Giving context
- Writing word on board
- Asking Ss to guess meaning
- Giving correct meaning
- Asking Ss to use this word to make sentence
- Calling a S to read sentence
- Giving context and asking question
- Writing word on board
- Asking Ss to guess meaning
- Giving correct meaning
- Showing pictures
- Showing pictures
- Showing pictures
- Reading all words 1 time
- Asking Ss to listen and repeat in chorus
- Calling some Ss to read new words individually
- Checking by hiding new word and asking Ss to read the word basing on its synonym
- Asking Ss to read through the text to answer guiding question
- Hanging the wallchart
- Dividing class into groups of 3
- Asking Ss to discuss to find out the answers
- Calling some Ss at random to say answers
- Asking others Ss to check
- Giving correct answers
- Asking Ss to give Vietnamese meaning
- Asking Ss to read the questions from 1 to 4 of task 3
- Asking Ss to read the passage again and do task 3 individually
- Calling some Ss to read answers
- Asking in which line they find out the answer
- Asking others to comment
- Giving correct answers
- Asking Ss to close books
- Asking Ss to sit in groups of 3 or 4
- Giving each group a handouts 
- Giving them 2 minutes to discuss to find and correct the wrong information in the passage in the handout 
- Giving them 3 minutes to write the answers on board
- Hanging the wallchart of passage
- Checking answers with Ss. Which group finishes first and has more correct answers will be the winner and get gift.
- Asking Ss to work in pairs to talk about their last Tet holidy
- Calling some Ss to talk
- Giving comment
- Asking a S to summarize 
- Summarizing again
- Giving Ss requirements for homework
- Greeting teacher
- Responding
- Listening
- Sitting in 2 groups
- Listening to question
- Discussing in 2 mins.
- Choosing leader
- Saying answers
- Clapping hands to congratulate winner 
- Discussing 
- Talking
- Listening
- Listening
- Taking notes
- Guessing
- Listening and taking notes
- Listening
- Taking notes
- Guessing
- Listening and taking notes
- Making sentences
- Reading sentence
- Listening and answering
- Taking notes
- Guessing
- Listening and taking notes
- Looking at picture to get meaning of words
- Listening
- Listening and repeating
- Reading
- Remembering and reading
- Reading silently to get the main idea
- Answering guiding question
- Looking at the wallchart
- Sitting in groups of 3
- Discussing 
- Reading the answers
- Checking
- Taking notes
- Giving Vietnamese meaning
- Reading questions
- Reading the passage again to do task 3
- Reading answers
- Answering
- Giving comment
- Listening and taking notes
- Closing books
- Sitting in groups
- Receiving handouts
- Discussing
- Writing answers on board
- Looking at the wallchart
- Checking
- Talking in pairs about last Tet holidy
- Talking aloud
- Listening
- Summarizing
- Listening
- Listening and taking notes
E. Self – evaluation:
 Strength:
 - prepare lesson plan carefully
organise the board well
use teaching aids effectively
control class well
change something in task 1 to make it easier for students
make task 2 more interesting
use individual work, pair work and group work effectively
 Weakness:
do not ask some specific information
use soft voice
 Thanksgiving is Vietnam’s main holiday. It falls sometime between 18th January and 20th 
February on the Eastern calendar. It used to be shorter than it is nowsaday. Streets are decorated with 
plants and flowers. Homes are often decorated with coloured lights and red banners. Peach blossom is 
traditional at Tet in the South while apricot blossom is traditional in the North. Everyone receive lucky 
number inside yellow envelopes.
 Thanksgiving is Vietnam’s main holiday. It falls sometime between 18th January and 20th 
February on the Eastern calendar. It used to be shorter than it is nowsaday. Streets are decorated with 
plants and flowers. Homes are often decorated with coloured lights and red banners. Peach blossom is 
traditional at Tet in the South while apricot blossom is traditional in the North. Everyone receive lucky 
number inside yellow envelopes.
.
 Thanksgiving is Vietnam’s main holiday. It falls sometime between 18th January and 20th 
February on the Eastern calendar. It used to be shorter than it is nowsaday. Streets are decorated with 
plants and flowers. Homes are often decorated with coloured lights and red banners. Peach blossom is 
traditional at Tet in the South while apricot blossom is traditional in the North. Everyone receive lucky 
number inside yellow envelopes.