Thiết kế bài dạy môn Tiếng Anh 11 - Unit 8: Celebrations - B. Speaking

[ P ] Unit 8: Celebrations
Date: 17 / 11/ 2009 B. Speaking
I. Objective: By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to: 
 - Talk about some aspects (proper purpose/ real activities) of 
 different celebrations in Viet Nam and world wide. 
II. Materials: textbook, pictures, posters, hand outs
III. Anticipated problems: Ss may not have enough vocabs, ideas, structures to talk about the topic, so T should be ready to provide help. 
IV. Procedures: 
Stages
Teacher’s activities
Interaction
I.
Old lesson
(Activity 1) 
II. 
Pre 
- seak
ing
(Activity 2)
III.
While 
- speak
ing 
(Activity 3) 
(Activity 4) 
IV. 
Post 
- speaking
(Activity 5) 
V. 
home work 
- Fill in the blankets with a suitable word:
1. Tet sometime falls between Jan 19th to Feb 20th on the Western . . . . . . . .
2. Tet used to be . . . . . than it is nowadays.
3. According to the text, “lucky money is given only to . . . . . . . . . at Tet.
4. Kumquat trees are . . . . . . . both in the North and in the South of Viet Nam. 
Matching the Pics and it equivalent celebrations 
- Ask Ss to speak out the names of different celebrations in Viet namese.
1. Tet holiday
: Le Tet (Tet)
2. Christmas day 
: (Le) Giang sinh
3. Thanksgiving 
: Le Ta on
4. Valentine’s day
: Le tinh yeu
5. Mid - autumn festival
: (Tet) trung thu 
- T asks Ss to recall some questions for this celebration (Tet festival): 
- T introduces the sample dialoguage: 
Mai: Do you know anything about Tet holiday in Viet Nam ? 
Anna: That’s a little. So what is Tet ?
Mai: It’s the time when Vietnamese people celebrate the beginning of spring. And it’s also the start of the lunar New year. 
Anna: When is it exaclty ? 
Mai: This year, It’s (sometime falls) between Jan 19th and Feb 20th on the Western calender. 
Anna: What do people usually do at Tet ? 
Mai: Well, Vietnamese people/ We eat a lot of specail foods, we dress up and visit friends and relatives, and we also play some traditional games. 
Anna: Oh, that sounds really + an Adj (interesting/ marvellous/ fantastic/ enjoyable/ wonderful . . . ) 
Match the right celebrations with its suitable purpose/ significance and real activities in the table: 
Celebrations
Purpose
Real activites
1. Christmas
(December 25th) 
a. People express their love to each other.
A. People show their mercifulness to others. Every Christian visits nursing home or homeless shelter, takes small gifts for people alone or in need. 
2. Mid - Autumn Festival ( 15th day of the 8th lunar month) 
b. People celebrate the harvest.
B. They give chocolates, flowers or gifts to the people they love.
3. Thanksgiving day 
(the third Thursday in November) 
c. People celebrate the largets full moon in the year. 
C. Children wear masks, parade in the street, have parties with special cakes and lots of fruits, etc. 
4. Valentine’s day (February 14th) 
d. Christian celebrate the birth of Christ - Jesus. 
D. Family members get together. They prepare a large meal with roast turkey. 
Vocabs note: 
- harvest ['hɑ:vist] (n) : mua mang 
- mercifulness ['mə:sifulnis](n) : long nhan tu, tu bi 
- homeless shelter ['∫eltə] (n) : khu cu dan khong nha
- mask [mɑ:sk] (n) : mang che, mat na
- parade [pə'reid] (v) : dieu hanh 
- large meal (n) : tiec lon/ thinh soan
- celebrate (v) : ky niem
- Christian ['kristjən] (n) : con chien, nguoi theo dao
- Studying the sample dialogue and using the above result (in activity) to act out the similar ones: 
- Ask Ss to summerise the ideas for the celebrations learnt: 
With suggested ones: 
1. Tet hoiliday usually falls on . . . . . . 
2. Tet is the the time (for) when Vietnamese people (to) celebrate . . . . . . . and . . . . . 
3. On this occasion, people . . . . 4. Tet hiloday is really . . . . . .. . . 
 - Remember differents celebrations and its purpose/ real activities.
- Rewrite some things about two celebrations you like
- Prepare the next part (C. Listening) 
1. calender
2. longer
3. children
4. popular
- Provides 5 pics
Questions: 
1. What is Tet ? 
2. When is (Tet)/ it ? 
3. What do people usually do at Tet ? 
- Tense note: 
The present simple
- Groups work/ pairs work
- Matching: 
1 - d - A
2 - c - C
3 - b - D
4 - a - B
- Pay attention and take notes
- Pairs work/ act out the similar dialogues: