Thiết kế bài dạy môn Tiếng Anh 11 - Unit 8: Celebrations - Period 1 đến period 5

Bui Bich Lien
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Date of preparing: 5/10/2010 Date of teaching:
Unit 8: CELEBRATIONS
                                                        period 1: Reading
I. AIMS:
1. Educational aim:
 - Student should contribute their part to some traditional festival.
 - Student should know more about the celebration of Tet and other festivals’ activities
2. Knowledge:
        General knowledge: Through the unit students understand some background information about the festival such as time, activities in the festival.
         Language: understand some word use to describing celebrations.
3. Skills:
 - Scan for specific information
            -Skim for the gist of the context
II. Teaching Aids                                  
            1. Teacher : Handouts, pictures concern to Tet holiday .
 2. Students: School documents
III. Anticipated problems
Ss may not have enough vocabulary to talk about the topic, so T should be ready to help them.
VI. Procedure
1. Organizations: Teacher comes to class and asks Ss how do they prepare their lesson at home (1mm)
2. Oral test: during new lesson
3. new lesson:
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
Aims
1. Warm- up (5m)
Brainstorm
- Shows some pictures  such as the pictures of Banh Chung, peach blossom, kumquat tree, kumquat tree,...
- - Points the pictures and asks whole class some questions:
+ What do you think of when you see this?
+ Why so?
+ What do you often do before Tet?
- Call some pairs to ask and answer in the class.
- T leads into the new lesson
 Before you read(10m)
Discussing Tet holiday
- Asks Ss to look at the picture on page 90 and discuss the 3 questions in pairs
- Goes around to offer help
- Calls on some Ss to present their answer and elicits comments from other Ss. T gives feedback if necessary
1. What time of the year is it?
2. What are the people in the picture doing?
3. What else do you see in the picture?
2. Pre –reading: (8m)
*vocabulary
Lunar New Year:(n) TÕt ©m lÞch
To fall between..and: R¬i vµo kho¶ng thêi gian tõ®Õn
To spread:(v) kÐo dµi
To be full of : ®Çy nhiÒu
Candied fruit:(n) Møt
Peach blossom /pi:t∫'blɔsəm/:(n) Hoa ®µo
Apricot blossom /'eiprikɔt 'blɔsəm/:(n) Hoa mai
Positive comments: Nh÷ng lêi nãi tèt ®Ñp
- Asks Ss to make sentences with the above words to check their understanding
3. While you read: (20m)
Use the text book : Silent reading
Setting the scene
You are going to read a passage about Tet holiday in Vietnam. After reading, do the tasks in textbook
Task 1
- Asks Ss to do the task 1. Find the meanings of the words
+ T prepares a hand down which consist of 2 column.
+ Asks Ss to read the passage quickly and stop at the lines that contain these words to guess their meaning and matching the word in column A with their meaning in column B.
Column A 
grand
banner 
sugared apples 
agrarian
pray
6. excitement 
column B
a. CÇu nguyÖn
b. T¸o tÈm ®uêng
c. Thuéc vÒ n«ng nghiÖp
d. Träng ®¹i, hoµnh tr¸ng
e. BiÓu ng÷, b¨ng r«n
f. Sù h¸o høc, nhén nhÞp
- Calls on some Ss stand up and read aloud their answers.
- Gives feedback and the correct answers.
Task 2 
- Asks Ss to work individually to do the task and then discuss their answers with their partners.
- Calls on some Ss to give their answers and ask them to explain their choices.
- Checks students’ answers.
Task 3
- Ask Ss to work individually to do the task, then discuss their answer with their peers.
.-   Calls on some Ss  to stand up and read aloud their answers and ask them to explain their choices.
- Checks students’ answers
3. After you read(10m)
-   Asks Ss to work in groups to tell each other about their last Tet holiday focusing on the main points on book p.92
-   When all groups have finished, T calls on some Ss to report their ideas to the class
summaries(2m)
-    T summarizes the main points
+ date of Tet
+ Activities during the Tet
-     Asks Ss to learn by heart all of the new words and give examples
-    Summarizes the main ideas of the passage
Homework
- Asks Ss to learn by heart all of the new words and read the text to understand more
- Asks Ss to prepare new lesson
Comments
- Work in pairs.
- Look at the picture to answer the questions.
Suggested answers:
+ I think of Tet holiday
+ Because they are the symbols  of Tet
+ Clean and decorate the house, go shopping to buy new clothes, candied fruits, make Banh Chung.
Ss work in pairs. 
1. It is Spring and it should be Tet holiday because we can see peach blossom and kumquat tree full of ripe fruits
2. The grandmother is giving her niece and nephew some lucky money. The girl, the boy and their parents good health and happiness
3. In the picture we can see a five-fruit tray on the ancestral altar and a dish of fruits, a tray of candied fruits and a Banh chung on the table.
-Ss write down and make sentence with the new words.
 Whole class pay attention
 - Read the passage silently
Individual work then compare with their partner.
 - Stand up and read aloud their answers:
- Correct answers:
1. d
2. e
3. b
4. c
5. a
6. f
Individual work and pair work
Answers: 
1.F – It falls between 19th January and 20th February 
2.F – It’s just for agrarian people
3.T  
4.F  - lucky money tends to be given to children
5.T  
6.T
Ss work in groups.
1. It  falls sometime between 19th January and 20th February (line 2-3, paragraph 1)
2. Tet’s preparations and celebrations used to be spread over months (line 1- 2, pr 2)
3, They are decorated with colored lights and red banners
(line 3- 4 pr 2)
4. They buy gifts, clean and decorate their houses and cook traditional foods (line 4-5 pr 2)
5. It is made from sticky rice, green beans and fatty pork
 (line 5-6, pr 3)
6. Mut is candied fruit
- The answer of the lucky number (line 6-7, pr 3)
7. Visiting friends and other family members, exchanging wishes, going to the pagoda, playing game..(last paragraph)
Group work
 Some Ss to report their ideas to the class
Answers may vary
- Listen and take note
- Ss have chance to exchange information together
- Get more Ss involve
- Help together to answers all the question 
- Prepare new word for Ss
 - Ss read individually and silently to avoid Ss make noise and pay more attention in reading 
- Individual to help Ss more independent
- compare with their partner to check answer
- Get more Ss’ attentions
- Ss compare and check their answers 
- Get Ss involve
- Ss help and exchange information together
- Share informations
- Share informations 
- Summarize help Ss to remember
Signature
Bui Bich Lien
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Date of preparing: 5/10/2010 Date of teaching:
Unit 8: CELEBRATIONS
                                                        Period 3 : Listening
I. AIMS
1. Educational aim: student should contribute their part to some traditional festival.
2. Knowledge
        General knowledge: - Through the unit student listen to get specific information about know how the New Year in is celebrate in Japan.
 - Compare the aspects of the Vietnamese New Year and those in Japan.
         Language: understand some word use to describing celebrations and how its pronounce.
3. Skills:
 - practice listening skill
 - Fluency in describing celebrations
II. Teaching aids                                  
Teacher: Handouts, pictures, cassette tapes.
Students: School documents
IV. Anticipated problems
Ss may not have enough vocabulary to talk about the topic, so T should be ready to help them
V. Procedure 
1. Organizations: Teacher comes to class and asks Ss how do they prepare their lesson at home (1mm)
2. Oral test: during new lesson
3. new lesson
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
Aims
1. Warm up (5m)
- Asks student work in pairs and discuss some questions:
“In your point, what is special about the New Year holiday in Japan? Is that the same with the New Year of Vietnam?”
“Can you guess what Japanese do on this day?”
- Asks some students stand up and present their answers.
- Checks and gives feedback if necessary
- Lead in: to check all your answers, we are going to listen to the talking about how the New Year celebrated in Japan.
2. Before you listen(10m)
Guessing
-    Introduces the listening passage
-     Asks Ss to work in pairs to guess which of the activities on page 94 the Japanese often do on their New Year’s Day
-    Calls on some Ss to give their answers and write them on the boards. T also asks Ss to add any other activities that they think the Japanese do at the New Year
Pre-teaching vocabulary
Shrine(n) /∫rain/(n) điện thờ, miếu thờ
Longevity:(n) [lɔn'dʒeviti] tuổi thọ
Pine trees(n) c©y th«ng
Constancy:(n) sù bÒn lßng, kh«ng thay ®æi, tr­êng tån)
To represent: BiÓu tr­ng cho, t­îng tr­ng cho
- T may get Ss to make sentences with the words and gives corrective feedback
3. While you listen (20m)
Task 1 
- Instruction: “You are going to listen to two people talking about how the New Year is celebrated in Japan. After listening, please do the task 1 on your book.” 
- Asks Ss to read through the statements
- Plays the tape once for Ss  to do the task
- Asks for Ss’ answers and write them on the board
- Plays the tapes the second time for Ss to check their answers
- Asks Ss to work in groups of 4 to compare their answers
- Calls some Ss to stand up and answer
- Checks students answers.
Task 2
- Asks Ss to read and answer the questions with the things they remember from the previous time of listening
- T says: “you are going to read and choose the best answers for the following questions ”
Question:
1. Why do Japanese people do a big clean up before the New Year comes?
 A. They want to get rid of the dirt of the old year
 B. They want to welcome the new year
 C. Both A and B are correct
 D. The speaker was not mention.
2. Where the Japanese hear the bells from?
 A. They hear from the church
 B. They hear from the television and radio
 C. They hear from the post office
 D. They hear from the others
3. Do Japanese often celebrate the new Year with their friends?
 A. Often
 B. Sometimes
 C. A little
 D. No
4. What do Japanese do after visit their shrines?
 A. They come home 
 B. They eat special food
 C. They drink a lot of rice wine
 D. All the below answers are correct
- Plays the tape again for Ss  to do the task. After playing the tape, T gets Ss to work in pairs and compare their answers with their peers
- Calls on some Ss to give the answers and elicits feedback from other Ss. 
- Plays the tapes slowly and pauses to check one by one
4. After you listen(8m)        
- Asks students to work in groups to compare the aspects of the Vietnamese New Year with those of the Japanese one
Before students  take part in the activity, T elicits of the transition signal/phrases to talk about the similarities and differences between two things.
- Goes around to offer help and collect Ss’ mistakes
- Calls some re-presenter of some groups to present their answers
- Elicits feedback from the class and give final comments
Summarizes (2m)
T summarizes the main points of the lesson
Ask Ss to learn by heart all new words and do the exercises in workbook as home work
Homework
- Asks Ss learnt buy heart all the new word and listen again and again at home
- Asks Ss prepare new word
*Comments
- Work in pairs and answer the questions.
- Stand up and present
Whole class pay attention
- Ss work in pairs
 - Go to board and write down their answers
 - Listen to teacher and take note
Individual work and pair work
Correct answers:
1. They put on special clothes
2. Housewives prepare special foods
3. They go to a shrine
4. They drink rice wine
5. They watch television
6. They eat a special meal
- Do the task
Individual work and pair work
Answers:
1. C
2. B
3. D
3. D
- Present answers
- Listen and check 
Whole class
- Help Ss to guess 
- write down on the board help other Ss easy to follow especially easy to realize if their friend have add ideas
- Prepare word to listen
- Exchange information
- Make Ss clear about the answers
- - Summarize help Ss to remember
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