Thiết kế bài dạy môn Tiếng Anh 11 - Unit 8: Celebrations - Peroid 1: Reading

Unit 8: celebrations
Peroid 1: reading
I/ Aim
Reading about Lunar New Year in Vietnam
II/ Objectives
By the and of the lesson, Ss will be able to:
Develop such reading micro-skills as scanning for specific ideas and guessing meaning in the context. 
Use the information they have read to discuss the topic
III/ Materials
Textbook, whiteboard, 
Pictures, 
IV/ Anticipated problems
Ss may not have enough vocabulary to talk about the topic, so T should be ready to help them.
V/ Procedure
Time
Teacher’s activities
Students’activities
5’
10’
22’
4’
6’
7’
7’
1’
Warm-up
- Ask Ss to work in individual and look at the pictures
- Give some pictures and tell Ss to answer the puestion
What time of the year is it?
- Call some Ss to answers
- Give feedback
Picture1 : Tet Holiday 
Picture2 : Christmas
Picture3 : Teachers’ Day
Picture4 : Mid – Autumn Festival
- Introduce: Vietnam and other countries in the world have special days we call celebrations. And Lunar New Year or Tet is a great celibration in Vietnam. To understand more about it we will move to the reading
- Ask Ss open the book on page 90, 91
Before you read
- Tell Ss to look at page 61 and to tell the partner which of these activities they enjoy doing most at Tet
- Call some pair of Ss to tell their enjoyment
- Give some new words: 
Agrarian /ә’greәriәn/(adj): lien quan den nog nghiep.
Agrarian person (n) : farmer : nong dan
Peach blossom [pi:t∫'bl ɔsəm] (n): Hoa Đào
Apricot blossom ['eiprikɔt 'bl ɔsəm] (n): Hoa Mai
Kumquat tree ['kʌmkwɔt tri:] (n): Cây Quất
Candied fruit /’kændid fru:t/ (n): Mứt
Lucky money (n): Tiền Lì Xì
Lunar New Year ['lu:nə nju jiə(r)] (n): Tết âm lịch
- Read once and ask Ss to repeat
While you read
-Tell Ss to read quickly the text in 5’
- Go around class and help Ss in explain new words if they are necessary
Task 1
-Call 1 S to read 6 letters in this task
- Explain the request
- Give Vietnamese meaning
- Ask Ss match English words with suitable Vietnamese meaning.
- Call some pair to answer 
- Correct the answer
Grand trong dai 
Banner khau hieu
Sugared apples tao dam duong
Agrarian thuoc ve nong nghiep
Pray cau nguyen
Excitement hao hung
Task 2
- Ask Ss to scan the passage and decide whether the statements are true or false
- Call some pair to answer and ask the the position of information in the passage
- Give correct answer
1. Tet is always on 20th February on the Western calendar F (sometimes between 19th January and 20th February)
2. According to the text, for people anywhere in the world the beginning of spring is the start of a new year. F (agrarian people)
3. Tet used to be longer than it nowadays T
4. According to the text, “lucky money” is given to everyone at Tet. F (children)
5. Kumquat trees are popular both in the North and in the South of Vietnam T
6. People try to be nice and polite to each other because they want to have good luck on New Year’s Day F (during the whole year)
Task 3
- Ask Ss to work in pair, scan the passage and answer the question
- Call on some pairs to answer and write down the answesr on whiteboard
- Ask Ss the position of the anwer in the passage
- Give feedback
1. It’s sometimes between 19th January and 20th Fecbuary
2. Tet’s preparations and celebrations used to be spread over months
3. They are decorated with coloured lights 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
6. It is candied fruit such as sugar apples, plums or tomatoes
7. Visiting friends and other family members, exchanging wishes, going to the pagoda, playing games.
After you read
- Ask to Ss towork in pair and tell their partners about their last Tet holiday
- Give some suggested questions to support
1. How you prepared?
(cleaned up , decorated the house )
2. Who you visited ?
(relatives, teachers, friends )
3. What special foods you ate? 
(banh chung, candied fruit)
4. What activities you enjoyed most ?
( receiving lucky money, going to the flower market )
- Call some pair to talk about the last Tet holiday
Wrapping
- Ask Ss to translate the passage into Vietnamese and prepare the speaking part
- Work in individual
- Look at the pictures
- Answer the quetion
- Open the book
- Discuss with the partner
- Answer
- Write down the vocabularies in their notebooks
- Read after T
- Read the passage
- Ask T new words
- Read the letters
- Work in pair
Answer 
-Work in pair
-Do the task
- Answer
- Work in pair
- Scan the passage
- Answer the question
- Write down the answers
- Work in pair
- Discuss with partner
- Answer