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

Date: /16/2008 UNIT 8: CELEBRATIONS
Period: 44 	 Section: Reading	
 Objectives
Help students understand the content of the reading (how Vietnamese people celebrate their Lunar New Year / Tet) and the new words in context.
Students can do Tasks 1, 2, 3
Methods
Communicative approach
Teaching aids
Cassette player, chalks, board, pictures
Teaching procedures
T
Content
T’s activities
Sts’ activities
4’
5’
7’
6’
8’
10’
4’
1’
I. WARM UP: 
 Questions
1. Are they family?
2. What are they doing?
3. What are on the table?
4. What time of the year is it?
èUnit 8:Celebrations
II. PRESENTATION
A. Pre-reading:
 Exercises on p.91
- Tell your partner which of these activities you enjoy doing most at Tet
 Are they any other things you like doing?
a. making banh chung
b. decorating the house
c. eating special Tet foods
d. going to the flower market
e. going to the pagoda
f. watching fireworks
g. receiving’ lucky money’
h. visiting relatives and friends
B. While reading:
Vocabulary:
- agrarian(a) thuoäc veà ngheà noâng 
- grand(a)hoaønh traùng
- pray(v)caàu nguyeän
- kumquat tree: caây quaát
- lucky money: tieàn möøng tuoåi
è Checking: R&R
. Task 1: Find what the following words mean in the text
Keys
1.grand:hoaønh traùng
2.agrarian: thuoäc veà ngheà noâng
3.banner:baêng rol, khaåu hieäu
4.pray: caàu nguyeän
5.sugared apples: taùo daàm
6.excitement:söï noâ nöùc
 Task2:Decide whether the statements are true (T) or false (F)
Keys:1.F 2F 3T 4F 5T 6F
Task3: Answer the following questions.
 LUCKY NUMBER
 (2 & 5 are lucky number, right answers and lucky numbers are 10 marks)
Keys
1.It’s sometime between 19 January and February
2.For 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’s 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 etc
C. Post-reading:
 how you prepared for Tet
 how you decorated your houses
 who you visited
 what special foods you are
 what activities you enjoyed doing most during Tet
III.HOMEWORK:
- Learn by heart new words
- Prepare the new lesson “Speaking”
- shows the picture on p.90 & asks sts
- asks sts to do exercise on p.91
- explains
- shows real object
- models 2 times
- asks sts to read the text
- asks sts to work in pairs
- asks sts to read the text again
- asks sts to give the reason if the answer is false
 - devices the class into 2 groups
- gives some main points & asks sts to tell about their last Tet holiday
- look at the picture and answer the questions
- work in pair 
- listen to the teacher
- repeat in chorus, individual
- pair works
- work individually,
after that work in groups to share the answers
- answer the question
- work in groups