Date of teaching: 06-10/03/2017
Class: 8A5, 8A7
Week: 29
Period: 85
UNIT 13: FESTIVALS
Lesson 1 LISTEN AND READ (p.p.121-122)
I. OBJECTIVES:
1. Knowledge: By the end of the lesson, Sts will be able to ask for explanations of events.
a. Grammar: 1. Passive form: Be + Past participle 2. Compound words: Noun + V-ing 3. Reported Speech
b. Vocabulary: Competition (n), rub (v), Water – fetching ( n), Fire – making (n), Rice – cooking (n), Yell (v) = shout loudly, Urge (v)- Teaminate (n), Bamboo (n), Separate ( v), Husk (n), Judge (n), Award (v)(n), Grand prize (n), Council (n), Participate (v)
2. Skills: Listening - Reading
3. Attitude: Sts will try to maintain the beauty of Vietnamese traditional festivals.
II. PREPARATION:
1. Teacher:
- Prepare the lesson carefully: (teaching aids make lesson plan by power point, book, laptop, sound)
2. Students:
- Learn the previous lesson by heart.
- Prepare the new lesson at home: (write new words; read text; answer questions)
III. STEPS FOR TEACHING:
1. Check the previous lesson: (5’)
- Write sentences with the words given, using Progressive tense with always
2. New lesson: (40’)
Stage
Steps/Activities
Work Arrangement

Warm up
(5’)

- Tell Sts Tom, David, Huckleberry, Oliver, Robinson are going to go on their visits to Vietnam and they need advice on where to go.
- Introduce the names, one by one, and ask Sts question:
Where should they go?.....Why?......
1. Tom likes swimming and sunbathing.
2. David is interested in ancient cities.
3. Huckleberry likes mountain-climbing.
4. Oliver is keen on pottery.
5. Robinson is fond of crowded places.
- T introduces the new lesson.
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Pre-Reading
(10’)

Vocabulary
- T uses techniques to introduce the new words.
Competition (n)
rub (v)
Water – fetching ( n)
Fire – making (n)
Rice – cooking (n)
Yell (v) = shout loudly
Urge (v)- Teaminate (n)
Bamboo (n)
Separate ( v)
Husk (n)
Judge (n)
Award (v)(n)
Grand prize (n)
Council (n)
Participate (v)
- T asks Sts to write down to their notebooks.
Checking technique: What and Where
- Elicit words from Sts and write them inside the circles.
- Get Sts to repeat and rub out the words, not the circles- continue until the circles are empty.
- When Sts seem to remember all the words, ask Sts to come to the board and fill in the circles with the right words.
Open prediction
- Set the scene:
Ba invites his friend Liz to a traditional festival in the North of Vietnam. Do you know what kind of festival it is? (It is the rice cooking festival.)
- Ask Sts to guess what they are going to read by asking questions then write Sts` answers on the board.
Suggestions:
+ How many competitions do people enter in a rice- cooking festival? (3)
+ In water-festival competition, what do people do? How about a fire- making competition? A rice-cooking competition?
(on the board)
Rice- cooking festival


(Water fetching) (fire-making) (rice-cooking)
to fetch water to make a fire to cook rice
- Ask Sts to open their books (p. 121, 122), read the dialogue and listen to the tape.
- Play the tape
- Check if Sts` guesses are correct or not.

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While-Reading
(10’)

True or False
- Ask Sts to read the statements (2, p.122) and check (() the boxes, using the information in the dialogue.
- Get Sts to give their answers and correct the false sentences.
- Have Sts copy down.
Answer Key:
a) False ( Only one team member takes part in the water-fetching contest.
b) False ( One person has