Preparing date: 19/ 9/ 2021
Period: 9
UNIT 2. CULTURAL DIVERSITY
A-READING (1)
Class
Date of teaching
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12A1



12A4



I. OBJECTIVES:
1. Knowledge: By the end of the lesson, Sts will be able to:
- Use and relate vocabulary about culture.
- Interpret the reading passage by reading for specific information, guessing meaning from context.
- Compare and contrast a traditional Vietnamese family with a modern Vietnamese family.
* Grammar: Tenses
* Vocabulary: Words related to the topic: love, understanding, contractual, groom, bride, unwise, attractiveness, confiding...
2. Targeted competences: Increasing students’ communication, self-study skills, critical thinking, problem- solving and creativeness.
Qualifications: Increasing students’ hard work, science awareness, self-study spirit, enthusiasm, challenge acceptation, self-respecting, self-reliant, self-control and overcoming difficulties.
II. TEACHING AIDS
1. Equipment: Projector, computer, chalks, blackboard
2. Learning materials: Textbook, lesson plan, Teacher’s book, Reference books, handouts
III. TEACHING PROCESS:
ACTIVITY 1: WARM UP (5’)

Aims:
- Raise sts’ interests of the topic “cultural diversity”

b. Implementation
Step 1: Transferring the learning task
- T prepares a hand out with a network of the word “a marriage” and asks them a question: What things make a marriage happy?


marriage


- T asks Sts to look at the pictures (p.20) answer the Qs.
+ What do you see in the pictures?
+ What are the differences between them?
Step 2: Performing the task
- The whole class
- Individual wrok
- T provides help if necessary
- Product:
+ love, understanding, sharing , partnership of equals, trust, sympathy, sacrifice, good health, good job, high salary…
+ I see two scenes of different marriage in different countries. The 1st is from India and the second is from Vietnam.
Step 3: Report, discussion
- T calls some Sts to speak aloud their answers in front of the class
Step 4: Conclusion
- T gives comments on students’ answers

ACTIVITY 2: KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION (10’)

a. Aims:
Find out more information about the topic, read the passage and elicit new vocabularies

b. Implementation
I. Before you read:
* Discuss the question:
Step 1: Transferring the learning task
- Ask sts to work in pairs and discuss the question
(?) Which of the following factors is the most important for a happy life? Why?
+ Love
+ A nice house / flat.
+ Money
+ A good job.
+ Parents’ approval
+ Good health.
- Ask sts to talk before the class and give the reason why.
Step 2: Performing the task
- Work in pairs
A: Which factor is the most important for a happy life?
B: In my opinion, love is the most important for a happy life. Because love is an essential factor for a marriage life.
A: I agree with you. With love we can suffer the hardship, sufferings or misfortunes of life. 
B: And there`s an important aspect of love: forgiveness.  We can say love and forgiveness are two inseparable qualities.
A: That’s right.
Step 3: Report, discussion
- T calls some pairs to present their answers in front of the class.
Step 4: Conclusion
- T gives comments on students’ answers
* Read the passage
Step 1: Transferring the learning task
- T plays the tape once and asks Sts to pay attention to the new words
Step 2: Performing the task
- Sts listen to the tape and underline the new words they have.
Step 3: Report, discussion
- Sts make their own choices of new words individually
Step 4: Conclusion
- T gives comments on sts’ answers randomly
* Teach vocabularies:
Step 1: Transferring the learning task
- Explains some vocabularies by showing words by words on the power point slides.
+ culture (n) văm hóa
Cultural (adj) thuộc văn hóa
+ to precede (v) đến trước, đi trước
+ to confide in sb: tin tưởng, giao phó
+ partnership (n) sự cộng tác
+ to determine (v) quyết định, xác định
Determination (n)
+ to sacrifice (v) hi sinh
(n) sự hi sinh
+ oblige to V: bắt buộc, cưỡng bách
+ diversity (n) sự đa dạng
Diverse (adj)
+ to approve (v) chấp thuận, tán thành
Approval (n)
+ traditional (adj) thuộc truyền thống
Traditionally (adv) theo