LESSON PLAN PREPARATION
Unit 8: CELEBRATIONS
B. SPEAKING
I. Content:
- Level: Grade 11
- Unit 8: Celebrations – Speaking: Celebrations/ Holidays
- Skill focus: Speaking (page 93/94)
II. Timing: 45 minutes
III.Objectives:
- By the end of the lesson, Students will be able to talk about celebrations/ holidays (Names/ Dates/ Purposes Activities). This lesson also aims to help students practice soft skills of working pairs and groups.
- Ss’ reading,writing, speaking and listening skills are improved.
IV.Teaching aids: Smartboard, handouts, group boards, student books ( Tiếng Anh 11)
V.Language focus:learn the words related to celebrations/ holidays
Vocabulary:
+ dress up: ăn mặc đẹp, mặc trang phục hóa trang + parade: diễu hành + mask (v): mặt nạ + harvest (v,n): thu hoạch, vụ thu hoạch + traditional (v): thuộc về truyền thống + lunar calendar >< Western calendar: âm lịch >< dương lịch + Valentine’s day : ngày lễ tình nhân
+ Tet holiday: Tết
+ Mid-autumn festival: Tết trung thu
+ Thanks Giving : lễ tạ ơn - Structures:+ on + days/ dates
+ S + to sound + adjective
Practices qusetions: What’s + Name of a celebration
When is it?
What do people often do ?

Possible answers: It’s the time when people . . . It’s on …
They often . . .







VI. TEACHING PROCEDURE
1. Stabilization : - Greeting.
- Checking the attendance: Ask the class monitor “Is anyone absent today?”
2. Checking up the previous knowledge + Presentation of the new lesson

Timing
Content
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
Rationale of activities
Source of materials

3 mins
1.Checking vocabulary:Playing a game (information transmission)
- handouts (words/ phrases)
celebration, preparation, build up, the grandest, blossom, agrarian, calendar, excitement
- T gives instructions
-T delivers handouts to the students in the last row.
- Tasks Ss to say vocabulary aloud.
- T gives feedbacks.
- Ss listen and ask for more details if neccessary
- Ss play the game
- Ss say vocabulary aloud
(individual)
- This warm-up activity aims to motivate and review the vocabulary which the students have learntin the previous lesson


- Listening, speaking,skills are improved.
 - Board,
handouts,










7 mins






















3 mins
2. Pre- speaking

Vocabulary
+ dress up + parade + mask + harvest
+ traditional \ + lunar calendar >< Western calendar
+ Valentine’s day
+ Tet holiday
+ Mid-autumn festival
+ Thanks Giving : Checking the vocabulary


Pre-questions:
a. Do you like Tet?
b. What is Tet?
c. When is it?
d. What people often do at Tet?











T provides useful vocabularies

T reads the words/ phrases aloud



Shows the Vietnamese words and ask Ss for the meaning


T raises the questions








- Ss listen to the teacher and take notes
Ss repeat





Ss say aloud the words




- listen to the teacher and answer








Ss know how to pronounce all the words and phrases correctly








By the end of the activity, students know how to ask about Tet celebration
Student books/ smartboard

8 mins



















































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3. While- speaking.
Activity 1 : Task 1. Mai is talking with Anna, her new English friend, about Tet holiday in Vietnam. Work in pairs. Practise reading the dialogue.
1.What celebration are they talking about?
2. What is the time of the celebration?
3.What is its purposes?
4. What are the activitives on the occasion? Mai : Do you know that Tet holiday is next month?
Anna : What is Tet?
Mai : It’s the time when Vietnamese people celebrate the beginning of spring. It’s also the start of the lunar new year.
Anna : When is it exactly?