Date of planning: ………………….
Week: …………….. Period:………………
Unit 2: CULTURAL DIVERSITY
PART A: READING
I. Aims: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
- have some background information about the difference between American and Asian thoughts on love and marriage such as physical attractiveness, confiding, partnership of equals, trust built on love,…
- improve their reading skill by explaining the meaning of words and answering questions.
II. Teaching aids: Textbook, cassette player.
III. Procedure:
Teacher’s activities
Ss’ activities

Warm – up (4 mins)
Matching
- Ask Ss to work in groups and match the names of kinds of Vietnamese culture in English in column A with its equivalents in Vietnamese in column B

A
B

1. love
a. áo dài

2. traditional music
b. đám cưới

3. long traditional dress
c. tình yêu

4. marriage
d. tết nguyên đán

5. mid-autumn festival
e. đám ma

6. funeral rite
f. nhạc cổ truyền

7. lunar Tet holiday
g. tết trung thu


Keys : 1. c 2. f 3. a 4. b 5. g 6. e 7. d
Pre-reading (13 mins)
- Ask Ss to discuss the questions: Which of the following factors is the most important for a happy life/marriage life? Why?
- Let them answer naturally and explain their choice
- Introduce the lesson: “You are going to read about American and Asian thoughts on love and marriage. And then do the tasks that follow”
* Vocabulary
+ bride (n): chú rể
+ groom(n): cô dâu
+ survey (v, n): điều tra, cuộc điều tra
+ A/the majority of + N + V (pl): đại đa số
+ unwise ≠ wise (a): thông minh, sáng suốt = smart, clever
+ partnership of equal: sự bình đẳng trong cuộc sống chung
+ contractual (a): thỏa thuận, sắp đặt
+ romantic (a): lãng mạn
+ value = factor (n): yếu tố
While Reading
Use the textbook: Silent reading (4’)
Task 1: (6 mins)
- Ask Ss to read the statements and find the meaning of the italicized words. Ask them to translate the whole sentences
- Call on Ss to answer
+ precede (n): đến trước
+ determine (v): xác định, phát hiện
+ confide in (v): chia sẽ, tâm tình
+ sacrifice (v): hy sinh
+ be obliged + to V (v): bị bắt buộc để làm…
Oblige + sb + to V
Task 2: (10 mins)
- Have Ss read the reading again & find the answers
- Go around to check the students’ answers and offer help
- Ask Ss to answer
Suggested answers:
1. Americans believe in “romantic” love……….not precede it.
2. They are Physical attractiveness, confiding, partnership of equals and trust built on love.
3. The Americans are concerned much more than the Indians…..or a husband.
4. The Indian students agree that a woman has to sarcifice more in marriage than a man.
5. The American wife trusts her husband to do the right thing because he loves her not because he has to.
6. The main finding of the survey is that young Asians are not as romantic as their American counterparts.
After reading (8 mins)
- Have Ss work in groups and discuss: the differences between a traditional Vietnamese family and a modern Vietnamese family
Homework
- Learn new words by heart
- Rewrite the differences between a traditional Vietnamese family and a modern Vietnamese family that they discussed
- Prepare for the next part : Language focus


- Do matching and answer












- Answer the questions and Ss’ answers may vary





- Listen and repeat the words
- Copy down











- Read the statements and find the words’ meanings.
- Answer.
- Read the words after teacher’s modeling.
- Write the words down.




- Read the text & answer the questions
- Listen to the answer and correct the answer. Then copy down












- Discuss and brainstorm for the suggestion then report

- Do homework

IV. Feedback: …………………………………………………………………………………………….
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Date of planning:
Week: Period:
UNIT 2: CULTURAL DIVERSITY
PART E: LANGUAGE FOCUS

I. Aim: After the lesson, students will be able
- To pronounce more exactly the