Week 3 period 8
Unit 2 : CULTURAL DIVERSITY
( A-READING )
A. Objectives : By the end of the lesson, students are able to:
understand the passage about some traditional customs about love and marriage
do all the tasks given in the book
Knowledge:
- General knowledge: - Through this unit, students know more about cultural diversity
- New words: Words related to the topic( culture, society....)
Skills: -Guessing meaning from context
-Summarizing main idea
-Passage comprehension
B. Teaching Aids:
Board, tape, cassetteplayer, chalks, textbook and notebook
C. Method : Integrated, mainly communicative skills.
D. PROCEDURE

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Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities

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I. Warm up
Competition game – network
-What things make a marriage happy?








-what can you see in the pictures?
- What are the differences between them?



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II. New lesson
A. Before you read
Activity1:
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




Activity2: Vocabulary:
1. romantic (a)
2. contractual (a): thỏa thuận
3. precede (v)
4. Phycical attractiveness
5. maintain (v)
6. confide (v): tin tưởng, giao phó Confiding (n)
7. Partnership of equals
8. sacrifice (v): hy sinh
9. Trust built on love
10. oblige (v) to force sb to do st
11. counterpart (n)
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B. While you read
TASK - There are still some more opinions about love and marriage.
1/ A wife should maintain her beauty and appearance after marriage. (A)
2/ Wives and husbands share all thoughts. (Americans)
3/ It is unwise for husbands to confide in their wives. ( Asians)
4/ A woman has to sacrifice more in a marriage than a man. (Asian)
5/ A husband is obliged to tell his wife where he has been. (Asian)

TASK1 – PAGE: 22
Explain the meaning of the word/ phrases
Matching
1.Precede
a. happen or exist before

2.Determine
b. tell some – one about st very private or secret

3.Confide
c. having a duty to do st

4. Sacrifice
d. find out

5. Obliged
 e. willingly stop having something you want


answers:
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TASK2– PAGE: 22

Answers
1. They are Physical attractiveness; Confiding ; Partnership of equals; trust built on love.
2. The young Americans are much concerned than the young Indians and the Chinese with physical attractiveness
When choosing a wife or a husband.
3. The Indian students agree that a woman has to sacrifice more in a marriage than a man.
4. The American wife trusts her husband to do the right thing because he loves her not because he has to do.
5. The main finding of the survey is that young Asians are not as romantic as their American counterparts
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C. After you read
Suggest question for discussion:
what are the differences between a tradition Vietnamese family and a modern one ?
* Number of children.
*The house they like to have.
* The head of the family.
*Who works?
*Who takes care of the housework and children?
* The income….
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III. Homework
- Read the lesson again and learn by heart new words and structures
- Write a summary about Americans in the passage
- Prepare "SPEAKING”
*Prepares a hand out with a network of the word’ a Marriage” and asks Ss the Question
- divides the class into 6 groups and gives each group a hand out. Teacher asks Ss to complete the network.
The winner will be the group completing the network in the shortest period of time.

* Asks students to