UNIT 13
Week 29
Period 82
Lesson 1
FESTIVAL

Getting Started + Listen and Read
Grade 8


p 121-122

Objectives: reading for details about making plans for a vacation abroad
Materials: pictures, posters, textbooks, cassette, …
Procedure
Timing
CONTENTS
Teacher’s and Students’ activities

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Where should these people go on their visits to Viet Nam? 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.
Suggested Answer
1. Where should Tom go? – He should go to Vung Tau because there
are beautiful beaches there.
2. Where should David go? – He should go Hoi An or Hue because there
are ancient houses there.
3. Where should Huckleberry go? – He should go to Sapa because there
are mountains there.
4. Where should Oliver go? – He should go to Ha Noi because there is
Bat Trang pottery village.
5. Where should Robinson go? – He should go to Ho Chi Minh City
because there are lots of restaurants, shops, and places for entertainment.

We have discussed the tourist attractions in Viet Nam. One of the reasons that attracts tourists is the traditional festivals. In today’s lesson, we will learn these festivals.


rice cooking
water-fetching
fire-making
(to) yell
(to) rub
husk
(to) make a fire
(to) separate ... from ...

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v
unc
v
v
nấucơm
lấynước
nhómlửa
la hét
chà, cọxát
vỏtrấu
nhómlửa
tách … khỏi

A Compound Noun: Noun - Ving
Ex: There are three competitions: water-fetching, fire-making and rice-cooking.
Who are they in the picture?
What festival are they taking part in??
What are they talking about?


Contest
What they do
Numbers of participants

Water-fetching
run to …


Fire-making

2

Rice-cooking



Answer Key
Contest
What they do
Numbers of participants

Water-fetching
run to the river bank to take the bottles of water and return to the starting position.
1

Fire-making
rub pieces of bamboo together to make a fire.
2

Rice-cooking
separate the husk and then cook the rice.
6


Answer Key
1. F Only one team member takes part in the water-fetching contests.
2. F One person has to collect one bottle.
3. T
4. F Pieces of bamboo are used to make a fire.
5. F In the final contest, the judges taste the rice.
6. T




In the rice-cooking festival, there are three competitions: …






A Compound Noun: Noun - Ving
Example: rice cooking, water-fetching, fire-making


. Learn vocabulary and structures by heart
. Practice the dialogue again
. Prepare Unit 13 Lesson 2 Speaking (p 123)
Vocabulary
a pomegranate
I. Warmer
Chatting (p 121)
. Sts work in 2 groups
. Which group perform their speaking better answers is the winner













Introduction


II. Pre-stage
1. Pre-teaching vocabulary
. picture
. picture
. picture
. picture
. mime
. realia
. picture
. mime



Setting the scene

Open predictions
. Sts discuss in groups of four + give their prediction
III. While-stage
1. Filling in the table
. Sts work in groups of four
. Sts give the answers + check their answers
. T gives feedback




2. True-False Statements (2 p 122)
. Sts give the answers + check their answers
. T gives feedback




3. Listen and practice (p 121=122)
. Sts listen to the dialogue
. Sts practice the dialogue in open pairs
IV. Post-stage
Summary
. Stssummarize the dialogue, basing on the true-false statements
. Some sts perform their summary on the board