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Date of preparation: February 22nd ,2023

UNIT 9: FESTIVALS AROUND THE WORLD
Period: 69 Lesson 1: Getting started – A Tulip Festival
I. Objectives
1. Knowledge
- To introduce topic of the lesson Festivals around the world. To practice listening and
reading.
+ Vocabulary: use the words related to the topic Festivals around the world.. Pronouncing
the stress in two-syllable words correctly;
+ Grammar: - use Yes/ No questions;
- express disappointment;
2. Competence
- By the end of the lesson students will be able to know how to use the Yes/ No questions.
Students can express disappointment.
3. Quality/ behavior
- To educate Ss to know many festivals around the world; the awareness about
importance of learning English. Ss have the good attitude to working in groups,
individual work, pairwork, cooperative learning and working.
II. TEACHING AIDS:
- Teacher: Text book, laptop, louspeaker, projector…
- Students : Text books, studying equipments….
- Method: T-WC; group works; individual ……
III. PROCEDURE:
1. ACTIVITY 1: WARM UP & INTRODUCTION ( 5ms)
a. Aims: To create a friendly and atmosphere in the class before the lesson;
- To help students brainstorm the names of festivals in Viet Nam they have known;
- To lead into the unit
b. Content: To have some warm-up activities to create a friendly and relaxed
atmostphere to inspire Ss to warm up to the subject and new lesson.
c.Outcome: Remembering the names of festivals in Viet Nam
d. Organisation : Teacher's instructions …
+ Greeting: Making greetings/ singing a song and asking about the weather/ health
+ Chatting: Who is absent today?/ Is there anyone absent today?
- Teacher (T) introduces “Kim's Game” to students

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- T divides class into two teams and guides how to play the game

    
1………..
   

        
2……………..

 

3……………

4……………..
5…………….
6………….
-T calls Ss from each team to go to the board and write which festivals they see in the
pictures.
+ Students (Ss) remember and write the names of festivals in the pictures correctly.
- T checks Ss' answer and declares the winner team
*Answer keys:
1. Tet Festival
2. Mid-Autumn Festival
3. Hue Festival
4. Lim Festival
5. Hung King's Temple Festival
6. Perfume Pagoda Festival
+ Lead to the first unit of the new school year.
- Write the unit title Festivals around the world on the board and ask Ss guest what they
are going to learn this unit …
- Ask Ss to open their book to page 94 and introduce what they are going to study….
- Students (Ss) listen and learn about a festival
2. ACTIVITY 2: NEW LESSON ( 10ms)
a. Aims: To set the context for the introductory conversation;to introduce the topic of the
unit
b. Content: Listen and Read the conversation and find out new words. Learn some new
words
c. Outcome: Know more new words, understanding the conversation; topic of the lesson,
d. Organisation: Teacher's instructions …
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Teacher has Ss keep their book closed. Write A Tulip Festival on the board and ask Ss
to guess the content of the lesson.
- After Ss guess, T has them open their books and read the conversation quickly to check
their ideads.
- T plays the recording twice foe Ss to listen and read along.
- Has Ss underline the words that are related to the topic of the unit while they are
listening and reading
- Invites some pairs of Ss to read the conversation aloud.
- Has Ss say the words in the text that they think are related to the topic of the unit.
- Comments Ss' answer
*Teach vocabulary:
+ Teacher uses different techniques to teach vocab (situation, realia, translation.)
+ Follows the seven steps of teaching vocab.
1. cozy (adj) – cosy: ấm cúng 
2. Dutch (adj, n): thuộc Hà Lan; người Hà Lạn
3. folk dance (n): điệu nhảy/múa dân gian
4. float (n): xe diễu hành
5. parade (n): cuộc diễu hành
3. ACTIVITY 3: PRACTICE ACTIVITIES (20ms):
Exercise 1. Read the conversation again. Who did the following activities? Tick ()
the correct column. Sometimes you need to tick both.
a. Aims: - To help students understand the text.
b. Content: Read the conversation; decide who did the activities.
c. Outcome: Ss can understand the conversation better.
d. Organisation: Teacher's instructions …
- Asks Ss to read the activities and tick
the correct column without reading the
conversation again.
- Allows them to share answers with a
partner before discussing as a class.
- SS may read the conversation again to
confirm their answers before giving T
the answers.
- Elicits the answers from Ss.
- Write the correct answerson the board.
Answer keys:
1. Ms Hoa 2. Mark
3. Ms Hoa 4. Ms Hoa 5. Mark
Exercise 2: Write a word or phrase from the box under each picture
a. Aims: To introduce some vocabulary items related to festivals.
b. Content: Ss look at the pictures and write a given word/ phrase under the pictures
c. Outcome: Ss know more vocabulary related to festivals
d. Organisation: Teacher's instructions …
- Asks Ss to look at the pictures and say
what they can see
- Has Ss work individually to write the
words/ phrases from the box under the
correct pictures.
- Has them compare their answers with
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a partner.
- Asks for Ss' answers
- Confirm the correct answers
- Has some Ss practice saying the
words/ phrases
* Answer keys:
1. parade
2. costumes
3. feast
4. float
5. fireworks display
6. folk dance

Exercise 3: Fill in each blank with a word or phrase from 3. You may have to
change the form of the word or phrase
a. Aims:  To help Ss practice the words and phrases in Act. 2
b. Content:  Fill in each blank and change the form of the words
c. Outcome: Ss change the form of each word or phrase.
d. Organisation: Teacher's instructions …
Fill in each blank with a word or phrase from 3.
-Has Ss work in pairs and do the
You may have to change the form of the word or
exercise.
phrase
- Reminds them to change the form of
1. The dancers performed _______ at the Tulip Festival. each word or phrase if needed.
2. On New Year's Eve, we went to Hoan Kiem Lake to
- Invites some Ss to share their answers.
watch the _______.
- Write their answer on the board .
3. For Tet, we usually prepare a _______ with special
- Confirms the correct answers.
food.
4. People hold flower _______ in several countries to
welcome the new season.
5. The _______ carried the dancers in special _______.

* Answer keys:
1. folk dances
3. feast
5. floats; costumes

2. fireworks display
4. parades

4. ACTIVITY 4: APPICATION (8ms)
a. Aim: To check Ss' knowledge of some familiar festivals 
b. Content: Ss match each description with a festival
- ask students to discuss within their groups to answer the questions:
c. Outcome: Ss do as instructed. Then present what they have discussed.
d. Organisation: Teacher's instructions …
Quizz: What festival is it?
- Teacher lets Ss work in groups of 4-6.
- Ss work in groups to find the answers.
- Teacher can go around to help weaker
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students.
- Teacher calls the first group to come
up with the answers to share.
*Answer key:
1. e
2. a
3. d
4. c
5. b

*WRAP-UP & HOMEWORK (2ms)
- To consolidate what students have learnt in the lesson
- Ss retell the festivals in the lesson
* HOMEWORK
- To prepare vocabulary for the next lesson: A closer look 1
- Name at least 3 festivals around the world.
- Do exercises in the workbook.
- Prepare Unit 9 – A closer look 1

Date of preparation: February 22nd ,2023

I. Objectives

UNIT 9: FESTIVALS AROUND THE WORLD
Period: 70 Lesson 2:A CLOSER LOOK 1

1. Knowledge
- To introduce topic of the lesson Festivals around the world. To practice listening and
reading.
+ Vocabulary: use the words related to the topic Festivals around the world.. Pronouncing
the stress in two-syllable words correctly;
+ Grammar: - use Yes/ No questions; express disappointment;
2. Competence
- By the end of the lesson students will be able to know how to use the Yes/ No questions.
Students can express disappointment.
3. Quality/ behavior
-+ To educate Ss to know many festivals around the world; the awareness about
importance of learning English. Ss have the good attitude to working in groups,
individual work, pairwork, cooperative learning and working.
II. TEACHING AIDS:
- Teacher: Text book, laptop, louspeaker, projector…
- Students : Text books, studying equipments….
- Method: T-WC; group works; individual ……
III. PROCEDURE
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1. ACTIVITY 1: WARM UP (5ms)
a. Aims:To create an active atmosphere in the class before the lesson;
- To lead the new lesson.
b. Content: To play game about the festivals they have learnt in previous lesson.
c. Outcome: To help students remember the festivals they have learnt in previous lesson.
d. Organisation: Teacher's instructions …
GAME: HOT SEAT
* Teacher divides the class into 2 teams. Each team will send a leader to play the game on
the board.
- Teacher explains the instructions of the game:
+ Each leader stands against the board.
+ Teacher shows/ writes the names of the festivals (exercise 5 – page 93).
+ Other members from each team describe the festivals and let the leader guess the
names of the festivals.
+ The team with more correct answers is the winner.
- Students play in teams.
- Students give the correct answers.
- Teacher confirms the answers and gives feedback.
. 2. ACTIVITY 2: NEW LESSON (7ms)
a. Aims: - To help students learn more vocabulary related to Festivals around the world
b. Content: - To learn the new words
c. Outcome: Ss know more vocabulary related to Festivals around the world
d. Organisation: Teacher's instructions …
Teacher introduces the vocabulary.
* Teacher introduces the vocabulary by:
- providing the pictures
- providing the definition/ example of the words
1. Cannes Film Festival: liên hoan phim Cannes
2. Mid-Autumn Festival: Tết Trung thu
3. Thanksgiving (n): Lễ Tạ ơn
4. Easter (n): Lễ Phục sinh
5. carve (v): chạm, khắc
6. perform (v): trình diễn
- Teacher asks students to repeat.
- Teacher uses the “rub out and check” method to check.
3. ACTIVITY 3: PRACTICE ACTIVITIES (25ms)
Exercise 1. Write under each picture a festival name from the box
a. Aim: - To present some types of festivals
b. Content: To look at the pictures and write the name of festivals
c. Outcome: To help Ss revise the name of festivals
d. Organisation: Teacher's instructions …
Write under each picture a festival name from the box

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- Teacher has students look at the pictures and asks them if they know the names of the
festivals.
- Teacher gets students to do the exercise in individuals.
- Asks them to share their answers in pairs before checking the answers as a class.
- Teacher then encourages students to explain their answers.
- Corrects if necessary.
* Answer key:
1. Halloween
2. Christmas
3. Mid-Autumn Festival
4. Cannes Film Festival
5. Easter
6. Thanksgiving
Exercise 2. Complete the table below with the phrases from the box.
a. Aim: - To present some festival activities.
b. Content: To complete the table with the information of festivals .
c. Outcome: To help Ss know festival activities.
d. Organisation: Teacher's instructions …
Complete the table below with the
phrases from the box

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- Teacher tells Ss that people celebrate
festivals with different food and
activities.
- Teacher asks them to do the task
individually.
- Teacher asks students to share their
answers in pairs before checking the
answers as a class.
- Teacher then encourages students to
explain their answers.
- Corrects if necessary

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*Answer key:

Exercise 3: Fill in each blank with a word or phrase from the box.
a. Aim: To give Ss further practice with words related to festivals and festivals activities.
b. Content: To fill in blank with a given word or phrase
c. Outcome: To help Ss know festival activities
d. Organisation: Teacher's instructions …
Fill in each blank with a word or
- Teacher asks Ss to work in pairs to
complete the sentences with the words/
phrase from the box
phrases given.
- Ss work in pairs.
- Teacher allows students to cross check
first.
.
1. At _______, people give gifts to each other. - Teacher invites some pairs to share
their answers and gives feedback.
2. My children love _______ at Easter.
* Answer key:
3. How many _______do you need for the
1. Christmas
Halloween party?
2. painting eggs
4. At the _______, there are many interesting
3. candy apples
films.
5. Performing lion dances is one of the
4. Cannes Film Festival
activities at the_______.
5. Mid-Autumn Festival
6. Bill's mum is cooking a _______ for
6. turkey
Thanksgiving.

Exercise 4. Listen and repeat. Then underline the stressed syllable in each word
a. Aim: - To help Ss identify how to pronounce two-syllable words with correct stress.
b. Content: To listen and repeat the stressed syllable in each word.
c. Outcome: To help Ss know how to pronounce the stress in two-syllable words.
d. Organisation: Teacher's instructions …
- Teacher helps Ss to understand what a syllable is.
+ Explains to them that a syllable is a unit of pronunciation having one vowel
sound, with or without surrounding consonants, forming the whole part of a word.
+ Gives some examples of one-, two- and three-syllable words.
- Tells them that in this lesson, they just focus on two-syllable words and their common
stress pattern.
- Has Ss name some more two-syllable words.
- Teacher has Ss listen and repeat out the words in the table.
- Plays the recording again for them to underline the stressed syllable in each word.
- Teacher allows students to cross check first.
- Teacher lets Ss share their answer and gives feedback. Ask Ss if they recognize any
rules related to stress in two-syllable words. Share with them the most common rules.
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* Key:

Exercise 5: Listen and repeat the sentences. Underline the stressed syllables in the
bold words.
a. Aim: To help Ss pronounce two-syllable words with correct stress in sentences.
b. Content: To listen and repeat the sentences; to underline the stressed syllables.
c. Outcome: To help Ss know how to pronounce the stress in two-syllable words in
sentences
d. Organisation: Teacher's instructions …
- Teacher has Ss read the sentences quickly and plays the recording.
- Asks them to pay attention to the bold words and underline the stressed syllables.
- Students practice in pairs or in groups.
- Teacher goes around offering help or correcting pronunciation, if necessary.
- Teacher calls some students to say the sentences in front of the class.
- Checks their pronunciation if necessary.
4. ACTIVITY 4: PRODUCTION (5ms)
a. Aim: To test students' quick reaction to the targeted sounds
b. Content: -To play game up and down
c. Outcome: To help Ss practice pronouncing the stress in two-syllable words
d. Organisation : Teacher's instructions …
GAME: UP AND DOWN
- Teacher explains the rules:
- Teacher says 1-15 words containing two-syllable words.
- Students stand up for the ones with the first main stress pattern, sit down for the second
main stress pattern.
- Students play the game in teams.
- Teacher helps students in the game.
- Teacher gives feedback.
*WRAP-UP & HOMEWORK (3ms)
- Students talk about what they have learnt in the lesson.
- Students pronounce the stress in two-syllable words.
* HOMEWORK
- Review the lesson
- Do exercises in the workbook.
- Prepare Unit 9 – A closer look 2
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Date of preparation: February 24th ,2023

UNIT 9: FESTIVALS AROUND THE WORLD
Period: 71 Lesson3: A closer look 2
I. Objectives
1. Knowledge
- To introduce topic of the lesson Festivals around the world. To practice listening and
reading.
+ Vocabulary: use the words related to the topic Festivals around the world.. Pronouncing
the stress in two-syllable words correctly;
+ Grammar: - use Yes/ No questions;
- express disappointment;
2. Competence
- By the end of the lesson students will be able to know how to use the Yes/ No questions.
Students can express disappointment.
3. Quality/ behavior

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- To educate Ss to know many festivals around the world; the awareness about
importance of learning English. Ss have the good attitude to working in groups,
individual work, pairwork, cooperative learning and working.
II. TEACHING AIDS:
- Teacher: Text book, laptop, louspeaker, projector…
- Students : Text books, studying equipments….
- Method: T-WC; group works; individual ……
III. PROCEDURE:
1. ACTIVITY 1: WARM UP (5ms)
a. Aims: To activate students' prior knowledge related to the targeted grammar: Yes/No
questions
- To increase students' interest
- To enhance students' skills of cooperating with team mates
b. Content: To play game “sentence puzzing”
c. Outcome: Ss know how to make meaningful sentences.
d. Organisation: Teacher's instructions …
GAME: SENTENCE PUZZLING
- Teacher divides the class into 4 groups.
- Teacher delivers different sets of word cards to each group.
- Each group has to arrange the word cards to make meaningful sentences.
- 1 point for each correct answer.
- Students play the game in groups.
- Teacher and students discuss the answers.
- Teacher confirms the answers and gives feedback.
Set 1:
Are you eating moon cakes?
Set 2:
Did they eat moon cakes at the festival last year?
Set 3:
Can he eat all these mooncakes?
- Teacher draws students' attention to the Yes/No questions.
- Teacher introduces the target of the lesson: Yes/No questions.
2. ACTIVITY 2: NEW LESSON ( 10ms)
a. Aims: - To have students get to know about the Yes/No questions.
b. Content: Read the Grammar box and understand the use of Yes/No questions.
c. Outcome: Ss know the use of Yes/No questions.
d. Organisation: Teacher's instructions …
- Teacher asks students to study the Grammar box.
- Teacher draws students' attention to the use and how to form a Yes/No question with an
auxiliary verb or with a modal verb.
-Teacher then asks some more able students to give some more examples.
Yes/No questions
We use the auxiliary verb or modal verb before the subject.
Examples:
- Are you tired?
- Did you get many Christmas presents?
- Can you eat all the cakes?
- Teacher and students discuss the answers.
- Teacher confirms the answers and gives feedback.
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3. ACTIVITY 3: PRACTICE ACTIVITIES (16ms)
Exercise 1. Fill in each blank with a correct auxiliary verb or modal verb
a. Aims: - To check students' understanding of the Yes/No questions
b. Content: Ss fill in each blank with a correct auxiliary verb or modal verb
c. Outcome: Ss know how to use correct auxiliary verb or modal verb in sentences
d. Organisation: Teacher's instructions …
Fill in each blank with a correct
- Teacher has
students
work
individually.
auxiliary verb or modal verb
- Students work individually to
1. _______ they hold the festival in Ha Noi every
complete the sentences.
year?
- Teacher lets students work in pairs and
2. _______ he visit Hoi An last year?
exchange the answers before checking
3. _______ they performing folk dances?
with the whole class (explain each
4. A: _______ you make banh chung? - B: Yes, I
sentence if necessary).
can.
5. _______ your brother usually come back home at - Teacher confirms the answers and
gives feedback.
Tet?
* Answer key:
1. Do
2. Did
3. Are
4. Can 5. Does
Exercise 2: Change the sentences into yes / no questions.
a. Aims: - To help Ss practise making Yes/No questions
b. Content: Ss change the sentences into yes / no questions.
c. Outcome: Ss know how to change the sentences into yes / no questions
d. Organisation: Teacher's instructions …
Change the sentences into yes / - Teacher has students work individually.
- Students work individually to complete the
no questions
sentences.
1. My mother can make a costume for me.
- Teacher lets students work in pairs and
2. She will bake a birthday cake for him.
exchange the answers before checking with
3. The dragon dances are interesting.
4. The Rio Carnival takes place every year in the whole class (explain each sentence if
necessary).
Brazil.
5. They saw a fireworks display on New Year's - Teacher confirms the answers and gives
feedback
Eve.
* Answer key:
1. Can your mother make a costume for you?
2. Will she bake a birthday cake for him?
3. Are the dragon dances interesting?
4. Does the Rio Carnival take place every year in Brazil?
5. Did they see a fireworks display on New Year's Eve?
Exercise 3: Match the questions in column a with their answers in column b
a. Aims: To give further practice with Yes/No questions
b. Content: Ss match the questions with their answer correctly
c. Outcome: Ss know how to answer the Yes/ No questions
d. Organisation: Teacher's instructions …
Match the questions in column a - Teacher asks students to read the instruction.
with their answers in column b
- Teacher asks students to do the exercise
individually and match the questions in
column A with the answers in column B.
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- Teacher then has them work in pairs,
comparing their sentences.
- Teacher can go around to help students.
-Teacher confirms the answers and gives
feedback.
* Answer key:
1. c 2. a 3. a 4. b
5. d

Exercise 4: Mark is talking to Trang about the mid-autumn festival. Fill in the
blanks with Trang's answers below
a. Aims: - To give further practice with Yes/No questions
b. Content: Ss play game and fill in the blank with the correct answers
c. Outcome: Ss know how to answer the Yes/ No questions
d. Organisation: Teacher's instructions …
Game: Who is faster?
. Fill in the blanks with Trang's answers
-Teacher gives each team a set of cards with
below
phrases from the box.
+ The two leaders of the teams come to
the board and pin the cards under the
correct number.
+ Who can finish faster with the correct
answer will be the winner.
- Students play the games in team mode.
- Teacher has students write down the correct
answer.
- Teacher confirms the answers and gives
feedback. Teacher can ask for translation to
check their understanding.
Answer key:
1. b 2. E 3. A 4. C 5. d
4. ACTIVITY 4: PRODUCTION (10ms)
a. Aims: - To help Ss practise producing Yes/No questions
b. Content: Ss play game to make and answer Yes/No questions
c. Outcome: Ss know how to produce and answer the Yes/ No questions
d. Organisation: Teacher's instructions …
GAME “FESTIVAL MYSTERY”
- Teacher has students work in groups.
- One student thinks of a festival that he/ she likes. Other students ask Yes / No questions
to find out what the festival is.
The group leader keeps a record of the group's performance.
- Teacher moves around to observe and pays attention to Ss' yes / no questions.
- Teacher asks some groups to perform in front of the class, confirms the answers and
gives feedback.
Example:
A: Do many countries celebrate the festival?
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B: Yes, they do.
A: Do children like the festival?
B: Do they paint eggs?
A: Yes, they do.
C: Is it Easter?
B: Yes, it is.
*WRAP-UP & HOMEWORK (4ms)
- Students talk about what they have learnt in the lesson.
* HOMEWORK
- Review the lesson
- Do exercises in the workbook.
- Prepare Unit 9 – Communication

Date of preparation: February 24th ,2023

UNIT 9: FESTIVALS AROUND THE WORLD
Period: 72 Lesson 4: COMMUNICATION
I. Objectives
1. Knowledge
- To introduce topic of the lesson Festivals around the world. To practice listening and
reading.
+ Vocabulary: use the words related to the topic Festivals around the world.. Pronouncing
the stress in two-syllable words correctly;
+ Grammar: - use Yes/ No questions;
- express disappointment;
2. Competence
- By the end of the lesson students will be able to know how to use the Yes/ No questions.
Students can express disappointment.
3. Quality/ behavior
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- To educate Ss to know many festivals around the world; the awareness about
importance of learning English. Ss have the good attitude to working in groups,
individual work, pairwork, cooperative learning and working.
II. TEACHING AIDS:
- Teacher: Text book, laptop, louspeaker, projector…
- Students : Text books, studying equipments….
- Method: T-WC; group works; individual ……
III. PROCEDURE:
1. ACTIVITY 1: WARM UP & INTRODUCTION (5ms)
GAME: NAME THE FESTIVALS
a. Aims: To create an active atmosphere in the class before the lesson;
- To lead into the new lesson
b. Content:  Ss play game “Name the festivals”
c. Outcome: Ss can revise the name of the festivals
d. Organisation: Teacher's instructions …
- Teacher divides the class into 2 teams. Teacher shows pictures of some festivals on the
slides.
- Ss give the correct names of the festivals as fast as possible. The one with more correct
answers is the winner.
- Students work in team mode.
- Teacher checks and gives feedback.
- T introduces the objectives of the lesson.
2. ACTIVITY 2: NEW LESSON (11ms)
Exercise 1. Listen and read the conversation. pay attention to the highlighted
sentences. + Activity 2. Work in groups. Make a similar conversation for each
situation below
a. Aims: To introduce ways of expressing disappointment in English;
- To help Ss practice expressing disappointment
b. Content: Ss listen and read the conversation, pay attention to the highlighted
sentences, then make a similar conversation for each situation.
c. Outcome: Ss know the ways to express disappointment.
d. Organisation : Teacher's instructions …
Work in groups. Make a similar
- Teacher lets students listen to the examples
conversation for each situation below
in Ex 1 in the book.
Mi: How was the music festival last - Teacher draws their attention to the form of
ways to express disappointment.
Sunday?
- Teacher and students discuss the form of
ways to express disappointment and give
Mark: It was disappointing!
some other expressions.
- Teacher confirms the answers and gives
Mi: Why?
feedback.
- Teacher has students work in groups to
Mark: The band was late.
discuss and make similar conversation for
Trang: And the singers weren't very each situation.
- Students work in groups to discuss.
good
either. It
was
a
big - Teacher then asks students to exchange their
disappointment.
answers among the class.
- Teacher moves around to observe, provides
help and gives feedback.
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3. ACTIVITY 3: PRACTICE ACTIVITIES ( 15ms)
Exercise 3: Listen to mark talking about festival symbols. Fill in each blank with
one word
a. Aim: To help Ss understand the concept of festival symbols;
- To provide Ss with some Christmas symbols and their meanings.
b. Content: Students listen and fill in each blank with one word.
c. Outcome: Ss know about the symbols of some festivals 
d. Organisation: Teacher's instructions …
Fill in each blank with one word
- Teacher asks Ss what they think of when
1. A symbol is an image we use or _______ they talk about Christmas, i.e Christmas
symbols.
of when celebrating a festival.
- Elicits answers from students.
2. A symbol usually has a special _______. - Has Ss read the sentences given.
- Asks them to predict what word to use to fill
3. The Christmas tree is the symbol of a in each blank.
- Writes their answers on the board.
long _______.
- Students work individually. Then listen to
the recording and check the answers.
4. Santa Claus is the symbol of joy and - Teacher invites some Ss to share their
_______.
answers.
- Teacher gives feedback and correction (if
needed).
Answer key:
1. think 2. Meaning 3. Life
4. happiness
Exercise 4: Work in pairs. Match each festival with its symbol and meaning.
a.Aim: To help Ss understand the symbols and meanings of other festival
b. Content:  Ss match the festival with its symbol and meaning
c. Outcome: Ss can know the symbols of the festivals and their meanings
d. Organisation :  Teacher's instructions …
Match each festival with its symbol and meaning

- Teacher introduces some
new words if necessary
(prosperity, reunion).
- Ss works in pairs to finish
the task.
- Teacher allows the student
to cross check first.
- Teacher confirms the
answers and gives feedback.
Answer key:
1. C - b
2. A - c
3. D - a
4. B - d

4. ACTIVITY 4: PRODUCTION (10ms)
Work in groups. Choose a festival and talk about its symbol(s) and meaning.
a. Aim: To let students practise talking about festival symbols and their meanings
T: Phan Thi Thanh Thuy

16

Phuoc Loc Secondary School

English 7

b. Content: Teacher lets students group up and spend 5 minutes on taking notes of a
festival..
c. Outcome: All group members choose a festival and talk about its symbols and
meanings. 
d. Organisation: Teacher's instructions …

Work in groups. Choose a festival
and talk about its symbol(s) and
meaning
Suggested answer
When we talk about Mid-Autumn
Festival, we think of moon cake. It is the
symbol of the moon, prosperity and
family reunion.

- Teacher lets students group up and spend
5 minutes on taking notes of a festival.
- Students work in groups.
- All group members choose a festival and
talk about its symbols and meanings.
- Teacher moves around to observe and
offers help if needed.
- Teacher invites some students to talk
about festival symbols and their meanings.
- Students share their group's answers.
- Teacher allows students to cross check
first.
- T gives feedback

*WRAP-UP & HOMEWORK (4ms)
- Asks Ss to summarise what they have learnt in the lesson.
- Calls some Ss to retell a symbol of the festival they like
* HOMEWORK
- Revise the lesson.- Do exercises in their Workbook. 
- Prepare Unit 9 – Skills 1

Date of preparation: February 26th ,2023

UNIT 9: FESTIVALS AR...