Period: 30 Date: 15/11/2018

Unit 4: OUR CUSTOMS AND TRADITIONS
Lesson 6 : SKILLS 2
I. OBJECTIVES.
1. Knowledge: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to listen to a description of a traditional dance and write a description of a traditional dance.
a.Vocabulary:reunion, perform, reflect, honour, clockwise, spiritual
2. Skills: Writing and listening skills.
3. Attitude:Help students have serious attitude toward learning English and communicating in English and to make students use EL fluently.
II. METHODS AND TECHNIQUES:
Deductive method, communicative approach.
III. PREPARATION:
1. Teacher: book, lesson plan, cassette/ computer…
2. Student: books, notebooks, draft…
IV. PROCEDURES:
Warm up:
- Show a short video about “The Xoe dance” and ask some questions.
1. What is the name of the dance?
2. Is it interesting? –Yes/No
3. Can you guess which ethnic group the dance belongs to ?
4. Do you want to know more about this dance?
- Lead to the new lesson: Today we will listen to a description of “The Xoe dance” and then write a description about another traditional dance.
2. New lesson:

TEACHER’S AND STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES
CONTENT

* Activity 1:Vocabulary

- T uses some techniques to teach some vocabulary. Encourage students to guess the meaning of the vocabulary.
- T says vocabulary and Ss repeat chorally and then individually
Check vocabulary: Matching
 Reunion (picture)-reunite, honour (translation), perform (pictures), reflect (example), Clockwise (picture)- counter clockwise , Spiritual (translation)
Matching:
clockwise a.biểu diễn
reunion b. thuận chiều kim đồng hồ
perform c. thể hiện sự tôn trọng
honour d. phản ánh
reflect e. cuộc gặp mặt
spiritual f. thuộc về tinh thần
b 2.e 3.a 4.c 5.d 6.f

* Activity 2:Prediction


- Show a picture about “The xoe dance” to lead to listening part and 6 statements for prediction.
- Ask Ss to guess whether each statement is True or False.
- T writes the prediction on the board.
Prediction: T-F
(1) The xoe dance is a spititual tradition of Thai ethnic people. T/F
(2) There are 16 ancient forms of xoe
T/F
(3) Only young people perform the circle dance. T/F
(4) Dances with conical hats, paper fans or scarves are some forms of xoe. T/F
(5)The importance of xoe is expressed in an old Thai song. T/F

* Activity 3:Listening

- Ss listen to the audio the first time and discuss about the answers.
- Ss listen to the second time
- T requires ss to give answers and T writes on the board.
- Ss Listen to the audio for the third time to show evidences for the answers.
- T corrects and gives feedbacks.
- T show a table with 5 gaps and require Ss to listen and write only one word for each gap. Remind Ss to listen only one time.
- T checksSs’s understanding.
- T calls on Ss to give the answers.
- T writes the answers on the board and shows evidence for each gap.
- T corrects and gives feedbacks.
* Activity 3:Listening- T-F
(1) The xoe dance is a spititual tradition of Thai ethnic people. T
(2) There are 16 ancient forms of xoe
F
(3) Only young people perform the circle dance. F
(4) Dances with conical hats, paper fans or scarves are some forms of xoe. T
(5)The importance of xoe is expressed in an old Thai song. T
* Activity 3:Listening -Gap-Filling
What is the tradition?
The Xoe dance

What does the dance express?
Working life and wishes for a happy and.(1).......life

Where do people perform xoe?
(2).............and priavte gatherings.

How many xoe dance forms are there?
(3) More than ..........

What is the most typical form?
Circle dance

How do people perform it?
Make a circle around the (4)..........and dance to music.

Why should they continue this tradition?
It reflects Thai (5)...............and lifestyle.


(1) wealthy(2) public
(3) 30(4) fire(5) culture

* Activity 4: Writing


- T says that we have listened to a description ofa traditional dance of Thai people. Is it interesting, right? Now let’s watch