English 6
Date of planning: December 1st, 2019
Date of teaching: December 3rd, 2019
Period 48
UNIT 6 (cont.)
Lesson 5: SKILLS 1
Students’ level: average score of 7 - 8/10 (75%)
Time allowed: 45 minutes
A. LESSON DESCRIPTION
I. Aims: To help students (Ss) practice reading and speaking skills
II. Objectives: Ss will be able to ....
* Knowledge:
- remember some vocabulary related to practices and beliefs of the New Year: strike, cheer, bow, present, shrimp, move backwards…
- use Will/Won’t and Should/Shouldn’t to express intentions and advice
* Skills:
- guess the meaning of some new words from the context
- understand the passages (Textbook – p.64-65) to fulfil the reading task
- talk about some common practices and beliefs of the New Year
* Attitudes:
- give more love to their traditions at Tet in their country
- be aware of a variety of practices and beliefs of the New Year in Viet Nam and in other countries
* Competences:
Ss are expected to have the competences as follows:
Self-control
Independent learning
Collaboration
Problem-solving
III. Ways of teaching:
+ T- Wc
+ Individual work
+ Pairwork
+ Groupwork
IV. Teaching techniques:
- Passing the ball
- Asking and answering
- Eliciting
- Slap the board
- Presentation
- Catching words from images
- Matching
V. Preparations for the lesson:
Teacher: a ball, a set of computer, extra-board, chalk, ...
Ss: revising the future simple tense and structure “should / shouldn’t + V”; preparing some pictures of some popular beliefs about the New Year
VI. Anticipated problems:
- Some of the Ss may have difficulty in talking about beliefs of the New Year.
- Solution: At the end of the last lesson, Ss were assigned to work in groups, preparing their pictures/acting and the beliefs they are going to talk about .
B. LESSON PROCEDURE
Teacher’s and Ss’ activities
 Contents

I. Greeting and Organisation (1minute)
Teacher (T): Good morning
Ss: Good morning
T: Who’s absent now?
Monitor: ..........

II. Warm-up (4 minutes)
Activity 1: Game: Passing the ball
Purposes: To break the ice, check Ss’ homework on several ways to celebrate New Year of some groups of people, and introduce the new lesson

- T: “Would you like to play a game? Ok. Let’s play the game “Passing the ball”
- T explains the rules of the game:
+ “Pass the ball to your next classmates while you are listening to the music”
+ “You with the ball in your hands at the moment that the music stops will answer the questions”
+ “After answering the four questions, you will find out the three hidden children”






- T asks Ss some questions about the children




“Who are they?” (Ss’answers)
“Where are they from?” (Ss’answers)
“What are they talking about?”
(Ss’answers)

- T leads in the new lesson
“In today’s lesson, you will fulfil some reading and speaking tasks related to practices and beliefs of the New Year in America, China and Vietnam”

Game: Passing the ball
Questions and keys
1. Do the H’Mong start the New Year by sticking feathers of a killed rooster to the drawings of the Sun?
- Yes
2. In which country do temples ring bells at midnight on December 31st to remove bad actions in the previous year?
- In Japan
3. What do the Scottish do to welcome the New Year?
- Clean their houses
4. What do people in Thailand do to welcome the New Year?
- They throw water over others
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Keys:
+ They are Russ, Wu and Mai.
+ Russ is from the USA. Wu’s from China
and Mai is from Viet Nam.
+ They’re talking about their New Year.

III. Pre-reading (7 minutes)
Activity 2: Vocabulary
Purpose: To help Ss learn some new words/ phrases in the passages
(Textbook – p. 126)


- T presents the new words / phrases

- Ss practice reading the new vocabulary (paying attention to the stressed syllables) chorally after T and then some individuals take turns to read the words / phrases in front of the class


1. Vocabulary: (on the black board)
- to strike (midnight)
[video clip / eliciting]
- to cheer
[video clip / eliciting]
- to bow [action]
- to present = to give [synonym]
-