Period: 53
UNIT 8: CELEBRATIONS
SPEAK + LISTEN
I. Objectives
- By the end of this lesson, Ss improve their speaking and listening skills:
+ Speaking: Give and respond to a compliment for common situations.
+ Listening: Listen and complete the missing words of an English song (Auld Lang Syne)
1. Knowledge, Skills, Attitude:
a. Knowledge:
- Vocabulary: Related to celebration.
- Grammar: Giving and responding to a compliment.
b. Skills: Speaking, listening, less reading and writing.
c. Attitude: Ss will be educated about celebrations.
2. Capacity is formed and developed for students
- Self-learning capability.
- Communicative competence
- Cooperation capacity
II. Preparation
1. Teacher: lesson plan, book, color chalks, pictures, MP3
2. Students: books, notebooks, pen, ruler …
III. Students’ activities

1. Warm up (5’)
Teacher’s and students’ activities
Content

- T asks, Ss answer the questions.

- When do people give a compliment to others?
- Do you usually give a compliment?
- On which occasion?
- To whom?
- Do you know to respond to it?


2. Knowledge formation activities (32’)


- T explains how to give and respond to a compliment.
- Ss pay attention to teacher’ explanation and take notes.







- T explains the requirement, the situations and new words.
- Ss pay attention to teacher’ explanation and take notes.
- T calls two Ss read the example a.
3. Speak.
* Structures
Give a compliment
Respond to a compliment

Well done.
Thanks

That’s a great/an excellent …..
It’s nice of you to say so.

Let me congratulate you on…
That’s very kind of you.

Read the following situations with a partner: Then give and respond to appropriate compliments.
Vocabulary :
- contest (n)
- activist (n)
- charity (a)
- nominate (v)
- take part in (v)



- Ss make dialogues with pictures b, c, d in pairs.
- T calls some pairs to give the dialogues before the class.
- T checks and corrects students’ pronunciation if necessary.

- T explains the requirement and give some suggestions if Ss can’t think up the situation.
- Ss work in pairs : give and respond to compliments.
- T calls some pairs to give the dialogues before the class.
- T checks and corrects students’ pronunciation if necessary.

* The keys :
b. Well done, Huyen. / Thanks, Mom.
c. Let’s congratulate you on your nomination, Tuan. / It’s nice of you to say so.
d. That’s excellent drawing, Hoa. / That’s very kind of you to say so.
Now think up situations in which you can compliment your friends and get respones fro him/her/them, then make up dialogues with partner.
* Suggestions:
- passing the exam.
- Wearing a new shirt/ dress
- Winning the first prize in a speech/ in a singing contest.
* The keys
- Well done, Nam / It’s very nice of you to say so.
- This shirt looks good on you./ thank you.
- You speech was very excellent./ Thank you.
- That was a very good performance./ That’s very kind of you.
Do you think compliment is important and necessary in our life?


- T asks, Ss answer the questions.
- Ss answer the questions.

- T helps Ss know something about the song “Auld Lang Syne”.

- T helps Ss understand the meanings of new words by doing the exercise Matching.
- T checks and corrects students’ answers.





- T explains the requirement of the listening.
- Ss read the song once and guess the missing words.
- Ss listen to the song three times.
- T calls some Ss to give the answers.
- T checks and corrects students’ answers.
- Ss compare the correct answers with their guessing and copy down the correct answers.
- T help Ss practice singing the song.
4. Listen.
Have you ever heard the song “Auld Lang Syne”?
“Auld lang Syne is one of the best known songs in English-speaking countries. ”
Auld lang Syne = the time gone past = the goog old days.
In Scots: Auld = old, Lang = Long, Syne = since.
* Vocabulary:
- acquaintance (n)
- kindness (n)
- trusty (a)
- bring to mind (v)

Matching :
1. acquaintance