Period:45 I. Objectives:
1. Educational aim: Students should know more about the celebration of Tet and
other festivals’ activities
2. Knowledge:
- General knowledge: - Through this unit, students know the history of tet and
some kinds of celebration
- New words: Words related to celebration
3. Skills: Reading for identifying the main idea and specific information
II. Method: Integrated, mainly communicative
III. Teaching aids: Real objects, pictures, English textbook 11, hand-outs
IV. Procedures:
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
Warm-up: (4 minutes)

- T shows some real objects and pictures
such as the pictures of Banh Chung,
peach blossom, kumquat tree…., real
objects as red envelops, a box of candied
fruits….
- T points the pictures and real objects
and ask questions:
1. What do you think of when you see
this?
2. Why so?
3 What do you often do before Tet?

1. What time of the year is it?

2. What are the people in the picture
doing? 3. What else do you see in the picture?
Pre -teaching vocabulary
While you read
Setting the scene
You are going to read a passage about
Tet holiday in Vietnam. While you are
reading, do the tasks in textbook
Task 1 (6m)

- It is Spring and it should be Tet
holiday because we can see peach
blossom and kumquat tree full of ripe
fruits
- The grandmother is giving her niece
and nephew some lucky money. The
girl, the boy and their parents good
health and happiness
- In the picture we can see a five-fruit
tray on the ancestral altar and a dish
of fruits, a tray of candied fruits and a
banh chung on the table.

Individual work
1- Trọng đại, hoành tráng

2- Biểu ngữ, băng rôn
3-Táo tẩm đờng
4-Thuộc về nông nghiệp

5-Cầu nguyện

partners
Calls some Ss to give their answers and
ask them to explain their choices
Task 3(6m)
Asks Ss to work individually to do the
task, then discuss their answer with their
peers
Calls some Ss to write their answers on
the board and ask them to explain their

3, They are decorated with coloured
lights and red banners
4. They buy gifts, clean and decorate
their houses and cook traditional
foods
5. It is made from sticky rice, green
beans and fatty pork
6. Mut is candied fruit
Asks Ss to work in groups to tell
eachother about their last Tet holiday
When all groups have finished, T calls on
some Ss to report their ideas to the class
Consolidation and homework(2m)
T summarises the main points and
assigns homework.
7. Visiting friends and other family
members, exchanging wishes, going to
the pagoda, playing games
Group work
-two students present in front of the
class
homework
-learn by heart all of the new words
and give examples
- Summarise the main ideas of the
passage
- Prepare for READING