UNIT 13: FESTIVALS
LESSON 1 – GETTING STARTED, LISTEN AND READ

A. Aim: By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to ask for explanation of events.
B. Methods: Communicative approach
C. Teaching aids: Teacher: textbook, poster, pictures
Students: textbook, notebook, pens, rulers.
D. Procedure:
I. Class management: 1 minute
II. Revision: (5 minutes) WARM-UP
III. New lesson:
1. Setting the scene: Included in the WARM-UP
2. Main activities:
Teacher’s and students’ activities On the board

- Write the names on the board
- Give the information and then ask
question
- Ss look at the board, listen and
answer the question.

WARM-UP
Getting started: Chatting
Write the names on the board: Tom, David,
Lisa, Oliver, Robinson.

Vietnam. Do you know what kind of
festival it is? (It is the rice- cooking
festival)
- Ask Ss to guess what they are going
to read by asking question then write

PRE-READING
I. Vocabulary:
- (to) fetch: đi lấy mang về (definition)
= (to) go to get sth and bring it back)
- (to) yell: la, hét (=to shout loudly)
- (to) urge: thúc giục (to make a person/ an
animal to move quickly)
- (to) rub: cọ xát (mime)
- (to) award: thưởng (situation)
(He is the winner of the competition. They
(award) him the first prize)
→ (to) award someone something= (to) award
something to someone
- a rice-cooking festival (picture)
- (to) separate (mime + explanation)
* Checking vocabulary: Slap the board
II. Open prediction:
1. How many competitions do people take part
in in a rice-cooking festival?
2. In water-fetching competition, what do
people do? How about the fire-making
competition?
Rice – cooking festival


- Call some Ss to present on board.
Fire making

WHILE-READING
III. Question checking:

Expecte
d answers:
1. They take part in 3 competitions.
2. They have to run to the river to take a bottle
of water as quickly as possible. In the fire-
making competition, two team members try to
make a fire by rubbing pieces of bamboo
together.
IV. T/F statements
(p.122)
Answer key:
a. F Only one team member take part in the
water-fetching contest.
b. F One person has to collect one water bottle.
c. T.
d. F Pieces of bamboo are to make the fire.
e. F. In the final contest, the judges taste the
rice.
f. T.

POST-READING
V. Retelling the story:
activities

- Use pictures to
elicit the words.
- Divide class into
2 teams, stating
the rules of the
games.
- Monitor and give
feedback.

- Present new
words and then
guide Ss to read
them in chorus
- Check
vocabulary by
technique “Bingo”

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PRE-READING
I. Vocabulary:
- pomegranate: quả lựu (picture)
- peach blossom: cành đào (picture)
- marigolds: hoa cúc (picture)
- dried watermelon seeds: hạt dưa (realia)
- spring rolls: (picture)
- harvest festival: (picture)
* Checking: Bingo
II. Ordering

Answer key:
A→ F; B → G; C→ H; E → I; D → J WHILE-SPEAKING
III. Mapped dialogue:
Mrs. Quyen Mrs. Smith
A: you/tidy /bedroom? 1. Yes / where / you / going?
B: market/have to / oranges/
pomegranates
2. Could /collect / new Ao dai /
tailor/corner?
C: Sure /will 3. Thanks / anything/ you
/want /me /do ?
D: not really/But /want/ house
nice/festival
4. Mom/I/what/ do now/
will/clean
E: That's/ very good/Bye. 5. Bye

PRODUCTION
Speak 2:
- a village festival
- a school festival
- a harvest festival
……….


- Set the scene:
"The Robinson

PRE-LISTENING
IV. Gap-fill prediction:

WHILE-LISTENING
V. Gap-filling:
* Answer key:
a) Mr. Robinson / Flower market
b) traditional
c)Dried watermelon seeds
d) Make spring rolls

POST-LISTENING
VI. Grids:
Mr.
Robinson
Go to the flower market to buy
peach blossom and a bunch of
marigolds)
Mrs. Go to Mrs. Nga's to learn how to

Robinson

make spring rolls

Liz

go to the market to buy candies
and packet of watermelon seeds
- Listen to the CD
again and fill in
the Grids
- Monitor and give
feedback

IV. Consolidation: (2 minutes)
- T asks students to state the main preparations of the Robinsons for Tet holiday.
V. Homework
- Write your own dialogue on your notebook.
- Do exercises 3 & 4 in your workbook.
- Prepare Read

PERIOD 83 Date: March
21

3. Santa Claus is coming to town
4. Silent night
5. Mary’s boy child
- Present new words and then
guide Ss to read them in chorus
- Check vocabulary by technique
“Filling in the gaps”

- Ask Ss to read the statements and

- Ask Students to open their books
and read to find out the answers.
- Give feedback and correct.
- Ss read the passages again and
complete the table
- Give feedback

1. appeared in the early 1500s
2 appeared in a poem of Clement Clarke
Moore.
3. became popular about 180 years ago
4. was a part of the Christmas tradition at the
end of the 19
th
century.


- Ask Ss to read the passages once
more and then close the books to
play a game.
- State the rule of the game
- Feedback
- Show answers
- Open pairs
- Closed pairs - Turn on the CD and let students
listen and sing after the singer.
- Call some students to perform in
front of the class. century
Christmas Carols
(no) 800 years ago
Santa Claus
USA 1823

POST-READING
V. Questions:
Game: Sharks’ attack
Answer key:

festival they have joined.
B. Methods: Communicative approach
C. Teaching aids: Teacher: textbook, poster, pictures
Students: textbook, notebook, pens, rulers.
D. Procedure:
I. Class management: 1 minute
II. Revision: (5 minutes) WARM-UP
III. New lesson:
1. Setting the scene: Included in the WARM-UP
2. Main activities:
Teacher’s and students’ activities On the board

Ask Ss to look at the picture on page
126, then close their books.
Divide the class in to 2 teams, in turn,
answer the questions.
Ask Ss to listen to the questions and
answer.
1. How many people are there in
the picture?
WARM-UP
Memory game
Answer key:
1. They are participating in the rice- cooking
competition.
2. Rice, basket, pans, bamboo sticks, paper
fans, chopsticks, a flag.

PRE-WRITING
I. Vocabulary:
- communal (a) (translation)
- a competition (synonym)
= a contest
- (to) organize (synonym)
= (to) celebrate
* Checking: ROR
II. Questions:
* Lucky numbers
1. What do you call the festival where people
cook rice?(rice-cooking festival)
2. How many competitions participate in the
rice-cooking festival? What are they? (3/
water-fetching, fire-making, and rice-cooking).
3. LN
4. Do they use pieces of wood to make fire?
(No. Pieces of bamboo).
5. LN
6. What do people have to do before they cook
rice? (separate the rice from the husk).

1. rice-cooking 2. one/a
3. water-fetching 4. run
5. water 6. traditional

7. bamboo 8. six
9. separate 10. Added
IV. Questions and answers: aloud.
- Ask some students to write their work
on board for the whole class to
comment

POST-WRITING
V. Exhibition
Suggested festival:
The Perfume Pagoda Festival

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UNIT 13: FESTIVALS
LESSON 5 – LANGUAGE FOCUS 1&2

A. Aim: By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to use the passive in the past present and
future tenses.
B. Methods: Communicative approach
C. Teaching aids: Teacher: textbook, poster, pictures
Students: textbook, notebook, pens, rulers.
D. Procedure:
I. Class management: 1 minute
II. Revision: (5 minutes) WARM-UP
III. New lesson:
1. Setting the scene: Included in the WARM-UP
2. Main activities:
Teacher’s and students’ activities On the board

- T prepares 13 cards with numbers
on one side and verbs on the other.
- T sticks the cards on the board so
students can only see the numbers.
- T divides Ss into 2 teams and asks
them to choose 2 numbers. T turns
the cards over to see if they match.
E.g.: teach - taught, give them one
mark. If not, T turns the cards over

- Elicit the structures from Students

- Monitor and correct.
PRESENTATION
I. Vocabulary:
- (to) jumble (picture)
- (to) scatter (mime)
- (to) pull (mime)
- a mushroom (picture)
* Checking: What and where
II. Revision:



- Ask Ss to do exercise 1 in their
workbook.
- Call some students to write their
answers on board.
- Monitor and correct.
III. Language focus 1
Answer key:
a. were performed b. was decorated/ put
c. is made d. will be held
e. was awarded f. was written
IV. Language focus 2
Answer key:
1 jumbled 2. broken
3. broken 4.scattered
5.pulled

PRODUCTION
V. Exercise 1 in Workbook (p.109):
Answer key:
a. The rice was separated from the husk
b. A fire is made by their camp by the boys
c. This house was built more than one hundred
years ago.
d. Every year millions of tons of rice are exported
by Vietnam
e. Their Lunar New year is celebrated by
Vietnamese people around January or February.
f. After Tet holiday trees are usually planted by
Vietnamese people in their neighborhood.

III. New lesson:
1. Setting the scene: Included in the WARM-UP
2. Main activities:
Teacher’s and students’ activities On the board

- T asks students to look at the
pictures quickly in 10 seconds.
- T divides the class into 2 groups,
the group which answers correctly
and the fastest wins the game. - Present new words and then guide
Ss to read them in chorus
- Check vocabulary by technique
“Jumbled words” - Elicit the structures from Students
- Monitor and correct. - Deliver poster to Students
- Ask Ss to do the exercise on page
130 and write their answers on the
posters
- Have Ss to put their posters on the
board
- Give feedback and correct. - Set the scene:
Yesterday, Lan's
grandmother, Mrs. Thu, needed a
plumber. A man came to her door
and said, "I'm a plumber"
- Write the quoted on the
blackboard.
- He said "I'm a plumber"
- Ask Ss to report what the man said
and write on the board.
- Ask Ss to pay attention on the
compound adjectives
Concept check:
Use: to form a compound adjective
Form: noun + verb-ing

PRACTICE
III. Transformation drill
changes - Ask Ss to look at exercise 4 on
page 130 and do it
- Let Ss resay the sentences first then
ask them to write down
- Call some Ss to go to the board and
write sentences
- Correct
Quoted speech Indirect speech
- Present Simple → Past Simple
- Will → Would
- must → had to
b. Pronouns: depending on the subject of the main
clause.