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Date of planning: ………………….
Week: …………… Period:………………
Unit 2: CULTURAL DIVERSITY
PART A: READING
I. Aims: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
- have some background information about the difference between American and Asian thoughts
on love and marriage such as physical attractiveness, confiding, partnership of equals, trust built on
love,…
- improve their reading skill by explaining the meaning of words and answering questions
II. Teaching aids: Textbook, cassette player.
III. Procedure:
Teacher’s activities Ss’ activities
Warm – up (4 mins)
Matching
- Ask Ss to work in groups and match the names of kinds of
Vietnamese culture in English in column A with its equivalents
in Vietnamese in column B
A B
1. love a. áo dài
2. traditional music b. đám cưới
3. long traditional dress c. tình yêu
4. marriage d. tết nguyên đán
5. mid-autumn festival e. đám ma
6. funeral rite f. nhạc cổ truyền
7. lunar Tet holiday g. tết trung thu
Keys : 1. c 2. f 3. a 4. b 5. g 6. e 7. d
Pre-reading (13 mins)
- Ask Ss to discuss the questions: Which of the following factors
is the most important for a happy life/marriage life? Why?

- Read the words after teacher’s
modeling.
- Write the words down.
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+ confide in (v): chia sẽ, tâm tình
+ sacrifice (v): hy sinh
+ be obliged + to V (v): bị bắt buộc để làm…
Oblige + sb + to V
Task 2: (10 mins)
- Have Ss read the reading again & find the answers
- Go around to check the students’ answers and offer help
- Ask Ss to answer
Suggested answers:
1. Americans believe in “romantic” love……….not precede it.
2. They are Physical attractiveness, confiding, partnership of
equals and trust built on love.
3. The Americans are concerned much more than the
Indians… or a husband.
4. The Indian students agree that a woman has to sarcifice more
in marriage than a man.
5. The American wife trusts her husband to do the right thing
because he loves her not because he has to.
6. The main finding of the survey is that young Asians are not as
romantic as their American counterparts.
After reading (8 mins)
- Have Ss work in groups and discuss: the differences between a
traditional Vietnamese family and a modern Vietnamese family
Homework
- Learn new words by heart

2. I recently (miss) …… a number of interesting films.
3. – (You, receive) ………his package yet?
- No, I ……… yet.
Pronunciation
- Listen to the teacher
- Look at the sentences
- Take part in the game
- Give the correct answers
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Pronunciation of the ending – ED
+ “ed” is pronounced /id/ after words ending with /t/, and /d/
Ex: needed  need + /id/
Wanted

want + /id/
+ “ed” is pronounced /t/ after words ending with voiceless
sounds: /f/, /k/, /p/, /s/, /
∫
/, /t
∫
/
Ex: walked

walk + /t/
Hoped  hope + /t/
+ “ed” is pronounced /d/ after words ending with voiced
sounds: /b/, /g/, /l/, /m/, /n/, /dʒ/, /r/, /v/, /z/
Ex: loved  love + /d/
Preferred

- Call on Ss to answer and explain their choice
- Give feedback and correction
Keys:
1. C 2. A 3. C 4. A 5. C
6. A 7. C 8. A
Exercise 3 (p. 29) Complete the letter with the correct forms
of the verbs in brackets
- Ask Ss to do the exercise and compare with their partners
- Call some Ss to answer
Keys:
1. moved 2. moved
3. have asked 4. haven’t stopped
5. study 6. will fail
- Listen to the teacher’s modelling
and take notes
- Repeat after teacher or the tape.
- Practise.
- Say the uses of tenses.
- Work in pairs.
- Practise the conversation.
- Copy.
-Circle the best answer.
- Answer and explain after
exchanging their answers.
- Work in pairs.
- (Ss do the exer.3 at home if no
more time).
- Take notes.
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- Ask them: Do you think these wedding are the same? Why
or Why not?
Pre – speaking
* Vocabulary
+ generation (n): thế hệ
+ base on (v): dựa trên
+ old-aged (a): lớn tuổi, già
+ nursing home (n): nhà thương, bệnh xá, nơi an dưỡng
+ income (n): thu nhập
+ grocery (n): cửa hàng tạp hóa/tạp phẩm
+ own bedroom: giường ngủ riêng
- Ask Ss to retell the expressions often used to express
agreement and disagreement
- Help them to rewrite
+ I think/believe/am sure……
+ In my opinion/point of view,…….
+ For me……
+ That’s not true/That’s wrong ….
+ That’s/That’s not a good idea……….
+ I don’t agree/disagree…….
While - speaking
Task 1:
- Ask Ss to read and translate the sentences and the example
- Tell Ss to express their point of view on the following
- Decide which country each
wedding belongs to
- Answer the question and give
reasons
- Learn new words to help them
understand the lesson better

similarities and differences between Vietnamese and
American cultures, using the features discussed in task 2
Outline:
There are differences and similarities between Vietnamese
and American cultures. In American, …….In Vietnam,……
+ … but/however/on the other hand……
+ The similarity between …….and …….is that + clause
- Go around to offer help and check Ss’ doing
- Call on some Ss to present (by heart)
- Comment and give marks if necessary
Homework
- Try to practice more at home and write a paragraph about
the information in task 2 & 3
- Prepare for the next part: Listening
- Present their ideas in front of
class
- Discuss in groups to complete
the table
- Report their discussion
- Write down
- Continue to work in groups, take
turns to talk about the differences
and similarities between
Vietnamese and American cultures
- Use more structures to talk
- Present
- Practice speaking and writing
IV. Feedback: …………………………………………………………………………………………….
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
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+ Master of Ceremony: chủ hôn, chủ lễ
+ banquet (n): tiệc cưới
+ ancestor (n): ông bà, tổ tiên
+ tray (n): cái mâm, cái khay
+ blessing (n): may mắn, hạnh phúc, thịnh vượng
+ schedule (v): lên kế hoạch
While – listening
Task 1:
- Ask Ss to read the incomplete statements and then listen to
the tape to fill in the missing information
- Play the cassette player 2 – 3 times
- Call Ss to compare their answers
- Ask Ss to answer and write their answers on the board
Answer key:
1. groom’s parents
2. red papers
- Give the words
- Take notes
- Answer the question
- Speak in front of class
- Listen and repeat the words
- Take notes
- Read the statements first
- Listen to the tape
- Compare their answers each
other
- Write the answers down
Wedding
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try to understand them thoroughly
- Listen
- Answer in front of class
- Write down the answers
- Practice speaking about a
traditional Vietnamese wedding
ceremony
IV. Feedback: …………………………………………………………………………………………….
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

Date of planning:
Week: Period:
UNIT 2: CULTURAL DIVERSITY
PART D: WRITING
I. Aim: After the lesson, students will be able to
- to describe a symbol of Vietnamese culture
- get an insight into one of the Vietnamese cultural identities: conical leaf hat
- improve their writing skills
II. Teaching aids: structures for writing and outline
III. Procedure:
Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
Warm up - Realia
- Show a conical leaf hat and ask Ss:
1. What is it? Have you ever worn it?
2. Are you proud of it? Why or why not?
Pre – writing
Task 1:
- Ask Ss to look at the hat and give the Vietnamese
equivalents for the English words
- Teach Ss to read four words

* Main body:
+ S + be + made from ….
+ S + be + shaped in ….
+ ….from ….to
+ S + be + covered with….
+ S + be + sewn/sewed ….
* Conclusion:
+ S + be + used for …
- Ask Ss to work in pairs and give each pair a small task to
write and then ask them to compare with other pairs
- Go around to offer help
Post – writing
- Have three or four Ss to write their small writing on the
board
- Ask others to comment and correct
Homework
- Finish their writing if they haven’t finished yet
- Prepare for the next unit: Unit 3 – Reading
- Make choral repetition and
individual repetition
- Take notes
- Read and understand all the
information to write better
- Notice the outline teacher gives
- Work in pairs to write their own
task that teacher gives
- Go to the board and write
- Correct the writing
IV. Feedback: …………………………………………………………………………………………….
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