Date of preparation
Date of teaching
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Period 69
UNIT 9: FESTIVALS AROUND THE WORLD
Lesson 1: Getting started

I. OBJECTIVES:
1. Knowledge: By the end of the lesson, Ss can use the lexical items related to the topic “Festivals around the world” and read for specific information about an unusual festival.
a. Vocabulary: fascinating, amazing, religious, firework , make a camp
b. Grammar: review
2. Skills: listening and reading, reading and answering the questions, reading and deciding true or false, writing words under pictures, matching, spoken interaction.
3. Attitude: Ss will be more aware of preserving and developing festivals in Viet Nam and around in the world.
4. Competence development:  Teamwork and independent working, pair work, linguistic competence, cooperative learning and communicative competence
II. TEACHING AIDS
1. Teacher: Textbooks, computer accessed to the Internet, projector
2. Students: Textbooks.
III. PROCEDURE
1. Checking: During the lesson
2. New lesson:

Teacher’s and students’ activities.
Contents

Warm up
Aim: To warm up the class and introduce the lesson.

- Play games: Solve the crossword.
1.TomHanks is a famous…….star.
2.Mr.Bean’s holiday is the ……..I like best.
3.That film was so…..that I couldn’t sleep after watching it.
4.Tra Giang is one of the most well – known………in Viet Nam.
5. I couldn’t help laughing when watching that film.It’s…………
6. My brother cried a lot because the film was very……………
7……….films usually have lots of chase and fighting.
8. If a film tells an exciting story about murder or crime,it’s a……
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Presentation
Aim: Help students understand the dialogue and answer the questions.

- T uses some techniques to present some new words. Checking the understanding by making sentences with the new words.



- T asks Ss work independently. Allow them to share answers before discussing as a class.
T then checks their answers, and gives explanation if necessary.




- T asks Ss read the conversation again to do this exercise. Ask for Ss’ answers as well as the explanation for their choices.
1. Listen and read.
* New words.
- fascinating (adj) hấp dẫn
- amazing (adj) đáng ngạc nhiên
- religious (adj) thuộc tôn giáo
- firework (n) pháo hoa
- make a camp (v) cắm trại
a. Answer the following questions.
1. No, she didn’t because she said “ Oh really?” to show her surprise.
2. People light candles and display/ let off fireworks.
3. It’s La Tomatina
4. Because to celebrate the festival people go to the desert, make a camp, and have a party.
5. They should write up reports and hand them in to the teacher.


b. Tick (v) T (true) or F (false).
1. T 2. T 3. F 4. T


Practice
Aim: Help students know and pronounce correctly the name of festivals and know some festivals with the reasons they are held.



-T tells Ss that in the box are some festivals. Ss do this activity in pairs.
T plays the recording for Ss to listen, check and repeat their answers. Make sure that Ss pronounce correctly the name of the festivals.


- T explains to Ss that festivals are held for different reasons.
- T asks Ss if they know the meaning of these words.
Seasonal (adj) relate to or happening a during a period in the year.
Religious (adj) connected with religion or with a particular religion.
Superstitious(adj)based on the belief that particular events happen in a way that can not be explained by reason or science.
2. Write the festivals in the box under the pictures. Then listen and repeat.
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