Warm up

What are the names of the
cultural festivals?

Mid-Autumn Festival

Gong Festival

Do Son buffalo – fighting festival

Forest Worshipping

UNIT 5: CULTURAL IDENTITY
COMMUNICATION & CULTURE

I.Communication

Vocabulary

migrate (v): di cư, di trú
-> migrant (n): người di cư
Immigrant (n): người nhập cư
 to settle down : ổn định
truyền
 to pass down :
 mother tongue : tiếng mẹ đẻ
 first-hand ( adv): trực tiếp, ngay


Activity 1
Listen to a talk by Ben Wilson, a sociologi
st
and psychologist
, about preserving migrants'
cultural identity. Answer the questions.

1. What are migrants encouraged
to do in a multicultural society?
2. What do migrants want to do
when they settle down in a new
culture?
3. Tick the options you hear to
summarize the two ways for
migrants to pass down their culture
to the next generation.

Answers.
1. They are encouraged to maintain their own
cultural identity.
2. They want to assimilate into the new culture, but
they also want to maintain their own culture.
3. a & c
+ The first way: encouraging all family members to
speak the mother tongue at home; travelling to
the home country regularly.
+ The second way: attending festivals celebrating
the migrants' culture.

2. Activity 2 : Discuss the question
with a partner.
What should people do to preserve their cultural
identity when they move to a new place?
When people move to a new place, they can
preserve their cultural identity by :
+ organizing and participating in traditional festivals
in their community.
+ cooking traditional food for the family.
+ teaching children to speak their native language at
home.
-

II.CULTURE

Elephant Racing

Shuttlecock throwing

Tug of
war

Blind man's bluff

1. Activity 1
Read the text about celebrations of
some ethnic groups in Viet Nam.
Write the names of the festival under
the pictures.
a. Elephant Racing Festival
b. Forest Worshipping Festival

Vocabulary
 Highlight

Làm nổi bật
(v):
 Strengthen (v):
Tăng cường, củng cố
 Promote (v) = enhance (v): Nâng cao, thúc đẩy
 Martial spirit :
Tinh thần thượng võ
 Flock (v):
Lũ lượt kéo đến
 Worship(v):
Thờ cúng, tôn kính
 To offer agricultural products : Dâng nông sản
 Blind man's bluff : ( Trò chơi ) bịt mắt bắt dê
 Shuttlecock throwing :
ném còn
 Tug of war :
Kéo co

2. Activity 2: Read the text again and complete the
table.
Elephant Racing Festival

Forest Worshipping Festival

Location

Dak Lak Province

Ha Giang and Lao Cai Provinces

Time

Annually , in March

The first lunar month

Ethnic
groups

M'Nong and Ede

Nung and Dao

Purpose

Activities

to promote the martial spirit of
the M'Nong and Ede people

- watching elephant race
- eating traditional food and
drinking rice wine
- dancing
- watching elephants play
soccer

- to

worship the god of trees and
villagers who sacrificed their
lives to protect the village
- to pray for good health, fruitful
trees and favourable climate
- offering agricultural products
- signing a statement to protect
forests and plant trees
- playing folk games

3. Activity 3: Discuss the question
with a partner.
Have you ever attended any ethnic cultural
festivals in Viet Nam ?
a. If yes, tell your partner where, when, how
and why the festival was celebrated.
b. If no, do you want to attend any?
Why or why not?

Homework
+ Learn new words and make sentences with
them.
+ Read and translate the text ( Culture) into
Vietnamese.
+ Write a cultural festival you know
( about 180-200 words )
+ Prepare Unit 5: Looking back and project.

Thank you for your
attendance !