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everyone
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MY CLASS

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The Crystal Pearl
FOLK TALES

The Hundred-knot
Bamboo Tree

The story of
Tam and Cam

Date

FOLK TALES

GETTING STARTED

A SUGGESTION FOR NICK'S PROJECT

I. NEW WORDS
- A legend

: truyền thuyết

- A fable

: truyện dân gian, cổ tích

- A genre

: thể loại

- To give birth

: sinh ra

- To research on

: nghiên cứu về

- Origin (n)

: nguồn gốc

II. LISTEN AND READ
1. Where are Duong
and Nick?
2. What are they
doing?
3. What are they
talking about?

II. LISTEN AND READ
Duong: I phoned you around 9 p.m.
last night, but no reply.
 Nick:
Oh, I was doing some
Internet research on
Vietnamese legends for my
project. 
Duong: Have you found one you like
yet? 
Nick:
Not really. Can you suggest
anything? 
Duong: We have lots of legends, folk
tales, and fables. A popular
one is the legend of Lac Long
Quan and Au Co. 
Nick:
Oh yeah? What's it about?

Duong: Well, it's about the origins of the
Vietnamese people. 
Nick:
Who are the main characters? 
Duong: Lac Long Quan – the dragon king
of the ocean, Au Co – a fairy, and
their sons. 
Nick:
And what's the story? 
Duong: Let me see… Lac Long Quan
married Au Co. She gave birth to
a bag of one hundred eggs, which
produced one hundred baby boys. 
Nick: One hundred baby boys? That's a lot.
 Duong: And some years later, Lac Long
Quan missed the sea so he took
fifty of their sons to the sea, and Au
Co took the others to the mountains.
Those boys were the ancestors of the
Vietnamese. 
Nick: What an interesting legend it is! I think
I've found the subject of my project!

II. LISTEN AND READ
1. Read the conversation again and
choose the correct answers.
(Ex. a/ p. 59)

EX. a
/ P. 59

1. What was Duong doing at 9 p.m. last
night?

A

He was coming to Nick's house.
WHAT A PITY !

B

He was phoning Nick.

PERFECT

C

He was talking to Nick.

SORRY !

EX. a
/ P. 59

2. What was Nick doing at 9
p.m. last night?
A
B
C

He was watching a TV show.
WHAT A PITY !
He was talking about his project.
SORRY !
He was searching for
information on the web.

PERFECT

EX. a
/ P. 59

3. What legend did Duong
recommend to Nick?
A
B
C

!
A legend about how Viet NamSORRY
began.

A legend about Vietnamese people being
Well - done
original
A legend that isn't wellWHAT
- kno
A PITY !

EX. a
/ P. 59

4. Who was Lac Long Quan?
A

A fairy

WHAT A PITY !

B

Au Co's father

SORRY !

C

The dragon king of the oceanWell - done

EX. a
/ P. 59

5. Where did Au Co take half of
the sons?
A

To the mountains

B

To the sea

C

PERFECT
WHAT A PITY !

To Lac Long Quan's land
SORRY

!

2. Match the words to their meanings. (Ex. b/ p. 59)

1. title
a. the people the story is

2. Genre

about

3. main characters

b. b. the content of the

4. plot

story

1. c

2. d

3. a

4. b

c. the name of the story
d. d. the type of story it is

3. Find the information in the conversation to complete
the table. (Ex. a/ p. 7)
Title

Lac Long Quan and Au Co

Genre

Legend

Main characters
Plot

Lac Long Quan, Au Co and their sons
 Lac Long Quan married Au Co.





Au Co gave birth to one hundred baby boys.
Lac Long Quan missed the sea.
Lac Long Quan took 50 their sons to the sea.
Au Co took the others to the mountains.

4. What does this sentence from the conversation express?
IT'S AN EXCLAMATORY
SENTENCE
(Ex. d/ p. 59)

Nick: What an interesting legend it is!
REMEMBER!
 Exclamatory sentences are used to express surprise or strong
feelings. We use what in exclamatory sentences:
 What + a / an + adjective + N (singular countable) + S + V!


 Example: What a naughty boy he is!

 What + adjective + N (uncountable/ plural countable) + S + V!
  Example: - What naughty boys they are!
- What beautiful weather it is!
 We don't always use an adjective or a subject and a verb in
exclamatory sentences. 
 Example: What a day!

II. PRACTICE
1. Match the words with their definitions. Then listen, check
and repeat. (Ex. 2/ p. 59)
A
LEGEND
B
FOLK TALE

C
FABLE
D
FAIRY TALE

1. traditional, imaginary short story that legend teaches a
moral lesson; typically using  animal characters.
2. an imaginary story typically involving magic or fairies,
usually for children.
3. a very old, traditional story from a particular place
that was originally passed on to people in a spoken form.
4. an ancient story about brave people or fairy tale magical
events that are probably not true.

2. GAME: GUESS THE STORY. (Ex. 3/ p. 59)
* Work in pairs. Interview each other and try to guess the title of the
story.

 
Example:
 
 What kind of story is it?
It's a fairy tale.
 Who are the main characters?
Cinderella, her stepsisters, her stepmother, and a prince.
 What's it about?
It's about Cinderella, a kind and beautiful girl who finally gets
married to a prince.
 Is it Cinderella?
Yes!

III. AT HOME
 Learn by heart new words and
structures.
 Do Ex. 3a in your notebooks.
 Be ready for A CLOSER LOOK 1.

The
bye
bye
song
GOODBYE CLASS.