Teacher: Nguyen Thi Le Huong

Match a word or phrase from the box with the corect picture.
a.costumes
d.fireworks display

1 e. parade

4 c.float

b.feast
e. parade

2 a.costumes

c.float
f. folk dance

3 b.feast

5 d.fireworks display 6 f.folk dance

Unit 9:

Unit 9:

I/ Vocabulary
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parade(v) /pəˈreɪd/ : cuộc diễu hành
costume(n) /ˈkɒs.tjuːm/ : trang phục
feast(n) /fiːst/: bữa tiệc
float (n) /fləʊt/ : xe diễu hành
fireworks display/ˈfaɪə.wɜːks dɪˈspleɪ/ : bắn pháo hoa
folk dance /fəʊk dɑːns/ : điệu nhảy/ múa dân gian
Tulip Festival /ˈtjuː.lɪp ˈfestɪvl/ : lễ hội hoa tulip (uất kim hương)

II/ Activity:

Activity 1: Listen and read

Mark and Trang: Good afternoon Ms. Hoa.
Ms.Hoa: Oh, hi. Come in.
Trang: Wow! This is a nice cozy room, Ms.Hoa. I like the photos on the wall. I can see you
among all those tulips. Where did you take the photos?
Ms.Hoa: I took them at the Tulip Festival in Australia last September.
Mark: Really? I went to a tulip festival two years ago but it was in the Netherlands. It was the
Dutch Tulip Festival.
Trang: What did you do at the festival, Ms Hoa?
Ms.Hoa: I watched Dutch folk dances. The dancers wore traditional costumes. I also got a
chance to try some delicious Dutch food and drinks. What about you , Mark?
Mark: I watched folk dances too, but there wasn't any food or drinks. I also saw beautiful tulip
floats at a parade.
Trang: Do they hold the festival every year in Australia?
Ms.Hoa: Yes, they do.

Activity 2: Read the conversation again. Who did the
following activitives? Tick (√) the correct column.
Ms Hoa
1. went to the Tulip festival in
Australia

√

2. went to the Tulip Festival in the
Netherland

√

3. tried Dutch food and drinks

√

4. watched traditional Dutch dancing

√

5. saw tulip floats

Mark

√
√

Activity 4: Fill in each blank with a word or phrase from
the box.
costumes
parade

feast

float
folk dance

fireworks display

1. The dancers performed ___________
at the Tulip Festival.
folk dances
2. On New Year's Eve, we went to Hoan Kiem Lake to watch the
______________.

fireworks display

3. For Tet, we usually prepare a ______ with special food.

feast

4. People hold flower ________in several countries to welcome the
new season.

parades

5. The _______carried the dancers in special _________.

floats

costumes

Activity 5: What festival is it? Match each description
with a festival.
1. At this festival, people eat moon a. La Tomatina
cakes.
2. At this festival, people throw
tomatoes.

b. Cheese rolling

3. People eat banh chung at this
festival.

c. Christmas

4. People decorate pine trees and
give each other gifts.

d. Tet

5. People chase after a wheel of
cheese.

e. Mid-Autumn
Festival

Team Tom
Team Jerry

3

2
1

Points

4
5

People eat banh chung at this festival.
What festival is it?

At this festival, people eat moon cakes.
What festival is it?

People decorate pine trees and give each other
gifts. What festival is it?

Activity 5: What festival is it? Match each description
with a festival.
1. At this festival, people eat moon a. La Tomatina
cakes.
2. At this festival, people throw
tomatoes.

b . Cheese rolling

3. People eat banh chung at this
festival.

c. Christmas

4. People decorate pine trees and
give each other gifts.

d. Tet

5. People chase after a wheel of
e. Mid-Autumn
cheese.
Festival
1-e
2-a
3-d
4-c
5-b

*Language notes:
Do they hold the festival every year in Australia?
Yes, they do.

III/ WRAP-UP
GETTING STARTED
(A tulip festival)
Vocabulary
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parade
costume
feast
float
fireworks display
folk dance

Festival
- La Tomatina
- Cheese rolling
- Christmas
- Mid-Autumn Festival
- Tet
- Tulip Festival

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Learn by heart all vocabularies
Practice the conversation
Do all exercises again
Prepare for the next lesson: A closer look 1

The Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake is an annual even
t held on the Spring Bank Holiday at Cooper's Hill, near Glouc
ester in England. Participants race down the 200-yard (180 m)
long hill after a round of Double Gloucester cheese is sent rolli
ng down

La Tomatina is a festival that is held in Spain. This festival held
in Bunol, a town in Spain. Participants in this festival throw to
matoes and get involved solely for entertainment purposes in a
tomato battle. This has been held in Buñol since 1945, on th