UNIT 9: FESTIVALS AROUND THE WORLD
Lesson 5: Skills 1

Unit 9

FESTIVALS AROUND THE WORLD
Lesson 5: Skills 1

WARM-UP

Who is faster ?

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1. Cannes Film Festival
- The Golden Palm
- It is the symbol of the winner's prize.
2. Easter
- Easter Bunny
- It is the symbol of a new life because it has a lot of babies.
3. Halloween
- black cat
- It is the symbol of bad luck.
4. Mid-Autumn Festival
- moon cake
- It is the symbol of the moon, prosperity and family reunion

VOCABULARY
Form

Pronunciation

join

/dʒɔɪn/

feature

 /ˈfiː.tʃər/

performance

/pəˈfɔː.məns/

Meaning

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Trình diễn đặc biệt

Màn biểu diễn

1 Work in pairs. Look at the pictures.
Which events do you think happen at
the Twins Day Festival?

1 Work in pairs. Look at the pictures. Which
events do you think happen at the Twins
Day Festival?

1

=> I think the event Double Take Parade
happened at the Twins Day Festival.

2 Match each word from the email in 1 with its meaning.

1-b
2-d
3-a
4-c

3 Read the email again. Complete each sentence with no more
than TWO words.
1. People hold the festival in Twinsburg on the
_______ every August.
2. There are twins from many _______.
3. In the Double Take Parade, twins in
uniforms _______.
4. Mark enjoyed the _______ by the Korean twins the
most.
5. Mark and his twin sister ran in the _______.
6. In his opinion, the festival was very _______.

3 Read the email again. Complete each sentence with no more
than TWO words.
1. People hold the festival in Twinsburg on the first weekend every
August. 
Because: … People here hold the Twins Day Festival every year. It
happens on the first weekend in August. 
2. There are twins from many different countries. 
Because: … Thousands of twins come from different countries.
3. In the Double Take Parade, twins in uniforms walked together. 
Because: … We wore uniforms and walked together. 
4. Mark enjoyed the performance by the Korean twins the most. 
Because:  …I loved the performance by the twins from Korea the most.
5. Mark and his twin sister ran in the Fun Run.
Because: This morning we ran in the Fun Run.
6. In his opinion, the festival was very exciting. 
Because: :This is one of the most exciting festivals I've been to.

4 Match the questions and answers
about a festival someone joined.

1-d
2-b
3-e
4-c
5-a

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Work in pairs. Ask and answer about a festival you and your friend
joined, using the questions in 4 as cues. Tell the class about the
festival your partner joined.

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Work in pairs. Ask and answer about a festival you and your friend
joined, using the questions in 4 as cues. Tell the class about the
festival your partner joined.
A: What festival did you join?
B: I and my friends joined the Buffalo – fighting Festival.
A: Where and when did you join it? 
B: We joined the festival in Do Son on August 9th according to the Lunar
calendar.
A: Why do people celebrate it?
B: They celebrate it to remember the merits of gods, maintain the village
discipline, to play for the prosperity and happiness for the local people. 
A: What did you do there? 
B: We watched people play drum, dance and watch the buffalos. The drum
sound and the scream of people urge the buffalo to play in a fierce way. 
A: Did you like the festival? Why or why not? 
B: Yes, very much because there was really fascinating and amazing.

HOMEWORK

- Do exercise 5 in your notebook
- Prepare for the next lesson: Skills 2.