Please watch a video clip and then answer some questions:

What ethnic group is this?

What musiclal instruments did the band use in the song?

What ethnic group is this? The Bahnar 
What musiclal instruments did the band use in the song?

T'rung
Đàn T'rưng

Stone
Instrument
Đàn Đá

(K'long Put )
Đàn KLông Put

(drum )
Trống

gongs
cồng, chiêng

flute
Sáo Trúc

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ETHNIC GROUPS OF VIET NAM
LESSON 7: LOOKING BACK & PROJECT
LESSON 3: A CLOSER LOOK 2

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* VOCABULARY

1 Match the words and phrases with the pictures.
1. weaving

2. folk dance

___________

3. open fire

___________

___________

4. fishing

5. minority group

___________

___________

2 Complete the sentences with the word and phrases from the box.
folk songs

staircase sticky rice communal house musical instruments

1. Minority groups have their own _______________like the dan tinh, gong, t'rung.
2. The Kinh use __________ to make banh chung and banh tet.
3. For most minority groups like the Bahnar and Ede, the ________________,
usually known as Rong house, is the heart of the village.
4. My grandmother taught me to sing many ___________.
5. The __________of a Muong's stilt house has an odd number of steps: 5, 7, or 9.

GRAMMAR

3 Write questions from the clues.
1. you / attend / the Khmer's Moon Worship Festival / last year / ?
→ Did you attend the Khmer's Moon Worship Festival last year?
2. How many / ethnic minority groups / Viet Nam / ?
→ How many ethnic minority groups are there in Viet Nam?

* GRAMMAR

3 Write questions from the clues.
3. Where / the Hmong / live / ?
→ Where do the Hmong live?
4. What / you / do / the Ede's Harvest Festival / last October / ?
→ What did you do at the Ede's Harvest Festival last October?
5. How old / minority children / when / they / start helping / the
family / ?
→ How old are the minority children when they start helping
the family?

Những hs nào hoàn thành câu đúng gv cho nhận quà bằng cách
chọn số.

2

4
3

1

6

5

7

You get 5K

You get 2 Lollipop Sticks

You get 1 Lollipop Stick

You get 3 Lollipop Sticks

You get 4 Lollipop Sticks

Your reward is a round of
applause

* GRAMMAR

4 There is one incorrect underlined word in each sentence. Circle and correct it.
Correct word

1. A big stilt houses stands on high posts.

→ house

2. The Lahu build their houses from wood and wild banana
→ leaves
leave.
3. Much people in remote areas travel on foot.
4. Most minority women weave clothes and do houseworks.
5. In the mountains, there is not many land for growing
crops.

→ Many
→ housework
→ much

* PROJECT

OUR ETHNIC
GROUPS

Choose an ethnic group in Viet Nam you are most interested
in.

* PROJECT OUR ETHNIC

GROUPS

Do a little research about it, focusing on its:
• living place (homes or villages). 
• economy. 
• traditional culture. 

* PROJECT

TAY ETHNIC GROUP

* Make a poster (including pictures and information) to
introduce the group.

* PROJECT* Present your poster to the class.
TAY ETHNIC GROUP

Today, my group will introduce about the Tay people, an ethnic group which has been presented
for over three millennium in Vietnam. The Tay people mostly live in valleys of Nothern provinces
like Quang Ninh, Bac Giang, Lang Son, Cao Bang, Bac Kan, Thai Nguyen, Ha Giang, Tuyen Quang to
Lao Cai and Yen Bai. According to the census on the 53 ethnic minorities as announced on April 1,
2019, the total population of the Tay ethnic group is 1,845,492. The Tay people speak the
subfamily of Thai-Kadai people.
Tay people live in three kinds of houses: houses on stilts, half-stilt houses and half-ground houses
and defensive houses. But house on stilt is the most common one. And the roof is covered with
grass, palm leaves, cork or tile so it's environmentally friendly.
To earn a living, they exploited the valleys and hills to make fields for crops and forest garden to
grow palm anise, and fruit tree. They also raise cattle and poultry and have many handicrafts such
as knitting, weaving, dyeing indigo, making tiles, and woodworking.
Tay people have many folk songs such as luon, then, quan lang, vi singing, lullaby, and folk songs.
They also have folk dance like then and traditional musical instrument like dan tinh.

* CONSOLIDATION
In this lesson, you have:
revised more vocabulary items in the unit in different
context.
revised Yes / No questions and Wh-questions.
revised the use of countable and uncountable nouns.
had an opportunity to research more deeply into an
ethnic group you are interested in.

* Homework

 Do exercises in the workbook.
 Prepare for Unit 5 – Getting started.

G o o d b ye !
See yo u a g a i n

Thank you!
Have a nice day!