Game: what song is it?
On what occasion is it sung?
JINGLE BELL
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
WEDDING DAY
NGÀY TẾT QUÊ EM
RƯỚC ĐÈN THÁNG TÁM
Match icons and celebrations

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birthday
Lunar New Year
Easter
wedding
Christmas
Mid-Fall Festival
Saturday, February 21st 2009
Unit 8: Celebrations
Period 49: Getting started & Listen and read
Vocabulary:

- sticky rice cake (n)
- occur (v)
- Passover (n)
- Israel (n)
- slavery (n):
- Sugar egg (n)
- Parade (n)
= happen (v)
: xảy ra
: bánh chưng, bánh tét
: lễ vượt qua, lễ quá hải
: nước Do Thái
- Jewish : người Do Thái
>< freedom (n) : sự tự do
: viên kẹo có hình quả trứng
: đoàn diễu hành , đám rước
ách nô lệ
CHOOSE TRUE (T) OR FALSE (F)
Three passages talk about Tet, Christmas, and Easter.
2. Tet holiday is not important for Vietnamese people.
3. Passover is celebrated in Italy.
4. Easter is on Sunday.
5. People often eat Seder on Passover Day.
T
F
Celebrations
Listen to the tape carefully
CHOOSE TRUE (T) OR FALSE (F)
Three passages talk about Tet, Christmas, and Easter.
2. Tet holiday is not important for Vietnamese people.
3. Passover is celebrated in Italy.
4. Easter is on Sunday.
5. People often eat Seder on Passover Day.
T
F
?
?
?
?
?
Fill information in the table
Late January
or
Early February
Cleaning, Decorating homes, enjoying special food
Sticky rice cakes
Vietnam
Late March
or early
April
No
information
Special meal
Called
the Seder
Israel
Around the same time
as Passover
Watch parades
Chocolate
or
Sugar- eggs
In many country
Fill the missing words in the blanks
*Paragraph 1: (happy/decorate/
sticky rice cake/important)
“Tet is the most ……...……celebration in Vietnam. It is in late January or early February. On this ocassion, people clean and ……….……..their homes and enjoy special food such as…………………Everyone in Vietnam feels ………………..on Tet holiday”
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
Fill the missing words in the passages
*Paragraph 1:
“Tet is the most important celebration in Vietnam. It is in late January or early February. On this ocassion, people clean and decorate their homes and enjoy special food such as sticky rice cake. Everyone in Vietnam feels happy on Tet holiday”
* Paragraph 2: (meal / Israel / freedom / occurs)
“Passover is the festival in ……… and all Jewish people celebrate it. Passover ………… in late March or early April. On the first or second nights of Passover Jewish families eat a special ………… called Seder. Passover celebrates ……….. from slavery”
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
* Paragraph 2:
“ Passover is the festival in Israel and all Jewish people celebrate it. Passover occurs in late March or early April. On the first or second nights of Passover Jewish families eat a special meal called Seder. Passover celebrates freedom from slavery
* Paragraph 3: (parades /celebrated/ sugar eggs/ crowd/)
“ Easter is………….. in many countries . It happens in late March or early April . On Easter day people ……….. the streets to watch colorful …………... They give children chocolates and …………. if they are good”
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
* Paragraph 3:
“ Easter is celebrated in many countries . It happens in late March or early April . On Easter day people crowd the streets to watch colorful parades . They give children chocolates and sugar eggs if they are good”
Why do candies on Easter day have the shape of egg?
History of Passover
Why was Jesus Christ on cross?
History of Easter
WHY ARE THERE CELEBRATIONS?

HOMEWORK

Learn new words
Write a passage about one celebration that you like best
Prepare for next “Speaking”
+ Responses to compliments