What do you know about these festivals?
Hung King Temple Festival

Huong Pagoda Festival

What do you know about these festivals?
1.  What are the people doing in each picture?
 They are doing worshipping ceremony.

What do you know about these festivals?

2. Who do people worship at the Hung King Temple Festival?
 People worship Hung King.

What do you know about these festivals?

3. Who do people worship at the Huong Pagoda Festival?
 People worship Buddha.

FESTIVALS
IN VIET NAM
LESSON 5: SKILLS 1

I. READING
*VOCABULARY:

- Emperors (n) = King : hoàng đế
- Speciality (n):
- Scenery (n):
- Founder (n):
- Feature (n):

đặc sản
phong cảnh
người sáng lập
nét nổi bật

- Overseas (adv): nước ngoài

2. Now read the
information about
these festivals to
check your ideas.

A. The

Hung King Temple Festival takes place from
the 8th to the 11th day of the third lunar month in
Phu Tho. This festival is held to worship the Hung
Kings who are the founders and also the first
emperors of the nation. The festival features a
procession from the foot of the Nghia Linh
mountain to the High Temple on top of the
mountain. Here, there is a ceremony of offering
incense and specialties such as Chung cakes, Day
cakes and five-fruit trays to the Kings. Moreover,
there are also many joyful activities including
bamboo swings, lion dances, wrestling and Xoan
singing performances.

This Buddhist Festival is held annually and lasts for three
months from the first to the third lunar month. During the
festival, visitors come from all over the country and from
overseas to join the procession and make offerings of incense,
flowers, fruit and candles to worship Buddha at the pagoda. In
addition to the ceremonies, people enjoy activities at this festival
such as hiking in the mountains, exploring caves and taking
photos of the beautiful scenery
B.

3. Find words/ phrases in the passages that have similar
meaning to these words or phrases.
1. kings
2. includes as an important part of something
3. interesting, full of fun
4. from abroad
5. going for a long walk
6. natural surroundings

A. The Hung King Temple Festival takes place from the 8th to the 11th
day of the third lunar month in Phu Tho. This festival is held to worship
the Hung Kings who are the founders and also the1first emperors of the
nation. The festival features a2procession from the foot of the Nghia
Linh mountain to the High Temple on top of the mountain. Here, there
is a ceremony of offering incense and specialities such
as chung cakes, day cakes and five-fruit trays to the Kings. Moreover,
there are also many joyful activities
including bamboo swings, lion
3
dances, wrestling and xoan singing performances.
B. This Buddhist Festival is held annually and lasts for three months
from the first to the third lunar month. During the festival, visitors
come from all over the country and from overseas
4 to join the
procession and make offerings of incense, flowers, fruit and candles
to worship Buddha at the pagoda. In addition to the ceremonies,
5 as hiking in the mountains,
people enjoy activities at this festival such
exploring caves and taking photos of the beautiful scenery. 6

3. Find words/ phrases in the passages that have similar
meaning to these words or phrases.
1. kings

emperors

2. includes as an important part of something

features

3. interesting, full of fun

joyful

4. from abroad

from overseas

5. going for a long walk

hiking

6. natural surroundings

scenery

4. Read the information again and answer the following
questions
1. When does the Hung King Temple Festival take place?

2. What is included in the offerings to the Hung Kings?

3. Why is it joyful to go to the Hung King Temple Festival?

4. What do people do to worship Buddha at the Huong Pagoda
Festival?

5. Which of the activities at the Huong Pagoda Festival do you
like most?


HUNG KING TEMPLE FESTVAL
A. The Hung King Temple Festival takes place from the 8th
to the 11th day of the third lunar month in Phu Tho. This
festival is held to worship the Hung Kings who are the
founders and also the first emperors of the nation. The
festival features a procession from the foot of the Nghia Linh
mountain to the High Temple on top of the mountain. Here,
there is a ceremony of offering incense and specialities such
as chung cakes, day cakes and five-fruit trays to the Kings.
Moreover, there are also many joyful activities including
bamboo swings, lion dances, wrestling and xoan singing
performances.
1. When does the Hung King Temple Festival take place?
 The Hung King Temple festival takes place from the
8th to the 11th day of the third lunar month.

HUNG KING TEMPLE FESTVAL
A. The Hung King Temple Festival takes place from the 8th
to the 11th day of the third lunar month in Phu Tho. This
festival is held to worship the Hung Kings who are the
founders and also the first emperors of the nation. The
festival features a procession from the foot of the Nghia Linh
mountain to the High Temple on top of the mountain. Here,
there is a ceremony of offering incense and specialities such
as chung cakes, day cakes and five-fruit trays to the Kings.
Moreover, there are also many joyful activities including
bamboo swings, lion dances, wrestling and xoan singing
performances.
2. What is included in the offerings to the Hung Kings?
 Incense, specialities such as chung cakes, day cakes
and five-fruit trays.

HUNG KING TEMPLE FESTVAL

A. The Hung King Temple Festival takes place from the 8th to the
11th day of the third lunar month in Phu Tho. This festival is held
to worship the Hung Kings who are the founders and also the first
emperors of the nation. The festival features a procession from the
foot of the Nghia Linh mountain to the High Temple on top of the
mountain. Here, there is a ceremony of offering incense and
specialities such as chung cakes, day cakes and five-fruit trays to
the Kings. Moreover, there are also many joyful activities
including
bamboo
swings,
lion
dances,
wrestling
and xoan singing performances.

3. Why is it joyful to go to the Hung King Temple Festival?
 Because there are many joyful activities including
bamboo swings, lion dances, wrestling and xoan singing
performances.

HUONG PAGODA FESTIVAL
B. This Buddhist Festival is held annually and lasts for
three months from the first to the third lunar month. During
the festival, visitors come from all over the country and
from overseas to join the procession and make offerings of
incense, flowers, fruit and candles to worship Buddha at the
pagoda. In addition to the ceremonies, people enjoy
activities at this festival such as hiking in the mountains,
exploring caves and taking photos of the beautiful scenery.
4. What do people do to worship Buddha at the Huong
Pagoda Festival?
 People join the procession and make offerings of
incense, flowers, fruit and candles.

HUONG PAGODA FESTIVAL
B. This Buddhist Festival is held annually and lasts for
three months from the first to the third lunar month. During
the festival, visitors come from all over the country and
from overseas to join the procession and make offerings of
incense, flowers, fruit and candles to worship Buddha at the
pagoda. In addition to the ceremonies, people enjoy
activities at this festival such as hiking in the mountains,
exploring caves and taking photos of the beautiful scenery.
5. Which of the activities at the Huong Pagoda Festival do
you like most?
 The activity I like most is exploring caves.

4. Read the information again and answer the following
questions
1. When does the Hung King Temple Festival take place?
 The Hung King Temple festival takes place from the
8th to the 11th day of the third lunar month.
2. What is included in the offerings to the Hung Kings?
 Incense, specialities such as chung cakes, day cakes
and five-fruit trays.
3. Why is it joyful to go to the Hung King Temple Festival?
 Because there are many joyful activities including
bamboo swings, lion dances, wrestling and xoan singing
performances.

4. Read the information again and answer the following
questions
4. What do people do to worship Buddha at the Huong Pagoda
Festival?
 People join the procession and make offerings of incense,
flowers, fruit and candles.
5. Which of the activities at the Huong Pagoda Festival do you
like most?
 The activity I like most is exploring caves.

Hung King
Temple
Festival

offering

bamboo swinging

activities

Huong Pagoda
Festival

incense
specialities: chung cakes, day cakes and
five-fruit trays

offering

wrestling

Lion dancing

singing Xoan performances

incense

flowers

fruit

candles

hiking in the mountain

activities

exploring caves
taking photos of beautiful scenery

II/SPEAKING
5a. Work in pairs. Your teacher is organizing a trip. You have two
options: going to Huong Pagoda or going to Hung King Temple. You
have to decide the following.

Which place do you prefer to go to? Why?

What things should you take with you? Why?

*Example 1:
A: Which place do you prefer to go to?
B: I prefer to go to Huong Pagoda because I want to travel
along Yen Stream by boat. How about you?
A: I agree with you. And what things should you take with
you?
B: I think we should take a bottle of water.
A: Why?
B: Because we'll need it when we're climbing the mountain.
A: Good idea!

Pair work (5')
A: Which place do you prefer to go to?
B: I prefer to go to …………………………………….
How about you? What is your view on this choice?
A: I agree with you. And what things should you take with
you?
B: I think we …………..………………………………….
A.Why?
B: Because………………………………………………….
A: OK, let's go there!

- I think we should take a bottle of water because we'll
because we'll need it when we're climbing the mountain.
- In my opinion, we must bring fruits to offer Hung Kings.
- I think we should bring snacks because it's very easy to
serve.
- I think flowers and fruits are very necessary because we
need to offer them to the Buddha.
- Incense is indispensable because we need it when we go to
the pagoda.
- I'd like to take a camera with me because I want to take
pictures of the beautiful scenery.
- We need to bring trainers because we will climb the
mountain.
- I think we should also bring an umbrella in case of the rain.

5b. Now report your decisions to the class.
Which location is more popular and why?
Hello, I'm …………. I've discussed with
………… and we decided to go to …………
because …………………………. . To have a
good trip I think we should bring ………….
because ………………. I hope we'll have an
interesting trip.

HOME WORK
-Learn by heart all the new words
-Do EX in workbook
-Prepare for the next lesson.

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