Teacher: Cao Thị Cẩm Tú
English 8
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NHON PHU SECONDARY SCHOOL
FOLK TALES
UNIT 6
LESSON 1: GETTING STARTED
Week 13
Period: 38
New words
UNIT 6: FOLK TALES
1. legend (n) :
Truyền thuyết
4. folk tale (n):
Truyện dân gian
2. fairy tale (n):
Truyện thần kỳ, truyện thần thoại

lESSON 1: GETTING STARTED
3. fable (n):
Truyện ngụ ngôn
5. imaginary (adj):
tưởng tượng
1. Where are Duong and Nick?
2. What are they doing?
3. What are they talking about?
Duong: I phoned you around 9 p.m. last night, but no reply.
Nick: Oh, I was doing some Internet research on Vietnamese legends for my project.
Duong: Have you found one you like yet?
Nick:  Not really. Can you suggest anything?
Duong: We have lots of legends, folk tales, and fables. A popular one is the legend of Lac Long Quan and Au Co.
Nick:  Oh yeah? What’s it about?
Duong: Well, it’s about the origins of the Vietnamese people.
Nick: Who are the main characters?
Duong: Lac Long Quan – the dragon king of the ocean, Au Co – a fairy, and their sons.
Nick: And what’s the story?
Duong: Let me see… Lac Long Quan married Au Co. She gave birth to a bag of one hundred eggs, which produced one hundred baby boys.
Nick: One hundred baby boys? That’s a lot.
Duong: And some years later, Lac Long Quan missed the sea so he took fifty of their sons to the sea, and Au Co took the others to the mountains.Those boys were the ancestors of the Vietnamese.
Nick: What an interesting legend it is! I think I’ve found the subject of my project!
LISTEN AND READ
1a. Read the conversation again and choose the correct answers.
1.What was Duong doing at 9 p.m. last night?
A.He was coming to Nick’s house. B. He was phoning Nick. C.He was talking to Nick.
2.What was Nick doing at 9 p.m. last night
A.He was watching a TV show B.He was talking about his project.
C. He was searching for information on the Web.
3. What legend did Duong recommend to Nick?
A. A legend about how Viet Nam began. B. A legend about Vietnamese people being original
C. A legend that isn’t well-known
4. Who was Lac Long Quan?
A.A fairy B.Au Co’s father C.The dragon king of the ocean
5.Where did Au Co take half of the sons?
A.To the mountains B.To the sea C.To Lac Long Quan’s land
1b. Match the words to their meanings
1.Title

2. Genre

3. Main characters

4. Plot
a. the people the story is about

b. the content of the story

c. the name of the story

d. the type of story
1. c
2. d
3. a
4. b
A
LEGEND
B
FOLK TALE
C
FABLE
D
FAIRY TALE
1. traditional, imaginary short story that legend teaches a moral lesson; typically using  animal characters.
2. an imaginary story typically involving magic or fairies, usually for children.
3. a very old, traditional story from a particular place that was originally passed on to people in a spoken form.
4. an ancient story about brave people or fairy tale magical events that are probably not true.
2. Match the words with their definitions.
1. C
2. D
3. B
4. A
2. GAME: GUESS THE STORY.
a. Think of the legend, folk tale, fable or fairy tale you know.
Complete the table below
 Example:
What kind of story is it?
It’s a fairy tale.
Who are the main characters?
Cinderella, her stepsisters, her stepmother, and
a prince.
What’s it about?
It’s about Cinderella, a kind and beautiful girl
who finally gets married to a prince.
Is it Cinderella?
Yes!
b.Work in pairs. Interview each other and try to guess the title of the story.
3. Find the information in the conversation to complete the table.
Legend
Lac Long Quan, Au Co and their sons
Au Co gave birth to one hundred baby boys.
Lac Long Quan missed the sea.
Lac Long Quan took 50 their sons to the sea.
Au Co took the others to the mountains.

d. What does this sentence from the conversation express?
Nick: What an interesting legend it is!
Do you know what kind of sentence it is?
What + a/ an + adjective + N + S + V !
*What does this sentence from the conversation express?

1.Handsome/man

2. interesting/ game

3. good/ news

4. lovely/ dogs

5. brave/ women
What a handsome man (he is)!
What an interesting game (it is)!
What good new (it is)!
What lovely dogs (they are)!
What brave women (they are)!
HOMEWORK
Learn new words by heart.
Redo all the exercises.
Prepare: A CLOSER LOOK 1.
THANK YOU FOR ATTENTION!
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GOOD BYE!