UNIT 8: CELEBRATIONS
DIVISION OF LESSONS:
1. Getting started – listen & read
2. Speak - Listen
3. read
4. write
5. Language focus
Week: 26
Period: 52
Monday, March 15th, 2009
Unit 8: CELEBRATIONS
LESSON 1: GETTING STARTED
LISTEN AND READ
celebrations
Women’s Day
Lunar New Year
birthday
Passover
Christmas
Valentine Day
Mid Autumn Festival
Easter
May Day
weeding
Teacher’s Day
Talk about the celebrations you know:
Easter
Lunar new year
Christmas
Mid-fall Festival
wedding
birthday
1. Getting started
2. Listen and read:
a) Vocabulary:
Occur (v)
Decorate (v)
Freedom (n)
Sticky rice cake
Celebrate (v)
Slavery (n)
Jewish
Parade (n)
Festival (n)
Xảy ra
Trang trí
Tự do
Bánh tét
Tổ chức lễ
Sự nô lệ
Người Do thái
Cuộc diễu hành
Lễ hội
b) Model sentences:
Relative clause: (mệnh đề liên hệ)
Tet is a festival. Tet occurs in late January or early February.
Tet is a festival which occurs in late January or early February.
(Main clause)
(Relative clause )
Read the text. Then answer the questions:
a) When does Tet Or the Lunar New Yew occur?
b) What do people do on this occasion?
c) What food do they eat?
d) In what country does it happen?
They eat sticky rice cake.
They clean their house, wear new clothes
and enjoy special food.
It occurs in late January or early February.
It happens in Viet Nam.
Now complete the table.
Celebration
When?
Food
Activities
Country
In late January
or early February
Tet
(Lunar
New Year)

Cleaning & decorating
home, wearing new
clothes and enjoying
special food
Sticky rice
cake
Viet Nam
Passover
In late March or
early April
Eating special meal
Special meal
called Seder
Israel
Easter
Around the same
time as Passover
Watching
colorful parades
Chocolate,
sugar eggs

In many
countries

Cleaning & decorating
home, wearing new
clothes and enjoying
special food
Sticky rice cake
Viet Nam
Tet
(Lunar
New Year)
In late January
or early February
Tet is the most important celebration in Vietnam. It is in late
January or early February. On this occasion, people clean
and decorate their homes, they wear new clothes and family
members enjoy together special food such as sticky rice cake.
Everyone in Vietnam feels happy on Tet holiday.
Celebration
When?
Activities
Food
Country
Look at the grids and introduce the celebration:
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 the Seder. Passover celebrates
freedom from slavery.
Passover
In late March or
early April
Eating special meal
Special meal
called Seder
Israel
Celebration
When?
Activities
Food
Country
Easter
Around the same
time as Passover
Watching
colorful parades
Chocolate,
sugar eggs
In many
countries
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.
Celebration
When?
Activities
Food
Country
HOMEWORK:
Learn by heart the celebrations
Write about one celebration that you like best.
Prepare SPEAK and LISTEN.