OUR TET
HOLIDAY

LESSON 2: A CLOSER LOOK 1

Lesson objectives
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:

Vocabul
ary

Remember 6 collocations
related to Tet: have fun, visit
relatives, clean the furniture,
give lucky money, make a
wish, watch fireworks

Pronunciat
ion
Pronounce the sounds /s/
and /∫/ in isolation and in
context.

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I want to make a sentence with fireworks.
Can someone help me complete it?

I always …………. fireworks on New
Year's
a. give
b. visitEve.
c. watch
d. clean
Some verbs and nouns go together but some don't.

Act 2 (p.60). In pairs, match the verbs
with the nouns.
Write your answer into your notebooks.

1. have fun

A. a wish

2. visit relatives

B. fireworks

3. give lucky money
4. make a wish

TetC. the furniture
activities
D. lucky money

5. clean the furniture

E. relatives

6. watch fireworks

F. fun

What else do we do at Tet?
Complete the sentences (Act 3, page
60)
shopping

clean

peach

celebrate

food

1. In Viet Nam, we __________ Tet in January or February.
2. At Tet, we decorate our houses with _________ flowers.
3. Children should help their parents to _________ their
houses.
4. People do a lot of __________ before Tet.
5. My mother usually cooks special ________ during Tet.

Can you pronounce these words?
/∫/
wish

/s/
rice

Are they the
same?

How are they different?

/∫/

/s/

Watch, listen and write down the
words in 2 columns.

Listen and repeat (Act 4 p.60)
Put them in the correct column
shopping

special

/∫/

rice

spring

wish

/s/

celebrate

Listen and repeat the poem (Act 5 p.60)

Pay attention to the sounds /s/ and /∫/ in the
underlined words.
Spring is coming!
Tet is coming!
She sells peach flowers.
Her cheeks shine.
Her eyes smile.
Her smile is shy.
She sells peach flowers.

What have
we
learned
today?

Extra
activities

C she
sea she
seat sheet
see she
sock shock

Minimal
pairs
boss bosh
save shave
seal she'll
so show
sofa chauffeur
sore sure
sort short

Chinese whisper
Step 1: Players form 2 lines (2 teams).
Step 2: Teacher give the first
player of each team a sentence.
Step 3: The 1st player whispers
the sentence to the 2nd player
and so on.
Step 4: The last player runs to the board and write it down. If
the sentence is correct, the team gets 1 point.
Step 5: If the last player can read the sentence with correct
pronunciation, the team gets 1 more point.

Sentence 1
She sells sea shells by the sea shore.

Sentence 2
The shells she sells are surely
seashells.

Sentence 3
If she sells shells on the seashore,
I'm sure she sells seashore shells.

What have
we
learned
today?