PERIOD

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Language:
Japanese
Traditional costume: Kimono
Traditional foods: kamen, sushi…

Traditional game: Kendama, Takoage

National flower: Cherry blossom

❶ Cultural identity
Bản sắc văn hóa

❷ Traditional costumes
Trang phục truyền thống

❸ Belief
Tín ngưỡng

❹ Cultural
practices
Phong tục văn
hóa

❺ Maintain
Duy trì

traditional costume
trang phục truyền thống

traditional costume
trang phục truyền thống

 NEW WORDS
1. cultural identity /ˈkʌltʃərəl aɪˈdentəti/ (n): bản sắc văn
hóa
2. for example /ɪɡˈzɑːmpl/: ví dụ như
3. traditional costume /trəˈdɪʃənl ˈkɒstjuːm/ (n): trang
phục truyền thống
4. preserve /prɪˈzɜːv/ (v): bảo tồn
5. national identity (n): bản sắc quốc gia
6. belief /bɪˈliːf/ (n): niềm tin
7. religious belief /rɪˈlɪdʒəs/ (n): niềm tin về tôn giáo

8. wonder /ˈwʌndə(r)/ (v): tự hỏi
9. motherland /ˈmʌðəlænd/ (n): quê hương
10. important /ɪmˈpɔːtnt/ (adj): quan trọng
11. essential /ɪˈsenʃl/ (adj): cần thiết
12. family history (n): tiền sử gia đình
13. tradition /trəˈdɪʃn/ (n): truyền thống
14. familiar with something /fəˈmɪliə(r)/ (adj): quen
thuộc với gì
15. maintain /meɪnˈteɪn/ (v): duy trì
16. celebrate /ˈselɪbreɪt/ (v): ăn mừng
17. cherry blossom festival: lễ hội hoa anh đào nở

1. Listen and read

2. Complete the diagram
Language
Food

Beliefs

Clothing

Cultural practices

Task 3. Answer the questions

1. According to Yumi, why do people
need to protect their cultural identity?
2. How do Yumi's family maintain their
culture?
3. Where is home for Yumi?
4. Give example of expressions of
cultural identity in your community.

1. According to Yumi, why do people
need to protect their cultural identity?

Lam: I wonder … why people need to protect their
cultural identity.
Yumi: You live here, in your motherland, so you
can't see why this is important. But for me, a
Japanese living in Viet Nam, it's essential to
understand my family history and traditions.
Van: Interesting. Are your parents both Japanese,
Yumi?

 She thinks people can do that
through
the language they speak, the
food they eat and certain style

2. How do Yumi's family maintain their
culture?
Lam: So how do you maintain your culture?
Yumi: Well, we wear kimonos on special occasions and
celebrate Japanese festivals such as the cherry blossom
festival. We also eat sushi, sashimi and udon noodles. At
home we speak Japanese only.
Van: Do you often go back home?

 They wear kimonos on special
occasions
and celebrate festival they eat
sashini and udon noodles. They
speak Japannese at home.

3. Where is home for Yumi?
Van: Do you often go back home?
Yumi: I've been to Kyoto four or five times to visit my
grandparents. But to tell you the truth, I don't
know whether Viet Nam or Japan is really my
home. My parents are from Japan, but I was
born and grew up here.

 She doesn't know whether
Vietnam or Japan is her home.
Her parents come from Japan,
but she was born and
grew up in Vietnam.

4. Give example of expressions of
cultural identity in your community.

 Language: Vietnamese; Food: square and
round sticky rice cakes, pho; Clothing: ao dai, ao
ba ba; Beliefs: ancestor worship, Cultural
practices: Hung Kings' Festival, Quan ho singing.

4. Find the verb or adjective that goes
with each of the following nouns or nou
phrases. If necessary, use a dictionary
to check the meaning.

Protect
Traditional
Cultural
Understand
Maintain

5. Read the conversation again
and write the
correct tenses of the verbs in
have been
1. My parent (live)__________________
for
brackets.
living here
twenty years.
2. I (be)'ve
________
been to Kyoto four or five
times to visit my grandparents.

 Discussion

1. Do you think it is essential to preserve
our cultural identity?
2. How do we preserve it?
3. Why do we preserve it?

 Homework
- Do exercises again at home.
- Prepare for the next lesson.