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I/ Warm-up: Sing aloud the following song in front of the class
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*Answer the following question:
1. When do you often sing that song?
2. What can you see at a birthday party?
4. What are these party?
25
50
wedding
wedding anniversary
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Unit 3: A PARTY
Lesson 1: Reading
7 candles
II/ Pre-reading
* Vocabulary
II/ Pre-reading
* Vocabulary
- candle (n)
- blow out:
3 cards
II/ Pre-reading
* Vocabulary
- candle (n)
- card (n)
- blow out:
2 presents = 2 gifts
II/ Pre-reading
* Vocabulary
- candle (n)
- card (n)
- present (v) = gift
- blow out:
II/ Pre-reading
* Vocabulary
- candle (n)
- blow out:
- card (n)
- present (v) = gift
joke (v)
anniversary (n)
+ golden anniversary
+ silver anniversary
- milestone (n)= an important point of time
= just for laugh
= date of an event in a previous
year
Task 1: Work in pairs. Decide which of the activities below takes place at a birthday party or at a wedding anniversary party or at both. Put a tick (?) in the right box:
III/ While-reading
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Task 2: Work in groups. Read the passage and answer the following questions:
1. How old is Lisa? What does she receive at her birthday party?
2. Why do many Americans don`t want to talk about their age?
3. When did Luis and Rosa get married?
4. How do married couples in the United States celebrate their wedding anniversary?
5. What do people call the 25th and the 50th anniversary?
Suggested answer:
1. Lisa is 7 years old. She receives cards and presents from her family and friends. (toys and clothes)
2. Because they do not want to get any older.
5. People call the 25th the " silver anniversary" and the 50th the " golden anniversary"
4. Husbands and wives give flowers or gifts to each other. They often have a quiet dinner at home or at a restaurant
3. Luis and Rosa got married fifty years ago
IV/ Post-reading
Work in pairs. Answer the following questions
1. Where do you prefer to celebrate your birthday, at home or in a restaurant? Why?
2. Do your parents celebrate their wedding anniversaries?
3. Are you going to celebrate your wedding anniversaries in the future? Why (not)?
*HOME WORK:
- Learn the vocabulary by heart,
- Do task 2 (textbook)
- Prepare lesson 2. Speaking
Thanks for your attention