Giáo án Tiếng Anh Lớp 11 - Unit 8: Celebrations - Part B: Speaking

LESSON PLAN PREPARATION
Unit 8: CELEBRATIONS
B. SPEAKING
I. Content: 
- Level: Grade 11
- Unit 8: Celebrations – Speaking: Celebrations/ Holidays
- Skill focus: Speaking (page 93/94)
II. Timing: 45 minutes
III.Objectives:
- By the end of the lesson, Students will be able to talk about celebrations/ holidays (Names/ Dates/ Purposes Activities). This lesson also aims to help students practice soft skills of working pairs and groups.
- Ss’ reading,writing, speaking and listening skills are improved.
IV.Teaching aids: Smartboard, handouts, group boards, student books ( Tiếng Anh 11)
V.Language focus: learn the words related to celebrations/ holidays
Vocabulary: 
+ dress up: ăn mặc đẹp, mặc trang phục hóa trang
+ parade: diễu hành
+ mask (v): mặt nạ
+ harvest (v,n): thu hoạch, vụ thu hoạch
+ traditional (v): thuộc về truyền thống
+ lunar calendar > < dương lịch
+ Valentine’s day : ngày lễ tình nhân
+ Tet holiday: Tết
+ Mid-autumn festival: Tết trung thu
+ Thanks Giving : lễ tạ ơn
- Structures: + on + days/ dates 
	+ S + to sound + adjective
Practices qusetions:
What’s + Name of a celebration
When is it?
What do people often do ?
Possible answers:
It’s the time when people . . .
It’s on 
They often . . .
VI. TEACHING PROCEDURE
 1. Stabilization : - Greeting.
 	 	- Checking the attendance: Ask the class monitor “Is anyone absent today?”
 2. Checking up the previous knowledge + Presentation of the new lesson
Timing
Content
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
Rationale of activities
Source of materials
3 mins
1. Checking vocabulary: Playing a game (information transmission) 
- handouts (words/ phrases)
celebration, preparation, build up, the grandest, blossom, agrarian, calendar, excitement
- T gives instructions
-T delivers handouts to the students in the last row.
- T asks Ss to say vocabulary aloud.
- T gives feedbacks.
- Ss listen and ask for more details if neccessary
- Ss play the game
- Ss say vocabulary aloud
(individual)
- This warm-up activity aims to motivate and review the vocabulary which the students have learnt in the previous lesson
- Listening, speaking, skills are improved.
 - Board,
handouts, 
7 mins
3 mins
2. Pre- speaking
Vocabulary
+ dress up
+ parade
+ mask 
+ harvest 
+ traditional \
+ lunar calendar >< Western calendar
+ Valentine’s day 
+ Tet holiday
+ Mid-autumn festival
+ Thanks Giving : 
Checking the vocabulary
Pre-questions: 
a. Do you like Tet? 
b. What is Tet? 
c. When is it? 
d. What people often do at Tet?
T provides useful vocabularies
T reads the words/ phrases aloud
Shows the Vietnamese words and ask Ss for the meaning
T raises the questions
- Ss listen to the teacher and take notes
Ss repeat
Ss say aloud the words
- listen to the teacher and answer
Ss know how to pronounce all the words and phrases correctly
By the end of the activity, students know how to ask about Tet celebration
Student books/ smartboard
8 mins
12
3. While- speaking.
Activity 1 : Task 1. Mai is talking with Anna, her new English friend, about Tet holiday in Vietnam. Work in pairs. Practise reading the dialogue.
1.What celebration are they talking about?
2. What is the time of the celebration?
3.What is its purposes?
4. What are the activitives on the occasion?
Mai : Do you know that Tet holiday is next month?
Anna : What is Tet?
Mai : It’s the time when Vietnamese people celebrate the beginning of spring. It’s also the start of the lunar new year.
Anna : When is it exactly?
Mai : Well, this year it’s on the 9th of February.
Anna : What do you usually do at Tet?
Mai : Well, we eat a lot of special foods, we dress up and visit friends and relatives, and we also play some traditional games.
Anna : Oh, that sounds really interesting.
Activity 2 : Task 2: Match holidays with their main purpose and activities.
Pic1: Mid - Autumn festival
Pic 2: Thanksgiving
Pic 3: Valentine’s Day
1. c C
2. a A
3. b B
ACTIVITY 3: Task 3. Make a similar conversation and practise with a partner.
A: What is (1) (celebration)? 
B: Well, it’s the time when(2) .(purpose)
A: When is it?
B: Well, it (3) .( on + day,date/ in + month/year)
A: What do people usually do at (4) .(celebration)?
B: Well, (5) (activities)
A: Oh, that sounds interesting.
T raises questions
- Shows the model clip 
– Reminds (students) some structures:
+ on + days/ dates 
+ to sound + adj
-Asks Ss to practice the dialogue in pairs.
- Invites some pairs to act out the dialogue and give comments.
- Asks Ss to look at the 3 pictures on page 93 and work out the names of each holiday. 
- Asks Ss to work in group and do the matching
- Gets Ss to work in pairs by asking and answering about the holiday in task 2. 
-T asks Ss to add any information about holiday they know to make the dialogue more interesting.
- answer
- take notes
-practice the dialogue in pairs.
-Work individually
-Work in groups of 4/5
-practice the dialogue in pairs.
-This activity aims to let students use the language 
- Listening, speaking skills are improved.
To provide students with knowledge about some celebrations
-This activity aims to provide free practice and let students use the language in real situation 
- Listening, speaking , writing skills are improved.
Student books / smartboard
Student books/ smartboard/group boards
Student books/ smartboard
10 mins
4.Post- speaking
Activity 4: Make a mind map about a celebration Ss have just learnt. Then report the results to the class.
- Tells students to use the information in Task 1, 2 to do this activity.
- Invite a student from any group to report to the class what Ss performed in their goup board
- make a mind map
- Make a presentation in front of the class
-This activity aims to provide free practice and let students use the language in real situation 
- Listening, speaking , writing skills are improved.
Student books/ smartboard/ group boards
VII. Consolidation (1ms)
- Summarize the main points
VIII. Homework (1ms)
- Make a video clip ( in the video students must work in pairs and ask and answer about a celebration that they know)
- Send the video to the teacher’s facebook