Giáo án Tiếng Anh 6 - Unit 6: Our tet holiday

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UNIT 6: OUR TET HOLIDAY
Lesson 1: Getting Started – Happy new year!
I. Objectives:
	By the end of this lesson, students can know the key language and structures to be learnt in this unit.
II. Language Focus:
	1. Vocabulary: the lexical items related to “Tet”: things, activities and practices.
	2. Structures: 	Will to express intentions.	
	Should/ shouldn’t for advice.
III. Method: Communicative approach
IV. Teaching ads: Course book, CD player, picture.
V. Procedures:
Teacher’s Activities
Ss’ Activities
Content
Note
- Write the word TET on the board and ask St to give any words they know relating to the topic. Allow Ss to give a Vietnamese word and ask other Ss in the class if they know the equivalent in English.
- T-Whole class
* Presentation:
TET HOLIDAY
- Ask Ss to answer the questions. 
- Introduce some new words or revise the ones already learnt to prepare Ss well for listening such as celebrate, decorate and fireworks. Then play the recording.
- Ask Ss to work individually. Ideally ask them the questions without referring to the listening.
- Ask them to explain why they think a statement is false and they can correct it.
- Ask Ss to do the task in pairs. Tell Ss to refer back to the conversation to find the information. 
- Ask them if the information given is true and if they can add anything.
- Let Ss do the matching independently as the vocabulary is quite simple and some of them will be familiar to them like School ground, books, swimming pool, etc. 
- Ask Ss to answer the question by referring to the pictures. Picture 4 might get different answers from Ss in the south where it’s very hot and Ss in the north where Tet is usually the coldest time of the year.
- Answer
- Listen and read
- Individual work 
- Individual work 
- Individual work 
- Pair-work 
* Practice:
1. Listen and read
Questions:
What will they talk about?
When is Tet this year?
What do you do at Tet?
2. Are those following statements true or false according to the conversation in 1? Tick the correct column.
Key:
F
F
F
T
T
3. Find the information in 1 and fill in the blanks.
Key:
This year we will have Tet at the end of January.
We decorate our house.
We buy flowers and plants.
We shouldn’t burn fireworks.
We eat great food and get lucky money during Tet.
Tet is a time for family gatherings.
4. Write the words/ phrases in the box under the appropriate pictures.
Key:
b
a
c
e
h
g
f
d 
5. Look at the pictures again. 
Which pictures do you think are related to Tet?
Key:
 About Tet: 1 2 3 7 8 
- Ask Ss to write down three things or activities you like best about Tet.
- Have them compare their list with members of their group. Report the result to the class.
- Group-work 
* Production:
6. Game
Write down three things or activities you like best about Tet.
*Homework:
- Learn Vocabulary.
- Practice the conversation.
- Prepare the next lesson 
 (A closer look 1)
Week: 12 
Period: 36
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UNIT 6: OUR TET HOLIDAY
Lesson 2: A Closer Look 1
I. Objectives:
	By the end of this lesson, students can pronounce correctly the sounds /t/ and /st/ in isolation and in context; use vocabulary related to “travel item”.
II. Language Focus:
	1. Vocabulary: the lexical items related to “Tet”: things, activities and practices.
	2. Structures: 	Will to express intentions.	
	Should/ shouldn’t for advice.
III. Method: Communicative approach
IV. Teaching ads: Course book, CD player, flash cards.
V. Procedures:
Teacher’s Activities
Ss’ Activities
Content
Note
- Play the recording. Ask Ss to listen carefully and repeat the words first, then divide them into smaller and smaller groups.
- Observe and make sure that every St is speaking.
- Listen and repeat
* Presentation:
& Vocabulary
Things and activities for Tet
1. Listen and repeat the words in the box.
Wish
Fireworks
Furniture
Present
Shopping
Free
Flower
Relative
Pagoda
Calendar
Special food
- Ask Ss to work in groups of 3.
- Ask Ss to look at the pictures first and see if they know the words. Then ask them to do the matching.
- Write a verb on the board and ask Ss to match the verb with as many as nouns as they can find.
- Check that Ss understand the meanings of the words and let them match.
- Ask them to work independently first and check with their partners. Sometime more than one answer is possible.
- Have Ss write the phrases you have formed in 3. 
- Ask Ss to practice the sound /ʃ/ and /s/ together.
- Play the recording and ask Ss to listen carefully first and repeat. Ask them to write the words in two appropriate boxes. Check if they do this correctly.
- Ask Ss to look at the sentences and underline the words they think contain the sounds /ʃ/ and /s/. Play the recording and ask them to tick to the columns.
- Group-work 
- T whole class
- Individual work
- T whole class
- Listen and repeat
- Individual work 
* Practice:
2. Work in groups. Label the pictures with the words in 1.
Key: 
a
i
d
j
f
g 
h
e
k
c
a 
3. Match the verbs with the suitable nouns.
Key:
cook special food
go to the pagoda
give lucky money
visit relative
clean the furniture
decorate our house
plant trees
make a wish
hang a calendar
watch fireworks
do the shopping
buy peach blossoms.
4. Write the phrases you have formed in 3. The first one is an example.
& Pronunciation /ʃ/ and /s/
5. Listen and repeat the words.
Which words have the sound /ʃ/ and which words have the sound /s/? 
Key:
/ʃ/
/s/
She, shopping, should, wish, rubbish.
Blossoms, summer, rice, celebrate, school, special, spring.
6.Listen to the sentences and tick which has /ʃ/ and which has /s/
Key:
/ʃ/ : 2, 3, 5
/s/: 1, 4, 6, 7
- Allow Ss to practice reading the poem among themselves. 
- Ask for some volunteers to stand up and read the poem aloud.
- Group-work 
* Production:
7. Listen and practice reading the short poem. Pay attention to the sounds /ʃ/ and /s/
*Homework:
- Learn vocabulary by heart.
- Prepare the next lesson 
 (A closer look 2)
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UNIT 6: OUR TET HOLIDAY
Lesson 3: A Closer Look 2
I. Objectives:
	By the end of this lesson, students can identify and practice the language of intentions (with will) and advice (with should). 
II. Language Focus:
	1. Vocabulary: the lexical items related to “Tet”: things, activities and practices.
	2. Structures: 	Will to express intentions.	
	Should/ shouldn’t for advice.
III. Method: Communicative approach
IV. Teaching ads: Course book, CD player, pictures.
V. Procedures:
Teacher’s Activities
Ss’ Activities
Content
Note
- Use the pictures to practice the target language of should and shouldn’t in more familiar situations. Ask Ss to complete the four sentences. Make sure that they combine “should” and the verb correctly.
- Individual work 
* Presentation:
& Grammar
Should and shouldn’t
1. Look at the pictures and complete the sentences with should or shouldn’t.
Key:
Shouldn’t
Should
Shouldn’t
Should 
- Ask Ss to look at the four signs in the studio and let them complete the sentences.
- Draw their attention to the fact that it is a TV studio where people are working.
- Go around and see if they write the sentences correctly.
- Ask Ss to tick or cross the activities. The phrases illustrated by pictures make their meanings clear.
- Ask Ss to write the sentences by referring to the activities 3.
- Go around and check for any spelling or grammar mistakes.
- Before reading. Have them revise some words Ss have learnt in the previous activities like “go shopping”, “New year celebration” etc. Then ask Ss to read the letter.
- Ask ss to use the information from the letter and write the sentences in two columns.
- Go around and see if they write the sentences correctly.
- Individual work 
- Individual work 
- Pair-work 
- Individual work 
- Pair-work 
* Practice:
2. At the TV studio, Phong sees these signs. Complete the sentences with should or shouldn’t.
Key:
Should
Shouldn’t
Should
Shouldn’t
Remember:
We use should for things that are good to do.
We use shouldn’t for things that bad to do.
3. Now look at these Tet activities. Tick the activities children should do at Tet. Cross the activities they shouldn’t.
Key:
Should
Shouldn’t
1
3
5
6
2
4
7
8
4. Use the activities in 3, write down the sentences.
We should behave well.
We shouldn’t eat lots of sweets.
We should plant trees.
We shouldn’t break things.
We should go out with friends.
We shouldn’t fight.
We shouldn’t play cards all night.
& Grammar
Will and won’t (will not)
1. Read Phong’s letter to Tom.
2. Use the information in the letter and write full sentences in the two columns.
Key:
My father will repaint our house.
I will go shopping with Mum.
We will buy red envelopes.
I will help my parents cook banh chung.
I’ll write again soon.
We won’t buy fireworks.
We won’t buy banh chung.
- Emphasise that Ss write the TRUE sentences of what Phong wll/ won’t do at Tet. Remind Ss of the kind of words they have to add in order to complete the sentences.
- Pair - work
* Production:
3. Phong is thinking about his Tet. Write sentences about what he will and won’t do.
Key:
Phong will visit his relatives.
He will get some lucky money.
He will go out.
He won’t study.
Phong won’t give a present.
*Homework:
- Practice more the language of intentions (with will) and advice (with should). 
- Prepare next lesson 	(Communication) 
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UNIT 6: OUR TET HOLIDAY
Lesson 4: Communication
I. Objectives:
	By the end of this lesson, students can get to know New Year practices in some other countries.
II. Language Focus:
	1. Vocabulary: the lexical items related to “Tet”: things, activities and practices.
	2. Structures: 	Will to express intentions.	
	Should/ shouldn’t for advice.
III. Method: Communicative approach
IV. Teaching ads: Course book, CD player.
V. Procedures:
Teacher’s Activities
Ss’ Activities
Content
Note
- Show Ss the flags of five countries and ask them if them know the names of the countries, where they are and what else they know about these countries.
- Ask them to do the matching of flags and countries.
- Individual work 
* Presentation:
1. Match the flags with the countries. Then match the countries with their nationalities.
Key: 
Holland
Japan
The USA
Australia
Thailand
Vietnam
Scotland
Korea 
- Make 8 hats with the flags at the front . Call 8 Ss and ask them to wear the hats. 
- Divide the class into 4 groups and see which group can call out the right names the most quickly.
- Let Ss look at the pictures, discuss and make a guess about which country the pictures are about.
- Ask them to match the pictures with the four groups of people.
- Help Ss by drawing their attention to some details from the reading and referring to the pictures provided in 3.
- Ask them to underline the verbs and objects of some practices. 
- Don’t let Ss do this task before they spot the words/ phrases as they are used in the sentence and encourage them to use the context to guess the meanings of the word/ phrase.
- T-Whole class
- Pair-work 
- Pair-work
* Practice:
2. Game.
Prepare pictures of flags. Walk around and meet people. Tell them where you are from. They will tell you your nationalities.
3. People at different countries celebrate New Year differently. Match the four groups of people with the pictures.
Key:
The Scottish, Scotland.
The Thai, Thailand.
The H’Mong, Vietnam.
The Japanese, Japan.
4. Read the four paragraphs below. Use the pictures in 3 to help you decide which group of people celebrates New Year that day.
Key:
H’Mong 
Thai
Japanese
Scottish
5. Find and check the meanings of some new words as they are used in the text by matching them with the definitions.
Key:
The covers of a rooster, chicken or bird.
An adult male chicken.
Take away.
The first person to enter your home after New Year’s Eve.
- Have ss work in pairs and do this activitie.
- Group-work 
* Production:
6. Group work
Each Ss choose two facts from the four paragraphs he/she is most interested in. write them down and take turns to read them aloud to his/ her group. The group decides which group of people he / she talking about.
*Homework:
- Prepare the next lesson :
 (Skill 1)
Week: 13
Period: 39
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UNIT 6: OUR TET HOLIDAY
Lesson 5: Skill 1
I. Objectives:
	By the end of this lesson, students can get to know New Year practices in some other countries.
II. Language Focus:
	1. Vocabulary: the lexical items related to “Tet”: things, activities and practices.
	2. Structures: 	Will to express intentions.	
	Should/ shouldn’t for advice.
III. Method: Communicative approach
IV. Teaching ads: Course book, CD player.
V. Procedures:
Teacher’s Activities
Ss’ Activities
Content
Note
- Ask Ss to look at the pictures of children and the names of the countries first to have some ideas about which countries they are going to read about.
- T-Whole class
* Presentation:
Questions:
- What is his/ her name?
- Where is he/ she from?
- Ask Ss to read the text. Allow them to read a second time and underline some words they don’t know. 
- Ask Ss to do this task individually. 
- Let Ss look back at the passages as many times as they would like to.
- Check with the whole class.
- Ask Ss not to look back at the passages and see how many questions they answer right.
- Revise what Ss have learnt in 1, both vocabulary and practices. Encourage Ss to give more activities than ones provided in the passages.
- Turn this into a free activities for Ss to talk about New Year beliefs both in their country and in others. Ask them to write two popular beliefs you know about the New Year and tell your partners. Get Ss to talk. 
- Individual work
- Individual work
- Pair-work 
- Pair-work 
- Group-work 
* Practice:
& Reading
1. Children in different countries are talking about their New Year. Read the passages.
(Page 64)
2. Say who the following statement refer to. Number 1 is an example.
 A. Russ B. Wu C. Mai
Key:
C
A
B
A
C
B
C 
3. Test your memory! Tick the things which appear in the passages, and cross the ones which don’t.
Key: 	
Appear
Don’t appear
a
b
d
e
f
g
i
c
h
j
& Speaking
4. The following practices and beliefs are from the passages in 1. Talk to your friends and say which one(s) you will do or won’t do this New Year.
Example:
1. I won’t go to the Time Square to welcome the New Year.
5. Work in groups. 
Write two popular beliefs you know about the New Year and tell your partners.
- Have Ss discuss with their friends what they should or shouldn’t do at Tet.
- Pair -work
* Production:
6. Look at the list. Discuss with your friends what you should or shouldn’t do at Tet.
Example:
A: We should make a wish.
B: I agree. But we shouldn’t get up early.
*Homework:
- Prepare the next lesson:
 (Skill 2)
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UNIT 6: OUR TET HOLIDAY
Lesson 6: Skill 2
I. Objectives:
	By the end of this lesson, students can listen to get the information about Tet activities and write an email to friend about their Tet holiday.
II. Language Focus:
	1. Vocabulary: the lexical items related to “Tet”: things, activities and practices.
	2. Structures: 	Will to express intentions.	
	Should/ shouldn’t for advice.
III. Method: Communicative approach
IV. Teaching ads: Course book, CD player
V. Procedures:
Teacher’s Activities
Ss’ Activities
Content
Note
- Let Ss look at the list and read them aloud. Make sure they pronounce the words correctly. This will help them recognize the key words in the listening.
- Play the tape three times and ask them which words from the lists they can hear. 
- T whole class
* Presentation:
& Listening
1. Mai and her mother are going shopping for Tet. Listen and tick the things they will buy.
Key:
1. peach blossoms
3. new clothes
4. a tie
5. sweets
7. chocolate biscuits
- This activity can be done only after one has been successfully completed. 
- Ask Ss to look carefully at the list things Mai and her mother will buy. Then look at the list of people as a guide so that they will focus on these people for the listening.
- Individual work
* Practice:
2. Listen again and write the names of things they will buy for the people in column A.
Key: 
Clothes
A tie
Some sweets
- Ask Ss to write an e-mail to a friend about their Tet holiday
- Individual work
* Production:
& Writing
3. Now write an e-mail to a friend about your Tet holiday. Include what you will and won’t do. Also include things people should and shouldn’t do. Use your notes from Speaking and the rest of the unit to help you.
*Homework:
- Write the e-mail into your notebook.
- Prepare the next lesson :
 (Looking back)
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UNIT 6: OUR TET HOLIDAY
Lesson 7: Looking Back
I. Objectives:
	By the end of this lesson, students can review all what they have learnt in this unit.
II. Language Focus:
	1. Vocabulary: the lexical items related to “Tet”: things, activities and practices.
	2. Structures: 	Will to express intentions.	
	Should/ shouldn’t for advice.
III. Method: Communicative approach
IV. Teaching aids: Course book, CD player, pictures.
V. Procedures:
Teacher’s Activities
Ss’ Activities
Content
Note
- Ask Ss to draw line to match the actions on the left with the things on the right.
- Individual work
* Presentation:
& Vocabulary
1. Draw line to match the actions on the left with the things on the right.
Key:
j
e
d
c
i
f
h
g
a
k
b
l 
- Ask Ss to play a game. This game is for Ss to revise the Tet vocabulary, not only in meaning but also in pronunciation. It also trans Ss’ memory and quick reactions.
- Show Ss a picture of New year in Thailand and ask if they could still remember anything about New Year Festival in Thailand. 
- Ask them questions: when is New Year Festival in Thailand?, What is the weather like?...
- Ask them to look at the list and make up sentences of what Phong will or won’t do in Thailand.
- Ask Ss to look at the summary first and see how much they can fill in before the listening.
- Play the recording and check if Ss get the right answer.
- Individual work
- Pair-work
- Individual work 
* Practice:
2. Game: “About or Not about Tet?”
Five volunteer stand in front of the class. They take turn to read aloud each phrase from the list. The quickest student with the right answer gets one point for one right answer. The student with the highest score wins.
& Grammar
3. Phong is visiting Thailand at their New Year Festival. Look at the list of what he will or will not do. Then write out complete sentences.
 Key:
Will
Phong will travel by plane.
Phong will wear shorts and a T-shirt.
Phong will get wet.
Phong will throw water at others.
Phong will watch the elephants.
Won’t
Phong won’t stay at home.
Phong won’t eat banh chung.
Phong won’t go to school.
Phong won’t get lucky money.
Phong won’t wait for the first footer.
4. Tom is asking Phong what children in Vietnam should or shouldn’t do at Tet. Listen and fill in the summary with should or shouldn’t.
 Key: 
Should
Should
Should
Shouldn’t
Shouldn’t
Should 
- Ask Ss to rearrange the words in each sentence to make New Year wishes and greetings.
- Pair-work
* Production:
& Communication
5. Rearrange the words in each sentence to make New Year wishes and greetings.
Key:
I wish you a Happy New Year.
Have a great year with your studies.
I wish you success in your career.
I wish you a joyful year.
*Homework:
- Do “project” on page 67.
- Prepare next lesson :
 Review 2 (Unit 4 - 5 – 6