UNIT 13 CLASS 8 : FESTIVAL

WELCOME TO OUR CLASS
Teacher: Cao Thi Kim Ngan
Class: 8.4
Unit 13: FESTIVALS
Thursday, March 17th , 2011
Period 84:
Getting started – Listen and read.
Vung Tau
DA LAT
Nha Trang
Hue
SAPA
Ha Long Bay
Bat Trang pottery
Hoi An
Ho Chi Minh City
GETTING STARTED.
* Work with a partner. Where should these people go on their visits to Viet Nam? Why?
1. Tom likes swimming and sunbathing.
2. David is interested in ancient cities.
3. Huckleberry likes mountain-climbing.
4. Oliver is keen on pottery.
5. Robinson is fond of crowded places.
 be keen on (sth) : be interested in (sth)
+ pottery (n):
*Match the names of the festivals with the right picture
Spring festival Boat-racing festival
Flower festival Nghinh Ong festival
Buffalo-fighting festival Sea Festival
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Boat-racing festival
Flower festival
Buffalo-fighting
festival
Spring festival
Nghinh Ong festival
Sea festival
- fire-making (c.w)
- water-fetching (c.w)
Listen and read.
*New words:
- yell (v):
- rub (v):
- rice-cooking (c.w)
- husk (n):
separate (v):
separate (sth) from (sth)
Ex: They have to separate the rice from the husk.
- judge (n):
- urge (v):
2. a water-fetching contest
*Note: Compound words
Ex:
 compound word = noun + V-ing
1. a rice-cooking festival
compound word
compound word
1. Which festival is the dialogue about?
2. How many competitions are there?
It is about the rice-cooking festival.
There are three competitions: water- fetching, fire-making and rice-cooking.
Guiding questions:
1. Practice the dialogue with a partner.
2. True or false? Check (√) the boxes. Then correct the false sentences and write them in your exercise book.
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2. True or false? Check (√) the boxes. Then correct the false sentences and write them in your exercise book.
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One team member takes
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one bottle
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bamboo
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judges
3) Work in groups. Complete the table.
Run to the river bank to take the bottles of water and return to the starting position.
Rub pieces of bamboo together
to make a fire.
Separate the husk and then cook the rice.
Tell the names of the festivals
in Vung Tau.
HOMEWORK
Learn new words and the
names of the festivals by heart.

2. Do exercises:1,3 (U.13- Workbook)

3.Prepare “speak- listen ” at home.