Unit 13. Festivals

Welcome to our English class
Thursday, March 18th 2009
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Christmas Day
Tet holiday
Halloween
Rice- cooking
Mid-Fall festival
Bull-fighting
(to) wrestle:
vật
The cock – fighting:
chọi gà
The Rice-cooking Festival
This report shows how the (1) ............................ festival was held.
The festival was held in the communal house yard about (2)........................ kilometer away from a river. There were three competitions: (3) ........................... fire-making and rice-cooking. The festival took one day.
In the water-fetching contest one person from each team had to (4) .................... to the river to get the (5) ......................In the fire-making contest two team members had to make a fire in the (6) .................. way. They tried to rub pieces of (7) ................... together to make the fire. (8) ........................ people from each team took part in the rice-cooking contest. They had to (9) .................. the rice from the husk and then cook the rice.
After the three contests, all the points were (10) ................... and the
Thon Trieu group won the grand prize. The festival was wonderful.
by Festival Councilor Pham Phuong Linh
rice - cooking
one / a
water - fetching
run
water
traditional
bamboo
Six
separate
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a) What is the name of the festival?
b) Where was the festival held?
c) How long did the festival last?
d) How many activities were there? Were there any competitions?
e) How were the activities organized?
f) How many people took part in each activity?
g) What did you think about the festival?

Ask and answer
Write a similar report on a festival you joined recently. The answers to the questions below can help you.
What is the name of the festival?
=> Rice cooking festival
b) Where was the festival held?
=> In the communal house yard about one km away from the river
c) How long did the festival last?
=> It lasted one day.

e) How were the activities organized?
=> In the water- fetching contest one person …
f) How many people took part in each activity?
Six people took part in the rice – cooking contest.
One person took part in the water-fetching contest
Two people took part in the fire – making contest.
g) What did you think about the festival?
=> The festival was wonderful.
Modal report
This report shows how the Christmas Festival was held.
The festival was held in every family so everyone took part in this activity and it lasted in two days.
On Christmas Eve people stayed up late to have pudding and greeted to each other. At the midnight the Santa Claus came from the chimney and gave presents for children.
On Christmas Day people went to the Church. The festival was wonderful. Everyone were very excited about it.
Homework
- Write a similar report on a festival you joined recently.
- Prepare Language Focus