Unit 13. Festivals

How many competitions are there in the rice - cooking festival?
What are they?
They are water - fetching,
fire - making and rice - cooking.
There are three competitions.
I. Warm up
What festival is this?
It is the rice - cooking festival.
Designed by : Trần Thị Vân Hiến
Vu Kiet secondary School
II. Use the information in the dialogue on page 121 to fill in the gaps in this report.
The rice - cooking festival
By Festival Councilor Pham Phuong Linh
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 fire in the (6) ...
....... way. They tried to rub pieces of (7)..... together to make 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.

rice-cooking
one/a
water - fetching
run
water
traditional
bamboo
Six
separate
added
1. Which tense does the writer use to write this report?
The simple past tense.
2.What is the topic sentence of the report?
“This report shows how the rice – cooking festival was held?”
3. What does the writer describe in the report?
How the festival is held.
4 Does the writer express her opinion about the festival?
Yes, she does.
III. Answer some questions about the report:
Write the report on buffalo – fighting festival using given words or phrases
Do Son Buffalo – fighting Festival.
report/ show/ how/ buffalo – fighting/ hold.
festival/ hold/ stadium / Do Son town/ August 9th /lunar calendar/ every year.
festival/ take / one or three days.
Many tourists/ be/ interested/ buffalo – fighting/
There/ be/ sixteen/ buffalo/ participate/ final round/ festival/ 2007.
After long fierce fights/ no buffalo/ die.
Finally/ buffalo/ number 26/ win/ championship.
Whether they/ win / or/ lose /after/ festival/ all / buffalo / kill / in order to / sell / everyone.
People/ think /eat / fighting buffalo / bring / them / fortune.
Festival / exciting / but / dangerous.


Do exercise 1,2,3 ( P. )
Rewrite the report.
Be ready for language focus.