Unit 8. Celebrations

Good morning, everybody!
Happy
New
Year!
Work with a partner. Match the icons with the names of celebrations they represent.
Lunar New Year
Easter
Christmas
birthday
Mid-Fall Festival
wedding
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4
Work with a partner. Match the icons with the names of celebrations they represent.
Lunar New Year
Easter
Christmas
birthday
Mid-Fall Festival
wedding
1
2
3
6
5
4
Unit 8:
CELEBRATIONS
Getting started + Listen and Read
1. Getting started:
Tet (Lunar New Year)
Easter
2. Listen and Read:
* Vocabulary:
- Passover (n)
Passover
What celebrations is the text about?
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Unit 8:
CELEBRATIONS
Getting started + Listen and Read
1. Getting started:
Although there are many celebrations throughout the year, Tet or the Lunar New Year holiday is the most important celebration for Vietnamese people. Tet is a festival which occurs in late January or early February. It is a time for families to clean and decorate their homes, and enjoy special food such as sticky rice cakes. Family members who live apart try to be together at Tet.
* Vocabulary:
- Passover (n)
2. Listen and Read:
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Unit 8:
CELEBRATIONS
Getting started + Listen and Read
1. Getting started:
2. Listen and Read:
Passover is in late March or early April. This festival is celebrated in Israel and by all Jewish people. On this festival, people celebrate freedom from slavery. Passover is also an ancient spring festival. On the first and second nights of Passover, Jewish families eat a special meal called the Seder.
* Vocabulary:
- Passover (n)
- Jewish people
Jewish people
slavery
- slavery (n)
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Unit 8:
CELEBRATIONS
Getting started + Listen and Read
1. Getting started:
2. Listen and Read:
* Vocabulary:
- Passover (n)
- Jewish people
- slavery (n)
 slave (n)
 slaver (n)
They are slaves.
They are slavers.
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Unit 8:
CELEBRATIONS
Getting started + Listen and Read
1. Getting started:
2. Listen and Read:
* Vocabulary:
- Passover (n)
- Jewish people
- slavery (n)
 slave (n)
 slaver (n)
Easter is a joyful festival which is celebrated in many countries. It happens at around the same time as Passover. On Easter Day (Easter Sunday), young children receive chocolate or sugar eggs - as long as they are good. In many countries, people crowd the streets to watch colorful parades.
- sugar egg
sugar eggs
parade
- parade (n)
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Unit 8:
CELEBRATIONS
Getting started + Listen and Read
1. Getting started:
2. Listen and Read:
* Vocabulary:
- Passover (n)
- Jewish people
- slavery (n)
 slave (n)
 slaver (n)
- sugar egg
- parade (n)
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Unit 8:
CELEBRATIONS
Getting started + Listen and Read
1. Getting started:
2. Listen and Read:
* Vocabulary:
- Passover (n):
- Jewish people
- slavery (n):
 slave (n):
 slaver (n):
- sugar egg
- parade (n):
Although there are many celebrations throughout the year, Tet or the Lunar New Year holiday is the most important celebration for Vietnamese people. Tet is a festival which occurs in late January or early February. It is a time for families to clean and decorate their homes, and enjoy special food such as sticky rice cakes. Family members who live apart try to be together at Tet.
- sticky rice cakes
- occur (v)
= happen (v):
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Unit 8:
CELEBRATIONS
Getting started + Listen and Read
1. Getting started:
2. Listen and Read:
* Vocabulary:
- Passover (n)
- Jewish people
- slavery (n)
 slave (n)
 slaver (n)
- sugar egg
- parade (n)
- sticky rice cakes
- occur (v)
= happen (v):
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Unit 8:
CELEBRATIONS
Getting started + Listen and Read
1. Getting started:
2. Listen and Read:
* Vocabulary:
- Passover (n):
- Jewish people
- slavery (n):
 slave (n):
 slaver (n):
- sugar egg
- parade (n):
- sticky rice cakes
- occur (v)
= happen (v):
 Relative clauses:
Which/ Who: ? Relative pronouns
-Tet is a festival which occurs in late January or early February.
-Family members who live apart try to be together at Tet.
Although there are many celebrations throughout the year, Tet or the Lunar New Year holiday is the most important celebration for Vietnamese people. Tet is a festival which occurs in late January or early February. It is a time for families to clean and decorate their homes, and enjoy special food such as sticky rice cakes. Family members who live apart try
to be together at Tet.
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Unit 8:
CELEBRATIONS
Getting started + Listen and Read
1. Getting started:
2. Listen and Read:
* Vocabulary:
- Passover (n):
- Jewish people
- slavery (n):
 slave (n):
 slaver (n):
- sugar egg
- parade (n):
- sticky rice cakes
- occur (v)
= happen (v):
 Relative clauses:
Which/ Who: ? Relative pronouns
-Tet is a festival which occurs in late January or early February.
-Family members who live apart try to be together at Tet.
*Answer the questions:
1/ When does Tet occur?
2/ What activities do people do at Tet?
3/ What food do they eat?
4/ In which countries is Tet celebrated?
On late January or early February
Wear new clothes, clean and decorate home
Sticky rice cakes and jams
China, Vietnam
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Unit 8:
CELEBRATIONS
Getting started + Listen and Read
*Complete the table.
Tet
Passover
Easter
In late January or early February
Cleaning and decorating homes, and enjoying special food
sticky rice cakes
Vietnam
late March or early April
(Not available)
special food meal called the Seder
Israel
around the same time as Passover
People crowd the streets to watch colorful parades
chocolate or sugar eggs
in many countries
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Seder
*Give some information about the other celebrations which you know
Mid-Fall Festival
Middle of Lunar August
-Lion-dancing -lantern parade
-Moon cakes,
-Sweets
-Viet Nam
-China
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2
3
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7
31/10
9/8 ( lunar)
*Complete the sentences with suitable words:
1.Tet or the Lunar New Year holiday is the most important ……………. for Vietnamese people.
2. Tet is a time for families to clean and ……………their homes.
3. Passover is celebrated in Israel and by all …………..people.
4. On Easter Day , people crowd the streets to watch colorful……………
celebration
decorate
Jewish
parades
Unit 8:
CELEBRATIONS
Getting started + Listen and Read
1. Getting started:
2. Listen and Read:
* Vocabulary:
- Passover (n):
- Jewish people
- slavery (n):
 slave (n):
 slaver (n):
- sugar egg
- parade (n):
- sticky rice cakes
- occur (v)
= happen (v):
 Relative clauses:
Which/ Who: ? Relative pronouns
-Tet is a festival which occurs in late January or early February.
-Family members who live apart try to be together at Tet.
Homework:
-Learn new vocabulary by heart.
-Write one of the celebrations you like best:
+ Name of the celebration
+ When ?
+ Activities
+ Food
+ Country
-Prepare new words for “Speak and Listen”.
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GOODBYE !
SEE
YOU
LATER !