TAN HUNG SECONDARY SCHOOL
Week: 13
Date of teaching:
Period: 39
Textbook: Global success

LESSON PLAN ENGLISH 8

UNIT 5: OUR CUSTOMS AND TRADITIONS
Lesson 5: Skills 1 – Reading and Speaking

I. OBJECTIVES:
1. Competences: By the end of the unit, students will be able to:
- Read for specific information about a village festival day.
- Talk about family event.
- Develop creativity and communication skills.
- Be collaborative and supportive in pair work and team work.
2.Knowledge:
+ Vocabulary:
Use lexical items related to the topic
1. release (v):
2. contestant (n):
3. family bonding:
+ Grammar:
3. Attributes:
- Develop communication skills and creativity.
- Be collaborative and supportive in pair work and teamwork.
- Actively join in class activities.
- Proud of values of Vietnamese culture.
- Having love for family.
II. INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES
- Teacher: Text book, laptop, loudspeaker, projector…
- Students: Text books, studying equipment's….
- Method; T-WC; group works; individual ……
- Web page: https://hoclieu.vn
III. PROCEDURES
1. Activity 1: WARM UP (5 minutes)
PRE-READING
- Aims:
To create an active atmosphere in the class before the lesson.
To lead into the new lesson.
- Content/Performance tasks:
Watching and answering.
- Outcome/Performance Products:
Questions:
1. What is the name of the festival?
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2. Where does it take place?
3. How many folk games are there?
Suggested answers:
1. It's Bach Hao Pagoda Festival.
2. It's in Hai Duong Province.
3. There are 3 folk games.
- Implementation:
+ Greeting
+ Watching and answering:
- T asks Ss to watch a video about the festival in the north of Viet Nam and asks Ss to answer the questions
after watching.
- Ss watch and answer.
- Lead to the new lesson: Reading and Speaking lesson about a festival day and a family event.
- Introduce the objectives of the lesson.
- Write the objectives in the left corner of the board.
- Assessment Tools: Observation
2. Activity 2: WHLE-STAGE (10 minutes)
- Aims:
To introduce some vocabulary.
To activate Ss's knowledge of the topic of the reading text.
- Content/Performance Tasks:
Vocabulary pre-teaching.
Look at the picture and answer the questions.
- Outcome/Performance Product:
Ss understand new words.
I. New words:
1. release (v)
2. contestant (n)
3. family bonding:

Suggested answers:
1. They are rowing a boat. They are cooking rice.
2. This event may occur in a festival Tet.
- Implementation:
Pre-reading: Vocabulary:
- Teacher introduces the vocabulary.
- Teacher explains the meaning of the new vocabulary by pictures and definitions.
- Teacher checks students' understanding with the “Matching” technique.
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Task 1: Work in pairs. Look at the picture and answer the following questions.
- Teacher has Ss look at the picture in the book or show the picture in the book on a slide. Ask Ss two
questions in the book.
1. What are the men doing?
2. When do you think this event occurs?
- Teacher tells Ss that they are going to read a text about a festival in a village.
Assessment Tools: Observation
3. Activity 3: WHILE-STAGE (15 minutes)
While-reading
Task 2
Aims:
To help Ss develop the skill of reading for the main idea (skimming), specific information (scanning) and
guessing word meaning in context.
Content/Performance Tasks:
Read the text. Choose the correct answer A, B, or C.
Lucky Rotation.
Outcome/Performance Products:
Ss can answer the questions correctly.

Answer key:
1. A
2. B
3. A
4. C
Implementation:
Task 2: Read the text. Choose the correct answer A, B, or C.
Lucky Rotation
- Teacher tells Ss to read the passage in silently (2 minutes).
- T elicits from Ss the steps: Read the questions, underline the key words in each question, locate the key
words in the text and find the information to answer the questions.
- Teacher asks Ss to locate the paragraphs with the information for each question. Then T has Ss to play
game.
- Teacher divides Ss into 2 groups.
- Teacher shows 6 numbers and a rotation. T gives instruction to Ss.
+ Each group represents a student stand up, Teacher presses the button and the rotation moves and stop
how many marks, then Ss choose a number to answer the question. If their answer is correct, they get mark
that the rotation stopped before.
- The group with the most marks is the winner.
- Ss work in group to do this activity.
Assessment Tools: observation, reading and doing exercises
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Task 3
Aim:
To help Ss get information in the mind map.
Content/Performance Tasks:
Read the text again. Complete the mind map about a family party.
Outcome/Performance Products:
Students can understand the text and complete the mind map.

Answer key:
1. third day
2. home
3. dishes
4. food
Implementation:
Task 3. Read the text again. Complete the mind map about a family party.
- Teacher gives 4 mind maps with "a family event: when, where, who, what" as the categories for 4 groups.
- Teacher asks Ss to look at the mind map and identify the paragraph with the information for each
question in the mind map.
- Then T has Ss do the exercise in groups.
- Teacher invites some groups to share their answers. Have them explain their answers. T confirms the
correct answers.
- Teacher tells Ss that when they describe a family event, they should mention categories of information
like in the mind map.
Assessment Tools: observation, reading and doing exercises.
4. Activity 4: POST-STAGE (SPEAKING) (15 minutes)
Task 4:
a. Aims:
To help Ss predict the content of a dialogue about a family event.
b. Content:
Work in pairs. Put the questions (A - E) in the correct blanks (1-5) to make a complete dialogue. Then
role-play it.
c. Outcome:
Students can complete the dialogue.

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Answer key:
1. B
2. D
3. E
4. A
5. C
- Implementation:
Task 4. Work in pairs. Put the questions (A - E) in the correct blanks (1-5) to make a complete
dialogue. Then role-play it.
- Teacher tells Ss to look at the questions in the box and match the questions with the appropriate
categories.
- Teacher tells Ss to read the dialogue and complete the dialogue with the given
questions.
- Teacher confirms the answers. T has Ss practise reading aloud the dialogue in pairs.
Assessment Tools: Observation
Task 5
a. Aims:
To help Ss practise talking about a family event.
b. Content:
Make notes about a normal family event that you take part in.
c. Outcome:
Students can make the dialogue about their family events.
Suggested answers:
Various answers
- Implementation:
Task 5: Make notes about a normal family event that you take part in. Use the questions below as
cues. After that, work in pairs. Make a dialogue asking and answering about the event. You can use
your notes.
– Ask Ss to think of a family event and make notes about it in the form of a mind map.
– Tell them to look at the mind map on the board and revise the questions that can be used.
– Have Ss work in pairs. Ss take turns to ask and answer about the family event.
– Teacher has some pairs act out the dialogue in front of the class.
– Teacher comments on their performance.
- T gives feedback on their reports in terms of language, reasoning skills, and pronunciation.  
Assessment Tools: Oral Questioning
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IV. WRAP-UP ACTIVITY, GIVE INSTRUCTIONS ON SELF-STUDYING - HOMEWORK /
ASSIGNMENT (3 minutes)

- T has Ss summarise what they have learnt with the two skills.
- T can instruct them to draw a mind map to summarise the main points of the lesson.
* HOME WORK
- Read the passage a gain.
- Practice talking about family event.
- Do more exercises in workbook.
- Prepare for Lesson 5: SKILLS 2: Get information about Ok Om Bok Festival, a festival of the Khmer
people.
Comments:
Attendance:

Class 8A3:

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