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Trịnh Thúy Uyên Nguyễn Ngọc Thu Hồng

Nguyễn Thị Kim Phượng Võ Thị Diễm Hà
Nguyễn Thị Minh Hạnh
LESSON PLAN
UNIT 7: CULTURAL DIVERSITY
Lesson 1: Speaking
TRADITIONS AROUND THE WORLD
I. OBJECTIVES: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
1. Knowledge:
- For vocabulary, Ss will be able to learn words and phrases
related to traditions, culture in the UK and Russia.
- For grammar, to review the use of comparative and
superalative adjectives in speaking.
2. Skills:
 Develop speaking skill:
+ Practise sharing and giving responses to new information.
+ Use the information they have known to discuss the topic about
the Vietnamese culture.
+ Give mini-talk about some cultural aspects of Viet Nam.
3. Attitude:
- Understand the customs and traditions in the UK and Russia, and can talk
about them.
- Know more about some cultural aspects of Viet Nam.
II . TEACHING AIDS: power point slides, laptop, textbook, projector,
poster, black board,…

III . PROCEDURE:
 Teacher’s and students’
Time Content
activities
10ms I.WARM UP: Matching -T says: “Before we start the
A. Viet Nam lesson, we will some
activities.”
-T asks Ss to look at the
pictures.
B. Russia
-T says : “ I would like you to
work individually to match
the pictures which are the
traditions of some countries.
C. Japan You need to match with
correct name of countries in 2
minutes.”
+ T divides class into 2 team A
D. Thailand
and B.
+T says: “You will go to the
board and write the answer one
by one, one student, one word,
E. South Korea team finish will be winner.”
T checks Ss’ understand about
the instruction.
+ “How many pictures are there,
class?”
(Expected answer: five)
+ “One member write one or
two answers, class? ”
+ (Expected answer: one
answer.)
Answer: T gets Ss to play the game.
1. E. South Korea T checks the answer.
2. A. Viet Nam Lead in: “Now, look at five
3. D. Thailand pictures, what are there about?
4. C. Japan
5. B. Russia Yeah there are the traditions of
some countries around the
world. Do you know how many
 traditions of countries? Today,
we will speak to gain
information about traditions
around the world. ”
5ms I. PRE SPEAKING: The four eliciting
Vocabulary: pictures:
- T asks Ss to look at the
● The four eliciting pictures:
pictures in the textbook.
- T elicits any words and
phrases related to the topic such
as:
+ superstitions about the black
cat.
+ fish and chips – a traditional
food.
+ figure skating – a national
sport.
+ samovar – a traditional way of
making tea.
- T asks some Ss to stand
up and describe these pictures.
- T gives feedback.
- T says: " these are some
examples about traditions
around the world and now we
move to task 1 to do a quiz
about the traditions and customs
in the UK and Russia."
A quiz:
Pre speaking activities: - T divides Ss into two big
5ms Task 1: Do the quiz. Then read the groups, T says: “I would like to
 information in 2 and check your divide you into two groups. All
answers. of the students on my right hand
1. The sandwich was invented in... will be group A and the others
a. Russia will be group B.”

b. The UK - T tells Ss to read their

textbooks in 2ms and guess the
2. People believe that black cats will
answers of the four questions:
bring bad luck in...
“You need to look at your
a. Russia
textbooks, read the four
b. The UK
questions in 2 minutes and then
3. In......it is believe that the bride guess the answers. The group
should wear 'something borrowed, who can guess more right
something blue, something old and answers than the other will be
something new', for good luck. the winner.”
a. Russia - T asks Ss to speak out
b. The UK their answers and writes them
4. People believe that 'money goes to on the black board.
money'. - T compares the two
a. Russia answers and says:" And now to
b. The UK check these answers, we will
move to task 2 and read the
information."
Keys:
- T checks the answers with Ss
1.B
after they read the information
2.A
in task 2 to find out the winner.
3.B
4.A

20 ms Task 2. Work in groups. Each group - T explains the activity and

reads about one country, either the instruct Ss to do it. The aim of
UK or Russia, noting down the most this activity is for Ss to get to
interesting things about that country. know about the culture of a
Share the information with other country and practise sharing and
members of your group. giving responses to new
information.
Example: - T divides the whole class
Student A: I think the most into two big teams of equal
interesting thing about … is that number of members: Team
… A and Team B.
Student B: Do you? I think … is - Each team (then further
more interesting. divided into smaller groups)
Student C: I agree with B. I find will read about one country,
… the most interesting. either the UK or Russia.
- T sets a time limit for this
Traditions and customs in … activity and walk around
The UK the classroom to monitor,
 Britain is a tea-drinking nation. facilitate and assist Ss when
British people drink more than necessary.
160 million cups tea every day. - Ss note down the most
The traditional food of England interesting things about the
is fish and chips. The sandwich country that they read and
was invented in England in 1762. then share the information
 The British usually pay a lot of with other members of their
attention to good table manners, group.
and are expected to use knives, - Ss are expected to use
forks and spoons properly. The superlative adjectives to
fork is held in the left hand and share their ideas with their
the knife in the right hand. group members.
 Sports play an important part in - One member of each group
British life, and many of the should take notes of the
world’s sports originate in the opinions.
UK. Football is the most popular
sport.
 People believe that it is lucky to
 meet a black cat, touch wood of
find clover plant with four
leaves. For good luck, the bride
should wear ‘ something
borrowed, something blue,
something old and something
new’.
 It is believed that it is unlucky to
walk under a ladder, break a
mirror, see one magpie, or open
an umbrella indoors.
Russia
 A very popular drink in Russia is
tea, ideally served from a
samovar. Traditional dishes
include dumplings with meat
fillings, and red soup made with
beetroot. Russians use standard
European table manners.
 Among the most popular sports
in Russia are football, ice
hockey, volleyball, figure skating
and chess.
 People believe that broken
mirrors, whistling indoors and
black cats will bring bad luck.
They will wait for someone else
to pass the black cat and take the
bad luck with them.
 Russians believe that ‘money
goes to money’ so they leave
coins scattered around their
 homes in bags, cupboards and
drawers.
Task 3. Work with a partner from a
different group. Share with each
other what you have learnt about
traditions and customs of either the
UK or Russia.

Example:
Student A: I read about the UK.
What I find interesting about the
British is that …
In addition, they … The most
interesting/ strangest … thing
about them is that ….
Student B: Sounds interesting. I
read about Russia. What I like
about their traditions and
customs is …
5ms III. POST SPEAKING:
Task 4: Work in groups. Each - T asks Ss to read the
group makes a list of popular foods instructions and explains what
and drinks, popular sports, and they are supposed to do.
festivals in Viet Nam. Rank them in - Ss work in 4 groups. Each
the order of popularity and present group will cover one of the four
them to the whole class. categories: Foods, Drinks,
Sports, Festivals.
Suggested ideas:
- Members of each group
Foods: Chung cake (square brainstorm ideas and vocabulary
sticky rice cake), Pho (rice
and then rank things in order of
noodles), Nem (spring rolls)
Drinks: tea, coffee, soft drinks,
popularity.
juice - T calls several groups to report
Sports: football, volleyball, table their group’s ideas and ranking,
tennis, wrestling and then gives feedback.
Festivals: Tet holiday, Christmas,
Mid – autumn, festival

Example:
Student A: I think the most
popular food for Vietnamese
people is Pho. It tastes better than
any other food. - T gives homework.
Student B: Oh really? For me,
Nem (spring rolls) is the best. - Ss take note into their
Student C: I don’t really think so. notebooks.
Chung cakes is more popular than
Nem.

 Homework :
- Ss need to :
 Learn these new words by heart.
 Review the text and these
previous questions.
 Read and prepare the next lesson.