LESSON PLAN

Subject: English
Class: 6A
Material: ILearn Smart World 6
Unit 4: Festivals and Free Time
Lesson: Reading - Lesson 3
I. LESSON OBJECTIVES:
1. Knowledge:
- Recognize and correctly use vocabulary related to festivals.
- Understand the main idea and specific details of the reading passage related to the Tet
holiday.
- Become familiar with the structure of a short reading passage.
2. Skills:
- Practice reading to find the main idea and specific information.
- Guess the meaning of new words from the context.
- Answer questions and connect the reading with their own experiences.
3. Attitude:
- Respect the value of traditional celebrations in Viet Nam and other countries.
II. TEACHERS AND STUDENTS’ PREPARATIONS:
1. Teacher: Textbooks, presents, projector and PowerPoint slides.
2. Students: Textbooks, notebooks.
III. TECHNIQUES: Games, self-discovery learning, discussion, pairs and group work.

TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES CONTENTS

I. WARM-UP (5 mins)
- Let students play the “” in 2 - Play a game in groups Suggested answers:
groups.
- The teacher divides the class into 1. Christmas
2 groups and asks students in each 2. Birthday
group to count numbers (1, 2, 3,
3. Tet (Lunar New Year)
…) and remember their number.
- Teacher shows a picture clue 4. Halloween
about a festival with a number on it. - 5. Mid-autumn festival
- The student with that number
must run to the board and write the
name of the festival.
- The fastest group with more
correct answers will be the winner.
- Teacher asks questions to lead in
the lesson.

II. PRE-READING
Activity 1: Present new words
(10 mins)
- Let sts watch the dialogue, guess New words
and elicit new words Decorate (v)
Celebrate (v)
Peach tree (n)
Apricot tree (n)
Lucky money (n)
- Ask students to read the words - Read aloud
Lion dance (n)
aloud
- Invite some students to read the
words and check pronunciation.
- Ask students to do actions in an - Do actions
interactive video to review the
vocabulary
III. WHILE-READING
Activity 2: Tarsia
- Ask students to work in groups - Do tarsia task
and arrange the pieces
- Ask students to read and decide - Do yes/no task
if the statements are True (Yes)
or False (No)
- Give feedback to the students - Listen and correct
IV. POST-READING: Mini role-
play
1. Lead-in
- Make a quick poll: “We learn - Raise hands
about celebrations. Which one
is your favorite? Birthday?
Mid-Autumn? Halloween?
Children’s Day? Christmas?
New Year’s Eve? Tet?”
- “Now, you will become festival
ambassadors. Each group will
introduce one celebration and
invite us to join!”
2. Groupwork
- Ask students to work in groups
of 4-5
- Form groups of 4-5 🧧 : Tet
- Prepare slips of paper with - Choose and guess their
emojis of 7 celebrations. celebration with emojis
- Let groups guess their : New Year’ Eve
 celebrations 🎃 👻🍬: Halloween
- Give requirement - Each group prepares for
their celebration in 5ms 🎄🎅 : Christmas
- Two group members give 🎂 🎉 🎁 : Birthday
a mini presentation about 🎈 🍭 🧸 🤹: Children’s Day
it � � 🌕 : Mid-Autumn
- Give students handouts with - Work in groups and
guiding prompts prepare - Guiding prompts:
+ Celebration: …
+ What do people do?
+ What do people eat?
+ How do people prepare?
+ Why do you like it?
…
- Go around and support weak - Sentence starters:
students with sentence starters + Our celebration is …
+ People usually …
+ People eat/ prepare …
+ I like it because …
…
3. Presentation
- Ask each group to present their - Ambassadors presents
celebration in 1 minute - Other groups act as
“visitors” and ask 1–2
short questions
- Ask students vote for the team - Vote
they like best (stickers)
- Give feedback - Listen and take note

4. Wrap-up
- Ask students “Which celebration - Raise hands
would you like to join?” Why?