Activity 1: Warm-up · 4 minutes
Who Is Your Guest?
a) Aims
Ss recall how people introduce each other and activate interest in the topic of cultural diversity.
b) Content
T shows a picture of a school festival and asks Ss to think about how they would introduce a foreign guest to their class. Ss answer the questions: 1) What do you say when you meet a new guest? 2) What would you like to know about a guest from another culture? Then T writes the words DIVERSITY and CULTURE on the board and asks Ss what they think they mean.
c) Expected outcomes
Ss list 2–3 polite expressions for meeting someone (e.g. Hello, Nice to meet you) and give a short guess of the meaning of diversity (variety of people and cultures) and culture.
d) Organisation
Teacher's activities
Students' activities
Teacher
Step 1: Task delivering
T shows the festival picture and says: 'Imagine a guest from another country is visiting our class. How will you introduce them?' T gives the two questions on the board.
Students
Ss look at the picture and listen to the questions carefully.
Teacher
Step 2: Task performance
T gives Ss 1 minute to write their ideas on small whiteboards or paper, and walks around to check.
Students
Ss write polite greetings and questions they would ask a guest, for example: 'Nice to meet you', 'Where are you from?'.
Teacher
Step 3: Report and discussion
T asks 3–4 Ss to share their expressions and writes them on the board. T asks: 'What does diversity mean?'
Students
Ss share their answers. Possible answers: 'Nice to meet you', 'Welcome to our school'. For diversity, Ss may say 'many different kinds of people or cultures'.
Teacher
Step 4: Conclusion and assessment
T confirms the useful expressions and gives the meaning of diversity (sự đa dạng) and culture. T says: 'Today we will learn how to introduce a guest politely and understand a text about culture.'
Students
Ss copy the key words and the title of the lesson into their notebooks.