Activity 1: Warm-up and review · 5 minutes
Tet Word Chain and Review
Aims
Ss recall familiar Tet words and activities, and get ready for the new structure.
Content
Ss play a quick word chain game in teams. T says a Tet word, and each team must say a related word or activity in English within 5 seconds. Then T asks: “What do you usually do at Tet?” (Ss answer with simple sentences such as “We visit our grandparents.”)
Expected outcomes
Ss name at least five Tet words or activities in English, and two simple sentences about their usual Tet activities.
Procedure
Teacher's activities
Pupils' activities
Teacher
T divides the class into four teams and explains the word chain rules: each team says one Tet-related word in turn, with no repeats and a 5-second limit per turn.
T writes “Tet” in the centre of the board.Pupils
Ss form four teams, sit in groups and listen to the rules.
Teacher
T starts the chain with “Tet”. Ss continue the chain, e.g. Tet – lucky money – flowers – relatives – visit – clean – decorate. T marks each correct word with a tick on the board.
Pupils
Ss take turns saying words, e.g. “lucky money”, “flowers”, “relatives”, “decorate”, “clean”, and check their words with their team members.
Teacher
T asks the whole class: “What do you usually do at Tet?” and calls on two or three Ss to answer.
Pupils
Ss answer in simple sentences. Expected answers: “We clean the house.” / “We visit our grandparents.” / “I give my grandma lucky money.”
Teacher
T praises the teams and writes the activity words on the board: clean, visit, make banh chung, decorate. T says: “Today we will learn how to talk about our Tet plans.”
Pupils
Ss repeat the key words after T and note them in their notebooks.