Activity 1: Warm-up · 5 minutes
Festival Brainstorm
a) Aims
Ss activate prior knowledge about festivals and get ready for the topic words.
b) Content
Ss look at the festival pictures on the screen and answer T's questions: What festivals do you know? What do people do at festivals? Ss call out ideas, and T writes them on the board in two columns: Festivals / Activities.
c) Expected outcomes
A board list of festivals (e.g., Tet, Christmas, Halloween, Mid-Autumn Festival) and activities (e.g., dancing, eating, wearing special clothes, watching fireworks), which links to the target words.
d) Organisation
Teacher's activities
Students' activities
Teacher
Step 1: Task delivering
T shows the festival pictures and asks: What festivals can you see? What do people do at these festivals?
Students
Ss look at the pictures and think about the answers silently for 30 seconds.
Teacher
Step 2: Task performance
T invites Ss to call out names of festivals and activities, and writes them on the board in two columns.
Students
Ss work in pairs, then call out answers. Expected answers: Tet, Christmas, Halloween; eating special food, wearing costumes, watching fireworks.
Teacher
Step 3: Report and discussion
T asks several Ss to read their ideas aloud and asks: Which activities are in a parade? Which ones need costumes?
Students
Ss answer: Parades have people in costumes; people watch fireworks at night.
Teacher
Step 4: Conclusion and assessment
T praises good ideas and says: Today we will learn words about festivals around the world. Write the title: Festivals around the world.
Students
Ss copy the title into their notebooks and get ready for the new words.