CHU VAN AN SCHOOL
TEACHING PLAN
Prepared by Nguyen Thi Thu Huong Period: UNIT 2 : CULTURAL DIVERSITY
( A / READING)

Date of preparation: August 7
th
- 2009
Class: 12C1,C2,A2,A4
I/ AIMS:
- By the end of the lesson Ss will be able:
1/ Knowledge: To review tenses in use.
2/ Skill : To use verb forms correctly.
3/ Attitude: To be confident before starting the new school year.
II/ PREPARATIONS:
- Notebooks, chalks, board.
III/ PROCEDURES
Period : …
A/ AIMS
- By the end of the lesson Ss will be able to understand the passage about cultural diversity.
- Help Ss to guess the meaning in context .
- Skill : Reading for gist and for specific information
- Teaching methods: integrated and mainly communicative.
B/ PROCEDURES:
Time Teacher’s
activities
Students’
Activities
Contents of lesson
5.minutes
9 minutes

+ Sts answer (it’s
up to sts)
+ T gives
comments
Lead in: In
today’s lesson, we
will focus on the
different ideas
about love and
marriage of the
Americans and
Asians.
Lead in the lesson
+ Ask Ss to open
the textbook and
read the task 1 .
+ Read aloud or
play the tape and
ask Ss to listen
the text once.
+ Help ss to study
the new words in
the text.
I. II. WARM UP
Look at their books and answer the questions:
Which of the follwing factors is the most impotant for a
happy life ?
1. love
2. money
3. parents’ approval

4. a nice house / flat
5. a good job
6. good health
III. PRE-READING Vocabulary:
1. precede / pri:si:d/ (v) happen before sth or coem
before sth/sb in order.
2. confide / k nfaid/ (in sth )(v) tell cb secrets and
personal information bc you feel you can trust in
them.
Ex: It is important to have someone you can confinde in.
3. partnership / pa:tn ip/ (n) the state of being a
partner in business.(chung phần / cộng tác)
+ be in partnership with sb
+ go into partnership with sb
4. determine / dit :min/ (v) offically or arrange sth.
(quyết định)
+ be determined to do sth : ( quyết tâm / kiên quyết)
5. sacrifice / s krifais/ (sth for sb/sth ) (v) : to give up
sth that is ipmortnat or valuable to you in order to
get or do sth that seems more important for yourself
or for another person .( hy sinh)
Ex: She sacrificed everything for her children.
6. oblige / blaid / ( to do sth) ( bắt buộc)
1
+ Play the tape
and ask Ss to
listen to
+ Pre- teaching
vocabulary
+ T gives

example to help
Ss to understand
+ T takes note and
give ttheir
meaning
+ Read aloud
these words and
ask Ss to repeat
= to force sb to do sth ( by law becaause it si duty.)
+ be obilged to sb for sb / doing sth : used when you are
expressing thanks or asking politely for sth
To show that you are greatful to sb ( biết ơn ai vì việc
gì)
7. counterpart / k unt pa:t/ (n) a person or thing that has
the same position or function as sb/sth else in a different
place or situation. ( đối tác/ tương ứng)
18 minute
+ T ask Ss to read
the text again in
silent and then do
the tasks
+ T asks Ss to
read the passage
and answer the
questions
+ Sts work in
single and then
compare the
answers with the
partners

+ Sts read the
passage and
answer the
questions
+ Sts Read aloud
the answers
+ T Give
feedback and
IV. V. WHILE-READING
TASK 1: Guiding questions
Suggested answers
1. They are Trust build on Love: Physical
attractiveness: Confinding: Partnership of equals.
2. The young Americans are much more concerned
than the young Indians and the Chinese with
physical attractiveness when choosing a wife or a
husband.
3. The Indian students agree that a woman has o
sacrifie more in a marriage than a man.
4. The American wofe trust her husband to do the right
thing because he loves her not he has to.
5. The main finding of the survey is that young Asians
are not as romantic as American courterparts.
TASK 2: Multiple choice
and decide to choose the correct answers by holding up the
card A, B or C
Here are the sentences on the chart
1. Americans believe in ……….. marriage – a boy and
a girl attracted to each other, fall in love and decided
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12 minutes
comments
+ 5 minutes to
read the passage
+ Each group
receives three
cards A, B or C
+ Read the
sentences on the
board and hold up
the card A,B or C
+ Divide the class
into four groups
+ Set a limit time
for 5 minutes for
Ss to read the
passage
+ Give each
group three cards
A, B and C
+ Hang on a chart
and tell the
groups to read
+ Read the
answers and give
the reasons of
their choice
+ Read each
sentences and
check the answers

with the whole
class
+ Ask Ss to give
the reason of their
choice
to marry each other.
A contractual B romantic C lucky
2. Asians believes in ………… marriage – the parents of the
bride and the groomdecide on the marriage.
A traditional B romantic C contractual
3. The Americans agree that a wife should maitain her
beauty and ………..after marrige..
A character B personality C appearance
4. the majority of Asian students reject the American view
that marriage is ………..
A a partnership of equals B based on love
C to sacrifice
5. More Asian students agreed that a husband is obliged to
tell his wife ……….
A where he has been B about his work
C about his secrets
6. Young Asians are not as ………… as tehir Americans
couterparts.
A trustful B hard-working C romantic
+ Suggested answers
1. B
2. C
3. C
4. A
5. A

6. C
VI. POST-READING
Suggested ideas
A traditional Vietnamese family
- There are a lot of children in the family
- Parents often decide who their chikdren will marry
- Wives never decide tio do things in the family without
asking their husbands’ opinions. Men often achieve a
dominant position in the family. The father is the head of the
household who presents authority and makes all the
important decisions. His wife is reponsilible for tehdomestic
side of family life.
- Men rarely cook meals in the kitchen. Cooking is
considered women’s task.
A modern Vietnamese family
- There are only two children intehfamily
- Parents let their children decide whom they will marry
- Both the father and the mother work to earn the living
- The mother takes care of the housework and the children
with the help of the father
- The father can look after his children and help in the
house, even his wife doesn’t go out to work.
VII. Homework:
- learning the old lesson by heart
- Preparing next lesson.
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+ Discuss to find
out the features of
traditional and
modern

Vietnamese
family .
+ Present the
groups’ ideas
+ T asks Ss to
work in groups
to discuss and
find out the
features of a
traditional
Vietnamese
family and the
other discuss to
find out features
of a modern
Vietnamese
family.

+ T moves around
the class to
control and give
help if necessary
+ T invites the
groups’ opinions
+ T gives
feedback and
make comments
CHU VAN AN SCHOOL
TEACHING PLAN
Prepared by Nguyen Thi Thu Huong Period: UNIT 2 : CULTURAL DIVERSITY

( B/ SPEAKING)

Date of preparation: August 7
th
- 2009
Class: 12C1,C2,A2,A4
I/ AIMS:
- By the end of the lesson Ss will be able:
1/ Knowledge: To review tenses in use.
2/ Skill : To use verb forms correctly.
3/ Attitude: To be confident before starting the new school year.
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II/ PREPARATIONS:
- Notebooks, chalks, board.
III/ PROCEDURES
Period:..
A/ AIM
- By the end of the lesson Ss will be able to know about some typical features of different cultures and talk
about the differences and similarities between Vietnamese and American culture.
- Skill: Speaking in fluency and accuracy
- Teaching methods: integrated and mainly communicative
B/ PROCEDURE
Time Teacher’s
activities
Students’
Activities
Contents of lesson
- -
+ Divide the class
into 4 groups

+ T asks Ss to give
the correct answers
in each sentences
Work in groups
+ Read the
following questions
one by one and
choose the correct
answers
Discuss in each
group to choose the
correct answers
+ Read the answers
and check with the
class
* Write the answers
on the board
+ Listen to the
teacher’asking
I.WARM UP.
Game: Good luck or bad luck ?
1/ In Britain, what does a black cat mean ?
A good luck B bad luck C a feature
2. On the day of her weeding, what mustn’t a Chinese bride
do ?
A have a bath B look into a mirror C clean her shoes
3. In France, what reature brings you good luck ?
A a mouse B a spider C a fox
4. In Vietnam, what does it mean if you sneeze once ?
A someone is aying sth good about you .

B someone is saying ath bad about you
C Someone is in love with you .
5. In China, which color is a symboy of good luck and
happiness ?
A red B white C pink
6. InVietnam, what does it mean when it starts to rain on the
weeding day ?
A The couple will be poor
B The couple will be happy
C The couple will be rich .
.+ Suggested answers
1. A
2. B
3. C
4. A
5. A
6. C
II. LEAD IN
You know, people of different cultures have different belief and
concepts of happiness. Today, we’ll get to talk about the
differences among cultures of some countries in the world.
III. PRE-SPEAKING.
Useful expressions
Expressions to express the points of view.
+ I think / feel / believe …..
+ In my opinion / In my point of view / As far as I am
concerned / For me ………
+ I agree / I don’t agree / It’s not true because ….
+ Perhaps you ae right, but ……/ I think it’s wrong to ……
+ I don’t really have any strong opinions about ….

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+ Elicit some
useful expressions
to express the
points of view from
Ss .
+ Work in pairs
+ Sts show their
opinion in front of
the class
+ Call on some Ss
to present their
ideas.
+ Give feedback
and comments
+ Ask Ss to work in
pairs to express
their points of view
upon the sentences,
using words or
expressions in the
box.
+ Invite class
opinions and go
over the answers
with the class.
+ Make comments
+ Ask Ss to work in
pairs, discussing

and finding out the
correcsponding
features of the
Vietnamese culture.
+ Discuss and find
out the
corresponding
features of
Vietnamese culture
+ Present the ideas
+ Shall we come back to that later ?
IV. WHILE -SPEAKING
ACTIVITY 1: What is your view points ?
+ Hang on a chart with the following sentences
1. In Vietnam, three and four generations may live in a
home.
2. A happy marriage shpuld be based on love .
3. In some Asian countries, love is supposed to follow
marriage, not precede it.
4. In Vietnam, a man and a woman may hold hands and kiss
each oethr in public
Suggested answers
A: I think A happy marriage shpuld be based on love
B: I quite agree with you. Life will be terrible if there is not
true love between a husband and a wife.
A. But In some Asian countries, love is supposed to follow
marriage, not precede it.
B. For me.I don’t think it’s true. How can two peoplewho
don’t love each other live hapily in the same house?
ACTIVITY 2: Discussion

Work in pairs: Discuss and find out the corresponding features
of Vietnamese culture
In America In Vietnam
+ Two generations (parents
and children ) live in a home.
+ Old-aged parents live in
nursing homes.
+ It is not polite to ask
questions about age, marriage
and incoem.
+ Ameticans can greet anyone
in the family first.
+ Groceries are bought once a
week.
+ Christmas and New Year
holidays are the most
important
+ Children sleep in their own
bedrooms
+ Three or sometimes four
generations live under the same
roof.
+ Elders live with children and are
taken care by their son, daughters-
in-law or daughters.
+ Asking age,marriage and salary
are acceptable.
+ A Vietnamese greets the head of
the family or an older person first,
then the young ones.

+ Tet is the most important
+ The vietnamese celenrate dead
days. They prepare meal and often
invite tehir relatives and friends to
get together and talk about good
respect of the dead person.
+ Young children often sleep with
their parents.
ACTIVITY 3: Discussion
Take turn talking about the similarities and the differences
between the Vietnamese and American cultures
Suggested answers
Differences: American culture:
- Most of the Americans are individualists.
- People always ask if it’s OK when they want to smoke
- People often kiss friends on the cheek when they meet to
express friendliness.
- Young people usualy live in their own houses or flats
after marriage.
- Teenagers go out on dates a lot.
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