11/23/22

WARM-UP: Number the pictures.

1.
1 Do Son Buffalo fighting Festival
2.
2 Le Mat Snake Festival
3.
3 boat race
4. ao dai fashion show
4
5. Elephant Race Festival
5
6.
6 Cow Racing Festival
7. human chess
7
 New lessons
UNIT 4
LESSON 2: A CLOSER
LOOK 1
VOCABULARY
- preserve /prɪˈzɜːv/ (v) : bảo tồn, giữ gìn
- ritual /ˈrɪtʃuəl/ (n) : nghi lễ
- commemorate /kəˈmeməreɪt/(v) : tưởng niệm
- incense /ˈɪnsens / (n) : cây hương
(nhang)
- procession /prəˈseʃn / (n)
: đám rước
- companion /kəmˈpæniən/(n)
: bạn đồng hành
- competition /ˌkɒmpəˈtɪʃn/(n)
: cuộc tranh tài
- politician /ˌpɒləˈtɪʃn/ (n)
: chính trị gia
- good fortune / ɡʊd ˈfɔːtʃuːn / (n)
CHECKING VOCABULARY
- preserve /prɪˈzɜːv/ (v) : bảo tồn, giữ gìn
- ritual /ˈrɪtʃuəl/ (n) : nghi lễ
- commemorate /kəˈmeməreɪt/(v) : tưởng niệm
- incense /ˈɪnsens / (n) : cây hương
(nhang)
- procession /prəˈseʃn / (n)
: đám rước
- companion /kəmˈpæniən/(n)
: bạn đồng hành
- competition /ˌkɒmpəˈtɪʃn/(n)
: cuộc tranh tài
- politician /ˌpɒləˈtɪʃn/ (n)
: chính trị gia
- good fortune / ɡʊd ˈfɔːtʃuːn / (n)
VOCABULARY
1. Match the words to their meanings.

1. to preserve a. a show
b. an act of special meaning
2. to worship that you do in the same
way each time
3. a performance c. to keep a tradition alive
d. to remember and
4. a ritual celebrate something or
someone
e. to show respect and love
5. to commemorate for something or
someone
2. Complete the sentences using the words in 1.
1. The Giong Festival is held every year to
commemorate Saint Giong, our traditional hero.
_____________

2. At Huong Pagoda, we offer Buddha a tray of

worship him.
fruit to _________

preserve
3. Thanks to technology, we can now __________
our culture for future generations.
4. In most festivals in Viet Nam, the _______
ritual
often begins with an offering of incense.

performance is about the

5. The Le Mat Snake ____________
history of the village.
3.Match the nouns with each verb. A noun can
go with more than one verb.
a ceremony a show a celebration
an anniversary a hero good fortune
a ritual a god a reunion

1. WATCH ________________________________

2. HAVE __________________________________

3. WORSHIP ______________________________

4. PERFORM ______________________________
Pronunciation:

Stress in words ending in:

–ion and –ian
4. a. Look at the table below. What can you
notice about these words?
compe’tition
competition commemo’ration
commemoration proce’ssion
procession
preser’vation
preservation con’fusion
confusion ma’gician
magician
mu’sician
musician vege’tarian
vegetarian com’panion
companion
4. b. Now listen and repeat the words.

compe’tition commemo’ration

proce’ssion preser’vation

con’fusion ma’gician

mu’sician vege’tarian

com’panion
5. Listen and stress the words below.
Pay attention to the endings.

1. proce’ssion
procession 5. poli’tician
politician
2. com’panion
companion 6. mu’sician
musician
3. pro’duction
production 7. 7.
historian
his’torian
4. compe’tition
competition 8. li’brarian
librarian
–ion –ian
6. Read the following sentences and mark (‘) the
stressed syllable in the underlined words. Then
listen and repeat.
1. Elephants are good com’panions
companions of the
people in Don Village.
2. The elephant races need the participation
partici’patio
of young riders. n
3. The elephant races get the a’ttention
attention of the
crowds.
4. Vietnamese his’torians
historians know a lot about
festivals in Viet Nam.
5. It’s a tra’dition
tradition for us to burn incense when
we go to the pagoda.
- Learn the new words by heart.
+
- Practice pronunciation “-ion”, “-ian”
again.
- Do exercises A1, 2 in workbook (page 36).
- Prepare Unit 5: Closer look 2.
 Goodbye!
See you again!