Unit 2: CULTURAL DIVERSITY - SPEAKING
I. Objectives:
1. Educational aim: Students can talk about the differences among cultures
2. Knowledge:
- General knowledge: Through this unit, students can talk about the differences
among cultures
- Know how to arrange opinions sensibly
- Language: Students use sentences, words, phrases and expressions for making their
view
3. Skills: Fluency in expressing opinion and expressions for making an opinion
II. Method: Integrated, mainly communicative
III. Teaching aids: Pictures, English textbook 12, hand-outs
IV. Procedures:
Teacher’s activities Student’s activities
Warm-up: (5minutes)
Checking the last lesson
- Call two students to go to the board.
Students 1 and 2: Talk about the differences between a
traditional family and a modern family they’ve written at
home.
- Ask the other students to comment about the talking.
- Feedback and give correction if necessary
- Lead the whole class to the topic of the lesson.
Pre-reading: (8 minutes)
Task 1:
We are going to talk about the differences among cultures.
- Ask students to express their point of view on the
followings ideas, using the words or expressions in the
box.
* In Vietnam, three or even four generations may live in
home.
* A happy marriage should base on love.
* In some Asian countries, love is supposed to follow
marriage not precede it.
* In some countries, a man and a woman may hold hands
and kiss each other in public.
- Listen to the students and give remark
While –speaking: (16munites)
Task 2:
- Ask students to work in pairs to discuss about the
- Listen to the teacher
-Read the paragraph in front of the
class
- Listen to the teacher
- Read the sentences given and work
in groups to discuss.
A: In my opinion, it is not good for
three or four generations to live in a
family because they will find it
difficult to sympathy their interests
and habits… and I agree that love is
supposed to follow marriage not
precede it.
B: I don’t agree with your ideas, I
think it is good to have three or four
generations living under one roof
because they can help each other a lot
- Work in pairs to discuss and give
their ideas about the differences
+ Give the culture in Vietnam.