Unit 5 Cultural identity Lesson 7 Communication and culture.ppt

CULTURAL IDENTITY

1. Warm up

2. What are the names of the
cultural festivals?

3. Mid-Autumn Festival

4. Gong Festival

5. Do Son buffalo – fighting festival

6. Forest Worshipping

7. UNIT 5: CULTURAL IDENTITY
COMMUNICATION & CULTURE

8. I.Communication

9. Vocabulary
 migrate (v):
-> migrant (n):
Immigrant (n):
 to settle down :
 to pass down :
 mother tongue :
 first-hand ( adv):
di cư, di trú
người di cư
người nhập cư
ổn định
truyền
tiếng mẹ đẻ
trực tiếp, ngay

10. Activity 1
Listen to a talk by Ben Wilson, a sociologist
and psychologist, about preserving migrants’
cultural identity. Answer the questions.

11. 1. What are migrants encouraged to do in
a multicultural society?
2. What do migrants want to do when
they settle down in a new culture?
3. Tick the options you hear to summarize
the two ways for migrants to pass down
their culture to the next generation.

12. Answers.
1. They are encouraged to maintain their own
cultural identity.
2. They want to assimilate into the new culture, but
they also want to maintain their own culture.
3. a & c
+ The first way: encouraging all family members to
speak the mother tongue at home; travelling to
the home country regularly.
+ The second way: attending festivals celebrating
the migrants’ culture.

13. 2. Activity 2 : Discuss the question with a
partner.
What should people do to preserve their cultural
identity when they move to a new place?
-When people move to a new place, they can
preserve their cultural identity by :
+ organizing and participating in traditional festivals
in their community.
+ cooking traditional food for the family.
+ teaching children to speak their native language at
home.

14. II.CULTURE

15. Elephant Racing

16. Shuttlecock throwing

17. Tug of war

18. Blind man’s bluff

19. 1. Activity 1
Read the text about celebrations of
some ethnic groups in Viet Nam.
Write the names of the festival under
the pictures.
a. Elephant Racing Festival
b. Forest Worshipping Festival

20. Vocabulary
Highlight (v):
Strengthen (v):
Promote (v) = enhance (v):
Martial spirit :
Flock (v):
Worship(v):
To offer agricultural products :
Blind man’s bluff :
Shuttlecock throwing :
Tug of war :
Làm nổi bật
Tăng cường, củng cố
Nâng cao, thúc đẩy
Tinh thần thượng võ
Lũ lượt kéo đến
Thờ cúng, tôn kính
Dâng nông sản
( Trò chơi ) bịt mắt bắt dê
ném còn
Kéo co

21. 2. Activity 2: Read the text again and complete the table.
Elephant Racing FestivalForest Worshipping Festival
Location
Time
Ethnic
groups
Purpose
Activities
Dak Lak Province Ha Giang and Lao Cai Provinces
Annually , in March The first lunar month
M’Nong and Ede Nung and Dao
to promote the martial spirit of
the M’Nong and Ede people
- to worship the god of trees and
villagers who sacrificed their
lives to protect the village
- to pray for good health, fruitful
trees and favourable climate
- watching elephant race
- eating traditional food and
drinking rice wine
- dancing
- watching elephants play
soccer
- offering agricultural products
- signing a statement to protect
forests and plant trees
- playing folk games

22. 3. Activity 3: Discuss the question
with a partner.
Have you ever attended any ethnic cultural
festivals in Viet Nam ?
a. If yes, tell your partner where, when, how
and why the festival was celebrated.
b. If no, do you want to attend any?
Why or why not?

23. Homework
+ Learn new words and make sentences with
them.
+ Read and translate the text ( Culture) into
Vietnamese.
+ Write a cultural festival you know
( about 180-200 words )
+ Prepare Unit 5: Looking back and project.

24. Thank you for your attendance !