This lesson teaches students about historical places in Vietnam, pronunciation through sentence stress, and vocabulary for describing places. It provides examples of historical sites in Vietnam and has students role play a conversation between a tour guide and visitor to practice sentence stress. The goals are for students to learn about historical places in Vietnam, sentence stress pronunciation, and vocabulary for describing places.

2. OBJECTIVES 3 Goals of the Lesson
In this lesson, you will learn:
Speaking: Historical Places
Pronunciation: Sentence Stress
Vocabulary: How to Describe a Place

3. HISTORICAL PLACES

4. WARM-UP
President Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum – Hanoi Capital
Hue Imperial City – Hue City
Thong Nhat Conference Hall – Ho Chi Minh City

5. PRESIDENT HO CHI MINH’S MAUSOLEUM

6. HUE IMPERIAL CITY

7. THONG NHAT CONFERENCE HALL
REUNIFICATION HALL
INDEPENDENCE PALACE

8. WARM-UP
Now, choose one!

9. •ceramic /sɪˈræm.ɪk/
VOCABULARY
•mausoleum /ˌmɔː.zəˈliː.əm/
•maintenance /ˈmeɪn.tɪ.nəns/
•imperial /ɪmˈpɪə.ri.əl/
•enclosure /ɪnˈkləʊ.ʒər/
•admission /ədˈmɪʃ.ən/
•bombardment /bɒmˈbɑːd-mənt/
•royal /ˈrɔɪ.əl/
•citadel /ˈsɪt.ə.del/

10. FACTS ABOUT A PLACE
1
• Location:
2
• Distance:
3
• Construction:

11. DESCRIBE A PLACE
If you were visitors, what would you want to know?
 Admission Fee
 Opening Time
?

12. DESCRIBE A PLACE
What are your favorite historical places?

13. ACTIVITIES
Imagine you are a visitor!
And one friend of yours
will be a tour guide.
We have a short
conversation between
the two of them.

14. ACTIVITIES
Now, change your character
and do the opposite!
Think of what the tour
guide can do to help the
visitor and vice versa.

15. SPEAKING ENGLISH NATURALLY
While doing the role play, pay attention to your sentence stress!
Good morning. Can I help you?
What words are important in the above sentence?
Good morning. Can I help you?

16. SPEAKING ENGLISH NATURALLY
If they are more important than the other words, speak them a
bit louder.
When do you want the tour to start?
You don’t have to put stress in every single words, just the
ones you think they are the key words of the sentence.

17. SPEAKING ENGLISH NATURALLY
Accuracy
Fluency
Without sentence stress, anyone will speak like a robot.
There will be no emotion in your speech!

18. CLOSING!
As a tour guide, can you
take the tour for your
teacher and classmates?

19. SUM UP
Today, what we have learned are:
Speaking: Historical Places
Pronunciation: Sentence Stress
Vocabulary: How to Describe a Place