Unit 14 Listening E11

Explain the new wordsListen and repeat campgrounds wilderness waterfalls giant trees depressed solitude + campgrounds : a place for camping.. Mary likes the solitude of the wilderness..

ENGLISH 11

Welcome to our English class

English 11

Unit 14: RECREATION

Part C: LISTENING

1 Go: .

2 Watch:

3 Read:

4 Listen:

5 Play:

Warm up TV, films, plays, football matches, etc

books, newspaper, magazines, etc

to music, radio, etc

the guitar, the piano, the violon, etc

Work in pairs: Find noun(s) to go with the under verbs to talk about entertainment activities picnic, fishing, sightseeing, shopping, swimming etc…

Eg: Go camping

Work in pairs: Look at the two under pictures, answer the

questions:

1 Who are they?

2 Where are they?

3 What are they doing?

1 Before you listen

Picture 1:

1 They are students.

2 They are in the countryside

3 They are going camping/ for a picnic

1 Who are they?

2 Where are they?

3 What are they doing?

1 They are tourists/ visitors

2 They are in a town.

3.They are going sightseeing

Picture 2:

Date: March 20 th 2008

Lesson C: Listening

I Pre- listening: Listen and repeat

Campgrounds(n):

Bãi cắm trại

Trash (n): rác

Wilderness ( n):

Miền hoang dã

Giant trees ( n):

Cây cổ thụ

Waterfalls ( n):

Thác n ớc

Depressed ( a):

Chán nản

Dirt bike (n):

Xe môtô địa hình

Solitude (n):

Sự biệt lập,cô độc

Explain the new words

Listen and repeat

campgrounds

wilderness

waterfalls

giant trees depressed solitude

+ campgrounds : a place for camping

+ wilderness : there is nobody live there ['wildənis]: vùng hoang vu

+ waterfalls : a stream that falls from a height

+ dirt bike : a bike is dirty

+ trash : = garbage

+ giant trees :big trees ['dʒaiənt]

+ depressed : sad and without enthusiasm

+ solitude :the state or situation of being alone without companion ['sɔlitju:d]

2 While - listening

Task1. Three students are talking about how they would like

to spend their holiday Listen and decide whether the statements are true (T) or false (F).

1 Ann doesn’t like summer weather

2 Anna usually spends two weeks in a national

park summer

3 Terry has never been to the mountains or the

desert in summer.Terry used to go

4 Terry is attracted to the beauty of nature

6 Mary enjoys the comfortable life in the cities

5 Mary likes the solitude of the wilderness

5 She doesn’t want to live in nature and enjoy

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1 What activities do Ann and her friends enjoy doing in the

national park?

2 Where can they sleep?

3 According to Terry, why aren’t the natural places as

beautiful as they used to be?

4 What does Terry think is also very important to the world?

5 Where does Mary spend most of her summer holidays ?

6 Why doesn’t Mary like camping?

 Task 2: Answer the

questions

- Because more and more people are coming to these places and leave trash in the forests and take rocks and plants with them.

3 According to Terry, why aren’t the natural places as beautiful as they used to be?

- Riding their dirt bike in the desert, taking showers in waterfalls and swimming in lakes and rivers.

1 What activities do Ann and her friends enjoy doing in the national park?

2 Where can they sleep?

- In sleeping bags or tents.

 Task 2: Answer the questions

4 What does Terry think is also very important to the world?

- He thinks nature is also important to the world.

5 Where does Mary spend most of her summer holidays ?

- In cities.

6 Why doesn’t Mary like camping?

- Because she can’t put up an umbrella tent in the wind or make a fire in the rain or carry a heavy backpack.

3 After you listening

* Suggestions:

When you have a camping holiday:

- helping us to learn more about the nature and how to survive

- feeling more confident

- relaxing and releasing stress after hard working hours

- learning to make good planning for a camping trip

- strengthening our health

- tightening friendship and improving the cooperative spirit

- getting close to nature and enjoy it.

- learning lots of things from real life/ nature.

 Work in pairs: List three advantages of a camping

holiday.

Homework Homework

- Write about 3 advantages and dis -advantages of having a camping holiday.

- Prepare part 4

- Do the Exs in workbook.

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