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WARM-UP

KIM’S GAME

 Below are some very popular kinds of the mass media Look at the pictures and name all of them in 2 minutes.

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 Do you know who invented it?

 Marconi (1874 – 1937), an Italian inventor;

(December 12th, 1901)

What is this?

 Radio

 Work in pairs Ask and answer the questions

1 What is a radio used for?

2 How often do you listen to the radio?

3 How many hours per week do you listen to it?

4 What topics do you like listening to and why?

Mount Whitney

You are going to listen to two news stories.

Mount Whitney

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- Because of being lazy, he failed the exam.

- In spite of the heavy rain, they still had a nice holiday.

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leo trèo đầy mây, u ám

+ noun/ noun phrase /verb_ing

* Structures:

- Because of

- In spite of

Pre-listening task

 Read the following statements and guess if they are true or

false according to the news stories which you are going to listen

1 Some roads in some areas are under three metres of water.

2 Because of the bad weather, people stay at home.

3 A ninety-year-old woman has to stop climbing mountain because

of her old age.

4 Mount Whitney is the highest mountain in the U.S.

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News story 1 News story 2

Individual work

Heavy rain causes floods all over the country

Heavy rain during the night (1)……… all over the country today Many people (2)………because rivers (3) Some roads in the north-west are under (4) of water The rain (5) at the moment, but it’s still (6) and there’s a (7) Because of the bad weather, people can’t go out to work

90-year-old American woman climbs Mount Whitney.

A ninety-year-old woman has climbed Mount Whitney in California for the (1)………time At (2)…………metres, Mount Whitney is the highest mountain in (3)……… The woman says the view from the top is (4)………, so she tries to climb it often She also says that the mountain has kept her (5)……… In spite of her old age, the woman tries to climb the mountain very often

 Task 2 Listen to the radio news stories again and fill in

the missing word(s).

young and healthy

1 What has happened during the night?

2 Why have many people left their homes?

3 How many times has the old woman climbed Mount Whitney?

4 Why does she climb it so often?

 Task 3 Listen again, and find the answer for the

following questions

Pair work

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What has happened during the night?

 Heavy rain has caused floods all over the country

during the night.

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Why have people left their homes?

 Because rivers have risen.

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How many times has the old woman climbed Mount Whitney?

The old woman has climbed Mount Whitney twenty-three times.

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Why does she climb it so often?

 Because it has kept her young and healthy

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ISTEN ING

 Answer the following questions about the news stories Use the answers to those questions to tell your classmates about them Choose one of the news stories only.

News story 1

1 What has happened during the night?

2 Why have many people left their homes?

3 How deep are some roads under the

water?

4 Has the rain stopped at the moment?

5 Is there a strong wind?

6 Why can’t people go out to work?

News story 2

1 How many times has the old woman climbed Mount Whitney?

2 How high is Mount Whitney?

3 Is it the highest in California?

4 What does she say about the view from the top?

5 Why does she climb it so often?

6 Does she stop climbing mountain because of her old age?

Group work

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- Learn vocabulary by heart

- Prepare for the next lesson: Writing

Designed by Nguyen Hoang Linh

2009 - 2010

strong and well

a picture of an interesting place

the time of your life when you are old

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bài phóng sự, bài tường thuật

cao nhất

Vocabulary:

Checking vocabulary

1 We can enjoy the wonderful of London

from our office

2 Despite her , she still climbs Mount Whitney

3 Do you think Mount Whitney is the in

the world?

4 Because it is the plane can’t take off on time

5 He is too _ to drive to work.

 Fill each gap in the sentence with the words which

you have learned ( without books )

view

old age

highest

cloudy young