Unit 03: Listening- 0988 055 990

When do you like to organize your birthday party, during the day or in the evening?. Before you listen* Listen and repeat gathering restaurant prizes birthday cake decorated icing slices

present

/ gift

*Warm-up: Kim’s Game

flowers

*What do you think of when

you see these things?

A birthday party.

Before you listen:

Ask and answer the following

questions:

1 When do you like to organize your birthday party, during the day or in the evening?

2 What foods and drinks are often served at your birthday party?

3 What activities do you often have at your

birthday party?

I Before you listen

* Listen and repeat

gathering restaurant prizes birthday cake decorated icing slices clapped

cake

Eg: We are Eg: The decorated birthday cake gathering with pink and white at a new was beautifully restaurant icing .

*Listen and repeat:

• Gathering /'gæð ri /ə ɳ

• Decorated:/'dek reit/ə

• Restaurant: /'rest ront/ə

• Icing: /'aisi /ɳ

• Prizes: /prize/

• Slices: /slais/

• birthday cake: /'b :ə θdei keik/

• Clapped: /klæpid/

While you listen:

Set the scene:

You are going to listen

to a girl telling about a

birthday party that she

has been to Listen and

do the tasks:

Task 1: True/ False statements:

1.Mai’s birthday party was held at home in the evening

2.Over twenty guests were at the birthday party

3.The birthday cake was cut at the beginning of the party 4.The birthday party lasted about three hours

5.All the friends stayed after the party to tidy up the mess

F

F

T

F

At about 3 in the afternoon.

About 20.

At 4:30

Only the writer, Mai and Mai’s mother tidied up the mess.

F

*Task 2: Comprehension questions:

1.How old was Mai?

2.Why didn’t she like having her party at a restaurant? 3.What did Mai’s mother serve the guests at the

beginning of the party?

4.What time was the birthday cake brought?

5.What did all the guests do while Mai was cutting the cake?

6.What time did the birthday party finish?

1.How old was Mai?

She is sixteen years old

2.Why didn’t she like having her party at a restaurant?

Because it’s noisy and expensive

3.What did Mai’s mother serve the guests

at the beginning of the party?

Soft drink and biscuits

*Keys:

4.What time was the birthday cake

brought?

At about 4:30

5.What did all the guests do while Mai was cutting the cake?

They clapped their hands and sang “Happy

birthday”

6.What time did the birthday party finish?

At about 6 in the evening

*Keys:

After you listen

Supposed you were busy, you didn’t come

to Mai’s party Now, ask your friend

about Mai’s party.

• Place where the party was held

• When it began and ended

• Who came

• What the guests did there

(as many questions as possible)

What is it?