unit 9 - reading (ctc11)

Thanh Ba Post Office has a ………and pleasant front office 2.. What services are offered at Thanh Ba Post Office.. Mail and Parcel Service, Express Money Transfer b.. Mail and Parcel Serv

Warm up:

* Game: What service is this?

1

 Mail service

2

 Express Money

Transfer Service

3

 Phone Calls Service

4

 Press Distribution

Service

Warm up:

UNIT 9 THE POST OFFICE

Lesson A: Reading

I Before you read:

II While you read:

III After you read:

I VOVABULARY

1 spacious /'spei∫əs/ (a) :large and with a lot of space

2 courteous /'kə:tiəs/ (a) : polite

3 surface mail /'sə:fis'meil/ (n) : a way of sending letters… by

road, sea or train and not by aircraft

4 facsimile /fæk'siməli/ (n): an exact copy, especially of a

document

5 speedy /'spi:di/ (a): very fast

6 subscribe /səb'skraib/ (v) : to pay money to an

organization in order to receive a product, use a

service regularly or support the organization

Checking vocabulary: Fill in each blank with one of them There

are more words than needed.

spacious (a) speedy (a) facsimile(n) surface mail (n)

equipped (v) courteous (a) subscribe (v)

1 Thanh Ba Post Office has a ………and pleasant front office

2 This ……… and secure service of transferring money can be useful

3 When I was a child, I used to read Dickens in the ………

4 Our well-trained staff are always ……… to customers

5 The magazine is trying to get more readers to………

6 You choose to send your letters by air or ………

speedy

subscribe

spacious

facsimile courteous

surface mail

II While you read:

Activity 1: Choose the best answer:

1 What is Thanh Ba Post Office equipped

with?

a advanced technology

b advanced technology and has a spacious

and pleasant front office

c a well – trained staff

2 What services are offered at Thanh Ba

Post Office?

a Mail and Parcel Service, Express Money

Transfer

b Mail and Parcel Service, Express Money

Transfer, Phone Calls and Faxes

c Mail and Parcel Service, Express Money

Transfer, Phone Calls and Faxes, Press

Distribution

3 According to the text, what ways are there to send

a letter?

a They are air mail and surface mail

b They are surface mail and the Express Mail Service

c They are air mail, surface mail and the Express Mail Service

4 What is the Messenger Call Service used for?

a It is used for notifying the recipient of the time and place to receive the call

b It is used for notifying the person who makes a call of the time to make the call

c It is used for notifying the recipient of the time and place to make the call

5 What will you have to do if you want to get your newspapers and magazines delivered to your

home?

a You will have to go out early to buy your daily newspapers

b You will have to subscribe to your favourite newspapers and magazines

c You will have to go to the post office to buy your favourite newspapers and magazines

Task 2: Decide whether the following statements are True (T) or False (F) Tick () in the right column.

1 You can make a phone call at Thanh Ba Post Office at 10 p.m.

2 You can save some money if you send a parcel which is under 15

kg.

3 The post office offers a special mail service which is particularly

fast.

4 Your relative will have to wait till some next days to get the

money you send today.

5 Facsimile service can not keep the original shape of a document.

T F

√

√

√

√

√

(can’t)

(will not)

(can)

AFTER YOU READ

WORK IN GROUP : ANSWER THE

QUESTIONS

1 Which service provided by Thanh Ba

Post Office do you think is the most

important and why ?

2 What services do you think Thanh Ba

Post Office should have in the future ?

Postal savings

Learn by heart new words and services of Thanh Ba Post Office

THE END

TEACHER: CAO VĂN TUÂN