Unit 12 writing (golden chalk 2009)

UNIT 12: THE ASIAN GAMESLESSON 4: WRITING VOCABULARY: - upgrade v: nâng cấp - recruit v: Tuyển mộ = organize : - hold v Tổ chức - official song n: Bài hát chính thức - facilities n:

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UNIT 12: THE ASIAN GAMES

LESSON 4: WRITING

VOCABULARY:

- upgrade (v): nâng cấp

- recruit (v): Tuyển mộ

= organize :

- hold (v) Tổ chức

- official song (n): Bài hát chính thức

- facilities (n): Những tiện nghi

Matching the words in column A with phrases in column B

1 build

2 Upgrade

3 widen

4 equip

5 promote and

advertise

6 Recruit

7 hold

a hotels, guest houses with modern facilities

(also special services for disabled athletes )

b training areas and roads to sports buildings

c one more National Stadium, some sports

buildings and car parks.

d competition to choose an official song

e Volunteers to serve the Games ( university

teachers and students with good Enlish )

f National Sports Centres and local stadiums

(because they are not in good conditions )

g preparations for the Asian Games on the

radio and TV.

1 Facilities

2 Advertisement

build one more National Stadium, some sports buildings and car parks.

upgrade National Sports centers and local stadiums.

Widen training areas and roads to sports buildings

Equip hotels, guest houses with modern facilities

Promote and advertise preparations for the Asian Games on the radio and TV.

Hold competition to choose an official song.

Recruit volunteers to serve the Games (university teachers and students with good English)

Form of the paragraph

Preparations of Vietnam for the coming Asian Games

1 Topic sentence

2 Supporting sentences

- facilities

- advertisement

3 Concluding sentence

* Connectors:

First of all/

Moreover/

Next/ Then/

And/…/ Finally

* Verbs: future tenses; active and passive voices

1 Facilities

build one more National Stadium, some sports buildings and car parks.

upgrade National Sports centers and local stadiums.

Widen training areas and roads to sports buildings

Equip hotels, guest houses with modern facilities

Form of the paragraph

Write a paragraph of about 120 words to describe the

preparations of Vietnam for the coming Asian Games

1 Topic sentence

2 Supporting sentences

- Facilities

- Advertisement

3 Concluding sentence

* Connectors:

First of all/

Moreover/

Next/ Then/

And/…/ Finally

* Verbs: future tenses; active and passive voices

2 Advertisement

Promote and advertise preparations for the Asian Games on the radio and TV.

Hold competition to choose an official song.

Recruit volunteers to serve the Games (university teachers and students with good English)

To prepare for the coming Asian Games , we have a lot

of things to do

First of all we will build one more National Stadium and car parks The national Sports centers and local stadiums need upgrading because they are not in good condition

And we will widen training areas and roads to sports

buildings.

Then we have to equip all the hotels guess houses with

modern facilities

Finally we will recruit volunteers such as university

techers and students who are good at English to serve the Games and hold a competition to choose an official song One more important thing is that we need to promote and

advertise the preparations for the Games on TV or radio.

We hope that Vietnam will be a host country to organize the Asian Games in the near future.