Unit 14. Freetime fun

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Thirty years ago Today

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TV in Viet Nam

Thirty years ago in Viet Nam, very few people had TV sets These owners were very popular After dinner, their neighbors gathered both inside and outside their houses Some watched through the windows

All evening, they sat and watched the black and white programs The older people might sleep a little and the children might play with their friends, but no one went home until the TV programs finished

Times have changed Today, many families have

TV set People sit in their own living rooms and watch TV Life is more comfortable now, but many neighbors don’t spend much time together any more

I New words.

- a TV set (n) Cái TV (máy/ đài truyền hình)

- TV owers (n)

Tập trung, tụ tập

Những người có TV

- Gather (v)

- Inside >< outside (prep)

- Throught (prep) qua

- Comfortable (adj) tiện nghi

- sleep (v)

- change (v)

PLEIKU,1975 PLEIKU,2011

ngủ

Thay đổi

a Thirty years ago in Viet Nam, a lot of

people had TV sets.

b These TV owners were very popular.

c The neighbors gathered to watch color

programs in the evenings.

d Now they don’t spend much time together.

e A few people have TV sets today.

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a Thirty years ago in Viet Nam, very few

people had TV sets.

c The neighbors gathered to watch black and

white programs in the evenings.

e Many people have TV sets today.

* T/ F PREDICTIONS

II Grammar.

Eg: The older people might sleep a little and the children might play with their friends.

III Practice.

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TV in Viet Nam

Thirty years ago in Viet Nam, very few people had TV sets These owners were very popular After dinner, their neighbors gathered both inside and outside their houses Some watched through the windows

All evening, they sat and watched the black and white programs The older people might sleep a little and the children might play with their friends, but no one went home until the TV programs finished

Times have changed Today, many families have

TV set People sit in their own living rooms and watch TV Life is more comfortable now, but many neighbors don’t spend much time together any more

In 1960s, most (1) in Viet Nam did (2) have a (3) set The people with TVs were (4)… In the (5)… , the neighbors would (6) around the TV (7) would stay until the TV programs finished Viet Nam is different (8) More families (9) a TV set and (10) is more comfortable But neighbors don’t (11) each other as well as they did in the past

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Complete the summary.

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Thirty years ago/Viet Nam/few

people/ have/TV sets.

Work in groups

Evening/they/sit/watch/black/ white programs.

Today/families/have/a TV set. People/sit/living rooms/ watch TV.

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Thirty years ago/Viet Nam/few people/ have/TV sets

Thirty years ago in Viet Nam, very few people had TV sets

Evening/they/sit/watch/black/white programs

All evening, they sat and watched the black and white programs

Today/families/have/a TV set

Today, many families have a TV set

People/sit/living rooms/ watch TV

People sit in their own living rooms and watch TV

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Times have changed Today,

many families have a TV set

Thirty years ago in Viet Nam,

very few people had TV sets. All evening, they sat and watched the black and white programs.

Today, many families have a

TV set.

People sit in their own living rooms and watch TV.

* ANSWER THE QUESTIONS

1 Did a lot people have TV sets 30 years ago?

2 What did they watch?

3 What might the older people do?

4 Did anyone go home before the TV

programs finished?

5 Where do people watch TV now?

- Learn the new words by heart Read the Passage again and summary it.

- Prepare B1,2