unit 2- speaking

What is the teacher talking about ?=> He is talking about one of his experiences 2.. Today, we will talk about past experiences and how they affect your life.... Task 1: Match the things

One morning I got up late It was half past six and school began at 7 I quickly washed my

face, brushed my teeth, dressed, jumped on my motorbike and drove to school When arriving at school, I went straight into the class and greeted

my students All the students began laughing I couldn’t understand why Suddenly, I looked down and realized that I had put on one brown shoe and one yellow shoe That is one of the most memorable experience in my life I often

feel embarrassed when thinking of it.

• 1 What is the teacher talking about ?

=> He is talking about one of his experiences

2 Why did all the students laugh when the

teacher came in?

=> Because he put on one brown shoe and

one yellow shoe

3 How did it affect him ?

=> He often feels embarrassed when thinking of it.

Today, we will talk about past experiences and how they affect your life.

ENGLIS H 11

Ex: 1/ He makes me laugh whenever

we talk to each other

2/ He makes me happy

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Task 1: Match the things you might have

done in box A with how the experience might have affected you in box B

A B

1 Speaking English to a

native English speaker

2 Being seriously ill

3 Travelling to other parts

1 Speaking English to a native English speaker

makes you more interested in learning English

2 Being seriously ill makes you appreciate your

health more

3 Traveling to other parts of the country makes

you love your country more

4 Failing an exam teaches you a lesson and

makes you study harder

5 Talking to a famous pop star changes your

attitude to pop star

Match the things you might have done in box A with how the experience might have

affected you in box B

(Pair work)

Task 2: A student talking to her friend about one of her past experiences And how it affected her The lines in their conversation are jumbled Put them in the correct order,

then practice the dialogue

A native speaker

1 B: Have you ever spoken English to a native speaker?

2 D: Yes, I talked to an English girl last summer.

3 H: How did you meet her?

4 A: I was walking along Trang Tien Street when an

English girl came up to me and asked me the way to Hoan Kiem Lake I told her, then we started talking about the lake.

5 E: What did you talk about?

6 G: Everything about the lake: its name, the great

turtles in it, etc ……

7 C: How did the experience affect you?

8 F: Well, it made me more interested in learning English .

Task 3:

Underline the structures used to talk about past experiences in the dialogue in Task 2, then use the structures and the ideas in

Task 1 to make similar dialogues.

* The structures used to talk

about past experiences in Task 2:

• Have you ever spoken English to a native speaker ?

• How did you meet her ?

• What did you talk about ?

• How did the experience affect you ?

Useful structures:

• Have you ever…………?

• How did it happen?

• When did it happen?

• How did the experience affect you?

1 Present perfect: Sử dụng với “ever’’ để nói về

trải nghiệm trong quá khứ (ai đó đã từng làm gì ) Ex: + Have you ever been to Nha Trang?

2 Past simple: Được sử dụng khi tiếp tục nói về

trải nghiệm đó

Ex: + When did you go there ?

+ Who did you go with?

+ Did you enjoy your visit to Nha Trang?

A: Have you ever been seriously ill?

B: Yes, and I had to be away from home for nearly two weeks

A: How did you become so ill?

B: I was in the rain in a winter

afternoon for hours.

A: How did that happen?

B: Well, I went for a picnic and didn’t bring my raincoat.

A: How did the experience affect you?

B: It made me appreciate my health

more.

A Have you ever travelled to other parts of the country?

B Yes I did last summer.

A Where did you travel ?

B I travelled to Da Lat

A How did you go there ?

B Well, by coach

A How did the experience affect you?

B It made me love my country more.

A Have you ever failed an exam

B Yes I did once

A.What exam did you fail?

B: I failed in an entrance exam to high school.

B Well, I didn’t study very well for it.

A How did the experience affect you?

B It taught me a lesson and made me work harder.

• Learn all new words by heart.

• Make a similar dialogue based on

the structure given.

• Prepare the Listening Part of Unit 2

in advance.