Eng 11 Advanced Unit 2 Embarrassing Experience

He saw many people talking full of people he did not know.. He saw many people talking merrily merrily and there was a and there was a pause pause in the conversation in the conversat

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 What is “experience”?

 Uncountable Noun: the knowledge and skill that

you have gained through doing something for a period of time.

 Countable Noun: an event or activity that affects

you in someway.

The First Party

He arrived at his relative’s house for dinner and found the room full of people he did not know He saw many people talking

full of people he did not know He saw many people talking merrily merrily

and there was a

and there was a pause pause in the conversation in the conversation as he passed by He

thought: “Everyone is looking at me.” This made him

thought: “Everyone is looking at me.” This made him nervous nervous

When he heard someone ask him his name, he thought: “They must all have noticed how nervous I am.” So he avoided catching anyone’s eye and looked around for someone he knew, but

and looked around for someone he knew, but in vain in vain He wondered He wondered if he would ever be able to think of anything to say and started to feel uncomfortably hot The louder people talked the more he thought:

“I really don’t belong here.” and “Nothing I could think of to say would interest these people.” This made it harder for him to join in the conversation, so he kept

conversation, so he kept quiet quiet and retreated into his shell and retreated into his shell , aware , aware of how

inept he had to be in other people’s eyes He looked out for a way of leaving early, hoping that he could

leaving early, hoping that he could slip away slip away without drawing without drawing too much

attention to himself The next day he could not stop thinking about how

he must have appeared to the other people there

he must have appeared to the other people there Images Images came to mind and

and brought back brought back all the embarrassment all the embarrassment and nervousness He decided

that he would never do that again Other thought also went through his mind, about how hard it was to make friends, and how

mind, about how hard it was to make friends, and how inadequate inadequate he felt

felt compared compared to other people He wondered if he could ever change, as

he had always been

he had always been shy shy Other shy people seemed to have managed to

grow out of it, so he also asked himself whether there was something wrong with him The longer this train of thoughts went on, the more

dispirited and sadder and sadder he felt many days after his first party experience he felt many days after his first party experience

1 merrily /'merili/ merrily /'merili/ (adv): vui vẻ

 merry (n): vui mừng.

2 pause /pɔ:z/ pause /pɔ:z/ (n): sự tạm dừng

3 conversation /kɔnvə'seiʃn/ conversation /kɔnvə'seiʃn/ (n): cuộc trò chuyện

 conversationist (n): người có khiếu ăn nói

 conversational (adj): (thuộc) sự chuyện trò

 to converse: đàm thoại

4 nervous /'nə:vəs/ nervous /'nə:vəs/ (adj): lo lắng

 nervousness (n): sự lo lắng

5 in vain: vô ích

6 wonder /'wʌndə/ wonder /'wʌndə/ (v): tự hỏi

 wonder (n): kì quan

 wonderful (adj): tuyệt diệu, kì lạ

7 quiet /’kwaiət/ quiet /’kwaiət/ (ad): im lặng

 quietly (adv): yên tĩnh

10 slip (v): lẻn lút, lẫn trốn

 slip away: chuồn, trôi qua (thời gian)

11 inept /i'nept/ inept /i'nept/ (adj): lạc lõng

 ineptness (n): sự lạc lõng

12 drawing / drawing / 'drɔ:iη/ (n): sự kéo, sự lấy ra

13 attention /ə attention /ə 'tenʃən/ (n): sự chú ý

14 image / image / 'imidʒ/ (n): hình ảnh

 imaginary (adj): tưởng tượng, ko có thực

 imaginative (adj): giàu trí tưởng tượng

 imagination (n): sự tưởng tượng

15 bring back: gợi lại

16 embarrassment / embarrassment / im'bærəsmənt/ : sự ngại ngùng

 embarrassed (adj): lúng túng

 embarrassing (adj): bối rối

 to embarrass sb: làm ai bối rối

17 inadequate / inadequate / in'ædikwit / (adj): không tương xứng

≠ adequate (adj): tương xứng

 inadequateness (n): sự không tương xứng

 inadequately (adv): không thoả đáng

18 compare / compare / kəm'peə/ (v): so sánh

 comparison (n): sự so sánh

 comparative (adj): so sánh

 comparatively (adv): tương đối

19 shy /ʃai/ shy /ʃai/ (adj): mắc cỡ

 shyness (n): sự nhút nhát

20 grow out of sth (= to overcome): vượt qua

21 dispirited /di dispirited /di 'spirətəd/ (adj): chán nản

 dispiritedness (n): sự chán nản

 dispiritedly (adv): chán nản

 to dispirit: làm chán nản

22 experience / experience / iks'piəriəns/ (n): kinh nghiệm, sự việc, sự kiện

 to experience: trải qua

 experienced (adj): giàu kinh nghiệm

23 to sadden / to sadden / 'sædn/ (v): làm cho ai buồn

 sad (adj): buồn

 sadly (adv): một cách buồn bã

 sadness (n): sự buồn rầu

a) Check () whether the following statements are true (T)

or false (F) For the false statements, write the true

3 To him, making friends was easy

4 He was able to grow out of his shyness

5 The dinner party had an impact on him for a

b) Read the first paragraph and list

 two pieces of information related to the sense

of sight.

_ _ He saw many people talking merrily and there

was a pause in the conservation as he passed by _ He arrived at his relative’s house for dinner and

found the room full of people he did not know.

 one piece of information related to the sense of

hearing When he heard someone ask him his name, he thought: “They must all have noticed how

nervous I am.”

This is t he st ory about

t he girl t hat he r most

e mbarrassing e xpe rie nce happe ne d a f e w ye ars ago, whe n she was a

grade 9 st ude nt He r bigge st dre am was a re d hat – a f loppy cot t on like

t he one he r wore in he r vide o clip.

S he got on t he bus and sat down ne xt t o a schoolboy

about he r age First ly, t he boy glance d at he r and t urn away The re was a sne aky look on his f ace , but she didn’t t hink much about it

Af t e r, she t urne d round and not ice d t hat t he boy’s schoolbag is ope n

And she saw a wad of dollar not e s e xact ly like t he one s

he r f at he r had give n S he

re cognize d t hat t he not e s in

he r own bag had gone S he was sure t hat t he boy was a

t hie f S he didn’t want t o make a f uss, so she t ook he r mone y back f rom his schoolbag and put t he m in he r own bag.

Wit h t he mone y, she bought t he pre t t y hat of

he r dre ams.

Whe n she got home , she showe d it t o he r f at he r

“How did you pay f or it ?” he aske d “Wit h t he mone y you gave me f or my birt hday, of course , Dad” she re plie d

“Oh? What ’s t hat t he n?” he aske d, as he point e d t o a

wad of dollar not e s on t he

t able

Can you imagine how she

f e lt t he n??!

1 Excited 4 Embarrassed 2.

2 Frightened 5 Disappointed 3.

3 Surprised 6 Angry

MATCHING

“ My My most most embarrassing embarrassing experience happened when I was in grade 2 I used to go

to study drawing every Saturday One day, I went to

rushing to come to class; therefore, I didn't pay attention to the classroom number.

number

The first story

I sat down and realized the picture on the blackboard was very similiar, then I looked around and saw everyone's face were strangers Right away, I figured out that I had came in the wrong class room

I stood up and came to the

for interrupting you, it's not

Everyone was laugh at me I was so embarrassed This was

situation that I would never forgot in my life.”

My most embarrassing experience happened when I was in grade 7 In

difficult One day, my teacher taught my class how to answer some simple questions from foreigners

are you from?, Can you tell me the

the foreigners talked very fast and

it was too hard to hear and understand Luckily, I had learnt the lesson carefully.

the lesson carefully

The second story

Some days after, we went to

English Centre and met lots of

foreigners When we were playing together, the married couple

And we said:"Hi!" They asked:

Where are you from? We didn t

know what they said My friend

them laugh at us a lot We were so shy and embarrassed; therefore,

Until now, whenever thinking of

that accident, I still feel so

embarrassed.