Unit 4-READING

to announce v: báo, loan báo announcement n: sự loan báo, công bố to recite v: đọc to đoạn văn, bài thơ … bằng trí nhớ/ kể lại to apologize to S.O for S.th/ doing S.th: xin lổi ai vì đi

TEACHER: HO MINH THUAN

READING (Page 66)

Look at the photos Match each

of them with the words below:

PAIR WORK

F

B

C

E

F

F

Beauty contest contest (n):

contest (v):

contestant (n):

cuộc thi tranh đua

thí sinh

What are they?

They are judges.

judge (n)

to judge (v): xét đoán

to announce (v): báo, loan báo

 announcement (n): sự loan báo, công bố

to recite (v): đọc to (đoạn văn, bài thơ …) bằng trí nhớ/ kể lại

to apologize (to S.O) (for S.th/ doing S.th): xin lổi ai vì điều gì

Listen to the reading

TASK 1

Match the words or phrases on the left with their

definitions on the right

a without problems or difficulties

b enthusiasm and energy

c altogether or as a total

d a person chosen or appointed o behalf of

another person or a group

e encourage or make something more active

f happening or done once every year

a without problems or difficulties =

b enthusiasm and energy =

c altogether or as a total =

d a person chosen or appointed o behalf of

another person or a group =

e encourage or make something more active =

f happening or done once every year =

representative

annual stimulate

in all spirit

smoothly

LUCKY NUMBERS

1 Who took part in the annual

final English Competition?

 The representatives of three

classes of the (writer’s) school.

Number 2 is a lucky number

You’ve got 2 points

2 What was the aim of the

competition?

 Its aim was stimulate the spirit

of learning English among

students.

3 Who sponsored the

competition?

sponsored by the Students’ Parents Society.

Number 5 is a lucky number

You’ve got 2 points

4 What did each group of students

have to do during the contest?

 They had to complete five activities

in all On completion of each

activity, they had to answer the

questions in the worksheets within two minutes.

5 What did the judges have to do to choose the winner of the competition?

 They had to observe and score the

students’ performance A maximum

score for each activity was 15 At the end

of the competition they would announce the total score of each group The group that got the highest score would be the

winner.

Number 8 is a lucky number

You’ve got 2 points

6 What would be awarded to the winner?

 The winner would be awarded

a set of CDs for studying English and an Oxford Advanced

Learner’s Dictionary.

Task 3.

Sentence completion

1 In Activity 5, Hung was unable

2 Having achieved the highest score,

Group B

to recite/ complete the poem He could not remember the last sentence.

became the winner of the competition

3 Group C lost the game because they just got

4 Nga encouraged her group by saying

60 points

“For me the most important thing was our participation in the competition and the enjoyment we had from it”

Translate into Vietnamese the poem

on page 68.

Vocabulary

 to patter (v): rơi lộp độp (mưa)

 windowpane (n): khung cửa kính

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