Unit 6 - reading

.complain about her parents .tell Minh about the plan for her class trip .talk about what she and her classmates will do at Huong Pagoda Task 1: Choose the best answer A, B, C, D to

Unit 6: An Excursion

(Reading)

• Ngoc son Temple

• West Lake

• Cuc Phuong Forest

• Tuan Chau Island

• Cat Ba Island

• Huong River

• Phong Nha Cave

• Suoi Tien Park

• Trang Tien Bridge

• Ngu Hanh Son

• Nui Coc Lake

• Sapa

List of famous places in Vietnam

What place is it in each picture ?

Huong Pagoda

Huong Pagoda is located in Huong Son - 70 km southwest of Hanoi

Huong Pagoda Festival

attracts hundreds of thousands of people from all over the country at the beginning of each year’

1 Lan wrote the letter to .

inform Minh of her days off.

complain about her parents

tell Minh about the plan for her class trip .talk about what she and her classmates

will do at Huong Pagoda

Task 1: Choose the best answer A, B, C, D to

complete each of the sentences.

A

C

B

D

2.The students decided to go on an

excursion because they wanted to

understand their geography lessons better relax after work

have a camfire

A and B

Task 1: Choose the best answer A, B, C, D to

complete each of the sentences.

A

C

B

D

3.The students have changed their

decisions as Thay Pagoda.

it is impossible to visit caves near

it costs them a lot to visit

they prefer Huong Pagoda to

many of them have been to

Task 1: Choose the best answer A, B, C, D to

complete each of the sentences.

A

B

C

D

Task 2: Answer the questions

When are Lan and her classmates going on a trip?

Why are they visiting some caves?

What are the students’plans for their trip to

Huong Pagoda?

How far is Thay Pagoda from their school?

What is Lan anxious about? Why?

Answer Answer Answer Answer Answer

Lan’s class (1) A two-day excursion to visit (2) near

huong Pagoda

They (3) with their own eyes what they (4) in their

geography lessons recently and relax after their

hard work, as well

They have planned (5) carefully For Lan,the (6) is

getting her parents’permission She will try (7) so that she will be able to join (8) on the excursion

Fill each blank in the summary of the letter with

a suitable group of words from the box below

her classmates want to see their trip is going to go on

have learnt to persuade them some caves only problem Answer

weather

permission

Lan and her classmates are

visiting Huong Pagoda at the

end of the first term They

believe they will enjoy good

weather Lan hopes she can get her parents ’ permission to stay the night away from home.

Homework

Thien Mu pagoda - Hue

d On the left bank of the Huong River, 6 kilometres

1

more info

Ha Long Bay Quang –

Ninh

b Picturesque site, wonder of the world, 165

kilometres from Hanoi.

more info

One-Pillar Pagoda Ha

Noi

• a Built in 1049, in the shape of a lotus

more info

Da Lat holiday resort –

Lam Dong

• c Mountain resort (altitude:1,500m) with some

wonderful places to visit: Xuan Huong

more info

More info Thien Mu

Phuoc Duyen tower On the left bank of the

Huong River

• Thien Mu Pagoda is surrounded by

flowers and ornamental plants.A

romantic pine-tree forest is at the end of

More info - Halong Bay

• Ha Long Bay is made up of 1,969 islands of various sizes.

Trong Mai Bai Tho mountain

More info - Motcot

• One-Pillar Pagoda was built after the description of a dream of King

Ly Thai Tong.

More info - Dalat

Thach thao flower

• Da Lat is Vietnam’s botanical garden with relatively low temperature all year

Dalat in rain

• wonder (n) : an object that

causes great surprise and

a lower point ( thác nước)

New words

Lan wrote the letter to tell Minh about

the plan for her class trip.

Right!

2.A The students decided to go on an

excursion because they wanted to

understand their geography lessons better.

2.B The students decided to go on an

excursion because they wanted to relax after work

The students have changed their decisions as it is impossible to visit caves near.

Right!

You are wrong!

You are wrong!

You are wrong!

They are going on a trip when they

have some days off after the 1st

term.

They are visiting some caves because

they want to understand their geography lesson better and many of them have

never been inside a cave.

It’s only over 20 km.

They are going to make a two-day trip and have a night campfire They are

bringing some food and sharing buses with some other classes to make the trip cheap.

Lan is anxious about her parents’permission They may not want to let her stay the night away from home.

Lan’s class (1) is going to go on a two-day excursion to visit (2)

hard work, as well.

on the excursion.