Unit 5. Higher education

Task 1: Read the passage and find out who: Three students talk about their first impressions of university life.. attended the party on the first weekend at college.. On the first week

English

Matching these Vietnamese names

of some universities with their

Before you read

Before you read:

Ask and answer the

funny

sadlonelylucky challenging

1 Campus (n) /'kæmpəs/: khuôn viên trường

2 Fight back tears /'fait bæk tiəs /: nén khóc

3 Blame (v) /bleim/: đổ lỗi

4 Daunting (a)/'dɔ:ntiη/: chán nản

5 Amazing (a) /ə'meiziɳ/ sửng sốt, ngạc nhiên

6 Scary (a) /'skeəri/: sợ hãi

7 Challenge(v) /'t∫ælindʒ/: thử thách

Challenging (a): tính thử thách

8 Mate (n) /meit/: = friend: bạn

9 Creative (a) /kri:'eitiv/ : tính sáng tạo

Creativity (n) /kri:ei'tiviti/: sự sáng tạo

10 To get on with sb: hòa thuận với ai

11 Be used to + V-ing: quen với việc gì

Checking: Match the words in column A with their meaning in column B

while you read

Task 1:

Read the passage and find out who:

Three students talk about their

first impressions of university life Read the passage, and then do the tasks that follow

Who are three students?

Sarah Ellen Brenden

Who? Sarah Ellen Brende n

a attended the party on the

first weekend at college.

b didn’t get on very well

with the roommate.

c was not used to meeting

different people every day

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Task 2:

Answer the following questions:

6 5

4

3 2

AFTER you read

Task 1: Fill in the blanks with given words

scary challenging amazing daunting excited

lonely

1 On the first weekend, Sarah was ,

because she didn’t have to explain to her parents where she was going However, she

felt………… after attending a party with her

roommate, because no one attended her existence.

2 Having problems with her roommate, Ellen

thought college was a little………She felt

………….but a little………after seeing the same

people over and over for many year.

3 Brenden’ first year at college was probably the best and most ……… year of his life, because

he had a lot of chances to use his creativity and

knowledge to help society.

scary

excit ed

challenging

scar

y

amazin g

dauntin g

lonel y

Task 2: Using these adjectives to tell about your

felling when you start the first days in a

university

I will be …… when I start the days in a university, because…

-Learn by heart new words

-Imagine and write a

paragraph (about 80 words) to tell about your felling when

you start your first week in a university

- Prepare the next lesson

Home work

1 On the first weekend Sarah .

A went out with her new friends

B walked around campus

C went out with her roommate to a party

D All are correct

UNIVERSITY

2 Sarah felt so lonely at the party _

A because she didn’t see any one

B because she couldn't dance

C because no one paid attention to her existence

D because they were busy eating

UNIVERSITY

3 Ellen didn’t get along well with her

roommate because

A her roommate let the windows open all the time

B her roommate went to bed at 10 evey night

C her roommate blamed Ellen’s typing and having

a light on while she was trying to sleep

D All are correct

UNIVERSITY

4 Brenden thought that his first year at

college .

A was the best and most challeging year of his life

B was the boring time of his life

C gave him a chance to use his creativity and

knowledge to help society

D A, C are correct

UNIVERSITY

5 The social calendar of the colleges

provides Brenden .

A plenty of time to make new friends

B plenty of opportunities to meet non-engineering students as well as other engineers

C plenty of time to play sports

D plenty of chance to go sightseeing

UNIVERSITY