Unit 6. Competitions

Pre-teaching vocabulary= competition n: contest n sự tranh tài,cuộc thi đấu stimulate = encourage v Khuyến khích, động viên... người đại diện khuyến khích ngâm thơ = encourage v: cont

Look at these pictures and guess the

name of the contest.

 Quiz: “Road to Mount Olympia”

 Sao Mai television singing contest

 Who want to be a millionaire ?

Olympic marathon

 Miss Universe

Ring the golden bell

World Cup

Unit 6: Competitions

A Reading

Answer the following question.

1 Do you like taking part in

competitions like these? Why/Why not?

2 Do you hope to win a competition?

If so, which competition do you like

to win?

3 Is winning the most important thing

in a competition? Why/Why not?

While you read

Read the passage and then do the tasks that follow

Pre-teaching vocabulary

= competition (n): contest (n)

sự tranh tài,cuộc thi đấu

stimulate = encourage (v)

Khuyến khích, động viên

Representative (n):người đại diện

Ex: Pham Huong is the _of Vietnam at the Miss Universe 2015

representative

Smoothly (adv): trôi chảy,

Recite (v) Ngâm thơ

Annual (adj) hằng nămSpirit (n) Tinh thần

Judge (n) Giám khảo

(v): Đánh giá, nhận xét

người đại diện

khuyến khích

ngâm thơ

= encourage (v):

contest (n)

smoothly (adv): trôi chảy,

judge (n): giám khảo

(v): đánh giá, nhận

xét

Match the words or phrases on the left with their definitions on the right

a without problems or difficulties

b to repeat ( a piece of poetry) before an audience

c a struggle for victory

d a person chosen or appointed on behalf of another person or a group

e encourage or make something more active

f happening or done once every year

1 Who took part in the annual final English Competition last Saturday?

2 What was the aim of the competition?

Task 2 Answer the question.

3 Who sponsored the competition?

4 What did each group of students have to

do during the contest?

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

6 What would be awarded to the winner?

1 Who took part in the annual final English Competition last Saturday?

→ The representatives of three

classes of the school took part in the competition

2 What was the aim of the

competition?

→ The aim was to stimulate the spirit

of learning English among student

question.

3 Who sponsored the

competition?

→ The Student’s Parents Society

sponsored the competition

4 What did each group of students have to do during the contest?

→ Each group had to complete five

activities in all On competition of each activity, they had to answer the

question in the worksheets within two minutes

5 What did the judges have to do

to choose the winner of the

competition?

The judges had to observe and score

student’s performance And 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.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

Task

3 and complete the sentences.Read the paragraph 3 again

1 In Activity 5, Hung was unable

This is the poem Hung recited at the final English competition Read and

translate it into Vietnamese

This is the poem Hung recited at the final English competition Read and

translate it into Vietnamese

Do you like the sky at night

When the stars are shining bright?

Do you like it in the day

When the clouds all go away?

What I like in the morning sun

Shining on me when I run

And I also like the rain 

Pattering on my windowpane

Home work:

- Learn by heart the new words.

- Prepare the next lesson: Unit 6 Speaking