English 11

- Winning the most important thing in a competition?. Who took part in the annual final English competition last Saturday?. What did the judges have to do to choose the winner of the c

UNIT 6- COMPETITIONS

Grade 11

reading

• Warm up

Can you guess

what we call

the activity in

the clip?

Pre- reading: give the name to the pictures

Work in pairs to answer the

questions:

- Do you like taking part in competitions like this? Why? Why not?

- Do you hope to win a competition?

- Winning the most important thing in a competition? Why? Why not?

While reading

• New words

- To stimulate (v) ['stimjuleit] :

- To sponsor (v) ['sp nsə] ɔ :

- To complete (v) [kəm'pli:t] :

- Judge (n) ['d d ] ʒʌ ʒ :

- Performance (n) [pə'f :məns] ɔ :

- Smoothly (adv) ['smu:đli]:

- To recite (v) (a poem) [ri'sait] :

Kớch thớch Tài trợ

Hoàn thành Giỏm khảo

Sự trỡnh bày

Mượt mà Ngõm thơ

Task 1: Match the words of phrases on the

left with their definitions on the right

1 Representative

2 Annual

3 Stimulate

4 In all

5 Spirit

6 Smoothly

a Enthusiasm and energy

b Without problems or difficulties

c Altogether or as a total

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

Task 2: Answer the questions

1 Who took part in the annual final English

competition last Saturday?

2 What was the aim of the competition?

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

speaker’s school took part in the annual final English Competition last Saturday.

2 What was the aim of the competition?

 Its aim is to stimulate the spirit of learning

English among students.

3 Who sponsored the competition?

 The Students’ Parents Society sponsored

the competition.

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

contest?

 They had to compete five activities in all On competition of

each activity, they had to answer the questions in the

worksheets within 2 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 has 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 Learners’ Dictionary.

Task 3: Read paragraph 3 again and complete the sentences

1 In activity 5, Hung was unable _.

2 Having achieved the highest score, Group B

_.

3 Group C lost the game because they just got _.

4 Nga encouraged her group by saying:

_.

became the winner of the competition.

60 points

“For me most important thing was our participation in the competition

and the enjoyment we had from it.”

After you read

• Listen to the tape and work in

groups of 4 to translate the poem into Vietnamese.

HOMEWORK

2, Read and translate the poem in “post

reading” part (page 68) in the textbook into Vietnamese.