Unit 06 a excursion reading

On this occasion, my class is visiting some caves Beside, many of us have never been inside a cave, so I suppose the trip will be very interesting.. At first, we wanted to travel to Tha

TEACHER: VU THI DUNG

Class: 10c12

UNIT 6: AN EXCURSION

PART A: READING

GROUP OF ENGLISH

GAME: DO YOU LIKE TRAVELLING?

You will choose the provinces you want

to visit on the map You have to tell

exactly the places by using the cues

It is the place where Uncle Ho went aboard

to find out the way to save the nation.

It is one of the beautiful biggest

bridges in Asean countries.

Cues:

HAU GIANG

HO CHI MINH CITY

It is a pagoda in the shape of a lotus

which was built in 1049.

It is a mountain resort whose altitude is 1500m

with some wonderful places to visit: Xuan

Huong Lake, pine forest, waterfall,…

Cues:

altitude: chiều cao so với

mặt nước biển

HA NOI

HIGHLAND PROVINCES

It is a picturesque site which was recognized

as The Natural Heritage of the World (Wonder

of the world) by Unesco.

It is a pagoda which is on the left bank of

Huong River.

QUANG NINH

HUE

Da Lat

Ha Long Bay

Thien Mu Pagoda

One Pillar Pagoda

Nha Rong Habour

My Thuan Bridge

A B

Ha NoiQuang Ninh

Hue

Highlands

HCM CityHau Giang

PART A: READING

I PRE- READING

1 Small talk:

a Have you ever traveled to these places?

b Do you like to make an excursion to one of these places?

Dear Minh,

I’m writing to tell you a piece of news The first term is

coming to an end soon and my school is going to have some

days of On this occasion, my class is visiting some caves

Beside, many of us have never been inside a cave, so I

suppose the trip will be very interesting.

At first, we wanted to travel to Thay Pagoda because it is only

However, only today have we learnt that the caves near Thay Pagoda are closed until after Tet So we are visiting the ones

trip will be a great event in our schooldays! To make the trip cheap, we are bringing our own food and sharing buses with some other classes.

It is much warmer now I believe we’re going to enjoy good

weather with lots of sunshine.

The only problem I seem to have is getting my parents’

permission They may not want to let me stay the night away

That’s all for now Give my love to your parents and sister.

Yours,

3 Pre-teach vocabulary

Excursion(n): a short journey for pleasure

Day off( n): day’s holiday

Campfire(n): fire in a camping

To persuade: try to get agreement

Permission(n): = allowance

Formation(n): rock formation

As = because (conj)

Cave (n)

II WHILE READING

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

complete each of the sentences

1 Lan wrote the letter to _

A inform Minh of her days off

B complain about her parents

C tell Minh about the plan for her class trip

D talk about what she and her classmates will do at

Houng Pagoda

2 The students decided to go on an excursion because they wanted to _.

A understand their Geography lessons better

B relax after work

C have a campfire

D A and B

3 The students have changed their destination as Thay Pagoda.

A it is impossible to visit the caves near

B it cost them a lot to visit

C they prefer Huong Pagoda

D many of them have

been to

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II WHILE READING

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

complete each of the sentences

1 Lan wrote the letter to _

A inform Minh of her days off

B complain about her parents

C tell Minh about the plan for her class trip

D talk about what she and her classmates will do at

Houng Pagoda

C

2 The students decided to go on an excursion because they wanted to _.

A Understand their geography lessons better

B Relax after work

C Have a campfire

D A and B

D

3 The students have changed their destination as Thay Pagoda.

A it is impossible to visit the caves near

B it cost them a lot to visit

C they prefer Huong pagoda

D many of them have

been to

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A

2 Task 2 Answer the following questions

1 When are Lan and her classmates going on a trip?

2 Why are they visiting some caves?

3 How far is Thay Pagoda from their school?

5 What is Lan anxious about? Why?

4 What are the students’ plans for their trip to

Huong pagoda?

2 Task 2 Answer the following questions

1 When are Lan and her classmates going on a trip?

2 Why are they visiting some caves?

3 How far is Thay Pagoda from their school?

They are going on a trip when the first term is coming

to an end and they have some days off

They are visiting some caves because they have recently

studied rock formation/(want to understand their geography lesson better) and many of them have never been inside a cave

It is only over 20 km

5 What is Lan anxious about? Why?

4 What are the students’ plans for their trip to

Huong Pagoda?

They are going to make two-day trip and have a night campfire They are bringing their own food and sharing buses with some other classes to make the trip cheap

Lan is anxios about her parents’ permission

because they may not let her stay the night away from home

2 Task 2 Answer the following questions

3 Task 3 Fill each blank in the summary of the letter with a

suitable group of words from the box bellow

Lan’s classmates (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

is going to go on

have learnt

their triponly problem

to persuadeher classmates

III POST-READING

Listen to some statements Decide whether these

statements are True or False(T/F)

1 The first term of Lan’s school have just ended

2 They decide to visit Houng Pagoda first and Thay Pagoda

later

3 There is a night campfire on their trip

4 They have to buy their food along their way to Houng Pagoda

5 They are going by buses with other classes to make the

HOMEWORK

- Learn new words

- Summarize the letter

- Prepare part B: speaking

Visit some famous places

Know some plans for an excursion