Bài giảng Unit 13: Hobbies -Listening

- get facts/ information - relax by reading comic/ picture books - enrich our knowledge …... Reading helps the writer to know many things.. According to the writer, by reading he does no

Good morning!

Class 11A6

What is it?

1 It is a noun with 4 letters

2 It can be your friend or even your teacher

3 It gives you knowledge about the world

4 It can be found in a library.

BOOK

Unit 13: Hobbies

C: Listening

Before you listen :

What are benefits of reading books?

- get facts/ information

- relax by reading comic/ picture books

- enrich our knowledge …

New words: Listen and repeat

+ bygone (adj): past

+ gigantic (adj): very big, very great

+ ignorant (adj): lack of knowledge

+ jungle (n): tropical forest

+ profitably (adj): beneficial

+ Otherwise (adv): another way

While you read

Task 1: Listen and decide whether the statements are

true ( T ) or false ( F )

1 The writer started his hobby when he was young T/F

2 His parents were interested in reading fairy tales and other

stories to him T/F

3 The writer didn’t start with ABC books T/F

4 Now he reads all the books available T/F

5 Reading helps the writer to know many things T/F

6 According to the writer, by reading he does not have study

hard T/F

7 The writer is able to know about a tiger through reading T/F

8 Books might help him in his daily life T/F

1 The writer started his hobby when he was young T

2 His parents were interested in reading fairy tales and

other stories to him F

got fed up with having to read to him continually

3 The writer didn’t start with ABC books F

started

4 Now he reads all the books available F

just about anything that is available

5 Reading helps the writer to know many things T

6 According to the writer, by reading he does not have

study hard T

7 The writer is able to know about a tiger through reading

T

8 Books might help him in his daily life T

Task 2: Listen again and fill in the each blank with a

word from a box (there are more words than answers

The (1) thing about reading is that I do not have to learn

things the very hard way For example, I do not have to catch a

(2) to know that it can kill me I know the danger so I can avoid

it Also I do not have to go deep into the (3) to find out about tigers I can read all about it in a book.

Books provide the reader with so many facts and so much information They have (4) helped me in my daily life I am

better equipped to cope with living Otherwise I would go about

(5) learning things the hard way.

wonderful beautiful disease facts ignorantly

forest certainly danger certainly jungle

The wonderful thing about reading is that I do

not have to learn things the very hard way For

example, I do not have to catch a disease to know

that it can kill me I know the danger so I can avoid

it Also I do not have to go deep into the jungle to

find out about tigers I can read all about it in a book

Books provide the reader with so many facts and

so much information They have certainly helped me

in my daily life I am better equipped to cope with

living Otherwise I would go about ignorantly

learning things the hard way

So I continue to read Reading is indeed a good hobby

Work in groups Talk about the disadvantages

of over reading

Becoming a bookworm

Eyes become weaker /

shortsighted

not having enough physical exercise

2

1

• Write a short paragraph about the advantages of reading or the disadvantages of over- reading

about 100 words.

• Prepare for the next period of writing