Eng 11 Advanced Unit 2 Embarrassing Experience

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1 Phạm Kim Thanh Ngân (Real Life + M.C)

2 Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngọc (Tasks)

3 Huỳnh Nguyễn Quỳnh Như (Pictures, Music, Clips)

4 Trần Thị Toàn Tâm (Volcabulary)

5 Nguyễn Hoàng Duy Uyên (Designer + M.C)

6 Huỳnh Nhã Uyên (Pictures, Music, Clips)

 What is “experience”?

 Uncountable Noun: the knowledge and skill that you have gained through doing something for a period of time.

 Countable Noun: an event or activity that affects you in someway.

The First Party

He arrived at his relative’s house for dinner and found the room full of people he did not know He saw many people talking

full of people he did not know He saw many people talking merrily merrily

and there was a

and there was a pause pause in the conversation in the conversation as he passed by He

thought: “Everyone is looking at me.” This made him

thought: “Everyone is looking at me.” This made him nervous nervous When he heard someone ask him his name, he thought: “They must all have noticed how nervous I am.” So he avoided catching anyone’s eye and looked around for someone he knew, but

and looked around for someone he knew, but in vain in vain He wondered He wondered if he would ever be able to think of anything to say and started to feel uncomfortably hot The louder people talked the more he thought:

“I really don’t belong here.” and “Nothing I could think of to say would interest these people.” This made it harder for him to join in the conversation, so he kept

conversation, so he kept quiet quiet and retreated into his shell and retreated into his shell , aware , aware of how

inept he had to be in other people’s eyes He looked out for a way of leaving early, hoping that he could

leaving early, hoping that he could slip away slip away without drawing without drawing too much

attention to himself The next day he could not stop thinking about how

he must have appeared to the other people there

he must have appeared to the other people there Images Images came to mind and

and brought back brought back all the embarrassment all the embarrassment and nervousness He decided

that he would never do that again Other thought also went through his mind, about how hard it was to make friends, and how

mind, about how hard it was to make friends, and how inadequate inadequate he felt

felt compared compared to other people He wondered if he could ever change, as

he had always been

he had always been shy shy Other shy people seemed to have managed to

grow out of it, so he also asked himself whether there was something wrong with him The longer this train of thoughts went on, the more

dispirited and sadder and sadder he felt many days after his first party experience he felt many days after his first party experience

1 merrily /'merili/ merrily /'merili/ (adv): vui vẻ

 merry (n): vui mừng.

2 pause /pɔ:z/ pause /pɔ:z/ (n): sự tạm dừng

3 conversation /kɔnvə'seiʃn/ conversation /kɔnvə'seiʃn/ (n): cuộc trò chuyện

 conversationist (n): người có khiếu ăn nói

 conversational (adj): (thuộc) sự chuyện trò

 to converse: đàm thoại

4 nervous /'nə:vəs/ nervous /'nə:vəs/ (adj): lo lắng

 nervousness (n): sự lo lắng

5 in vain: vô ích

6 wonder /'wʌndə/ wonder /'wʌndə/ (v): tự hỏi

 wonder (n): kì quan

 wonderful (adj): tuyệt diệu, kì lạ

7 quiet /’kwaiət/ quiet /’kwaiət/ (ad): im lặng

 quietly (adv): yên tĩnh

10 slip (v): lẻn lút, lẫn trốn

 slip away: chuồn, trôi qua (thời gian)

11 inept /i'nept/ inept /i'nept/ (adj): lạc lõng

 ineptness (n): sự lạc lõng

12 drawing / drawing / 'drɔ:iη/ (n): sự kéo, sự lấy ra

13 attention /ə attention /ə 'tenʃən/ (n): sự chú ý

14 image / image / 'imidʒ/ (n): hình ảnh

 imaginary (adj): tưởng tượng, ko có thực

 imaginative (adj): giàu trí tưởng tượng

 imagination (n): sự tưởng tượng

15 bring back: gợi lại

16 embarrassment / embarrassment / im'bærəsmənt/ : sự ngại ngùng

 embarrassed (adj): lúng túng

embarrass sb: làm ai bối rối

17 inadequate / inadequate / in'ædikwit / (adj): không tương xứng

≠ adequate (adj): tương xứng

 inadequateness (n): sự không tương xứng

 inadequately (adv): không thoả đáng

18 compare / compare / kəm'peə/ (v): so sánh

 comparison (n): sự so sánh

comparatively (adv): tương đối

19 shy /ʃai/ shy /ʃai/ (adj): mắc cỡ

 shyness (n): sự nhút nhát

20 grow out of sth (= to overcome): vượt qua

21 dispirited /di dispirited /di 'spirətəd/ (adj): chán nản

 dispiritedness (n): sự chán nản 

dispirit: làm chán nản

22 experience / experience / iks'piəriəns/ (n): kinh nghiệm, sự việc, sự kiện

 to experience: trải qua

 experienced (adj): giàu kinh nghiệm

23 to sadden / to sadden / 'sædn/ (v): làm cho ai buồn

 sad (adj): buồn

 sadly (adv): một cách buồn bã 

sadness (n): sự buồn rầu

a) Check () whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F) For the false statements, write the true information

1 The character in the text was a sociable

person

2 He felt nervous and embarrassed among other

people

3 To him, making friends was easy

4 He was able to grow out of his shyness

5 The dinner party had an impact on him for a

b) Read the first paragraph and list

 two pieces of information related to the sense

of sight.

_ _ He saw many people talking merrily and there

was a pause in the conservation as he passed by _ He arrived at his relative’s house for dinner and

found the room full of people he did not know.

hearing

When he heard someone ask him his name, he thought: “They must all have noticed how nervous

I am.”

This is the story about the girl that her most embarrassing

experience happened a few years ago, when she was a grade 9 student Her biggest dream was a red hat – a

floppy cotton like the one her wore in her video clip.

When her father knew this,

on her birthday, he gave her some money so that she

could buy the hat for herself She was extremely excited and decided to go to the shop right now

She got on the bus and sat down next to a schoolboy about her

age Firstly, the boy glanced at her and turn away There was a sneaky look on his face, but she didn’t think much about it After, she turned round and noticed

that the boy’s schoolbag is open

And she saw a wad of dollar notes exactly like the ones her father had given She recognized that the notes

in her own bag had gone She was sure that the boy was a thief She didn’t want to make a fuss, so she took her money back from his

schoolbag and put them in her own bag.

With the money, she bought the pretty hat of her dreams.

When she got home, she showed

it to her father “How did you pay for it?” he asked “With the money you gave me for my

birthday, of course, Dad” she replied “Oh? What’s that then?”

he asked, as he pointed to a wad

of dollar notes on the table

Can you imagine how she felt then??!

1 Excited 4 Embarrassed 2.

2 Frightened 5 Disappointed 3.

3 Surprised 6 Angry

MATCHING

“ My My most most embarrassing embarrassing

experience happened when I was

in grade 2 I used to go to study drawing every Saturday One day, I went to school late and was

therefore, I didn't pay attention to the classroom number.

the classroom number

The first story

I sat down and realized the picture on the blackboard was very similiar, then I looked around and saw everyone's face were strangers Right away, I figured out that I had came in the wrong class room I stood

up and came to the teacher and said:

“I'm sorry for interrupting you, it's not my class , I have to leave.” Everyone was laugh at me I was so embarrassed This was the worse embarrassing situation that I would never forgot in my life.”

My most embarrassing experience happened when I was in grade 7 In those day, I wasn’t good at learning English because it was very difficult One day, my teacher taught my class how to answer some simple questions from foreigners such as: What’s your name?, Where are you from?, Can you tell me the way to go

talked very fast and it was too hard to hear and understand Luckily, I had learnt the lesson carefully.

lesson carefully

The second story

Some days after, we went to English Centre and met lots of foreigners When we were playing together, the married couple came They talked

to us: “Hello!” And we said:"Hi!" They asked:

“Where are you from?” We didn’t know what they said My friend answered: “Thank you” That made them laugh at us a lot We were so shy and embarrassed; therefore, they said

again: “Where are you from?” At that time I

remembered the lesson, so I said: “We’re from

Ho Chi Minh city” They smiled with us Until

now, whenever thinking of that accident, I still feel so embarrassed