Unit 1 A day in the life of

Then we add ed..Ex: stop – stoppedplan - planned But if we don't put STRESS on the first sound in speech, then we simply add ed.Ex: open- opened; visit- visited; listen -listened 2/ Verb[r]

UNIT 1: A DAY IN THE LIFE OF…

VOCABULARY

1 Plough /plaʊ/ = plow ( North American English ) ( noun ) cái máy cày

( verb) cày Ex: She is ploughing a field

2 Harrow /ˈhærəʊ/ (n) cái bừa ( làm cho đất tơi nhỏ)

Harrow ( verb) bừa

Harrow somebody’s feelings = hurt somebody

3 Peasant /ˈpeznt/ (n) = farmer

Peasantry /ˈpɛzntri/ all the peasants in a region or country: giai cấp công nhân.

4 Transplant /trænsˈplænt/ (v) cấy, trống, ghép

Transplant sth :

Transplant sth (from sb/sth) (into sb/sth)

Ex: Surgeons have successfully transplanted a liver into a four-year-old boy.

Patients often reject transplanted organs.

Transplantable (adj)

Transplantation (noun)

Transplanter (n) : máy cấy

5 Tobe contented with = tobe satisfied with

6 Purchase /ˈpərtʃəs/ ( v) the act or process of buying something

To make a purchase = buy something

Purchaser (n) a person who buy something

Purchasable (a)

7 Occupation (n) /ˌɑkyəˈpeɪʃn/ = job; chiếm đóng

Occupy /ˈɑkyəˌpaɪ/ (v) chiếm đóng

occupier/ˈɑkyəˌpaɪər/ a person who lives in or uses a building, room, piece of land, etc

8 In panic/ˈpænɪk/ a sudden feeling of great fear that cannot be controlled and prevents you from

thinking clearly

9 Climax /ˈklaɪmæks/ (n) the most exciting or important event or point in time ( sự kiện quan trọng,

cực điểm, cao trào)

10 Brigade /brɪˈɡeɪd/ (n) a large group of soldiers that forms a unit of an army

11 Discotheque /ˈdɪskəˌtɛk/ = disco ( câu lạc bộ khiêu vũ)

12 Announce /əˈnaʊns/ (v) to tell people something officially, especially about a decision, plans, etc.

Announce sth to sb

Announce that + clause (S + V + O)

13 Dip /dɪp/ (v)to put something quickly into a liquid and take it out again

Dip sth into sth

Dip sth in

14 Fellow (n)/ˈfɛləʊ / = friend

15 Pedal /ˈpɛdl/, bàn đạp

16 Cyclo

17 Relieve (v) /rɪˈliːv/ to remove or reduce an unpleasant feeling or pain

Relief (n)

PHRASAL VERBS

1 Get on ≠ get off

2 Go off = ring

3 Take off ≠ land

PHONICS

Hit, bit, little, kick, click, interest, internet Heat, beat, cream, meat, repeat, read, eaten,

green, tree, sleep…

GRAMMAR: THE SIMPLE PRESENT

+ EX: She does homework everyday.

 S+ V(S/ES) + O

- Ex: I don’t play basketball everyday.

She doesn’t go to school on Sundays

 S+ don’t/ doesn’t + V bare

? Do you go to school everyday? – no, I don’t

 Do/ Does + S+ V bare?

We use the SIMPLE PRESENT to talk about

1/ an action is repeated or usual.

Ex: Li plays tennis everyday.

2/ talking aboutthe truth

Ex: Cat likes milk

The Earth goes around the sun

3/ talk about scheduled events in the near future

Ex: The train leaves tonight at 6.30p.m.

SIGNAL WORDS

Always, every ,often , normally ,usually , sometimes / occasionally seldom , never

Note: The following verbs are usually only used in Simple Present:

be, have, hear, know, like, love, see, smell, think, want

SPELLING- S/ES 1/if a word ends in –o,-s, -sh, -ch, -x,-z, you add -es.Ex: watches; rushes; boxes, goes, kisses

2/ Verbs ending with "consonant+ y", change “y” into i +es : Ex: study–studies; try - tries

* When a verb ends with y , and there is a vowel before it, we simply add s to the verb.

Ex: stay-stays; play – plays; enjoy- enjoys

Note: We only add s or es when subject is she, he, it, singular noun

PRONUNCIATION –S/ES The answer is: In 3 ways - / IZ/ or / Z/ or / S/

 Phát âm là /s/ khi từ tận cùng bằng các phụ âm vô thanh: /p/, /t/, /k/, /f/, /θ/

Ex: stops, sits, talks, laughs, months

 Phát âm là /ɪz/ khi từ tận cùng bằng các phụ âm gió /s/, /z/, /ʃ/, /ʒ/, /tʃ/, /dʒ/

Ex: watches, washes, buzzes, loses, kisses, edges, changes

PAST SIMPLE

+ Ex: Yesterday we visited our grandma

 S + V-ed + O

- Ex: she didn’t go to school yesterday

=> S + didn’t + V bare + o

? Ex: Did you go the zoo last week?

 Did + S+ V + O?

We use the past simple to talk about

1/ the action happened in the past

Ex: Li met him in 1999.

2/ the action happened in the middle of another action in the past.

Ex: When we were watching T.V, the phone rang

3/ In the second conditional clause

Ex: If it rained now, I would stay at home.

SIGNAL WORDS Yesterday, last day/month/year; ( five minutes) ago; in + year ( in 2000)

SPELLING- ED

1/Verbs ending with "consonant-vowel-consonant"We double the last consonant Then we

add ed Ex: stop – stoppedplan - planned

But if we don't put STRESS on the first sound in speech, then we simply add ed Ex: open- opened; visit- visited; listen -listened

2/ Verbs ending with "e" : Ex: dance –danced; smile - smiled

3/ Verbs Ending with "y" When a verb ends with the letter y , and there is a consonant before it, the y

changes into i Then we add ed Ex: try – tried; cry –cried; study - studied

* When a verb ends with y , and there is a vowel before it, we simply add ed to the verb.

Ex: stay-stayed; play – played; enjoy- enjoyed

PRONUNCIATION –ED The answer is: In 3 ways - / Id/ or / t/ or / d/

 Được phát âm là /id/ khi –ed đứng sau –t, -d

Ex:wanted; needed, started, invited

 Được phát âm là / t/ khi –ed đứng sau -/p/; /f/; /s/;/ʃ/;/tʃ/; /k/

Ex: hoped, laughed, faxed, washed, watch, talked

* note that it is the sound that is important, not the letter or spelling For example, "fax" ends in the

letter "x" but the sound /s/; "like" ends in the letter "e" but the sound /k/

PRACTICE

I/ VERBFORM

1 The river Nile ( flow)_ -into Mediterranean

2 A: Look! It

(snow) -B: it’s beautiful! This is the first time I’ve ever seen snow It ( not snow) in my country

3 Listen! I ( think) somebody ( knock) - at the door

4 The last time I (go) - to Hanoi was in August

5 We(move) -here in 1999

6 When Martin (arrive) -home, Ann(talk) - to someone on the phone

7 I (work) - for a computer company since I (graduate) - from

university

8 His father ( die) -30 years ago He (never/ meet) him

9 Trees more quickly in summer than in winter (grow)

10 'Shall I phone at 6:00?' `No, I dinner at that time (normally/ cook)

11 We at about 7:00 Couldn't you come an hour later? (usually/ get up)

12 In 1788 he his last great work in Vienna (write)

13 She at Kennedy Airport at 2 o'clock this morning (arrive)

14 I refuse to believe that he the car was stolen (not know)

15 ‘How are you getting on with the book?' At the moment I chapter four (read)

16.My mother all the doors and windows before she goes to bed (lock)

17.I away most of my old books when 1 moved house (throw)

18.Scientists some fundamental discoveries in the 18th century (make)

19 Alice her mother in London most weekends (see)

20 'What's that terrible noise?' `The neighbors a party.' (have)

21 At the start of his career, Cousteau the aqualung, opening the oceans to explorers, scientists, and leisure divers (invent)

22 durian when you lived in Malaysia? (ever/ eat)

22.Both ancient and recent records show that farmers long hours.(work)

II PRONUNCIATION

A Choose the word that has the underlined (letters) pronounced differently from the others.

B Choose the word whose main stress is placed differently from the others.

3 a technology b comfortable c activity d experience

III/ REWRITE

1 I started to play the piano when I was six

 I have _

2 Why not go there by bus?

 Anne suggested

3 The children are too young to see horrors films

 The children aren’t _