Unit 13 - Listening - English 11

books He is reading... cope with materialget fed up bygone fairy tale jungle... The writer started his hobby when he was 3.. The writer with simple ABC books.. According to the writer,

Keeping fish Playing chess

Collecting stamps Collecting coins

Playing the guitar fishing

Playing games Climbing mountain

Watching TV chatting

books He is reading

Friday, March 12th , 2010

Unit13 :

Listening

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1 material (n)

2 fairy tale (n):

3 (to) get fed up :

4 bygone (adj):

5 jungle (n):

6 (to) cope with:

= document:

>< (to) be interested

tài liệu

chuyện cổ tích chán

quá khứ

rừng nhiệt đới thích ứng

= tropical forest

cope with material

get fed up

bygone

fairy tale jungle

T F Correct

T F

T F

T F

T F

T F

T F

Task 1: True or False Statements

1 His hobby is reading

2 The writer started his hobby when he was

3 He had always his to read

fairy tales and other stories to me

4 The writer with simple ABC

books

5 According to the writer, by reading he

does not have to study hard

6 Books have certainly helped him in his

T F F F T T

sisters didn’t start

an adult.a little boy.

parents

started

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1

Task 2: Multiple Choice.

A any kind of material

C story books

B newspapers and magazines

D All of them

What kinds of books does he like to read?

2 How did his parents feel when they read to him continually?

3 What animal is mentioned in the tape script?

4 Reading helps the writer to ……… .

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Task 3: Gap - fill

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

to learn things the very hard way I do not have to catch a (2)

………… to know that it can kill me I know the (3)………… so

I can avoid it Also, I do not have to go deep into the (4)…………

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

Books (5)……… the reader with so many facts and so much information They have certainly helped me in my daily life

I am (6) ………… equipped to cope with living (7)……… I would go about ignorantly learning things the hard way

So I (8) ……… to read Reading is indeed a good hobby

Discussion: Talk about the disadvantages of over-reading

(reading too much).

be short-sighted

don’t have time for study and other social

be lazy

spend much money buying books

 Write a paragraph about the disadvantages of over-reading.

 Prepare for Writing lesson

That’s enough for today!!!