Unit 13: Listening

Warm up: It is a noun with four letters It can be your friend or even your teacher It gives you knowledge about the world It can be found in a library Key : BOOK • • • • Do you read books? How often you read them? Do people collect books as a hobby? Now in our lesson today, you are going to listen to someone talking about his hobby of reading books In the first place I’m going to help you know some new words • • Period: 81 New words: - Gigantic (adj) = huge: khổng lồ, kếch xù - Fairy tale (n) : chuyện thần tiên - Profitable (adv): có lợi , có ích - Ignorantly (adv): cách ngu ngốc - Bygone (adj): cũ xưa , thuộc khứ - What you call the days which have passed? - Available (adj): sẵn có để dùng, kiếm • - Otherwise (adv) : không • • • • • • • Task 1: Listen and write the missing words: • Reading enables me to learn about so many things I learned about how people lived in .The _ bygone days wonderful thing about reading is that I not have to learn things the very hard way For example, I not have to catch a to disease know that it can kill me I know the _so I can danger avoid it Also I not have to go deep into jungle the certainly 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’m better equipped to cope with living Otherwise I would go ignorantly learning things the hard way about _ Task 1: You will hear a student talk about his hobby Listen to his talk and decide whether the statements are true or false: • The writer started his hobby when he was young • His parents were interested in reading fairy tales and other stories to him • The writer started with ABC books • Now he reads all the books available • Reading doesn’t help the writer to know any things • According to the writer, by reading he has to study hard • The writer is able to know a tiger through reading • Books might help him in his daily life T F T F F F T F • - Go through and learn the lesson • - Prepare new lesson Unit 13 (cont): Writing ... him in his daily life T F T F F F T F • - Go through and learn the lesson • - Prepare new lesson Unit 13 (cont): Writing