Unit 6 reading

Xuan Huong LakeMountain resort – Da Lat – with wonderful places to visit: Xuan Huong Lake, pine forests, waterfalls…... Thien Mu PagodaFrom the left bank of the Huong River, 6 km from H

Unit 6 AN EXCURSION

Before you read

While you read

After you read

Which of these places would you like to visit? Why?

c Xuan Huong Lake

d Thien Mu Pagoda

a One-Pillar Pagoda

b Ha Long Bay

The One-Pillar Pagoda

Built in 1049, in the shape of a lotus

Ha Long Bay

Picturesque site, wonder of the world

Xuan Huong Lake

Mountain resort – Da Lat – with wonderful places to visit: Xuan Huong Lake, pine forests, waterfalls…

Thien Mu Pagoda

From the left bank of the Huong River, 6 km

from Hue City

Letter

Task 1 Choose the best answer A, B, C, or D to complete each of the sentences

1 Lan wrote the letter to

A inform Minh other days off

B complain about her parents

C tell Minh about the plan for her class trip

D talk about what she and her classmates will do at Huong Pagoda

2 The students decided to go on an excursion because they wanted to

A understand their geography lessons better

B relax after work

C have a campfire

D A and B

3 The students have changed their destination as Thay Pagoda

A it is impossible to visit the caves near

B it costs them a lot to visit

C they prefer Huong Pagoda to

D many of them have been to

C tell Minh about the plan for her class trip

D A and B

A it is impossible to visit the caves near

Task 2 Answer the questions.

1 When are Lan

and her classmates going on a trip?

2 Why are they visiting some caves?3 How far is Thay Pagoda from their school?4 What are the students' plans for their trip to Huong Pagoda?

5 What is Lan anxious about? Why?

2 They are visiting some caves

because they have recently studied rock formations and many of them have never inside a cave.

3 It’s only over 20 km.

4 They are going to make a

two-day trip and have a night

campfire They are bringing their own food and sharing buses

with some other classes to

make the trip cheap.

5 Lan is anxious about getting her parents’ permission

because she thinks that they

may not want to let her stay the night away from home.

1 They are going on a trip when they have some days off after the first term.

After you read

Fill each blank in the summary of the letter with a suitable

of words from the box (Page 65)

Lan's class (1) _ a two-day excursion to visit (2) near Huong Pagoda They (3)

_ with their own eyes what they (4)

in their geography lessons recently and

relax after their hard work, as well They have planned (5) _ carefully For Lan, the (6) is getting her parents' permission She will try (7)

so that she will be able to join (8)

on the excursion.

is going to go on some caves

want to see

have learnt

their trip only problem

to persuade them

her classmates

Tell your friends about your recent excursion

1 Where did you go on an excursion ?

2 Why did you go there?

3 Did you have a good excursion? Why

or why not?

The End Thank you for joining us!

See you again!