English 10 Unit 7 Listening

A ninety-year-old woman has climbed Mount Whitney in California for the ……… time2. metres, Mount Whitney is the highest mountain in ……….[r]

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Crossword puzzle 1

2 3 4 5

1 VTV1 … at 5:35 and the last programme is on at 23:30.

s t a r t s

2 Which … you often watch? – It’s VTV1.

c h a n n e l

3 “ Family Secrets” is the funniest … I’ve watched.

c o m e d y

4 One of the mass media I like is ………

t e l e v i s i o n

5 We get information and entertainment from TV …… our eyes and ears

t h r o u g h

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1 How often you listen to the radio?

2 How many hours per week you listen to it?

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I Vocabulary:

2 heavy rain ['hevi rein] trận mưa to

1 cloudy (adj) ['klaudi] nhiều mây, u ám

4 to cause (v) [kɔ:z] gây 5 flood (n) [flʌd] lũ, lụt 6 to rise (v) [raiz] (rose - risen) dâng lên

3 strong wind [strɔη wind] gió mạnh, gió to

7 to climb (v) [klaim] leo trèo 8 view (v) [vju:]

(n)

quan sát

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strong wind to rise view cloudy to climb flood to cause heavy rain

II Listen to these words

and then put them in the correct order.

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Task 1:

Task 1: Listen to the two radio news stories and Listen to the two radio news stories and tick the words you hear in the right column

tick the words you hear in the right column

under News story and News story 2

Adjectives News story 1News story 1 News story 2News story 2

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Heavy rain causes floods all over the country

Heavy rain during the night (1)……… … all over the country today Many people (2)………because rivers (3)………Some roads in the north-west are under (4)……… of water The rain (5) ……… at the moment, but it’s still (6)…………and there’s a (7) ………… Because of the bad weather, people can’t go out to work

has caused floods have left their homes

have risen

two meters has stopped

cloudy strong wind

90-year-old American woman climbs Mount Whitney

twenty-third 4,418 California wonderful

young and healthy

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1 What has happened during the night?

Heavy rain has caused floods all over the country.

2 Why have people left their homes?

Because rivers have risen.

3 How many times has the old woman climbed Mount Whitney?

She has climbed Mount Whitney twenty three times.

4 Why does she climb it so often?

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Close your book Recall the two news stories and answer the following questions about the news stories Use the answers to those questions to tell your classmates about them Chose one of the news stories only.

News story 1

1 What has happened during the

night?

2 Why have many people left their

homes?

3 How deep are some roads under

the water?

4 Has the rain stopped at the

moment?

5 Is there a strong wind?

6 Why can’t people go out to work?

News story 2

1 How many times has the old

woman climbed Mount Whitney?

2 How high is Mount Whitney?

3.Is it the highest in California?

4 What does she say about the

view from the top?

5 Why does she climb it so

often?

6.Does she stop climbing

mountain because of her old

age?

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- Rewrite the content of the radio news

stories.

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