A ninety-year-old woman has climbed Mount Whitney in California for the ……… time2. metres, Mount Whitney is the highest mountain in ……….[r]
(1)(2)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
(3)1 How often you listen to the radio?
2 How many hours per week you listen to it?
(4)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
(5)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.
(6)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
under News story and News story 2
Adjectives News story 1News story 1 News story 2News story 2
(7)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
(8)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?
(9)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
News story 1
1 What has happened during the
1 What has happened during the
night?
night?
2 Why have many people left their
2 Why have many people left their
homes?
homes?
3 How deep are some roads under
3 How deep are some roads under
the water?
the water?
4 Has the rain stopped at the
4 Has the rain stopped at the
moment?
moment?
5 Is there a strong wind?
5 Is there a strong wind?
6 Why can’t people go out to work?
6 Why can’t people go out to work?
News story 2
News story 2
1 How many times has the old
1 How many times has the old
woman climbed Mount Whitney?
woman climbed Mount Whitney?
2 How high is Mount Whitney?
2 How high is Mount Whitney?
3.Is it the highest in California?
3.Is it the highest in California?
4 What does she say about the
4 What does she say about the
view from the top?
view from the top?
5 Why does she climb it so
5 Why does she climb it so
often?
often?
6.Does she stop climbing
6.Does she stop climbing
mountain because of her old
mountain because of her old
age?
(10)- Rewrite the content of the radio news
stories.
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