Eng 11 Advanced Unit 2 Embarrassing Experience

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Phạm Kim Thanh Ngân (Real Life + M.C) Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngọc (Tasks) Huỳnh Nguyễn Quỳnh Như (Pictures, Music, Clips) Trần Thị Toàn Tâm (Volcabulary) Nguyễn Hoàng Duy Uyên (Designer + M.C) Huỳnh Nhã Uyên (Pictures, Music, Clips)  What is “experience”?  Uncountable Noun: the knowledge and skill that you have gained through doing something for a period of time  Countable Noun: an event or activity that affects you in someway The First Party He arrived at his relative’s house for dinner and found the room full of people he did not know He saw many people talking merrily and there was a pause in the conversation as he passed by He thought: “Everyone is looking at me.” This made him nervous When he heard someone ask him his name, he thought: “They must all have noticed how nervous I am.” So he avoided catching anyone’s eye and looked around for someone he knew, but in vain He wondered if he would ever be able to think of anything to say and started to feel uncomfortably hot The louder people talked the more he thought: “I really don’t belong here.” and “Nothing I could think of to say would interest these people.” This made it harder for him to join in the conversation, so he kept quiet and retreated into his shell, aware of how inept he had to be in other people’s eyes He looked out for a way of leaving early, hoping that he could slip away without drawing too much attention to himself The next day he could not stop thinking about how he must have appeared to the other people there Images came to mind and brought back all the embarrassment and nervousness He decided that he would never that again Other thought also went through his mind, about how hard it was to make friends, and how inadequate he felt compared to other people He wondered if he could ever change, as he had always been shy Other shy people seemed to have managed to grow out of it, so he also asked himself whether there was something wrong with him The longer this train of thoughts went on, the more dispirited and sadder he felt many days after his first party experience merrily /'merili/ (adv): vui vẻ  merry (n): vui mừng pause /pɔ:z/ (n): tạm dừng conversation /kɔnvə'seiʃn/ (n): trò chuyện  conversationist (n): người có khiếu ăn nói  conversational (adj): (thuộc) chuyện trò  to converse: đàm thoại nervous /'nə:vəs/ (adj): lo lắng  nervousness (n): lo lắng in vain: vô ích wonder /'wʌndə/ (v): tự hỏi  wonder (n): kì quan  wonderful (adj): tuyệt diệu, kì lạ quiet /’kwaiət/ (ad): im lặng  quietly (adv): yên tĩnh  quietness (n): yên tĩnh retreat into one’s shell: rút khỏi mắt người  retreat (v): rút lui aware /ə'weə/ (adj): nhận thấy  to be aware of sb/sth 10 slip (v): lút, lẫn trốn  slip away: chuồn, trôi qua (thời gian) 11 inept /i'nept/ (adj): lạc lõng  ineptness (n): lạc lõng 12 drawing /'drɔ:iη/ (n): kéo, lấy 13 attention /ə'tenʃən/ (n): chú ý 14 image /'imidʒ/ (n): hình ảnh  imaginary (adj): tưởng tượng, ko có thực  imaginative (adj): giàu trí tưởng tượng  imagination (n): tưởng tượng 15 bring back: gợi lại 16 embarrassment /im'bærəsmənt/: ngại ngùng  embarrassed (adj): lúng túng  embarrassing (adj): bối rối  to embarrass sb: làm bối rối 17 inadequate /in'ædikwit/ (adj): không tương xứng ≠ adequate (adj): tương xứng  inadequateness (n): không tương xứng  inadequately (adv): không thoả đáng 18 compare /kəm'peə/ (v): so sánh  comparison (n): so sánh  comparative (adj): so sánh  comparatively (adv): tương đối 19 shy /ʃai/ (adj): mắc cỡ  shyness (n): nhút nhát 20 grow out of sth (= to overcome): vượt qua 21 dispirited /di'spirətəd/ (adj): chán nản  dispiritedness (n): chán nản  dispiritedly (adv): chán nản  to dispirit: làm chán nản 22 experience /iks'piəriəns/ (n): kinh nghiệm, việc, kiện  to experience: trải qua  experienced (adj): giàu kinh nghiệm 23 to sadden /'sædn/ (v): làm cho buồn  sad (adj): buồn  sadly (adv): cách buồn bã  sadness (n): buồn rầu a) Check () whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F) For the false statements, write the true information The character in the text was a sociable person He felt nervous and embarrassed among other people To him, making friends was easy He was able to grow out of his shyness The dinner party had an impact on him for a few days T F      b) Read the first paragraph and list  two pieces of information related to the sense of sight _ He saw many people talking merrily and there was a pause in the conservation as he passed by _ He arrived at his relative’s house for dinner and found the room full of people he did not know  one piece of information related to the sense of hearing When he heard someone ask him his name, he thought: “They must all have noticed how nervous I am.” This is the story about the girl that her most embarrassing experience happened a few years ago, when she was a grade student Her biggest dream was a red hat – a floppy cotton like the one her wore in her video clip When her father knew this, on her birthday, he gave her some money so that she could buy the hat for herself She was extremely excited and decided to go to the shop right now She got on the bus and sat down next to a schoolboy about her age Firstly, the boy glanced at her and turn away There was a sneaky look on his face, but she didn’t think much about it After, she turned round and noticed that the boy’s schoolbag is open And she saw a wad of dollar notes exactly like the ones her father had given She recognized that the notes in her own bag had gone She was sure that the boy was a thief She didn’t want to make a fuss, so she took her money back from his schoolbag and put them in her own bag With the money, she bought the pretty hat of her dreams When she got home, she showed it to her father “How did you pay for it?” he asked “With the money you gave me for my birthday, of course, Dad” she replied “Oh? What’s that then?” he asked, as he pointed to a wad of dollar notes on the table Can you imagine how she felt then??! MATCHING Excited Frightened Surprised Embarrassed Disappointed Angry MATCHING Angry Frightened Excited Disappointed Surprised4 Embarrassed The first story “My most embarrassing experience happened when I was in grade I used to go to study drawing every Saturday One day, I went to school late and was rushing to come to class; therefore, I didn't pay attention to the classroom number I sat down and realized the picture on the blackboard was very similiar, then I looked around and saw everyone's face were strangers Right away, I figured out that I had came in the wrong class room I stood up and came to the teacher and said: “I'm sorry for interrupting you, it's not my class , I have to leave.” Everyone was laugh at me I was so embarrassed This was the worse embarrassing situation that I would never forgot in my life.” The second story My most embarrassing experience happened when I was in grade In those day, I wasn’t good at learning English because it was very difficult One day, my teacher taught my class how to answer some simple questions from foreigners such as: What’s your name?, Where are you from?, Can you tell me the way to go to somewhere? She said that the foreigners talked very fast and it was too hard to hear and understand Luckily, I had learnt the lesson carefully Some days after, we went to English Centre and met lots of foreigners When we were playing together, the married couple came They talked to us: “Hello!” And we said:"Hi!" They asked: “Where are you from?” We didn’t know what they said My friend answered: “Thank you” That made them laugh at us a lot We were so shy and embarrassed; therefore, they said again: “Where are you from?” At that time I remembered the lesson, so I said: “We’re from Ho Chi Minh city” They smiled with us Until now, whenever thinking of that accident, I still feel so embarrassed