Unit 9 the post office listening

Rearrange letters into meaningful words

GAME
1.lepehonet
2.orwknte
=>
3.mbiloe
4.ubrmne

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telephone
network
mobile
number


Unit 9:
THE POST OFFICE
Period 57:

Lesson 3:
Listening


networks

cellphone

telephone

cellphone

cellphone


A. Pre-Listening:
 Question-Answer:
1/ Is your family on the phone? What is your
phone number?
2/ Does any member of your family have a
cellphone? What make is it?
3/ What do you think are the advantages and
disadvantages of cellphones?
talk to everyone at almost anytime, anywhere, never
miss any important information…, be annoyed at
calling when sleeping or having a meeting…


New words & difficult words
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Commune / ’kɔmju:n/ (n): xã
Communal /’kɔmju:nl/ (adj) : thuộc về xã
Growth /grəuө/: sự phát triển
Digit /’didjit/(n): con số
Subscriber / səb’skraibə /:người đăng ký số
Rural /’ru:rəl /(adj): thuộc về nông thôn
network /’netwə:k/ : mạng lưới
Rural network : mạng lưới điện thoại đến vùng nông
thôn
 Capacity (n) : khả năng
- rank second only to ….:đứng hàng thứ hai chỉ sau..
- fixed telephone network: mạng điện thoại cố định
- upgrade (v) nâng cấp ,cải tiến
- reduce the price of…:giảm giá của..
- monthly fee:lệ phí hàng tháng


B. 2th

Task1:
1/ According to the passage, Vietnam ranks
D. 30
______ for growth in the number of
telephone subscribers?
A. 6th
C. 30th
D. 8th
C. fixed telephone

2/ Vietnam is among the ________ countries in
the world that have more than two million
telephones.


D. 93
4/ According to the passage, at present, ______
percent of communes across Vietnam have
telephone services.
A. 90
B. 80
C. 14
5/Which aspect of development in VN’s
C. telecommunication
The change of the international
telephone
is not mentioned
in the
system passage?
listening
A. The increase in the number of telephone
B. The growth in the capacity of the mobile


(China)
(140,000)

Task 2: Questions:

6 to 7 digits

HN & HCMC
as well
as 5 to 6
1/(from
According
to theinpassage,
which
country
digits in
other provinces)
has the highest
growth
in the number of
telephone subscribers?
in 2001)
2/ How many telephones (were
there in Vietnam
in the early 1990s?
3/ How were the fixed telephone numbers
(6,014)
changed in 1996?


Post-Listening:
 Group Work. Summarize the main ideas of
the listening passage with some points by
answering the questions:
- How is Vietnam’s rapid growth in telephone
numbers? Is it quickly or slowly ?
-How many subscribers do we have at the

present ?
- Has the price of several services and
monthly telephone fees reduced ?


HOMEWORK
Base on your summary, write a
short paragraph about the
telephone in Vietnam (about 80100 words)