Bài giảng Tiếng Anh 12 unit 11: Books chọn lọc

Look at the picture carefully and say what kind these
books are grouped?


biography

science book


fiction

romance


novel

comic book


test books


Do you
often read
books?

What kind of books do
you enjoy reading
most?

Do you have a collection of
books? How often do you
buy books

What do you think
of reading books?

How do you read books? Slowly ?
Carefully? Or read bits here and
there?



I. Before you read
* Vocabulary:
1. to pick up: to take up (something) by hand
- I usually pick up a magazine to read before going to sleep.
2. To put down > < to pick up
3. reviewer (n): someone who write a report of a book, a film….
synonym: critic


* Vocabulary:
* Checking Vocabulary: Guess the words
1. To
to pick
takeup
up (something) by hand
2. reviewer
someone who

(n) writes a report of a book, a film….
3.
3. to
antonym
put down
of pick up


Francis Bacon:
(22 /1 /1561 – 9 /4/1626)
an English philosopher,
statesman, scientist, jurist,
and author


Task 1: Find the Vietnamese equivalent for these words.
1. Swallow
2. dip into
3. taste
4. digest
5. chew
6. hard – to – pick – up – again
7. Hard – to – put – down
Read and underline these words, try to understand their
meanings.


Task 1: Find the Vietnamese equivalent for these words.
1. swallow (v): nuốt (thức ăn, đồ uống)
đọc

Some
nghiến
stories
ngấu/
are đọc
for “say
swallowing”.
sưa
2. dip into (v): nhúng vào/ thò tay vào để lấy ra
It’s enough to dip
đọc
into
qua
the
loa
book and read bits here and there.
3. taste (v): nếm /thử thức ăn , đồ uống
“ Tasting”
is one way of reading.
đọc
thử
4. digest (v) tiêu hóa
ngẫm
tosuy
think
overđể
sohiểu
as to understand
5 . chew (v) nghiền thức ăn, nhai thức ăn
To

ngẫ
read
m nghĩ
slowly
, đọc
and
nghiề
carefully
n ngẫm
6. “ hard – to – pick - up – again”:
Khó mà cầm lên lại được; sách dở, không hay
7.“ hard – to – put – down”: khó mà đặt xuống được ; sách hay


* Exercise on vocabulary:
Choose A, B, c, or d that best completes each unfinished
sentence.
1. If you _____a book, you have a brief look at it without reading or
studying it seriously.
A. dip into
B. put away C. pick up
D. put down
2. It is a good book. I think it is interesting enough for you to ______
A. put down
B. swallow
C. look up
D. understand
3. He picked ________ the book and turned page after page.
A. up
B. on

C. away
D. in
4. When a reader reads an interesting book slowly and carefully, he
____ it
A. reviews
B. chews and digests C. swallows D. dips into
5. A ________ is a person who gives his opinion of a book, a film, or a
play in a newspaper or magazine
A. writer
B. journalist C. editor
D. reviewer


1. Learn by heart all the new words in vocabulary Task 1
2. Prepare for the next lesson: - Task 2 , Task 3
3. Summarize the passage reading by completing the
table