Unit 11. Books

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Text book
Craft
Detective
story
Thriller
Novel
Science
fiction

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- incredible
(adj):

unbelievable (không thể
tin được)

- wilderness (n):

vùng hoang dã, vùng bỏ
hoang
- reunite
sum họp
(v):
- distinct (adj): clearly different (khác
biệt)
- faithful (adj)= loyal (trung
thành)



TASK 1: Listen and choose the best answer
1. The title of the book is………
A. Canadian Wilderness.
B. The Incredible Journey.
C. Sheila Burnford.
2. The book is about………..
A. a Canadian family
B. three Canadian friends
C. three animal friends
3. Where does the Canadian family go?
A. To visit a friend who lives 300 miles away.
B. To England.
C. To the Canadian wilderness.


TASK 1: Listen and choose the best answer
4. Why do the animals leave the friend’s house?
A. They want to find their owners.

B. They want to know how to survive life in the
wilderness.
C. They were not well treated by the friend.
5. What is the central theme of the book?
A. How the animals can survive life in the
wilderness in order to get home.
B. How to resolve an animal problem.
C. How to take care of other people.


Task 2: Listen again and fill in the
gaps in the passage

Each animal has a distinct personality, but they care for
family
one another almost as if they were a ……… The
most
impressive of them is the old dog. The journey was the
most difficult for him, but amazingly he found the …….
strength
….. to make
it.
The author didn’t try to turn the animals into people,
speaking and acting like humans
………… Instead, she was
faithful to her characters as animals and showed us
their …………
journey though animal eyes. That made the book
interesting and unbelievable.
I would recommend the book to anyone who likes

pet or
animals. I think that anyone who has ever had a ……
wanted one would enjoy it.


Listen again and answer
the questions below
1) How do animals almost care for one
another ?
2) What did the old dog find when he
decided to take the long journey to find
their owners ?
3) What made the book interesting and
unbelievable ?
4) Who would the author like to
recommend the book ?



Group A are the winners


Topic: “Why do you read
books ?”
Suggested ideas:

- To get information and a better understanding of
what we learn.
-To widen and improve our knowledge.
- To raise our awareness of the good things to do

and the bad things to avoid.
- To relax our mind.


• Write a short paragraph about
the importance of reading books.
• Prepare the Writing Lesson



 How do animals almost
care for one another ?
 They care for one another
almost as if they were a
family.


 What did the old dog find out
when he decided to take the
long journey to find their
owners?
 The old dog found the strength
in making the long and difficult
journey to find their owners.


X

2

Lucky
number!


 Why did the book become
interesting and unbelievable ?
 Because the author was
faithful to her characters as
animals and show us their
journey
through
animal
eyes.


:2
You’ve just lost
half of your
points!

You are unlucky!


 Who would the author like
to recommend the book ?
 The author would like to
recommend the book to
anyone who likes animals to
read it.