Unit 12. Water sports

Make as many sensible sentences as
you can by joining the elements in
the following pattern table.
A
-My mother
-His family
-They
-A postman
-These young
children

B
-climb
-like
-deliver
-sleep
-do
-meet

C
-housework everyday
-Everest mountain 2 days ago
-his uncle at the airport
-letters and magazines to
customers.
-history



• My mother does housework everyday.

• They like history ['histri]
• His family climbed Everest mountain 2
days ago.
• These young children are sleeping
• A postman delivers letters
[di'livə]and
magazines to customer.
['poustmn]
• His family met
his
uncle
at
the
airport.
['fæmli]


A. PRONUNCIATION:
1.What is elision?
It’s the act of leaving out the sound of part of a
word when you are pronouncing it.
2. The rules of elision:
a. Loss of weak vowel after p, t, k
Ex: potato [p'teitou] ; tomato [t'mɑ:tou]
Canary [k'neəri] ; Perhaps [p'hæps]
Today [tə'dei]
b. Weak vowel + n, l, or r
Ex: tonight [tə'nait]; police [pə'li:s]
correct [kə'rekt]
c. Avoidance of complex consonant clusters.

Ex: acts [æks]
Looked back [luk bæk]


*Listen and repeat:
Grandmother handsome castle postman family
garden awful interest history Edinburgh

*Practice reading these sentences:
1.My grandmother is very interested in history.
2. There are a lot of old castles in Edinburgh.
3. I saw a handsome postman entering the garden.
4. My family paid a visit to that castle two years ago.
5. The meal was awful this evening.


Look at the following sentence again then give
remark for the verb in each sentence:
Verb + Obj
1. My mother does housework everyday.
2. They like history
Verb + Obj
3. His family climbed Everest mountain 2 days
ago.
Verb + Obj
4. These young children are sleeping
Verb
5. A postman delivers letters and magazines to
customer.
Verb + Obj

6. His family met
his uncle at the airport.
Verb + Obj


Notes:
- Many verbs may be transitive or intransitive
depending on their functions and meanings.
Transitive: The judge turned the pages quickly.
V( t)
Od
-> The subject was engaged in an action turned
and that action transferred to a direct object the
pages.
Intransitive: The car turned suddenly at the corner
of the street.
-> The subject was engaged in an action turned
and that action was done in a particular way
suddenly but not to someone or something.


Identify the underlined parts of
speech:
1. The children were asked to tidy up the kitchen.
a.
b. intransitive verb
a transitive verb
2. Trung turned around when he heard a strange
noise behind him.
b

a. transitive verb
b. intransitive verb
3. His ability to concentrate is marvelous.
b
a. transitive verb
b. intransitive verb
4. Her brother likes classical music ,but she likes
rock’ n roll.
a.
b. intransitive verb
a transitive verb


Which of the following verbs can have an
object, and which cannot?
sleep
read
write
lie
meet
occur
grow
help
arrive
rain
exist
climb


Transitive verbs

Read
write

sleep

occur

lie

arrive

rain

climb
meet
help

Intransitive verbs

exist

grow


Exercise 2 : Which verbs in the following
sentences are transitive ( T ) and which are
intransitive ( I )
T
1.

2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

A serious accident happened yesterday
The customer bought a lot of butter
Our team won the game
Their team won yesterday
Alice arrived at 6 o’clock
They are staying at a resort hotel in San
Antonio, Texas.
7. The wind is blowing hard today.
8. I walked to the station with my friends.

I



How paper is made?
Using the cues to write the process of paper production:
1. Trees / cut down
2. They / take / paper mill
3. Bark / remove
4. Wood / break / small chips
5. Chips / mix with water
6. Mixture / make / pulp
7. Chemicals and dyes/ add to the mixture
8. Pulp / press / rollers to remove water.

9. Paper / dry / by hot rollers
10. Roll of paper / send / factories, newspaper offices,
etc.


• Prepare Unit 13 Reading lesson



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

You are unlucky!


An will pay the bill.
 The bill will be paid by An


20

Lucky
number!


• The hotel supplies towels
 Towels are supplied by
the hotel.

• Everyone noticed my mistakes
 My mistakes were noticed


The news didn’t surprises me
 I wasn’t surprised by the
news.


X

2

Lucky
number!


An old man told the story.
 The story was told by an
old man.