Unit 9. The post office

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




New words
•
•
•
•
•

Commune (n)
Communal growth
Digit subscriber
Rural network
Capacity (n)
- rank second only to:

- fixed telephone network:
- upgrade (v)
- reduce the price of…:
- monthly fee:


B. 2nd

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 Vietnam’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:
- Vietnam’s rapid growth in telephone
numbers
- The addition of digits to existing telephone
numbers to meet the increasing demands.
- The reduction in monthly telephone fees
- The expansion of the telephone networks to
Vietnam’s rural areas.


• Prepare writing lesson