Unit 6. Competitions

Tell me the names of these competitions!
Road to Mount
Olympia

Olympic
Games

A
London Marathon

B
Sao Mai television
Singing Contest

C

D


Face to face

Can you name more???
Who is the
millionaire???

Wheel of Fortune

A Beauty contest

Work in pairs to answer
the questions:
- Do you like taking part in competitions
like this? Why? Why not?
- Do you hope to win a competition?
- Is winning the most important thing in
a competition? Why? Why not?


- Stimulate (v) ['stimjuleit]:

Kích thích

- Sponsor (v) ['spɔnsə]:

Tài trợ

- Complete (v) [kəm'pli:t]:

Hoàn thành

- Judge (n) ['dʒʌdʒ]:

Giám khảo

- Performance (n) [pə'fɔ:məns]:

Sự trình bày

- Smoothly (adv) ['smu:wli]:

Mît mµ

- Recite (v) (a poem) [ri'sait]:

Ngâm thơ


• To stimulate (v)

Hoàn thành

• To sponsor (v)

Kích thích

• To complete (v)

Giám khảo

• Judge (n)

Tài trợ

• Performance (n)

Ngâm thơ

• Smoothly (adv)

Sự trình bày

• To recite (v)

Mît mµ


Read the
reading
passage and do
the tasks that
follow


Task 1: Match the words or phrases on the
left with their definitions on the right
1.

Representative

2.

Annual

3.

Stimulate

4.

In all

5.

Spirit

6.

Smoothly

a. Enthusiasm and energy
b. Without problems or
difficulties
c. A person chosen or
appointed on behalf of
another person or a group
d. Happening or done once
every year
e. Altogether or as a total
f. Encourage or make
something more active


Task 2: Answer the questions
1. Who took part in the annual final English
competition last Saturday?
2. What was the aim of the competition?
3. Who sponsored the competition?
4. What did each group of students have to do

during the contest?
5. What did the judges have to do to choose
the winner of the competition?
6. What would be awarded to the winner?



II
II

Task
Task 33

ead paragraph 3 and choose the best answe
1. In Activity 5, Hung was unable _______.
AA. to recite the poem
B. to write the poem
C. to answer the judges’ questions
D. to read the poem
2. Having achieved the highest score, Group
B___.
A. was very happy
B. sympathized with Group A and Group C
C
C. became the winner of the competition


3. Group C lost the game because they just got
_______.
A. 55 points

B
B. 60 points
C. 65 points
D. 70 points
4. Nga encouraged her group by _______.
A. singing a song
B. telling a story
C
C. saying “For me the most important thing was our
participation in the competition and the enjoyment we
had from it”
D. reciting the poem again


At home: Read and translate
the poem into Vietnamese.
Do you like the sky at night
When the stars are shining bright?
Do you like it in the day
When the clouds all go away?
What I like is the morning sun
Shining on me when I run
And I also like the rain
Pattering on my windowpane.


• Read and translate the poem
into Vietnamese.
• Prepare Speaking lesson

• Who took part in the annual
final English competition last
Saturday?
 The representatives of three
classes of the speaker’s school
took part in it.


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

You are unlucky!


• What was the aim of the
competition?
 Its aim was to stimulate the
spirit of learning English among
students.


•

Who sponsored the
competition?

 The Students’ Parents
Society sponsored it


X2
Lucky
number!


• What did each group of students
have to do during the contest?
 They had to compete five
activities in all. On competition of
each activity, they had to answer
the questions in the worksheets
within 2 minutes.


• What did the judges have to do
to choose the winner of the
competition?
 They had to observe and score the
students’ performance. A maximum score
for each activity was 15. At the end of the
competition they would announce the
total score of each group. The group that
got the highest score would be the
winner.

• What would be awarded to the
winner?
 The winner would be awarded
a set of CDs for studying
English and an Oxford
Advanced Learners’
Dictionary.