Unit 6. Competitions

Look at these pictures and guess the
name of the contest.


 Quiz: “Road to Mount Olympia”


 Sao Mai television singing contest



 Who want to be a millionaire ?


Olympic marathon


 Miss Universe


Ring the golden bell


World Cup


Unit 6: Competitions
A. Reading


Answer the following question.

1. Do you like taking part in
competitions like these? Why/Why
not?
2. Do you hope to win a competition?
If so, which competition do you like
to win?
3. Is winning the most important thing
in a competition? Why/Why not?


While you read
Read the passage and then do the
tasks that follow


Pre-teaching vocabulary

contest (n)

= competition (n):

sự tranh tài,cuộc thi đấu
stimulate = encourage (v)
Khuyến khích, động viên


Representative (n):người đại diện

Ex: Pham Huong is therepresentative
_____________of

Vietnam at the Miss Universe 2015


Smoothly (adv):
Recite (v)

Ngâm thơ

Annual (adj)
Spirit (n)

trôi chảy,

hằng năm
Tinh thần


Judge (n)
(v):

Giám khảo
Đánh giá, nhận xét


1.Vocabulary

contest (n)= competition (n):
sự tranh tài,
cuộc thi
diện

representative (n): người đại
đấu

stimulate = encourage

(v):
Recite (v): ngâm thơ

smoothly (adv): trôi chảy,
judge (n): giám khảo
(v): đánh giá, nhận
xét

khuyến
khích


Match the words or phrases on the left with their
definitions on the right
1.
representative
2. annual
3. stimulate
4. contest
5. recite
6. smoothly

a. without problems or difficultie
b. to repeat ( a piece of poetry)
before an audience

c. a struggle for victory
d. a person chosen or
appointed on behalf of
another person or a group
e. encourage or make
something more active
f. happening or done once
every year


Task 2

Answer the question.

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?


Task 2

Answer the
question.
1. Who took part in the annual final

English Competition last Saturday?
→ The representatives of three
classes of the school took part in the
competition.

2. What was the aim of the
competition?

→ The aim was to stimulate the spirit
of learning English among student


3. Who sponsored the
→competition?
The Student’s Parents Society
sponsored the competition

4. What did each group of students
have to do during the contest?
→ Each group had to complete five
activities in all. On competition of each
activity, they had to answer the
question in the worksheets within two
minutes.


5. What did the judges have to do
to choose the winner of the
The
judges had to observe and score

competition?

student’s performance. And 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.
6. What
would
be awarded to the

winner?
The winner would be awarded a set
of CDs for studying English and an
Oxford Advanced Learner’s
Dictionary


Task
3

Read the paragraph 3 again
and complete the sentences.

1. In Activity 5, Hung was unable
to complete the
___________________
poem

2. Having achieved the highest score, Group
became the winner of the
B
_______________________________________
competition
3.Group C has lost the game because they
60 just
got _______
points
4. Nga encouraged her group by saying
________

“ For me the most important thing was
our participation in the competition and
the enjoyment we had from it


This is the poem Hung recited at the
final English competition. Read and
translate it 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 in the morning sun
Shining on me when I run
And I also like the rain 
Pattering on my windowpane

Home work

:

- Learn by heart the new words.
- Prepare the next lesson: Unit 6
Speaking