Enghlish 11 UNIT 3 GETTING STARTED

Welcome to our class


GAME: Guessing

- One student goes to the front.
- Teacher shows 5 pictures of five students in class one by one for the
student to describe their characteristics.

- Other students listen and guess who they are.


Answer the questions

1. Do you like these students?
2. Why do you like them?
3. What characteristics do they have in common?
 Being independent.


Unit 3. BECOMING INDEPENDENT
Lesson 1. GETTING STARTED

An independent person


Task 1. Listen and read.


Task 2. Read the conversation again. Match the words with their definitions.

1. reliable

a. feeling certain about your own ability to do things and be successful.

2. self-reliant

b. able to make decisions quickly.
c. strongly motivated to do something and not allowing anyone or

3. decisive

4. determined

any difficulties to stop you.

d. that can be trusted to do something well; that you can rely on

e. capable of doing or deciding things by yourself, rather than

5. well-informed

6. confident

depending on other people for help

f. having a lot of knowledge about current topics or a particular subject


Vocabulary

1. Reliable /rɪˈlaɪə.bl  ̩/ (adj): Đáng tin cậy
2. Determined /dɪˈtɜː.mɪnd/ (adj): Quyết tâm
3. Self-reliant /ˌself.rɪˈlaɪ.ənt/ (adj): Tự lực
4. Well-informed /ˌwel.ɪnˈfɔːmd/ (adj): Hiểu biết
5. Confident /ˈkɒn.fɪ.d ə nt/ (adj): Tự tin
6. Decisive /dɪˈsaɪ.sɪv/ (adj): Quyết đoán


Task 3. Answer the questions about the conversation.

1.

Why does Lan like Minh?

2. Why does Lan think Minh is a very responsible student?
3. What is an example showing that Minh is very determined?
4. Why does Lan think that Minh is self - reliant?
5. What are the characteristics of an independent person according to Lan and Mai?


GAME
Choose one characteristic you want to have. You have to give the correct answer to each
question to have the points for your team. With each correct answer, you will receive 10 points.


Well - informed


1. Why does Lan like Minh?
 Because Minh doesn't rely on other people for help and isn't influenced by other people's

opinions.


2. Why does Lan think Minh is a very responsible student?

 Because he always completes his tasks on time, and never needs to be reminded about assignments and
other schoolwork.


3. What is an example showing that Minh is very determined?

 He tried hard and spent the whole night on a hard Maths problem when most students in
the class had given up.


4. Why does Lan think that Minh is self - reliant?

 He always tries to find solutions to his problems and seldom needs help from others.


5. What are the characteristics of an independent person according to Lan and Mai?

 Responsible, reliable, self-reliant, determined, well-informed and confident.


6. Which of Minh's characteristics do you have? Which do you like most?


Task 4. Find the sentences with to-infinitives after adjectives or nouns in the
conversation and write them in the space below.

Suggestion:
Noun
Adjective

+ To - infinitive

Eg. But he still has time to read,…


Task 4. Find the sentences with to-infinitives after adjectives or nouns in the conversation
and write them in the space below.

Answer key
1. It's good
to have
a friend you can rely on.
good
to have
2. Even our Maths teacher was very surprised to read his answer.
surprised to read
3. His parents must be really pleased to have such a son.
4. But he still has time to read,...
5. It's interesting to talk to him.

pleased to have
time to read

6. I really admire his ability to make decisions so quickly.
interesting to talk

7. You're lucky to have a close friend like him.
ability to make
lucky to have


Complete the following mind map of an independent person’s characteristics.

AN INDEPENDENT
PERSON


* Complete the following mind map of an independent person’s characteristics.

reliable
confident
responsible
AN INDEPENDENT
PERSON

well-informed

self-reliant

determined

decisive


HOMEWORK
- Learn new words by heart

- Practice the conversation in “Listen and read” again.
- Prepare: Language (page 32)