Unit 6- Future jobs- Language focus

CHÀO MỪNG QUÝ THẦY, CÔ
VỀ THAM DỰ THAO GIẢNG CỤM
Tháng 11 năm 2010
TRƯỜNG THPT PHẠM PHÚ THỨ

Prepared by Nguyen Thi Thanh Binh

* Look at a letter to Vinatour and give the outline of the letter of application.
100 Le Duan Street
Danang City
10th August, 2010
The Manager, Vinatour
450 Nguyen Du Street, Hanoi

Dear Sir/Madam,
I saw your advertisement in today’s edition of the Vietnam News and I would like to apply for the
position of a tour guide.
I am very interested in the job and I am confident you can use a person with the following
qualifications:
- Helpful and attentive
- Neat appearance and pleasant voice
- Speaking English fairly well
- Willing to work hard for long hours
- Having one year experience as a tour guide
My résumé is enclosed summarizing where these skills and abilities were developed. I would be
available for interview at any time.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Yours faithfully,
Tran Ngoc Nam

1.Who writes this letter?

Tran Ngoc Nam does.
2. Who did he write to /tu:/?

He wrote to /tə/ the manager of /əv/ Vinatour
company.
3. What did he write the letter for /fɔ:/?

He wrote it to /tə / apply for /fə / the position of
/ əv/ a tour guide.
So this letter is from /frɔm/ Nam, not to /tu:/ Nam.

UNIT 6: FUTURE JOBS
LANGUAGE FOCUS

I. PRONUNCIATION
Weak and strong forms of some
conjunctions and prepositions

Listen and repeat
Conjunctions
Strong form
and
but
/ænd/
/bʌt/
/ ənd/; / ən/
/bət/
Weak form

Prepositions
at
for
of
to
from
/æt/
/fɔ:/
/ɔv/
/tu:/
/frɔm/
/ət/
/fə/
/əv/
/tə/
/frəm/

Practice reading these sentences
1. What are you looking at?
2. I want to go but I don’t know when
3. She bought a book and two pens.
4. Thanks for coming.
5. Where is it from?
6. I’m from Hanoi
7. She’s the one I’m fond of.
8. First of all, I want to thank you for coming.
9. The letter was to him, not from him.
10. I want to ask you a question.

II. GRAMMAR

Presentation

RELATIVE CLAUSES
 GENERAL RULES:
Subject
Object
Possessive
who
whom (who)
whose
which
which
whose, of which
Things and
Animals
Persons
Functions

 EXAMPLES:
1. Look at the man. He is singing on the stage
)
Look at the man singing on the stage.
Look at the man who is singing on the stage


3. The Han River bridge is the first swing one in Vietnam. It was
built with the contribution of all Danang city's people.
The Han River, which was built with the contribution of all
Non-Restrictive Relative Clause
Danang city's people, is the first swing one in Vietnam.


The Han River, built with the contribution of all Danang city's
Reduced Relative Clause (Passive meaning)
people, is the first swing one in Vietnam.


2. Shakespeare was an English playwright.
His plays are very famous in the world.
 Shakespeare, whose plays are very famous
in the world, was an English playwright.


4. The watch is nice. I bought it two months ago.

The watch which I bought two months ago is
nice.
Restrictive Relative Clause
The watch I bought two months ago is nice.

Exercise 1: Choose the option A, B, C,
D that best complete each sentence
PRACTICE